From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #340 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, December 22 2004 Volume 04 : Number 340 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting ["Pete O." ] Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting [Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting - --- Paul King wrote: > Top 100 of all time: > http://top40.about.com/library/weekly/aatop100e.htm > > Warning: cheesy. But seriously, I think it is the result of a vote, because > they take a survey at then end. However, they don't say how many votes they > had. Web surveys are notoriously unreliable at any rate. > Without having seen the list, I can't believe #17 was ranked as high as it was, entries #26 and #27 are obviously reversed and #83, #88 and #94 have no business being on any list, let alone the Top 100 Of All Time. And as for obvious omissions, where the hell are "The Rust-Stained Bathtubs"? This is the kind of thing that could give lists a bad name! - - ===== ====== "I hope I didn't brain my damage" H.J.S. ====== ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:25:23 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting > > I also recall Suzi Quatro having at least two hits > > (her follow-up hit, "Stumbling In" is listed). > Can't say as I know this one either... You're from Leather Tuscadero's hometown of Milwaukee and you don't know "Stumblin' In"! "Our love is a flame, burnin' within, foolishly layin' our hearts on the table, stumblin' in.." It was a duet with the lead singer from Smokie (Chris somebody) kind of MOR-y and out of character, but it did give Suzi her only top 40 hit in the States. It's hard to believe that "Can The Can" wasn't a hit in the US, but it never even cracked the top 100. And who can forget entry #82: "Epic Faith" by No More?? - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:05:25 -0500 From: "Paul King" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting OK, So I am going to check my reference ... > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:52:16 -0500, Paul King wrote: > > > There is also a list of "Top 100 one-hit wonders" that consist of many > > artists that had more than one hit. For example, they have A-Ha (Take on Me) > > as one example. I supposed that they had their radios off every time "The > > Sun Always Shines on TV" was played > > Don't know that one... "TV" was a Top-40 hit in 1986 in both Canada and the US, although not top-10. A- Ha is based in Norway, so it was likely a bigger international hit (Allmusic.com says "TV" charted at #1 in the UK). It was in rotation for about 3 months in North America. I don't know where you can find it (the album was called "Hunting High and Low"), but "TV" has probably one of the most over-the- top, melodramatic intros I've heard. Allmusic also gives 19 occurences where "TV" has popped up in compilations. Allmusic also says that they have had several albums since, with their fan base mostly in the UK and continental Europe. > > I also recall Suzi Quatro having at least two hits > > (her follow-up hit, "Stumbling In" is listed). > > Can't say as I know this one either... I was thinking of her remake of "All Shook Up", which I suppose turns out to be a local hit where I used to grow up, since it never charted in Canada (it peaked at #85 on Billboard in 1974), according to my info. Allmusic says that she charted quite respectably in the UK as far as 1981. She also has had a compilation made in 2001. So, she didn't exactly just disappear. > > > http://top40.about.com/library/weekly/aaonehite.htm > > The real distinction for me is between one-hit wonders in eras where > singles were more or less coin of the realm, and one-hit wonders from > people in album-based eras who had reasonable careers but only hit the > singles charts once (Sinead O'Connor, say). The first, to me, seems > more like what we mean: presumably, those folks had their hit and > disappeared. The people who continued to put out albums don't seem the > same thing to me. > It also appears to be what about.com meant as well (to quote the web page: "In truth, there are SO many groups that have had one hit and promptly disapeared."). And I agree with this definition. It's just annoying that they didn't follow through in the actual listings. > Oh - and since the list mentions Big Country, it may be that glenn > mcdonald is lured from his list dormancy to defend that band as more > than just one-hit wonders... > > > -- > ++Jeff++ > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ========================================================= Paul King http://www3.sympatico.ca/pking123/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:05:25 -0500 From: "Paul King" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting > --- Paul King wrote: > > > Top 100 of all time: > > http://top40.about.com/library/weekly/aatop100e.htm > > > > Warning: cheesy. But seriously, I think it is the result of a vote, because > > they take a survey at then end. However, they don't say how many votes they > > had. Web surveys are notoriously unreliable at any rate. > > > > Without having seen the list, I can't believe #17 was ranked as high as it > was, entries #26 and #27 are obviously reversed and #83, #88 and #94 have no > business being on any list, let alone the Top 100 Of All Time. On #17: Smokey deserves to be somewhere in a Top-300 listing, but I agree. #26: "Your Song" and "1979" are not just reversed, but they should both be ranked MUCH lower. #83: This is a minor hit for Cheap Trick, and I don't know what it's doing there either. #88: I've never heard of this song. It doesn't mean it wasn't a hit. In my chart book, I see that it was in the Top 40 for 6 months, 3 of those months in the Top 10, and #1 for one week in 1982. It's as big a hit as most bands can hope for. But an all-time list requires staying power. All I know is that it had zero staying power for me. The lesser hit "Human", I remember a lot more, even though it spent only half as long in the Top 10. #94: I hate the song too, but you have to admit it was a smash. When I was going to University, I remember it shaking more dormitory walls than any other song I can recall. > > And as for obvious omissions, where the hell are "The Rust-Stained Bathtubs"? > Or "Hambuger Martyr"? I just love what Killdozer do for sound effects with those car keys and that iceberg lettuce :-) > This is the kind of thing that could give lists a bad name! > > > ========================================================= Paul King http://www3.sympatico.ca/pking123/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:14:11 -0500 From: "Paul King" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting > And who can forget entry #82: "Epic Faith" by No More?? Or #62: "Come On", by Eileen Dexys Midnight Runners?! 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