Thurday June 30 -- it's 1995

[Gazoo]

I hate posting so many times in a row, but I just realized something.  In my list of "what 1995 sounded like," I could easily have listed several other tracks from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- not only was I spinning it a lot, but MTV had all the videos in heavy rotation (and rightly so; those vids were GENIUS) and radio stations in multiple formats jumped on.

So I just checked out their chart history, and it turns out they culled 4 Top 40 hits from that album -- and 0 top 40 hits from all the rest of their albums.  I would bet dinner that there's no other band that can claim that feat.

[ggould]

I hate posting so many times in a row, but I just realized something.  In my list of "what 1995 sounded like," I could easily have listed several other tracks from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- not only was I spinning it a lot, but MTV had all the videos in heavy rotation (and rightly so; those vids were GENIUS) and radio stations in multiple formats jumped on.

So I just checked out their chart history, and it turns out they culled 4 Top 40 hits from that album -- and 0 top 40 hits from all the rest of their albums.  I would bet dinner that there's no other band that can claim that feat.

I see no problem with you making many posts, especially since you're three time zones away from most of us.

I am not normally a betting man, but I would be inclined to take you up on this bet, just because it doesn't sound so unusual to me.  I'm sure there must be some other one-hit wonders, that may have spawned 4 singles from their first album, then failed to chart well after that.  I think you're probably surprised because you think so highly of the band.  But I imagine Mark or Mike would be able to answer this better than I.
 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[mshray]

I hate posting so many times in a row, but I just realized something.  In my list of "what 1995 sounded like," I could easily have listed several other tracks from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- not only was I spinning it a lot, but MTV had all the videos in heavy rotation (and rightly so; those vids were GENIUS) and radio stations in multiple formats jumped on.

So I just checked out their chart history, and it turns out they culled 4 Top 40 hits from that album -- and 0 top 40 hits from all the rest of their albums.  I would bet dinner that there's no other band that can claim that feat.

I see no problem with you making many posts, especially since you're three time zones away from most of us.

I am not normally a betting man, but I would be inclined to take you up on this bet, just because it doesn't sound so unusual to me.  I'm sure there must be some other one-hit wonders, that may have spawned 4 singles from their first album, then failed to chart well after that.  I think you're probably surprised because you think so highly of the band.  But I imagine Mark or Mike would be able to answer this better than I.
 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

just checkin' in before bedtime, got the car packed for the dawn departure, and I'm thinking maybe Hootie charted 4 times off their debut but never have since.  Whitburn's back at my desk so I can't check as easily as usual.

[mshray]

My friend Victor once saw them on ecstasy and had a glorious time.  (I don't care for the stuff, myself -- the ecstasy, not the Morphine).

Maybe he should try seeing XTC while on morphine & do a comparative analysis.

 :lol:

[RGMike]

I hate posting so many times in a row, but I just realized something.  In my list of "what 1995 sounded like," I could easily have listed several other tracks from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- not only was I spinning it a lot, but MTV had all the videos in heavy rotation (and rightly so; those vids were GENIUS) and radio stations in multiple formats jumped on.

So I just checked out their chart history, and it turns out they culled 4 Top 40 hits from that album -- and 0 top 40 hits from all the rest of their albums.  I would bet dinner that there's no other band that can claim that feat.

I can't think of one immediately, but MTV essentially created a lot of "One Album Wonders", the video-era equivalent of the OHW.

[Gazoo]

just checkin' in before bedtime, got the car packed for the dawn departure, and I'm thinking maybe Hootie charted 4 times off their debut but never have since.  Whitburn's back at my desk so I can't check as easily as usual.

Hootie did go four deep on their breakthrough album, but their followup effort yielded two more Top 40 hits: "Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)" (#13) and "Tucker's Town" (#38 ).  Don't feel bad if you don't know them; I heard them exactly one time each and don't remember how either went.

A close call -- or a winner, if you must -- is Lauryn Hill.  Her Miseducation... album yielded "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (#1), "Ex-Factor" (#21), and "Everything Is Everything" (#35).  In addition, Billboard retroactively acknowledged, in light of its revised chart policy allowing non-singles to chart, that "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was a #35 airplay-only hit.  But it didn't actually make the Top 40 as it was published at the time, so I'm not counting it.

[RGMike]

just checkin' in before bedtime, got the car packed for the dawn departure, and I'm thinking maybe Hootie charted 4 times off their debut but never have since.  Whitburn's back at my desk so I can't check as easily as usual.

Hootie did go four deep on their breakthrough album, but their followup effort yielded two more Top 40 hits: "Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)" (#13) and "Tucker's Town" (#38 ).  Don't feel bad if you don't know them; I heard them exactly one time each and don't remember how either went.

A close call -- or a winner, if you must -- is Lauryn Hill.  Her Miseducation... album yielded "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (#1), "Ex-Factor" (#21), and "Everything Is Everything" (#35).  In addition, Billboard retroactively acknowledged, in light of its revised chart policy allowing non-singles to chart, that "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was a #35 airplay-only hit.  But it didn't actually make the Top 40 as it was published at the time, so I'm not counting it.

dude, you need to take a weekend off from chart trivia...  :wink: