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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 9, 2017 7:28:43 GMT -5
Well, it's about an american show so, I tried to go from that angle. That one I didn't remember till recently when it's been cropping up in lists. Especially after 1997, everything else in their catalogue became a distant second. Before 6 months ago, I can legitimately say I've never recalled hearing it, and only my friends who are extremely into pop knew of it. I'd probably say Things can Only get Better is the better song though. It's certainly more memorable but some of that might be down to its use in a certain Political campaign (that I won't discuss further). The Brian Cox connection has certainly raised their profile (and sales) in more recent years but I always thought they were a bit bland really. But admittedly I'm totally one of those pop music geeks who if someone asked me to name a Rick Astley single, I'd probably say Cry for Help just to be "different" and not go with the more mainstream and commercial (and infinitely more catchy) answer of Never Gonna Give you Up. I usually think of Together Forever. |
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Post by fw91 on Apr 9, 2017 11:49:27 GMT -5
I'll say this much about Hanson. They're music isn't my thing but they have musical credibility and managed to avoid scandal and Bieber like f*** ups that many teen boppers tend to do. So for that reason they get my props
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Apr 9, 2017 14:36:30 GMT -5
Phew, good, I was thinking I'd lost my mind when I saw the title cuz all I could think was: "Didn't I watch that a LONG time ago?"
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Post by edgestar on Apr 9, 2017 19:16:24 GMT -5
That's kinda not the point though. It absolutely matters what it did at the time, because without taking that into account, it's not a hit. People forget TONS of songs (ESPECIALLY throw away pop, which makes up the majority of hits to begin with), that doesn't take away from the success they had. That's just revisionist history. You could say that Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" is one of the biggest hits of the 80's since nobody can ever forget it now. But that's entirely not true. You can say that now, but you if you were looking at the career of Rick Astley even before the Rickroll stuff, you would say that was his big hit, and the one people were likely to remember, even though he had another number 1. I prefer "Together Forever", it was a huge hit, but mention the name "Rick Astley" and 99 times out of 100 you'll get one answer. If you go by the 100% literal, strictest sense, there's hardly any such thing as a one hit wonder. Anything that got big enough to make people care, it'd have enough momentum to get a second hit before they went away. Plus, end of the day, it's his series, he can define it how he wants. Someone else wants to do an episode of literal ones, go ahead, it'd last 6 months. I have Together Forever on my iPod  |
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 9, 2017 22:06:17 GMT -5
My only real issue with the series is that it's naturally from an American point of view, which can't be helped. Meaning that as a Scot, we have very different one hit wonders, the Proclaimers being the most obvious example. I'd love to see a UK rip-off the series by someone as competent. Yeah, it's always a weird quirk of the series when he covers Australian bands like Midnight Oil or The Divinyls as one-hit wonders in the US, and I know most, if not all the songs he plays as their selected other material because they were hits and/or became radio staples here. |
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