I loved and basically grew up on Beverly Hills Cop, but it's crazy to think that people would know this song but wouldn't know something like Roll Me Away or Against the Wind
Come on that song was great, what was that summer of 87or 88? Growing up in Detroit, BHC was #1 at the box office and Bob Seger had that song on every station. I remember my mom blasting that song flying down the lodge in her mustang, I was in the back with my he-men, no car seat lol just a buckle.
Disagree. Shakedown is basically Katmandu with synthesizers layered on top to make it sound more like it came from a movie soundtrack. But at their core, both songs are Seger, and I love them both.
Its crazy. I remember this song as a kid but no idea who sang it. Knew of Bob Seger; first for the Chevy commercials then the Metallica cover but was exposed to more of his songs over the years. I only found out he was the singer of Shakedown in the past year.
You want your mind blown, check out his earlier material. I suggest [MONGREL.](https://youtu.be/OH3itTMRoQ8)
Bob rocked ass when he was young...came up on the same scene as the MC5, Stooges and Grand Funk, and more than held his own. Iggy Pop even said that seeing Bob's band in high school was the final nail in the coffin for him ever pursuing a normal life.
Cheap Trick always shocks me. I get they weren't quite *that* big, but between Dream Police, At Bodokan, and In Color there's at least three potential #1s for each album.
*Did not expect this to be the comment I would get my first RedditCares message from. Be better.
Live at Budokhan is a great album. Although it was recorded at Nippon I believe.
Great energy, the crowd is insane, Zander's vocals are on point, Nelson going cray on guitar, and Bun E. laying down a rocking beat. What's not to love?!
Think that’s just a trend going on in Reddit right now. Seeing it all over the place. There’s steps to report the person who sent it maliciously. I’d recommend doing so since it’s a dick move
There is a massive difference between singles charts in the 60s / 80s, and longevity of songs. Part of the hatred for disco was because everyone we knew was listening to, and going to concerts by bands like Cheap Trick, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, and Kansas, but pop radio was almost all soft rock and disco.
Went to number 1 in the US, Canada and Australia. The only other single that made it to the top of any chart around the world was the live release of I Want You To Want Me which made it to number 1 on the Dutch and Belgian (Flanders) charts. That album (Cheap Trick at Budokan) was also their only one to reach number 1 anywhere in the world, topping the Canadian charts.
Billy Joel considers one of his #1 hits, "We Didn't Start the Fire" to be the least of all his songs. He blames the fact that he reversed his creative process for it, by writing the lyrics before the actual music.
Not Uptown Girl? That went to number one in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and The UK... And hopefully not Goodnight Saigon, because that went to number one in Belgium and The Netherlands.... :-)
ps, Tell Her About It and It's Still Rock and Roll to Me where also number one in the US and The River of Dreams went to number one in Australia and New Zealand.
IRC Joel and Elton had a tour together and then some animosity ensued.
Afterward, Elton said Joel hasn’t released anything, and Joel made a comment about Elton that he shouldn’t release music that’s garbage. (Just don’t put it out so your peak legacy isn’t tarnished)
Billy has taken shots at Elton over the years. And the way Elton writes songs is that he gets the lyrics from his writing partner Bernie taupin and then writes a melody and chords over it, so by Billy saying it’s the least of his songs because of the writing process, it’s kind of a dig at Elton’s writing process.
Billy Joel also doesn’t really understand why piano man is such a hit because it’s so simple. He definitely doesn’t see it as one of his better songs. But the simplicity is exactly why it’s a hit.
I could see artists growing to resent their biggest hits after playing it for 30 years.
It's also not in 4/4 time. I've always felt it was 3/4, but I don't know how it was composed.
I find modern songs in 3/4 time to feel like they have something extra to them.
Extreme took "More Than Words" to #1, and I've been told that it’s nothing like the rest of their catalog.
Same with Poison and "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." Both downtempo acoustic ballads from uptempo hard rockin’ mostly electric hair bands.
I had a friend who worked in a record store, and he said that Extreme album was the most-returned record they ever stocked. Middle aged white women bought it for that song, and they’d put it on, and they were shocked it was otherwise all edgy metal.
He’d always rib them a little when he returned their money. “Did you notice it’s titled Extreme II: Pornograffiti?”
Heh I worked in a record store warehouse chain, used and new. I could see that! Hahahah
My job was to sort the used copies for all the stores and we had so many copies of Green Day’s Dookie, we stopped buying it back. Lol.
The cool thing about More Than Words is that it’s an emotionally manipulative appeal to a woman to put out, wrapped in treacly-sweet vocal harmonies. That kind of music-lyrics tension is always good, and here it’s a neat reminder that love and lust are adjacent concepts. I also like Nuno Bettencourt’s acoustic playing on it.
I'm 99 percent sure that it's not supposed to be sexual. It's just talking about putting your love into actions. And I say this because Gary Cherone is actually a devout Christian, and a lot of Extreme songs are moral/religious but under the radar, like "Hole Hearted," for instance, which is about God. Plus, there's this bit:
What would you do if my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say if I took those words away?
Then you couldn't make things new
Just by saying: I love you
They supposedly sold out intentionally. That song came from an album called "14:59", indicating that they knew their 15 minutes of fame were almost up and they wanted to cash in. That was the story at the time, however. Lemonade and Brownies is a fun album, though.
I recall reading somewhere that for their previous album (Floored), they were recording and some sort or argument ensued. They took a brief pause in the studio and were just kind of messing around and decided to play a different style which resulted in their hit song Fly. When people bought the album many were pissed that was the only song that sounded like that and the rest was more heavy/hard. So they said they’d switch their style to appeal to the masses which wanted more like that.
Fly without that Record Executive added reggae guy, is a pretty good song. I usually change the channel when I hear the radio version.
I also read that Mark McGrath quit the band when they recorded Fly because he didn't feel like that song was their style. He ended up agreeing to come back to the band and now he is still going as a DJ on SeriusXM.
Was it? Every morning just seemed like a continuation of Fly off of Floored. Just cute little groovy pop love song. I honestly thought Sugar Ray was in same vein as Sublime, but lighter at the time. Fly taught them they could make money leaning more into pop so then you got 14:59.
I still remember buying Floored in the summer of 1997 based off Fly and wondering what the hell did I just buy.
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam is their highest charting song in the US which bothers me to no end. Not that Hail Hail or Corduroy are the types of songs you associate with mainstream success, but still…
Take A Picture by Filter is probably one of the biggest outliers in any discography considering the soft rock station in my town was playing it at the time. Still makes me chuckle to think someone’s got Title Of Record sitting on their shelf next to Celine Dion and Mariah Carey.
Ooh, Filter's a good one, although I actually like Take A Picture along with their usual stuff. Usually I'm bored by these one off #1s, like Extreme's and Aerosmith's, but Filter kept that lively energy while still showcasing their softer skills. Great mention!
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes comes to mind. It's their only single to have ever reached #1 in the US (*Billboard Hot 100*). Great song, but it and the album it's featured on (*90125*) were a massive departure from their more well known prog rock style that they helped pioneer. Their other most popular single is "Roundabout", much more representative of the style the band was known for is still is for the most part.
The fact that they pulled a number 1 with multiple key and tempo switches is fucking badass and pretty indicative of their catalog as a whole. The song basically closed out new wave and embraced the 90s DJ aesthetic. I love it to death!!
I honestly had to look this up because I couldn’t believe that beat Enter Sandman on the charts but yeah, it did and now I don’t know what to believe.
Edit: someone reported THIS to Reddit Cares?!
Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 single that he sang on. His song “Blinded by the Light” went to #1, but that was when Manfred Mann covered it 3 years after Bruce originally released it.
I think at that time there was so much competition… which was great!!!
Man mainstream music sucks these days. I’m even a Swift fan but nothing compares to the early 90’s rock these days. Or the 70’s and 80’s. Sad.
Edit: The guitar solo in “Right Now” is overlooked. It’s sick, written perfectly. And of course it shows Eddie’s piano ability.
Santana spent a lot of time in the 2000s doing pop collabs though. "Game of Love" and "I'm Feeling You" with Michelle Branch, "Into the Night" with Chad Kroeger, and that's just the songs I've heard on SFW pop radio that plays in retail stores I know I've heard others as well.
Smooth and Maria where indeed number one's. Also Into the Night, went to number one in Hungary. Corazón Espinado with Maná just misted the number one spot in Spain, got stuck on number 2.
Def Leppard's only #1 was Love Bites, a power ballad that started life as a country ballad (according to Wikipedia) before being glammed up by the band and Shania Twain's future ex-husband.
The bands intention going into the studio was to create their version of “Thriller”… with nearly every track a banger. And they did it.
Thriller came out and blew them away. (And was and still it the best selling record ever of Dark Side of the Moon)
There’s a video of the Hysteria tour on YouTube called “in the round” it’s so sick.
They do now! Hah.
Their sound is SICK these days. Dialed in. Listen to “Hysteria at the O2 Arena London”
Their tour with Motley Crue was so much better than the Crue, Mick Mars left the band because they sampled it all.
Def Leppard rules right now.
Even Taylor Swift played with them. She’s a HUGE fan. (On you tube) 🤘
Warren Zevon. It’s sad that a lot of people only know him for his novelty song (that was basically an ad libbed studio outtake) Werewolves of London.
He’s such a rich, dark, and evocative writer and brilliant instrumentalist.
I’m not sure “ad libbed outtake” is an apt description since he tried recording it multiple times with different people until he got Mick Fleetwood and John McVie in to play when it finally gelled.
In 2nd grade every Friday we could bring in a song to play for the class and when it was my turn I brought in Warren zevon and all the kids were asking to play werewolves but i wanted to play “lawyers guns and money” lmao. (My logic was everyone has heard that song and wanted to show them he has another awesome song.) The teacher let me play werewolves after to the class’s request
Also remember a kid brought in nirvana to play teen spirit and everyone wanted to see the monkey strapped to dynamite on the back cover
Isn't that the best with an artist? You're like "yeah I'm aware of them but never really listened to them. Lemme give it a shot WOAH I KNOW ALL OF THIS"
Happened to me with Elton John. Just never really listened to him, then saw the Biopic and was like "ah yeah of course, literally every one of his songs I feel like I've always intimately known."
Nah. That song was so close to being great, but it needed a bridge. That verse/chorus/verse/chorus/rinse/repeat thing made it kinda boring. Inserting a bridge would have made it GO somewhere, then when it came back to the final verse it would have been magic.
In The US. Outside there they did a lot.
Proud Mary went to number one in Austria and South Africa, Bad Moon Rising went to number one in Ireland, South Africa and the UK, Travelin' Band went to number one in Belgium, Who'll Stop the Rain was number one in Belgium and The Netherlands, Up Around the Bend number one in Australia, Canada and The Netherlands, Lookin' out My Back Door number one in Australia, Austria, Norway and Sweden, Have You Ever Seen the Rain? number one in Canada, Malaysia and South Africa, Hey Tonight number one in Germany and Denmark, Sweet Hitch-Hiker number one in Canada and Switzerland,
CCR are played all the time in Australia. It’s one of those bands that really pierced the minds of the population and aligned well to our unique brand of pub rock. Still gets played by heaps of pub bands.
Living in America only went to #2 but it is very different from the 60s and 70s content of James Brown. Completely overproduced and vapid compared to Brown's earlier content.
But it's his biggest "hit."
It’s not even an interesting cover. That album is so disappointing because I wanted to hear Weezer versions of these songs, and they mostly played them straight.
But then I saw them live on that tour, and frankly it’s a genius move to play some crowd pleasing covers instead of unloved originals.
I mean it is one of the few approachable songs they have. I’m a Ween fanatic and I can understand why that and Push Th Little Daisies were their only mainstream songs
[Golden Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAsI3U2EaE) by the Stranglers was their biggest hit at number 2 and it's very different from their other songs.
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. On the immediately preceding album you have stuff like "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "Family and the Fishing Net'" which are from another universe musically. Even Shock The Monkey is still I feel pretty far removed.
Interestingly, hes never had a number 1 single in the UK, only in the US.
I'm 50 years old, and it only occurred to me probably a year or two ago or so that "Sledgehammer" is about sex. You should have seen my motherfuckin' face when it dawned on me, haha. It's just one of those songs that I had known since childhood, and I had just never thought about the lyrics at all. Yeeeeeaaaah.
Extreme was a hard rock band... but i dont think most people would think that (probably would think its an ironic name) given their only #1 hit was the tender power ballad More Than Words
Frank Zappa's highest charting song was Valley Girl. It's alright. Fairly amusing. Not really representative of him as a whole. It's kind of a throwaway song that caught on because of its relation to a cultural trend at the time.
Extreme’s “more than words”, and their follow up “hole hearted” were soft rock hits in 1991, going to 1 and close to 1 respectively… still relevant in recent years as seen by Jimmy Fallon and Jack Black’s cover back a few years ago.
They came off an album called “pornograffiti”, which was a better indicator of their sound.
The only UK number one for Iron Maiden was Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter, which is easily one of their least good songs (Iron Maiden have no songs that are objectively bad but some are definitely better than others).
I think I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing is indicative of Aerosmith. Certainly of their arguably more popular and bigger period since Permanent Vacation. Plenty of folks know and prefer that era.
Bob Seger’s only #1 song is kind of a poppy dancey 80s tune called Shakedown from Beverly Hills cop 2. Sounds not much like his usual heartland rock
I can hear the song in my head but had zero idea that was Seger
I think a lot of people think it is Glenn Frey.
Glenn Frey had "The Heat is On" from the first Beverly Hills Cop.
It was written for Glenn Frey.
The H is O
O the S
Amazing example!
Not even a top 10 Seger song. Top 20? Questionable. That’s suprising to me and I lived through it.
I loved and basically grew up on Beverly Hills Cop, but it's crazy to think that people would know this song but wouldn't know something like Roll Me Away or Against the Wind
If you were born in the midwest from 75-95 you grew up on all Seger songs.
You don't really need the Midwest qualifier there.
East coast Canadian. Can confirm
Come on that song was great, what was that summer of 87or 88? Growing up in Detroit, BHC was #1 at the box office and Bob Seger had that song on every station. I remember my mom blasting that song flying down the lodge in her mustang, I was in the back with my he-men, no car seat lol just a buckle.
I'd believe that. I didn't know he had any number ones, even though he's fucking awesome.
You’re busted!
Disagree. Shakedown is basically Katmandu with synthesizers layered on top to make it sound more like it came from a movie soundtrack. But at their core, both songs are Seger, and I love them both.
For all the synths, there's some good old-fashioned organ buried in the song, I love that.
Its crazy. I remember this song as a kid but no idea who sang it. Knew of Bob Seger; first for the Chevy commercials then the Metallica cover but was exposed to more of his songs over the years. I only found out he was the singer of Shakedown in the past year.
You want your mind blown, check out his earlier material. I suggest [MONGREL.](https://youtu.be/OH3itTMRoQ8) Bob rocked ass when he was young...came up on the same scene as the MC5, Stooges and Grand Funk, and more than held his own. Iggy Pop even said that seeing Bob's band in high school was the final nail in the coffin for him ever pursuing a normal life.
Holy shit.
In Canada the singles Mainstreet and The Real Love went to number one as well. But Bob Seger was not really that big outside the US and Canada.
"The Flame" by Cheap Trick is the only #1 they had.
Cheap Trick always shocks me. I get they weren't quite *that* big, but between Dream Police, At Bodokan, and In Color there's at least three potential #1s for each album. *Did not expect this to be the comment I would get my first RedditCares message from. Be better.
I got one earlier today also on a post that was completely sane. Some bot is having fun?
Sorry to intrude, but I got this whack message that really made no sense…not exactly sure that’s what you’re referring too, but
RedditCares messages encourage you to seek help and not harm yourself. Apparently something is glitching or some a-hat is using them to annoy people.
Yeah I got one today and truly have no idea why
Live at Budokhan is a great album. Although it was recorded at Nippon I believe. Great energy, the crowd is insane, Zander's vocals are on point, Nelson going cray on guitar, and Bun E. laying down a rocking beat. What's not to love?!
Budokan is a type of building, not a town or city :). Cheap Trick was HUGE in Japan. As was the band The Runaways.
I’m there right now, checking out a lot of music stores. The Beatles, Ventures, Stones, Simon and Garfunkel and Santana are absolutely everywhere.
Think that’s just a trend going on in Reddit right now. Seeing it all over the place. There’s steps to report the person who sent it maliciously. I’d recommend doing so since it’s a dick move
Dream police wasn't number one? Crazy
Rapport the reddit care message as harassment and reddit will take care of whomever sendt it
Lol, I JUST got my first one minutes ago, for I don't even know what! Just reply "STOP", and you'll never see it again, apparently.
There is a massive difference between singles charts in the 60s / 80s, and longevity of songs. Part of the hatred for disco was because everyone we knew was listening to, and going to concerts by bands like Cheap Trick, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, and Kansas, but pop radio was almost all soft rock and disco.
Not Surrender???
Or I want you to want. Me
Went to number 1 in the US, Canada and Australia. The only other single that made it to the top of any chart around the world was the live release of I Want You To Want Me which made it to number 1 on the Dutch and Belgian (Flanders) charts. That album (Cheap Trick at Budokan) was also their only one to reach number 1 anywhere in the world, topping the Canadian charts.
I Want You to Want Me was also number one in Japan.
Billy Joel considers one of his #1 hits, "We Didn't Start the Fire" to be the least of all his songs. He blames the fact that he reversed his creative process for it, by writing the lyrics before the actual music.
Not Uptown Girl? That went to number one in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and The UK... And hopefully not Goodnight Saigon, because that went to number one in Belgium and The Netherlands.... :-) ps, Tell Her About It and It's Still Rock and Roll to Me where also number one in the US and The River of Dreams went to number one in Australia and New Zealand.
I feel like that’s a jab at Elton John.
Please elaborate.
IRC Joel and Elton had a tour together and then some animosity ensued. Afterward, Elton said Joel hasn’t released anything, and Joel made a comment about Elton that he shouldn’t release music that’s garbage. (Just don’t put it out so your peak legacy isn’t tarnished)
Billy has taken shots at Elton over the years. And the way Elton writes songs is that he gets the lyrics from his writing partner Bernie taupin and then writes a melody and chords over it, so by Billy saying it’s the least of his songs because of the writing process, it’s kind of a dig at Elton’s writing process.
Billy Joel also doesn’t really understand why piano man is such a hit because it’s so simple. He definitely doesn’t see it as one of his better songs. But the simplicity is exactly why it’s a hit. I could see artists growing to resent their biggest hits after playing it for 30 years.
It's also not in 4/4 time. I've always felt it was 3/4, but I don't know how it was composed. I find modern songs in 3/4 time to feel like they have something extra to them.
Yep, at its core, it’s a pretty straightforward waltz
Extreme took "More Than Words" to #1, and I've been told that it’s nothing like the rest of their catalog. Same with Poison and "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." Both downtempo acoustic ballads from uptempo hard rockin’ mostly electric hair bands.
I had a friend who worked in a record store, and he said that Extreme album was the most-returned record they ever stocked. Middle aged white women bought it for that song, and they’d put it on, and they were shocked it was otherwise all edgy metal. He’d always rib them a little when he returned their money. “Did you notice it’s titled Extreme II: Pornograffiti?”
Heh I worked in a record store warehouse chain, used and new. I could see that! Hahahah My job was to sort the used copies for all the stores and we had so many copies of Green Day’s Dookie, we stopped buying it back. Lol.
Really works for every metal/hardrock band that had some ballad blow up randomly. Mr. Big is another good example
The cool thing about More Than Words is that it’s an emotionally manipulative appeal to a woman to put out, wrapped in treacly-sweet vocal harmonies. That kind of music-lyrics tension is always good, and here it’s a neat reminder that love and lust are adjacent concepts. I also like Nuno Bettencourt’s acoustic playing on it.
I'm 99 percent sure that it's not supposed to be sexual. It's just talking about putting your love into actions. And I say this because Gary Cherone is actually a devout Christian, and a lot of Extreme songs are moral/religious but under the radar, like "Hole Hearted," for instance, which is about God. Plus, there's this bit: What would you do if my heart was torn in two? More than words to show you feel That your love for me is real What would you say if I took those words away? Then you couldn't make things new Just by saying: I love you
Oh man you just reminded me how much I love Hole Hearted
I remember my mom got Extreme II: Pornograffiti because of that song and hated the rest of the album.
Every Morning by Sugar Ray became somewhat indicative of their career but was definitely a departure at the time it came out.
They supposedly sold out intentionally. That song came from an album called "14:59", indicating that they knew their 15 minutes of fame were almost up and they wanted to cash in. That was the story at the time, however. Lemonade and Brownies is a fun album, though.
I recall reading somewhere that for their previous album (Floored), they were recording and some sort or argument ensued. They took a brief pause in the studio and were just kind of messing around and decided to play a different style which resulted in their hit song Fly. When people bought the album many were pissed that was the only song that sounded like that and the rest was more heavy/hard. So they said they’d switch their style to appeal to the masses which wanted more like that.
Fly without that Record Executive added reggae guy, is a pretty good song. I usually change the channel when I hear the radio version. I also read that Mark McGrath quit the band when they recorded Fly because he didn't feel like that song was their style. He ended up agreeing to come back to the band and now he is still going as a DJ on SeriusXM.
I love that song for introducing me to Malo’s Suavecito.
Never been into them but that’s a pretty fun song that reminds me of popular music during simpler times
Was it? Every morning just seemed like a continuation of Fly off of Floored. Just cute little groovy pop love song. I honestly thought Sugar Ray was in same vein as Sublime, but lighter at the time. Fly taught them they could make money leaning more into pop so then you got 14:59. I still remember buying Floored in the summer of 1997 based off Fly and wondering what the hell did I just buy.
Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzvk0fWtCs0
I’m not a Dead fan, but I love that song.
It is not, not ever, the correct choice when someone asks you what your favorite Dead song is. Just say Shakedown Street.
Man even Grateful Dead fans are gate keepers now?
Grateful Dead infighting is insane. Only rivaled by Phish fans hating other Phish fans.
The jam scene is full of gatekeeping. It's definitely the worst part about it besides Mihali.
Twiddle hate goes beyond the laws of physics
Damn Phish fans! They ruined Phish!
Phish fans really are like everyone else.
Grate keepers
I don’t know, I feel like Touch of Grey is more representative of the Dead catalogue than disco Shakedown Street.
Yeah, but there's never been a 27 minute, barn burning Touch of Grey.
Well anyway I don’t care what any Dead fan thinks of me when I tell them my favorite Dead song! They know it comes from the heart!
Whos out here trying to impress grateful dead fans?
Whoever is trying to score some free shrooms I guess haha
They’re called Touch Heads. We accept them as our own, but we are slightly disappointed with them.
I'd say Alabama Getaway, or their version of Not Fade Away.
Can I say Scarlet Begonias? Jimmy Buffett did a great cover. :)
This is the first song I thought of.
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam is their highest charting song in the US which bothers me to no end. Not that Hail Hail or Corduroy are the types of songs you associate with mainstream success, but still… Take A Picture by Filter is probably one of the biggest outliers in any discography considering the soft rock station in my town was playing it at the time. Still makes me chuckle to think someone’s got Title Of Record sitting on their shelf next to Celine Dion and Mariah Carey.
I would say I can't believe nothing on Ten charted higher, but then I remember how many other great albums came out in 91 to compete with it.
Ten is a masterpiece. Crazy.
Ten is in my top 10 albums of all time.
'91 was an absolutely crazy year for music.
Not only was I born in 91, apparently I was in the womb for both a nirvana and pearl jam concert.
Mom was lucky to see PJ. It was impossible to get into that show. impossible.
I would argue that it might well be the most incredible 18 months of music releases maybe ever. So. Many. Epics.
It probably gives Vedder a significant chubbie that they haven’t had more success on the singles chart.
And Last Kiss is a cover…
Ooh, Filter's a good one, although I actually like Take A Picture along with their usual stuff. Usually I'm bored by these one off #1s, like Extreme's and Aerosmith's, but Filter kept that lively energy while still showcasing their softer skills. Great mention!
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes comes to mind. It's their only single to have ever reached #1 in the US (*Billboard Hot 100*). Great song, but it and the album it's featured on (*90125*) were a massive departure from their more well known prog rock style that they helped pioneer. Their other most popular single is "Roundabout", much more representative of the style the band was known for is still is for the most part.
Boner and a lonely fart.
Roundabout's bass line is all time. It's so good
Heart of the Sunrise’s bass line from the same album is awesome too.
Chris Squire was such a talented dude. He's sorely missed.
Definitely this
The fact that they pulled a number 1 with multiple key and tempo switches is fucking badass and pretty indicative of their catalog as a whole. The song basically closed out new wave and embraced the 90s DJ aesthetic. I love it to death!!
"Song 2" by Blur is by far their most well-known track, and not at all representative of most of their work.
Metallica only had one track break the top 10 and it was "Until it Sleeps"? Wow. E: punctuation
Big metallica fan and never would have known this
If you told me their highest charting single wasn't Enter Sandman,I would have guessed Nothing Else Matters.
Or Fuel just based on their mainstream popularity in the 90s
GIMME FEW GIMME FIE GIMME DABBAJABBAZAI
I honestly had to look this up because I couldn’t believe that beat Enter Sandman on the charts but yeah, it did and now I don’t know what to believe. Edit: someone reported THIS to Reddit Cares?!
Rapport the reddit care message as harassment and reddit will take care of whomever sendt it
I just got a Cares message this evening too! I have no clue what caused it.
Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 single that he sang on. His song “Blinded by the Light” went to #1, but that was when Manfred Mann covered it 3 years after Bruce originally released it.
Wrapped like a douche!
*Wrapped UP like a douche! C’mon, get it right! 😂😂
Another boner in the night
get it wrong correctly!
Yeah come on now that's just chump shit
Van Halen only had one #1 mainstream song with Jump
I guess if you asked me what their only number one was I'd say it was Jump, more surprised that there wasn't anymore.
Wow. I figured Right Now would have, at least, been up there.
I think at that time there was so much competition… which was great!!! Man mainstream music sucks these days. I’m even a Swift fan but nothing compares to the early 90’s rock these days. Or the 70’s and 80’s. Sad. Edit: The guitar solo in “Right Now” is overlooked. It’s sick, written perfectly. And of course it shows Eddie’s piano ability.
Santana, maybe, with Smooth and Maria Maria?
Santana spent a lot of time in the 2000s doing pop collabs though. "Game of Love" and "I'm Feeling You" with Michelle Branch, "Into the Night" with Chad Kroeger, and that's just the songs I've heard on SFW pop radio that plays in retail stores I know I've heard others as well.
I think that's a great answer. They had won a ton of awards and we're well known in certain circles, but *Supernatural* was huge.
Smooth and Maria where indeed number one's. Also Into the Night, went to number one in Hungary. Corazón Espinado with Maná just misted the number one spot in Spain, got stuck on number 2.
Def Leppard's only #1 was Love Bites, a power ballad that started life as a country ballad (according to Wikipedia) before being glammed up by the band and Shania Twain's future ex-husband.
That’s crazy. That album had so many hits on it. I think they released almost every song on it as singles and videos.
The bands intention going into the studio was to create their version of “Thriller”… with nearly every track a banger. And they did it. Thriller came out and blew them away. (And was and still it the best selling record ever of Dark Side of the Moon) There’s a video of the Hysteria tour on YouTube called “in the round” it’s so sick.
Def Leppard doesn't seem to get the credit they deserve anymore. Their greatest hits album is back to back to back bangers.
They do now! Hah. Their sound is SICK these days. Dialed in. Listen to “Hysteria at the O2 Arena London” Their tour with Motley Crue was so much better than the Crue, Mick Mars left the band because they sampled it all. Def Leppard rules right now. Even Taylor Swift played with them. She’s a HUGE fan. (On you tube) 🤘
Warren Zevon. It’s sad that a lot of people only know him for his novelty song (that was basically an ad libbed studio outtake) Werewolves of London. He’s such a rich, dark, and evocative writer and brilliant instrumentalist.
I’m not sure “ad libbed outtake” is an apt description since he tried recording it multiple times with different people until he got Mick Fleetwood and John McVie in to play when it finally gelled.
In 2nd grade every Friday we could bring in a song to play for the class and when it was my turn I brought in Warren zevon and all the kids were asking to play werewolves but i wanted to play “lawyers guns and money” lmao. (My logic was everyone has heard that song and wanted to show them he has another awesome song.) The teacher let me play werewolves after to the class’s request Also remember a kid brought in nirvana to play teen spirit and everyone wanted to see the monkey strapped to dynamite on the back cover
Your teacher played “the shit has hit the fan” in second grade?
Yeah it’s funny I don’t remember exactly how that played out if he turned it down at that part or only played part of the song or what
And the the teacher played “Excitable Boy” because fuck it- these kids have to learn life is crazy sometime.
Just listened to "Standing in the Fire" today. Zevon was the real deal.
CCR never had a number one. That blows my mind
Particularly because unlike a lot of bands being mentioned, they were absolutely a singles band first and foremost.
But they had five songs that peaked at number two, believe it or not.
I believe the hold the record for most #2s.
What? Really? The first time I ever put on their playlist on Spotify, I knew like 10 of their songs.
Isn't that the best with an artist? You're like "yeah I'm aware of them but never really listened to them. Lemme give it a shot WOAH I KNOW ALL OF THIS" Happened to me with Elton John. Just never really listened to him, then saw the Biopic and was like "ah yeah of course, literally every one of his songs I feel like I've always intimately known."
No, what blows my mind is Fortunate Son topping out ar #14
Nah. That song was so close to being great, but it needed a bridge. That verse/chorus/verse/chorus/rinse/repeat thing made it kinda boring. Inserting a bridge would have made it GO somewhere, then when it came back to the final verse it would have been magic.
This is a great observation. Didn’t notice that.
In The US. Outside there they did a lot. Proud Mary went to number one in Austria and South Africa, Bad Moon Rising went to number one in Ireland, South Africa and the UK, Travelin' Band went to number one in Belgium, Who'll Stop the Rain was number one in Belgium and The Netherlands, Up Around the Bend number one in Australia, Canada and The Netherlands, Lookin' out My Back Door number one in Australia, Austria, Norway and Sweden, Have You Ever Seen the Rain? number one in Canada, Malaysia and South Africa, Hey Tonight number one in Germany and Denmark, Sweet Hitch-Hiker number one in Canada and Switzerland,
CCR are played all the time in Australia. It’s one of those bands that really pierced the minds of the population and aligned well to our unique brand of pub rock. Still gets played by heaps of pub bands.
Living in America only went to #2 but it is very different from the 60s and 70s content of James Brown. Completely overproduced and vapid compared to Brown's earlier content. But it's his biggest "hit."
I'm going to add Weezer's cover of Toto's "Africa" to this list as well.
It’s not even an interesting cover. That album is so disappointing because I wanted to hear Weezer versions of these songs, and they mostly played them straight. But then I saw them live on that tour, and frankly it’s a genius move to play some crowd pleasing covers instead of unloved originals.
Didn't Beverly Hills hit No. 1? That song's indicative of what Weezer became, but not how they became famous
On the Alternative and Modern Rock Tracks charts, yes it did.
Ween and the song Ocean Man
There's are no ween songs that are indicative of their style, and at the same time every song they've ever done is indicative of their style.
I mean it is one of the few approachable songs they have. I’m a Ween fanatic and I can understand why that and Push Th Little Daisies were their only mainstream songs
Tried and True is a popular, digestible song and way better than either of those imo.
Thanks to this post I can’t not hear the lyrics to “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” being replaced with the lyrics to “My Ding-A-Ling”.
I DONT WANNA CLOSE MY EYES I DONT WANNA FALL ASLEEP COS ID MISS YOU BABY AND YOU PLAAAY WITH MY DING A LIIIIING
COS EVEN IN THE VESTIBULE WHEN I SHOULD BE IN GRAMMAR SCHOOL HEAR THAT SCHOOL BELL RING AND I PLAAAY WITH MY DING A LING
I DONT WANT TO MISS ONE SMILE AND I DONT WANT TO MISS ONE KISS JUST GIVE A GOLDEN SHOWER FROM MY DING-A-LING, COVER YOU IN PISS
#EMOTIONALLY EVOCATIVE STRINGS
I wish Reddit still had free awards
The worst concert I ever went to included Chuck. His set featured a 20 minute sing-along version of that "song." "Now just the ladies sing..."
IRC - Chuck Berry would insist that a friendly picture was taken with any woman he slept with on tour so he could prove it was consensual.
Sounds smart, especially in the south.
“I'd still miss you baby And I Don’t Want My Ding-A-Ling”.
I do not have words to adequately describe how much this amuses me and how terrified I am that it will get stuck in my head.
Welcome to hell. Population: 2.
3.
You dirty dog!
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
[Golden Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAsI3U2EaE) by the Stranglers was their biggest hit at number 2 and it's very different from their other songs.
Different, but an undeniable classic.
Absolutely.
The only song written by Dave Greenfield.
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. On the immediately preceding album you have stuff like "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "Family and the Fishing Net'" which are from another universe musically. Even Shock The Monkey is still I feel pretty far removed. Interestingly, hes never had a number 1 single in the UK, only in the US.
Between Sledgehammer and My Ding-a-Ling, I'm starting to think penis songs are the way to go
Nah, then Aerosmith's Big Ten Inch would be their chart-topper.
I'm 50 years old, and it only occurred to me probably a year or two ago or so that "Sledgehammer" is about sex. You should have seen my motherfuckin' face when it dawned on me, haha. It's just one of those songs that I had known since childhood, and I had just never thought about the lyrics at all. Yeeeeeaaaah.
It was massive
Steam went to number one in Canada.
“Brandy” by Looking Glass
Extreme was a hard rock band... but i dont think most people would think that (probably would think its an ironic name) given their only #1 hit was the tender power ballad More Than Words
Hocus Pocus is not quite a good indicator of what Focus normally sounds like.. and was their only hit
Genesis - their only number 1 was “Invisible Touch”, though they had several top 5
Frank Zappa's highest charting song was Valley Girl. It's alright. Fairly amusing. Not really representative of him as a whole. It's kind of a throwaway song that caught on because of its relation to a cultural trend at the time.
Zappa is like Ween and Phish, everything is representative and nothing is representative.
Around here he's mostly known for "Bobby Brown Goes Down".
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba - #1 in five countries, UK #2, US #8, bit of a departure from their usual anarcho-folk-punk sound
Iggy Pop - Candy
ITT: people not understanding the post
Extreme’s “more than words”, and their follow up “hole hearted” were soft rock hits in 1991, going to 1 and close to 1 respectively… still relevant in recent years as seen by Jimmy Fallon and Jack Black’s cover back a few years ago. They came off an album called “pornograffiti”, which was a better indicator of their sound.
REO Speedwagon with Keep on Loving You.
Neil Diamond’s only UK #1 is Daydream Believer by the Monkees.
The only UK number one for Iron Maiden was Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter, which is easily one of their least good songs (Iron Maiden have no songs that are objectively bad but some are definitely better than others).
Modest Mouse, "Float On" has like 1000 times the youtube views as the (imo) much better "Bankrupt on Selling".
I think I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing is indicative of Aerosmith. Certainly of their arguably more popular and bigger period since Permanent Vacation. Plenty of folks know and prefer that era.
Jimmy Buffet only had 1 solo hit “margaritaville” that hit #1 after he died
Led Zeppelin never had a number 1 song in the US or UK.
Sister Hazel - All For You ... Their recording career after that one hit has reached emotional depths far beyond it.