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Also, “it’s the only song I hear by them on the radio anymore” is not a valid OHW criterion. The way nostalgia channels work these days seems to reduce pretty much any artist’s catalogue down to one or two songs. Some days, you’d swear “Love Is a Battlefield” is the only song Pat Benatar ever recorded.
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To be fair, it does vary from artist to artist. Stations near me can play just about anything by Michael Jackson or Madonna, but the only Duran Duran song they seem to be interested in playing these days is "Hungry Like the Wolf."
edited 8th Aug '16 7:44:53 PM by BurntMario
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Wha, I've always heard "Heartbreaker" and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" more.
also "We Belong" but that's mostly because I listened to it on my own because I love it.
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I don't think anyone has said that? We were talking about hits for flash in the pan groups that may have had like one or two hits past the big one (Also the Jimi Hendrix/Frank Zappa/Modeste Mouse situation mentioned)
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On the US charts, Rush is a one hit wonder and it's for one of there songs that doesn't even get a lot of Air Play, New World Man.
Really? That's their one charting hit? Wow.
That's nothing, wanna guess what the one "charting hit" among Public Enemy's discography is?
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edited 10th Aug '16 8:18:35 AM by Pachylad
Rush probably falls under the influence rule yeah.
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I was just looking to see if Don Mc Lean (the guy who did American Pie) counted as a one-hit wonder, and apparently he does not. He had another big hit year after American Pie with a cover of Crying by Roy Orbison, surprisingly.
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Vincent (Aka Starry, Starry Night) was also a hit for Don Mclean charting at 12.
And yeah, we're not getting Rush or Janis Joplin. I'm wondering, though, if Fountains of Wayne would fall under the "Influence" clause because of their popularity overseas, quite consistently charting on alt charts and Schlesinger writing an Academy Award nominated song in "That Thing You Do"
edited 10th Aug '16 5:23:30 PM by PippingFool
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And he had a song (the name escapes me at the moment) that Perry Como had a big hit with.
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@phantom1 That and absolutely no one knows Rush for their only Top 40 hit. If people know Rush for one song it's either Tom Sawyer or Free Will.
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"Vincent" actually gets tons of airplay on classic rock radio.
And I thought people mostly knew Rush for 2112.
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People know Rush for a lot of things. 2112, Fly By Night, Working Man, Closer to the Heart, The Trees, Subdivisions, Freewill, Spirit of the Radio, the entirety of the Moving Pictures album, etc.
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Sounds more like what people who listen to Rush know them for.
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They should know Fly By Night from that car commercial with the guy air drumming to it.
Some of those other songs should be known from either being played on classic rock stations or from Guitar Hero, Rock Band, what have you.
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*shrug* I don't watch TV, so I have no idea what commercial you're talking about.
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This one.
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Basically as a band that's been playing for over 40 years there are a lot of things people might know Rush for. New World Man, their only top 40 hit in the US, is very, very far down that list.
... so nobody's going to discuss Public Enemy and how weird it is that "Give It Up" is said "one charting hit" over songs like"Fight the Power", " Don't Believe the Hype" and "Can't Truss It"? (Admittedly the last one came closest)
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I thought 911 Is A Joke was a big hit?
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Though interestingly, "Give It Up" charted less than those aforementioned songs on the Hip Hop chart. So maybe a case similar to Modest Mouse here, where they do poorly on the main chart but pretty well on their subgenres'.
Having been taught the Common Knowledge that (nearly) everything they did post-Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black was phooey I had no idea about even the existence of "Give It Up".
EDIT: OK, speaking of Modest Mouse I went to go check the Billboard site and apparently... they're a no-hit wonder
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So how high you need to score to become one? Top 40?
Because I noticed that freaking Radiohead barely makes that mark, with "Nude" peaking #37, and "Creep" at #34.
I'd have to find it again, but a while back I recall him tweeting he would do What's Up if it were requested by a patron.