Which band do you first remember having a backlash against (whether you were part of the backlash or not)?
I love how you ask these very YouTube "answer with a comment below!" kind of questions.
So apparently Weird Al has never had a single song in the top 100.
From a recent Billboard article
Yankovic boasts four top 40 Hot 100 hits, and he makes this exclusive list by having spaced them out one per decade. After "Eat It," "Smells Like Nirvana" climbed to No. 35 in 1992; "White & Nerdy," his riff on Chamillionaire's "Ridin'," featuring Krayzie Bone (a two-week Hot 100 No. 1), became Yankovic's lone top 10, hitting No. 9 in 2006; and "Word Crimes," which spoofs Robin Thicke's 12-week 2013 No. 1 "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. and Pharrell, debuted at its No. 39 peak in 2014.
Yet, he's one of the musicians I respect most. His albums are extremely listenable; his original songs (not parodies) are usually the best ones. I could live without the polkas, though.
I want to say it's because it's not a bog standard TSAWTWTB song, in that the music was so effective in evoking a feeling of loss, and the lyrics are less about how thing used to be good and more about how things were never what they seemed. Like that line: "And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales." I feel like it came out during a time when the popular culture was acting like The Good Old Days Are Back Again, and it dared to run against that current.
...but it's probably because it gets jumbled up in the musical memory with every time they played a Bruce Hornsby and the Range song, so. : D
edit: looking around on Wikipedia:
In 1989 Hornsby co-wrote and played piano on Don Henley's hit "The End of the Innocence"
yup, that's probably why!
#forgottensong ! Finding top 100 eighties songs that make my standard for a forgotten song (less than 1M views on youtube) has been hard but this one counts! At 725k it's below the limit but what is even more bizarre is that it stars and is sung by Bruce Willis! Like Eddie Murphy, 1987 was apparently a time when big movies stars could have a top 100 song just because they were big movie stars. I don't think that is remotely possible today
I have a sneaking suspicion that the 700k views is because there's no official version of this video on YouTube. It's not being promoted by Vevo or some record company, so no one is watching it plus I bet there was a different version of the song that had more views but got pulled.
The reason I feel this way is because this song is routinely talked about as a one hit wonder, especially because it's from an actor.
You may enjoy this: https://pudding.cool/2017/03/music-h...
Plays the #1 song from any given week. It's an interesting experience as the songs drop in and out.
No no no, you got it all wrong. Its not the same as "Under Pressure".
There song goes:
doon doon doon doodun doondoon
Ours goes:
du doon doon doon doodun doondoon
I think Erasure was the flip flop band. Because you were obviously gay if you liked them because they were gay . (no I am not kidding; if you want to see how far we've come since then; people knew "gay" wasn't contagious but those wives tales were very present in culture and exploded in influence during the GRID/AIDS epidemic)
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