Great Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders of the 90s: Part 1

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 5 a.m.

b'Artists who manage to have only one hit are often the butt of jokes\\u2026getting tagged as a one-hit-wonder can kill your career\\u2026but let\\u2019s turn this around: how many hits do you have?...\\n\\nThere is so much music out there, so much competition for our attention, that if you managed to break through all the noise just once, that should be considered a giant victory\\u2026\\n\\nAnd remember, too, that thanks to streaming and the tens and tens of millions of songs available at our fingertips through our smartphones, that today\\u2019s artists are not only competing with their contemporaries but with essentially humankind\\u2019s entire recorded musical history\\u2026\\n\\nSo, yeah\\u2026being a one-hit-wonder is a genuine accomplishment\\u2026and while you may burn brightly and then quickly fade, it is possible that one song is all you need to set you up with some royalty cheques for the rest of your life\\u2026at the very least, you\\u2019ll end up as a trivia question\\u2026\\n\\nSome of these acts are gone forever\\u2026others have moved on to other things\\u2026and others still just keep plugging away, hoping that lightning strikes twist\\u2026\\n\\nHere are the stories of some alt-rock artists who hit it big exactly once\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'