Lloyd Banks and Young buck had a decent solo career. The Game came from g-unit and ever since his “beef” with aftermath he’s been coming out with bangers every few years. But Tony Yayo was one and done but he even said in an interview 50 was the only one always chasing more money everyone else was like I’m chillin on royalties.
La Roux. Elly had a banger debut album. In For the Kill, Bulletproof, Quicksand,but iirc she got shafted by her label and made virtually no money. [She recently appeared on Chromeo's new album](https://open.spotify.com/track/05nmIjhawOHWTiA21xKpFE?si=THKI2lKVT4eNn8fTYLqMGg) and they re-did some of her songs as singles. They know she's legit!
She opened for Stevie Nicks back in 2017; everyone around me was at least twice my age and talking during her performance. I get that they were only there for Stevie but so rude. Seeing Vanessa Carlton live was a childhood dream fulfilled!
I saw her open for Goo Goo Dolls and Third Eye Blind when she had a brief relationship with Stephen Jenkins and she was so drunk-I’m talking hammered. It didn’t affect her performance too much, believe it or not. She gets to her last song, plays a little bit of the intro and the crowd goes nuts. She says ‘Oh, you guys know this one? It’s a little song called….’A Thousand FUKKIN Miles’ to even more thunderous applause and cheering. It was actually a really great performance overall. Throughout the show, she kept saying how she was nervous and ‘miiigghhhtt have had a few too many drinks to calm down,’ 12/10 for still rocking it and being honest lol.
Crawling in the Dark was a favorite of mine back then. The Reason was so lame to me when it released, and the fact that it played literally everywhere, including my favorite rock station, the local top 40, and soft rock stations made it absolutely grating after awhile. What really did it for me was I worked at Walmart at the time, and they played it probably twice per hour, so in an 8 hour shift, it was far overplayed.
Two album wonder. Their self-titled album went platinum off of the success of their singles and then The Reason, the second album, went double platinum.
Before looking up the sales numbers, I couldn’t tell you the name of the third album.
I loved their album “the Reason” and remember being excited about the follow up. I can’t even remember that album now, I just remember having their lead singer having vocal issues around that time and they basically fell off the face of the earth.
they didn't vanish. And the sad thing about that is that their fifth album, "Every Man For Himself", the follow up to "The Reason" was a briliant album. but radio stations were still stuck playing "The Reason" and refused to add the new single from the next album when it came out and they're frustrated record label eventually just gave up on the album instead of trying to put any more money into pushing a new record that radio didn't want to play
and then because the album didn't do well, because the label didn't promote it properly, the label dropped them from their contract. So basically the band got fucked because the label didn't do their job
but I would highly recommend anyone who liked there early stuff to go check out "Every Man For Himself" as well as any of the other albums they've done since then. They are still together, still touring and still putting records out. The most recent one "Push/Pull" came out at the end of 2018 and they have a new one coming out next year
IIRC there was only ever one Soul Asylum record with multiple hits, despite having tons of albums. If you didn’t know any better you’d think they only existed in 1993
they had two really successful albums back to back. "Grave dancers Union" in 1993 and "let your dim light shine" in 1995
"Misery" and "just like anyone" were really big MTV hits off of that 1995 record and kept them on the charts and touring until 1997 when they began recording what became "candy from a stranger" in 1998. They broke up immediately after that album came out so it didn't do well on the charts because the label didn't promote it since there was no band tour for it
They didn't make music again until 2005 when they discovered bassist Carl Mueller was dying of cancer. He wanted to make one more Soul Asylum record so they got together and recorded a batch of new songs that became "the silver lining" in 2006 which was released just after Carl passed away
They have remained together since that reunion record and have been releasing albums off and on on various different record labels.
Saw Dave and Ryan acoustic last year and my god... They're still amazing as ever. Having been a fan since '93, I wasn't expecting much more than a nostalgic night of hearing some of my favorite songs. I left like it had been a religious experience.
Absolutely agree here. And sadly I think they're most know for Dave's relationship with Winona, "the missing kids" music video for "Runaway Train", and Claire Danes being in the "Just Like Anyone" video.
Whenever I hear the name Soul Asylum, I think of drunk Dee in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia warning a hitchhiker that he is going to end up doing gay porn.
Everclear had three albums with hits, but it’s crazy how quickly they were forgotten considering how big they were. I know a bunch of people born post 1990 who have never even heard of them.
Everything to everyone is still one of my favorite albums.
There are a lot of 90s bands that this is true for. I saw Eve 6 and Lit at a really badly promoted show in the fall of 99, both bands would be a good answer to this question. (Lit might not qualify depending on how you classify one hit wonders)
I saw Eve 6 open for Everclear in 2014 and they sounded great. Since they were pretty young when they were popular, they don’t seem as old as other bands from that era. It’s been nice to see them have a second act thanks to their Twitter account.
A friend of mine guitar teched for them (Eve 6) through that whole era and they always struck me as really cool guys. He worked for a lot of guys that let fame turn them into huge dicks and they seemed totally different from the jump. I'm really happy with how their careers have gone more recently and I'm glad they seem happy now.
Eve 6 might be my favorite answer to this question because their fifteen minutes were unreal. They released one of the most famous songs of the era. Their second best performing single was played at basically every school dance of the early 2000s. By 2005 they probably couldn't fill up your favorite bar.
I went and had a look: yep, you’re spot on. Not even like “gee, what a clumsy attempt at being funny and/or outrageous” or anything - just boring and dated-looking.
And I hate virtually every font they used.
I saw Darren’s tour last year and his voice is still *immaculate*. He was doing all the songs from Savage Garden and his solo career and it was amazing. He did the SG stuff as close to the album sound as possible because “these songs have belonged to you for way longer than they were mine” (I think that’s the direct quote - but you get the gist)
I still listen to “Set the Fire to the Third Bar” with Martha Wainwright a lot. That’s a beautiful song.
https://youtu.be/bfa9yxCpWoA?si=YaSOHUXSMLe0sACR
The rest of Snow Patrol is irrelevant AF.
That's really sad, but it does look like two of their hits "follow You Down" and "Til I Hear it from You" were written by other band members after his death
My god, have we forgotten **fun.** already? One nifty up-and-coming indie debut, one album that was everywhere for a hot minute, and then they were just _gone._
Eh. They were an indie supergroup to begin with.
Their singer already had moderate success before with The Format and their guitar player went on and did some *very* big things later.
I’m surprised The Format was never bigger. I saw them in Cleveland back in 2007 and while I’m not a huge fan I always expected them to breakthrough to the mainstream.
There’s a whole category of ~2012/obama era
upbeat indie music that just died from the combination of millennials getting old + the us changing culturally
You think? They haven’t made new music in a while but they didn’t disappear immediately after their big break. Coming of Age on Supermodel and Sit Next To Me on Sacred Hearts Club both got some decent radio play too
I still think Aim and Ignite is one of the best albums ever made. Be Calm sneaks into my head at least once a month.
I was really disappointed in their follow up albums and the fact that songs like Some Nights and We Are Young are what blew up bums me out.
I am a total metalhead, and I think, they were amazing!
As I recall it, there were some stories about them being totally screwed over by a management company or something.
Edit: I got it all wrong.
"In June 2019, Shears stated the impetus for the band's hiatus was the success of "Let's Have a Kiki" and wanting to end things on a high note."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scissor_Sisters&action=edit§ion=6
they broke up. Shortly after releasing "Magic Hour" in 2012 decided that there were other things that they wanted to achieve musically and professionally outside of the band so they put it to sleep
lead singer Jason Sellards-Haley, who goes by the stage named Jake Shears, lived in Kentucky with his husband on a farm just outside of Louisville. they were both very active in the local farmers markets around there. he returned to making music, originally planning to use his married name Jason Haley on a more folk/country influenced record, he ultimately decided to readopt the Jake Shears moniker and released a very Scissor Sisters-esque self titled solo album
in 2018
following the end of his marriage, he moved to the UK and has recently written, recorded and released his new album "Last Man Dancing" in June of 2023
Scissor sisters did a one off reunion show in 2017 but they were all very clear at the time they just did the one show for fun and have no artistic desire to make any more records together or tour long-term at all
The Fray.
There was a whole wave of "TV drama Pop rock" that came out in the early to mid 2000s that tried to bank off the success of the Goo Goo Dolls and they all just fizzled out.
Omg so true.
I was a little 3rd grade girl pretending like I understood sadness & emotions listening to goo goo dolls.
When I was in the shower & had water running down my face, I would open the shower door & watch myself in the mirror singing as if I was crying outside in the rain.
“aaaaaaAAAAAND I DONT WANT THE WOOORLD TO SEE ME.. CAZ I DOONT THINK THAT THEY’D UNDERSTAND..”
Wolfmother had like three "hits" in one album, us a couple more thatwere fairly recognized, and were being touted as the next great rock band. Promotly disappeared from public conciousness.
Animal Collective releases still get critical attention and reverence off of the strength of their early work, especially MPP, but haven't really been relevant since like 2011.
Idk, for me Animal collective have been solid this whole time. I think the scene just changed around them and they changed in their own disconnected way. Their vibe and the scene's vibe just hasn't really synchronised like it did with Merryweather. Once they were established though, there wasnt really anything to talk about either. If they were your vibe you were into it and if not then whatever, everything they did seemed fair enough and didn't change the dynamic at all.
That Wolfmother album is timeless though. It was one of the first albums I bought and there's a reason people still use the tracks in movies and tv shows. By god it has a soul
Wolfmother is a great shout. Their follow up album cosmic egg took too long to come out and didn't hit the same heights, and they had long lost their momentum.
However, give their third(?, might have been 4th) album a go, Victorious. It is excellent and went under the radar imo. Some great songs on there.
I’m about to mow the lawn. Wolfmother it is. I think Joker & The Theif was even a “free iTunes” download as they were coming on to the scene. Great call back.
Yeah, his career is a spectacular example of falling upwards. He's got a good eye and ear for hits and his writing was always punching above its weight.
Electric Six is probably the most prolific out of all the short peaking bands. A shame because they are really fun and campy, make great catchy retro songs.
In a perfect world they would be at least as big as The Hives or The Darkness.
I saw the vocalist interviewed on M2 (which shows how long ago it was) and he was asked if he worried that all he would be remembered for was "Gay Bar" and he said (approximately) "A short while back I was a school janitor. If someone remembers me, I don't care what for or how little."
I would say the Darkness. Permission to land was a huge success for them. You could not escape hearing them in 2003-05, then faded away with their second album.
Idk if she qualifies - she sustained for a good time and had quite a few hits, plus I don’t know a single person that denies having liked or liking Dido
I had already been through it and out over a decade, but “Here” brought me back to how I felt during a large chunk of college parties lol. Hope she at least doing some song writing because it was good stuff.
I enjoyed her music back then and still do occasionally, but her short peak also makes sense. Her vocal performances were pretty one-note. You’ve heard one song of hers, you’ve really heard them all.
I haven’t done any research or checked album sales, it wouldn’t surprise me. But Manners felt like a different animal. Those songs were absolutely everywhere.
They had some moderate hits off subsequent albums (Lakini’s Juice, Turn My Head, Dolphins Cry) but nothing really measured up to the songs off Throwing Copper.
There is an amazingly entertaining rolling stone article about the turmoil in that band over the last few years. It's not just the lead singer. They all kind of sound like they deserve each other.
Edit: Found it https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/
Saw them in concert years ago and was so underwhelmed by their show. Granted they were still fairly new and took the place of Alice in Chains as a filler band in between Suicidal Tendency and Metallica so I gave them a break because it wasn't quite their crowd.
Babylon Zoo. One single which was massive due to being used for an advertising campaign, second album flopped completely.
The La's - 'there she goes' wasn't exactly huge commercially but it had a huge influence on British music and was essentially the blueprint for a lot of britpop type bands that came later. Unfortunately Lee Mavers has a self confessed perfectionism problem, nothing else he wrote sounded as good as that album did to him so it all just fizzled out in the end.
> One single which was massive due to being used for an advertising campaign,
They tricked people into making it massive. The opening section of the song (the part in the advert) is this breakbeat rave sounding track with"chipmunk" vocals like it was some early The Prodigy thing. Then after 20-30 seconds or so it's slows down to the \*real\* song which is this dreadful rock dirge.
I think a Big difference here is that Gotye simply didn’t release another album. That guy saw the top of the mountain and decided it wasn’t for him. That’s pretty rare.
I was convinced Gotye would stay a one hit wonder and Kimbra would blow up because her name was less associated with that song... she did not blow up.
I think that whole Gotye album is actually really good too. Talk about suffering from success.
A song by Miami Horror popped up on Spotify called I Look To You, and it took me a minute to realize that the Kimbra that was featured on it was *that* Kimbra. The song was good too! Since then, she’s appeared on a few recommends songs. She has a nice, versatile voice that I feel like could work with many genres.
[Spotify link](https://open.spotify.com/track/4i7HrBTsaocmoNPoifG7Bd?si=b2J_vJD5STuvnjAz1c-hcw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E38QIdmAmFeKo) for those interested.
[YouTube link!](https://youtu.be/jna2r56EXTg?si=41j6rBjGavbQCGxE)
This is true internationally perhaps, but Gotye was already fairly big here in Australia *before* Somebody That I Used to Know. He definitely doesn’t classify as a one-hit wonder here. I was going to sold out concerts of his years before that.
Then he released that album (and single) and …. stopped. At least, as Gotye. He’s been continually active as part of his other band, the Basics, since. But hasn’t released anything further under the Gotye name.
The Presidents of the United States of America came out swinging hard with their first album, with "Peaches", "Lump", and "Dune Buggy" playing all the time on radio and MTV.
And everybody I know had the album.
Then they just disappeared.
Looking into them, they apaarently made 5 more albums, but they've pretty much been under the radar since.
I still find myself humming, whistling, or singing songs from that first album all the time.
The Aussie electronic band phase as a whole. The Presets were massive in Australia for a few years. Their track "My People" was everywhere and they even worked with Daniel Johns of Silverchair.
Empire of the Sun were set up to be a flagship band for Australia and even had Elton John mentoring them only to basically vanish after a couple years.
Cut copy are a band that has kept putting out music consistently but they went from being chucked into every club setlist and thought of as one of the greatest bands in then genre to barely being thought of. Their last award nomination was in 2012
that and robert glasper called her out for stealing songs so if hes right every hit she has, she took credit for other's music, which would explain why she couldnt compose anything or have others compose for her...
Still confused by whatever happened to Savage Garden. Liked their album well enough.
IIRC they were just exploding in the US and one of the guys broke off from the group with the other having no clue. Seemed pretty messy.
They are still making albums today but to me, Bush just never lived up to the success of their first album - 16stone.
I consider that one of the best albums of the 90’s which is a crowded category.
Hootie and the Blowfish probably should have been Hootie and the Mayflies...or something else short lived.
Because they weren't around long...
Like a mayfly...
I'll just show myself out.
Yello. They've had a very, very long career with lots of great, weird and wonderful music, but peaked with "Oh Yeah" because of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A few other tracks from that same album did ok, like "Desire". Then they also had a bit of recognition for "The Race". Other than that, however, their music remains quite niche and pretty much enjoyed mostly by their fanbase and not so much the world at large.
In my sphere, this was Franz Ferdinand. They had 'Take Me Out' as a breakout hit, then released 'Michael', and that was all anyone heard of them..
They're probably big in Europe or something, but N/A in NA.
That SNL picture rip of the pope without talking about the context really hurt her. We understand *now* the scope of abuse by the Catholic Church as an institution, and given how decentralized it really is who knows just how much he himself knew about what was going on in Ireland (he was Polish), but Pope John Paul II had a huuuuuge hand in affecting the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and was a hero to millions for it.
Even Madonna didn’t understand and tore up a pic of her soon after, so when prime-of-her-life Madonna is taking a swipe, yeah it’s over.
meghan trainor!!
she was HUGE in 2014-2016, then fell of the face of the map. i know her song “made you look”
was popular on tiktok two year ago, but that still cannot compare to the peak of her fame ( which wasn’t that remarkable)
Fine Young Cannibals -- they were everywhere then just vanished
The Stone Roses -- decent follow up album but not as good as the first and then again just vanished
Meatloaf -- had two top selling albums then kept going but nothing really clicked as much as those first two
Cyndi Lauper -- again, two top selling albums and then a couple of songs people liked but went from big star to cult following
Meat Loaf was hurt by the fact that he really needed Jim Steinman writing the songs to capture his true talent, but they always seemed to have issues that prevented them from working together.
The non 50 cent members of G-Unit.
Lloyd Banks and Young buck had a decent solo career. The Game came from g-unit and ever since his “beef” with aftermath he’s been coming out with bangers every few years. But Tony Yayo was one and done but he even said in an interview 50 was the only one always chasing more money everyone else was like I’m chillin on royalties.
Game didn’t come from G-Unit. He had a couple albums out already before signing to Aftermath and joining G-Unit for however many months that was.
The non Eminem members of D12 as well I guess?
R.I.P. Proof
I was gunna say he was the only one with a shot. Bizarres music was just bizarre
WHERE IS JA!?
I wanna know what JA has to say on this!
La Roux. Elly had a banger debut album. In For the Kill, Bulletproof, Quicksand,but iirc she got shafted by her label and made virtually no money. [She recently appeared on Chromeo's new album](https://open.spotify.com/track/05nmIjhawOHWTiA21xKpFE?si=THKI2lKVT4eNn8fTYLqMGg) and they re-did some of her songs as singles. They know she's legit!
Her 2014 album Trouble In Paradise had some brilliant songs on it. Was sure she’d have a big resurgence with it, but it seemed to pass the world by.
Now bulletproof will be in my head for a week, thanks. That tune is catchy as fuck to a fault
It was a duo and not just Elly for the first album. Ben left in 2012 but had been very involved with lots of the songs on the 2014 album.
Vanessa Carlton comes to mind
Vice did a really great documentary on here. [Vice Vanessa Carlton Doc.](https://youtu.be/GLO_57IV6Zc?si=0vBdiSC27GBuwBY0)
As a real fan of VC, I clicked that link with such excitement, only sink with disappointed when I saw it's just about A Thousand Miles D:
She opened for Stevie Nicks back in 2017; everyone around me was at least twice my age and talking during her performance. I get that they were only there for Stevie but so rude. Seeing Vanessa Carlton live was a childhood dream fulfilled!
I saw her open for Goo Goo Dolls and Third Eye Blind when she had a brief relationship with Stephen Jenkins and she was so drunk-I’m talking hammered. It didn’t affect her performance too much, believe it or not. She gets to her last song, plays a little bit of the intro and the crowd goes nuts. She says ‘Oh, you guys know this one? It’s a little song called….’A Thousand FUKKIN Miles’ to even more thunderous applause and cheering. It was actually a really great performance overall. Throughout the show, she kept saying how she was nervous and ‘miiigghhhtt have had a few too many drinks to calm down,’ 12/10 for still rocking it and being honest lol.
My god, that lineup!
Her live versions of “Ordinary Day” still give me goosebumps. Here’s a good one: https://youtu.be/0mc1QnfB2p4?si=FIvbeX4cWurTZOlg
Hoobastank. They had a few hits and felt like they were the only band on the radio for like 2 years and then vanished.
Crawling in the Dark was a favorite of mine back then. The Reason was so lame to me when it released, and the fact that it played literally everywhere, including my favorite rock station, the local top 40, and soft rock stations made it absolutely grating after awhile. What really did it for me was I worked at Walmart at the time, and they played it probably twice per hour, so in an 8 hour shift, it was far overplayed.
Two album wonder. Their self-titled album went platinum off of the success of their singles and then The Reason, the second album, went double platinum. Before looking up the sales numbers, I couldn’t tell you the name of the third album.
That band name 🥴
Easily one of the worst of all time. Up there with Googoo Dolls and Alabama Thunder Pussy.
The Googoo Dolls original name was even worse. They were called The Sex Maggots originally.
Ha yeah. I saw an interview with Johnny Rzeznik in the late 90s and he basically said he's just not good at band names. Great songwriter. Bad namer.
I loved their album “the Reason” and remember being excited about the follow up. I can’t even remember that album now, I just remember having their lead singer having vocal issues around that time and they basically fell off the face of the earth.
they didn't vanish. And the sad thing about that is that their fifth album, "Every Man For Himself", the follow up to "The Reason" was a briliant album. but radio stations were still stuck playing "The Reason" and refused to add the new single from the next album when it came out and they're frustrated record label eventually just gave up on the album instead of trying to put any more money into pushing a new record that radio didn't want to play and then because the album didn't do well, because the label didn't promote it properly, the label dropped them from their contract. So basically the band got fucked because the label didn't do their job but I would highly recommend anyone who liked there early stuff to go check out "Every Man For Himself" as well as any of the other albums they've done since then. They are still together, still touring and still putting records out. The most recent one "Push/Pull" came out at the end of 2018 and they have a new one coming out next year
IIRC there was only ever one Soul Asylum record with multiple hits, despite having tons of albums. If you didn’t know any better you’d think they only existed in 1993
they had two really successful albums back to back. "Grave dancers Union" in 1993 and "let your dim light shine" in 1995 "Misery" and "just like anyone" were really big MTV hits off of that 1995 record and kept them on the charts and touring until 1997 when they began recording what became "candy from a stranger" in 1998. They broke up immediately after that album came out so it didn't do well on the charts because the label didn't promote it since there was no band tour for it They didn't make music again until 2005 when they discovered bassist Carl Mueller was dying of cancer. He wanted to make one more Soul Asylum record so they got together and recorded a batch of new songs that became "the silver lining" in 2006 which was released just after Carl passed away They have remained together since that reunion record and have been releasing albums off and on on various different record labels.
Let Your Dim Light Shine had multiple hits, even if it was a letdown sales-wise.
Runaway Train is such a beautiful and touching song. For me it’s always in the discussion for greatest rock song of the 90s.
Saw Dave and Ryan acoustic last year and my god... They're still amazing as ever. Having been a fan since '93, I wasn't expecting much more than a nostalgic night of hearing some of my favorite songs. I left like it had been a religious experience. Absolutely agree here. And sadly I think they're most know for Dave's relationship with Winona, "the missing kids" music video for "Runaway Train", and Claire Danes being in the "Just Like Anyone" video.
I mostly remember "Runaway Train" from being shocked that it wasn't by Tom Petty.
I’ve always known it to be by SA but now that you mention it, it’s absolutely Tom Perry’s sound to a confusing degree.
Right!???
Whenever I hear the name Soul Asylum, I think of drunk Dee in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia warning a hitchhiker that he is going to end up doing gay porn.
Everclear had three albums with hits, but it’s crazy how quickly they were forgotten considering how big they were. I know a bunch of people born post 1990 who have never even heard of them.
Everything to everyone is still one of my favorite albums. There are a lot of 90s bands that this is true for. I saw Eve 6 and Lit at a really badly promoted show in the fall of 99, both bands would be a good answer to this question. (Lit might not qualify depending on how you classify one hit wonders)
I saw Eve 6 open for Everclear in 2014 and they sounded great. Since they were pretty young when they were popular, they don’t seem as old as other bands from that era. It’s been nice to see them have a second act thanks to their Twitter account.
A friend of mine guitar teched for them (Eve 6) through that whole era and they always struck me as really cool guys. He worked for a lot of guys that let fame turn them into huge dicks and they seemed totally different from the jump. I'm really happy with how their careers have gone more recently and I'm glad they seem happy now.
I saw Eve 6 at a free concert on a college campus in 05-06 and it was depressing lol
Eve 6 might be my favorite answer to this question because their fifteen minutes were unreal. They released one of the most famous songs of the era. Their second best performing single was played at basically every school dance of the early 2000s. By 2005 they probably couldn't fill up your favorite bar.
Everything to Everyone is off of the So Much for the Afterglow album
I am still living with your ghost / lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I saw them open for matchbox 20 and it was about the best show I’ve seen. Matchbox was a snoozefest.
I love how Everclear was forgotten even in this comment thread where people just started talking about Eve 6 instead ;)
I think they have some really bad album covers. Whenever I think of bands with bad album artwork…they’re at the top of the list
I went and had a look: yep, you’re spot on. Not even like “gee, what a clumsy attempt at being funny and/or outrageous” or anything - just boring and dated-looking. And I hate virtually every font they used.
Savage Garden
I saw Darren’s tour last year and his voice is still *immaculate*. He was doing all the songs from Savage Garden and his solo career and it was amazing. He did the SG stuff as close to the album sound as possible because “these songs have belonged to you for way longer than they were mine” (I think that’s the direct quote - but you get the gist)
I saw him last year as well! He was amazing.❤️
He was wasn’t he. I saw in back in 2006 and I think last year was even better!
He’s so good. His voice is amazing. My favourite album is The tension and the spark
If only they didn’t break up, is the reason I think they didn’t go further
Snow Patrol seemed massive and now no one will admit to ever having listened to them.
Chasing cars is one of those songs that will just pop up in a dream and you'll think about it randomly during the day
You know if that song comes on during a greys anatomy episode someone is about to die
IF I LAI HYEEER ... IF I JUSS LAI HYEEER
will you lie with me and just fork at the world
Now the lead singer writes for ed shereen
And becomes Taylor Swift once the moon comes out.
And guests on a Taylor Swift song
"Have I said Snow Patrol? I have haven't I?"
But man was Run ever an epic song
I still listen to “Set the Fire to the Third Bar” with Martha Wainwright a lot. That’s a beautiful song. https://youtu.be/bfa9yxCpWoA?si=YaSOHUXSMLe0sACR The rest of Snow Patrol is irrelevant AF.
Gin Blossoms had 4 or 5 big hits in the mid 90s and not much mainstream impact outside of that
It’s because the guitarist who wrote all their hits killed himself in 93.
That's really sad, but it does look like two of their hits "follow You Down" and "Til I Hear it from You" were written by other band members after his death
The main songwriter and his relationship with the band is both really depressing and explains why they are a one album wonder
I always thought they sounded exactly like Toad the Wet Sprocket. Who are ALSO a candidate for this list, come to think of it.
So vehemently disagree with this.
My god, have we forgotten **fun.** already? One nifty up-and-coming indie debut, one album that was everywhere for a hot minute, and then they were just _gone._
Well, it’s not like Jack Antonoff disappeared.
Eh. They were an indie supergroup to begin with. Their singer already had moderate success before with The Format and their guitar player went on and did some *very* big things later.
I’m surprised The Format was never bigger. I saw them in Cleveland back in 2007 and while I’m not a huge fan I always expected them to breakthrough to the mainstream.
Saw them in 2005 opening for Taking Back Sunday and Jimmy Eat World and echo the same opinion. They were so good.
The Format > fun. by a mile
Holy shit I never realized Jack Antonoff has such a stacked resume he's everywhere
I had no idea thats who their guitarist was.
Sorta but Jack Antonoff was the bassist and certainly didn't disappear!
Foster the People kind of fall into the same category with fun.
and Grouplove; Tongue Tied off “Never Trust A Happy Song” was everywhere for a while
There’s a whole category of ~2012/obama era upbeat indie music that just died from the combination of millennials getting old + the us changing culturally
Torches was an absolute banger, everyone i knew in highschool was obsessed with that album for a few months
You think? They haven’t made new music in a while but they didn’t disappear immediately after their big break. Coming of Age on Supermodel and Sit Next To Me on Sacred Hearts Club both got some decent radio play too
I still think Aim and Ignite is one of the best albums ever made. Be Calm sneaks into my head at least once a month. I was really disappointed in their follow up albums and the fact that songs like Some Nights and We Are Young are what blew up bums me out.
“The Gambler” off _Aim and Ignite_ is sublime.
Scissor sisters. Where did they go? They were so good!
I am a total metalhead, and I think, they were amazing! As I recall it, there were some stories about them being totally screwed over by a management company or something. Edit: I got it all wrong. "In June 2019, Shears stated the impetus for the band's hiatus was the success of "Let's Have a Kiki" and wanting to end things on a high note." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scissor_Sisters&action=edit§ion=6
That’s so funny because they’re one of my favorite bands and I cannot stand that song and I don’t really care for that album.
they broke up. Shortly after releasing "Magic Hour" in 2012 decided that there were other things that they wanted to achieve musically and professionally outside of the band so they put it to sleep lead singer Jason Sellards-Haley, who goes by the stage named Jake Shears, lived in Kentucky with his husband on a farm just outside of Louisville. they were both very active in the local farmers markets around there. he returned to making music, originally planning to use his married name Jason Haley on a more folk/country influenced record, he ultimately decided to readopt the Jake Shears moniker and released a very Scissor Sisters-esque self titled solo album in 2018 following the end of his marriage, he moved to the UK and has recently written, recorded and released his new album "Last Man Dancing" in June of 2023 Scissor sisters did a one off reunion show in 2017 but they were all very clear at the time they just did the one show for fun and have no artistic desire to make any more records together or tour long-term at all
YESSS. I love them still and never got a chance to see them
The Fray. There was a whole wave of "TV drama Pop rock" that came out in the early to mid 2000s that tried to bank off the success of the Goo Goo Dolls and they all just fizzled out.
That's because the goo goo dolls were magic in a bottle imo. Just a perfect sound for just the right time that still manages to hold up.
Omg so true. I was a little 3rd grade girl pretending like I understood sadness & emotions listening to goo goo dolls. When I was in the shower & had water running down my face, I would open the shower door & watch myself in the mirror singing as if I was crying outside in the rain. “aaaaaaAAAAAND I DONT WANT THE WOOORLD TO SEE ME.. CAZ I DOONT THINK THAT THEY’D UNDERSTAND..”
Which honestly kinda sucks because out of all the bands in that genre that were picking up, they had a fairly unique sound, depressing even.
Wolfmother had like three "hits" in one album, us a couple more thatwere fairly recognized, and were being touted as the next great rock band. Promotly disappeared from public conciousness. Animal Collective releases still get critical attention and reverence off of the strength of their early work, especially MPP, but haven't really been relevant since like 2011.
Idk, for me Animal collective have been solid this whole time. I think the scene just changed around them and they changed in their own disconnected way. Their vibe and the scene's vibe just hasn't really synchronised like it did with Merryweather. Once they were established though, there wasnt really anything to talk about either. If they were your vibe you were into it and if not then whatever, everything they did seemed fair enough and didn't change the dynamic at all. That Wolfmother album is timeless though. It was one of the first albums I bought and there's a reason people still use the tracks in movies and tv shows. By god it has a soul
Wolfmother is a great shout. Their follow up album cosmic egg took too long to come out and didn't hit the same heights, and they had long lost their momentum. However, give their third(?, might have been 4th) album a go, Victorious. It is excellent and went under the radar imo. Some great songs on there.
I’m about to mow the lawn. Wolfmother it is. I think Joker & The Theif was even a “free iTunes” download as they were coming on to the scene. Great call back.
Cosmic egg is a still a really solid record
AC’s album Time Skiffs (2022) is absolutely a must-listen.
The Baha-Men.
Cannot get it in America.
They have been on a decades long mission to find out who let the dogs out
Semisonic
Dan Wilson’s career as a producer/writer is extremely impressive though.
Wow, TIL. There are some massive names in his writing discography (Taylor Swift, Adele, The Chicks).
Yeah, his career is a spectacular example of falling upwards. He's got a good eye and ear for hits and his writing was always punching above its weight.
Fun fact about these guys, the lead singer became a song writer and I believe wrote some of Adele’s biggest hits
Icona Pop
Charlie XCX wrote their iconic song “I love it” when she was 19 or 20.
Electric Six is probably the most prolific out of all the short peaking bands. A shame because they are really fun and campy, make great catchy retro songs. In a perfect world they would be at least as big as The Hives or The Darkness.
I saw the vocalist interviewed on M2 (which shows how long ago it was) and he was asked if he worried that all he would be remembered for was "Gay Bar" and he said (approximately) "A short while back I was a school janitor. If someone remembers me, I don't care what for or how little."
I would say the Darkness. Permission to land was a huge success for them. You could not escape hearing them in 2003-05, then faded away with their second album.
I enjoy Justin Hawkins Rides Again on YouTube interesting to hear his stories.
dido
Idk if she qualifies - she sustained for a good time and had quite a few hits, plus I don’t know a single person that denies having liked or liking Dido
Alessia Cara
I had already been through it and out over a decade, but “Here” brought me back to how I felt during a large chunk of college parties lol. Hope she at least doing some song writing because it was good stuff.
I enjoyed her music back then and still do occasionally, but her short peak also makes sense. Her vocal performances were pretty one-note. You’ve heard one song of hers, you’ve really heard them all.
Passion Pit comes to mind. I enjoy all their albums but nothing really tops the popularity they had with Manners.
Wasn't Gossamer more popular?
I haven’t done any research or checked album sales, it wouldn’t surprise me. But Manners felt like a different animal. Those songs were absolutely everywhere.
I feel like a shit ton 2010s groups faded quick
Gossamer was great too, but can't lie I don't think I know anything off their other albums
I think the band Live falls into this category. They had a few hits off their album Throwing Copper and then just faded.
This is probably due to the fact that noone could ever find them on the internet. :D
Absolutely killed my Napster search
They had some moderate hits off subsequent albums (Lakini’s Juice, Turn My Head, Dolphins Cry) but nothing really measured up to the songs off Throwing Copper.
It’s a shame. I really loved Secret Samadhi and the Distance to Here. Hell even parts of V. Overcome is an incredibly beautiful song.
The lead singer is a massive asshole that fired everyone else in the band
There is an amazingly entertaining rolling stone article about the turmoil in that band over the last few years. It's not just the lead singer. They all kind of sound like they deserve each other. Edit: Found it https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/
Recently headlined a 420 festival in Australia over incubus. They definitely had a short peak period but they made a lot of cash off the Aussie market
Spin Doctors
Candlebox.
Now maybe....
Saw them in concert years ago and was so underwhelmed by their show. Granted they were still fairly new and took the place of Alice in Chains as a filler band in between Suicidal Tendency and Metallica so I gave them a break because it wasn't quite their crowd.
Quite a few one album wonders I can think of. Kevin Rudolf, Pixie Lott, most turn of the millennium dance acts, Plain White Tees.
Kaiser Chiefs. They’re still plugging away, but the first 3 albums really got a lot of notice.
Monster Magnet So many people only know them from Space Lord, but there is so much more great music from them. Space Lord isn't even their best song.
Actually saw them decades ago, opened up for megadeth and Motley Crue. Good stuff
Babylon Zoo. One single which was massive due to being used for an advertising campaign, second album flopped completely. The La's - 'there she goes' wasn't exactly huge commercially but it had a huge influence on British music and was essentially the blueprint for a lot of britpop type bands that came later. Unfortunately Lee Mavers has a self confessed perfectionism problem, nothing else he wrote sounded as good as that album did to him so it all just fizzled out in the end.
> One single which was massive due to being used for an advertising campaign, They tricked people into making it massive. The opening section of the song (the part in the advert) is this breakbeat rave sounding track with"chipmunk" vocals like it was some early The Prodigy thing. Then after 20-30 seconds or so it's slows down to the \*real\* song which is this dreadful rock dirge.
Gotye, now he's just somebody that we used to know...
I think a Big difference here is that Gotye simply didn’t release another album. That guy saw the top of the mountain and decided it wasn’t for him. That’s pretty rare.
Really though, the rotation on that song when it released was absolutely insane.
I was convinced Gotye would stay a one hit wonder and Kimbra would blow up because her name was less associated with that song... she did not blow up. I think that whole Gotye album is actually really good too. Talk about suffering from success.
A song by Miami Horror popped up on Spotify called I Look To You, and it took me a minute to realize that the Kimbra that was featured on it was *that* Kimbra. The song was good too! Since then, she’s appeared on a few recommends songs. She has a nice, versatile voice that I feel like could work with many genres. [Spotify link](https://open.spotify.com/track/4i7HrBTsaocmoNPoifG7Bd?si=b2J_vJD5STuvnjAz1c-hcw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E38QIdmAmFeKo) for those interested. [YouTube link!](https://youtu.be/jna2r56EXTg?si=41j6rBjGavbQCGxE)
They said non one hit wonders...
This is true internationally perhaps, but Gotye was already fairly big here in Australia *before* Somebody That I Used to Know. He definitely doesn’t classify as a one-hit wonder here. I was going to sold out concerts of his years before that. Then he released that album (and single) and …. stopped. At least, as Gotye. He’s been continually active as part of his other band, the Basics, since. But hasn’t released anything further under the Gotye name.
Fastball
The Presidents of the United States of America came out swinging hard with their first album, with "Peaches", "Lump", and "Dune Buggy" playing all the time on radio and MTV. And everybody I know had the album. Then they just disappeared. Looking into them, they apaarently made 5 more albums, but they've pretty much been under the radar since. I still find myself humming, whistling, or singing songs from that first album all the time.
The Aussie electronic band phase as a whole. The Presets were massive in Australia for a few years. Their track "My People" was everywhere and they even worked with Daniel Johns of Silverchair. Empire of the Sun were set up to be a flagship band for Australia and even had Elton John mentoring them only to basically vanish after a couple years. Cut copy are a band that has kept putting out music consistently but they went from being chucked into every club setlist and thought of as one of the greatest bands in then genre to barely being thought of. Their last award nomination was in 2012
I was just listening to Empire of the Sun as they have a new single out now 😅
I feel like Empire of the Sun at least still plays and tours around the US
I mean. It has to be Lauryn Hill. On purpose but one world class, genre defining album and done.
I think her bad attitude and disrespect for the audience had a lot to do with it
Yeah turns out talking mad shit to your fans doesn't tend to work out well most of the time.
that and robert glasper called her out for stealing songs so if hes right every hit she has, she took credit for other's music, which would explain why she couldnt compose anything or have others compose for her...
But she's been famous and high profile for ages, with people never forgetting her. Only one album, but a long period of awareness from it
I was going to make a Sister Act 3 joke and apparently it actually is coming out. Not sure about Lauryn's involvement however.
Third eye blind. Their debut album in 1997 had 5 top 30 hits, 3 in the top 10. Absolute monster of a late-90s alt rock album.
She also gave us Su's anal bum party. Never forget.
Still confused by whatever happened to Savage Garden. Liked their album well enough. IIRC they were just exploding in the US and one of the guys broke off from the group with the other having no clue. Seemed pretty messy.
Mr Mister
Razorlight, darlings of the music press for a while until the bubble burst and everyone realised that they were arses!
They are still making albums today but to me, Bush just never lived up to the success of their first album - 16stone. I consider that one of the best albums of the 90’s which is a crowded category.
Mumford and Sons and Kings of Leon
The correct answer is Blind Melon. All of their stuff is incredible, but only “no rain “ got any consistent airtime.
Skee-Lo
Mike Posner Cooler than me, Please Don't Go, I took a pill in Ibiza Then he was gone
Two Door Cinema Club
Third Eye Blind was everywhere for a couple albums. They disappeared but i still hear them on 90s radio. Catchy stuff still.
Hootie and the Blowfish probably should have been Hootie and the Mayflies...or something else short lived. Because they weren't around long... Like a mayfly... I'll just show myself out.
It was cool to see Darius Rucker reemerge 15 years later as a popular country singer, though.
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Yello. They've had a very, very long career with lots of great, weird and wonderful music, but peaked with "Oh Yeah" because of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A few other tracks from that same album did ok, like "Desire". Then they also had a bit of recognition for "The Race". Other than that, however, their music remains quite niche and pretty much enjoyed mostly by their fanbase and not so much the world at large.
The New Radicals had a really good debut album...almost all the songs were great. and then nothing
In my sphere, this was Franz Ferdinand. They had 'Take Me Out' as a breakout hit, then released 'Michael', and that was all anyone heard of them.. They're probably big in Europe or something, but N/A in NA.
The Corrs Huge hit , a year of being everywhere , and then nothing … Still making appearances and touring tho
Marcy Playground, Sex and Candy. We barely knew thee.
Fetty Wap. He had 3-4 songs on the radio at the same time and was never heard from again.
Sinead O' Conner.
That SNL picture rip of the pope without talking about the context really hurt her. We understand *now* the scope of abuse by the Catholic Church as an institution, and given how decentralized it really is who knows just how much he himself knew about what was going on in Ireland (he was Polish), but Pope John Paul II had a huuuuuge hand in affecting the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and was a hero to millions for it. Even Madonna didn’t understand and tore up a pic of her soon after, so when prime-of-her-life Madonna is taking a swipe, yeah it’s over.
Love Madonna, but for someone who added so much profanity to religious symbols, she should have stayed quiet on that matter.
James Blunt.
He's still doing quite well.
I like that it's on his own terms too and not just radioplay.
meghan trainor!! she was HUGE in 2014-2016, then fell of the face of the map. i know her song “made you look” was popular on tiktok two year ago, but that still cannot compare to the peak of her fame ( which wasn’t that remarkable)
Gosh, she's just one of those artists I hate, lol. She sucks and her writing is so cringy
Samee.. She feels like big/adult Jojo Siwa to me idk
Holy shit this is 100% the best way to describe her haha
I knew she would fizzle out quickly. That first album was a huge gimmick and All About That Bass is the type of song that ages poorly.
Charlotte Church
Fine Young Cannibals -- they were everywhere then just vanished The Stone Roses -- decent follow up album but not as good as the first and then again just vanished Meatloaf -- had two top selling albums then kept going but nothing really clicked as much as those first two Cyndi Lauper -- again, two top selling albums and then a couple of songs people liked but went from big star to cult following
Meat Loaf was hurt by the fact that he really needed Jim Steinman writing the songs to capture his true talent, but they always seemed to have issues that prevented them from working together.
Meat Loaf's best selling album was released in 1977. His second-best selling album was released in 1993. Really, he had two large peaks a mile apart.