Thu Feb 28 2008 16:21:09 By: Cartman ( 6572)
Pretty good list.

Here's some I thought were overlooked:
Cake - "The Distance"
Toadies - "Possum Kingdom"
Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"
Blind Melon - "No Rain"
Live - "Lightning Crashes"
Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun"

Thu Feb 28 2008 17:52:42 By: Squints ( 2817)
Ah, Presidents. Good stuff. I hard a hard time choosing what songs to post YouTube clips of, because each one has their own charm. And I didn't want to have a clip for every song and bog down the article.

Thu Feb 28 2008 18:49:09 By: Keith Whitener ( 56)
I think The Flaming Lips are amazing and the fact that She Don't Use Jelly, an instantly catchy piece of noise pop, was a hit is a testament to their greatness.
From the band's website: "With its chiming pedal steel chorus breaks and seemingly nonsensical lyrics, the song entered into the realms of novelty hit. It's a happy little ditty about strange people and their individual idiosyncrasies, with pretty melodies laced throughout and punctuated by trademark moments of crunching but still harmonious noise."
Sums my feelings quite well.
Also, Soundgarden had more than one hit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superunknown#Singles
And so did TPOTUSA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presidents_of_the _United_States_of_America_%28a lbum%29#Chart_positions
A hit on the Billboard Top 100 means more than modern rock because it is a more broad chart.
I love Possum Kingdom. The lyrics are fun.

But, as always, I gotta say that chart performance doesn't imply high quality. But a lot of these were great pop songs.

I like to walk around and sing MMMMMMMM, but with my own lyrics because the melody is so simple.
"Once, there was a guuuy who
went on the Internet
Heeee
Read an arrrr-te-cal
and then he wrote a come-eh-hent.
Then he sang this saw-ong
It came out real gooooood.
Mmmm mmmm mmm"

Thu Feb 28 2008 18:56:44 By: Marcus Garvey ( 4214)
in the meantime is awesome. i totally forgot about that song

Thu Feb 28 2008 19:08:04 By: Cartman ( 6572)
You're right PUSA are 2-hit wonders (with Peaches being the other)
But Soundgarden's only song to go Billboard Top 40 Mainstream was "Black Hole Sun"...

Thu Feb 28 2008 19:26:09 By: The H8R ( 706)
I was going to add Violent Femmes 'Blister in the Sun' but I just looked and saw it didn't chart. Surprised to find that out. Most kids/young adults from the 90s would know that song.

Thu Feb 28 2008 19:38:45 By: The H8R ( 706)
BTW, I've never heard of Coyote Shivers and he/them didn't have any charting songs.

Thu Feb 28 2008 19:50:16 By: Keith Whitener ( 56)
An interesting article would be one about songs that aren't one hit wonders but are in the public conscious. A lot of people might not know The Minutemen wrote Corona, but they'd recognize it as the theme from Jackass.

Sun Mar 2 2008 14:34:52 By: xits_Aubrix ( 19)
WHAT ABOUT THIS ONE?!?
DOn't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand, and if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, it might blow up and kill this man whhhhhoooooooooohhhhhhhhhooooo o!

Sun Mar 2 2008 19:20:50 By: grounded ( 1)
Luscious Jackson released 3 albums and an EP between 1993 and 2000, definitely not only one album. And that Coyote Shivers song must have been a hit in some alternate universe because it certainly wasn't one here.

Tue Mar 4 2008 21:55:31 By: feelalright ( 1)
Who in the world is your fact checker? Among the most glaring of your errors is that "What I Am" by Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians is an 80's song, not a 90's song.

Sun Mar 16 2008 16:04:17 By: taralynn ( 1025)
WHAT ABOUT THE SONG B*TCH BY MEREDITH BROOKS. SHE WAS A ONE HIT WONDER. SHE SUCKED