The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 898: Alt-Rock One-Hit-Wonders of the 90s, part 2

By Alan Cross Corus Radio

Posted November 6, 2020 11:05 am

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Creating art is hard. If it wasn’t, everyone would do it and everyone would be successful. Even those who can create art–the people with the right stuff for this story of thing–have a finite supply of brilliance on which to draw.Take Margaret Mitchell, for example. She wrote exactly one novel. But that novel was Gone with the Wind. Pulitzer Prize. Thirty million copies sold. A classic movie with multiple, multiple Academy Awards. Endless adaptations. It even got her face on a postage stamp. Gone with the Wind, first published in 1937, was and still is a cultural phenomenon.But that’s all she ever did. After ol’ Marge hit it out of the park on the first pitch, she stopped while she was ahead. She is probably the greatest literary one-hit-wonder of all time.Why, though? Maybe that’s all she had in the tank. Or make she looked at all the success and “Right! My work is done here. Anything else I do will be a letdown.” Totally get that.Other artists, though, keep trying after that one hit. But for whatever reason, the magical pixie dust they managed to harness that one time disappears forever.Man, to get a taste of standing on the mountaintop only to be denied it a second time forever. But–and let’s be clear about this–at least those one-hitters made it to the top, even if it was just once. And if they’re lucky, that one trip can sustain them for the rest of their careers and even the rest of their lives.This is another program feature those who got to the top just one: Great alt-rock on-hit-wonders of the 90s, part 2.Songs featured on this show:

Dishwalla, Counting Blue Cars
Stars, Hum
Cornershop, Brimful of Asha
K’s Choice, Not an Addict
School of Fish, Three Strange Days
Sparklehorse, Some Day I Will Treat You Good
Primitive Radio Gods, Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand.

Eric Wilhite’s playlist looks like this.

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The Ongoing History of New Music can be heard on the following stations:

102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday at 7 pm
Q107/Toronto – Sunday at 9 pm
Live 88-5/Ottawa
107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener – Sunday at 8p pm
Big Kingston – Saturday and Sunday at 11 pm
The Wolf, Peterborough – Sunday at 8 pm
FM96/London – Sunday night at 7, Monday night at 11
Power 97/Winnipeg – Sunday at 8 am
Sonic 102.9/Edmonton
The Zone/Victoria
The Fox/Vancouver – Sunday at 11 pm
WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown The show runs at 11 am Sunday. This, by the way, is a great option for American listeners who are prevented from listening to the show live because of geo-blocking,

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