Saturday, September 19, 2015

Stuck In Thee Garage #96: September 18, 2015

It's not easy to score a top 40 hit. A lot of things have to go right, not the least of which involves the music. The funny thing is, technically a one-hit wonder is an artist who scores a top 40 hit on the Billboard singles chart only once. This definition means a lot of successful and even legendary artists are considered one-hit wonders, as you'll hear in this week's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage radio.

Some of these songs will make you say, "Take off, eh?"



The beauty playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Stove - Jock Dreams/Is Stupider
Infinity Girl - Hesse/Harm
Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam - Cool Like a Haircut/Video Dreams, Vol. 1
PWR BTTM - Ugly Cherries/Ugly Cherries
Pinkshinyultrablast - Kiddy Pool Dreams/Kiddy Pool Dreams
Joanna Gruesome - Separate Bedrooms/Peanut Butter
OFF! - Man From Nowhere/OFF!
Gibraltar - Snakes!/Elegant Alibis
Woolen Men - The Wheel/Temporary Monument
Jackson Boone - Lovely Low/Natural Changes
Prince - X's Face/HITNRUN Phase One
Talking Heads - Mind/Fear of Music
Funkadelic - Back in Our Minds/Maggot Brain
Iron Maiden - Speed of Light/The Book of Souls
Ozzy Osbourne - Believer/Diary of a Madman
Motorhead - The Chase is Better Than the Catch/Ace of Spades

Hour 2: One-hit wonders
T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get It On)/Electric Warrior
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side/Transformer
Roxy Music - Love is the Drug/Sirens
Ace Frehley - New York Groove/Ace Frehley
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire/The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Fred Wesley and the JBs - Doing it to Death/Single
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting/Kung Fu Fighter
Steve Martin - King Tut/Single
Bob and Doug McKenzie - Take Off/Great White North
Gary Numan - Cars/The Pleasure Principle
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science/The Golden Age of Wireless
Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning/Diesel and Dust
Ben Folds Five - Brick/Whatever and Ever Amen
Eels - Novocaine for the Soul/Beautiful Freak
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc./Demon Days





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