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Exit To Eternal Summer Slacking: 90's Alternative One Hit Wonders Volume Two
| Artist | Song | |
| Forest For The Trees | Dream | |
| Primitive Radio Gods | Standing In Front Of A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand | |
| The Butthole Surfers | Pepper | |
| Len | Steal My Sunshine | |
| Fastball | The Way | |
| The Refreshments | Banditos | |
| Orbit | Medicine | |
| Superdrag | Sucked Out | |
| Lush | Ladykillers | |
| 1,000 Mona Lisas | You Oughta Know | |
| Ruth Ruth | Uninvited | |
| Tripping Daisy | I Got A Girl | |
| Self | So Low | |
| Elastica | Connection | |
| Edwin Collins | Girl Like You | |
| MC 900 Foot Jesus | If I Only Had A Brain | |
| Ween | Push Th' Little Daisies | |
| Bran Van 3000 | Drinking In LA | |
| The Verve | Bittersweet Symphony | |
| For Squirrels | The Mighty KC | |
Comment:
This is a sequel to my first 90's One Hit Wonder mix, Everybody Needs A Bosom For A Pillow, which you can also check out here. After I posted that first one I kept on thinking of crucial inclusions I'd neglected, and before you knew it I ended up making a sequel. Plus, unlike the first one it wasn't really intended for an audience, so it was fun to throw in a few obscure favorites without worrying about losing anyone. In particular, this CD is bookended by two great "why the hell am I the only one who remembers this awesome song?" tracks. If you ever catch For Squirrels' Example or Forest For The Trees' self-titled album used for cheap, I reccomend buying the hell out of them.Feedback:
Glad someone besides me remembers the great "Standing in Front of a Broken Phone Booth with Money in my Hand." Such a great song. Great mix too.
my best friend put that primative radio gods song on a cd for me once. i love it.len, fastball, elastica, and tripping daisy are freakin sweet. nice.
I tried to do this about two years ago only on a slightly more mainstream track. It turned into an unfinished 5-disc project. Kudos on an awesome mix.
A majority of these songs I have in my iPod and I listen to them quite frequently. Thumbs Up.
i enjoy this mix & its predecessor. i made a similar mix here. you caught some stuff i missed. nice job.
Yep, that Primitive Radio Gods track is a doozy, and I'm a sucker (embarassingly so) for that Len song. I hate to think of the Butthole Surfers, with their long and sordid history, as a one-hit wonder, but yes, that was the one track to break the mainstream (and a fine one it was).
everything here is cool but i would never describe verve as one hit wonders!!!and the same goes to elastica and bran van 3000...but that's just me
Re: the butthole surfers. This is pretty true. I try to pick up their pre-major label stuff anytime I can find it in record stores (which isn't that often, most places I've seen will have Electriclarryland, Weird Revolution, Independent Worm Saloon and maybe one Latino Buggerveil reissue, if that), and I love it. The same kind of thing could be said for Ween and the Flaming Lips (who were on the first one), but I kind of look at it as less of a slight and more of a good excuse to shoehorn good tracks by some of my favorite bands into a mix. Also, the Verve and Elastica were kind of stretches and thrown in at the last minute, but I'm pretty sure in the US "Connection" and "Bittersweet Symphony" were the only tunes of theirs to really hit big.
Plus, the Elastica track may be partially responsible for a brief and minor surge in the popularity of Wire (from whom they'd stolen the riff), so they get points for that.
Just shows how mainstream audiences are unenlightened. Good stuff here! Ministry's Jesus Built My Hot Rod (and all the various Al Jourgenson projects) is another to add to this list.
Ladykillers and Edwin Collins! If I could add one track myself it would be 3(or was it 4?!)Non Blondes "What's Up"
Nice mix, gotta say also that Lush weren't one hit wonders either. wonder what Emma & Mikki are up to these days?
Fine lookin' mix!