6 Bands Who Followed Up Their One Hit With Drooling Insanity
Even in the age of digital music, reaching one-hit marvel status has the tendency to cause a big increase in album sales for the artist in concern. Bands throughout the spectrum have actually attained unexpected success by simply having one excellent tune. It’s why you still keep in mind musical titans like Right Said Fred, Sir Mix-A-Lot, and … in fact, I believe those are the only 2. Naturally, many people never ever navigate to paying attention to the whole album. Which is a shame, since that suggests you lost out on some genuinely strange pieces of work. …
# 6. The “Cotton Eye Joe” Band Released A 52-Word-Titled, X-Rated Song About Railing Another Dude’s Wife
If you do not quickly break out into a hokey cowpoke dance upon hearing the words “Where did you originate from?/ Where did you go?” You were one of the fortunate ones who weren’t in school when this brain-softening piece of techno-country dance crap was popular.
I have no idea exactly what else I was anticipating from Rednex, the band behind it, however the album which includes “Cotton Eye Joe” consists of a nutty-as-a-squirrel-turd track encumbered this brief book of a title:
“The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Strive To Exploit The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Conditions That Could Be Derived From Fermentation.”
Well, well, well. Evidence that ladies truly are another types!
This band is Swedish and cannot perhaps understand exactly what half those words suggest. For those of you with restricted area on the CD sleeve, the tune is likewise understood by the band’s fan as “Harder Than Your Husband.” Why? And doing butt things with his big Swedangler due to the fact that the tune is clearly about the vocalist sleeping with another male’s partner. This is, in part, why this tune was never ever rather as popular as “Cotton Eye Joe.”
“It’s been a quite very long time, child, now, I’m back in the area/ It’s time to leave your hubby, now you understand that little clown./ Last time we were seeing, didn’t you ask for more?/ It’s OKAY with me, as long you do it 4 on the floor.”
“I think I do have something just like’ Cotton Eye Joe. ‘Gosh, you kids look cute in your little fits and gowns.”
It seems like a parody of a brother nation tune years prior to anybody need to have been smart enough to be that meta, and possibly that’s exactly what they were opting for, however the vocalist– let’s call him Ansgar– belts the chorus out with such unpleasant earnestness that it’s in fact difficult to inform. This shit went platinum in 3 nations.
“This is exactly what I’m providing you, you’ll get it all tonight/ You will be my enthusiast, however not my tender better half/ I’ll be more difficult than your other half, I’ll be more difficult than your guy/ I’ll strike you with my 20 inch till you can not stand/ [Repeat up until dissatisfied in humanity]
Maybe this is mistranslated, or the outcome of somebody playing a trick on Ansgar, however “20 inches” is not a human cock size that happens in the natural world, beyond special-order hentai. Not to point out that the getting celebration would not have the ability to stand, sit, sleep, crap, or live if subjected to one.
Fun truth: Rednex was required to alter the cover of this album, Sex &&Violins, after “Cotton Eye Joe” got inexplicably popular. Why? Due to the fact that the initial functions all the band members’ heads sitting in a coffee mug getting pissed on, that’s why.
It was likewise upgraded to show that nobody in this nation provided a shit about the real name of the album.
# 5. Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky Has Two Songs About Grocery Shopping (Which Are Probably Drug Metaphors)
The only factor you understand Norman Greenbaum is from his late 60’s hit “Spirit In The Sky.”
Even then, there’s a likelihood you didn’t understand the name of the individual singing it. It’s a slightly spiritual hippie tune about going and passing away to paradise and hangin’ out with your pal Jesus (OK, think it’s not that unclear). When the album was re-released on CD , the label included a few bonus offer tracks of exactly what was as soon as really plainly B-side, if not K-side, product. You end up with a rock record real estate a traditional tune dealing with existentialism, and likewise consists of 2 tunes in which Norman appears to be revealing his love for 2 really particular grocery products.
First up is “Canned Ham”:
“When you going to purchase me a canned ham/ I’ve been waiting so long/ When you going to purchase it/ When you going to please me?/ I like a canned ham infant (infant)/ Canned ham that’s for me/ When I consider it, sends me into euphoria.”
Those are the mad ravings of some porkophiliac. I’ve never ever heard anybody reveal that much love for a packaged pork item. The CEO of Hormel most likely does not even consume Spam, not to mentioned compose folk ballads about it.
And this was prior to all those insane tastes, like bacon, garlic, and The Liberation of Guam
There are many unanswered concerns here. Exactly what is Norman preparation on finishing with this ham? Why does he require a ham dealership? And why the hell does not he simply go purchase it himself?
“Put it in a frying pan/ Fry it brown and good/ Put it in my pocket/ Gon na bring it around and around and around and around.”
It’s that last line that tosses the monkey in the wrench. Why would anybody fill their pockets with fried ham and … this is a drug thing, right?
Shit.
OK, well, let’s attempt this tune, called “Chocolate Milk,” which can be discovered on the exact same CD.
Fun truth: This is exactly what CDs appeared like at that time.
“Chocolate Milk/ I purchase you when I’m dry/ I purchase you when I’m dry/ You just cost a penny/ I purchase you all the time/ Chocolate Milk/ I got you on my mind/ I got you on my mind/ You just cost a cent/ I purchase you all the time.”
Look, folk music can and has actually been discussed everything. This is a category that includes sub-genres that exist simply to spite the already-subversive primary category. Seriously, chocolate fucking milk? Not surprising that the only tune you’ve heard by this individual is the one where he states “pass away” 10 various times .
“At the corner range shop/ They do not have any longer of you today/ Lots of products for a cent/ I’m sure they all taste great/ But absolutely nothing can change the taste/ Of Chocolate Milk.”
Back in the day, when milk was a penny and lead was an FDA-approved component.
The whole next verse goes on to speak about how Count Chocula Norm prepares to wait in line for the next delivery of chocolate milk, like it’s an Apple item on Black Friday or a weapon on Obama’s 3rd launch. Even if these tunes are in fact about drugs (most likely), why pick these certain items as metaphors? It’s like composing a ransom note in Chinese on the back of a Walmart invoice. It’s technically legitimate, however eventually, it’s simply too subtle. Perhaps Norm must have laid off the choco-ham shakes so we might have all found out exactly what he was discussing.
# 4. Hanson’s “Man From Milwaukee” Is About A Literal Naked Martian
There might not be a tune that encapsulates the ’90s more completely than Hanson’s “MmmBop.”
Lyrically, it was smack dab in the middle of popular song’s cumulative “Screw it, everyone will purchase this if the tune is appealing” stage, in addition to other gems like Kid Rock’s “Bawitdaba” and Eifel 65’s “Blue Da Bachelor’s degree De Whateverthefuck.” Image-wise, the band was a shift from the glam rock girly bands of the ’80s to the clean-cut kid groups of the ’00s. We didn’t care or understand if they were ladies or kids, however understood that they made us feel excellent in. For genuine, a buddy of mine absolutely believed “the middle lady from Hanson” was kind of charming for about a whole year.
Pictured: my generation’s very first (and most complicated) cumulative boner.
“Mmmbop” aside, proceed and call another tune by Hanson. If you still have the album, hear the entire thing, and after that simply accept your shame. The last track on Hanson’s very first album, called “Man From Milwaukee,” has to do with conference a weird hairless fella at a bus stop who begins acting actually suspicious, and after that unexpectedly vanishes . Today, this would need a “See Something, Say Something” 911 call, however in the wayward ’90s …
“It began at a bus drop in the middle of no place/ Sitting close to me was a guy without any hair/ From the view his face and the size of his toes/ He originates from a location that no one understands/ Maybe I’m hallucinating, hyperventilating/ Letting this big-toed bald guy sitting here inform me about the sky.”
His toes were so exceptionally huge that they were of note TWICE in one verse, and this had not been adequate need to escape right away? While the very first part is a bit dreamlike, the chorus makes it rather clear exactly what we’re handling:
“I’ve been sitting here too long by a guy from Milwaukee/ He’s been talking too long on his yellow walkie-talkie/ He’s been speaking with Mars however I believe he’s goofy/ He states they’ll come get him, come get him some day.”
“In truth, why do not you kids include me … to Mars.”
>”He states where he’s from is called Albertane/ There they utilize more than 10 percent of their brain/ But you could not inform it from the method they act/ They playing around in underclothing and they never ever shave.”
There’s a lot to unload, however the essence is that this man isn’t really from the far-off world of Wisconsin, however remains in truth from “Albertane,” which is obviously (according to an angelfire fan page that you certainly should not click) the imaginary capital of Mars. OK, so that’s fine. It’s sci-fi. Pink Floyd has weirder tunes than that. Why Hanson felt the have to make this alien naked, humankind might never ever comprehend. Which still does not discuss why the kids instantly observed his extra-large piggy toes and not the hulking bush hanging out of his whitey-tighties suggested by that line about having to shave. We currently understand he’s bald, so exactly what else could they suggest? Pubes. Martian pubes is exactly what they imply. A full-on Matt Damon topiary.
At the end of the tune, the male vanishes right in front of Hanson, probably back to Mars. I seem like the mom of these siblings would not have actually authorized of them ever returning to the city after they informed her this story:
“You would not think me if I informed you the rest/ The guy sitting by me who was hardly dressed/ Flew off to Milwaukee or maybe Albertane/ And left me at the bus stop simply hardly sane”
” And then we got up and it was Friday! Isn’t really that amusing, Mom? Mommy? Why are you sobbing?”
Other, much better bands have actually made tunes about aliens (there’s this David Bowie fella you might wish to have a look at some day), however none that I can think about were naked and socializing with a number of preteen children at a bus stop.
# 3. The Spin Doctors’ First Song On Their First Album Is About Jimmy Olsen’s Obsession With Lois Lane
The Spin Doctors technically have one and a half strikes off of their very first album, Pocket Full Of Kryptonite, with “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong.” Because they sound precisely the exact same, we’ll simply identify them one-hit marvels. Who’s going to grumble on their behalf?
Here’s the less frustrating of those 2 tunes.
If you were questioning where the title of the album originated from (which you weren’t), it’s from the very first track, called “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues.” And yup, it’s about Superman side character Jimmy Olsen’s love for Lois Lane, and his basic jealousy of Supes. It likewise includes repeated usage of the words “little miss out on,” which was, for factors unidentified, an extremely popular Spin Doctor lyric.
“Or perhaps, rather of breaking up with him, I could MURDER him for you?”
So generally, Olsen is stating he’ll bang Lois like a champ, and after that possibly fuck Superman to death while he’s at it. Musical seduction at its finest.
If you’re believing this is some type of metaphor about a genuine relationship, where the vocalist seemed like the Jimmy Olsen to some lady’s Superman … well, there’s is no sign of that, and the lyrics particularly include in-jokes about Superman the character which just make good sense if the vocalist is in fact speaking about Superman genuine.
“Why does not Lois ever like good individuals? All I desire is for her to come over to her stalker’s home and instantly fuck.”
Why the Spin Doctors decided to present themselves with a tune about the worst character in comics is anybody’s guess. This is a character so shitty that Zack Snyder killed him in Batman V. Superman, understanding complete well that nobody would care or observe. Wait, you didn’t understand that was Jimmy Olsen in the start of the film getting his face blown off by a terrorist ? Precisely.
# 2. Carl Douglas’s Next Track After “Kung Fu Fighting” Is About Burning Witches
Everybody enjoys Carl Douglas and his possibly-racist hit about kung fu battling … is a thing you might perhaps state without being grammatically inaccurate.
Little did you understand that the tune originated from his 1974 album Kung Fu Fighting And Other Love Songs (exactly what?). On the extremely next track, Douglas revived the golden era of burnin’ individuals at the stake for witchcraft with his funk ballad about the “The Witchfinder General.” Goddamn, that is a cool title.
” Too bad she was hung by her neck/ I would’ve have actually tapped that ass in a sec.”
Throughout the tune, Douglas appears acutely uninformed that, um, witches weren’t a genuine thing that had to be burned. He never ever genuinely concerns it. (Man, regrettable those booty calls ended up being witches, huh?) His only grey location recommendation is the line about no one understanding if “he’s doing right,” recommending possibly he was utilizing plastic as kindling or attempting to light the girls throughout a breeze, however the remainder of the tune is a bard’s anthem about this strange witch hunter. Douglas generally took an old-timey western tune about the constable pertaining to town to take order and set it in the 1600s, included magic, then chose that was a terrific followup to the signature tune from Beverly Hills Ninja.
This is essentially how the federal government warranted abuse and spying on countless Americans without approval, however I do not wan na put excessive weight behind Carl Douglas.
Taken as an entire with the cool back beat, there’s one last possibility, and it’s that Carl Douglas utilized burning witches as the most uncomfortable metaphor ever for tapping ass. It might an absolutely incorrect analysis, however it’s tough not to believe when you hear the tune that this is the sexiest, funkiest immolation anybody’s ever experienced.
# 1. Soulja Boy’s Bad “Report Card”
Ah, Soulja Boy. Who could ignore him …
… besides apparently everybody, 2 months after that tune came out?
Such poetry can just originate from a guy who called his album, Jesus Christ, SouljaBoyTellem.com. We can just presume he wished to include a couple of animated GIFs and the poop emoji too, however somebody talked him down.
The finest part is that sooner or later this domain will be and end changed with a phony Viagra drug store.
Every tune on his album/ cry for assistance has to do with Booty Meat or normal gangster things, other than for “Report Card,” which has to do with the time Soulja Boy got back from school with all F’s.
Now, in case you’re more light than a Targaryen at a milk celebration, we searched for this expression on Urban Dictionary. According to those great folks, “Throwing Some D’s on a Bitch” is slang for updating something– as in tossing some good rims on a vehicle or some much better music on a Soulja Boy CD. Some would state that Soulja is making a joke here. For the rest of the tune he’s really rapping about getting bad grades in school, since holy fuck he was 17 when this came out.
” Soldier, please awaken. You’re fortunate I’m not tossing some Z’s on that bitch, boy.”
Man, there is absolutely nothing more street than getting phoned call to the principal’s workplace and having your mommy come choose you up. I like how he’s concurrently aiming to come off as too cool for school, however likewise kinda anxious about his grades. Dem ladies most likely believe you are dumb as a rock, Soulja. For some factor, DeAndre (his genuine name) later on offers us his precise grades , which are numbers I didn’t believe were even possible to obtain in school.
Even fucking ceramics ?!
I have a buddy who got the fetal pig that we were expected to be dissecting in biology class and made it hem and haw like a marionette on the table. He claimed it was performing an undetectable band and had it carry out improper masturbatory gestures with its hoofs. He passed. How in the shit could you get a 14? And technically, DeAndre, a 67 is a D, however I think I cannot anticipate much from a person with those mathematics ratings.
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