The 50 Biggest All-Time Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders 6 (Bonus)
5/6/202633 min
This is chapter six of a five-part series on the greatest alt-rock one-hit wonders of the last 50 years…yes, chapter six of five…after going through a ton of data—radio charts, Spotify plays, and YouTube views, mostly—I thought I’d compiled a really solid list…and it was—except for a few things that need some attention: the errata… This means songs that should have been on the original top 50 list but were for whatever reason left out…those omissions need to be addressed—and we will…I’ve identified five such songs, so if you’ve been following along and were wondering why a certain favourite one-hit wonder was left out, maybe you’ll find some satisfaction… We’ll get to those later…first, though, I want to talk about some songs that did not fit the criteria of making international radio charts and fell under the minimum threshold of Spotify plays and YouTube views…at the same time, though, it feels like the stories of these songs should be told…you know what I mean?...they are great but not the biggest… This is a bonus episode on the 50 biggest all-time alt-rock one-hit wonders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAlan Cross· Host0:00
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Speaker 10:09
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Speaker 20:38
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Alan Cross· Host0:58
If a newspaper makes a mistake or leaves something out in a story, they print a correction or a retraction as soon as they can. If something erroneous is posted on a website, etiquette requires an update or correction to be added to the original post. In science, if new data comes to light and a previously announced theory or conclusion has to change, that's fantastic. That's what science is. It's a constant pursuit of the truth, and if the facts don't support the theory, well then, the theory must be changed. And when you're making a list involving complicated data, especially