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Bands With One Good Song

Estring said:
Jo Jo Gunne- Run Run Run. I loved Spirit, so this being a splinter from that band, I was expecting great things. Especially after hearing this song. But the rest of that album plus everything else I heard by them after that was just blah.
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I agree. Jay Ferguson's solo work was also sub par.
 
babeba67 said:
It's hard to respond without this turning into "one hit wonder" but here goes...

"Hocus Pocus" by Focus
"Fantasy" by Aldo Nova
"Right Place, Wrong Time" by Dr. John
"On the Loose" by Saga
"Baby I love You" by Cold Blood
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On The Loose came from an album called Worlds Apart, and that album was really good, especially when played with the volume UP. I went to their site once and was surprised by the number of albums they've cranked out. Apparently they're more popular in Canada since Worlds Apart is the only one of them ever to get air play here (that I know of).

I will add "Harden My Heart" by Quarterflash. Good song.
 
I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned Iron Butterfly yet. I only like one of their songs, so it's a good thing that it takes up one whole side of the album. I have the MoFi "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" gold CD, but I usually just punch up that second half of the album, and maybe the live and single-edit versions that come after the long album version.

Regarding Head East, they had a few small hits along with "Never Been Any Reason" (I have the album, actually... Good album). And Focus was a kickass band that had it's time in Europe. They just never caught on in the states, aside from "Hocus Pocus".

And normally, I would have added Billy Thorpe to this list, simply-because I didn't have the album, but now I have the LP, and I like it.

And regarding that awful "Go For Soda" song, well, it sucks real, REAL bad (I bet he hopped off the wagon pretty-quick... Sobriety wasn't THAT cool... not even in the mid '80's).

Also, I would have added Paperlace, but then I finally heard "The Night Chicago Died" again after like 30 years, and I realized that I only liked it back when I was a kid BECAUSE I was a kid. Hearing it now makes me feel kinda' stupid for liking it so much in the '70's (I used to listen to it all the time).

And anybody who mentions It's A Beautiful Day needs to hear their debut album in it's entirety. It's a classic.
 
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Oh, and I hate to admit this now, but Don McLean has slipped into this category for me. I'm even kinda' tired of "American Pie" at this point. It's one of those songs that just got overplayed too-many times in my presence.

"Workin' at the CAR WASH.... " (Did anybody mention Rose Royce? How about A Taste Of Honey? Who doesn't love "Boogie-Oogie-Oogie"? And on the same token, who can remember ANYTHING ELSE they did? I sure as hell can't).

"Boogay no morrrrrrre..... Yooooh caaannn boogaaaay... "

"Listen to ma' bass, now..."
 
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Don Mclean also had Vincent which I quite liked. But Iron Butterfly is a good one.

What about Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line?

"Typos in this meeasage? Can't you see I am doing this on my phone using Tapatalk?"
 
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