Great Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders of the 90s: Part 2

11/11/20 • 22 min

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Creating art is hard...if it wasn’t, everyone would do it—and everyone would be successful at doing it...even those who can create art—the people with the right stuff—have a finite supply of good stuff within them...

Take Margaret Mitchell, for example...she wrote exactly one novel...but that novel was “Gone With The Wind”...Pulitzer Prize, a classic movie with multiple Academy Awards, 30 million copies sold, endless adaptations...it even got her face on a stamp...in short, “Gone With The Wind,” first published in 1937, was and still is, a cultural phenomenon...

But that’s all she ever did...ol’ marge hit it out of the park on the first pitch and that was it...one novel...she is perhaps the greatest literary one-hit-wonder of all time...

Maybe that’s all she had in the tank...or maybe she looked at all the success she got from just that one novel and said “right...my work is done her...anything else I do will just be a letdown...I’m stopping while I’m way ahead”...totally understand that...

Other artists, though, keep trying after that one hit...but for whatever reason, the magical pixie dust that they managed to harness that one time disappears forever...

Man, to get a taste of standing on the mountaintop only to be denied it ever again...but—and let’s be clear about this—at least they made it to the top of that mountain, even if it was just once...and if they’re lucky, that one trip can sustain them for the rest of their careers—the rest of their lives...

This is another program featuring those who got to the top just one...its great alt-rock one-hit wonders of the 90s, part 2....

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But that’s all she ever did...ol’ marge hit it out of the park on the first pitch and that was it...one novel...she is perhaps the greatest literary one-hit-wonder of all time...

Other artists, though, keep trying after that one hit...but for whatever reason, the magical pixie dust that they managed to harness that one time disappears forever...

This is another program featuring those who got to the top just one...its great alt-rock one-hit wonders of the 90s, part 2....

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