Bands with hit singles that were not hit singles

[MGibster]

Nobody said Afroman. Back in 2000 he cracked this out and got some play from the Howard Stern Show and the internet, but I do not recall and play on radio.

It's done fairly well for a novelty song and on rare occasion it still pops up in odd places today.

 

[Ryujin]

Nobody said Afroman. Back in 2000 he cracked this out and got some play from the Howard Stern Show and the internet, but I do not recall and play on radio.

It got some radio play here.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It got some radio play here.

But then it got high.

 

[Art Waring]

Migos out of GA made this track a few years back, remixed by PUAR.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nicky da B fell ill and died at the age of 24, after releasing only one album. Nonetheless, he was considered one of the bigger names in Bounce (a rap subgenre) and was a major figure in popularizing twerking. He partnered on songs with other artists like Diplo, and part of one of his tunes was featured in a nationally aired commercial for Cheetos.

Most of his vids would probably come close to violating site rules, soooo…here’s the 2013 Cheetos commercial that sampled Diplo & Nicky’s “Express Yourself”

 

[Eyes of Nine]

That time Jello Biafra, Al Jourgenson, and Paul Barker decided to collab in 1988.

Peak Lard (to date. Jourgensen and Biafra keep threatening a new album about once a decade...)

 

[MGibster]

The Art of Noise was an obscure British band....okay, I don't know how well known they were in the U.K., but here in the U.S. I think I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who has heard of them. Yeah, despite winning a Grammy for their cover of the theme to Peter Gunn in 1986. They were pioneers in eletronic music particularly when it came to sampling.

 

[Rabulias]

The Art of Noise was an obscure British band...

They got a lot of play with "Paranoimia" on MTV in the late 1980s.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’m a huge fan of AoN! There must be…DOZENS of us!

 

[Eyes of Nine]

The Art of Noise was an obscure British band....okay, I don't know how well known they were in the U.K., but here in the U.S. I think I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who has heard of them. Yeah, despite winning a Grammy for their cover of the theme to Peter Gunn in 1986. They were pioneers in eletronic music particularly when it came to sampling.

Yeah, I am only familiar with Peter Gunn - but dang it's a good rendition of it...