The New One Hit Wonder

What constitutes a one hit wonder when you step outside the realm of popular music?

The more pretentious selective you are about your musical taste, the more you hoard. Thus, you download albums instead of singles. Since I’ve started doing this, I’ve self-redefined the one hit wonder. When an album collectively is cohesive, creative, inspired etc. but I only really like one song from it.

Two examples:

Chairlift’s Bruises off of Does You Inspire You

Heard this song on an iPod commercial. It’s incredibly catchy. The rest of the album… whenever a song comes up on shuffle I usually just change it to Bruises.

The Knife’s Heartbeats off of Deep Cuts

Became ingrained into my life after hearing it every week at a bar where some friends DJ. Now, I have random cravings to hear it (and subsequently dance). The rest of the album… eh, who cares put on Heartbeats.