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WCDT Strips 3146 to 3150 (1-5 February 2016)

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chaospersonified:
Look. To me, until the last few hours, until I enraged the horde of Meatloaf lovers, Meatloaf only had the one song that I knew of. He was the guy who would do anything for love. That's what I knew him for, and nothing else. The way you are all defining 'one hit wonder,' that's what he was to me.

Apparently he also sang Paradise by the Dashboard Light, which I only know because it had some part in that godawful Josie and the Pussycats movie.

I did not know that was him when I heard it. I did not, and still don't care. Maybe he doesn't mathematically count, but when it comes to songs he's known for, I've only ever heard the one. Don't crucify me for my life.

One hit wonders are generally considered cheesy, and low-quality. This is why I count music that doesn't hold up in the same category. Because cheesy, low-quality music doesn't stick. They're different, but in spirit, they're similar.

MrNumbers:
Hot Patootie, bless my soul!
No one's mentioned Rocky Horror Picture Show?

buttsarecool:
Lurker that had to register just for this! I'll probably not post a lot but I couldn't help it :P

In the Netherlands we have this yearly radio event called the top 2000, where the entire country votes for what they think are the best songs of all time. It's then played between christmas and new year's. Since the start (in 2000), meat loaf's "paradise by the dashboard light" has almost always been in the top 10. So there's that and I find your whole discussion weird, he's not a one hit wonder!

/offtopic, please continue.

Akima:
I don't think one-hit wonders are necessarily cheesy or of low quality at all. Sometimes a band produces a single great song that takes fire in the market when the rest of their oeuvre just doesn't. "Echo Beach" by Martha and the Muffins is a classic example. Given that band produced just that one hit song, it might be fair to call them "one-hit wonders". I don't think there is a spirit of one-hit wonders, and I don't think the term should be used to mean "I've only heard one song from this band", nor "I don't like this band's music".

I don't like Meatloaf's music but he's sold an awful lot of records, and even I could list "Bat out of Hell", "She Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth", and "Dead Ringer for Love" off the top of my head as songs that come on the radio much too often for my taste. :P

Now I come to think of it, aren't unicorns supposed to have cloven hooves? On the other hand, this is a subjective unicorn in Bubbles' head, and perhaps she is not familiar with the anatomy of mythical ungulates.

USS Martenclaire:
Alternative comic title: "How Bubbles Got Her Grove Back"

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