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One Hit Wonders
The Normal was, of course, the alias of Mute Records founder Daniel Miller. Their sole single nominally featured TVOD as its A-side, but it was the blank robotic chill of…
One Hit Wonders: Timbuk3 – The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Husband and wife duo Timbuk3’s 1986 debut single The Future’s So Bright… is something of a pop anomaly (with an equally oddball part-animated video). What right did a twanging Fifties…
One Hit Wonders: Election Day – Arcadia
It’s amazing to think that Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes, stalwarts – architects, even – of classic pop could ever have been responsible for a one-hit wonder. But here…
One Hit Wonders: …And Stones – The Blue Aeroplanes
In June 1990, Bristol’s finest art-rock collective released …And Stones. Since their inception in 1981, the band had celebrated the eclecticism of pop music and had included pretty much every…