In Australia, we tend to take Icehouse and Crowded House for granted. It's so refreshing to see someone from the States who is so excited about these two bands, it reminds me just how great they really are.
Interesting that Icehouse had also two „hits“ in Germany but long before they had their hits in the US with two totally different songs. First hit was „Hey Little Girl“ which went to number 5 and the second one was „Street Café“ which went to number 28.
If you’re a metal fan, I don’t think you’d consider Ratt a 1 or 2 hit wonder. The number of albums they put out loaded with memorable songs. Much bigger for a longer period of time than these other artists.
This is a list of two hit wonders by the numbers on paper, airplay, and popularity during their career. Not personal preference. Icehouse had a multitude of albums with memorable songs, but only two charted and fell under the guidelines. Same goes for Ratt. Round and Round and Lay It down were their two.
@@marktait2371- You poor slobs! LOL Living in Detroit, we could also get the CBC on CKLW-TV channel 9. Robin Seymour "Swinging Time" and "Monty Python" as well as some British sitcoms!
Born in 70, graduated in 88 here. I got to see white lion a couple of times back in the day. I would give anything to go back to the 80's, if only for a day! 😢 This channel is awesome. Some of the videos give me that aching feeling in my chest. LOVE to all my fellow " GEN X" We had it good back in the day, I feel bad for kids of today. 🤘❤🤘
I saw them open for Ace Frehley in a tiny, little building at a former country club in Indiana. The place still went by the same name so that you didn't know it was a hole, 'til you got there. Mike Tramp was so drunk, he almost fell off the teeny, little stage. Pretty sure he had to go to jail back in Denmark for draft evasion later that year. Vito Bratta was the show, awesome guitarist. He was every bit as good as Eddie Van Halen, but still copying him, of course.
Interesting personal story about Icehouse. I am originally from Ukraine. Back in late 80s someone recorded a song for me on a cassette tape. Back in those Soviet days reliable information about foreign bands was hard to come by, so all I was told about that song was that the band's name was Crazy House and they were from Australia. When I moved to Canada in 1990, I tried looking for other songs or albums by this Australian band, but all I was finding was Crowded House and none of their songs matched the one I had on the tape, which was lost by that time anyway. I eventually gave up. Fast forward to 2018. I was watching a Facebook video of a high end audio system of someone in Portugal and really liked the song that was being played on that system. I used Sound Hound and quickly identified the song as "Man Of Colours" by Icehouse. A quick search of Icehouse on TH-cam turned up "Crazy" and suddenly my search was over! I immediately ordered the whole album on vinyl and have been enjoying it ever since. They are criminally underrated, IMO! Iva Davies is an amazing vocalist and songwriter. Check out their single "Touch The Fire" from 1989. Smoking track!
Yes, Touch the Fire could easily have been the biggest hit that never was. Growing up in Australia and hearing numerous Icehouse hits on the radio over the years, they became one of my favourite bands. But despite those hits, I’ve found they have so many hidden gems “buried” on albums that many are missing out on. I’m so glad you never gave up finding that elusive song, and as a reward for your dedication, you uncovered a treasure trove.
Love the Ratt coverage! So many people forget/don’t acknowledge how large Ratt was for a short period in the 80’s. They were selling out arenas at their height, and the Ratt/Bon Jovi tour was massive
@@dethangelsshadow1722 I may have actually been thinking of the Ratt/Poison tour when I commented above, but yeah that could have been a killer marketing ad 🤣
In my opinion, Vito Bratta was very underated. He was one of the best. I've always loved White Lion! Still do. They get regular rotation in my house. Now, Icehouse was a band that completely sideswiped me. Never heard of them before "Crazy" and their album, "Man of Colours". SUCH a great album! I then disovered older tunes by them and loved them even more. Ratt! LOL - they broke through in a weird way for me. Back then you could be listening to the radio and hear songs like, "Cool It Now" by New Edition and "Sea of Love" by the Honeydrippers, and then suddenly "Round and Round" by Ratt would explode on to the radio. Great times. To be honest, was never big on rap, so never got into Tone Loc. Crowded House was a phenomenal band. Everything they ever put out was gold. Wore their albums out. Great vid, Prof!
He and Nuno have never gotten their due. Eddie this and Eddie that. Eddie was the sloppiest guitar player ever. Bratta and Bettencourt are so smooth and have such a technical mastery over the guitar that Eddie could never even sniff let alone touch.
Me too! It was, musically (and TV!) speaking, truly awesome to be alive at that time! With Brit Pop, New Wave, Hair Rock, Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Rap, Festivals, college radio, fm radio, cable TV, record stores, video arcades, shopping malls, our local neighborhoods and school, the government, the cold war, Live-Aid, and on and on - all vying for our attention! And we were so there for it! Crazy times, but I'm glad to have grown up then😊
@@ChrisFerguson-zm4gtyep I say that as well. Crazy how music you may have not liked growing up is so much better than what’s on modern music stations today. We don’t even have good college radio anymore or at least where I live. Hopefully there will be another band that comes out and changes everything like Nirvana did in the 90s though I heard them on college radio before Nevermind came out.
I’ll always refer to it as Hair Metal. Those groups were my favorite. Saw loads of them in concert. And to me the 4 albums that really kicked that era off were Twisted Sister Stay Hungry, Def Leppard Pyromania, Quiet Riot Metal Health and Ratt Out of the Cellar. You were right by saying Ratt doesn’t get the love they deserve. To me they were one of the 4 most important bands to Hair Metal.
You should do both the 60s and 70s as well. You always remind me about what I have forgotten from my youth. I always enjoy your shows, and at 70, the memories aren't what it used to be.
As an Australian, I was surprised you said Icehouse was only a two hit wonder (I thought they had almost as much success in America as InXS) but I was very pleased that you mentioned they had many more hits over here. Australian music from the 1960's through the 1990's is a very large treasure trove. I encourage any American, Canadian or Brit to check out both Australia's and New Zealand's music history. You will be very well rewarded.
So true! Over the years, I've collected quite a lot of Australian music. The Gurus were always my favorite. Lucky enough to have seen them once in the 80's, the 90's and then just the last year or two in Seattle. Still sounding great! And, they are playing there again in September!
@@Monkey_Spunk I think what someone else said was, Professor was tracking groups that made the top 40, and RATT only had two top 40, the others were top 100. BUT, that's like saying Ozzy wasn't a smash success without Black Sabbath because he only had three top 40 and six top 100, whereas Motley Crue had seven top 40 and 13 top 100. Are we really going to say Motley Crue was more musically successful than Ozzy? BTW, I loved them ALL. I think they were all fantastic!
I'm a little surprised Greg Kihn didn't make this list; The Breakup Song remained in the rotation of rock stations for years and Jeopardy was so big that it inspired one of Weird Al's early hit parodies, "I Lost On Jeopardy".
Man, I never would've guessed in a million years that Ratt only had 2 top-40 hits! Seems like they were all over the place back then! Everyone I know had posters of them and all their albums. They were very popular in my circle of friends, that's for sure. I was genuinely surprised to see them on this list.
They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide so they were hugely successful, they just didn’t have a lot of top 40 hits mainly because they didn’t do ballads until detonator !!
So what's more impressive, when a band's two hits are years apart (Such a "Pop Goes the World" and "Safety Dance" by Men without Hats" by Men without Hats or "Human" and "Don't You Want Me" by Human League) or when a band has two huge hits but nothing else that approaches them in popularity (such as "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie" by Mr Mr)?
In Canada, Men Without Hats had a second top 10 hit in 1989 with "Hey Men" (a song that surprisingly didn't even make the Canadian version of their Greatest Hats, yes "Hats", album despite being their second-highest charting single in Canada) although, surprisingly, "Safety Dance" never quite made the RPM top 10 in Canada (it peaked at 11),
Another of the former category: Golden Earring. Radar Love was huge from 1973, and got more play in years to follow. Then, in 1982, came the song Twilight Zone-- even bigger on the charts... 9 years later!
I WAS the remote. LOL!! Remember dad jiggling his pop on the coffee table, the ice jingling in the glass, this was the signal to change the channel. LOL!! Good times, good times.
@@neoblakkrstal9865 Are you implying publicly, where Gen Z could see it (if any of them possessed the requisite attention span to actually read something) that communication was not only possible but even achieved PRIOR to the existence of social media?!!!
Another neat idea: which bands had the longest time between their two biggest hits? Moody Blues might qualify here with Nights in White Satin (released in 1967 but hit the charts in 1972) and Your Wildest Dreams (1986).
Steve Winwood should be on this list too - Gimme Some Lovin and I'm a Man in 1966 and 1967 with Spencer Davis Group; and While You See a Chance and Valerie, in 1980 and 1982 when he was solo. Of course, the songs Steve and Muff Winwood wrote with Alan Parsons would be part of another video ^.^
That's the one I thought of also. And "Twilight Zone" was roughly 10 years after Radar Love, that song literally came out of nowhere in the early days of the MTV era.
@@jaykay6387 I think the title should be "Two Hits Wonder in the USA". Golden Earring has like 50 hits in the Netherlands (of which a lot deserved to be much bigger hits internationally)
If we're talking US 2 hit wonders there's: Level 42 (Something About You, Lesson In Love) Greg Kihn (The Break Up Song, Jeopardy) Naked Eyes (Always Something There To Remind Me, Promises Promises) Terence Trent D'Arby (Wishing Well, Sign Your Name) Eddy Grant (Electric Avenue, Romancing The Stone)
@@bkgrila I think the term of 1 or 2 hit wonders have to be taken differently since Billboard wants to use their Hot 100. Selling singles does not mean they were the biggest hits. If you take a look at Bruce Spingsteen? No number 1 hits on the hot 100 Billboard charts when he had many number 1 songs on the mainstream pop radio airplay charts. Just like Ratt, White Lion both with 5 top 40 mainstream pop radio hits and Crowded House with three top 10 hits with Better Be Home Soon hit the top 10 there. Something So Strong and Better Be Home Soon did hit number 1 on the radio airplay charts.
Lady of the Valley! Broken Heart should have been a top 10. All You Need is Rock N Roll! All Join Our Hands. So many good songs from them. Just like Great White.
I think Icehouse suffered because Iva took so long to be confident singing with his own voice. On so many of the early songs he sounds like either Bowie or Bryan Ferry.
At first I thought you said Melonmaniacs, which could be the name for the supporters of Anthony Fantano, "the internet's busiest music nerd" aka "melon" because of his bald dome
Hair or glam is fine to describe the genre. Anyone complaining about it isn't worth debating it. It's not like Hair or glam are slurs. I loved it then and still listen to it today.
Love this channel but top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart is a pretty bad way to define a one or two-hit wonder. I mean, remember Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" being voted #1 on Dial MTV every day for 3 months straight and MTV having to impose a time limit to stop it? That song only hit #89 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and wouldn't even qualify as a "hit" under this criteria) but is one of the biggest rock songs of the 1980s. Ratt only had 2 songs make the top 40 of the BIllboard Hot 100 but they had TEN songs hit the top 40 of the Billboard rock chart to go with their 4 platinum and 1 gold albums - they are simply not in the same category as the true one or two-hit wonder bands which had their moment and faded away (at least on these shores).
My top 5 2 hit wonders... 1. Tone Loc - wild thing and Funky Cold Medina 2. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Head to Toe & Lost In Emotion 3. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus & Vienna Calling 4. Los Lobos - Labamba & Come on Let's Go 5. Kim Wilde - Kids in America & You Keep me Hangin on
“When the Children Cry” is such an incredible tune that applies to the world today so well. I remember singing this a few months ago and people didn’t realize it was a song from the 80s. Reintroducing people to those classics is so much fun. :)
No one called it hair metal then. We just called it heavy metal back in the day. That's it. Sure, you could fit everything from Slayer to Aerosmith in that genre but that's how it was. If you wanted to get more specific we'd call bands like Slayer, Metallica and Megadeth Thrash. But it was all Heavy Metal. Except bands like Foreigner and Loverboy were not Heavy Metal. They were just Hard Rock.
That's definitely accurate- seems like it was pretty much the glam metal "formula" during that time...though I guess the only exception would actually be Ratt! The closest thing they ever had to a ballad - to my knowledge - was "Givin' Yourself Away" (co-written by the legendary Diane Warren), which only made a small dent on the rock charts some 6 years or so after "Round and Round" (so, 5 after "Lay It Down").
Icehouse's "Man Of Colours" truly is a masterpiece IMO. Definitely one of my favourite albums. Get your headphones out, and have a listen! Really great stuff, including the title track. I passed many a day relaxing on the beach with "Man of Colors" playing on the Walkman. Favourites off the album - "Crazy" (of course!), "Man of Colours", "Heartbreak Kid", "The Kingdom", "Girl On The Moon", and "Crazy (Midnight Mix)" (headphone eargasm).
Professor, you take being a music junkie to a whole new, incredible level! Another terrific video! Ratt is my favorite in this list! I was 17 years old in 1984 and absolutely loved rocking out to Round and Round!! Thanks so much for your hard work and dedication!! ❤
@@ProfessorofRock The Angry Dad from the Twisted Sister music video Wer'e Not Gonna Take It actor Mark Metcalf was also in Animal House and The Heavenly Kid movie. 🧑🎤💽🎥🎤
RATT was my favorite. Them and Tesla were two of the bands I gravitated to during the 80's. --- First time commenter, been watching just after you achieved 500K. Great Channel! The storytelling on this channel is phenomenal and is inspirational.
I remember working as Security Escorts at the I.N.E.L. & Ratt & 2 other bands were playing, 3 of my fellow escorts went w/o earplugs they couldn't hear well for a week & were always complaining about their ears hurting, & I reminded them I had suggested they wear ear protection. But they were young & dumb! Glam rock/big hair rock was a time same as the 60's-70's that we'll never see again. 🤠
I was absolutley stunned when Dont Dream Its Over only got toNo27 in the charts here in the UK. I remember first hearing it when i was about 23 and it totally stunned me( more than any other song on first hearing). Even today i still find it so beautiful...wonderful nostalgia of a happy time.
80's was a Golden Age for Aussie Music. The artists did the hard yards on the Pub and Club circuits and while everyone seems to know AC/DC and INXS there were dozens of others that were as good that never quite managed to make the jump to international success.
@@JeffTaggart-p6o Angels, Radiators, Choirboys, Hoodoo Gurus, Mental As Anything, Mondo Rock, Cold Chisel, Hunters & Collectors, Divinyls, Models. Add Mi-Sex & Split Enz ( Yes I know they're Kiwis ). That's just the bands and not solo artists.
Don't forget Pseudo Echo, Moving Pictures, and The Church!! Actually, my very first date with my now-wife was a Church concert nearly 7 years ago, at the 9:30 Club here in the Washington, DC area. I always joke around that "that's when I knew!", since she's the only one I could imagine wanting to go to see this relatively obscure (in America, at least) 80s band with me!! 😂
Regardless of "hits" on the radio, I wouldn't consider Ratt to be a one or two hit wonder. The other bands on this list didn't headline major venue tours for several years. Ratt had several songs that were in heavy rotation during the "hair metal" radio years.
Ratt was touring with Poison , my very first rock concert! I was 14 and in the front at the stage! They were rocking! A woman in the balcony removed her shirt to show off her goods! lol. The spotlight went straight to her and k was hooked on rock concerts for life!! 😂
ICEHOUSE is a band you never hear much of in the U.S. I wore out "Man of Colours" on cassette back in 1987 and was fortunate to find a clean vinyl copy in 2021. Split Enz and Crowded House, more great music. Ratt "Out of the Cellar" sounds as fresh today as it did the first time I heard it in the 1980's. A great video. Thanks Prof!
Watching all of these Professor of Rock videos has made me realize I have a gap between when my daughter left for college in 88 and my son began blasting his music around 94. I've never heard of most of these songs. In the late 80s, we always had a herd of kids at our house. When I heard a couple of preschoolers singing "give me, give me safe sex" I turned off the radio and only played cassette tapes I created to be child friendly.
I won't argue that Ratt wasn't a two hit wonder, BUT they had a lot of songs that significant play on the radio and MTV. I watched the video whenever it came on because the model in the video was really good looking! Another "two hit wonder" of sorts in the early 80s was Aldo Nova. He had a hit on his debut album called "Fantasy". On his second album, he had a song called "Monkey on Your Back" that got a lot of airtime, but it wasn't as big as "Fantasy". I guess he had a hit and half.
@@CaptainCraigKWMRZ, oops! I'll correct that. I had a stroke in June and I miss a lot of things, including spelling. My bad. I was a freshman in HS when "Fantasy" came out and I loved the song. He was an excellent guitarist and people should take a look at his work.
It's always hard to pick One-Hit or Two-Hit Wonders. Either because an artist had more hits than I thought they did or because their biggest songs never even cracked the Top 40.
My girlfriend, at the time, was a big White Lion fan. I had really only heard Wait, but I dived into their music a little more and was pleasantly surprised. Also, who can forget the Ratt/Poison tour. I always thought that was the perfect title for a tour.
Dude! I still love RATT! and White Lion! I recently bought the new box set on vinyl and I agree the original lineup of White Lion! I remember seeing them live in Memphis TN at least 3 times within a years time!😱😳 on multiple tours like KISS AC/DC and STRYPER as an opening act
Interesting trivia: Iva Davies was also an oboe player and wanted to showcase his skills on the single “Electric Blue.” Though often mistaken for a saxophone solo, it’s actually an oboe being played by Davies.
15:23 ratt only had 2 top 40 hits??? Unbelievable!!! Thats insane!!! Dance, slip of the lip, i want to love you tonight, shame shame etc etc. Love ratt
RATT, man, it seems strange to have them on here as a two hit wonder cause , for at time, they put out some seriously great stuff and so many catchy rock tunes. I recall when I was young not caring much at all for the song "Round and Round" - as big of a hit that it was, so basically ignored them even though I was into the burgeoning hair metal scene at the time. It was "Lay it Down" that got me into RATT and IoyP, although I think it was "Your in Love" that I liked even more - great song. Then I went back and picked up "Out of the Cellar" probably two or three years later. I tell ya, man, I really missed out on not getting into that album early as it simply is 100% solid front to back - every song. My favorite RATT song is "Back for More". And I'd often go back for more in one sitting just listening to it over and over, and also try to learn to play it even though I suck at guitar. I warmed up to "Round and Round" eventually too. The big hits or crossovers from the Hair Metal genre tended primarily, if not solely, to be ballads. I don't recall RATT doing many ballads at all - can't think of one - well actually Back For More..maybe. However, they put out a ton of catchy rockers over the course or 4 or 5 albums in the eighties, sold at least 20 millions albums and were one of the forerunners of their genre. "Two Hit" wonder label seems to underappreciate their efforts. |======== As for Tone Loc, though I was never big into hip hop, his hits were dominant during a period in college..so much so that when I hear his songs now so many images of that time pop into my head. Those songs were huge and played constantly in the dorms, frat house, and intimate moments ha.
Great video and the choices i can agree with..... Crowded House was an excellent choice! Damn I love that band. I do disagree with the Ratt choice......more than two hits I think. Back For More and You're In Love are two more hits they had. You're In Love is one of my all time favorite songs from that era! Damn I so miss the 80's. Thank you for the memories my friend...they are cherished
My favorite tune from White Lion is “Little Fighter” which has an interesting Hawaii tie. Back in the 70s-80s an environmental group based out of Hawai’i, Greenpeace had a boat called the Rainbow Warrior which they’d use to disrupt whaling operations. Supposedly it was destroyed by an act of sabotage. White Lion dedicated Little Fighter to the memory of the Rainbow Warrior. The guitar parts are masterful. The rhythm parts are a study in adding just the right fills within the mix to complement the song. The lead break I consider to be Vito at his best. It builds with his signature melodic tapping thrown in and fits the song to make his statement all within 18 bars. God bless you Vito.
@@RealBarefootIsLegal I sure do. Casey Kasem called all top 40 charters among the biggest hits. Even Hot 100 charters are some degree of his, considering all the music that gets released.
Favorite track from Crowded House, fall at your feet!!! White Lion did a nice remake of Radar Love, and that follow album had some good stuff. Nicely done Proff.
I am surprised about Ratt...only 2 top 40 hits. I figured they had 4 or 5. As far as Tone Loc, I liked his music a lot, also another rapper of the same era, Young MC. My favorite rap group is Beastie Boys. My runner up you don't hear much about...3rd Bass. They did not get that much attention.
Crowded House only had 2 hits? I'm from Johannesburg, South Africa and attended their concert in the early 1990s and they had an amazing number of hits in my opinion. We had more than 2 top 40 hits in the SA charts from CH. Great band
I don't care about whiere on the US/World music charts, a band has its songs, I just consider how many songs, that can be heard on the radio by that band, in my criteria for how many hits. 🤷 CH had at least 3 songs that got alot of radio airplay (hence how many hits), the one we hear the most (on classic stations) now, is Don't Dream Its Over, their other 2 were, Something So Strong, from the same album as DDIO, then they had Better Be Home Soon, in 88, from their Temple Of Low Men album!
Definitely do the 70s!! I can name a couple of artists for that list, The Knack and Rupert Holmes!! I agree with your Number 1 choice!! Crowded House was awesome!! I love Don’t Dream It's Over!! You did a great job!! Happy Birthday Professor Of Rock!! Cindy S.
Sure you can call it "hair metal". SiriusXM still has the Hair Nation channel which is pure bliss, to me it always has been and always will be hair metal.
@@TheSlowoldman Pretty quick on the uptake for a slow old man!😊 Good one Professor. You still got it in your older age. Have a happy circumnavigation. Don't let Skipper near the wheel.
Dude, are you f'n kidding me with putting RATT on here? Really???? Before Motley went big with Girls(x3) RATTNROLL was the Sunset Strip theme!!! Round and Round, Wanted Man, Back for More, You're in Love, Lay it Down, Dance, Body Talk, Way Cool Jr. ALL of the HITS!! Come on man!!! I usually agree with you 99.9% of the time, but this one, I expected more awareness, especially since we grew up in that era.
@@AlexandertheGreat99 There's so many. I actually think that Invasion and Cellar are perfect albums. Not a filler song on either. '81-'91 they were just so unbelievably good. I always try and imagine how different they would be if Jake E Lee stayed, and Warren didn't join. They'd be a little different I think but still tremendously popular.
I just looked up Ratt on Wikipedia and the Prof is right. Only 2 songs inside the top 40. Hard to believe that Wanted man only made it to #87 as much as it was all over the radio and MTV. "You're in love" #89, "Dance " #59
Perfect list! A few others that popped into my head. I THINK they fit the criteria. So many great songs - what a time to be alive (& kicking) 😉 - New Order - Til Tuesday - The Romantics - Level 42 - John Parr
Those were not their two US Top 40 hits. "Talking In Your Sleep" and the #37 peaking "One In A Million" were. Before those, "What I Like About You" peaked at #49. How'd you like Bucks Fizz's cover of "Talking In Your Sleep"?
1986 was an unbelievably good year for music. So much going on! It’s my all time favourite year for music and so much else that happened in my life at that time. Fantastically good times ❤
Tone Loc was essentially a novelty act (then again, Rap is a novelty genre) but there is no denying that Tone was successful AND influential. His hits were genuinely good pop music.
Poll: What is your pick for the Best One Hit Wonder of ALL TIME?
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Marc Cohn “Walking in Memphis”🤘🔥
Animotion "Obsesssion"
In Australia, we tend to take Icehouse and Crowded House for granted. It's so refreshing to see someone from the States who is so excited about these two bands, it reminds me just how great they really are.
I love them!
@@TheKnobCalledTone. what about Hoodoo Gurus they never get any credit for their stuff.
@@TheKnobCalledTone.
I love both houses 🏠 🏠
Interesting that Icehouse had also two „hits“ in Germany but long before they had their hits in the US with two totally different songs. First hit was „Hey Little Girl“ which went to number 5 and the second one was „Street Café“ which went to number 28.
I still re-visit the albums Measure for Measure and Man of Colour on a regular basis.
If you’re a metal fan, I don’t think you’d consider Ratt a 1 or 2 hit wonder. The number of albums they put out loaded with memorable songs. Much bigger for a longer period of time than these other artists.
Exactly! I was a metalhead growing up and was surprised to hear Ratt included on this list.
They had at least 8 singles all over MTV and their first 5 albums went platinum.
My thoughts as well while watching this video.
RATT had 4 gold records in a row
This is a list of two hit wonders by the numbers on paper, airplay, and popularity during their career. Not personal preference. Icehouse had a multitude of albums with memorable songs, but only two charted and fell under the guidelines. Same goes for Ratt. Round and Round and Lay It down were their two.
Most teens in 1984 knew who Milton Berle was. We grew up watching 3 channels on tv and reruns were a feature not a bugg.
Cool!
Indeed.
we had 4 cbs nbc abc and pbs had to adjust move around rabbit ears 70s
@@marktait2371 Outside Antennas were the same only harder. Yelling to and from the house. "is it clear yet?" "stop right there!" 😆
@@marktait2371- You poor slobs! LOL Living in Detroit, we could also get the CBC on CKLW-TV channel 9. Robin Seymour "Swinging Time" and "Monty Python" as well as some British sitcoms!
Born in 70, graduated in 88 here. I got to see white lion a couple of times back in the day. I would give anything to go back to the 80's, if only for a day! 😢
This channel is awesome. Some of the videos give me that aching feeling in my chest.
LOVE to all my fellow " GEN X" We had it good back in the day, I feel bad for kids of today.
🤘❤🤘
I saw them open for Ace Frehley in a tiny, little building at a former country club in Indiana. The place still went by the same name so that you didn't know it was a hole, 'til you got there. Mike Tramp was so drunk, he almost fell off the teeny, little stage. Pretty sure he had to go to jail back in Denmark for draft evasion later that year. Vito Bratta was the show, awesome guitarist. He was every bit as good as Eddie Van Halen, but still copying him, of course.
Just want the music to return, actual MUSICIANS…
Just what would do for that whole day??
I saw White Lion as the opening act for Aerosmith during the Permanent Vacation tour. Loved them.❤
Same. Born 10/1970. Graduated in 1988. We had no idea the hits that surrounded us daily on the radio. All over the place.
Interesting personal story about Icehouse. I am originally from Ukraine. Back in late 80s someone recorded a song for me on a cassette tape. Back in those Soviet days reliable information about foreign bands was hard to come by, so all I was told about that song was that the band's name was Crazy House and they were from Australia. When I moved to Canada in 1990, I tried looking for other songs or albums by this Australian band, but all I was finding was Crowded House and none of their songs matched the one I had on the tape, which was lost by that time anyway. I eventually gave up. Fast forward to 2018. I was watching a Facebook video of a high end audio system of someone in Portugal and really liked the song that was being played on that system. I used Sound Hound and quickly identified the song as "Man Of Colours" by Icehouse. A quick search of Icehouse on TH-cam turned up "Crazy" and suddenly my search was over! I immediately ordered the whole album on vinyl and have been enjoying it ever since. They are criminally underrated, IMO! Iva Davies is an amazing vocalist and songwriter. Check out their single "Touch The Fire" from 1989. Smoking track!
Yes, Touch the Fire could easily have been the biggest hit that never was. Growing up in Australia and hearing numerous Icehouse hits on the radio over the years, they became one of my favourite bands. But despite those hits, I’ve found they have so many hidden gems “buried” on albums that many are missing out on. I’m so glad you never gave up finding that elusive song, and as a reward for your dedication, you uncovered a treasure trove.
What a fantastic story! Thanks for sharing.
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Love the Ratt coverage! So many people forget/don’t acknowledge how large Ratt was for a short period in the 80’s. They were selling out arenas at their height, and the Ratt/Bon Jovi tour was massive
Thanks!
Ratt had three very good ALBUMS.
I still hear then because I have a bunch of full albums in my SD card and I listen at work.
My wife saw Ratt with Poison... The irony of a Ratt Poison tour is hilarious.
@@dethangelsshadow1722 I may have actually been thinking of the Ratt/Poison tour when I commented above, but yeah that could have been a killer marketing ad 🤣
If you say hair band or hair metal, Ratt has to come to your mind. They are and will always be the definitive hair 28:11 metal band.
Congratulations Professor on tomorrow's anniversary of your escape womb success!
Ha ha. Thanks!
@@ProfessorofRock Wow that's Lou Gramm? He looks like Gene Wilder. Miss hearing him in Foreigner. 🎸🧑🎤🙋🙌
HAHA!
In my opinion, Vito Bratta was very underated. He was one of the best. I've always loved White Lion! Still do. They get regular rotation in my house. Now, Icehouse was a band that completely sideswiped me. Never heard of them before "Crazy" and their album, "Man of Colours". SUCH a great album! I then disovered older tunes by them and loved them even more. Ratt! LOL - they broke through in a weird way for me. Back then you could be listening to the radio and hear songs like, "Cool It Now" by New Edition and "Sea of Love" by the Honeydrippers, and then suddenly "Round and Round" by Ratt would explode on to the radio. Great times. To be honest, was never big on rap, so never got into Tone Loc. Crowded House was a phenomenal band. Everything they ever put out was gold. Wore their albums out. Great vid, Prof!
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They are an amazing band!
@@ponzo1967 Amen!
He and Nuno have never gotten their due. Eddie this and Eddie that. Eddie was the sloppiest guitar player ever. Bratta and Bettencourt are so smooth and have such a technical mastery over the guitar that Eddie could never even sniff let alone touch.
You know we’ll find a way, just give it time!
Where is the love for Greg Kihn Band?
The breakup song and Our love's in jeopardy
POR said he'd feature them; I hope so. I saw their concerts, bought their records and CDs and got a coworker a third of my age into them.
RIP Greg Kihn whoi sadly passed last week.😢😢
@@timhuggins7069 Oh wow, you're kidding!! I had no idea ☹
@@MusicRunner82 sad but true. August 13.
the song is called just "Jeopardy"
Crowded House is one of my favorite bands. They deserve more love.
Yes, we may have called it Glam at the time, but over the years it has become Hair Metal, and the genre is still much loved.
Hair Metal for sure!
I call it Hair Metal back them
@@lymondec
The term hair metal didn't exist in the 80's.
Hair metal is a silly Millennial term - ALL 80's metal bands had long hair.
Hair Metal is not nearly as pejorative of a term as Glam Metal. "Glam Metal" was a slur to everyone I knew.
I never realised that White Lion cameoed as the band in "The Money Pit", and I've seen that movie several times.
ISnt' that cool?
I actually like that movie (Not as much as "Play Misty...) .Even though it's title winded up being a negative box office prophecy 😅
i still use the GIF of the tub falling through the floor during work meetings, because ... well... it's apt more often than not. 😂😂😂😂
No way! I loved that movie!
I love that movie so much.
Uncle Buck is one of my favorite movies of all time. John Candy was so funny and charming in it.
“Here’s a quarter….”
The 80s had so much great music. I was so fortunate to be a young adult in the midst of all of this. Thanks, professor.
You're welcome!
Me too! It was, musically (and TV!) speaking, truly awesome to be alive at that time! With Brit Pop, New Wave, Hair Rock, Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Rap, Festivals, college radio, fm radio, cable TV, record stores, video arcades, shopping malls, our local neighborhoods and school, the government, the cold war, Live-Aid, and on and on - all vying for our attention! And we were so there for it! Crazy times, but I'm glad to have grown up then😊
@@diembepoet A musical buffet.
The music that sucked in the 80s is better than what passes as good today.
@@ChrisFerguson-zm4gtyep I say that as well. Crazy how music you may have not liked growing up is so much better than what’s on modern music stations today. We don’t even have good college radio anymore or at least where I live. Hopefully there will be another band that comes out and changes everything like Nirvana did in the 90s though I heard them on college radio before Nevermind came out.
I’ll always refer to it as Hair Metal. Those groups were my favorite. Saw loads of them in concert. And to me the 4 albums that really kicked that era off were Twisted Sister Stay Hungry, Def Leppard Pyromania, Quiet Riot Metal Health and Ratt Out of the Cellar. You were right by saying Ratt doesn’t get the love they deserve. To me they were one of the 4 most important bands to Hair Metal.
You should do both the 60s and 70s as well. You always remind me about what I have forgotten from my youth. I always enjoy your shows, and at 70, the memories aren't what it used to be.
Sounds good!
There are SO MANY examples of two hit wonders from the psychedelic era alone!
As an Australian, I was surprised you said Icehouse was only a two hit wonder (I thought they had almost as much success in America as InXS) but I was very pleased that you mentioned they had many more hits over here. Australian music from the 1960's through the 1990's is a very large treasure trove. I encourage any American, Canadian or Brit to check out both Australia's and New Zealand's music history. You will be very well rewarded.
Thanks!
So true! Over the years, I've collected quite a lot of Australian music. The Gurus were always my favorite. Lucky enough to have seen them once in the 80's, the 90's and then just the last year or two in Seattle. Still sounding great! And, they are playing there again in September!
I know a lot of Australian bands already. Australia is my favorite place ever.
@@ProfessorofRock check out hes gonna step on you again by the party boys its got a good story behind it
@@ProfessorofRock You forgot to mention that Ton Loc also sampled KISS Christine Sixteen in Funky Cold Medina!
Another great show - you're the Casey Kasem of the 21st century! Thanks!!
Can't believe Ratt only had two hits. One of my favorite bands since high school.
They had six hits, according to Billboard music, that reached the top 100.
@@MC-jv9ed"Your in love" "Way cool jr", "Back for More", "I want a Woman", "Dance", "Body Talk".
@Scottocaster6668 Yeah see I remember all those being big hits, but according to this video they weren't? What about Wanted Man?
Don't believe it, because that is incorrect 😂
@@Monkey_Spunk I think what someone else said was, Professor was tracking groups that made the top 40, and RATT only had two top 40, the others were top 100. BUT, that's like saying Ozzy wasn't a smash success without Black Sabbath because he only had three top 40 and six top 100, whereas Motley Crue had seven top 40 and 13 top 100. Are we really going to say Motley Crue was more musically successful than Ozzy? BTW, I loved them ALL. I think they were all fantastic!
Crowded House is criminally underrated. Their second album is great. Weather With You is one of their catchiest pop songs.
I'm a little surprised Greg Kihn didn't make this list; The Breakup Song remained in the rotation of rock stations for years and Jeopardy was so big that it inspired one of Weird Al's early hit parodies, "I Lost On Jeopardy".
Greg Kihn who passed away in the last month had a 1985 hit "Lucky" which reached #30. So three hits
Man, I never would've guessed in a million years that Ratt only had 2 top-40 hits! Seems like they were all over the place back then! Everyone I know had posters of them and all their albums. They were very popular in my circle of friends, that's for sure. I was genuinely surprised to see them on this list.
It was MTV….THATS why…the vids.
They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide so they were hugely successful, they just didn’t have a lot of top 40 hits mainly because they didn’t do ballads until detonator !!
They had two albums full of great songs.
@@wayne3340 many more than that !!
So what's more impressive, when a band's two hits are years apart (Such a "Pop Goes the World" and "Safety Dance" by Men without Hats" by Men without Hats or "Human" and "Don't You Want Me" by Human League) or when a band has two huge hits but nothing else that approaches them in popularity (such as "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie" by Mr Mr)?
In Canada, Men Without Hats had a second top 10 hit in 1989 with "Hey Men" (a song that surprisingly didn't even make the Canadian version of their Greatest Hats, yes "Hats", album despite being their second-highest charting single in Canada) although, surprisingly, "Safety Dance" never quite made the RPM top 10 in Canada (it peaked at 11),
Another of the former category: Golden Earring. Radar Love was huge from 1973, and got more play in years to follow. Then, in 1982, came the song Twilight Zone-- even bigger on the charts... 9 years later!
If you remember your dad asking you to change the channel or adjust the volume, even though he was closer to the TV, you're gonna love this channel
I WAS the remote. LOL!! Remember dad jiggling his pop on the coffee table, the ice jingling in the glass, this was the signal to change the channel. LOL!! Good times, good times.
@@neoblakkrstal9865 those were the days
@@neoblakkrstal9865 Are you implying publicly, where Gen Z could see it (if any of them possessed the requisite attention span to actually read something) that communication was not only possible but even achieved PRIOR to the existence of social media?!!!
@@stevenfunderburg1623 😘
@@chrisggoodwin777 or a tool of some sort wedged against the channel knob to keep the picture tuned in right 🤣
Another neat idea: which bands had the longest time between their two biggest hits? Moody Blues might qualify here with Nights in White Satin (released in 1967 but hit the charts in 1972) and Your Wildest Dreams (1986).
Thanks!
The Kinks too. You Really Got Me and then Come Dancing in the 80's.
Boy, that notion has taken me down a rabbit hole I'm not sure I want to go deeper into.
Santana BMW 1971, Smooth, 1999. Paul McCartney, Spies Like Us 1986, Four Five Seconds 2015. Roy Orbison etc. Great Idea though
Steve Winwood should be on this list too - Gimme Some Lovin and I'm a Man in 1966 and 1967 with Spencer Davis Group; and While You See a Chance and Valerie, in 1980 and 1982 when he was solo. Of course, the songs Steve and Muff Winwood wrote with Alan Parsons would be part of another video ^.^
Golden Earring. Radar love, Twilight Zone... And nothing else 😂
One happened in the 70s though and this was just what happened in the 80s!
That's the one I thought of also. And "Twilight Zone" was roughly 10 years after Radar Love, that song literally came out of nowhere in the early days of the MTV era.
@@jaykay6387 No kidding!
@@jaykay6387 I think the title should be "Two Hits Wonder in the USA". Golden Earring has like 50 hits in the Netherlands (of which a lot deserved to be much bigger hits internationally)
White Lion covered Radar Love
I loved Ratt! I got so much flack for buying that album..... Funny the person that shamed me the most ended up stealing my album.
White Lion and Cinderella are my 2 favorite rock bands of the 80's. Both bands had a lot of very good songs.
I remember white lion having more than 2 hits.. Radar Love cover and Little Fighter
Big Game is the most underrated album of that era
@@ronplatz7202I thought the same thing! If the others didn’t crack the top 40, I guess I’m surprised 🤔
If we're talking US 2 hit wonders there's:
Level 42 (Something About You, Lesson In Love)
Greg Kihn (The Break Up Song, Jeopardy)
Naked Eyes (Always Something There To Remind Me, Promises Promises)
Terence Trent D'Arby (Wishing Well, Sign Your Name)
Eddy Grant (Electric Avenue, Romancing The Stone)
The ultimate two-hit wonder is surely Rick Astley- Never Gonna Give You Up followed by Together Forever. Both huge US number 1 hits.
In addition to those two #1s, he had three additional songs songs hit the U.S. top 10, so I'm not sure he qualifies.
Astley had a total of 7 songs chart on the U.S. Top 40. Definitely not a two-hit wonder.
Rick had alot of hits, cry for help
Not bad for Stock, Aitken and Waterman's teaboy, is it? Shame the were all awful. In my opinion, that is!
@@bkgrila I think the term of 1 or 2 hit wonders have to be taken differently since Billboard wants to use their Hot 100. Selling singles does not mean they were the biggest hits. If you take a look at Bruce Spingsteen? No number 1 hits on the hot 100 Billboard charts when he had many number 1 songs on the mainstream pop radio airplay charts. Just like Ratt, White Lion both with 5 top 40 mainstream pop radio hits and Crowded House with three top 10 hits with Better Be Home Soon hit the top 10 there. Something So Strong and Better Be Home Soon did hit number 1 on the radio airplay charts.
White Lion had many hits. They had Tell Me, Wait and When The Children Cry plus in their follow up album they had another hit called Little Fighter.
Their cover of Radar Love got a ton of play as well
I never ever heard of White Lion & I'm a 70-year-old rock fan.
Lady of the Valley! Broken Heart should have been a top 10. All You Need is Rock N Roll! All Join Our Hands. So many good songs from them. Just like Great White.
Sounds like a "you" problem.@@josephblue4135
I recall that.
Another major sample in "Funky Cold Medina" is the cowbells from The Rolling Stones "Honky Tonk Women".
"Needs more... cowbell."
I love this idea. Falco, a-ha, and Information Society would be my favorite 2-hit wonders.
....dammit, I forgot Information Society on me LIST! ....LOVE "Walking Away" MORE than "What's On Your Mind"!
Didn't have the heart to call a-ha a 2 hit wonder! ha ha And INFORMATION SOCIETY had more than two hits!
A Ha has 3 Billboard #1 songs and 14 on international charts
@@RBS_ They had a third hit.
@@holstorrsceadus1990 THat's right.
I seen Ratt in concert twice and White Lion once.
Ratt is very underrated band.
I love both bands and always will.
They're so good!
Yes, Ratt kicks ass. Nobody Rides for Free played out the great "Point Break", totally rad, dude!
@@jaykay6387 Agreed!
Icehouse is so underrated! Hey Little Girl and Great Southern Land are great songs too.
Love them!
I think Icehouse suffered because Iva took so long to be confident singing with his own voice. On so many of the early songs he sounds like either Bowie or Bryan Ferry.
No Promises got airplay in 1986 before Crazy
They used to be called Flowers. Not many people know that!
No Promises is so dear to me.
Crowded House has so many great songs... I would never had guessed that they were a 2 hit wonder.
No kidding.
Audiophiles, melomaniacs, music junkies...lend the Professor your ears!
Hear, hear.
Reminds me of the scene in Robin Hood: Men in Tights where everyone started throwing their ears when Robin said the same thing
Hey audiophiles! Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time.
At first I thought you said Melonmaniacs, which could be the name for the supporters of Anthony Fantano, "the internet's busiest music nerd" aka "melon" because of his bald dome
@@mirthenarynor😊
Wait and Children Cry were instant classics.
Two hit wonders:
The Knack- My Sharona, Good Girls Don’t.
Janis Ian- At Seventeen, Society’s Child.
Animotion- Obsession, Room To Move.
Yep the first two are from the 70s
....check MY list, Surle, see if you agree..... ; ) ......
At seventeen is a great great song!
@@gr8lampini It is.
Over twenty years ago, I sent an e-mail to Janis praising her for her song and she sent back a nice reply.
What a classy gal.
Sugarloaf- Green-Eyed Lady, Don't Call Us (We'll Call You)
The best TH-cam channel!! Especially for these watchers who know what good music is! 😁
The sheer number of platinum (and diamond) albums from the 80's, across all genres, speaks to the almost unbelievable volume of music being consumed.
Hair or glam is fine to describe the genre. Anyone complaining about it isn't worth debating it. It's not like Hair or glam are slurs. I loved it then and still listen to it today.
Love this channel but top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart is a pretty bad way to define a one or two-hit wonder. I mean, remember Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" being voted #1 on Dial MTV every day for 3 months straight and MTV having to impose a time limit to stop it? That song only hit #89 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and wouldn't even qualify as a "hit" under this criteria) but is one of the biggest rock songs of the 1980s. Ratt only had 2 songs make the top 40 of the BIllboard Hot 100 but they had TEN songs hit the top 40 of the Billboard rock chart to go with their 4 platinum and 1 gold albums - they are simply not in the same category as the true one or two-hit wonder bands which had their moment and faded away (at least on these shores).
My top 5 2 hit wonders...
1. Tone Loc - wild thing and Funky Cold Medina
2. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Head to Toe & Lost In Emotion
3. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus & Vienna Calling
4. Los Lobos - Labamba & Come on Let's Go
5. Kim Wilde - Kids in America & You Keep me Hangin on
White Lion was an excellent band; one of the most underrated bands of the era.
Amen!
I didn't know Greg D'Angelo was the first drummer for Anthrax until I read Scott Ian's book. Crazy.
Nah
Vito is and always will be one of my inspirational guitar heroes
“When the Children Cry” is such an incredible tune that applies to the world today so well. I remember singing this a few months ago and people didn’t realize it was a song from the 80s.
Reintroducing people to those classics is so much fun. :)
You had me at 80's Professor! Some good ones here!
Of course.
No one called it hair metal then. We just called it heavy metal back in the day. That's it. Sure, you could fit everything from Slayer to Aerosmith in that genre but that's how it was. If you wanted to get more specific we'd call bands like Slayer, Metallica and Megadeth Thrash. But it was all Heavy Metal. Except bands like Foreigner and Loverboy were not Heavy Metal. They were just Hard Rock.
Well said. Exactly as i recall the time as well.
Wimp rock was never heavy metal
Eighties hair metal had a tonne of two-hit wonders, because their second single was always a ballad.
That's definitely accurate- seems like it was pretty much the glam metal "formula" during that time...though I guess the only exception would actually be Ratt! The closest thing they ever had to a ballad - to my knowledge - was "Givin' Yourself Away" (co-written by the legendary Diane Warren), which only made a small dent on the rock charts some 6 years or so after "Round and Round" (so, 5 after "Lay It Down").
Happy Saturday Professor and fellow music junkies. Let's have fun with a duece!
Always fun for sure.
Deuces are wild today!
Icehouse's "Man Of Colours" truly is a masterpiece IMO. Definitely one of my favourite albums. Get your headphones out, and have a listen! Really great stuff, including the title track. I passed many a day relaxing on the beach with "Man of Colors" playing on the Walkman. Favourites off the album - "Crazy" (of course!), "Man of Colours", "Heartbreak Kid", "The Kingdom", "Girl On The Moon", and "Crazy (Midnight Mix)" (headphone eargasm).
It’s such a great album.
So true. It’s one of my top 10 favourite albums, and it’s in good company with others like Hysteria and Momentary lapse of reason.
Professor, you take being a music junkie to a whole new, incredible level! Another terrific video! Ratt is my favorite in this list! I was 17 years old in 1984 and absolutely loved rocking out to Round and Round!! Thanks so much for your hard work and dedication!! ❤
THanks!
Two hit wonders is a cool concept.
Thanks!
@@ProfessorofRock The Angry Dad from the Twisted Sister music video Wer'e Not Gonna Take It actor Mark Metcalf was also in Animal House and The Heavenly Kid movie. 🧑🎤💽🎥🎤
RATT was my favorite. Them and Tesla were two of the bands I gravitated to during the 80's. --- First time commenter, been watching just after you achieved 500K. Great Channel! The storytelling on this channel is phenomenal and is inspirational.
I remember working as Security Escorts at the I.N.E.L. & Ratt & 2 other bands were playing, 3 of my fellow escorts went w/o earplugs they couldn't hear well for a week & were always complaining about their ears hurting, & I reminded them I had suggested they wear ear protection. But they were young & dumb! Glam rock/big hair rock was a time same as the 60's-70's that we'll never see again. 🤠
Money pit is a great movie. It is currently free on TH-cam.
I watched it 2 nights back.
I was absolutley stunned when Dont Dream Its Over only got toNo27 in the charts here in the UK. I remember first hearing it when i was about 23 and it totally stunned me( more than any other song on first hearing). Even today i still find it so beautiful...wonderful nostalgia of a happy time.
Completely agree
It's a great song. Definitely a sing-along one!
80's was a Golden Age for Aussie Music.
The artists did the hard yards on the Pub and Club circuits and while everyone seems to know AC/DC and INXS there were dozens of others that were as good that never quite managed to make the jump to international success.
Midnight Oil
@@JeffTaggart-p6o Angels, Radiators, Choirboys, Hoodoo Gurus, Mental As Anything, Mondo Rock, Cold Chisel, Hunters & Collectors, Divinyls, Models. Add Mi-Sex & Split Enz ( Yes I know they're Kiwis ). That's just the bands and not solo artists.
@@Zork-iv6rryou left off Eurogliders
Trust me, we all knew who Milton Berle was back then.
Don't forget Pseudo Echo, Moving Pictures, and The Church!! Actually, my very first date with my now-wife was a Church concert nearly 7 years ago, at the 9:30 Club here in the Washington, DC area. I always joke around that "that's when I knew!", since she's the only one I could imagine wanting to go to see this relatively obscure (in America, at least) 80s band with me!! 😂
Regardless of "hits" on the radio, I wouldn't consider Ratt to be a one or two hit wonder. The other bands on this list didn't headline major venue tours for several years. Ratt had several songs that were in heavy rotation during the "hair metal" radio years.
Apparently you’re working with a definition of “hit” that differs than Adam’s definition.
Ratt was touring with Poison , my very first rock concert! I was 14 and in the front at the stage! They were rocking! A woman in the balcony removed her shirt to show off her goods! lol. The spotlight went straight to her and k was hooked on rock concerts for life!! 😂
Ratt is my vote for those two hit wonders but they all had good songs to enjoy.
ICEHOUSE is a band you never hear much of in the U.S. I wore out "Man of Colours" on cassette back in 1987 and was fortunate to find a clean vinyl copy in 2021.
Split Enz and Crowded House, more great music.
Ratt "Out of the Cellar" sounds as fresh today as it did the first time I heard it in the 1980's.
A great video. Thanks Prof!
Watching all of these Professor of Rock videos has made me realize I have a gap between when my daughter left for college in 88 and my son began blasting his music around 94. I've never heard of most of these songs. In the late 80s, we always had a herd of kids at our house. When I heard a couple of preschoolers singing "give me, give me safe sex" I turned off the radio and only played cassette tapes I created to be child friendly.
Thanks for sharing!
..."headed for the '90s livin' in the Wild Wild West!"
I won't argue that Ratt wasn't a two hit wonder, BUT they had a lot of songs that significant play on the radio and MTV. I watched the video whenever it came on because the model in the video was really good looking! Another "two hit wonder" of sorts in the early 80s was Aldo Nova. He had a hit on his debut album called "Fantasy". On his second album, he had a song called "Monkey on Your Back" that got a lot of airtime, but it wasn't as big as "Fantasy". I guess he had a hit and half.
Fatasy? Really?
He's a great player, I worked with him at Dallas Sound Lab in 1984, and owns a one of a kind Gibson.
@@CaptainCraigKWMRZ, oops! I'll correct that. I had a stroke in June and I miss a lot of things, including spelling. My bad. I was a freshman in HS when "Fantasy" came out and I loved the song. He was an excellent guitarist and people should take a look at his work.
Aldo Nova is great.
I only got to hear those songs of his back in the day, but I thought that they were great. But among people I knew then, I was alone in my fandom.
It's always hard to pick One-Hit or Two-Hit Wonders. Either because an artist had more hits than I thought they did or because their biggest songs never even cracked the Top 40.
True
That’s right.
Let's hear it for Warren Demartini and Ratt. First concert I ever went to back in 1984. Good times.
Happy to see Neil Finn getting some respect, am a big fan of Split Enz. Crowded House was equally stellar.
Neil Finn is one hardworking man..
Crowded House has a new album out this year, Gravity Stairs. It is quite good.
Thanks for touching on White Lion.Its good to remember Vito Brugga their guitar player Always wondered what happened to him..
White Lion had a very talented lineup. Those guys were some of the best East Coast musicians on the scene at the time.
Agreed!
I enjoy a lot of their music.
That round and round video is legendary
FOr sure
My girlfriend, at the time, was a big White Lion fan. I had really only heard Wait, but I dived into their music a little more and was pleasantly surprised. Also, who can forget the Ratt/Poison tour. I always thought that was the perfect title for a tour.
Awesome!
What about Ratt’s single “Way Cool Jr”? That was 75 on the top 100 and 11 on the mainstream rock chart.
Happy birthday Professor 🥳🎉
THanks!
Yeah, Happy Birthday old man! 😉
@@ProfessorofRockHappy Birthday 🥳
Dude! I still love RATT! and White Lion! I recently bought the new box set on vinyl and I agree the original lineup of White Lion! I remember seeing them live in Memphis TN at least 3 times within a years time!😱😳 on multiple tours like KISS AC/DC and STRYPER as an opening act
Interesting trivia: Iva Davies was also an oboe player and wanted to showcase his skills on the single “Electric Blue.” Though often mistaken for a saxophone solo, it’s actually an oboe being played by Davies.
Oh wow! I did not know that- I always just figured it was Simon Lloyd, the band's sax/reeds player at the time...
15:23 ratt only had 2 top 40 hits??? Unbelievable!!! Thats insane!!! Dance, slip of the lip, i want to love you tonight, shame shame etc etc. Love ratt
What about " Back 4 more"? Wasn't that a hit? They were awesome 👌
@@wizquinn8021 exactly!!! Ratt, ozzy and metal church were my favorite bands.
RATT, man, it seems strange to have them on here as a two hit wonder cause , for at time, they put out some seriously great stuff and so many catchy rock tunes. I recall when I was young not caring much at all for the song "Round and Round" - as big of a hit that it was, so basically ignored them even though I was into the burgeoning hair metal scene at the time. It was "Lay it Down" that got me into RATT and IoyP, although I think it was "Your in Love" that I liked even more - great song. Then I went back and picked up "Out of the Cellar" probably two or three years later. I tell ya, man, I really missed out on not getting into that album early as it simply is 100% solid front to back - every song. My favorite RATT song is "Back for More". And I'd often go back for more in one sitting just listening to it over and over, and also try to learn to play it even though I suck at guitar. I warmed up to "Round and Round" eventually too. The big hits or crossovers from the Hair Metal genre tended primarily, if not solely, to be ballads. I don't recall RATT doing many ballads at all - can't think of one - well actually Back For More..maybe. However, they put out a ton of catchy rockers over the course or 4 or 5 albums in the eighties, sold at least 20 millions albums and were one of the forerunners of their genre. "Two Hit" wonder label seems to underappreciate their efforts. |======== As for Tone Loc, though I was never big into hip hop, his hits were dominant during a period in college..so much so that when I hear his songs now so many images of that time pop into my head. Those songs were huge and played constantly in the dorms, frat house, and intimate moments ha.
Ratt rocked... Round and Round!. Very under-appreciated band. I'd heard Milton was a family member.
Agreed!
Uncle Miltie was Robin Crosby's great uncle.
Great video and the choices i can agree with..... Crowded House was an excellent choice! Damn I love that band. I do disagree with the Ratt choice......more than two hits I think. Back For More and You're In Love are two more hits they had. You're In Love is one of my all time favorite songs from that era! Damn I so miss the 80's. Thank you for the memories my friend...they are cherished
My favorite tune from White Lion is “Little Fighter” which has an interesting Hawaii tie. Back in the 70s-80s an environmental group based out of Hawai’i, Greenpeace had a boat called the Rainbow Warrior which they’d use to disrupt whaling operations. Supposedly it was destroyed by an act of sabotage. White Lion dedicated Little Fighter to the memory of the Rainbow Warrior. The guitar parts are masterful. The rhythm parts are a study in adding just the right fills within the mix to complement the song. The lead break I consider to be Vito at his best. It builds with his signature melodic tapping thrown in and fits the song to make his statement all within 18 bars. God bless you Vito.
When The Children Cry remains one of my favorite songs, even after 35+ years
So good!
Love this song.
The song: “Christine Sixteen” by KISS was also sampled into the song “Funky Cold Medina” by Ton Loc.
Naked Eyes had 2 HUGE hits...
4 US Top 40 hits!
@@shiroibasketshoes If you include 2 chart scrapers.. 1 at #37 & a song that spent 1 week in Top 40 at #39 as hits.
@@RealBarefootIsLegal I sure do. Casey Kasem called all top 40 charters among the biggest hits. Even Hot 100 charters are some degree of his, considering all the music that gets released.
Favorite track from Crowded House, fall at your feet!!! White Lion did a nice remake of Radar Love, and that follow album had some good stuff. Nicely done Proff.
Two Hit Wonders are just One Hit Wonders who did it again but we didn't realise.
You think?
@@ProfessorofRock .... therefor I am.
I am surprised about Ratt...only 2 top 40 hits. I figured they had 4 or 5. As far as Tone Loc, I liked his music a lot, also another rapper of the same era, Young MC. My favorite rap group is Beastie Boys. My runner up you don't hear much about...3rd Bass. They did not get that much attention.
Crowded House only had 2 hits? I'm from Johannesburg, South Africa and attended their concert in the early 1990s and they had an amazing number of hits in my opinion. We had more than 2 top 40 hits in the SA charts from CH. Great band
Only 2 in America.
I don't care about whiere on the US/World music charts, a band has its songs, I just consider how many songs, that can be heard on the radio by that band, in my criteria for how many hits. 🤷
CH had at least 3 songs that got alot of radio airplay (hence how many hits), the one we hear the most (on classic stations) now, is Don't Dream Its Over, their other 2 were, Something So Strong, from the same album as DDIO, then they had Better Be Home Soon, in 88, from their Temple Of Low Men album!
In the U.S. at least.
Definitely do the 70s!! I can name a couple of artists for that list, The Knack and Rupert Holmes!! I agree with your Number 1 choice!! Crowded House was awesome!! I love Don’t Dream It's Over!! You did a great job!! Happy Birthday Professor Of Rock!! Cindy S.
Sure you can call it "hair metal". SiriusXM still has the Hair Nation channel which is pure bliss, to me it always has been and always will be hair metal.
Ha ha. I was teasing!
@@ProfessorofRock Teasing? Is that a pun for Hair Metal??? You have Aqua Net pink label cans shaking everywhere.
@@TheSlowoldman Pretty quick on the uptake for a slow old man!😊 Good one Professor. You still got it in your older age. Have a happy circumnavigation. Don't let Skipper near the wheel.
Great Episode 🎉 Three hit wonders sounds good 👍
I agree with you Michael!
Dude, are you f'n kidding me with putting RATT on here? Really???? Before Motley went big with Girls(x3) RATTNROLL was the Sunset Strip theme!!! Round and Round, Wanted Man, Back for More, You're in Love, Lay it Down, Dance, Body Talk, Way Cool Jr. ALL of the HITS!! Come on man!!! I usually agree with you 99.9% of the time, but this one, I expected more awareness, especially since we grew up in that era.
They are great songs but only 2 charted in the top 40. Technically they had 2 top 40 hits. Fact
@@ProfessorofRock Way Cool didn't chart? That song was everywhere.
You forgot the best one...Slip of the Lip!
But I agree with you, you listed most of their popular songs. Only two hits just doesn't compute!
@@AlexandertheGreat99 There's so many. I actually think that Invasion and Cellar are perfect albums. Not a filler song on either. '81-'91 they were just so unbelievably good. I always try and imagine how different they would be if Jake E Lee stayed, and Warren didn't join. They'd be a little different I think but still tremendously popular.
I just looked up Ratt on Wikipedia and the Prof is right. Only 2 songs inside the top 40. Hard to believe that Wanted man only made it to #87 as much as it was all over the radio and MTV. "You're in love" #89, "Dance " #59
Perfect list!
A few others that popped into my head. I THINK they fit the criteria. So many great songs - what a time to be alive (& kicking) 😉
- New Order
- Til Tuesday
- The Romantics
- Level 42
- John Parr
How could you leave out the Romantics? They had two good hits! Talking in Your Sleep and What I Like About You!
What I Like About You wasn't actually a hit.
@@ProfessorofRock One thing that amazes me is a song that people love and you find out later it didn't get nearly the attention it deserved.
@@ProfessorofRockreally? That’s probably their better known song. I mean it was in a beer commercial.
I remember when it came out, they played the video on MTV all the time. Not sure how it did on the charts but it was on the radio too.
Those were not their two US Top 40 hits. "Talking In Your Sleep" and the #37 peaking "One In A Million" were. Before those, "What I Like About You" peaked at #49. How'd you like Bucks Fizz's cover of "Talking In Your Sleep"?
Hair Metal, Glam Rock, call it what you will. I'll just call it my favorite genre of music.
Love seeing you give Tōn and Young MC some love.
For sure!
1986 was an unbelievably good year for music. So much going on! It’s my all time favourite year for music and so much else that happened in my life at that time. Fantastically good times ❤
I agree. A wonderful year!
1984 for me!
Tone Loc was essentially a novelty act (then again, Rap is a novelty genre) but there is no denying that Tone was successful AND influential. His hits were genuinely good pop music.
True.
And Funky Cold Medina some argue is transphobic.
Had you asked me what Ratt's hit, other than "Round and Round" was, I would've guessed "Way Cool Jr."