Who knew?

[yendi]

Out of curiosity (after hitting "Don't Fear the Reaper" on iTunes), I checked out the Greatest Hits of the Blue Öyster Cult on Amazon. Since I could only recall one other song by them ("Burnin' for You"), I was surprised to find that their Hits album has a whopping sixteen songs on it. That's fourteen songs that never even landed on my radar.

Browsing Amazon for other one and two-hit wonders, I found that A-Ha has a sixteen-song Greatest Hits compilation, in spite of only "Take on Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on TV" getting any airplay. They get extra chutzpah points for including "Living Daylights," which was the James Bond songs what Tomothy Dalton was to James Bond actors.

Of course, neither A-Ha nor The Blue Öyster Cult have the claim on obscurity and one-hit wonderness that Lipps, Inc has. Yet, there's a CD called Funkyworld: The Best of Lipps, Inc, which can only prove that there are still record company execs snorting cocaine (or there were, as of the early '90s).

The good news: I can't find any mention of "Chumbawumba's Greatest Hits," or "How Bizarre: The Sixty Greatest Hits of OMC in One Box Set."

Comments

[two-star.livejournal.com]

The most obscure artist I know with a CD entitled "Greatest Hits" is Amy Denio, who is just a hit away from being a one hit wonder. (You may know her from her work with Tone Dogs, Pale Nudes, FloMoFlo, and the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet. But I rather doubt it.)