0008 - 4 Non Blondes

The one-hit wonder is a funny thing.  If I asked you to name three off the top of your head, I bet I could argue that at least two of them weren't, in fact, one-hit wonders.  Just have a look at the ludicrously convoluted Questions of Definition section on Wikipedia's One-Hit Wonder page and you'll see where I'm coming from here.

In short, Carl Douglas had two hits besides Kung Fu Fighting, the Buggles had a second top-20 hit, Edison Lighthouse are no more one-hit wonders than The Timelords and if you honestly think that the Boomtown Rats, Dexys Midnight Runners or a-ha count, you need to look up 'parochialism' in a dictionary.  I'm tempted to argue, though, that in 4 Non Blondes, we may have a winner*.

Afghan Whigs

Sometimes, timing is everything. There are plenty of bands whose heyday was in the late-80s or early-90s who managed to pass me by and who, had I known them at the time, I may well have fallen in love with. Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du, Throwing Muses, Sebadoh, Afghan Whigs - bands whose work I was aware of on a fairly superficial level, but who never connected at the time in the way that, say, Buffalo Tom, Soundgarden, Sugar or Belly did.

I've got one Afghan Whigs album, 1990 release Up In It, and I suspect that had I owned it back in, say, 1992 I would now be writing about the Afghan Whigs in the glowing, fond terms I will one day use when writing about about Buffalo Tom.