Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

There are certain things that will happen only once in a lifetime. Your first steps,

or those of your child, your first kiss, your first real heartbreak. You can never repeat those.

There are astronomical events that will

experience once. For many of us, that means only one experience with Haley's comet because it only

comes around every 76 years or so, and the last time it visited was 1986. The Earth won't see it again

until 2016. Better yet, Atlas 3i, the interstellar object that blew through our solar system in 2025 that a bunch of people thought was an alien spacecraft. It originated somewhere in the constellation of Sagittarius and was probably billions of years old. We won't see it again. Unless, of course, it is an alien spacecraft,

in which case we'll experience another one-time only thing. First contact. If we switch to

music, you can only experience the thrill of having your first hit once. After that,

you either repeat that feat or you don't. And if you can only manage that one time, you're branded as a one-hit wonder.

These songs and the acts behind them can be really fascinating.

What are these tracks?

How did they become so big and so long-lasting?

And whatever happened to the artists behind these songs?

That's what this series is all about.

It's part two of the biggest alt rock one-hit wonders of all time.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.

Hi again, I'm Alan Cross, and this is the second episode in a five-part series on the biggest alt-rock one-hit wonders ever.

Let me set the table again with some criteria.

Our starting point is 1976, the year of the great punk rock explosion, the thing from which practically all of today's alternative music emanates.

It was like the big bang for this music, something that also only happened once.

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