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What do the following authors have in common? J.D. Salinger, Emily Bronte, and Oscar Wilde. I'll tell you,

they're famous for writing just one novel. J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye. Emily Bronte,

Wuthering Heights. And Oscar Wilde, the picture of Dorian Gray. Home runs, classics, enduring favorites,

million sellers every year, lasting fame. But in each case,

there were no follow-ups. They were all won and done. J.D. Salinger became a recluse.

Emily Bronte died shortly after Wuthering Heights came out, and Oscar Wilde moved back to

writing plays. So, as novelists go, they are all one-hit wonders. When it comes to music,

one-hit wonders are an endless source of amusement. How can someone become internationally famous

for decades when they only have one song that anybody cares about? These are special cases where

lightning is captured exactly once.

And no matter how many more songs these artists wrote, they would never ever achieve that

extreme level of fame again. A single song overshadows every other effort.

Let's apply this to the history of alt rock. What songs and what artists

qualify? It took a bunch of research, but I think I managed to crack it using a combination of

statistics. And we're now up to episode four of five, for now, in this mission. It's the 50

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