The 50 Biggest Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders of All Time: Part 5 (10-1)

Ongoing History of New Music

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Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Through the first four episodes of this Top 50 Biggest Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders of All Time series, we’ve gone through songs 50 to 11, so that means we are ready for the top 10 songs. If you’ve been following along, there may have been a few surprises along the way…and you may have been trying to guess what songs will finish in the upper regions of this list…now we’re going to find out. These are the final 10 songs in our countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.6	Hey, who doesn't love a good list?
0:43.6	Even before the internet was choked with listicles,
0:46.8	my love of lists goes back to at least 1977
0:49.9	when I bought a paperback book called The Book of Lists,
0:57.8	written by David Wallachinsky and David and Amy Wallace.
1:04.2	It was a huge bestseller, spotting the Book of List 2, the Book of List 3, and the Book of List Canadian edition.
1:07.9	And I have all of them on my shelf in my home office.
1:10.8	So let's take a look here. I'm just going to open to a random page. First of these
1:14.6	volumes. Page 315. Six positions for sexual intercourse in order of preference.
1:20.9	Hmm. 15-year-old me must have really loved that. Page 75. 13 drops for the working hangman.
1:30.0	This goes on to list how much rope you need to hang people of various weights for clean break of the neck.
1:35.6	Turns out that I would need a drop of exactly 8 feet zero inches, which is, I guess, good to know.
1:42.8	What else here? Chapter 9.
1:45.4	This is called Artifax,
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