I thought they would have had a better career...

You know how in the old 70s cartoons -- stuff like Scooby Doo -- you'd get like 3/4 of the way through the episode, and suddenly the Scooby gang would all have instruments and it turned into a music video for three minutes with the bad guys running around, and then it would be back to the story? "Where You Get Love" from "Blue Sky on Mars" always sounded like one of those cartoon songs to me. (I mean that as a compliment.)

 

I love Demolition Man. So cheesy, but so good.

 

Like Matthew Sweet in the '90s, Tracy Chapman was touted as the next huge thing in the late '80s.

It's her only hit but one for the ages.

 

Ahem.

 

I suppose but it didn't resonate nearly as big. It was like, Oh yeah, it's that Tracy Chapman chick. Where's she been?

 

It actually charted higher than Fast Car. Wouldn't have guessed that.

 

Kate Hudson.

 

Similarly, I thought Lauryn Hill was a can't-miss superstar.

 

FWIW, ac/dc was labeled a punk band early on by critics including Rolling Stone. It wasn't until Highway to Hell did they get recategoried as metal.

Also, I know the clash were a punk band in the beginning, but they shifted gears dramatically. I sometimes think they deserve a better label.

 

They have one - The Only Band That Matters.

 

Somewhere I have an old review of the first Squeeze record that dismisses the band as "pedestrian heavy metal."

 

Black Coffee in Bed Squeeze? That Squeeze "pedestrian heavy metal"?