Great One Hit Wonder Artists of the '90s

Everything about Blind Melon's 1993 single "No Rain" has remained infamous to this day, from the opening guitar riff to Shannon Hoon's distinctive whine to, of course, the video's tap-dancing bee girl. Nevertheless, the band wouldn't release another memorable single. Shortly after the band's second release, "Soup," Hoon was found dead of a cocaine overdose. 

The Verve formed in 1990 in England and built a considerable fanbase in the UK on the strength of their first few releases. Though they toured America with Lollapalooza in 1994, it wasn't until three years later that they found fame in the States with the release of "Bittersweet Symphony." It ended up basically being the worst thing that ever happened to The Verve, and they broke up soon after.

Though Ashcroft had long swore The Verve would never get back together, they did reunite in 2008 for some shows and a new album, "Forth." Then they broke up again, for good this time. Maybe.

Few musical moments are more "90s" than the chorus of "What's Up?," from 4 Non Blondes 1993 debut album "Bigger, Better, Faster, More!" Impressive considering it's essentially just singer Linda Perry singing the word "Hey." Perry wound up becoming a massively successful songwriter for other artists, writing "Beautiful" for Christina Aguilera, "What You Waiting For" for Gwen Stefani among others.

Early '90s supergroup Temple of the Dog started out as a few songs written by Chris Cornell, of Soundgarden. He ended up bringing on board a band to help him record the material, a band that would soon be known as Pearl Jam. 

Anyway, that means this group was basically a one-off sort of thing to keep Cornell sane and give Pearl Jam a chance to warm up and rehearse before dropping "Ten" on an unexpecting universe. Temple of the Dog's posthumous hit single, "Hunger Strike," thus features Chris Cornell in a duet with a young Eddie Vedder, essentially worth the price of admission alone.

There's just something about the way the guy from Semisonic says "Closing Time" over and over and over that gets in your brain and literally never leaves again. For the rest...of your...life...

"Closing Time" hit in 1998, a single off the band's second album, Feeling Strangely Fine. 

The band released one more album in 2001, which did fine but did not produce a hit anything like "Closing Time." The band members continue to focus on their individual artistic projects.

Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy" spent 28 weeks on the Hot 100.

Though the vast majority of the world has not thought about Marcy Playground since "Sex and Candy," founding member and songwriter John Wozniak is actually still recording and touring, sometimes with his Marcy Playground bandmates. Their 2010 release, the oddly-titled "Indaba remixes from Wonderland," was released by Capitol Records.