Destroyed by their biggest hit

[Various Artist]

Oh come on Amor, don't sugar-coat it for us now. Tell us what you really think...

[Jah Womble]

Well, Terrorvision and Tequila were suggested together in a post in this thread, which is about bands being destroyed by their biggest hit. So Auntie Beryl was saying it, yes.

Vincent is a wondrous song, I much prefer it to American Pie and it's sort of fitting it was the one that made the top of the UK charts. Don McLean also had a Number One with Crying in 1980-ish, one of the few voices that could do a Roy Orbison classic justice.

Okay - we may be at cross-purposes as regards Terrorvision: your post seemed to suggest that you were using 'break' in the sense of 'make them known/popular' rather than 'destroy' the band (which of course is what the thread is about). Oh - read it back, you'll see what I mean...

Sorry Amor, but Vincent is a fine tune - and about as un-pompous as a tribute could be. So what if others could/would have told him? They didn't write a song about it - or if they did, it doesn't seem to have lasted the course. (VA is also correct than McLean was among the very few that could do justice to The Big O.)

[Diable Rouge]

Do the Barcelona Tourist Board regret hiring Freddie Mercury for their Olympic anthem - by all accounts the most successful ever, but so much so that they're actually trying to reduce visitor numbers now?

[ad hoc]

Do you think that song is the reason people go?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

They set that big fountain display off every night with a rousing rendition of it, so I doubt they regret it. Somehow Freddie seems to fit the Barcelona mood, alongside Gaudi and Dali and that.

[Diable Rouge]

Do you think that song is the reason people go?

Well not exactly, but it was emblematic of the whole Olympic makeover that kickstarted the surge.

[Various Artist]

Okay - we may be at cross-purposes as regards Terrorvision: your post seemed to suggest that you were using 'break' in the sense of 'make them known/popular' rather than 'destroy' the band (which of course is what the thread is about).

Ahh, I see what you're getting at Jah. It was Snake who said Tequila didn't "break" them, and reading it back it's ambiguous which sense he was using the word in – so it may be best to refer that one back to Mr Plissken.

[ad hoc]

Well not exactly, but it was emblematic of the whole Olympic makeover that kickstarted the surge.

But... Oh forget it. I never know if anything you say is actually serious.

[Patrick Thistle]

Smash Mouth and All Star - if only for their continuing battle to distance themselves from Shrek because of it

Yeah. But they would never have been on anyone's radar without that opening sequence in Shrek.

[Patrick Thistle]

Nice to see we have a few people on here who are also deeply acquainted with the mighty Terrorvision.

[Patrick Thistle]

The Rembrandts: I'll Be There For You

They tried to release an album but no one liked all their songs that weren't the Friends theme tune.

[WOM]

The Rembrandts: I'll Be There For You

They tried to release an album but no one liked all their songs that weren't the Friends theme tune.

I can mail it to you if you like. Please?

[Levin]

Hey! Terrorvision are pride of Bradford, along with NMA.

I always associate All Star with Mystery Men as I saw that before I saw Shrek. Now there's a film. A good comic book movie during a time when they were a rarity (comic book films not good ones as that's still uncommon)

[Patrick Thistle]

Mystery Men is a great film. Well I'm not sure actually as it was a long time ago that I watched it. All Star was also in a film called Rat Race with John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson. The band were in the film too. That song got around.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Rat Race was quite funny, IIRC. Not a patch on Cannonball Run, obvs, but still enjoyable.

[delicatemoth]

Didn't 'Nellie The Elephant' alienate much of the Toy Dolls' existing fans, or is that a myth?

[adams house cat]

(The) Verve
Carl Douglas

Right about Tommy Shaw. He went on to work with Ted Nugent. Styx staged "Mr. Roboto" at some Texas outdoor rawk festival. They lasted 5 minutes and could have been killed.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Didn't 'Nellie The Elephant' alienate much of the Toy Dolls' existing fans, or is that a myth?

The B side is a thing of joy.

[WOM]

Toronto band The Kings were ruined by their very first single - This Beat Goes On / Switching To Glide - being a massive FM radio hit. Apparently nothing they did afterward ever impressed their label, nor the listening public apparently. You can still reliably hear it at least three times over a long weekend. (I ALWAYS turn up the volume, I say without shame...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkjvKBPQjo


(The video is cool....shows them playing the song, live, over the past 40 years. Including the late, lamented Ontario Place Forum)

[Thierry Ennui]

Elvis Presley.

Erm, I think I misread the topic title...