Bands who made the most from the least

[FORD]

Doesn't have to be music. Look at JD Salinger. Fucker wrote Catcher In The Rye & lived as a recluse the rest of his life. yeah he wrote a couple other books, but no one really knows of them in comparison. One hugely popular book and done.

Considering half the reason that book is famous, I can't blame Salinger for hiding away. (and by that, I mean the way that Catcher In The Rye always seems to turn up on the person of assassins like Mark Chapman and John Hinkley)

[ashstralia]

i tried to read that book once.

KISS!!!

[Dave's Bitch]

I was going to say Slade but they have 15 studio albums so i will say most band's with a Christmas song.Every year they get a big fat royalty cheque (especially Noddy Holder) so they can kinda do what they want 11 months of the year.His song has made the charts in 12 different years and was re-released almost annually in the 80's

[FORD]

You have to wonder if Noddy makes more money from the christmas song, or the Quiet Riot covers.

Because there's only one Slade album that ever went anywhere in the US, as far as I can recall.....



....which, as it turned out, wasn't even a real album at all, as the US label butchered it up, added some songs and dropped others and used completely different cover art and album title than the record that was available on the rest of the earth at the time.

Kinda like the labels had previously done to US albums by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Sweet, Ac/Dc, and others, so at least they were in good company.

[Dave's Bitch]

I would say the Christmas song,He refers to it as his pension plan.Did not know about the US label messing with the record

[Mushroom]

Allanis Morrisette can stuff that jagged little pill up hers!

[gbranton]

Allanis Morrisette can stuff that jagged little pill up hers!

Talking about making it with zero. I am glad Allanus' fifteen minute are up.

[FORD]

Allanis Morrisette can stuff that jagged little pill up hers!

Still cracks me up that she sued to keep her first two albums from being released in the US. The ones where she was a Tiffany/Debbie Gibson type bubblegum singer as opposed to the angst-ridden queen of feminist anger that she cast herself as on the third album.

Kinda like the rapper "Drake" doesn't advertise the fact that his real name is Aubrey Graham, former star of the Canadian teen soap "Degrassi High"


Yeah, Straight Outta Toronto, muthaphuckas!!

[Golden AWe]

Well, in a way Nirvana and Alice In Chains really made it big with not that many albums...AIC made two great albums, Facelift and DIRT, and the self-titled was a pretty tired one...they mostly made it that because of MTV Unplugged.

Nirvana had some good songs on all of their albums...but still.

Jimi Hendrix...he was already running out of gas after two albums.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Tupac.

No one has used death to become prolific more than this fucker.

[chi-town324]

Buster Douglas... he knocked out Mike Tyson...then fell off the face of the earth...but everybody knows who he is

[Yount]

Tupac.

No one has used death to become prolific more than this fucker.

You mean fake death

[Yount]

BTW from these forums alone I can testify that Elvis is alive and morbidly obese

I'll never forget the great quote: "Elvis may or may not have faked his own death, but David Lee Roth faked his life instead!"

[DONNIEP]

A Flock Of Seagulls - still touring off that one damn record.

[Terry]

Bee Gees - saturday night fever soundtrack

Not so sure about that...

The Bee Gees had a lot of hits before Fever, quite a few after AND they wrote a shitload of tunes that were hits from other artists.

Fever is probably their commerical highwater mark, but hardly a case of that album being their only success.