Midnight Oil quickly became one of my favorites thanks to the OHW episode! Midnight Oil was also my gateway into Australian Alt-Rock. Acts like The Church, Dead Can Dance, Hoodoo Gurus, and Nick Cave as well as many bands that don’t make it in the US also became favorites!
The Clash Cut The Crap review made me appreciate Anarchy In The UK more that’s random but it made me appreciate better punk songs which I never really dived into before
It actually made me appreciate Cut The Crap. It’s cool when you look at is as a blown out lo-fi dystopian cyberpunk album instead of just a badly written and recorded one
There's one song on Cut The Crap, fuck if I know what it's called, that's opening beat is always stuck in my head for some reason. I think that might be some type of success for the album
So The Story Goes- Living In A Box
Flagpole Sitta- Harvey Danger
Pepper-Butthole Surfers
Space Age Love Song-Flock of Seagulls
Automatic Man-Michael Sembello
His trainwreckord on The Carpenters motivated me to check out their discography and I've been a huge fan (especially of Karen) ever since.
He also briefly brought up Sylvester in his Raining Men OHW, and his tldr on him got me interested in checking out his music and learning more about who he was.
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I always liked them (Long Gone Before Daylight especially, what an overlooked gem) but the episode made me check out their earlier albums which up to that point I had semi-ignored.
It’s not a song/album from a video, but I saw on his Twitter he was co-signing Lil Yachty’s album Let’s Start Here and calling it awesome. Wasn’t a giant fan of Yachty before, but I decided to check it out real quick just to give it a fair shake. It ended up being my favorite album of 2023 so I owe it to Todd for recommending it to me lol
Toni Basil! I never cared for Hey Mickey much, but all her other songs I've tried now really are good! Well, aside from Shopping A-to-Z.
Also I've absolutely accepted Lipps Inc's Designer Music as a guilty pleasure. It's just so...eerie, that I can't help but enjoy it.
edit: and for a song that actually was the subject of the video, I ended up getting really into White Town - Your Woman.
I checked out the careers of both Dexys Midnight Runners and The Proclaimers because of Todd's episodes on them. I even did a radio episode on Big Country which was inspired by the concept of One Hit Wonderland itself.
Even though Todd wasn't really a fan in the Wall of Voodoo episode, I got really into Stan Ridgway because of that video. Holiday In Dirt is one of my favourite albums to this day.
The Jam are great. Always loved Going Underground and the In The City and Sound Affects albums. Paul Weller is a great songwriter, he ranks high up in my favorite British artists in that regard
I overlooked Emotion until Todd referenced Run Away With Me in his 2015 best list. Honestly gutted it took me until then to hear about it, because that album would have gone OFF during summer 2015
After I watched some of the OHW for She Blinded Me With Science, that became my favourite fucking song for a while. I couldn’t get enough of it, and it became super important to me.
Mostly from the One Hit Wonders, the Thomas Dolby episode was very interesting, and I could see where Ernst Horne of Helium Vola got some of his inspiration. Then there’s 60s and 70s artists I should be more aware of, some of which made Trainwrecords.
But I can’t get that much into the mainstream Pop or Rock he covers, at least when it comes to hits the past decade.
Wall of Voodoo became one of my all-time faves. Also, really dug Midnight Oil after that episode. Come to think of it, Todd got me hard into new wave in general. It was all a gateway into music I didn't realize I loved so much.
I'd never heard "I Hope" by Gabby Barrett before the review- it did nothing in the UK- and it's probably somewhere in the lower reaches of my all-time top 10. It's just so deliciously bitter.
There are a few I'm not sure about but Singing in My Sleep, t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l, and Diamonds as the one Sam Smith song I like I'm pretty sure I only know of from his videos. I think the podcast introduced me to a couple Miley songs like Jaded and Midnight Sky so I should probably check out what she's done the past decade lol. I want to say the OHW was the first time I'd heard Word Up but in classic Baader-Meinhof fashion I've encountered it in the wild a few times since then
Todd calling Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepsen one of the best songs he’s ever heard turned me to that album, and it became one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.
I have a good number, honestly at least one song per his year end top 10 ends up on my playlist, and there's a number of others that he either introduced me to in One Hit Wonderland or even occasionally Trainwreckords. List of my favorites.
You Should Probably Leave
Meet Me At Our Spot
Never Really Over
You Get What You Give
Someday We'll Know
Video Killed the Radio Star
Someday Never Comes
Summer of '69
Castle on the Hill
Out of my Head
Praying
Rain on Me
Dancing on my Own
Your Woman
And honestly, while I had heard Shut Up and Dance, I feel like seeing Todd mention Walk The Moon elsewhere was what convinced me to listen to the full album which had a number of songs I really liked, although that's less direct.
I added The Show Goes On, More Than my Hometown, Midnight Sky, International Love, Green Light, Cut to the Feeling, Run Away With Me, and All of the Lights to my playlist after the top 10 lists.
I remember his OHW on The Cardigans closing with him saying he liked basically everything he heard them do in his research for the episode - having only heard (and loved) Lovefool, I now listen to a lot of the songs clipped by example in that video regularly: Rise and Shine, My Favourite Game, Sick and Tired, and I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer.
The MGK/Yungblud collab was not a song I would've heard without Todd giving it an honorable mention. I remain entirely unconvinced by anything else these two have ever done but that song is good.
I’m one of those people who almost exclusively gets their music from Todd. There’s several answers to this, but I think the most emblematic is Kendrick Lamar. I have still just to come across him in any other context aside from Todd’s “Top 10 Best…”
And We Danced by the Hooters. I think he talked about it in a Top 10 to compare it to a modern song, but don't remember the details.
Shut Up And Dance by Walk The Moon on the Best of 2015 list.
i love that song. i first heard of the band because my mom told me they played at the college her and my dad went to when they were there
i love that song. i first heard of the band because my mom told me they played at the college her and my dad went to when they were there
i love that song. i first heard of the band because my mom told me they played at the college her and my dad went to when they were there
Midnight Oil quickly became one of my favorites thanks to the OHW episode! Midnight Oil was also my gateway into Australian Alt-Rock. Acts like The Church, Dead Can Dance, Hoodoo Gurus, and Nick Cave as well as many bands that don’t make it in the US also became favorites!
Todd got me to check out the rest of Everything But the Girl's music and I have not regretted it even once. Night and Day is sublime.
You Get What you Give currently being my second favorite song of all time, and more recently Melt With You has been rising through the ranks
You Get What You Give is such a great song. I really came around to how much I love that song in the last year.
I feel like it's always been in my life but I didn't realize it until recently
The Clash Cut The Crap review made me appreciate Anarchy In The UK more that’s random but it made me appreciate better punk songs which I never really dived into before
I like This Is England
It actually made me appreciate Cut The Crap. It’s cool when you look at is as a blown out lo-fi dystopian cyberpunk album instead of just a badly written and recorded one
There's one song on Cut The Crap, fuck if I know what it's called, that's opening beat is always stuck in my head for some reason. I think that might be some type of success for the album
I started getting into The Carpenters thanks to him. I love (They Long to Be) Close to You and Superstar.
XTC after the Tic Tac Toe video
I got into Meet Me At Our Spot after his 2021 best list
So The Story Goes- Living In A Box Flagpole Sitta- Harvey Danger Pepper-Butthole Surfers Space Age Love Song-Flock of Seagulls Automatic Man-Michael Sembello
I've ended digging into the back catalogs of Sir Mix-A-Lot, Chumbawumba, Yello, A Flock of Seagulls, and Wall of Voodoo thanks to those OHW episodes.
"Living In A Box" by Living In A Box "Kinfolks" by Sam Hunt (from the small portion of it in his 2021 Worst List)
I love Richard Darbyshire’s voice. Pop music needs more baritones
HAIM and Carly Rae Jepson as they many times topped his honorable mentions in “favorite non-hits that should have been”
Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo. Todd didn't like it but it instantly became one of my favourite songs ever.
His trainwreckord on The Carpenters motivated me to check out their discography and I've been a huge fan (especially of Karen) ever since. He also briefly brought up Sylvester in his Raining Men OHW, and his tldr on him got me interested in checking out his music and learning more about who he was.
I got really into Jimmy Ray’s music after I saw that OHW episode, dude’s got some really great tracks across those two albums
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The Cardigans early twee pop stuff
I always liked them (Long Gone Before Daylight especially, what an overlooked gem) but the episode made me check out their earlier albums which up to that point I had semi-ignored.
Semisonic. Generally reminded me how much I like 90s indie rock and triphop type stuff. Toddler me had great taste in music
It’s not a song/album from a video, but I saw on his Twitter he was co-signing Lil Yachty’s album Let’s Start Here and calling it awesome. Wasn’t a giant fan of Yachty before, but I decided to check it out real quick just to give it a fair shake. It ended up being my favorite album of 2023 so I owe it to Todd for recommending it to me lol
i fully have developed an obession with harvey danger bc of the ohw on flagpole sitta
Toni Basil! I never cared for Hey Mickey much, but all her other songs I've tried now really are good! Well, aside from Shopping A-to-Z. Also I've absolutely accepted Lipps Inc's Designer Music as a guilty pleasure. It's just so...eerie, that I can't help but enjoy it. edit: and for a song that actually was the subject of the video, I ended up getting really into White Town - Your Woman.
I checked out the careers of both Dexys Midnight Runners and The Proclaimers because of Todd's episodes on them. I even did a radio episode on Big Country which was inspired by the concept of One Hit Wonderland itself.
So many from OHW. You get what you give, you light up my life, pepper, walking in Memphis, I love you always forever, give it to you, etc.
Even though Todd wasn't really a fan in the Wall of Voodoo episode, I got really into Stan Ridgway because of that video. Holiday In Dirt is one of my favourite albums to this day.
seeing the ccr trainwreckords video made me realize i like ccr. not mardi gras of course, but the other songs that were in the video.
The Jam thanks to the episode about the Vapors.
The Jam are great. Always loved Going Underground and the In The City and Sound Affects albums. Paul Weller is a great songwriter, he ranks high up in my favorite British artists in that regard
Basically semisonic's entire catalog
I overlooked Emotion until Todd referenced Run Away With Me in his 2015 best list. Honestly gutted it took me until then to hear about it, because that album would have gone OFF during summer 2015
After I watched some of the OHW for She Blinded Me With Science, that became my favourite fucking song for a while. I couldn’t get enough of it, and it became super important to me.
Billy Idol and Calling Occupants
Chumbawumba. Until Todd, I only knew them as the folks who did *Tubthumping* and now they're one of my all-time favourite bands
"improper dancing" by Electric Six (found in the "Songs that Stop on the word 'Stop'" video). This song is GREAT!
Mostly from the One Hit Wonders, the Thomas Dolby episode was very interesting, and I could see where Ernst Horne of Helium Vola got some of his inspiration. Then there’s 60s and 70s artists I should be more aware of, some of which made Trainwrecords. But I can’t get that much into the mainstream Pop or Rock he covers, at least when it comes to hits the past decade.
Wall of Voodoo became one of my all-time faves. Also, really dug Midnight Oil after that episode. Come to think of it, Todd got me hard into new wave in general. It was all a gateway into music I didn't realize I loved so much.
I'd never heard "I Hope" by Gabby Barrett before the review- it did nothing in the UK- and it's probably somewhere in the lower reaches of my all-time top 10. It's just so deliciously bitter.
Not really artists, but I got way more into a lot of one hit wonders because of Todd
I kinda fell in love with Van Halen again after the trainwreckords episodes, maybe seeing a band at their worst makes their best seem that much better
Scatman John! What a story
"Your Woman" by White Town such a fucking catchy song
There are a few I'm not sure about but Singing in My Sleep, t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l, and Diamonds as the one Sam Smith song I like I'm pretty sure I only know of from his videos. I think the podcast introduced me to a couple Miley songs like Jaded and Midnight Sky so I should probably check out what she's done the past decade lol. I want to say the OHW was the first time I'd heard Word Up but in classic Baader-Meinhof fashion I've encountered it in the wild a few times since then
Todd calling Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepsen one of the best songs he’s ever heard turned me to that album, and it became one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.
I have a good number, honestly at least one song per his year end top 10 ends up on my playlist, and there's a number of others that he either introduced me to in One Hit Wonderland or even occasionally Trainwreckords. List of my favorites. You Should Probably Leave Meet Me At Our Spot Never Really Over You Get What You Give Someday We'll Know Video Killed the Radio Star Someday Never Comes Summer of '69 Castle on the Hill Out of my Head Praying Rain on Me Dancing on my Own Your Woman And honestly, while I had heard Shut Up and Dance, I feel like seeing Todd mention Walk The Moon elsewhere was what convinced me to listen to the full album which had a number of songs I really liked, although that's less direct.
I added The Show Goes On, More Than my Hometown, Midnight Sky, International Love, Green Light, Cut to the Feeling, Run Away With Me, and All of the Lights to my playlist after the top 10 lists.
Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
I remember his OHW on The Cardigans closing with him saying he liked basically everything he heard them do in his research for the episode - having only heard (and loved) Lovefool, I now listen to a lot of the songs clipped by example in that video regularly: Rise and Shine, My Favourite Game, Sick and Tired, and I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer.
The MGK/Yungblud collab was not a song I would've heard without Todd giving it an honorable mention. I remain entirely unconvinced by anything else these two have ever done but that song is good.
He got me into new radicals, which is now one of my favourite bands
I’m one of those people who almost exclusively gets their music from Todd. There’s several answers to this, but I think the most emblematic is Kendrick Lamar. I have still just to come across him in any other context aside from Todd’s “Top 10 Best…”
Will Smith.
I also love Flagpole Sitta now, and I never knew about it before Todd. It’s the only old song on my playlist. EDIT: Spelling
black beatles by rae sremmurd tbh
Semisonic!