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In Reply to: RE: One Hit Wonders posted by middleground on February 26, 2015 at 05:38:53
Today's earworm.
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? & the Mysterians unexpectedly turned up in New York City in the mid '90s. For a year or so you could go see them in clubs around the city, as if they were just another struggling New York group and not a semi - legendary band that hadn't been seen for almost 3 decades. The amazing thing was that the band completely killed in concert, and the ageless ? had more energy and charisma than lead singers half his age. It was rather amusing that for a while in the 1990s the best live band in New York was a bunch of middle aged guys from Michigan.
You made me curious about ? and here is what I found on AllMusic:
"It only took one song, the organ-driven number one smash "96 Tears," to make ? & the Mysterians into garage rock legends. Eccentric frontman Question Mark (actually spelled "?," once he had his name legally changed) cultivated an aura of mystery by never appearing in public without a pair of wraparound sunglasses; he frequently claimed he had been born on Mars and lived among the dinosaurs in a past life, and that voices from the future had revealed he would be performing "96 Tears" in the year 10,000. On a more earthly level, the Mysterians' sound helped lay down an important part of the garage rock blueprint, namely the low-budget sci-fi feel of the Farfisa and Vox organs (most assumed that "96 Tears" had featured the former, but ? later remembered using the latter). What was more, they were one of the first Latino rock groups to have a major hit, and ?'s sneering attitude made him one of the prime suspects in the evolution of garage rock into early punk."
We all know the song, but are mostly ignorant about the guy and the group.
Gotta love the guy's attitude!
The follow up I need somebody was a bit of a hit, at least it got tons of airplay causing me to buy it.
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