“The riff was taken from a song of my own that I was in the midst of writing. Combined with the cascades of guitar harmonics that ring throughout, a white-hot solo spot and an intro played with the assistance of a Makita power drill, Poundcake announced that EVH was still a major guitar force to be reckoned with.Įddie played this song’s riff on a Minimoog synthesizer processed with the same echo effect he used on Cathedral (also from Diver Down) – “two songs I couldn’t have done without an echo,” he admitted. The massive guitar sound on this track is the result of Eddie overdubbing three rhythm guitar parts: his main six-string, and two tracks of electric 12-string, for which he played a custom model built by English guitar-maker Roger Giffin. Producer Andy Johns convinced him otherwise, but not before Eddie could pull out another blast from the past – he recorded the song using the ’58 Gibson Flying V he played on another 1984 hit, Hot For Teacher. Legend has it that Eddie didn’t want Top Of The World included on For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, preferring to focus on fresher material. Thank us later.Does that opening riff sound a little familiar? That’s because it’s more or less the same one Ed played almost a decade earlier on the fadeout to 1984’s Jump.
We know Complex readers demand a more sophisticated approach, so we dug deep in the crates to bring you this list of the 100 Best One-Hit Wonders. Nor will you find Gerardo's "Rico Suave" or Partners in Kryme's " Turtle Power" on here because, frankly, they suck. By the same token, many classic acts like De La Soul and Digital Underground had huge career-defining chart hits ("Me Myself & I" and "The Humpty Dance," respectively) but still enjoyed rich and productive careers. Many classic records would not be considered a hit at all by mainstream standards. Especially in its earlier years, the genre was essentially street music, poorly represented on radio and the charts. The usual definition of a "hit" is a Top 40 single, but with rap it's not that simple. But what makes a hip-hop one-hit wonder? When VH1 made its list of 100 One-Hit Wonders ten years ago, they included songs like the 1990 chart-topper "Ice Ice Baby," despite the fact that Vanilla Ice had another Top 10 hit that same year with "Play That Funky Music." They even included Biz Markie, one of the most important creative forces in the Juice Crew and a giant of hip-hop culture. Anybody who's ever done the "Macarena"-or refused to do it out of sheer disgust-is familiar with the concept of a one-hit wonder.
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