About this episode

This episode explores lesser-known artists from the 120 Minutes playlist, focusing on one-hit wonders and an influential band.

In this episode, we lean away from the more iconic artists on the 120 Minutes playlist and instead land on a couple contenders for "one-hit wonder" status and an influential band who never hit the heights that some of those that borrowed from them did.

People in this episode

Host: 35000 Watts

Topics covered

• one-hit wonders
• music history
• 1980s music
• influential bands
• 120 Minutes playlist

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Icicle Works, Killing Joke, MARRS

Books & works: 120 Minutes

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