The Love Shack Phenomenon

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This is a thing my family and I noticed a few months ago. Most bands seem to have a song which is commercially successful and get lots of airplay until it get slightly annoying and overplayed. Generally the song is also not the band's best song either but it's the one everyone knows the band for.

For example:
The B-52's - Love Shack
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Radiohead - Creep
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Prodigy - Firestarter

And probably the biggest candidate:
Oasis - Wonderwall

Anyone else noticed this?
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Adele: Someone Like You
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JMan wrote:
Adele: Someone Like You


Oh yeah, forgot about that one. My dad and I had discussed Someone Like You by Adele.
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3 Doors Down: Kryptonite
Backstreet Boys: I Want it That Way
Beyonce: Single Ladies
Rascal Flatts: Life Is a Highway
Rob Thomas: Smooth (ft. Santana)
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Beck - Loser
Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
The Who - My Generation
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
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Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit
Dire Straits-Sultans Of Swing
The White Stripes-Seven Nation Army
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There's the band "Where Is My It's" that's just known for their single "Killing the Pig" since they haven't released anything after their one-track album "Shooting the Elephant in My Trousers". The band tried to emulate the sound of jerk-offs (people and acts) and they just looked like sounds of throw-ups with a little of Wallace Stevens influences molded with a series of bug-infested sick-stuffed Victorian Secret-and-Wonder brass covering booties of Mahatma Gandhi.
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I would figure if somebody knows nothing about REM they would know Losing My Religion before Everybody Hurts.

Bon Jovi pulled this off for two different generations with Livin on a Prayer and It's My Life.
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B52s - "Rock Lobster"
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Ochurch25 wrote:
The Who - My Generation


Actually, Behind Blue Eyes is heavily played in my town.

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