10 Bands That Deserve To Be More Than One Hit Wonders

10. Arthur Brown

In the grand scheme of rock and roll, the idea of shock rock almost sounds like an oxymoron. I mean, the whole point of making this wild and zany music in the first place was to scare the hell out of the parents who didn't want us listening to it, right? While Alice Cooper and KISS may have been the originators of the practice, Patient Zero for shock rock probably belongs to Arthur Brown.

Taking anything and everything he did and channeling it into his music, Brown stood out as the way too experimental side of the psychedelic movement in the late '60s. Aside from the massive amounts of LSD that were probably taken in the process, his hit Fire managed to storm up the charts, nearly making it to the very top if it had not been for the Beatles releasing Hey Jude the exact same week.

After the Fire died down though, Brown kept on trucking making some of the most wild music that he could, informed as much from the worlds of R&B as he was from the macabre kind of blues he had just cultivated. Along with bands like Covet and Black Sabbath before him, Arthur Brown's role as a rock and roll visionary has more than earned him a spot among the most influential artists of all time.