10 One-Hit Wonder Bands From The 90s That Still Rock

5. Ben Folds Five

http://youtu.be/Wt5EHAqhR1c Biggest Hit: Brick (1998) Otherwise known as "That incredibly depressing song you didn't realise was about abortion this whole time," "Brick" was the biggest downer on the charts in the late 90s. The album, Whatever and Ever Amen, was praised for its cynicism and the way it lambasted the too-cool-to-care mentality that was permeating youth culture. Also, Ben Folds absolutely rocked the piano in a way that hadn't been heard since Elton John's heyday. Folds is still a well known entity in today's popular music landscape. He's been a part of nearly every project that needed a piano in the last two decades, teaming up with the likes of Nick Hornby, Amanda Palmer, and William Shatner. (That last one's not a joke. The album was killer.) He's had a well-respected solo career in the new millennium, spawning a handful of commercially successful singles from three critically adored albums. Ben Folds, the man, would never be labeled a one-hit wonder. Ben Folds Five, the band, however, is another story. Folds got the old band back together after more than a decade apart and the ensuing reunion album, The Sound of the Life of the Mind, is a beautiful mess. A few songs wink a too hard at Five's previous work, but it mostly captures a band just mature enough to realise that recreating "Song For the Dumped" fifteen years later would be silly, but not so mature as to avoid including a lyric about drawing "d*cks on the wall." They really found the sweet spot. Proof They Still Rock: Do It Anyway (2012) http://youtu.be/mEyrfFwf3rI