The Wallflowers – Bringing Down the Horse • Page 2

Dan Wilson has had a fascinating career, too. Some of the best pop songs of the last 25 years have his name on them.

 

Mike Doughty's "Haughty Melodic" is a fantastic Wilson-produced pop record

 

I really like the scene in The King of Staten Island when everyone drunkenly sings "One Headlight" at the bar

 

Could not agree more re: Haughty Melodic. That album is phenomenal. Good call, dude.

 

Awesome album but ultimately I think relatively low volume of first album hits, combined with the lack of follow up for 4 years as Craig said, are what did them in. Put them up against any 90s radio rock band and you wind up with more or less the same score: One Headlight and Sixth Avenue Heartache as good or better than any individual two songs, BDtH roughly on par with any individual album, but The Wallflowers get smoked when you look at third most popular song and beyond.

 

I remember The Difference being a big hit on the rock station in my area. Also recall MTV having that music video heavy in their rotation one summer. Three Marlenas was the one that didn't really catch on.

 

One Headlight is on so many of my playlists, haha. Such a strong a-side. 3EB's self titled is a 14/14 though.

 

It's an interesting point, and kind of surreal to think about now that rock bands of almost any ilk are lucky to get one hit, let alone a string of them from a single album. But yeah, this album probably doesn't have the same "hit machine" status as, say, Yourself or Someone Like You.

Or maybe Jakob just needed a guest spot on Santana's Supernatural to reignite the interest in The Wallflowers leading up to Breach.