EXAMPLE: mystical had a smash with "shake ya ass."
the follow up single was "danger," which became a (minor) hit.

but it was only a hit b/c folks really liked "shake ya ass."
it charted, it got love on 106 & park, and then it slowly fell off the charts and was forgotten about.


city high had a hit with "what would you do?"
and they also got love with that song that they dropped next, "caramel."
i mean, not that very many people still remember "what would you do?"
but next to nobody remembers the follow up single, which was also a hit.



songs like this have been lost to history. (which is not that most of them were worth preserving in the first place). but it's crazy to me that if you didn't grow up during a particular era, you will never hear or read about most of the music that was popular.

this is why i will never know more about music than
somebody that grew up in the 60s.

sure, i can do research.
but they will always remember songs that nobody thought to write about.



this is why there can never be any great bands like there were
in the past. we can't even replicate all of their influences.
p-funk grew up listening to local radio hits, the forgotten about de facto follow-up singles
that followed the local radio hits, AND all of the music that got
preserved as the greatest ____ of all time.


p-funk's influences just listen to p-funk, and other bands
that historians thought enough of to write about.
and once clear chanel hit, all the musicians all across the country
started essentially listening to the same stuff as influences...
which made the music that came out less weird, less idiosyncratic, and in some ways, less interesting.



this post is all over the place.
feel free to chime in with either a forgotten about follow-up song to a smash single,
or your thoughts about the lack of regional influences in the music industry today.