It's usually more rare for a One Hit Wonder to be a true One Hit Wonder. Usually there's at least one, lesser remembered hit due to momentum of the main hit or earlier success. On YouTube Todd in the Shadows has a great series called One Hit Wonderland, exploring the histories of the people behind One Hit Wonders and there usually is a modest amount of success either before or after the big one.

In American "first wave" punk: Dead Kennedy's, Black Flag, and Fugazi all have an argument, IMO.

If we include English punk, probably lots.

What about Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Anti Flag, just to throw a few contenders out there.

NoFX is great. I like fat Mike. I listened to the Decline a hundred times when it was current... Not sure I can call any one bad the " most punk"

The whole Storm in Heaven album, more like - absolute classic.

VAST had Touched as their only real hit that registered but have a really solid discography.

Smoking Popes is another although technically maybe they had 2 hits?

David Gray had Babylon as his big hit but put out some amazing work. (That might be a US thing as he is probably more popular everywhere else)

Blasphemy

So good! Same with "Got to give it up". Gets me pumped every time.

Also "Honesty is no Excuse" from their first album is heart soaring

Philo rules.

XTC's Apple Venus doesn't have a firm concept, but I think it's brilliant that a group of middle aged men went to the trouble of recording at Abbey Road and renting an orchestra so they could sing about dinner parties, greenhouse gardens and pagan symbols.

Chumbawumba

Stating the obvious, Push 'em Daisies is not representative of Ween's massive body of work. It might even be their worst song?

Bad Repuation is a pretty damn good song.

Still play Futures all the time. Its so good.

Autotheism - by the faceless. It plays on religion and atheism becoming so extreme it becomes a religion. Hail science

Listen to Rain Song live 1973 for one of the best live versions of a Zep song ever! I suggest headphones and inebriation

True. But in the US, they never broke more than "the boys...".

Same with T.Rex. Over here most people only know "Bang a Gong" instead of so many other great songs and albums.

I refuse to call them a OHW (they had songs that charted and even reached #1 on the rock charts, just not the Hot 100), but Blind Melon were an excellent rock band of their era taken from us too soon.

Thrice and the Alchemy Index. Four EPs based off the elements. It was panned by fans back in the day but the older I get the more I love it.

Yup. I'll offer Redbone as another early 70's band with the one monster hit (Come and Get Your Love), but a band with really strong material.

Devo I feel like fall under the Grateful Dead Rule: some bands have a long and noteworthy career that surpasses their chart successes.

Blind Melon. Known for the bumblebee girl song, but the rest of their album is so much better than that one. Just not as ‘pop’

Well, I'm not sure if they fit the "One Hit Wonder" definition, but I'd rate the Boomtown Rats as a band that deserves a lot more attention than they got.

Other than "(Tell me why) I Don't Like Mondays" they didn't have any so-called hits (that I can recall). But the entirety of The Fine Art of Surfacing is filled with gems. In fact, their first three albums are awesome.

I suppose I could add both The Plimsouls and Dramarama to this list as well.

In UK …no way are Lizzy classed as a one hit wonder .

John Frusciante’s The Empyrean is a journey, mostly sonically - though the lyrics also deal with the same material - about human existence and the experience of such, from the mere idea of you until your soul has long left your body.

You're welcome.

Right Beside You as well !