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In the 2000s, we had bands like Nickelback and Creed that had maybe one or two big hits, but everyone started ridiculing the hell out of them the moment those tracks fell off the chart.
Well, a decade earlier, we had the Rembrandts.
Their highest-charting single is the lost hit we're featuring today. It wasn't such a bad song, and some folks today actually have some level of respect for it. But as soon as it dropped off the chart, the Rembrandts suffered years and years of the Nickelback treatment.
Not long after this hit charted, I was listening to the radio when a listener called in with a request for the Rembrandts. The DJ laughed his ass off!
There was a period a few years later when it looked like the Rembrandts might regain the luster they once had, but everyone confused them with the BoDeans. That's because the Rembrandts and the BoDeans were responsible for the theme songs to Friends and Party Of Five, respectively, which were essentially the same song - which in turn was practically the same song as "Good Girls Don't" by the Knack, only without the naughty lyrics.
I never intentionally watched either of those TV shows - my preferences at the time were The Simpsons and Seinfeld - so I heard the Rembrandts' and the BoDeans' TV music on the radio much more than I ever heard it on TV. And did I ever! It seems like that's all they ever played! Plus "The Grease Megamix", which Q-102 acted like it made itself. This was a particularly rough time in life for a number of reasons, including Newt Gingrich's fascism and my conflicts with NKU, and there was one time I stayed up all night listening to the radio because I couldn't sleep. I remember sitting on the floor in my old apartment and hearing the Rembrandts' Friends theme.
After a few years of that, it was back to Rembrandts ridicule.
Luckily for them, people seem to have moved past that and let bygones be bygones. The Bee Gees scored a top 10 hit years after everyone thought they were out of business for good, so there may be hope yet for the Rembrandts.
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