I'm sure you've heard "What I Like About You" about a billion times by now.  Commercials, sporting events, it's been everywhere.  It's a song that our culture really needs to bury for good.

Now, I realize that calling the Romantics a one-hit wonder is kind of iffy, since "Talking In Your Sleep" was a modest hit for the band as well and shows up in a lot of 80's-type compilation CDs and what not.  But that's not the song you hear in beer ads and between innings at ballgames.  I like beer and ballgames.  But I'm sick of friggin' "What I Like About You" already.

"But Max, it's got such a great beat!  And I love that guitar!"  Well, if you'll allow me to get all pompous and indignant and such, I think "Rock You Up" has a BETTER beat and BETTER guitar.  So nyah.

Click here to hear "Rock You Up" on YouTube.

This is part of a week-long series on different songs from well-known "one-hit wonders."

This week on the MaxBlog, I am highlighting artists known primarily for one song only, and showcasing additional (and in many cases, better) titles from their catalogs.

It bothers me when artists or bands I like get labeled as "one-hit wonders" just because they happen to have only one song that succeeds commercially.  I mean, by that definition, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa were one-hit wonders.  Often that term is merely a convenient label borne out of ignorance.  So all this week we are looking past artists' signature tunes and delving a bit deeper into their histories for gems you may have missed or forgotten.