Why?! This is perfection! You would think this would have gotten more people interested in them but people loved this one song then stopped listening to them almost! This is just so good and one of those songs that takes you right back to the 90s when you hear it. It’s so good!
“One Headlight” (1997) by The Wallflowers was their only hit!
by Anonymous | reply 84 | February 16, 2023 1:59 AM |
"One Headlight" was their only Top 10 hit. But they had other songs that made it into the Top 40 and were played on radio and MTV, including "6th Avenue Heartache" and "The Difference." And Jakob Dylan got a lot of press. I wouldn't call them a one-hit wonder.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 3, 2022 9:41 PM |
What's he look like now?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 3, 2022 9:52 PM |
Yuk
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 3, 2022 9:54 PM |
So so so cheesy!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 3, 2022 10:01 PM |
Nepotism
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 3, 2022 10:12 PM |
Trust fund. Hardly works. Dyes his hair.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 3, 2022 10:21 PM |
Wait a minute. Dylan is his dad's stage name. Jakob couldn't come up with his own?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 3, 2022 10:22 PM |
He’s 52 years old. He looks great.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 3, 2022 10:25 PM |
Yeah it sounds like he didn’t really have the drive it takes to be a huge or long term success.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 3, 2022 10:31 PM |
He did a great TV concert in the musicians out of Laurel Canyon in the 1970’s. Beck was in it, too and did a great job. There were two female vocalists but I can’t remember who they were. Dylan was a great host.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 3, 2022 10:39 PM |
At this point I'll take anything that will bring me back to the 90's.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 3, 2022 10:40 PM |
I have always loved this song!
“6th Avenue Heartache” was also a big song. I’ve always felt like you couldn’t go by Billboard back then because MTV and VH1 was just as dominant as the radio. So many songs were in rotation on those channels that weren’t big on the radio.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 3, 2022 10:53 PM |
He was strikingly good-looking as a young man.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 3, 2022 11:01 PM |
Song was top 10 week Diana died. Always think of her when I here it.
I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
With the long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed such a waste
She always had a pretty face
I wondered why she hung around this place
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 3, 2022 11:02 PM |
I've always been a classical snob and had actually never heard this before. Now that I have heard the first half (which is as much as I could take), I see I didn't miss anything.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 3, 2022 11:20 PM |
His songs were like watered-down pop versions of his father’s songs.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 3, 2022 11:25 PM |
He's not bad at all now
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 3, 2022 11:34 PM |
R12 his father? Because he was born in 1969…
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 3, 2022 11:36 PM |
I think he's always been a beautiful man. I would invite him to my home, with copious attention.
His age is within ten years of mine; that's a bonus.
He's married, and they have four sons. Oy vey. There goes my fantasy.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 3, 2022 11:40 PM |
1997?! They be old now.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 3, 2022 11:44 PM |
R10 Daaaaamn…
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 3, 2022 11:46 PM |
Get a hold of yourself OP moonfaced obese Ewwdwin. His voice sucked.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 4, 2022 2:18 AM |
[quote]I love The Wallflowers cover of Heroes.
I like it, but also go back and forth about whether they made it into elevator music.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 4, 2022 3:16 AM |
R17 fascinating
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 4, 2022 3:34 AM |
r27 It's a sample, makes it easier to come up with.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 4, 2022 3:54 AM |
That period post grunge and before the hip-hop and teen pop explosion (1995-1999) was all over the place. Probably the last time when so many genres and music for all age groups were all over MTV and the mainstream radio. The Wallflowers didn't really stand out in that mass of very diverse music except for that one (big) hit.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 4, 2022 4:05 AM |
I’d eat his ass.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 4, 2022 4:14 AM |
They had a song called Three Marlenas which was super catchy and made me think of Days of Our Lives every time it played.
Yeah, I was a silly gayling. Deal with it.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 4, 2022 4:27 AM |
They were pretty cool 😎
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 4, 2022 10:15 AM |
I think this is their best song. God, I was such a music snob back then. Wouldn't give them the time of day. 100 years later, I'm catching up on songs I neglected.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 4, 2022 11:14 AM |
I liked that one, but loved "Your Woman" and "Mummers Dance." Too lazy to look it up; were those one-hit wonders?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 4, 2022 1:49 PM |
[quote] I’d eat his ass.
Oh my
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 4, 2022 1:59 PM |
Great thread OP. I remember liking them as well at the time, but I'd completely forgotten them. I also remember being hot for the drummer.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 4, 2022 5:24 PM |
[quote@]Mummers Dance...Too lazy to look it up; were those one-hit wonders?
That's a weird one. Mummer's Dance was a remix used in the trailers for the Drew Barrymore Cinderella movie and it happened to catch on. It's derived from Loreena McKinnett's Mummer's Dance, which is new age/trad/celtic music. There is no Loreena McKinnett album that has the "Cinderella" version of Mummer's Dance.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 4, 2022 5:36 PM |
He had no voice back then. Can't imagine what he sounds like now.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 4, 2022 6:58 PM |
He had the perfect voice for his style of music
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 4, 2022 7:14 PM |
Wasn't he a little bit of an it boy for a hot second?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 4, 2022 10:34 PM |
R22 Let’s speak English
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 4, 2022 11:31 PM |
Hated this overplayed song when it came out. Now, it's tolerable enough.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 5, 2022 6:22 AM |
It just came on a playlist and I remembered this thread. A great song
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 16, 2022 8:01 PM |
This was my drive all night song...
Drugs, lust, love, the 90s
*sigh*
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 16, 2022 8:31 PM |
[quote] He did a great TV concert in the musicians out of Laurel Canyon in the 1970’s. Beck was in it, too and did a great job. There were two female vocalists but I can’t remember who they were. Dylan was a great host.
This is a listing of the soundtrack from that documentary.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 17, 2022 4:05 PM |
The photo of him last year… that’s kind of a hard 51, no?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 17, 2022 4:14 PM |
r46 Gurl...
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 17, 2022 8:40 PM |
[quote]Dylan is his dad's stage name. Jakob couldn't come up with his own?
It's been Bob's legal name since the 60s, and is the legal surname of all his children with Sara.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 2, 2022 4:40 AM |
He is a super cool dude with zero ego. very nice and down to earth.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 2, 2022 4:48 AM |
It was a good driving song (not just b/c it was about "one headlight"). There was something desolate about the song that I really liked.
Springsteen sang it with Jakob Dylan at an awards show. Perfect song for Springsteen's voice.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 2, 2022 4:59 AM |
OK, but what's this old guy doing for the terror and hardship of the #AfricansinUkraine
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 2, 2022 5:12 AM |
Just my taste, look wise.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 2, 2022 5:20 AM |
What are YOU doing about it, r53?
Tell us more, r51.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 2, 2022 1:14 PM |
Why is Ukraine being brought up?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 2, 2022 3:59 PM |
Laughing at virtue signallers like you, R53. Posting on DL is YOUR way of helping the victims, right? You asshole...
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 2, 2022 7:27 PM |
All that time in the Malibu sun, plus whatever else he got up to, made him hit the aging wall fast, but I still wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 2, 2022 9:29 PM |
Another Malibu wanker who wants to deny his Zimmerman heritage.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 2, 2022 9:37 PM |
He and Winn Butler try to be Springsteen. And Springsteen was trying to do Orbison and Dylan.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 2, 2022 9:50 PM |
If by "Zimmerman heritage" you mean being Jewish, he doesn't deny that at all, r58. He's always openly identified as Jewish. Why do you care if he keeps the legal name he was born with?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 3, 2022 1:22 AM |
"Breach," the followup to their huge album, was their best work (and a flop). There were loud rumors in the late '90s that Jakob Dylan cheated on his wife with Sheryl Crow. Old threads about it might survive.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 3, 2022 1:33 AM |
R61 If he was proud of his Jewish heritage he would display his family's name.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 3, 2022 2:02 AM |
Sorry, I didn't care much for this song. Or this band.
It wasn't offensive music, just nothing that stood out to me in any way.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 3, 2022 2:04 AM |
Was this a song about a breast cancer survivor after a single mastectomy?
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 3, 2022 2:14 AM |
R61, his legal name has always been Dylan. Are toy deliberately obtuse or just trolling? It's no secret that his dad's family were renamed Zimmerman when they emigrated, so who cares if the name was changed again? It doesn't make him any more or less Jewish. It's his mother's family name you should be more concerned about, anyway- isn't that how Jewish creds are traditionally determined?
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 3, 2022 5:06 PM |
*you, not "toy."
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 3, 2022 5:07 PM |
[quote]There were loud rumors in the late '90s that Jakob Dylan cheated on his wife with Sheryl Crow.
Was he her favorite mistake?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 3, 2022 5:09 PM |
[quote] It's no secret that his dad's family were renamed Zimmerman when they emigrated,
No, It's no secret that his dad's family, Zigman Zimmerman emigrated from Ukraine in 1905. His son Abram Zimmerman used the name all his life. The grandson Robert Zimmerman was born in 1942. He performed two dates with Robert Velline using a pseudonym 'Elston Gunnn' in 1958.
In his memoir, he wrote that he considered adopting the surname Dillon before unexpectedly seeing poems by [the VERY successful Welsh poet named] Dylan Thomas, and deciding upon that less common variant in 1962.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 3, 2022 6:12 PM |
This is going to sound really nerdy music guy, but the drum sound and mix was perfect on One Headlight - made for radio. The pop on the snare really made the song, in my opinion.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 3, 2022 6:14 PM |
Nobody cares but you, troll R69. Jakob has never denied being Jewish, attends a Chabad temple in Malibu, and his wife has written about sending the kids to Jewish preschools. If that's not Jewish enough for you, tough titty. Nobody is obligated to live their lives your way.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 3, 2022 8:54 PM |
R71 is angry for some unknown reason.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 3, 2022 9:58 PM |
He was so gorgeous and the song was great
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 3, 2022 10:00 PM |
R72 is functionally retarded.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 4, 2022 12:18 AM |
Has anyone ever seen his naughty bits? Surely he has peed in public somewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 4, 2022 1:43 AM |
He does have energy like he’d have a nice dick
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 6, 2022 12:21 AM |
R1 They were also bigger on the rock charts. I was surprised that their other singles were so low on the Hot 100, because I remember all found of their singles from "Bringing Down the Horse" being ubiquitous. I've always gravitated towards rock though, so "6th Avenue Heartache" which peaked at #33 on the Hot 100, was a #8 rock hit, so I heard it a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 6, 2022 12:38 AM |
I thought the song “The Way” from 1998 was also by The Wallflowers, but looking it up it was by Fastball (a true one hit wonder).
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 6, 2022 12:55 AM |
R78 Fastball had another hit, "Out of My Head," which peaked at #20.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 6, 2022 12:58 AM |
I don't think I knew it was called "One Headlight" for a spell. I sang "Wanted Love" to it or something like that, haha. That song is an all-timer, though. Back then, a friend tried to quash my crush on him and said he looked like he did smack. I was in my 20s and liked the cute ones, so I thought he was dreamy.
These days, I think he looks decent. How could he not with those eyes and brows. He chooses his ass over his face, though, and that's fine (a decision I've made as well). Most DLers criticising here won't have either at 52. Sad future days.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 6, 2022 1:14 AM |
[quote]He chooses his ass over his face, though
Considering that he has no ass, it doesn't seem like it was the best decision.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | November 9, 2022 4:15 AM |
Just a reminder that this BOP exists.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | February 16, 2023 1:15 AM |
R16 apt post
by Anonymous | reply 83 | February 16, 2023 1:55 AM |
6th Ave. Heratache, One Headlight and Difference are quintessential 90s.
Take me back, take me back, take me back...!
by Anonymous | reply 84 | February 16, 2023 1:59 AM |