May 29, 2025 • 8 mins
“Can you name the artist behind ‘Bad Day’ without Googling it?”In this laugh-packed, nostalgia-fueled episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—dive headfirst into the unforgettable (and sometimes regrettable) world of one-hit wonders from the 2000s. Whether you’re a music trivia junkie or just here for the jokes, this episode is a must-listen.🎶 KT leads the charge with a countdown of Rolling Stone’s “Top 50 One-Hit Wonders of the 2000s,” sparking hilarious debates, off-key singalongs, and deep dives into songs you forgot you loved—or hated.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Been in skin Show nine some point won the eagle.
So we're gonna end the show here, spend this last
half hour getting into some one hit wonder stuff, and
so I will now gladly hand it off to young Kevin.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Speaking of was that return cut fog hat right there? Yeah?
Did they qualify as a one hit wonder? What else?
Did they have? Doffs?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh after slow rides? No, because they're a classic rock staple.
In other words, that's far and away their most well
known song. But they put out several albums and you
know they're I think they are British blues rock band.
As I think how they would loosely be identified.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
They kept it going so so speak list it was
Rolling Stone fifty biggest one hit wonders of the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Okay, so last twenty five years what I did.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And because I want to podcast this, I didn't want to.
I mean I could have pulled the music, but then
we wouldn't be able to podcast it. Some were podcast
I didn't want to. I want to build podcasts to say,
I think you guys are gonna have fun.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'm anyway thinking because of the era where and it's
going to be a bunch of like tech talk crap
and stuff. No, no, truly not, okay, but I do
think Christina will thrive in this environment. I'm excited post
two thousand and I just picked out the notable ones.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Do we need to sing them or anything?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Going to? Yeah, if you'd like to, I can help you. Yeah,
I'm going to know you do it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Okay, there's one that I bet I know it's definitely
on there. Do you guys think it's easier to name
the song or the artist when it comes to these.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Types of things, you think I would say artists, maybe
the artist?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, one hit wonder I definitely let me just go
ahead and get on record.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I definitely think they put Soldier Boy Crank That.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Uh No, okay, actually not unless yeah, all right, So
y'all name another Soldier Boy song? No, wasn't that like
the biggest song on the planet for about six months?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I just I do have a feeling that he had
another one.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, was it called crank That again? Crank That to
Kathy Ireland?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Okay, you know what has more streams than Crank That?
Soldier Boy? What kissed Me through the Phone? What's that
the song by Soldier Boy the Phone? Well, we'll just
not worry about it now, all right. I'm gonna give
you what I think would be easier. So I just
picked up the notable ones. I'll start at fifty here. Okay,
(02:20):
can you name this guy that did the song bad
Day You Had a Bad Day?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They played on American idol every time someone got hold
I had a man Day.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And it also became a commercial song for people that
needed a beer or something.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I can't remember what that was. Daniel something, Daniel really.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wow Merriweather, No, not Daniel Merriweather.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You're on it though, Daniel. I know he said his
name and then thought you would get the song and
beat Bayless. No, no, Daniel Bayless.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I thought Daniel Markham. But that's a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's not I know, Daniel Markham.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, this is something you might put on your you know,
if you were chafing.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
What are you doing? Daniel Talcom the baby.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Powder, Daniel Powder, Danel.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Powder, Daniel Powder. That's not a real name, although bad
Day more like Daniel Powder.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Am all right, that's so good man. Wow, pretty poudy
with the tea in there. I want to go home now,
all right, the show has ended. We're close one more segment, guys, Christina. Yeah.
Two thousand and six brought us this number forty nine
in the list of one hit wonders of the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Hinder the Cranberrys.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I'm trying to picture the music video because they've played
it a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh, I've heard it on the Eagle and you have
to make it hinder.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I'll tell you that Texas country music artist Jack
Ingram covered this song in a bad moment for him.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I think I think it was his peak. It probably
made any the most money. This is the big wattage.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Boys, right, I can't I can't think of it. It's
gonna lips of an Angel yep, Hinders, the band, Hinders,
the band Yeah, okay, my bad lips of.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
An angel band even age. That's not at all how
it goes? How's it go? Exactly how it goes? That's
not at all how it goes? Zips up.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I was doing that the don't don't d come together?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, it's lips of an Angel. Dallas rapper number forty eight,
two thousand and nine, is that big tup? Nope?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Tom Tom Now nine Dallas just doesn't involve a dairy
product in the song title milk.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That a delicious treat. Maybe you'd like to have get
this cheese.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It's not a delicious treat.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Dureau oh duro, what the wait?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
His song was called a candy Apple candy paint high
scream paint, scream paint song.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I couldn't come up with it. Candy appris inside cream
on the outside. Two thousand and five, this would be
number forty three on the top fifty Biggest one Hit
Wonders of the two thousands. Two thousand and five brought
us a band called the flow Bots.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yes, handlebars, handlebars, I remember that song handle bars, and
they did that. I believe that beginning they were just
plucking violin strings. Yeah, I thought it sounded so cool.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's a great song.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I remember that now, number forty on the Biggest one
Hit Wonders of the two thousands. The song I've heard
on the Eagle twice today already. Okay, two thousand and two,
the band is Trapped t R A P.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Titstrong Take You one.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Strong.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
By the way, that just reminded me and I guess
I don't know what year it came out, but surely
sex and Candy is going to be on this thing.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Right, no, because that was in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay, I'm gonna play a second of this song, Christina,
if you can pump up my computer. And I'm only
doing this because I'm just gonna play the first note
of it, and then I'm gonna turn off because it
just makes my I ever hate it bit of.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
My body that you can drain my marrow.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I turn into a puddle like Alex mack Good reference
Good two thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Do you know what I don't not really hold on?
That's Johnny be Good. It's heaven by the most Lonely Boys.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I agree, Katie.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
My parents loved that song.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
When I was a teenager, I was like, please stop
playing this song just one day, just don't play it.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
If I hear that song, I'm like driving into a ditch.
I can't handle that song so much. You got one minute?
What else you got?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I know how much time I have? Oh wow? What
an ass? Thirty six A band called Caesar's two thousand
and two.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Uh. They were a big salad band, right. Their big
hit was Jerk It Out. Okay, do you remember jerking out?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I don't. You don't remember jerking out? Jerk it out?
To jerk it out. It's kind of had an Elvis
Costello feel to it. Jerk it out, pump pump pump,
pum pumpum, can't dug it out?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That sounds right.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Two thousand and one. The band is City High R
and B a little rap but what you do then
home on the floor, on the bedroom floor. And then
and they only went sleep with the man for a
little bit of money. And his dad is.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Known, and the I don't know, huh did they all
have lisps?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What would you do? By City High?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yes, And then I will challenge number thirty one before
we get to the top twenty when we come back.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Young Folks by Peter Born and John love that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But they had another song called Second Chance, which was
the theme song to Two Broke Girls on CBS.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, and then they were an indie band. They had
a lot of I wouldn't say, but that's song is
one that everybody knows, all right. Yeah, Coming up next,
we'll do the top twenty biggest one hit wonders of
the last twenty five years right here on the Eagle
Been in skin Show nine some point won the eagle.
So we're gonna end the show here, spend this last
half hour getting into some one hit wonder stuff, and
so I will now gladly hand it off to young Kevin.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Speaking of was that return cut fog hat right there? Yeah?
Did they qualify as a one hit wonder? What else?
Did they have? Doffs?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh after slow rides? No, because they're a classic rock staple.
In other words, that's far and away their most well
known song. But they put out several albums and you
know they're I think they are British blues rock band.
As I think how they would loosely be identified.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
They kept it going so so speak list it was
Rolling Stone fifty biggest one hit wonders of the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Okay, so last twenty five years what I did.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And because I want to podcast this, I didn't want to.
I mean I could have pulled the music, but then
we wouldn't be able to podcast it. Some were podcast
I didn't want to. I want to build podcasts to say,
I think you guys are gonna have fun.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'm anyway thinking because of the era where and it's
going to be a bunch of like tech talk crap
and stuff. No, no, truly not, okay, but I do
think Christina will thrive in this environment. I'm excited post
two thousand and I just picked out the notable ones.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Do we need to sing them or anything?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Going to? Yeah, if you'd like to, I can help you. Yeah,
I'm going to know you do it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Okay, there's one that I bet I know it's definitely
on there. Do you guys think it's easier to name
the song or the artist when it comes to these.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Types of things, you think I would say artists, maybe
the artist?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, one hit wonder I definitely let me just go
ahead and get on record.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I definitely think they put Soldier Boy Crank That.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Uh No, okay, actually not unless yeah, all right, So
y'all name another Soldier Boy song? No, wasn't that like
the biggest song on the planet for about six months?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I just I do have a feeling that he had
another one.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, was it called crank That again? Crank That to
Kathy Ireland?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Okay, you know what has more streams than Crank That?
Soldier Boy? What kissed Me through the Phone? What's that
the song by Soldier Boy the Phone? Well, we'll just
not worry about it now, all right. I'm gonna give
you what I think would be easier. So I just
picked up the notable ones. I'll start at fifty here. Okay,
(02:20):
can you name this guy that did the song bad
Day You Had a Bad Day?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They played on American idol every time someone got hold
I had a man Day.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And it also became a commercial song for people that
needed a beer or something.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I can't remember what that was. Daniel something, Daniel really.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wow Merriweather, No, not Daniel Merriweather.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You're on it though, Daniel. I know he said his
name and then thought you would get the song and
beat Bayless. No, no, Daniel Bayless.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I thought Daniel Markham. But that's a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's not I know, Daniel Markham.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, this is something you might put on your you know,
if you were chafing.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
What are you doing? Daniel Talcom the baby.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Powder, Daniel Powder, Danel.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Powder, Daniel Powder. That's not a real name, although bad
Day more like Daniel Powder.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Am all right, that's so good man. Wow, pretty poudy
with the tea in there. I want to go home now,
all right, the show has ended. We're close one more segment, guys, Christina. Yeah.
Two thousand and six brought us this number forty nine
in the list of one hit wonders of the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Hinder the Cranberrys.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I'm trying to picture the music video because they've played
it a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh, I've heard it on the Eagle and you have
to make it hinder.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I'll tell you that Texas country music artist Jack
Ingram covered this song in a bad moment for him.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I think I think it was his peak. It probably
made any the most money. This is the big wattage.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Boys, right, I can't I can't think of it. It's
gonna lips of an Angel yep, Hinders, the band, Hinders,
the band Yeah, okay, my bad lips of.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
An angel band even age. That's not at all how
it goes? How's it go? Exactly how it goes? That's
not at all how it goes? Zips up.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I was doing that the don't don't d come together?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, it's lips of an Angel. Dallas rapper number forty eight,
two thousand and nine, is that big tup? Nope?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Tom Tom Now nine Dallas just doesn't involve a dairy
product in the song title milk.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That a delicious treat. Maybe you'd like to have get
this cheese.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It's not a delicious treat.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Dureau oh duro, what the wait?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
His song was called a candy Apple candy paint high
scream paint, scream paint song.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I couldn't come up with it. Candy appris inside cream
on the outside. Two thousand and five, this would be
number forty three on the top fifty Biggest one Hit
Wonders of the two thousands. Two thousand and five brought
us a band called the flow Bots.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yes, handlebars, handlebars, I remember that song handle bars, and
they did that. I believe that beginning they were just
plucking violin strings. Yeah, I thought it sounded so cool.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's a great song.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I remember that now, number forty on the Biggest one
Hit Wonders of the two thousands. The song I've heard
on the Eagle twice today already. Okay, two thousand and two,
the band is Trapped t R A P.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Titstrong Take You one.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Strong.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
By the way, that just reminded me and I guess
I don't know what year it came out, but surely
sex and Candy is going to be on this thing.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Right, no, because that was in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay, I'm gonna play a second of this song, Christina,
if you can pump up my computer. And I'm only
doing this because I'm just gonna play the first note
of it, and then I'm gonna turn off because it
just makes my I ever hate it bit of.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
My body that you can drain my marrow.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I turn into a puddle like Alex mack Good reference
Good two thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Do you know what I don't not really hold on?
That's Johnny be Good. It's heaven by the most Lonely Boys.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I agree, Katie.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
My parents loved that song.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
When I was a teenager, I was like, please stop
playing this song just one day, just don't play it.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
If I hear that song, I'm like driving into a ditch.
I can't handle that song so much. You got one minute?
What else you got?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I know how much time I have? Oh wow? What
an ass? Thirty six A band called Caesar's two thousand
and two.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Uh. They were a big salad band, right. Their big
hit was Jerk It Out. Okay, do you remember jerking out?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I don't. You don't remember jerking out? Jerk it out?
To jerk it out. It's kind of had an Elvis
Costello feel to it. Jerk it out, pump pump pump,
pum pumpum, can't dug it out?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That sounds right.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Two thousand and one. The band is City High R
and B a little rap but what you do then
home on the floor, on the bedroom floor. And then
and they only went sleep with the man for a
little bit of money. And his dad is.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Known, and the I don't know, huh did they all
have lisps?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What would you do? By City High?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yes, And then I will challenge number thirty one before
we get to the top twenty when we come back.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Young Folks by Peter Born and John love that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But they had another song called Second Chance, which was
the theme song to Two Broke Girls on CBS.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, and then they were an indie band. They had
a lot of I wouldn't say, but that's song is
one that everybody knows, all right. Yeah, Coming up next,
we'll do the top twenty biggest one hit wonders of
the last twenty five years right here on the Eagle
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