One-trick ponies: bands that keep reworking the same song

Forget musical innovation, the best way for a band to dominate the charts is to recreate their one good idea over and over againAsk the person on the street who they think is the greatest band in the world and they'll probably say Coldplay or the Killers. If they're a little more daring they might suggest AC/DC or Ramones. But all these bands have something in common: they have one song. Not literally, because they have the decency to give them different names – but they are all essential...

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