One Hit Wondering – The Darkness
One Hit Wondering is a series of columns where I listen to the album of a one hit wonder, and find three songs, other than the hit, that people should hear. When The Darkness released “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” in the fall of 2003 a lot of people initially wondered if it was an unknown classic rock song that had suddenly been unearthed, and thrown into rotation. Sounding like it was from anywhere from the mid ‘70s to the late ‘80s, and with frontman Justin Hawkins having an incredible five octave voice that sounds like it isn’t of this planet – the wonderfully bizarre music video for the song adding to that notion – “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” rocketed The Darkness to fame. Poetically, over the past two decades it’s become what so many first thought it was – a fantastic classic rock song. Despite it now being considered a classic, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” never cracked the Billboard Hot 100. It did, however, reach #23 on the rock chart, and #9 on the alt...
