>> ^jmzero:
How many bands flounder on their next album after their "first big hit"? How many comedians end up seeming like a "bad impression of themselves 5 years ago"? How many authors seem to just coast later in their career?

Quite a few probably, but then artistic endeavors aren't like making widgets in a factory, after your "first big hit" you don't just pump out a thousand more of those and you're set. I'm sure even successful bands may put out a second album that was maybe a lot like the first one, which some people liked and others thought was boring, then they try a different direction in their third album and the old school fans hate it but people who didn't listen to them before pick it up.

The story behind the song, from wiki...."You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was written by Randy Bachman as a joke for his brother, George. George had a stutter and Randy only intended to record it once with a stutter and send the only recording to George.

Randy developed the song while recording BTO's third album, Not Fragile. It began as an instrumental piece inspired by the rhythm guitar of Dave Mason. Randy says "it was basically just an instrumental and I was fooling around... I wrote the lyrics, out of the blue, and stuttered them through."

But when winding up production for their second album, Charlie Fach of Mercury Records said the eight tracks they had lacked the "magic" that would make a hit. Randy mentioned that he had this ninth song, but didn't intend to have it played. He said, "We have this one song, but it's a joke. I'm laughing at the end. I sang it on the first take. It's sharp, it's flat, I'm stuttering to do this thing for my brother."

Fach asked to hear it, and they played the recording for him. Fach smiled and said "That's the track. It's got a brightness to it. It kind of floats a foot higher than the other songs when you listen to it.-here's where wiki-boy cut and pasted fromhttp://www.superseventies.com/sw_youaintseennothinyet.html

Juno Award for best-selling single of 1974.
Billboard-"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" debuted at number 65 on September 21, 1974, and moved to the top of the Hot 100 seven weeks later. It was the first and only chart-topper for BTO.
#1 in November, same year

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This is from what I think is their third album, "Taste the Secret".
It's about meatshakes.

A fantastic animated music video for Radiohead's Paranoid Android (from their third album, OK Computer) by Magnus Carlsson. Fits the song very well, with its bizarre feel of angels/mermaids & politics/society - ENJOY!