Poor Nada Surf. They were doomed to one-hit-wonder status in many eyes after a certain hit song (which shall go unnamed here) and its video were everywhere for a while in the summer of `96, then suddenly vanished. Despite the hit, the album High/Low only had moderate sales. When 1998’s The Proximity Effect didn’t deliver another hit song, Elektra dropped them and the band disappeared for five years. [more]