“Sweet Child” went on to hit number one on the charts, helping Guns N’ Roses’ album Appetite for Destruction secure its spot as the top-selling debut album of any band in the U.S. So let this be a lesson to every creative person reading this: What you like, and what your audience likes, are probably going to be very different. It’s probably best to just go with it.

– Colin Murdock, Cracked.com.

Via Jonah Keri, an excellent read on some unlikely hits. I knew the backstories to a few of these, but not all.

On a vaguely related note — and in the spirit of ego-boosting established by the last feedback-form post — I’m probably going to queue up some TedQuarters Greatest Hits (ie reruns) for whatever day I wind up taking off to move next week. If you’ve got a particular favorite post that you’d like to make sure your fellow readers see (or that you’d like to read again but are too lazy to search for), please suggest it here: