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steve mcqueen by prefab sprout comes to my mind. it only hit in the uk after its 3rd reissue of the single
also pocketful of kryptonite by spin doctors is solid but i think it had 2 charting singles
It's the one hit criteria that makes it tough. I didn't much listen to anything top forty after 1985, so I can name a bunch of great indie albums that didn't chart. But if it was a good album that charted, it likely had several hits on it. You've really posed a great challenge. It may take me a week to come up with something.
i thought of another but it depends on how much you like frank zappa, but it fits to a tee for me
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch had Zappa's ONLY top 40 hit ever, and is also a great album. But I'm a huge Zappa fan so YMMV
Zappa has always been tough for me. His stuff is so out there and so complex, you gotta actively listen to it like a hundred times before you can even scratch the surface of understanding it.
The guy was definitely a generational musical genius.
Found one that's close.
Oingo Boingo had Weird Science chart at 45 on Dead Man's Party.
They're admittedly an acquired taste, but if you were in southern California in the eighties, they were... How do I state this? Foundational.
dead man's party is a great record