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The Best One Hit Wonder ever?

tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
edited October 2007 in Other Music
It's gotta be A-ha's "Take on Me" in my book
also, Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground and Turning Japanese - The Vapors too...
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  • civ_eng_girlciv_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    tonadax wrote:
    Marcy Playground

    There were a couple other songs on that album that I liked:

    •Sherry Fraser
    •Saint Joe On The School Bus

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  • xSmackSoundxxSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    Yeah dude... Marcy Playground is no one hit wonder...
  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,178
    Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine

    seriously, what else have they put out?

    Dead or Alive is a good nomination too...
  • stu geestu gee Posts: 1,174
    Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Tek Money wrote:
    K's Choice - Not an Addict

    That is a great track....summer of '97, they played the hell out of that song.

    •Van Halen-Nerf Herder

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,178
    other nominations from myself (possibly more to follow):

    Kajagoogoo - "Too Shy"
    Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
    Dee-Lite - "Groove is in the Heart"
    Thomas Dolby - "She Blinded Me With Science"
    Los Del Rio - "Macarena"
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    tonadax wrote:
    It's gotta be A-ha's "Take on Me" in my book

    i'd also pick "don't you forget about me" from the breakfast club movie. so good nobody even knows who played it.

    i also dig "counting bllue cars" by dishwalla.
  • stu geestu gee Posts: 1,174
    markymark550 wrote:
    other nominations from myself (possibly more to follow):

    Kajagoogoo - "Too Shy"
    Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
    Dee-Lite - "Groove is in the Heart"
    Thomas Dolby - "She Blinded Me With Science"
    Los Del Rio - "Macarena"

    Crash Test Dummies had a few good songs did they not?

    Another one i can think of is the one that goes How Bizzare, How Bizzarre, cant remember who did it.
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.
  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    soulsinging wrote:
    i'd also pick "don't you forget about me" from the breakfast club movie. so good nobody even knows who played it.

    Simple Minds man....they had a great follow up: Alive and Kicking.

    Plus, Jim Kerr was, at one time, married to Chrissy Hynde.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    stu gee wrote:
    Another one i can think of is the one that goes How Bizzare, How Bizzarre, cant remember who did it.

    Otara Millionaires Club

    O.M.C.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • stu geestu gee Posts: 1,174
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Otara Millionaires Club

    O.M.C.

    PBM

    With a name like that im surpised they werent a lot more successful lol
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.
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    Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale

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  • red mosred mos Posts: 4,953
    soulsinging wrote:
    i'd also pick "don't you forget about me" from the breakfast club movie. so good nobody even knows who played it.

    i also dig "counting bllue cars" by dishwalla.

    the band is simple minds.
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    Who wants to know?

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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Tek Money wrote:
    Who wants to know?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y00PFJziRao

    You're digging up some stuff from my DJ days. Throw in some "Show Me Love" from Robyn and you've got 1998 wrapped up.

    PBM
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  • OdinOdin Posts: 599
    evenflow82 wrote:
    Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale

    their albums from 67-71 are brit psychedelia at its best, if you're into that stuff.

    Procol Harum is sick! Robin Trower rivals Hendrix and Clapton with his musicianship, IMO.
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    soulsinging wrote:
    i'd also pick "don't you forget about me" from the breakfast club movie. so good nobody even knows who played it.

    i also dig "counting bllue cars" by dishwalla.

    Oh I so have to correct you there Conor. :)

    Simple Minds are no one hit wonder.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C0kJ-hCK_8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIRHZ2lFeIA

    There are more, but you get the gist! ;)

    Simple Minds Sparkle in The Rain album had a hoard of hits and is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. Not to mention their "best of" Glittering Prize.

    Their hits include:

    Waterfront
    Don't you (forget about me)
    Alive and Kicking
    Sanctify Yourself
    Love Song
    Someone Somewhere In Summertime
    All The Things She Said
    Promised You A Miracle
    Glittering Prize
    Up On The Catwalk
    Speed Your Love To Me
    Belfast Child
    Book Of Brilliant Things


    Actually Jim Kerr and the boys are to me as important as U2. They have done some amazing things in music. :)
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    My favorite One Hit Wonder EVER would have to be

    Martha and The Muffins ~ Echo Beach. :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyzsBqk8u1w
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