Your TOP 1 HIT Wonder
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Mine has to be
Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby, I remember being all over this song when it came out. I run into Robert Matthew Van Winkle all the time down in South Florida Palm Beach County. Even bowled next to him and his daughter and a decent bowler who needs to stay out of trouble.
Gary Neuman.......Cars
Bobby McFerrin....Don't worry be Happy
Haddaway...........What Is Love?
Survivor..............Eye Of The Tiger
Carl Douglas.........Kung Fu Fighting
You'll have any?
Peace
Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby, I remember being all over this song when it came out. I run into Robert Matthew Van Winkle all the time down in South Florida Palm Beach County. Even bowled next to him and his daughter and a decent bowler who needs to stay out of trouble.
Gary Neuman.......Cars
Bobby McFerrin....Don't worry be Happy
Haddaway...........What Is Love?
Survivor..............Eye Of The Tiger
Carl Douglas.........Kung Fu Fighting
You'll have any?
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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I know they were around for a while and reformed recently but to me they're one hit wonders when it comes to mainstream popularity -
Love and Rockets - So Alive
also have to throw in
James - Laid
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
As annoying as it was, I can't say I didn't sing along every single time (of the millions of times it got played)
Chumbawamba - Tub Thumping
there's so many...I'll have to edit this post I'm sure
So no one catches you?
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I remember that one the other s I don't know
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Troglodyte - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRXQEA0yj0
Coconut - Harry Nilsson
Whip It - Devo
want to be enlightened"
That was a classic and I loved that song but they had another hit *Bertha Butt* I both cuts on vynil. "AHHH Sock To Ya Daddy, Ahhh Sock It To y a Daddy, Right on right On"
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
That reminds of the song by Bobby *Boris* Pickett called *Monster Mash*
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
The kids now a days don't know what they missed
want to be enlightened"
Summerfest 2006
"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
James ... aside from Laid, the song "Say Something" was pretty big, in Boston at least ...
some of mine ... (edit, these aren't my Top 10 ... but I limited it to the first ten that came to mind ... I could do this all night off the top of my head, I'm a music geek)
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing outside a Broken Phonebooth wiht Money in My Hand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXPdbgBuxAU
Michael Penn - No Myth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC2Zm13AvIo
Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours (again, "hit") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGwonG3iGaI
Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK-JkHDAW7A
Semisonic - Closing Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmLmIArqWM
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdpllAHo0ng
The Vapors - Turning Japanese http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQyClNEfncg
Men Wihtout Hats - Safety Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg
Tommy Tutone - Jenny 867-5309 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqUPApCUt90
Nena - 99 Luft baloons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYQTFudrqc
(got caught up inthe 80s at the end ... probably had something to do with MTV)
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
I forgot about Turning Japanese.
I love Devo but what other hits has Devo had???
want to be enlightened"
hmm ... hits ... admittedly, they never had as big a hit as "whip it" .... but ...
Their cover of the Stones, "Satifaction" was pretty big ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8fORGIhbAc
Other songs that I remember that *I* thought were at least, semi hits .... Just a Girl, That's Good, Peekaboo, their cover of Workin' in a Coalmine
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
want to be enlightened"
serious? :eek: i reckon half a dozen divinyls tracks get a good spin on the radio here
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Such a good song. I've never gotten round to checking out their other stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXSky8k22o
Awesome song #2;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcNUx0-XEfw&feature=related
Enjoy
Katowice 2007
London 2007
think they had another one too.
Although there is a chance he had one other song that charted a bit.
Yeah, for some reason that song got old quick. I always loved these two though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpxNXZCLBg
This one is a Dylan cover and not an official video but it was off of the "Born on the Fourth of July" soundtrack. Great movie, great soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OubGZN1QOE
and
New Radicals- Get What You Give
damnit, you beat me to the punch on the new radicals... i love that song!
James???
Do you consider a 20+ year career ('81 to '01, they reformed last year), 10 albums and a shitload of hit singles to qualify them as one hit wonders?
'Sit Down' was massive years before 'Laid' came out and they even had an 18-track "Best Of" album which anyone with an interest in the 90's UK indie scene should check out.
They were third on the bill at Neil Young's all day gig in Finsbury Park in 93, followed by the special guests that day... Pearl Jam!
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
are you from the uk?
here in the states, they've never had a single song become a hit besides laid. same for blur. hell, nobody has played an oasis song since 'dont look back in anger.'
Yeah I'm from the UK, was it really that obvious?! :-)
I know this is a US-based post but most of the other bands that are listed on this post were one hit wonders in the UK too. James really stand out from the rest because they actually had a long and successful career over here.
If you guys heard some of the shit that become "hits" over here these days you would laugh your asses off in pity for us!
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
i dont doubt it. im just always fascinated at these anomalies. like you said, most of these are universal one-hits. and then there are plenty of bands that are universally beloved (i think pearl jam would be one). but then there are those odd examples of bands that are HUGE over there and unheard of here. most of britpop falls into that category. i guess that's why it's called britpop?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA,, Wipe out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg
Also, Strawberry alarm clock - Incense and pepper mints:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFF1uKlsEY0
The longest one hit wonder song- Iron Butterfy - Inna Gadda da Vida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02fBoam-14&feature=related
Ok, well,
I'm too sexy for my shirt and I gotta go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZDG6__Zfc
Don't be mankind. ~Captain Beefheart
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settle down tiger. they had one hit here. I'm sure there are many bands/artists that had many hits here and were one hit wonders on your side. the OP never stated a one hit wonder in a particular country.
admonishment acknowledged....now got any more to add to the thread?
So no one catches you?
I'm from the US ... I'll disagree with this statement about James ... as stated a page ago, "Say Something" was pretty big here as well ... not as big as Laid, but played on the radio often.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rv7rABbwvU
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez