The Best One Hit Wonder ever?

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Jeanie wrote:
    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. :)

    being a one-hit wonder doesn't mean the rest of your catalog is no good. just means if you ask anyone who the band is, they're not gonna know more than one song. let's face it... to 99% of the world, that's the only song simple minds ever had. blind melon suffered the same fate even though their albums top almost anything else done in the 90s.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    soulsinging wrote:
    being a one-hit wonder doesn't mean the rest of your catalog is no good. just means if you ask anyone who the band is, they're not gonna know more than one song. let's face it... to 99% of the world, that's the only song simple minds ever had. blind melon suffered the same fate even though their albums top almost anything else done in the 90s.

    Yeah, I think you're suffering from American music industry disease ss. :D

    Coz I'm quite sure you ask anyone here in Oz or in Europe who Simple Minds is and they'll tell you all about them. :)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, I think you're suffering from American music industry disease ss. :D

    Coz I'm quite sure you ask anyone here in Oz or in Europe who Simple Minds is and they'll tell you all about them. :)

    lord knows i could. i used to love simple minds back in the day. :D
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  • Pearler
    Pearler Posts: 191
    I rate simple minds with fine young cannibals.


    Best one hit wonder, Stevie Wright. Evie.

    24 bottles in a case, 24 hours in a day..... coincidence ? I think not.

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    lord knows i could. i used to love simple minds back in the day. :D

    Me too! Well I still love em now and I'm more than happy to listen to them or go to see them if the opportunity arose! :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Pearler wrote:
    I rate simple minds with fine young cannibals.


    Best one hit wonder, Stevie Wright. Evie.

    24 bottles in a case, 24 hours in a day..... coincidence ? I think not.

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    YIKES!! :eek:
    NOPE!!!

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  • Pearler
    Pearler Posts: 191
    Jeanie wrote:
    YIKES!! :eek:


    hmmm..

    and I thoroughly recommend the lamb kebab.
  • allforcarrie
    allforcarrie Posts: 60
    Vanilla Ice
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    No love for Come On Eileen?!
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    The Mavericks- Just Wanna Dance The Night Away.
  • Ricsard
    Ricsard Posts: 1,943
    soulsinging wrote:
    being a one-hit wonder doesn't mean the rest of your catalog is no good. just means if you ask anyone who the band is, they're not gonna know more than one song. let's face it... to 99% of the world, that's the only song simple minds ever had. blind melon suffered the same fate even though their albums top almost anything else done in the 90s.

    I agree
    then I vote for Bitter Sweet Symphony although THE VERVE are one the most underrated alternative/rock bands EVER!!!
    Thank God they returned this year!!!
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  • Ricsard
    Ricsard Posts: 1,943
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, I think you're suffering from American music industry disease ss. :D

    Coz I'm quite sure you ask anyone here in Oz or in Europe who Simple Minds is and they'll tell you all about them. :)

    I agree.
    Simple Minds was really big here in Europe but I am sure there are still many fans nowadays. SAME WITH A-HA!!! (They have never been one hit wonders!)

    But in the U.S. bands like Travis, Texas or The Cardigans were one hit wonders as well however they were/have been pretty big on the old continent with many many hits!
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  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,206
    stu gee wrote:
    Crash Test Dummies had a few good songs did they not?
    They might have had some ok songs, but nothing else of theirs even comes close to being a hit like Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.



    Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" was a great pick, whoever picked that one. I think that song would get my vote.
  • Math
    Math Posts: 71
    Tek Money wrote:
    K's Choice - Not an Addict

    In Belgium K's Choice is obviously not a "One Hit" band.

    At the risk of being hated I noticed that most people only know one Soundgarden song. I let you guess wich one... Sorry
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Ricsard wrote:
    I agree
    then I vote for Bitter Sweet Symphony although THE VERVE are one the most underrated alternative/rock bands EVER!!!
    Thank God they returned this year!!!

    Lucky Man, The Drugs Don't Work and Sonnet were all big songs for The Verve.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, I think you're suffering from American music industry disease ss. :D

    Coz I'm quite sure you ask anyone here in Oz or in Europe who Simple Minds is and they'll tell you all about them. :)

    cmon now, you know to the rest of the world aussies don't matter ;)

    no one around here knows who silverchair is either. they're a one-hit wonder to most americans as well.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    facepollution wrote:
    Lucky Man, The Drugs Don't Work and Sonnet were all big songs for The Verve.

    i heard drug's don't work on the radio once. other than that, nobody i know can name a verve song outside bittersweet symphony. i think he's got a good point there!

    that's like saying becos life wasted and gone got played on radio for 2 weeks and hit the charts, they were big hits. let's face it, nobody knows those songs. playing the newest single of a band with a recent hit doesn't make the new one a hit.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    facepollution wrote:
    Lucky Man

    I heard that song in the movie The Girl Next Door...it's a great track.

    Speaking of Verve.

    How about Verve Pipe-The Freshman

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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    pearl jam alive- anything they put out after that was crap. ;)

    that song by sponge. "in a world of human wreckage" forgot the name.
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    12345AGNST1 wrote:

    that song by sponge. "in a world of human wreckage" forgot the name.

    Molly? or Plowed?

    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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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,107
    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.

    simple minds

    and they had a bunch of hits
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,107
    cars

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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    soulsinging wrote:
    i heard drug's don't work on the radio once. other than that, nobody i know can name a verve song outside bittersweet symphony. i think he's got a good point there!

    that's like saying becos life wasted and gone got played on radio for 2 weeks and hit the charts, they were big hits. let's face it, nobody knows those songs. playing the newest single of a band with a recent hit doesn't make the new one a hit.

    Ok maybe they weren't so big outside of the UK/Europe, over here they were MASSIVE hits. That album sold a shit load and made them huge over here - big enough that they have just sold out an arena tour after reuniting after a few years. I understand what you are saying, but in the UK they would never be considered a one hit wonder.
  • LineOneMightyFine
    LineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    facepollution wrote:
    No love for Come On Eileen?!


    That's the one I thought of immediately!

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  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    pearl jam alive- anything they put out after that was crap. ;)

    You'd find a lot of people over here that would support your theory ;) (we don't have any rock radio stations)

    I'm also one of those who could rattle off lots of Simple Minds hits, seems like a European thing.

    Regarding The Verve: I think that's the very rare case of 'One Album Wonder'. All the hits/songs that they are remembered for are on Urban Hymns, no one ever talks about songs from their other albums.

    My vote goes to 'Pass the Dutchie' from Musical Youth :D
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,107
    Sonja_S wrote:

    My vote goes to 'Pass the Dutchie' from Musical Youth :D


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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Math wrote:
    At the risk of being hated I noticed that most people only know one Soundgarden song. I let you guess wich one... Sorry

    Maybe, but it wasn't their only "hit". Even if they didn't have many top 40 hits here in the states, they were big on MTV, if anything else, for several of their videos.

    I'll give my nomination to "Come on Eileen" also. I still love that song! I can think of several one hit wonder songs I like, but this one stands out. Or maybe "Stars" by Hum, but that's probably a stretch to even call that a hit.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,228
    Edie Briekel and the ???? with the song "What I Am" was she married to Paul Simon?

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  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    Dont know if anyone's mentioned it but Bran Van 300 - Drinking in LA
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Nah man, they had another. A great song.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpxNXZCLBg

    Reminds me of a high school girlfriend. She loved Edie Brickell.

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