90's one hit wonders

[ButterflyBlood]

brought up on another board. everything thought up so far:

Hum - Stars
Snow - Informer
Nada Surf - Popular
Spone - Plowed
The Refreshments- Bandidos
Space Hog- In the meantime
Haddaway- What Is Love
House of Pain- Jump Around
Summercamp - Drawer
OMC - How Bizarre
Jimmy Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray? (wow did that one suck!)
Harvey Danger- Flagpole Sitta
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Cherry Poppin Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot
Elastica - Connection
Skee Lo - Too Short
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
Nine Days - Story of a Girl
Artificial Joy Club - Sick and Beautiful
SevenMaryThree - Cumbersome
Chumbawamba - Tub Thumping
Freak Nasty - Da Dip
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Better than Ezra - Good
Semisonic - Closing Time
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Los Del Rio - Macarena
At The Drive In - One Armed Scissor (even though they were really an underground band that just hit the mainstream before breaking up but they'll be remembered as a one hit wonder now)

any more?

Also would Pavement - Cut Your Hair count since they were really an underground band who just had one mainstream hit but a huge underground following?

[arcos]

1. A local website has the top 25 one hit wonders...

http://www.89decibeles.com/

it's in spanish, though :hi:

[Forkboy]

2. Technically

I can see why Chumbawamba is considered a one hit wonder,but people should really check out everything they did up until Tubthumping.They've been around since the mid 80's and have done some of the best agit-prop music this side of The Ex and Crass.Especially check out Pictures Of Starving Children Sell Records and Never Mind The Ballots.A great band,even though their last 2 dont move me much.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Here's a few more:

White Town - Your Woman
Dead Eye Dick - New Age Girl
School of Fish - Three Strange Days
Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree
Dada - Dizz Knee Land
Edwin Collins - A Girl Like You
Sugar - Your Favorite Thing

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Wow!

I thought of 4 of those tunes before i read your post.

I can't believe you mentioned Dead Eye Dick! My three piece band does New Age Girl and Perfect Family. Those are good tunes, especially the latter. My four piece does DizNee Land, too. It works now that there's a president George again, too! People love that tune.

Our tastes must be quite similar, given that i thought of 4 of the same 7 tunes you did.
The Professor

[ButterflyBlood]

14. and strange

because I only know of two

[ButterflyBlood]

4. more listed

Tal Bachman - She's So High
Tag Team - Whoomp There it Is!
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Lou Bega - Mambo #5
Mono - Life In Mono
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Change In My Hand
Feeder - High
Go West - King of Wishful Thinking
Wax - Southern California
Imperial Teen - Yoo Hoo
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA
Candlebox - Far Behind
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Blind Melon - No Rain
Fretblanket - Into The Ocean
Republica - Ready To Go
K's Choice - Not An Addict
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Marcy's Playground - Sex and Candy
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
Local H - All The Kids are Right
Unsane - Scrape
Buckcherry - Lit Up
EMF - Unbelievable

[Kat45]

5. I have to disagree with Candlebox as a one-hit wonder.

They had three songs, albeit from the same album, that got decent radio airplay. One was "You" and I can't think of the other one right at this moment. Man, I loved that band; think I'll pop in the CD when I get home.

I guess that was the only Buckcherry song that got airplay, but they had a second excellent album out that I constantly played. (I also went to see them twice and I loved them.) But I suppose it's hard to get airplay/have a "hit" when you have songs like "Porno Star" with the lyrics "Don't you know we fuck for money. I'm a big-dicked motherfucking porno star."

[NightTrain]

6. Sinead O'Connor

"Nothing Compares 2 U" was from 1990, wasn't it?

[Kamika]

7. babylon zoo

spaceman

[Loonman]

9. Wow, I can tell that the late 90s was when I wrote off "modern" radio

I only remember like 10 of those.

[GOPisEvil]

10. Nada Surf is back!

Haven't you heard "Happy Kid"? :shrug:

Anyway, they're touring this fall with another great newish band: The Long Winters.

[Cush]

11. forgot about Hum

"She missed the train to Mars......."

'Are Jimmy Ray...WHo wants to know!' ....I sure as hell don't want to


Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Change In My Hand ....ah, I kept hearing that song on the radio a few months ago, but they never said the title/band...was driving me nuts

And don't forget:

Tripping Daisy: 'Got a girl'

[NightTrain]

12. I stopped listening to Top 40 radio...

...the year I graduated from high school (1984). As such, I'm unfamiliar with most of the songs you listed.

However, I recently asked a rock critic friend of mine to recommend some good '90s music to me. He came up with a list of about 100 songs, one of which was OMC's "How Bizarre." I must say, he was right! I found the song just quirky enough to delight the hell out of me.

So now, there's at least one top ten hit from the end of the millennium that I know and like! :-)

[LuLu550]

13. When did the "Thong Song" come out?

By Cisco...was it still the 1990s or was it 2000?
LuLu