Whats Your Favorite One Hit Wonder?

[Parche]

:shrug: :hi:

[av8rdave]

1. Counting Blue Cars...Dishwallah

They have a great acoustic version of it.

That and I like all two hits that Bowling for Soup had. They always make me chuckle: Ohio (Come Back to Texas) and The Girl All the Bad Guys Want.

[TrogL]

2. In the year 2525 - Zagar and Evans

[BlueIris]

3. Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Eagle Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight."

Good stuff.

[av8rdave]

4. Breakfast @ Tiffany's is another great one

[Parche]

7. Hey

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[panhead1961]

5. Steeler's Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbqML4ioE8

[Bossy Monkey]

14. "Star" was also a hit

Hey look! Dave Letterman was in a folk-rock band back in the '70s! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BogKAVESxUE

[dawgmom]

6. Jump Around -- House of Pain

Jump Around -- House of Pain
Play that Funky Music
Whip it (Devo)
In a Gadda Da Vida (Iron Butterfly)
Mickey (Tony Basil -- pure pop)

[ohiosmith]

8. Mary Beth McCabe

Zowie!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. You Only Get What You Give--The Free Radicals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WgM6dNLTE

[ceile]

11. Love that song!

Always makes me smile.

[jobycom]

13. Great song, but aren't they a two hit wonder?

I mean, I love this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8aCFYW5eUU

[SalmonChantedEvening]

37. Dupe - D'oh!

[Jade Fox]

50. Good one!! (New Radicals)

[Jade Fox]

52. dupe

[ceile]

10. Here are 3 of my faves:

Marcy Playground "Sex and Candy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI

Primitive Radio Gods "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LKVZ4NTfUc

The Primitives "Crash"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFo2-xZiks

[MrCoffee]

42. Everything you post freaks me right out

[lizziegrace]

12. Can't decide

Boy Meets Girl - "Waiting for a Star to Fall"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2WxSNuU_8


or Spiral Staircase - "More Today Than Yesterday"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v83JulvVol0&feature=related

[jobycom]

15. Tainted Love, or This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Wr8J8faGA&feature=related

[Forkboy]

19. The sad part is Tainted Love is one of the worst songs on that album.

Just typical. :)

[JCMach1]

60. Of course there is always "Sex Dwarf"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jiqvQLiug

[Forkboy]

63. LOL...exactly.

And Frustration, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tzqxE0bcyI

[progressoid]

27. I picked up a Kings CD this summer at a used vinyl/cd place.

Forgot how much I liked them.

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Either "867-5309 /Jenny" or "Mexican Radio"

I bet you can now guess my age within five years.:)

[Dora]

18. 39.

[Bossy Monkey]

43. 46, but I'll take 39 any day! n/t

[mokawanis]

24. Love Mexican Radio

Wall of Voodoo made some good music.

[Deep13]

17. right now: Heat of the Moment (Asia)

sorry.

[jobycom]

33. My girlfriend used that song to explain why she cheated on me.

Kind of ruined it for me back then. :)

[bbernardini]

36. Technically, Asia isn't a one-hit wonder...

They had #10 and #17 hits on the Billboard top 100, and several more big hits on the "Mainstream Rock Tracks" chart.

[Taverner]

20. Video Killed the Radio Star

Our generations MANTRA DAMMIT!!!

[Flaxbee]

47. Yes!

I was thinking of "Come on Eileen" just because it was my best friend's FAVORITE SONG EVER and we had to listen to it over and over and over and over and over and ...

But Video Killed the Radio Star is much, much better. Much better. Phew.

[Bucky]

21. Anything by the Beatles

... of whom only one has been "hit."

[racaulk]

22. "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred and "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls

:woohoo:

[TZ]

23. No surprise there

Although I believe DuStrange is also a fan of "I'm Too Sexy"...Nothing wrong with being Sexy after all...

[SacredCow]

28. I can't get with ya on the Right Said Fred....

the overexposure was just vicious with that one...

LOVE the DiVinyls, though... "I Touch Myself" was a signature song of one of the cover bands I was in back in the day...

:hi:

[TZ]

25. Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_aWY5PubI

[racaulk]

31. Another good one!

:thumbsup:

[bbernardini]

32. They were only a one-hit wonder in the US.

In the UK, they had 8 Top 20 hits ("Geno" went to #1 2 years before "Come On Eileen.")

[WinkyDink]

40. My choice!

[KamaAina]

41. Here we go again...

the last person I had to remind that it is Dexys Midnight Runners, with no apostrophe in the British manner, was the esteemed MrScorpio. A substantial Dexys subthread ensued... :popcorn:

[One_Life_To_Give]

26. Hues Corp

So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion

To rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby
Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over
Rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby
Rock the boat-t-t-t-t

[SacredCow]

29. Right now it's "Feed the Tree"

Belly from early 90's (I can't recall the exact year).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvl32UzZ3Co

I went through a phase of really digging female oriented bands and artists, so Belly, the Sundays, Throwing Muses, Cranberries, Liz Phair, Juliana Hatfield, Tracy Bonham, etc, etc, etc... were regularly on my playlists.

[JCMach1]

61. They put out a couple of good albums...

[JCMach1]

62. Melt With You- Modern English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-3XqcXbbE

[flvegan]

30. "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin

:popcorn:

[jobycom]

34. Goofy.

He said One Hit Wonders, not Inexplicable Cultic Wonders.

[TZ]

35. You realize that LynneSin is gonna kick your ass right?

:rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

38. Been 14 days since I don't know when...

Do ya know what I mean? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1oFeVAUo6w&feature=related

[anneboleyn]

39. Probably "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors

[grannylib]

51. Loved that...also "Walking on Sunshine" Katrina and the Wave

[MrCoffee]

44. Chumbawumba - "Tubthumping"

[Forkboy]

65. The sad thing is that Chumbawamba did a ton of awesome shit long before that song came out.

They literally have dozens and dozens of songs that are near perfect examples of agit-prop punk, going back to their first two albums in the 80's, Pictures Of Starving Children Sell Records, and Never Mind The Ballots. They did the song The Day The Nazi Died on live tv in Germany one night.

Check out this song, Invasion, from their first album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOzMHT79Pg

The first world's got greedy, we're consuming it all
The third world's got hunger and military control
This unequal balance is a master plan
One gets rich from the other's land

They've got it all worked out - and we give our consent
They've got it all worked out for Central America
They've got it all worked out for Africa
And in our naivety we believe myths and over consume
And give them our consent

Dying in the shadow of the USA
"Let them eat bullshit, make the land pay"
Make a fast deal with the local elite
Then substitute cash-crops where once grew wheat

Build a cycle of dependence on a starvation-diet
With food as a weapon, workers stay quiet
And multinational names have blood on their brands
From taking an interest in misused lands

Del Monte, Tate & Lyle, Ralston Purina
Coca-Cola, RTZ, and Unilever
All packaging lifestyles for the glamorous west
Expand the company, exploit the rest

We are not isolated by distance
But by greed and our racist history
Just a wall's width away
Still impossible to reach across
This space in front on me

It's we who write this history
We who guard the money-tree
We support the companies
We stole the colonies

And when the system starts to crack
We'll have to be ready to give it all back

See the space which lies between the rich and the poor
How the space increases as we keep on taking more
Keeping that space between us all
Is how the west can keep control...

With a mission and a cheque book promising aid
Posing for the camera the United Nations man came
He talked of control and the terrible drought
And the way that the west would bail them out
They he stopped smiling and talked conditions
Of mutual aid; of American wishes
Sending in aid with sewn-on strings
If they won't buy arms - then it's pulled back in

Feeding the world American style
Col Sanders has an empire behind his smile
Back up the investments with a military regime
Then cleverly say: "It's to keep the world free!"

But the multinational myths are beginning to fall
The poor don't want aid, they want control

And if we really want to see the Third World eat
We've got to see through the wrapping on the high street
Past the barriers of culture that dictate our lives
We're busy consuming as the other half dies

And the answer's not a question on charity -
Not whilst profit's still the top priority -
So let the glossy shop-fronts know what to expect
And you Bosses of Companies...

..and the cycle of hungry children
Will keep on going round
Until we burn the multinationals to the ground

And here's them doing Homophobia live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOMI-eeNs-E

[bluesbassman]

45. I got four for ya.

Mississippi Queen - Mountain 1970

In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry 1970

Never Been Any Reason - Head East 1975

Welcome To The Boomtown - David & David 1986

[Bullwinkle925]

71. howdy . . .

love the Mungo Jerry hit. now it will be my earworm for the day.,

how's things? i've been working the Obama campaign here in Texas as a poll-greeter. very interesting. looking forward to getting back to the real world of California.
how is your son doing with his games?

later - gator. . . .

bw925

[Dinger]

46. I Fought The Law (And The Law Won)

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

[Rancid Crabtree]

48. dunno, maybe Rock On, David Essex...Seasons in the Sun (barf) Terry Jacks,

[nomorenomore08]

49. It was gonna be either The Proclaimers' "500 Miles" or Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face," so

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCL9evXkeC8

[Jade Fox]

53. Life in a Northern Town--Dream Academy

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

Did they have any other hits?

[Swede]

54. Sukiyaki - Ue wo muite arukou - Kyu Sakamoto

Great Japanese love song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k

Ue o muite arukoo
I look up when I walk
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni
So the tears won't fall
Omoidasu haru no hi
Remembering those happy spring days
Hitoribotchi no yoru
But tonight I'm all alone
Ue o muite arukoo
I look up when I walk
Nijinda hoshi o kazoete
Counting the stars with tearful eyes
Omoidasu natsu no hi
Remembering those happy summer days
Hitoribotchi no yoru
But tonight I'm all alone
Shiawase wa kumo no ue ni
Happiness lies beyond the clouds
Shiawase wa sora no ue ni
Happiness lies above the sky
Ue o muite arukoo
I look up when I walk
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni
So the tears won't fall
Nakinagara aruku
Though my heart is filled with sorrow
Hitoribotchi no yoru
For tonight I'm all alone
(whistling) (whistling)
Omoidasu aki no hi
Remembering those happy autumn days
Hitoribotchi no yoru
But tonight I'm all alone
Kanashimi wa hoshi no kage ni
Sadness hides in the shadow of the stars
Kanashimi wa tsuki no kage ni
Sadness lurks in the shadow of the moon
Ue o muite arukoo
I look up when I walk
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni
So the tears won't fall
Nakinagara aruku
Though my heart is filled with sorrow
Hitoribotchi no yoru
For tonight I'm all alone
(whistling) (whistling)

[Tom Kitten]

55. Go Back!

By Crabby Appleton!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HnJ06aHPb8

[Jamastiene]

56. Hands down, it was Falco's Rock Me Amadeus.

That was one of the best. Another one had to be that Mexican Radio song. I can't even remember who did that, but I loved it.

[britpopper]

58. Falco was great...

but technically Der Kommissar and Vienna Calling were semi-hits too...not disagreeing with your choice though...and Mexican Radio was by Wall of Voodoo...cheers!

[britpopper]

57. Fade To Grey

by Visage...good early new wave synth pop...brilliant in my opinion

[OmahaBlueDog]

59. Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass

[Tuesday Afternoon]

64. "Timothy" the Buoys

http://www.youtube.com/v/DGNdvKvbxYQ&hl=en&fs=1

[Wetzelbill]

66. Redbone "Come and Get Your love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xLi39E9PbA

[Tabasco_Dave]

67. Donnie Iris - Ah Leah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyJ-qdigWQ

[Lasher]

68. 'Friday on my Mind' by the Easybeats. n/t

[Rob H.]

69. "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling

I actually tracked down and bought a used 80s music compilation just so I could have that one song.

ETA: "Goodbye, Horses" by Q Lazzarus & Garvey is a good one, too. That song was impossible to find anywhere until it showed up on the Clerks II soundtrack.

[speedoo]

70. Easy. Louie, Louie.

Love that song and performance.