Best One-Hit Wonders

tigerwoods99

Skee-lo

groverat

[quote]And yes, "Cannonball" by The Breeders. ASS KICKING track! Would I be going to far if I said that song makes me...well, you know...randy. Frisky.<hr></blockquote>



No way, because <a href="http://ohiobio.org/kdeal.jpg"; target="_blank">Kim Deal</a> is hot and she rules.



Never heard "Fields of Fire".





trickfall:



Thanks for the vote of confidence.



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pscates

[quote]Originally posted by groverat:

<strong>Never heard "Fields of Fire".[ 06-18-2002: Message edited by: groverat ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



If you want to check it out, it's in my iDisk public folder, all there by itself...can't miss it!



Can you get to that from a PC? I don't know...I'm asking. When you snag it, let me know so I can remove it. It's taking up 4MB.

groverat

No, but I can give you a place to upload it if you like.



Go ahead and take it off, that 10MB is very precious, I understand.



You have a private message.



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pscates

You have "Fields of Fire", floating loose there. You can file it however you need to. Grabbed some Jay Farrar stuff and poked around a bit to see what was what.



You want to talk about a "so bad it's good" collection? I've got an EXQUISITE collection of early 80's/MTV one-hit brit/synth/new wave nonsense, plus some cool American early 80's stuff like Romeo Void, Josie Cotton, etc.



Then I got all that cheesy 70's goodness: "Afternoon Delight", "Chevy Van", "Summer Breeze", "Dream Weaver", etc.







I LOVE that crap!

steve666

[quote]Originally posted by pscates:

<strong>Don McLean: "American Pie", "Starry, Starry Night" and what else?



I can't think of the third one.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Castles in the Air. My personal fav of his..........

hmurchison

[quote] "Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman <hr></blockquote>



I actually liked her song "Give me one reason" better than Fast Car. Social Issued based songs have a hard time getting good radio play but it's a sacrifice that many artists make to sing "their" music.

tmp

I think VH-1 did a special on this a few months ago.



Don't forget Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "relax". Especially in the Ultra-rare Brian DePalma directed video.

amorph

Don't forget the one that launched MTV: "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles.

flounder

I'm shocked no one has mentioned this:

"Tainted Love" by whoever the hell did it. HUGE one hit wonder.

flounder

Just thought of another one!

"I'll be there for you" by the Rembrandts.

In other words, the "Friends" song.

I personally wouldn't call it a good song but I would say that is definetly the biggest fairly recent one hit wonder.

tmp

[quote]Originally posted by Flounder:

<strong>I'm shocked no one has mentioned this:

"Tainted Love" by whoever the hell did it. HUGE one hit wonder.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Soft Cell



Didn't the "Friends" song become a hit because of the tv show? I think that's a thread in the making.......

tmp

oops.......



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stimuli

Fine Young Cannibals, She drives me crazy,

All the Breeders' songs,(25 hit wonders...?)

Suzanne Vega, Tom's diner (remixed one, way funky)



Amd LOTs of techno tracks, but I'll spare you.

jeffyboy

That VH 1 deal was pretty weird. It seemed like half the songs were disco, and they didn't list many tunes before that era.



Number One on their chart: The Macarena!

<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



Jeff

pfflam

"Pictures of Matchstick men" -by the Status Quo

"Hold Your Head Up" --by Argent

"Too Little Too Late" --by The Dream Syndicate (from their first, only good (great) album)



Nick Cave has an underground following "Red Right Hand" is an anomoly.

He Had kind of a hit in the early eighties -though it too was very undrground-with his band the Birthday Party doing a song called "She's Hit"



Don MaClean also did "Vincent"

pscates

[quote]Originally posted by pfflam:

<strong>Don MaClean also did "Vincent"</strong><hr></blockquote>



"Starry, Starry Night" and "Vincent" = same song.

groverat

"Brimful of Asha" - Cornershop

trick fall

[quote] I think VH-1 did a special on this a few months ago. <hr></blockquote>



They edited that at my job, nothing like eating lunch and hearing the same fifteen second snippet of a song over and over again.



I'll add three more Doctor and The Medics - Spirit in The Sky, Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe and Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Rocket F111.



BTW I actually saw Frankie Goes To Hollywood and it was a kick ass show.

ghost_user_name

My favorite is Joe Dassin - L'ete de Indien



<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/mika_mk2001/.cv/mika_mk2001/Public/Joe Dassin -L'ete de Indien.mp3-binhex.hqx&quot; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/mika_mk2001/.cv/mika_mk2001/Public/Joe Dassin -L'ete de Indien.mp3-binhex.hqx&lt;/a&gt;





mika.