Yep, Dexy's Midnight Runners. Dexy's One Hit Wonders. They cultivated that whole poor "street urchin" look quite well, huh?
And yes, Modern English's "I Melt With You". Great song...still holds up!
Early MTV was THE place for one-hitters! Here's another:
Pseudo Echo: "Funkytown" (not the late 70's disco-sounding one with the femal vocals...these were guys, from Australia - I think - guitar, bass, keyboard and drum. The guitarist sang lead. Great mulletts, as I recall...
Best One-Hit Wonder for me? The Rock Steady Crew with Hey You ... they were ace. Hmm, according to their website they can celebrate their 25th anniversary soon!
I guess it depends on which part of the world you're from...
Hehe, what about worst One-Hit Wonder? I nominate Snow's Informer!
Soundgarden had more hits than "Black Hole Sun"... didn't they?
Our Lady Peace rules, don't get me wrong, I love a lot of "one-hit wonders".</strong><hr></blockquote>
ok, this brings up a tricky concept. define "hit." is it just a song thats played alot on the radio? cause i hear a lot of songs by Our Lady Peace on the radio pretty regularly. i dont hear Soundgarden anymore really, although its been a lil while since they got big. but my point is, how can u differentiate a "hit" from merely a "popular" song?
the band "In Living Color" had some hit... something about Charisma . . . . but wowOwow the rest of their music was the worst gawdawful tripe...blechh...couldn't listen to any other song on their album all the way through . . .too bad because apparently they were virtually virtuosos on their instruments.... so said a music critic at the time...
I wish our song Grandma would get some attention. It's absurd, but it's funny. Go check it out. <a href="http://www.mechanisto.com"; target="_blank">www.mechanisto.com</a> . Hell I know it's kind of off topic and a shameless plug but most the website and all of our album was done on a mac.
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-"99 Red Balloons" by Nena
-"Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden
-"Barbie Girl" by whoever-they-were
-"How Ya Doin'" by Joey Baseballs (it's a NY thing)
-"Song 2" by Blur
-"Out of ideas" by me
Soundgarden... a one-hit wonder!?
That hits me where it hurts.
The old MTV was a gold mine for these things.
And yes, Modern English's "I Melt With You". Great song...still holds up!
Early MTV was THE place for one-hitters! Here's another:
Pseudo Echo: "Funkytown" (not the late 70's disco-sounding one with the femal vocals...these were guys, from Australia - I think - guitar, bass, keyboard and drum. The guitarist sang lead. Great mulletts, as I recall...
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Soundgarden... a one-hit wonder!?
That hits me where it hurts.
dude, thats almost as bad as saying Our Lady Peace only made one good song...
both them and Soundgarden had plenty of awesome sh*t.
<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. And "Crying" was Don McLean´s third hit.
All time one hit wonder in my opinion should be:
Whiter shade of Pale by Procul Harem.
one from the 90's? Maybe it wasn't even a hit, but it was on the radio ALL THE TIME in Boston:
Laid - James.
Also, Til-Tuesday, Voices Carry (maybe that was late 80's).
There are NUMEROUS hair metal one hitters too, but maybe that's another thread. Here's one:
White Lion - Wait
But, in my opinion, the worstest, most dumbest, all your ears are belong to us one hitter of all time:
Rock and Roll pt. 2 - Garry Glitter.
You can't go to a sporting event without hearing that DAMN SONG....
I'll have to think on the "best" one hitter of all time.
Thoth
One "hit" not one "good song".
Soundgarden had more hits than "Black Hole Sun"... didn't they?
Our Lady Peace rules, don't get me wrong, I love a lot of "one-hit wonders".
I guess it depends on which part of the world you're from...
Hehe, what about worst One-Hit Wonder? I nominate Snow's Informer!
Spoonman
The Day I Tried To Live
Fell On Black Days
Pretty Noose
Blow Up The Outside World
<strong>Alliance:
One "hit" not one "good song".
Soundgarden had more hits than "Black Hole Sun"... didn't they?
Our Lady Peace rules, don't get me wrong, I love a lot of "one-hit wonders".</strong><hr></blockquote>
ok, this brings up a tricky concept. define "hit." is it just a song thats played alot on the radio? cause i hear a lot of songs by Our Lady Peace on the radio pretty regularly. i dont hear Soundgarden anymore really, although its been a lil while since they got big. but my point is, how can u differentiate a "hit" from merely a "popular" song?
<strong>For one hit wonder of the 90's I'll nominate The Toadies - Possum Kingdom</strong><hr></blockquote>
Tyler... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
ok, heres another one i just found:
Verve Pipe - Freshmen
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"Possum Kingdom" "Tyler" "Away"
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"Bittersweet Symphony" - Verve
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Maybe I'm wrong about Our Lady Peace. I'd be glad to hear that they are popular because they rock.
Kind of bombastic and overbearing, and just not my cup of tea musically.