I don't want to set standards on Applenut's thread but (ever notice how everything that comes before the word "but" in a sentence is a lie? )isn't a hit usually defined as having cracked Billboard's Pop Top 40?
<strong>I like "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe a one-hit wonder here but I believe they were bigger in England. Check out "Kick Inside of Me" from Sparkle in the Rain. I just love that song. Sparkle In the Rain came out about a year before "Don't You Forget About Me".
They had more than one hit. There is also 'Conquistador'.................................... ...</strong><hr></blockquote>
They also had Homburg but I´d hardly call that a hit. To me a hit is a song that has at least stayed in the top 10 of the charts for a good few weeks. Preferably a number 1.
I think I have most of the songs in this thread, especially the 1980s vintage. Heck, I even had a Joe Dassin song someplace back here (probably
Au Champs Elysée)
My contribution: Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth.
Now, I have to comment that the Ramones were not a one-hit wonder. Go read a Naked Mole Rat report on the subject, unless you want to be sedated. (Neither was Soundgarden.)
Also, one-hit wonder from what country? Nena had 99 Luftballoons in the US, but quite a bit of material in Germany.
Okay-- for the American-centric:
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
My 2nd favorite 80s group:
Missing Persons - Nobody Walks in LA/Destination Unknown
Random:
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire
OMD - How Bizarre
Tom Cochrane - Life Is a Highway
Stars on 45 (1970s)
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (you know, unless I write something here, people will think I'm serious about this one.)
Okay. I think I have to go off and have a midlife crisis here.
what about "pure" by the lightning seeds, or "I would walk a thousand miles" by those twins, or "rumpshaker" by wreckneffx(sp?), "Take my breath away" top gun soundtrack, or that song by deep forest-that one is awesome!!
What about that song that was about the Milky Way? Was it "Under the Milky Way?" or something like that? Don't know who sings it, but it still gets played on the local 80's radio station.
Did anyone list Animotion's "Obsession"?
Also Arcadia's "Election Day". Arcadia was the OTHER Duran Duran splinter/offshoot group (the first being John and Andy Taylor in the Power Station). Arcadia was Nick Rhodes and that pretentious, smug idiot Simon LeBon.
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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.</strong><hr></blockquote>
They had more than one hit. There is also 'Conquistador'.................................... ...
Jeff
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Gotta love John Hughes movies!
Jeff
<strong>I like "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe a one-hit wonder here but I believe they were bigger in England. Check out "Kick Inside of Me" from Sparkle in the Rain. I just love that song. Sparkle In the Rain came out about a year before "Don't You Forget About Me".
Jeff
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They had more than one hit. There is also 'Conquistador'.................................... ...</strong><hr></blockquote>
They also had Homburg but I´d hardly call that a hit. To me a hit is a song that has at least stayed in the top 10 of the charts for a good few weeks. Preferably a number 1.
I think I have most of the songs in this thread, especially the 1980s vintage. Heck, I even had a Joe Dassin song someplace back here (probably
Au Champs Elysée)
My contribution: Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth.
Now, I have to comment that the Ramones were not a one-hit wonder. Go read a Naked Mole Rat report on the subject, unless you want to be sedated. (Neither was Soundgarden.)
Also, one-hit wonder from what country? Nena had 99 Luftballoons in the US, but quite a bit of material in Germany.
Okay-- for the American-centric:
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
My 2nd favorite 80s group:
Missing Persons - Nobody Walks in LA/Destination Unknown
Random:
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire
OMD - How Bizarre
Tom Cochrane - Life Is a Highway
Stars on 45 (1970s)
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (you know, unless I write something here, people will think I'm serious about this one.)
Okay. I think I have to go off and have a midlife crisis here.
Did anyone list Animotion's "Obsession"?
Also Arcadia's "Election Day". Arcadia was the OTHER Duran Duran splinter/offshoot group (the first being John and Andy Taylor in the Power Station). Arcadia was Nick Rhodes and that pretentious, smug idiot Simon LeBon.