Your favorite one hit wonder

[Dbeasy 15106]

Asia isn’t a one hit wonder. They had a whole solid album. And this thread is awesome. 

Edited October 25, 2021 by Dbeasy

[Noah Fence 480]

 

[noharleyyet 2852]

 

[tbone_ 14191]

 

Not a OHW. 6th Avenue Heatache and Three Marlenas were legit.

[tbone_ 14191]

 

That song made me want to stab people back in the day.

[jimmyjazz 46249]

A whole bunch of UT grads struggle to count beyond "one".

[mooseoutfront 3643]

 

[South Austin 52633]

4 hours ago, Noah Fence said:

 

Reminds me of an 80s joke:

What's grosser than grease on Olivia Newton John?

Come on Eileen. 

[South Austin 52633]

 

[jimmyjazz 46249]

Were these one-hitters?

Katrina & The Waves "Walking on Sunshine"

Nena "99 Luftballons"

 

I'm thinking so, but I wasn't exactly paying a lot of attention to the radio back then.

[South Austin 52633]

Just now, jimmyjazz said:

Were these one-hitters?

Katrina & The Waves "Walking on Sunshine"

Nena "99 Luftballons"

 

I'm thinking so, but I wasn't exactly paying a lot of attention to the radio back then.

Yes, on Katrina & The Waves.  I honestly can't name another song of theirs, but that song is certainly their only hit.

Yes on Nena in America, but no idea of how her career went in Germany.

[jimmyjazz 46249]

What about the "500 Miles" guys?

I'm too lazy to look this shit up.

[tbone_ 14191]

Would it be worth it to have a one hit career if your one hit was a mediocre song you had to spend the rest of your life playing in small clubs and casinos, etc?

[South Austin 52633]

On 10/23/2021 at 8:22 AM, VABuckeye said:

What's Up - 4 Non Blondes

[Foggy Notion 1202]

This is my jam. Don't judge me. 

[83Horn 1649]

Hocus Pocus by Focus...or was it Focus by Hocus Pocus.  Anyway, kind of weird song with pretty decent guitar work which was, unfortunately, overshadowed by rather strange and off-putting, Popeye-like vocalizations.  While we're on the weird European one-hit wonders, there was also that one song by Kraftwerk...something something something Autobahn something.  And then there's Radar Love by Golden Earring...never understood the love for this song, but it sure was popular at one time.

[smuggs 9353]

43 minutes ago, Foggy Notion said:

This is my jam. Don't judge me. 

I also dig this one from Nu Shooz:

 

 

 

[smuggs 9353]

And fucking Aldo Nova FTW.

 

 

 

[jimmyjazz 46249]

 

[ScottS 1075]

Giuffria - "Call To The Heart".  Very 80s hair band video.  Apparently the lead singer later achieved some notoriety by doing a SpongeBob SquarePants song.

 

"How Do You Talk To An Angel" by The Heights.  Band and song done for a television show in the early 90s.  Song reached number one, then fell down the charts and the show was cancelled.  

 

[Carl Spackler 3505]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Yes, on Katrina & The Waves.  I honestly can't name another song of theirs, but that song is certainly their only hit.

 

Their third album (which included re-recordings of several earlier songs) is actually very solid.  Walking on Sunshine plus several other good songs, including Going Down to Liverpool and Red Wine & Whiskey.  But, yeah, WOS was their only real hit.

[tbone_ 14191]

Giuffria - "Call To The Heart".  Very 80s hair band video.  Apparently the lead singer later achieved some notoriety by doing a SpongeBob SquarePants song.

I met these fuckers once. Greg Giuffria had the hottest girl on his arm I’d ever seen. /csb

[Burt 4092]

 

 

[yoladu 4109]

i am a sucker for the jingle and the jangle.

 

 

[0xdeadbeef 1652]

1 hour ago, ScottS said:

Giuffria - "Call To The Heart".  Very 80s hair band video.  Apparently the lead singer later achieved some notoriety by doing a SpongeBob SquarePants song.

During college in the early 80s, my roommates had MTV on non-stop in my apartment.  How have I never heard of these guys.   They suck, but that video should have gotten a lot of airplay.    A lot of great stuff in the 80s, but Glam Rock wasn't one of them.

 

 

[South Austin 52633]

7 hours ago, yoladu said:

i am a sucker for the jingle and the jangle.

 

 

Fellow sucker.  That was a good one.

[Francisco 2.0 32432]

 

 

What, this doesn't count?

 

 

[noharleyyet 2852]

 

[deac_tracy 516]

 

 

[deac_tracy 516]

Technically Jimi Hendrix, Rush, Grateful Dead and Public Enemy are all one hit wonders.

[JCHIL 414]

 

 

[South Austin 52633]

13 minutes ago, JCHIL said:

 

 

[IDIOTsavant 8502]

I'm sure someone here will tell me about all the great cuts I missed by them by only knowing this one song, but:

 

[Ollie Slatt 289]

I have always thought of the Verve as possibly the best one hit wonder ever (though I know they had a few other really good songs that were not hits). 

 

[Upgrayedd 5821]

14 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Would it be worth it to have a one hit career if your one hit was a mediocre song you had to spend the rest of your life playing in small clubs and casinos, etc?

Rotating hot groupies?

[83Horn 1649]

1 hour ago, deac_tracy said:

Technically Jimi Hendrix, Rush, Grateful Dead and Public Enemy are all one hit wonders.

Technically, you're wrong:

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower

Rush - Spirit of the Radio, Free Will, Tom Sawyer

Public Enemy - Fight the Power, Don't Believe the Hype

Grateful Dead - Truckin', Casey Jones, Touch of Grey

That's just off the top of my head, but they all produced more than one hit.

[South Austin 52633]

1 hour ago, deac_tracy said:

Technically Jimi Hendrix, Rush, Grateful Dead and Public Enemy are all one hit wonders.

[deac_tracy 516]

1 minute ago, 83Horn said:

Technically, you're wrong:

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower

Rush - Spirit of the Radio, Free Will, Tom Sawyer

Public Enemy - Fight the Power, Don't Believe the Hype

Grateful Dead - Truckin', Casey Jones, Touch of Grey

That's just off the top of my head, but they all produced more than one hit.

Most of those songs were never in Billboard's top 40 aka they were never a hit.

[South Austin 52633]

18 minutes ago, deac_tracy said:

Most of those songs were never in Billboard's top 40 aka they were never a hit.

“One Hit Wonder” means an artist had one popular song with very little else to show for their career.  

[Napoleon 8703]

21 hours ago, noharleyyet said:

 

 

21 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Not a OHW. 6th Avenue Heatache and Three Marlenas were legit.

 

17 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

What about the "500 Miles" guys?

I'm too lazy to look this shit up.

They also had “I’m On My Way” from the album with “500 Miles”.

1 hour ago, deac_tracy said:

Most of those songs were never in Billboard's top 40 aka they were never a hit.

Lisa Loeb’s “Stay” was #1, but she also had a Top 20 hit with “I Do” at #17, which was her second #1 in Canada.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Do_(Lisa_Loeb_song)

 

[Chad Fuck 17816]

Almost every one hit wonder has a follow up that does ok simply on name recognition. Let’s not discount the Lisa Loebs of the world based on a forgettable second hit. It is the pattern after all.

[Rip76 4967]

16 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

 

Such a damn good song.

[jimmyjazz 46249]

Just now, Rip76 said:

Such a damn good song.

It should be WAY more well-known than it is.

[Rip76 4967]

 

 

[Rip76 4967]

 

 

[TOR 5818]

 

[Rip76 4967]

 

 

[Dbeasy 15106]

17 hours ago, 83Horn said:

Hocus Pocus by Focus...or was it Focus by Hocus Pocus.  Anyway, kind of weird song with pretty decent guitar work which was, unfortunately, overshadowed by rather strange and off-putting, Popeye-like vocalizations.  While we're on the weird European one-hit wonders, there was also that one song by Kraftwerk...something something something Autobahn something.  And then there's Radar Love by Golden Earring...never understood the love for this song, but it sure was popular at one time.

Great song in the movie Baby Driver

[Dbeasy 15106]

This song blared on the juke box in my six grade lunchroom. It’s probably one of my favorite songs of all-time for just that reason. 

 

[tbone_ 14191]

You had a juke box in your 6th grade cafeteria?