One-hit wonders - need help with a playlist
 

I'm working on a one-hit wonders playlist (80s, 90s, 2000s). What is a MUST to include?


Here's the list so far... alphabetical order. NOTE: There are a few songs by a small handful of artists that my wife and/or I enjoy, but their larger collection we don't like. So there are a few in there, like Lady Gaga or Beyonce, that aren't one-hit wonders, but rather part of the few hits one of us enjoys from that artist.

All That She Wants, Ace Of Base
Asshole, Denis Leary
At This Moment, Billy Vera & the Beaters
Axel F., Harold Faltermeyer
Baby Got Back [Explicit], Sir Mix-A-Lot
Baby, I Love Your Way, Peter Frampton
Bad Romance [Explicit], Lady Gaga
The Ballad of Jayne, L.A. Guns
Barbie Girl, Aqua
Beautiful Life, Ace Of Base
Beds Are Burning, Midnight Oil
Bitch, Meredith Brooks
Black Velvet, Alannah Myles
Break My Stride, Matthew Wilder
Breakfast at Tiffanys - Single, Deep Blue Something
Breakout, Swing Out Sister
C'est La Vie [#], Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen
Cars, Gary Numan
Catch Me (I'm Falling), Pretty Poison
Come on Eileen, Various Artists
Cruel Summer, Bananarama
Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta [Explicit], Geto Boys
Der Kommissar, After The Fire
Don't Worry Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin
Easy Lover, Phil Collins
Electric Avenue, Eddy Grant
Eye of the Tiger, Survivor
Fantasy, Aldo Nova
Funky Cold Medina, Tone-Loc
Funkytown, Lipps, Inc.
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades, Timbuk 3
Gangnam Style, Psy
Gangsta's Paradise (LP Version) [Explicit], Coolio feat. L.V.
Genius of Love, Tom Tom Club
Harden My Heart, Quarterflash
The House of the Rising Sun, The Animals
The Humpty Dance, Digital Underground
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), The Proclaimers
I Adore Mi Amor, Color Me Badd
I Can't Wait, Nu Shooz
I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight, Cutting Crew
I Ran (So Far Away), A Flock of Seagulls
I Try, Macy Gray
I Want Candy, Bow Wow Wow
Informer, Snow
Keep Your Hands to Yourself, The Georgia Satellites
Key Largo, Bertie Higgins
Lady In Red, Chris DeBurgh
Lean on Me, Club Nouveau
Let the Music Play, Barry White
Like_A_Bad_White_Guy_Party_Gangnam_Style-Steve_Streza, Steve Streza
Lips of an Angel, Hinder
Major Tom (Coming Home), Peter Schilling
Maniac, Michael Sembello
Mickey, Toni Basil
Missing You, John Waite
Mississippi Queen, Mountain
No Rain, Blind Melon
Nothing Compares 2 U (2009 Digital Remaster), Sinead O'Connor
Obsession, Animotion
Our House, Madness
People Are Strange, The Doors
People Are Strange, Echo & the Bunnymen
Poker Face, Lady Gaga
Poker Face (Live at The Cherrytree House Piano & Voice Version), Lady Gaga
Popular, Various Artists
Puttin' On The Ritz, Taco
Relax, Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Respect Yourself, Bruce Willis
Rock Me Amadeus, Falco
Rock On, Michael Damian
Safety Dance, Men Without Hats
Save Tonight, Eagle Eye Cherry
She Blinded Me With Science, Thomas Dolby
The Sign, Ace of Base
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Beyonce Knowles
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion), Various Artists
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand, Various Artists
Steal My Sunshine, Len
Tainted Love (Where Did Our Love Go), Soft Cell
Take on Me, a-ha
Telephone, Lady Gaga
Too Shy, Kajagoogoo
Tubthumping, Chumbawamba
Tuff Enuff, The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Turning Japanese, The Vapors
Two of Hearts, Stacey Q
Video Killed the Radio Star, Presidents of the United States of America
Walk Like an Egyptian, The Bangles
Walk The Dinosaur, Was (Not Was)
Walking In Memphis, Marc Cohn
Walking on Sunshine, Katrina & the Waves
We're Not Gonna Take It, Various Artists
What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy), Information Society
What's Up?, 4 Non Blondes
Whip It, Devo
Wicked Game, Chris Isaak
867-5309/Jenny, Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons, Nena

Wiki is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._United_States

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Gotta have Axel F on there. It was a 5 time one hit wonder.

"Relax" Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Escape Club - Wild Wild West
Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now
EMF - Unbeliveable
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Cry Of Love - Peace Pipe

"Turning Japanese" The Vapors

Heh.

"Funky Town" Lips, Inc.

There's a lot of crap on there. I don't want a definitive list of everything. Just the good ones. :)

Cars, Alex F, Relax, Turning Japanese already on the list. :)

Will look for some of your suggestions, Driving Wheel.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Never been any reason by Head East.

I hate the song with the burning fire of 1000 suns, but I bet a lot of people would include Macarena.

Hell. No.

Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind
Hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!

Yeah I don't know why, Mickey is the first song I think of when I think one-hit wonders. But I hate that song almost as much as the Macarena.

DONE! :thumb:

I Ran - Flock of Seagulls

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You won't do Macarena but you'll do Mickey?

Yes.

I actually want to add that one, but I don't have it. :grr:

Professional help. Get some.

ROFL

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A MUST have!

He asked for 1 hit wonders not 1 hit lip sync'ers. :evil:

This may help you.

http://www.onehitwondercentral.com

Yes, because Macarena represents everything that is soulless and evil.

Kajagoogoo- Too Shy
Benny Mardones- Into the Night... great song
The Divinyls- I Touch Myself
Autograph- Turn Up the Radio
Sugar Hill Gang- Rappers Delight
Jimmy Eat World- The Middle
Blues Image- Ride Captain Ride
Devo- Whip It
Dee-Lite- Groove Is In The Heart
Big Country- In A Big Country
Dexy's Midnight Runners- Come On Eileen
Bow Wow Wow- I Want Candy
Soft Cell- Tainted Love
Jane Child- I Don't Wanna Fall In Love
Free- All Right Now
Sinead O'Connor- Nothing Compares to You
Deep Blue Something- Breakfast At Tiffanys
4 Non Blondes- What's Up

Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy

Baltimora- Tarzan Boy
Cameo- Word Up

Not one hit wonders

Blind Melon- No Rain
Chumbawumba- Tubthumping

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Jack Wagner- All I Need
Patrick Swayze- She's Like The Wind
Mellow Man Ace- Menitrosa
Tone Loc- Wild Thing
Biz Markie- Just A Friend

Also not a one hit wonder

:)

Definitely this, still love that simple ditty.

Arcadia- Election Day

The had other singles but that was the only "hit"

Mambo # 5

Really? What else did they do? That was all I knew of.

Get It On (Bang A Gong) which I believe was the bigger hit. I'll have to look that up.

edit... nope Some Like It Hot was indeed bigger

Jimmy Eat World is not a one hit wonder you son of a bitch!

They had one hit. They had several singles that did nothing and several albums. If you want to include over-seas chart success then they aren't one hit.

Harden My Heart, Quarterflash
Don't Dream Its Over, Crowded House

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Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

Quite possibly the greatest one hit wonder...

One Night in Bangkok!!! - Murray Head (trivia: brother of the actor in Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show)
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and who can forget this one...

Peter Schilling - Major Tom
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tons more...
Falco - Der Kommissar
Charlie Dore - Pilot of the Airwaves
The Church - Under the Milky Way Tonight

I know. I just love their shit. So I'm choosing to bury my head in the sand and believe that they are not a one hit wonder.

LOVE that song.

That was a hit? Jesus, what a piece of shit song.

Those are great ones. I posted Under The Milky Way in the random music video thread last night in fact.

Oh and Der Kommisar was by After The Fire :)

Amadeus.

And tone loc isn't a 1 hit wonder

Eh "hits" aren't even the goal of some bands. Pink Floyd didn't make hits they made great music. Alice Cooper is technically a one hit wonder... but that hardly defines him. Charts are just for whats popular, whatever kind of chart it is.

Yes. That's more like it. I thought Major Tom was Bowie for some reason. Herp Derp. Falco had "Rock Me, Amadeus" though.

Crowded House was not a one hit wonder... they had a ton of hits .. ok maybe not a ton but a few...

Heck, this was on the same album and was pretty much as big a hit...

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You're right I messed that one up.

T'Pau.... Heart and Soul.... add it to your list

Yep, it was all over mtv back in the day.

The Impression That I Get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve

Yeah I screwed up on Falco, forgot about Rock Me, Amadeus... should have used After the Fire's version of Der Kommissar there... even though Falco was the first to record it and that's the version I have.

Oh, here are a couple more...

When In Rome - The Promise
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and...

Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
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I have no shame.. I'll admit I had both 45s.

I was not aware of that.

Dead Or Alive actually had a few other top 20 hits... and don't feel bad AustinChief, I have 2 of their... cassettes. Ha.

I was so in love with the girl in that video.

yep, here it is in all it's Austrian glory...

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The video is WELL WORTH WATCHING. Just freakin hilarious.

Really liked this one a lot:

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Shhh, no one remembers Brand New Lover except us...

Holy crap

Poor bastard had to have a horrible case of blue balls after that shoot.

Heh, Lover Come Back To Me, In Too Deep and Something In My House were all top 20 hits too. Then there was My Heart Goes Bang too.

Yeah, it's a 70's song, but when I think of one hit wonder...

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You never saw/heard that? I remember arguing with my cousin as a teenager about that song. He thought it was pure crap. His sister loved it. I thought it was OK.

It's GLORIOUS!!!

Can't. Stop. Watching.

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Nope never had a clue Falco had done it. I've always loved the After The Fire version though.

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The video makes the song. That's pure prehistoric trolling.

You people are slipping.....

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:thumb: i know exactly which one you're talking about, and the asian girl is a piece of work too.

Heres another for FMB's list, i used to want to eat Lady Miss Kier alive...

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Obligated to rep this. Kicks ass.