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One Hit Wonders

Posted on 7/5/23 at 11:25 am
Posted by STigers
Gulf Coast
Member since Nov 2022
1500 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 11:25 am
What’s your favorite?!?
Add one or two or three

Mine is
Dexys Midnight Runners- Come On Eileen
Probably somewhere in my top 100 favorite songs if I had a list
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
30058 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 11:47 am to
I was just thinking about this the other day. Probably a couple for me but I am not sure they are technically 1 hit wonders because they had other singles also chart but not very high. Of that is also true for Dexys Midnight Runners.

My entries are

Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)

Mountain - Mississippi Queen (Official Music Video)


ETA:

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning


This post was edited on 7/5/23 at 11:50 am
Posted by madmaxvol
Infinity + 1 Posts
Member since Oct 2011
19126 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 12:22 pm to
Soft Cell - "Tainted Love"
Thomas Dolby - "She Blinded Me with Science"
Biz Markie - "Just a Friend"
Posted by TideHater
Orange Beach AL
Member since May 2007
19706 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 12:27 pm to
80s was full of them.

Nena - 99 Luft ballons

Big Country- Big Country

Soft Cell- Tainted Love

Gary Numan- cars

list goes on and on
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
53739 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 1:15 pm to
Midnight Oil had a few other virtue signaling/white guilt minor hits.
Posted by tigerterrace
Mobile, Alabama
Member since Sep 2016
3396 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 1:31 pm to
Pilot---Magic
Jigsaw---Skyhigh


Here is a list if anyone wants a cheat.
LINK
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
30058 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 1:39 pm to
quote:

Midnight Oil had a few other virtue signaling/white guilt minor hits.



I like Beds are Burning, it's basically about the Aboriginal People in Australia. It's hard not to sympathize with how they were treated but nobody is "giving back" anything to them. But yeah, I could see them going off the deep end with all that.
Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
2986 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 2:59 pm to
Some favorites of mine are Johnny Hates Jazz' "Shattered Dreams," and Level 42's "Something About You."
Posted by Oswald
South of the St. George Buffer Zone
Member since Aug 2011
3450 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 3:18 pm to
Posted by L1C4
The Ville
Member since Aug 2017
13153 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 3:56 pm to
Wasn't Hendrix considered to be a one hit wonder.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63217 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 4:03 pm to
It's always weird when an artist creates an absolute banger of a song, then the rest of their output is pure shite. Like, how were you able to get your shite together enough to create magic at least once?
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
53739 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 5:20 pm to
Posted by Julz5198
Member since Mar 2023
380 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 5:54 pm to
The original——Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang
Posted by CutTheCord
Texas
Member since Aug 2022
741 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 5:56 pm to
quote:

Wasn't Hendrix considered to be a one hit wonder.


Hey Joe
Purple Haze
All Along the Watchtower
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Foxy Lady
Fire
Ezy Ryder
Star Spangled Banner

And a few others...
Posted by olddawg26
Member since Jan 2013
24575 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:33 pm to
Probably barely breathing by Duncan Shiek. Just encapsulated some mid 90’s summers in the back seat coming home from pool parties and stuff with a parent driving.

Flagpole sitta - Harvey danger
Counting blue cars - dishwalla
The Freshmen - verve pipe
That thing you do - Oneeders
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98144 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:39 pm to
In a Big Country RIP Stuart Adamson. One tGOAT all time videos. I finally figured out she was the treasure they were searching for all along.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98144 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:41 pm to
quote:

The original——Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang


Apache was also a minor hit for them.
Posted by Bayou
CenLA
Member since Feb 2005
36782 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

David and David- Welcome to the Boomtown

They also had "Swallowed by the Cracks"
Posted by Bayou
CenLA
Member since Feb 2005
36782 posts
Posted on 7/5/23 at 7:01 pm to
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