Sweat Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 So on SBM chat (yeah, I know, boo me, but bare with me) me, Aya, OMJ, OMLJ and a few others have come up with a list of, no joke, 208 famous one hit wonders. I'll turn this huge list and maybe even more songs if I can think of more into a huge broadcast sort of thing on Grooveshark. I'm posting this because I feel you'd be interested in seeing said the whole damn list. Spoiler Toni Basil - Mickey Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) a-Ha - Take on Me Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time Weather Girls - It's Raining Men A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Michael Sembello - Maniac Cameo - Word Up Falco - Rock Me Amadeus Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 / Jenny Soft Cell - Tainted Love Modern English - I Melt With You Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy Kajagoogoo - Too Shy Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax Gary Numan - Cars Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science Nena - 99 Luft Balloons Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue Madness - Our House Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms The Vapors - Turning Japanese Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy Devo - Whip It Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown Bruce Willis - Respect Yourself Baltimora - Tarzan Boy The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star Yello - Oh Yeah Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F Buckney and Garcia - Pacman Fever Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie Vangelis - Chariots of Fire The Outfield - Your Love Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night Aqua - Barbie Girl Tag Team - Whoomp! (There it Is) Divinyls - I Touch Myself The Heights - How Do You Talk to An Angel Meredith Brooks - Bitch Inner Circle - Bad Boys Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy Des'ree - You Gotta Be Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Crash Test Dummies - Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Shawn Mullins - Lullaby Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) Haddaway - What is Love Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations Len - Steal My Sunshine EMF - Unbelievable Snow - Informer Kris Kross - Jump Blind Melon - No Rain Wreckx-n-Effect - Rump Shaker Red-Nex - Cotton Eye Joe Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance New Radicals - You Get What You Give Joan Osborne - One of Us House of Pain - Jump Around Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Semisonic - Closing Time Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Los Del Rio - Macarena Gerardo - Rico Suave Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy Sir Mix-a-Lot - Baby Got Back Hanson - MMMBop Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta OMC - How Bizarre Real McCoy - Another Night Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam Vengaboys - We Like to Party 2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This Butthole Surfers - Pepper Biz Markie - Just a Friend Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight Belly - Feed the Tree Citizen King - Better Days Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway Lit - My Own Worst Enemy Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get Tal Bachman - She's So High Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue Blur - Song 2 MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This Mr. Big - To Be With You Eve 6 - Inside Out Big Country - In a Big Country Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out Europe - The Final Countdown Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal Nine Days - Absolutely (Story of a Girl) Pras - Ghetto Supastar Mims - This is Why I'm Hot David Hasselhoff - Looking For Freedom Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom D4L - Laffy Taffy Flobots - Handlebars Estelle - American Boy The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger Huey - Pop, Lock and Drop It Shop Boyz - Party Like a Rockstar Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals Unk - Walk it Out Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars Alexandra Stan - Mr. Saxobeat Yolanda be Cool - We No Speak Americano Martin Solveig - Hello Hurricane Chris - A Bay Bay Chamillionaire - Ridin' Daniel Powter - Bad Day DJ Sammy - Heaven Baby Bash - Cyclone Brian McKnight - Back at One ATC - All Around the World (La La La La La La La La) Afroman - Because I Got High The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love Buckcherry - Sorry Cassie - Me and U Ameria - 1 Thing Duffy - Mercy Jibbs - Chain Hang Low Asher Roth - I Love College Ting Tings - That's Not My Name PSY - Gangnam Style Andrew W.K. - Party Hard Spin Doctors - Two Princes Metro Station - Shake It Terror Squad - Lean Back Kelis - Milkshake Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah Gary Jules - Mad World Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me Macy Gray - I Try M.I.A. - Paper Planes OK Go - Here it Goes Again Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know James Blunt - You're Beautiful Peter Schilling - Major Tom J-Kwon - Tipsy Chingy - Right Thurr Pilot - Magic Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling Runaways - Cherry Bomb Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth Rick Dees - Disco Duck C.W. McCall - Convoy Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music Billy Paul - Me and Mrs. Jones Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda da Vida Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky Debby Boone - You Light Up y Life Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime Don McLean - American Pie The Archies - Sugar, Sugar Mountain - Mississippi Queen Zager and Evans - In the Year 2525 Vicki Sue Robinston - Turn the Beat Around Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight Shocking Blue - Venus Survivor - Eye of the Tiger Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes Anita Ward - Ring My Bell Crazy Town - Butterfly The James Gang - Funk #49 T Rex - Bang a Gong (Get it On) The Trogg - Wild Thing Ratt - Round and Round M - Pop Muzik Stacey Q - Two of Hearts 4 Non Blondes - What's Up Young MC - Bust a Move The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun Eric Carmen - All By Myself Everlast - What it's Like Asia - Heat of the Moment The Cardigans - Lovefool Quiet Riot - Come on Feel the Nozie ? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears Van McCoy - The Hustle Talk Talk - It's My Life Was Not Was - Walk the Dinosaur Iyaz - Replay If any of you want the link to the Grooveshark thingy after I finish it, just ask 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumbo Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Todd's got some work to do. (I wouldn't consider a few of those one-hit wonders but it's an iffy defined term anyway.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Is it bad that I only knew like 10 of these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweat Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Todd's got some work to do. (I wouldn't consider a few of those one-hit wonders but it's an iffy defined term anyway.) Yeah, there were some artists where I knew more songs from them, but there was only one that became really popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumbo Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Only one I'd argue outright is Salt n' Pepa, who are definitely not one-hit wonders. "Whatta Man" and "Let's Talk About Sex" were pretty huge in the 90's. EDIT: Okay the Ohio Players are not one-hit wonders either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyanideFishbone Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm has to be one of the stupidest and laughably bad songs ever. ONCE... DEYRE WAZ DIS GURLLLLLLL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumbo Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Crash Test Dummies were a little bigger in Canada. I have a soft spot for "Superman's Song". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweat Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Only one I'd argue outright is Salt n' Pepa, who are definitely not one-hit wonders. "Whatta Man" and "Let's Talk About Sex" were pretty huge in the 90's. EDIT: Okay the Ohio Players are not one-hit wonders either. Yeah, you're right. I'll remove them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumbo Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 On the plus side, I don't see any one-hit wonders that should be on there but aren't. I can think of a few Canada-specific ones but they don't really matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elastic Dawg Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Quality list, but I wouldn't consider the Butthole Surfers, Devo, or T. Rex one hit wonders. Blur and The Verve also had a few hits in the UK, unless this list is US-exclusive. Add Harvey Danger, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Lenny Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 The Cardigans' My Favourite Game was also pretty popular, in the UK at least. I wouldn't exactly call them one-hit wonders. Add Harvey Danger, too! Flagpole Sitta is on the list if you look closely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumbo Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I meeeaaan there's a few Canadian acts here that had more hits in Canada but I don't think that's the point of this list. Like I said earlier, "one-hit wonder" is a pretty vague term anyway and for the most part I think this list does the term justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweat Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 This is mainly US one-hit wonders. If I were to play internationally, half of the list wouldn't be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Lenny Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Let's also not forget King Missile with their song Detachable Penis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweat Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 http://grooveshark.com/#!/halibut1/broadcast Here's the station if anyone wants to tune in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Sponge Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 To paraphrase Elastic, I can name a good number of other songs from Blur. In fact, I don't think Blur is by any means of any type of "Hit Wonder," let alone "One Hit." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweat Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 To paraphrase Elastic, I can name a good number of other songs from Blur. In fact, I don't think Blur is by any means of any type of "Hit Wonder," let alone "One Hit." Maybe so, but Blur had only one US hit, and that's kind of the only criteria I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Sex Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Hey its psy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweat Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Hey its psy Yeah, he had a couple of other songs that were popular on YouTube, but Gangnam Style is the only song that people will remember in 5 years and you know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cowboy Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Wow how long did you guys stay up to make this I left around 11 o'clock lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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