90's one hit wonders mix

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Yeah, everybody is talking about the 80's.

But we,at ILM, are always 10 years ahead in terms of music.

So, LET'S HAVE A 90'S REVIVAL!

Try to remember all the crap that bored us to death a few years ago. Help me make a 3 cd compilation.

So far:
Blid Melon - No Rain
Spin doctors - two princes
presidents of the usa - lump

― Elvis is Dead, Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Adina Howard, "Freak Like Me"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Dee-lite - Groove is in the Heart
Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Snow - "Informer"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

OMC - How Bizarre

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

EMF - Unbelievable
Jesus Jones - right here, right now

― Elvis is Dead, Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Presidents of the USA -- Lump
The Clarks -- Madeleine
The Verve Pipe -- Freshmen
Marcy Playground -- Sex and Candy
Jen Trynin -- February
Better than Ezra -- Good
Semisonic -- Closing Time
Primitive Radio Gods -- Standing Outside the Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Seven Mary Three -- Cumbersome

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Vanilla - No Way No Way

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

4 N0n Blondes - What's Up
Jill S0bule - I Kissed A Girl
White Z0mbie - More Human Than Human
Shawn C0lvin - Sunny Came Home
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Tag Team - Whoomp! There It Is

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Crash Vegas -- On and On

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man I had forgotten that Primitive Radio Gods song. I used to love that one on the radio when I was a wee one. Thanks for reminding me j. cotten.

on a similar alt radio/mtv tip:

Forest From The Trees - Dreams
I haven't heard it since it was on the radio/mtv though so it might suck and I might be nostalgic

also the Belly song and Cannonball

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Lou Bega - Mambo #5

― My Underwear Is Melting (My Underwear Is Melting), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

White Zombie are NOT one hit wonders. What about "Thunder Kiss '65"??? That one was awesome!

This mix needs Silk's "Freak Me."

Bad.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of these songs are awesome. You're not trying hard enough.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually listened to the Forest for the Trees album a couple months ago. I'd been trying to get rid of it for a while, but no one's biting. It has a couple good songs, but "Dream" isn't one of them. I liked it a lot when I was 15 though. "Green Light Street" is really good though.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

D:Ream - Things Can only Get better

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Geggy Tah, "Whoever You Are"

― jaymc, Sunday, 1 August 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"New Age Girl" by deadeye dick

― jeremiah (jeremiah), Sunday, 1 August 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

and who could forget "detachable penis" by king missile.

― jeremiah (jeremiah), Sunday, 1 August 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

OMC - how bizarre

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 1 August 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, talent explosion already posted that. how about Stereo MCs "Connected"

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 1 August 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread hurts my head

― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 1 August 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't tell if you want one-hit wonders that are the best or the most representative of the 90s. I'm doing best.

Folk Implosion - "Natural One"
Edwyn Collins - "A Girl Like You"
Adina Howard - "Freak Like Me"
Craig Mack - "Flava in Ya Ear"
Dee-Lite - "Groove is in the Heart"
Lisa Loeb - "Stay (I Missed You)"
Primitive Radio Gods - "Standing Outside..."
Digable Planets - "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
Tag Team/69 Boyz/Quad City DJs - "Whoomp! There it Is"/"Tootsee Roll"/"C'Mon Ride it (the Train)"
The Breeders - "Cannonball"
Belly - "Feed the Tree"
The LAs - "There She Goes"
Skee-Lo - "I Wish"
Wreckx-n-Effect - "Rumpshaker"
Warren G. - "Regulate"
Rammstein - "Du Hast"
Ahmad - "Back in the Day"

tons more I can't remember.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Semisonic - "Closing Time"
Smashmouth - "Walking on the Sun"
Chumbawumba - "Tubthumping"
Buffalo Tom - "Tailights Fade"
Soup Dragons - "Divine Thing"
Thousand Yard Stare - "Comeuppance"
Veruca Salt - "Seether"
Heather Nova - "Walk This World"
Harvey Danger - "Flagpole Sitta"

Yeah, some of these bands had other songs, but they're not on the epitaph like these are.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornershop - "Brimful Of Asha"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, that Vanilla song is Golden.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Flaming Lips "She Don't Use Jelly" should count, shouldn't it?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. I forgot about "that" band.

What about "Cut Your Hair"?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 1 August 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

was CYH even much of a hit? I mean Pavement never got to play it on 90210 or anything.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

worse mix tape ever.

― doomie x, Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

warren g a one hit wonder???

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post
I'm about to make it even worse:
New Radicals "You Get What You Give"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There are several liberties being taken with the concept of "one", "hit" and "wonder" being taken here.

So I'll nominate "Hobo Humping Slobo Babe" by Whale.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also:

People are Still Having Sex - Latour
Informer - Snow
Saturday Night - Whigfield

And, obviously, Chesney Hawkes to thread (though I think there was a follow-up single got in the charts also).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

working on the definition of 'one hit wonder' as 'only one really memorable hit'

Kriss Kross 'Jump'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

White Town -- Your Woman

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha, can I ensure that anyone actually considering making this mix will be poking their eyeballs out with rusty nails instead? Yes? Ok then...."Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

now that's just perverse

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Along those lines:
Lyte Funky Ones (LFO) "Summer Girls"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Also "The Stonk" by Hale and Pace.

back to the good ones - "Doop".

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 August 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Livin' Joy, "dreamer"

― cis (cis), Sunday, 1 August 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Soho - "Hippy Chick"

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 1 August 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? (though, wasn't there a followup too?)
Redhead Kingpin - Do The Right Thing
Del The Funky Homosapien - Mistadobalina
Notorious BIG - Mo Money Mo Problems
Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper
Adamski - Killer
Des'ree - Life
Bucketheads - The Bomb
Sagat - Fuck That
Heavy D - Now That We Found Love
EMF - Unbelievable
Cleopatra - Cleopatra's Theme

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You can do an all blank-Eye-blank edition: Dead Eye Dick, Third Eye Blind, Dog's Eye View.

And now, the worst grunge novelty hit evah: "You Suck." That one was all over the radio, anyone remember the culprits? I actually recall the whole chorus: "But now there's dust on my guitar / you [bleep] / You paralyzed my mind / and for that you suck, and for that you suck!"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Suck" was The Murmurs. They're actually still around, IIRC; I saw them on Kilborn a year or two ago.

― phil dennison, Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

good reminder:

Consolidated & The Yeastie Girls - You Suck

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Backwater by the Meat Puppets
Weak by SWV
Sweet Potato Pie by Domino (even though he had another bigger hit)
More Than Words by Extreme
I wish (?) by Skee-Lo

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 1 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and Digable Planets "The Rebirth of Slick"

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 1 August 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Wiggle It" by Two In a Room (my boyfriend knows the guy who wrote it)
"Jump Around" by House of Pain
"How Do You Talk to an Angle" by The Heights
"Fade into You" by Mazzy Star
"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mixalot
"Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)" by Rozalla
"Cantaloop" by US3
"I Got a Man" by Positive K
"Back for Good" by Take That
"Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba
"Macarena" by Los Del Rio

i loooove 90s One Hit Wonders!!!!

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Laid" - James
"Save Tonight" - Eagle Eye Cherry
"Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve (ha!)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Good calls on Mazzy Star, US3 and Positive K.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Good calls on Mazzy Star, US3 and Positive K.

-- The Good Dr. Bill (fadeout9...), August 1st, 2004.

what can i say? i've thrown quite a few 90s theme parties in my day ;)

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Suck" was The Murmurs. They're actually still around, IIRC; I saw them on Kilborn a year or two ago.

FYI, the main girl from the Murmers is on Showtime's The L Word now, and as far as I know, she's the only actress on the show who's a lesbian IRL. Bit of trivia for y'all.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Ace of Base had three hits, but they all sound the same

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 1 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Divinyls - i touch myself

― divideby0, Sunday, 1 August 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cardigans have had three or four hits in the UK, and Take That had shitloads.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

K's Choice "Not An Addict"
Reel Big Fish "Sell Out"
Goldfinger "Here In Your Bedroom"

― dean? (deangulberry), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Dog Eat Dog - No Fronts! (No tricks! we do this just for KICKS! or whatever gubbins it was)

― cis (cis), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

No soap box politics!

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Haddaway: "What Is Love"

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF, Ace of Base had at least a dozen hits. They all sound the same of course.

working on the definition of 'one hit wonder' as 'only one really memorable hit'

By that definition: Jay-Z "Hard Knock Life".

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahem, 'Big Pimpin'. Although the catchiness of that tune is arguably more down to Timbaland than Jay-Z.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that even released as a single outside the US? But nevermind, I forgot he had a second hit with 03 Bonnie & Clyde.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hits outside of the US don't count. All your smaller-than-Texas nations only require fifty people and a pirate radio station to equal a hit.

(kidding)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever that bloody awful (and inescapable) Republica song was called.

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ready To Go"? yeah, ick.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck, that's right. And hearing the title brings back a rush of terrible mid-90s Virgin radio playlist tunes.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman!!!

― Mind Taker, Monday, 2 August 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Spacehog, "In The Meantime"

― phil d., Monday, 2 August 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is missing a touch of theological discussion:

Joan Osborne - "One of Us"

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Hold up - this thread a. is overflowing with really good songs, and b. contains absolutely loads of tracks which treat the words "one" and "hit" (and on occasion, even "wonder") with scant respect. some proper parameters please!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Chesney Hawkes - You are the one and only

― matulageci (matulageci), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep Blue Something: "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Fool's Garden - "Lemon Tree" anyway.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Stiltskin: "Inside"
Radiohead: "Paranoid Android"
K7: "Come Baby Come"
Mr. President: "Coco Jambo"
Natalie Imbruglia: "Torn"
Eagle Eye Cherry: "Save Tonight"
Peter Andre: "Mysterious Girl"
Mo-Do: "Ein Zwei Polizei"
Rotterdam Termination Source: "Poing"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead not big in Finland?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I love the cross-cultural confusion going on in this thread: "Ace Of Base? They had LOADS of hits!", "OF COURSE The Notorious BIG was a one-hit wonder!", "Take That?? WTF??"

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

there should never be any 'big' acts on one hit wonder threads, it should only ever be acts you can barely remember anything about at all

Army Of Lovers only had the one big hit in the UK tho, the glorious 'Crucified'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is fun! Here's some more:

Urban Cookie Collective: "The Key the Secret"
Maxx: "Get-A-Way"
The Grid: "Texas Cowboys"
2 Cowboys: "Everybody Gonfi Gon"
DJ Tom & Norman: "Bass for Love"
Vanessa Paradis: "Sunday Mondays"
Shabba Ranks: "Mr. Loverman"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What, Army of Lover's "Israelism" wasn't a hit in the UK? Weird.

Stevem, "Paranoid Android" was indeed Radiohead's only "hit record" here, and I doubt they'll have another one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i must now find a site for Finnish chart stats to see how each Radiohead single fared in the hit parade there

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Captain Hollywood: "All I Want"
Dr. Alban: "It's My Life"
Kate Bush: "Rubberband Girl"
Mark'Oh: "Never Stop That Feeling"
All-4-One: "I Swear"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Fat Boy Slim - Praise You
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
Hum - Stars

― Bunzzzzz O)))))))))))))))))) (ex machina), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Captain Hollywood - I Can't Stand It
Dr. Alban - It's My Life
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Mark'Oh - Tears Don't Lie
All-4-One - So Much In Love

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ah well make that "Rocket Man"

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate Bush's only hit in Finland was Rubberband Girl? No Wuthering Heights or Babushka? Strange place.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Siegbran, just because they've released another single doesn't necessarily mean they're not one-hit-wonders... You may be right about Kate Bush and Mark'Oh, but hands up, how many of you would've remembered another Dr. Alban or All-4-One song without Siegbran's post? Even with the titles there, I still can't remember how these songs go.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Time for a lengthy argument about the semantics of 'one hit wonder', I think.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

People who had one major hit and one major hit only. Which would disqualify about half the people listed!

I mean, Radiohead, Natalie Imbruglia, Kate Bush and a few others have multiple Top 10 singles in the UK.

Also, some songs aren't even the artist's biggest hit: i.e. Republica, whose biggest hit single was "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (#7).

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i always looked at "One Hit Wonders" to mean that one song that the mainstream public can remember by an artist--even if that artist had a healthy career within their specific genre....or in their home country for that matter....

in any event, i thought of some more:

"Set U Free" by Planet Soul
"The Power" by Snap (although "Rhythmn is a Dancer" was kind of a hit, too)
"Boom Boom Boom" by the Outhere Brothers
"Labor of Love" by Frente
"Crossroads" by Bone Thugz N Harmony (however, "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" will always be a classic to me)
"Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground ("Freaks of the Industry"--another overlooked classic)
"Two Princes" by Spin Doctors
"'Til I Hear It From You" by the Gin Blossoms aka that song from Empire Records

...by the way, "Unchained Melody" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" were two great revivals of the 90s

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i always though bone thugs got more popular with "first of da month", or was that just me?

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

First of Da Month was the first song by them I ever heard, and the only one I can still sing. Crossroads was the bigger hit.

Anyway, Outhere Brothers also had "Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle", Frente had their cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle" internationally, and "Accidentally Kelly Street" and "Ordinary Angels" at home, Spin Doctors had "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and Gin Blossoms had a swag of fairly popular ones, "Follow You Down", "Hey Jealousy" being the only two I remember but there were definitely more.

(I wasn't being an arse, I'm just being a Natalie Imbruglia apologist)

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh sweet merciful Christ, i'd forgotten all about 'tears don't lie' - siegbran i am coming over to amsterdam soon to scream 'whyyyyyyyy!' direct to your face!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Nomad 'I Wanna Give U Devotion' (or do you remember 'Just A Groove'?)
Blue Pearl 'Naked In The Rain' (or do you remember 'Little Brother'?)
Together 'Hardcore Uproar'
Smart E's 'Sesame's Treet'
Urban Hype 'A Trip To Trumpton'
Shaft 'Roobarb & Custard'
Slipstream 'We Are Raving'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

'I Like To Move It' - Reel 2 Reel Featuring The Mad Stuntman.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Together 'Hardcore Uproar'

absolutely *storming* song, good call Steve!

also, NO DIGGETY, people...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Reel 2 Reel had SIX other UK hits. Can you believe it? I can only remember "Jazz It Up" of the others. No, really, who bought them?

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

If I remember correctly, "I Like to Move It" had two follow-up singles that sounded exactly like the first one. One of them went like, "Can you feel it, feel it?", or something to that effect.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(although "Rhythmn is a Dancer" was kind of a hit, too)

No shit!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember all the Reel II Real - 'Can You Feel It', 'Conway', 'Raise Your Hands', ah good times...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oceanic 'Insanity' (unless you remember 'Wicked Love')
Candy Flip 'Strawberry Fields Forever' (i got teased at school for liking this by TEH BIG KIDS)
Fresh 4 'Wishin On A Star'
Definition Of Sound 'Wear Your Love Like Heaven'
DSK 'What Would We Do'
Gat Decor 'Passion'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pass The Vibes" was Definition of Sound too, wasn't it? I remember when it came out - or rather, its muted video with the people on that chair - I couldn't believe it was the same people who'd worn those garish colours in the brightly coloured nightmare that was the GENIUS of "Wear Your Love Like Heaven".

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Who did 'My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style'? I think that was a OHW.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Merrill Bainbridge - "Mouth"

― briania (briania), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, Merrill. You know what was hilarious? She did a duet with Shaggy, because his career was as dead and buried as hers was at the time. How things change. (Merrill did a lovely cover of "Being Boring" though)

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Tennessee-Arrested Development
Bitch-Meredith someone (Williams?)
I don't wanna wait -Paula Cole
Here comes the hotstepper-95 remix-Ini Kamoze
Cotton Eyed Joe
Supermodel-RuPaul

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cotton Eyed Joe."

― mike a, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Dishwalla - "Counting Blue Cars"!

except I have nothing but irrational love for that song.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

We need to make this shit regional - for instance, the revelation up thar that Republica's biggest hit was NOT "Ready To Go" boggles my US-centric brane.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It was on the soundtrack to Scream, Daver, which is probably why it charted higher than "Ready To Go". Plus, they were British, so it makes sense to evaluate their hitmaking in their home market.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

All Mixed Up-311

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Two from the Buzz Bin:

-Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend"
-Veruca Salt "Seether"
-Elastica "Connection" (Oh my? Is that the title?!)

Sweet's wasn't exactly a one-hit wonder, but it was his big hit.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

In a sane universe, "Shutterbug" would have made Veruca Salt a two-hit wonder.

Elastica got a fair bit of video play for "Car Song", though it's not as iconic a single.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Who did 'My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style'?
Dream Warriors. However, they had a few hits in Canada, but that doesn't seem to matter on this thread, because half the groups named here had several hits depending on what country you live in.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

'Wash Your Face In My Sink' sold about the same amount in the UK iirc

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind
"Fly" by Sugar Ray
"Come on Eileen" cover by Save Ferris
"Horny" by Mouse-T
"Walkin on the Sun" by Smashmouth (or would "All-Star" be their one-hit?)
"Informer" by Snow
"Summertime in the LBC" by The Doveshack (despite being a one-hit, i find this song to be incredible)

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"Breathing Is E-Zee" by E-Zee Posse feat. Tara Newley.

(yes I know there was "Everything Starts With An E" as well, but the above has a different singer and is effectively Tara's song...so there)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, Tuomas, I can't remember how Captain Hollywood "All I Want" goes, but I do remember "Flying High" and "More And More"...and in what bizarro world do people not know Dr. Alban's other big single "Sing Hallelujah"? There's not a back-to-the-90s night where it is not played...

This local thing is madness, I wanted to nominate Keith Sweat "Nobody" but now I see that he had a dozen hits at home. And I always thought of Blur as a typical album band with one big novelty single "Girls & Boys", but they've had tons of hits in the UK.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

nadasurf - popular
toadies - possum kingdom
boss - recipe of a hoe
das efx - they want efx
aquabats - superrad
squirrel nut zippers - hell
carmen electra - go go dancer
5ive - when the lights go out
gabrielle - dreams
crush - jellyhead
india aire - india aire

and in america jay-z has had like 8 #1 singles

― Von, Monday, 2 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe no American ILMers have called dude out on the Presidents of the United States of America "Lump" suggestion. "Peaches" by them was an INFINITELY larger hit (at least here in the States...thus my American specification) than "Lump", and the fact that both of those songs were so huge should disqualify them from this thread.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit, my bad, I totally skipped over everyone else beating me to being pedantic about what constitutes 'one-hit-wonder'ness.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's OK, everyone skipped over me doing it too. In fact, everyone skipped over my suggestions to resuggest nearly all of them again.

*goes in huff*

Search function, folks...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Not one-hit wonders (and the other sizable hits they had):

Third Eye Blind (How's It Going to Be, Jumper)
Sugar Ray (Every Morning, When It's Over, Someday)
Matthew Sweet (Sick of Myself)
Paula Cole (Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?)
311 (Down, and a half-dozen since the 90s)
Arrested Development (Mr. Wendall, People Everyday)
Gin Blossoms (HEY JEALOUSY MOTHERFUCKER, Follow You Down, Found Out About You)

I previously missed Lucas's "Lucas With the Lid Off". Apologies, Lucas.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm amazed nobody has voted for Aqua's excellent "Barbie Girl" yet.

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Because we all remember "Turn Back Time", also a rather huge hit around the world, and "Doctor Jones", just as big-selling around Europe.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, i forgot about the rest of the world. (i actually like the first two aqua ALBUMS, and the lollipop song was even better than the barbie one. but i don't THINK any of their other songs hit in the states. unless "turn back time" did. that was the ballad, right?)

But okay, if we're gonna talk about the whole wide world, what about JORDY? And MODO, for that matter? I think Toy Box had two hits, so they probably don't count. (And neither do Rednex, nominated above for "Cotton Eyed Joe," due to "Spirit of the Hawk" and maybe others.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

were bettie boo (doin the do) and leila k (got to get) in the '90s, or the late '80s? i forget.

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Early 90s. Betty Boo also had "Where Are You Baby?", which was the bigger UK hit, another top 10 with the Beatmasters predating them ("Hey DJ (I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing)" and another top 20 ("Let Me Take You There" which sampled the Four Tops, wonderfully).

Again, in a sane world, "I'm On My Way" and "Hangover" would both have been #1s rather than flopping.

The first Aqua album is VASTLY underrated. The second one, too, only because nobody rates it at all and it's quite good.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck - totally with you on the Aqua thing. The best one on the first album is 'My Oh My'-

Gotta steal from the rich when they don't know I'm coming
Gotta give to the poor, no time for loooving!

When I was at uni we used to rinse that tune all the time when we were on pills.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Filter - "Take A Picture"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought their big hit was "Hey man, nice shot".

― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

HMNS was their "alternative" radio hit, Take A Picture was their mainstream pop hit.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Boomtang Boys, 'Squeeze Toy'
Artificial Joy Club, 'Sick and Beautiful'
Len, 'Steal my Sunshine'
Sky, 'Some Kinda Wonderful'
Ivan(ex-men w/out hats), 'Open Your Eyes'
EMF, 'Unbeliavable'
Big Wreck, 'That Song'
Bran van 3000, 'Drinking in LA'
Crash Test Dummies, 'Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm'
Hanson, 'Mmm-Bop'
Placebo, 'Pure Morning'(at least, it was the only one I knew in Canada)
Tonic, 'If You Could Only See'
The Rentals, 'Friends of P.'

that Bloodhound Gang song. you know.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

AJC's "Sick And Beautiful" was actually a hit? Amazing. Such a brilliant album they put out too.
Hanson had a few hits, and their single of this year (didn't hear it) did quite well without mainstream radio support.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

dambuilders, "shrine"

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i have no idea if that song broke outside the confines of Rev 105 in Mpls/StPl, but it was HUGE there, so i assume it did

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I 4> rev 105. This thread made me remember a bunch of songs I heard off there that I can only know distantly remember. Like the one w/some weird sample thing that was really cool.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

But okay, if we're gonna talk about the whole wide world, what about JORDY? And MODO,

Chuck, I already mentioned Modo upthread. Though now that I think of it, I remember him having another hit besides "Ein Zwei Polizei". Can't recall the title. Jordy is a good call, now I got "C'est dur dur d'être bébé" playing in my head... Ugh! Jordy's surely the youngest one-hit wonder ever, and his one hit has got to be one of the genuinely worst one-hit wonder hits. I do remember seeing a video for some Christmas song he did later on, but surely that wasn't a big seller?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Tribe Called Quest: one hit wonders???????????????????

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Mo-Do had one hit besides Eins Zwei Polizei, called Super Gut. It's incredibly good, absolute floorfiller.

― matulageci (matulageci), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

'Music Sounds Better With You' - Stardust

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone mentioned Leila K. Well, she did a cover of Ca Plane Pour Moi, which is almost as good as the original thing.

Also:
Mr. President - Coco Jumbo

― matulageci (matulageci), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Das EFX made me think of "Rumpshaker"

Amber "This is Your Night"
La Bouche "Be My Lover"
Color Me Bad's "I Wanna Sex You Up" was very early 90's, I think.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Color Me Badd also had "All 4 Love", where they wore really bright coloured suits (see.. badd colors). It was my sister's favourite song ever so I heard it a LOT.

La Bouche could probably claim "Sweet Dreams" and "I Love To Love" as hits.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

T-Spoon 'Sex On The Beach' if it's not already been mentioned

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that Spacehog song called?

It sometimes frustrates me that "Lucas With The Lid Off" became Lucas' only hit. "I'm Born" and "Cityzen" were way fucking better jams. It did have one killer video though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe straying a bit from one-hits, but BAD II's "Rush" or "The Globe"

Also Kula Shaker's "Tatvah"

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha I used to LOVE "Tatvah". I don't think I've heard that song in like eight fucking years. I'm afraid I will hear it and realize what a douchebag I used to be.

"used to be"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread leads me to conclude that one hit wonders simply do not exist. Even Mr. Blobby probably has a longlasting career somewhere.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Goodness, this is muddled, especially since one particular country isn't specified...

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Kajikstan

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Blobby had 'Christmas In Blobbyland'

bwahahahahaha

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Simpsons Christmas Boogie"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordy's hit was one of the best singles of whatever year it came out.(His album was good, too.)

Did anybody mention tag team (whoomp there it is) or 95 south (whoot there it is -- though maybe they had a followup later??) or b-rock and the biz (my baby daddy -- best single of the decade, easy!) or ruth ruth (univited) or local h (the song about just don't get it keep it copacetic, whatever it's called -- um, "bound to the floor," right?) or whoever that band that did "oxygen" (their name started with "colour" or "color" -- "colurfield", maybe?? -- and the sounded like roxette only better and actually i forget whether "oxygen" was their hit or something else was) yet? or whoever did "da dip", for that matter? there must be lots of other southern rap/post miami bass ones....

i too am a fan of the artifical joy album, by the way. (which reminds me, how many hits did one 2 one, or whatever they were called, have in canada? they were pretty decent too, i think.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

spacehog - in the meantime

ah, britgrunge

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And what about Gina G, "Ooh Ahh Just a Little Bit" or whatever it was called? And Imani Coppola's sort of post-Neneh-Cherry rap song about sort of being a cowgirl?

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

NO ONE HAS MENTIONED VANILLA ICE

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Vanilla Ice definitely had more than one hit. (Though he only had one GREAT one.) Snow had more than one hit too, I think. (Though there must be SOME reggae dancehall guy out there who only had one.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

NOT ACCORDING TO VH1!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

even though "Play That Funky Music" hit #4, you can't argue with cable TV!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Vh1 called PET SHOP BOYS one hit wonders once! They don't know *what* the fuck they're talking about....

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Gina G is my sister's best friend's cousin and I will NOT have her called her a one hit wonder. "I Belong To You" and "Fresh" were both pretty sizable, anyway.

Imani Coppolla, Legend of A Cowgirl, definitely. "I'm A Tree" was better, but nobody bought it. Silly people.

Chuck, did you like the album AJC recorded as Sal's Birdland on some indie label?

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Utah Saints "Something Good"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, that may not be the title to the song I'm thinking of.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha Baz Luhrman "Sunscreen"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread reminds me again how much I really had wished "Galaxie", as a single, had caught on something like "No Rain" did, it was such a better song (from a ridiculously greater album, too).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck's sake, folks, has no-one mentioned "I'll Be There For You" by the Rembrandts yet?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly because "Just The Way It Is, Baby" was a hit for them about three years before IBTFY.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn you Americans :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jump Around" by House of Pain

This was mentioned above and I just wanted to add that I heard this album playing in a store the other day for the first time in many years and it was painfully, embarrassingly bad.

I knid of thought HOP had been completely abandoned ala Vanilla Ice. Do people really still listen to this?

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"500 Miles" by the Proclaimers.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't "Letter from America" a hit in the UK?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, they also had a cover of "King of the Road". Also "I'm On My Way" all over the place since it was featured in Shrek, but I can't vouch for its "hit" status.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know about the House of Pain ALBUM, but their B-side song about putting on your shitkickers and kicking some shit was total white trash Irish punch your face in proto-crunk post-oi! punk rap, and as such very good by definition.

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy hell YES that WAS a great song. Why the hell wasn't it on the album?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

And "Jump Around" is a great, great, great, GREAT single, period (even if it does sound a lot like Chubb Rock. Nothing against Chubb Rock, though -- how many hits did *he* have? Fewer than Sir Mix-a-Lot, I bet.) (Then again, I'm such a huge "Posse on Broadway" and "My Hooptie" and "Cakeboy" fan that I may well overrate Mix's importance in the world.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Real Mccoy - "Another Night" (although I vaguely recall a follow up)
Culture Beat - "Mr. Vain"
Sunscreem "Love U More"
Tasmin Archer "Sleeping Satellite"
Bizarre Inc. - "I'm Gonna Get You"
Gilette - "Mr. Personality"
Sex-O-Sonique "I Thought It Was You"
Bran Van 3000 "Drinking In LA"
Jimmy Ray "Are you Jimmy Ray?" (Who wants to know! Who wants to know!)
Stereo MC's "Connected", "Step It Up"
Wreckx-n-Effect "Rumpshaker"
Heather Nova "Walk This World"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

>Real Mccoy - "Another Night" (although I vaguely recall a follow up)<

Yep, they covered "Come And Get Your Love" by Redbone not Leon Redbone. And there were one or two after that, I think. The best-of album is good! I once reviewed them along with Neal McCoy in Toronto's *Eye Weekly,* and connected them to the McCoys and Van McCoy, and said they were all better than their feud enemy Juliana Hatfield, ha ha geddit?

Gilette hit bigger with "Short Dick Man," I think (though that may have been under the name 20 Fingers.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Magnapop-"Open The Door"
Goldfinger-"Here In Your Bedroom"
The Urge-"Jump Right In"
Rammstien-"Du Hast"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Screaming Trees-"Nearly Lost You"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I always hated the edited version of "Short Dick Man", where they said 'short short man'. It just sounded really ridiculous, and was made worse by all these teenage girls who liked it but didn't know the real words, and then when they did find out they were all like *BLUSH* *GIGGLE*.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey wait a minute, what about Meat Puppets and Butthole Surfers and Flaming Lips and Social Distortion and L7?? They all only had one actual hit in the real world each (if that), right?

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Social D had a few:"I Was Wrong" "Ball & Chain" "Bad Bad Luck" and "Ring of Fire."

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Short Dick Man was 20 Fingers featuring Gillette, yes. 20 Fingers then went on to do the fabulous "Lick It".

Real McCoy had a stack of follow-ups. "Automatic Lover" was my favourite, though "Run Away" was the (second) biggest. They had a second album, but "One More Time" didn't do it for them, one more time.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck quite OTM up there.

Meat Puppets "Backwater"(?)
Butthole Surfers "Pepper"*
Flaming Lips "She Don't Use Jelly"
Social Distortion/L7 - not sure

*even though "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" was a moderate hit, when you say the name Butthole Surfers to norms, they will remember "Pepper"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of strangely edited songs, how could I have forgotten "The Roof is on Fire" by To Kool Chris?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a time that people called Beck a one-hit-wonder for "Loser", but then he went and made Odelay and fucked that all up for himself.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

There was this kinda hilarious piece of rock crit that made the rounds in Alt Newsweeklys about 10 years ago wherein this writer mused upon the whereabouts of several contemporary rock stars in like 2015, or 2005. I forget. The writer said Beck would leave the music business after failing to follow up "Loser", and he would be reduced to coming up with scenarios for Mentos TV ads.

For what it's worth, the writer also predicted for himself that Liz Phair would be his live-in girlfriend.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy Ray!

Cake - The Distance
Another Bad Creation - Aisha
Los Del Rio - The Macarena

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Go-Go time!:

DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat
EU - Da Butt (unless that was 1989 or something)

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Cake actually had at least one more hit-"Short Skirt and A Long Jacket"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Several, if you also count "I Will Survive", "Never There" or "Frank Sinatra".

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot about "Never There". Also: "Rock and Roll Lifstyle"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rock and Roll Lifestyle" is still one of my two favorite Cake songs, the other being "Pentagram", both off the first album. On the later albums he learned to actually sing and it kinda borderline ruined it for me. I mean, I like the later Cake stuff, but I LOVED that first album and it's ambivalent "aw yeah, alright"s.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome ones mentioned in this thread since I left:

Real McCoy
Gina G.
Bizarre Inc. (WHYYYY WASTE YO TIME??--though "Playing With Knives" was pretty big too, no?)
Butthole Surfers
Meat Puppets
Imani Coppola (12 Angry Viewers hell yeah!)
Baz Luhrman
Utah Saints (U-U-U-UTAH SAINTS!!)

trip-hop had some good ones.

"Six Underground" - Sneaker Pimps
"You're Not Alone" - Olive
"Life in Mono" - Mono
"Sour Times" - Portishead (though they had more in the U.K., I suppose)

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Creep" -- Radiohead. (In the States, anyway.)
"Whatever that song that sounded like a cross between Dave Matthews and Cake was called" - Soul Coughing

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Circles"?

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Wreckx-n-Effect "Rumpshaker"

This video ran on what seemed like a continuous loop on The Box, a UHF video-request channel, during the early to mid 1990's. Every time I'd try to pass out on a friend's couch, the heater would chap my lips and "Rumpshaker" would be on the TV set. I even think that The Box used the sax solo as the background music on its 1-900 menus.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

trip-hop had some good ones.

"Six Underground" - Sneaker Pimps
"You're Not Alone" - Olive
"Life in Mono" - Mono
"Sour Times" - Portishead (though they had more in the U.K., I suppose)

ah yes, i remember those days!

"Stars" by Dubstar
"2Wicky" by Hooverphonic

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, "Spin Spin Sugar" wasn't a hit overseas?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

and as far as Portishead in the states goes..."Stealing Beauty" totally ousted them to lame-ass Delia's Catalog-shopping adolescent girls by having "Glorybox" on the soundtrack (and come to think of it, Hooverphonic, too). During my freshman year of college, my Abercrombie-wearing, Dave Matthews Band-listening wench of a roommate would do a striptease to glorybox and 2wicky, which she played off the soundtrack. then, i'd always be like, "cover your gunt--I got tha albums, biy-atch!"

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Which overseas are we talking about, Dom?

It certainly didn't make much of an impact in the US.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Poe, "Trigger Happy Jack." Ugh.

― phil d., Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Urban Dance Squad - "Deeper Shade of Soul"

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Angry Johnny" was Poe's bigger hit from that album, but I guess "Hey Pretty" was even bigger.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Green Jelloy's "Three Little Pigs".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Love is Everywhere" - Cicero.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Revive!
Quad City DJs-"C'mon n' Ride It (The Train)"

I hadn't heard this in years, but last night I was stuck in traffic next to somebody blasting it, and I confess, I started dancing a little in my seat.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

some more I totally forgot the first time around:

Jude-"Rick James"
Transister-"Look Who's Perfect Now"
Flys-"Got You Were I Want You"
Tal (son of Randy) Bachman-"She's So High"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Jellyfish: The King Is Half Undressed

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago)

"Cover Your Gunt" by Waxyjax

― Nostalgia for the Old Cineramadome (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago)

"Take Five" by Northside

"Everything About You" by Ugly Kid Joe

― tk, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Natalie Imbruglia: "Torn"

yes

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

trip-hop had some good ones.

"Six Underground" - Sneaker Pimps
"You're Not Alone" - Olive
"Life in Mono" - Mono
"Sour Times" - Portishead (though they had more in the U.K., I suppose)

i also liked ruby's "paraffin." (even though "flippin' tha bird" was a far superior song.)

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sneaker Pimps had an even bigger hit with "Spin Spin Sugar" thanks to the Armand Van Helden remix.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm amazed no one's mentioned ILM's favorite song, (or at least mine) "My Boo".

― R. J. Greene, Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sponge - "Plowed"
Silverchair - "Tomorrow"
Candlebox - "Far Behind"

yeah, they all had other US hits ... but post-grunge needs to represent on this thread.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm amazed no one's mentioned ILM's REAL favorite song, White Town's "Your Woman".

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and NOT ILM's favorite song, "Butterfly" by Crazy Town.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

"How Do You Talk to an Angle" by The Heights

The obtuse ones are the hardest to talk to.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - "Tom's Diner"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Don't forget about...

Carolines Spine - Mrs. Sullivan
Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
The Nixons - Sister
Pete Droge - If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)
Orgy - Blue Monday
Porno for Pyros - Pets
Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Bittersweet
Nada Surf - Popular

― David Prysiazny, Thursday, 26 January 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

...and also

Wax - California

― David Prysiazny, Thursday, 26 January 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD

Keep this thread going you beasts.

Loveeee theeee 90'ssssss

No one mentioned LOVE SHACK!

I'm pretty sure that's the 90's... that's when I listened to that song.

― Akg, Sunday, 29 January 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD! The B-52s ARE SO NOT FAMOUS! OMG! NO MORE HITS! NEVER HEARD OF THEM AGAIN!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 January 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Deep Forest: "Sweet Lullaby"
Adiemus: "Adiemus"
Atlantic Ocean: "Waterfall"
Underworld: "Born Slippy"
Mighty Dub Katz: "Magic Carpet Ride"
Tony di Bart: "The Real Thing"
Diana King: "Shy Guy"
C.J. Lewis: "Sweets for My Sweet"
Big Mountain: "Baby, I Love Your Way"
Alice in Chains: "Rooster"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

The B-52's had a second hit with the Flintstones theme song, didn't they? But that was basically it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Future Sound of London: "We Have Explosive"
Prodigy: "Voodoo People"
Renegade Soundwave: "Renegade Soundave"
D.O.S.E.: "Plug Myself In"
Death in Vegas: "Dirt"
Goldie: "Inner City Life"
Josh Wink: "Are You There?"
DRB: "Toxygene"
The Crystal Method: "Busy Child"
Atari Teenage Riot: "Sick to Death"

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 29 January 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Prodigy surely had more hits than "Voodoo People". And wasn't "Higher State of Consciousness" Josh Wink's biggest hit?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, but I thought these tracks defined a very particular moment in time as well.

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 29 January 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think the point is that "Love Shack" wasn't their first hit.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Atari Teenage Riot: "Sick to Death"

on what planet was this a hit?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

The B-52's also had Roam after that; a song that only has a chorus... or so I remember. I can't recall ever hearing a verse.

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 30 January 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

And if you're going to give Sponge one hit, it had better be Molly

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 30 January 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Putting 'one hit wonders' in the thread title is like a cast iron guarantee of ensuing rancourous pedantry. That said, B-52s in no way qualify as one hit wonders, and Love Shack came out in the 1989.

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Monday, 30 January 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone remeber and or know that song that started out with some chick saying doo doo doo doo doo doo doo........and then she sings about how she is sitting at the table in the diner on the corner. And later on she says that there is a girl on the other side of the window "does she see me?" "she is looking at her own relfection" and pulling up her stalkings....anyways im sure that was no help at all. I have been looking for this song for fucking ever and hope one of you can help me out.

― rachel evans, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Suzanne Vega "Tom's Diner"

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

The DNA remix was the hit.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking "Birdhouse in Your Soul," people!!!!!!!!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

BTW Spin Doctors had at least THREE hits -- Pocket Full of Kryptonite, Little Miss Can't Be Wrong, and Two Princes.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

The DNA remix was the hit.

I'm quite aware of that, but without knowing the song, poster wouldn't have known it was a one-hit-wonder, so I went with the original version.

TMBG did the theme to Malcolm In The Middle. They can't possibly count (pretty sure that charted, in the UK at least)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah. I forgot about that song.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

thank you so much!! oh yeah wasn't meril brainbridge - "when i kiss your mouth" in the 90's? good stuff

― rachel evans, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Korn-"Got the life"
Prodigy-"Breathe"
Weird Al Yankovic-"Amish Paradise"
Bad Religeon-"Infected"
Everclear-"Santa Monica"
MC Hammer-"Can't touch this" (has nobody mentioned this one?!?)

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

Refreshments "Banditos"

― abnormalpsych (jen), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Korn-"Got the life"
Prodigy-"Breathe"
Weird Al Yankovic-"Amish Paradise"
Bad Religeon-"Infected"
Everclear-"Santa Monica"
MC Hammer-"Can't touch this" (has nobody mentioned this one?!?)

Umm, none of these are one-hit wonders

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

the Refreshments also hit with IIRC "down together"

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Umm, none of these are one-hit wonders

-- The Good Dr. Bill (fadeout9...), F

They sure as hell were if you grew up in southern california!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking "Birdhouse in Your Soul," people!!!!!!!!!!

TMBG had a few hits. The first song I heard by them was Ana Ng which was getting mad play on MTV at the time.

― this sac, Thursday, 9 February 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Donna Lewis, "I Love You Always Forever"

― Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 9 February 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Rocks by Primal Scream
Liar by the Rollins Band

― Paul Wentworth, Saturday, 18 March 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sophie B. Hawkins "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"

― el maury, Saturday, 18 March 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Dada-dizz knee land

― richard no more than that crap (jealousblues), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

ABC News piece on '90s one hit wonders (in which I am misquoted several times, and they call me Chucky):

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/FallConcert/story?id=3989089&page=1&GMA=true

― xhuxk, Friday, 14 December 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago)

Korn-"Got the life"
Prodigy-"Breathe"
Weird Al Yankovic-"Amish Paradise"
Bad Religeon-"Infected"
Everclear-"Santa Monica"
MC Hammer-"Can't touch this" (has nobody mentioned this one?!?)
-- xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 02:46 (1 year ago) Link

wtf!!

― musically, Friday, 14 December 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

haha

― electricsound, Friday, 14 December 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

also this

Rocks by Primal Scream

wasn't even their highest chart position.. still, they've only had a couple more top 40 hits than the wedding present

― electricsound, Friday, 14 December 2007 03:36 (seventeen years ago)

The liberal use of the words "one" "hit" and "wonder" in this thread make it too fucking aggravating to read

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 14 December 2007 06:01 (seventeen years ago)

Oh and NOT ILM's favorite song, "Butterfly" by Crazy Town.

By no means a 90s song anyway.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 14 December 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwrjRj-q5s&feature=fvwrel

― formerly r. bean (soda), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

Mouth is terrible.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 March 2018 04:01 (seven years ago)

'Music Sounds Better With You' - Stardust

maybe the only example on this thread of a one-hit wonder that was actually the only (known) recording by the artist?

― andrew m., Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:13 (seven years ago)

Merrill had 4 top-40 singles, mods please delete Alfred's post

also

Two statements later she has a follow-up: “When I kiss your mouth, I want to taste it.” Well, yeah. What else would you do with a mouth once you kiss it?

psst the "it" in this line might not be a mouth

― Haribo Hancock (sic), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:24 (seven years ago)

Stardust was a one-off project, all three members (Bangalter, Braxe and Diamond) had more hits.

― Siegbran, Saturday, 3 March 2018 08:26 (seven years ago)

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