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)

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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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