best song in VH1's Top 40 One Hit Wonders of the '90s

voted Haddaway over Sir Mix-A-Lot, Belly & the Proclaimers. "What Is Love" is such a stomper though.

Voted Snow.

HEY WAKE UP WE GOT THE DREAMER'S DISEASE

people say yo you look like mc hammer on crack

top 10, could vote for any of these: I'm Gonna Be, Humpty Dance, Baby Got Back, The Impression That I Get, Flava In Ya Ear, Good Vibrations, You Get What You Give, Feed The Tree, Jump Around, Unbelievable

bottom 10, fuck these songs for all time: Sex And Candy, One Of Us, No Rain, Steal My Sunshine, Lullaby, Mambo #5, Tubthumping, Barely Breathing, Bittersweet Symphony, How Do You Talk To An Angel

Pretty weird seeing The Verve on this list.

I went with Belly, didn't really like the album but that song is great.

I had to interview Imani Coppola two years ago -- what a ditz.

Went with the unfuckwithable Len. But it could have just as easily been "Baby Got Back."

Crash Test Dummies tbh

not trying to violate the no "that kind of pedantry" rule but it always puzzles me that Vanilla Ice's "Play That Funky Music" went to #4 and isn't considered a "hit" - but obv no one remembers Vanilla Ice for anything but "Ice Ice Baby" so I suppose that is the rationalization

judging from that list, you'd think nothing but novelty songs were produced that decade

iirc "Ice" was originally the b-side of "Play" so maybe they use some kind of goofy logic to rationalize that. also i have virtually never heard "Play" in my life and was coming into pop consciousness at the time of "Ice" hitting big so i'm kind of okay with the one hit wonder thing.

I haven't heard it since very early '91, and all I remember is the GO WHITE BOY GO WHITE BOY GO interlude.

How is "Groove Is in the Heart" not on the list?

verve being on this list makes sense to me, but i heard them purely as a pop group & never followed their records or w/e

Deee-Lite's probably the most surprising omission, I was thinking also Quad City DJs, Fastball, Jesus Jones

semisonic?

there's a lot of crap on this list

1. you get what you give
2. jump around
3. baby got back
4. flava in your ear
5. what is love
6. jump
7. good vibrations
8. tubthumping
9. humpty dance
10. ice ice baby

i think the first 6 or so on that list are 10/10 classics

that list being my list

man it was so weird when i found out that some type of punk kids were heavy into the chumbawumba discog

Marky Mark wins for having the most successful post-music career here, right?

Voting for New Radicals.

oh i totally did not see "whoomp there it is" -- that's top 5

oh also "you gotta be", fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8

followed by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

hard choice, though -- might've been switched on another day, but not sure

Was between Feed The Tree and Legend Of A Cowgirl for me, but I would have felt guilty voting for the former when I regard Belly as so much more than a popular single.

The Proclaimers and that horrible annoying beast of a song can fuck the fuck off, actively makes me want to cast away my Scottish heritage.

That New Radicals guy also wrote Ronan Keating's "Life Is A Rollercoaster" didn't he? I think I prefer that.

I was thinking also Quad City DJs, Fastball, Jesus Jones

Jesus Jones's "Real Real Real" hit #4.

Really hard for me to choose, but now feel relieved of the responsibility to vote since prolego points out above that "Groove Is In the Heart" -- vastly superior to anything here -- missed the list.

happy that the list reminded me how much i like "feed the tree," though.

god i hate closing time so so much, more than anything else on this list. and there is some awful stuff on here. mambo #5, proclaimers, ugh

but but... closing time is about love and death and life and meaningful things.

Steal My Sunshine

^^^

Markers, I knew you would vote that. It's your fav iirc.

i love sex & candy!

i think sex and candy is possibly worse than closing time

it's awful

never been around so many people who hate sex & candy

i think i've only ever heard one other person say something nice about that song

altho i guess i do totally understand why ppl would hate it tho

Whoa Shawn Mullins - Lullaby... haven't heard that one in years! Sort of a guilty pleasure... but I could say that about almost every song in this list. You hear them in party or a bar somewhere every two or three years and think about that summer vacation - it feels like better times in your mind but they really weren't that different from the last vacation you had - and your friends from back then and all of the unrequited love you've been through and how you'd find a way to fix it right now. And how you wish all of your friends from back then were with you at that very moment singing along and thinking about those times and making promises of doing something like that all again. But your friends are not there, you're with some awkward co-worker too concerned about not revealing an alternate persona from the one he has at work... and even if they were they've probably become as boring as you are and there's not really much to talk about asides the old times and your new jobs and your kids or dogs or something.

Instead you just bump into the song randomly at some thread and proceed to post a youtube link on your friend's facebook profile with a note "remember our winter vacation in Vail?". And she'll tick the 'i like' button and we shall never speak of it again.

1. Sir Mix-A-Lot Baby Got Back 1992
9. House of Pain Jump Around 1992
14. Wreckx-N-Effect Rump Shaker 1992
16. Kris Kross Jump 1992
17. Snow Informer 1993
21. Imani Coppola Legend of a Cowgirl 1997
23. Haddaway What is Love 1993
28. Craig Mack Flava In Ya Ear 1994
34. Des'ree You Gotta Be 1995
39. Divinyls I Touch Myself 1991

those are the ones i rep for. the rest are mostly quite abhorrent - i still shudder every time i think of "you get what you give". i had no idea "legend of a cowgirl" was a legit hit anywhere, i have the album it's off and just thought it was some obscure oddity! i think i might vote for it actually.

I still rep for that Imani Coppola album, even if she now seems a bit of an idiot.

This is actually a tough poll, but Digital Underground ftw.

1. "Jump Around," 2. "Jump," 3. "No Rain"--and another six I like.

Humpty Dance
No Rain
Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
Jump Around
Steal my sunshine
Jump
Bad boys
Feed the Tree
Good Vibrations
Rump Shaker

Markers, I knew you would vote that. It's your fav iirc.

― ENBB, Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:14 PM

:D

Toss up between the unlikely pairing of The Verve and House of Pain

rico suave!

The Power
Tag Team Whoomp There It Is
Inner Circle Bad Boys
Craig Mack Flava In Ya Ear
Haddaway What is Love
Snow Informer
Kris Kross Jump
Wreckx-N-Effect Rump Shaker
Digital Underground The Humpty Dance
House of Pain Jump Around
Sir Mix-A-Lot Baby Got Back

Girl Power
Divinyls I Touch Myself
Len Steal My Sunshine
EMF Unbelievable
New Radicals You Get What You Give
Los Del Rio Macarena
Gerardo Rico Suave
Right Said Fred I'm Too Sexy

Turtle Power
The Verve Bittersweet symphony
Lou Bega Mambo #5
Belly Feed the Tree
Marc Cohn Walking in Memphis
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Good Vibrations
Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby
Chumbawumba Tubthumping

The Power Of American Natives (not heard these)
Heights How Do You Talk To An Angel
Merrill Baingridge Mouth
B-Rock & The Bizz MyBabyDaddy
Shawn Mullins Lullaby
Imani Coppola Legend of a Cowgirl
Duncan Sheik Barely Breathing

Mighty Morphin' Power Lamers
Des'ree You Gotta Be
The Proclaimers I'm Gonna Be
Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Impression That I Get
Marcy Playground Sex and Candy
Crash Test Dummies Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart
Blind Melon No Rain
Rednex Cotton Eye Joe
Joan Osborne One of Us
Semisonic Closing Time

um, what

yeah "Baby Got Back" is really kind of a stupid song, can't really stand it anymore today after hearing it so many times

"Humpty Dance" on the other hand is just one classic line after another

I voted for Len, and I wish I'd voted for Digital Underground. In all honesty, I didn't notice their name on the list -- I don't think of them as one hit wonders, irrational as that may be. I'll rep for Len, but not at the expense of "The Humpty Dance."

yeah "Baby Got Back" is really kind of a stupid song, can't really stand it anymore today after hearing it so many times

j/k "Baby Got Back" is a total fucking jam and I will never get tired of listening to it wtf

there is some total crazypants going on here re: "Baby Got Back"

I sort of don't believe that Len song is real. I never heard it back in the 90s.

It's real, awesome and better than Baby Got Back. There, I said it.

i don't get it, what's so appealing about the 5000th listen of this song

I heard it all the time!

calling "Baby Got Back" a 'a one-joke novelty hit' is like saying the movie Airplane! only had one joke. it's so jam-packed with quotables!

yeah but it's got nothing on "Humpty Dance"

"Humpty" is better but not by as wide a margin as they're both better than a Canadian dude singing like Jamie Walters over an Andrea True loop

nope

lol jamie walters

that Andrea True loop is pretty golden though

I'm sad that you don't understand how awesome SMS is SD. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QGJE94iOM

Wasn't he in 38. Heights How Do You Talk To An Angel 1992?

um I don't think 'one-joke novelty hit' is all that far off. all the quotable lines revolve around a single simple concept: dude likes women with large posteriors. beginning, middle, and end of story.

Jamie Walters?

Yeah! I thought he was the lead in that show/band.

The eventual theme song for the show, "How Do You Talk to an Angel," sung by Jamie Walters went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was the first song from a television show to top the Hot 100 since 1985.

I just heard Flava in Your Ear for the first time, like, ten minutes ago...I would've voted for that if I had bothered to check it out in the beginning of the poll, so I mean, what do I know?

I was xposting Drugs

but it's a lame joke lol

lol oh - oops

so these results are basically perfect, then. good work, everybody!

I mean, Jamie Walters dated Donna on "90210." I forgot whether she had a big butt in 1995.

oh God he did

didn't he throw her down the stairs

4. Los Del Rio Macarena 1996 0

The greatest selling single of all-time gets no votes... faux-populism is dead. RIP

Yeah – after she made a remark about how his breathy singing sucked on "How Do You Talk To An Angel"

xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4UKied_qXU

yes he beat donna up! tori spelling never had a big butt.

I have never even heard/heard of the top 2 here wtf

that's when you gave up music for politics, Shakes.

lol @ at the title of the "90210" clip.

right

Jamie Walters' ass is bigger than Donna's wtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8GBCpstlvs

they abused Donna a lot on this show

HOLY SHIT

they abused Donna a lot on this show

I love how I was just watching 90210 reruns the other day (Steve holds a rave! Donna meets Jamie! Tiffani-Amber smokes weed!) and now ILM has caught up

I love the blocking/writing of that scene

"Hey, what's wrong?"
"GET IN THE POOL oh it's naptime"

wait waht?

I don't accept that Dylan would have "accidentally" brushed Donna off like that; he had nothing but contempt for her.

i think maybe the immense weight of donna's face sent shockwaves through dylan's arm to his brain causing acute synapse overload; this is oft referred to in the medical world as "spelling's syndrome." Grave indeed that this occurs whether you mean to knock her unconscious into a pool or not.

She MIGHT have been okay if her head had bounced off Jamie Walters' butt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKhGr3-KxZQ&feature=related

they weren't very kind to Andrea, either

She MIGHT have been okay if she'd bounced off Brandon Walsh's cock.

LMAO