One-hit wonders you still listen to - Page 2

alva · June 10, 2003, 10:05

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Originally posted by Olaf Hårfagre
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
*Forgot his name* - Bad to the Bone
LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight

George thorogood

(try the live-version

)

Combat Ingrid · June 10, 2003, 10:10

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Originally posted by alva
ONLY in Sweden I pressume

I certainly hope so! But it's funny and contaminates your mind for a long time after listening to it.
If you dare, you can listen to it here: http://www.crapfromthepast.com/favor...ds/caramba1.rm

Dr Kellogg · June 10, 2003, 10:26

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Stilstskin - Inside

I think they all qualify as one-hit wonders..

SlowwHand · June 10, 2003, 10:29

Reflections of My Life, Marmalade.

SlowwHand · June 10, 2003, 10:32

George Thorogood, Bee Gees, Hendrix ?

alva · June 10, 2003, 10:37

could be usefull

One hit wonders

/me hopes this is the right thread

Spiffor · June 10, 2003, 10:38

Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree.

Can't say they have done any other hit IMHO

Dr Kellogg · June 10, 2003, 10:47

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Originally posted by Spiffor
Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree.

Can't say they have done any other hit IMHO

They are supposed to be more popular in Asia than in Europe.. However, IMO this was a typical one-hit-wonder

oedo · June 10, 2003, 10:54

nice link alva, but it´s got its weaknesses:

Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men
Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Nena - 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Kate Bush - Running Up that Hill

some examples. I´d say none of them qualifies as a one hit wonder.

Mercator · June 10, 2003, 11:12

Spin Doctors - Two Princes
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Haddaway - What Is Love (my first CD

)
The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (well, pretty much... in Europe anyway)

alva · June 10, 2003, 11:24

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Originally posted by Combat Ingrid

I certainly hope so! But it's funny and contaminates your mind for a long time after listening to it.
If you dare, you can listen to it here: http://www.crapfromthepast.com/favor...ds/caramba1.rm

I just got it, auch, wtf

, it is pretty funny though, I might keep it

-
Oedo;

I know, I went through the whole list and did the

on many occasions

Boris Godunov · June 10, 2003, 11:57

One-hit wonders abound in opera and classical music!

Probably the most famous one-hit wonder is Georges Bizet. Carmen is indisputably among the most popular operas ever written, but does anyone know anything else he did? Not likely. Les Pecheurs des Perles is a good opera, but not often done (although the tenor-baritone duet "Au fond du temple saint" is a regular concert piece).

Two notable OHW are often performed together: the one-act operas I Pagliacci by Leoncavallo and Cavelleria Rusticana by Mascagni. The former is famous for the tenor aria "Vesti la giubba" (the crying clown), the later for its celebrated orchestral Intermezzo and the Easter Chorus. Nothing else these guys wrote ever came close to these works (attempts to elevate clunkers like Zaide and The Cherry Picker to their level are met with derision).

Among other operatic one-hit wonders is Weber's Die Freischeutz, Montemezzi's L'Amore del Tre Re, and Ponchielli's La Gioconda (justly famous for the Dance of the Hours, used in Disney's Fantasia, and the tenor aria "Cielo e mar."). Other composers also ended up with only one successful opera, but had other musical credits to their name (Beethoven, Delibes, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky, Debussy).

The best-known one-hit wonder in non-operatic music I can think of is Carl Orff, with his Carmina Burana. While orchestras have tried to put on the rest of his cantata trio of which it is part, the other two cantatas are met with reactions of bafflement and distaste.

Other classical composers who have single pieces remembered and the rest ignored include Pachelbel ("Canon in D"), Albinoni (Adagio in G Minor), Dukas ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"), and Kachaturian (the perennially irritating "Sabre Dance").

Richelieu · June 10, 2003, 11:59

Echo Beach - Martha and the muffins

Ubergeek · June 10, 2003, 14:06

Sadly, I remember Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot from my school days. It was quite painfully popular in my class, and I still remember one poor dope who transcribed all the "lyrics", Xeroxed them and passed them around. It's the pain that never quite goes away.

I only remember one Modern English song, Life in a Northern Town, which I still love. And since the USA never heard anything about Dexy's Midnight Runners before or after Too-Rye-Ay came out, I will classify Come On Eileen as a one-hit-wonder for my purposes.

Stefu · June 10, 2003, 14:09

Nothing can defeat Jordy!

Gio gio en poppeppi! Or something.

Buck Birdseed · June 10, 2003, 14:15

Do Plastic Bertrand count? Otherwise I think I've only got "Sukiyaki" by Kuy Sakomoto (not the real title, I know) and "Surfing Bird" by The Trashmen on record I think.

Ubergeek · June 10, 2003, 14:19

The Trashmen are from my hometown. I met one of them once at a garage sale. There, that's the closest I've ever come to fame.

frostycreep · June 10, 2003, 14:37

Scorpions, wind of change. Its a classic!

monolith94 · June 10, 2003, 14:56

"I only remember one Modern English song, Life in a Northern Town, which I still love."

You idjit!!! Dream Factory did Life In a Northern Town... modern english did "I Melt With You"...

I am the king of one-hit wonders from the eighties - I guarantee it. I have practically all the songs mentioned, plus ones you've never even thought of.

FrustratedPoet · June 10, 2003, 15:04

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Originally posted by monolith94 plus ones you've never even thought of.

aaarrrgghhh! GET. OUT. OF. MY. HEAD.

Arrian · June 10, 2003, 15:04

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just on the radio

Chumbawumba - I get knocked down

That's the first song that came to mind, alva.

Boris - good effort, man.

-Arrian

Ubergeek · June 10, 2003, 16:13

D'oh! Monolith94, I humbly bow down before your superior knowledge and confess that I richly deserve the title of Big Fat Idiot for that mistake. My only defense is that I have "Hubba hubba zoot zoot / Hayba heeba zut zut / A num num" stuck in my head.

Wernazuma III · June 10, 2003, 16:44

Opus: Life is live

As an Austrian you still get to hear it.
Just like Falco - Amadeus (I guess internationally he was a one hit wonder, maybe you know the Komissar too)

Ubergeek · June 10, 2003, 16:59

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Originally posted by Wernazuma III
Opus: Life is live

That song was subject to the weirdest cover I've ever heard in my life. It was done by a Yugoslav band called, IIRC, Laibach, which as near as I could tell was a neo-Nazi outfit of some stripe. They turned a bouncy, meaningless pop tune into a sturm und drang lament for the lost Reich. Verrry interestink...but shtupid.

Ecthy · June 10, 2003, 17:01

in the year twenty-five, twenty-five...

DanielXY · June 10, 2003, 17:32

Hm anyone know that kind of new song I dont know actor or Title of. It has the Nightrider theme in it and later some orient kind of music (turkey or siminlar comes to mind) and its something you would expect from prodigy.

I suppose it is a one-hit-wonder too. Since I cant remember the group which made it.

Ecthy · June 10, 2003, 17:36

punjabi mc - mundian to bach ke

oedo · June 10, 2003, 17:37

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Hm anyone know that kind of new song I dont know actor or Title of. It has the Nightrider theme in it and later some orient kind of music (turkey or siminlar comes to mind) and its something you would expect from prodigy.

I suppose it is a one-hit-wonder too. Since I cant remember the group which made it.

most likely you mean Punjabi MC. time will tell if they will stay successful or we´ll have another one hit wonder.
edit: hi Andz, seems you were faster

oedo · June 10, 2003, 17:44

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Originally posted by Ubergeek

That song was subject to the weirdest cover I've ever heard in my life. It was done by a Yugoslav band called, IIRC, Laibach, which as near as I could tell was a neo-Nazi outfit of some stripe. They turned a bouncy, meaningless pop tune into a sturm und drang lament for the lost Reich. Verrry interestink...but shtupid.

Laibach totally rules. they also have completely covered the Beatles album Let It Be and Queens One Vision.

monolith94 · June 10, 2003, 18:16

"maybe you know the Komissar too"

Don't turn around
(zha zha!)
Der Komissar's in town!