one hit wonders

[tribal girl]

I'm talkin' about those kinda songs that often pop into your head, and you're like, "Oh crap. What was the name of that artist?!". Or the kinda songs that take you back to a place time has forgotten, and you suddenly feel like a kid again. :D

It doesn't necessarily have to be good, or something that you still like. But something that invokes memories of a certain place or time. I'll start us off.

Paula Cole - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
Joan Osborne - One of us

 

[ColtDan]

Len - Steal My Sunshine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puyO0LAvaOU

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYsunnfATys

 

[ChickenScratch]

try to get this one out of your head.

you're welcome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wKQDMbA2Q

 

[tribal girl]

Now for a lil' new wave.

M - Pop Muzik
The Flying Lizards - Money
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

 

[oneswtwld]

Skee-Lo - "I Wish"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s7MmcDjwek


Ahmad - "Back In The Day"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0WMSovOboY

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

Now for a lil' new wave.
....
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

+1

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's

Used to hear it on Washington, D.C. radio all the time from 1995-1997ish. Also, that song that they used as the theme song for that show Friends.

 

[tribal girl]

^Ooh yeah, I remember that tune. :D

I fuckin' loved this track (still do )
Soho - Hippychick

"There ain't nuthin' like a chicken wing!"
Imani Coppola - Legend of a Cowgirl

 

[Kenickie]

white town -- your woman

not entirely a one hit wonder, but had only one super hit hit:

meat puppets -- backwater

 

[theotherside]

LEN-Steal my sunshine

Was a catchy summer anthem but they never did anything else

 

[Km013]

fastball- the way
the new radicals- you only get what you give

 

[Myshkin]

Charles & Eddie - Would I Lie To You?

Consider the bar well and truly raised... or lowered. :D

 

[OhMyGosh]

^I will sheepishly admit to liking that song.

Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

 

[tribal girl]

Aqua - Barbie Girl
Shampoo - Trouble
Smoke City - Underwater Love

 

[Rated E]

Oh, Aqua, haha. I might actually still like this one.

 

[Myshkin]

What do you get when you throw together a talented-yet-disgraced alcoholic, mentally ill, soon-to-be wife-beating sports star and a recording studio?

Gazza - Fog On The Tyne

Funnier if you know who he is, still funny if you don't. Not to mention near-criminal in its atrociousness. Enjoy.

 

[tribal girl]

Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo!

 

[Myshkin]

How could I possibly forget: Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - Prime Mover ?

This song is on many, many 80s metal compilations, meaning it's also on a few pub jukeboxes. My friends and I play a game where we pick three songs and the fourth one has to be this. Then we see how long it takes for them to turn off the jukebox / throw us out. :D

Years ahead of its time though - parodying hair metal when hair metal was still big. Mark Manning is a genius. This video? Just like an ordinary day in my life...

 

[alasdairm]

right said fred - i'm too sexy...

alasdair

 

[Myshkin]

Right Said Fred? Surely you can't dismiss the masterpiece that was Deeply Dippy? :D

 

[MrGrunge]

Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale

"We skipped the liiiiight faaaaaandango...."