What are your favorite "One Hit Wonders"?

[MarxSchmarx]

Post some of your favorite song for which bands that are most (and largely exclusively) famous for that song.

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[¿Que?]

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[Rusty Shackleford]

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yes, i turn this up when it comes on the radio (which is rare) and i fucking love it. i dont give a fuck what you think.

[wunderbar]

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I guess they had one or two other hits in the UK, but this was their only US hit.

[DeBon]

I fail at embedding :/ I'll just leave this here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQWszrZHBPI

[Nox]

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[Rusty Shackleford]

I fail at embedding :/ I'll just leave this here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQWszrZHBPI
thats a one hit wonder?

[Manic Impressive]

I never heard anything else from her
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[Ballyfornia]

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OOhhhhh yeahhh

[Property Is Robbery]

thats a one hit wonder?
As a matter of fact it is definitely not


Money
Wish You Were Here
Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
Have a Cigar
Young Lust
Shine on you Crazy Diamond
The Great Gig in the Sky
Time
Brain Damage
Mother
Hey You
The Show must Go on
In The Flesh?
etc.

[DeBon]

thats a one hit wonder?

Fact: Anything by Floyd is a one hitter.

[Rooster]

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[Sam_b]

EL OH EL Devo as 'one-hit wonders'.

[Sam_b]

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[Искра]

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[Blake's Baby]

EL OH EL Devo as 'one-hit wonders'.

Exactly. Ditto Toto, Prefab Sprout, Rick Astley, Ultravox... 'one hit wonder' doesn't mean the same as 'name the most famous song by a band'. Anyway, Prefab Sprout's most famous hit is 'When Love Breaks Down' isn't it?

Anyhoo...

Furniture - Brilliant Mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEXP717T0

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[¿Que?]

EL OH EL Devo as 'one-hit wonders'.
Ok, so they had a bit of a cult following, but I think it still counts.

[Blake's Baby]

I think there are probably such divergent opinions as to what a 'one hit wonder' is that we're never going to agree about this.

To me, a 'one hit wonder' (like a 'nine day wonder') is a musician or band that 1 - you've never heard of; 2 - that suddenly has a hit; 3 - then disappears never to be heard of again.

Not, like Devo, a band that had a 7-year career and hobnobbed with Neil Young before their surprise hit, and have been working for a hefty chunk of the last 30 years since then.

The 'wonder' (like the 'nine day wonder') is partly at least 'I wonder where that came from/what happened to them?' rather than 'I wonder why lots of people have suddenly cottoned on to something that has been around for such a liong time?'

[¿Que?]

Yeah, like push the little daisies or no rain...:rolleyes:

[Dumb]

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Technically, that band isn't a one-hit wonder regardless of how you define the term. If you go by the Billboard Top 200, they're a no-hit wonder because they never had a single chart on the top 200; on the other hand, they had three songs make the Alternative Rock charts ("Bound for the Floor" - #5; "Eddie Vedder" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmRhOKhkOI) - #38; "All the Kids Are Right" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_oW1KxdzA&ob=av2n) - #20).

That being said, "Bound for the Floor" is the only thing people know about this band - not even the name of the band makes the cut, it seems - and the song in question was the only one to even crack the Top 200 in airplay.

[Dumb]

Ok, so they had a bit of a cult following, but I think it still counts.

Oh, come on - they had 3 singles on the Hot 100! :lol:

[¿Que?]

Oh, come on - they had 3 singles on the Hot 100! :lol:
Wasn't aware of this. I stand corrected, I guess.

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[Rusty Shackleford]

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[leftace53]

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For shizzle.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

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Fact: Anything by Floyd is a one hitter.

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[NoOneIsIllegal]

1st song: NO SHAME. FIGHT ME. Plus, in the 90s, she was a babe! I seriously like this song, ever since I first heard it around 13 years ago.
2nd song: what does this have to do with Batman? Shiiiiitttt's good!

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[Sentinel]

Since you brought up the 90s.

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[Ocean Seal]

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[SereneIdiot]

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Such a shame that somebody posted that before me! Oh well. :laugh:

[brigadista]

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[S.Artesian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh5oMDlWwQ&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXfgtyJcdh3OtO811yVdqtQ1

Greatest 1 hit wonder of all time. Greatest psychedelic rock song of all time.

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