10-06-2003 13:14									#1
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So, which artists do you still listen to that made a single hit before disappearing?

I'll just rattle off a couple here that I can think of off the top of my head:

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
The Verve Pipe - The Freshman
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

I'm sure you all have some more than this.

	10-06-2003 13:33									#2
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I think the bee gees had other hits.

flock of seagulls- that's who does that song.

	10-06-2003 13:39									#3
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Breeders - Cannonball
Katrina and the Waves - Walkin' on Sunshine

and, when drunk, Bonnie Tyler - Total eclipse of the Heart :

	10-06-2003 13:40									#4
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The Lo-Fi's are one-hit-wonders?

Well, one-album-wonders I suppose. Many other songs on that album are comparable in quality to Battleflag IMHO.

And you know that the BeeGees weren't one-hit-wonders either.

Anyway ... no genuine ones spring to mind that I still listen to. I never buy singles so only have CDs from bands I like multiple songs from. Of course, I could always get mp3 versions of one-hit-wonders, but I'm too lazy.

	10-06-2003 13:40									#5
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ahh yes, Bonnie Tyler. I still like that song.

	10-06-2003 13:43									#6
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According to VH1, Jimi Hendrix is technically a one hit wonder.

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what! damn them, damn them all to hell

he had at least two hits. foxy lady and purple haze. And he had a third hit with his cover song all along the watchtower. Other songs like voodoo child, the wind cried mary, hey joe were minor hits.

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I agree, but he's still on their one hit wonder countdown. They do note how influential he was, and how he shouldn't really be there, but I guess All Along the Watchtower was the only song of his that charted at all, at least according to VH1.

	10-06-2003 13:51									#9
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Speaking of crap that's on VH1's list, I guess that Faith No More is a one hit wonder according to them also. What a load of crap.

NOTE - after looking at their web site, they don't list Jimi on that countdown, but I can remember watching it and they did have a segment on him.

	10-06-2003 13:59									#10
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I think there are two kinds of one-hit wonders. One is a pop group that comes together, gets a hit, and then fades rapidly from view. That, to me, is the real definition. The other kind is a group that was never pop to begin with but that cuts a song that is popular enough to chart; then they go back to being themselves and catering to their loyal fan base. Faith No More would seem to be in the second camp, along with Devo, Psychadelic Furs, and Sinead O'Connor, among many others.

	10-06-2003 14:10									#11
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Ah, I have a good one. I still listen to the Toadies.

	10-06-2003 14:34									#12
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Blind Melon - No Rain
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Do Right
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Tonic - If You Could Only See


As far as i know these guys are 1 hit wonders

	10-06-2003 15:12									#13
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just on the radio


Chumbawumba - I get knocked down

	10-06-2003 15:26									#14
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Pah. Nobody's a one-hit wonder in my book, except Gina G, but I haven't heard her song for years (thank God).

Chumbawumba, the Verve and Jane's Addiction I wouldn't qualfy as one-hit wonders.

	10-06-2003 15:56									#15
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"Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot"

(big hit in Sweden ~20 years ago)

	10-06-2003 16:02									#16
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ONLY in Sweden I pressume

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Video killed the radio star - the Buggles

	10-06-2003 16:06									#18
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Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
*Forgot his name* - Bad to the Bone
LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight

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Bastos - lufty la (sp?)

	10-06-2003 16:40									#20
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Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

	10-06-2003 16:45									#21
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The Knack - My Sharona
Toni Basil - Hey Mickey
It's Immaterial - Driving away from home
Lipps Inc - FunkyTown
M -Pop Muzik

quote: Breeders - Cannonball Bonnie Tyler - Total eclipse of the Heart

great songs especially that one from Breeders but they´re also no one hit wonders. Breeders derrived from the Pixies and had two Albums. Bonnie Tyler had a lot of Hits (It´s a Heartache; Lost In France; I Need A Hero etc.).

	10-06-2003 16:46									#22
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LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live

	10-06-2003 16:56									#23
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Sinaed O'Connor - nothing compares 2 U, love that song

btw that chumbawumba song is called 'tubthumping'

	10-06-2003 16:59									#24
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bah! how could I forget the best of them all:

Shannon - Let The Music Play

	10-06-2003 17:16									#25
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The Vapors - Turning Japanese

	10-06-2003 18:08									#26
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"That, to me, is the real definition. The other kind is a group that was never pop to begin with but that cuts a song that is popular enough to chart; then they go back to being themselves and catering to their loyal fan base."

There is also the problem that some bands can be considered one hit wonders in one country, whereas in another they are nothing of the sort...Dexy's Midnight Runners is an example of this where (I think) they only had Come On Eileen as a hit in the US, but in the UK they'd already done well with their previous album, getting a number 1 with Geno for instance.

	10-06-2003 18:13									#27
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay The Verve Pipe - The Freshman Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

I still listen to Blind Melon's No Rain.

	10-06-2003 18:15									#28
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quote: Originally posted by kmad Blind Melon - No Rain Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Do Right The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Tonic - If You Could Only See

Again,
Bittersweet Symphony's strings part was lifted from another song, but it's still great.
I've seen Tonic live too (they were an opening act), wonder where they went to.

And another Jimmie's Chicken Shack song that rules is "High"

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quote: Originally posted by C0ckney Sinaed O'Connor - nothing compares 2 U, love that song btw that chumbawumba song is called 'tubthumping'

Thanks for the info

but

Please don't think that's Sinaed's best song (written by Prince btw)

Try 'Troy', or 'the emperors new cloths' or my favourite; 'Mandlinka'

	10-06-2003 18:40									#30
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Wild Cherry "Play That Funky Music White Boy."