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Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 27 Jul 2010, 21:08
by saltysam
Caught a show on one of the music channels the other day featuring a selection of one-hit wonders...what ones can you recall? Tasmin Archer with Sleeping Satellite is one i remember well,Chesney Hawkes One & Only,Propaganda-Duel, Nena 99 Red Balloons....
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 27 Jul 2010, 22:07
by grim_tales
Would I Lie To You - Charles & Eddie
Your Woman - White Town
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 01:58
by Markgway
Not ashamed to admit I like the Chesney Hawkes song.
These are also quite good--
Big Mountain - Baby I Love Your Way
Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything
Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
The Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Shakespeare's Sister - Stay
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 03:51
by bradavon
Markgway wrote:Not ashamed to admit I like the Chesney Hawkes song.
It rocks. Only sad people think otherwise.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 08:19
by gasteropod
A hairdresser who cut my hair a while ago was adamant she'd never heard it before
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 17:07
by Markgway
LIES!!!!
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 17:57
by gasteropod
I know, what an ignoramus.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 18:15
by grim_tales
Even I know that song.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 19:33
by Markgway
Yeah, even Grim!
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 22:23
by grim_tales
Informer - Snow
Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 22:33
by gasteropod
grim_tales wrote:Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
Haha good one, I'll add Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
hmm and also Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400!
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 00:12
by Markgway
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 08:14
by grim_tales
Cruel. but funny!
Never seen that clip before.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 16:03
by bradavon
grim_tales wrote:Informer - Snow
In what country?
. It was a hit here! I've never heard or seen it before.
MC Hammer - You cannot touch this.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 16:14
by grim_tales
It was definitely a hit here. It reached Number Two.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 18:12
by gasteropod
bradavon wrote:MC Hammer - You cannot touch this.
Lol, that sounds like a posh gentleman trying to rap, its title is actually 'U Can't Touch This'
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 18:15
by Markgway
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 18:27
by grim_tales
That tune is used in The Simpsons for Bart's "I Didn't Do It" song
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 18:30
by saltysam
Cornershop-Brimful Of Asha
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 18:47
by grim_tales
The Norman Cook remix was the hit version wasnt it? The original is much slower
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 19:05
by saltysam
saltysam wrote:Propaganda-Duel, ...
Getting nostalgic and looking for this one on youtube i stumbled across a cover by the usually irritatiing Sophie Ellis-Bextor (what happened to her?) i have to say it's a very good cover imo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jODRdi3TyjU
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 19:38
by Markgway
grim_tales wrote:The Norman Cook remix was the hit version wasnt it? The original is much slower
Yeah, Cook frankly saved the song from oblivion.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 19:48
by bradavon
gasteropod wrote:Lol, that sounds like a posh gentleman trying to rap, its title is actually 'U Can't Touch This'
Oops
. I cannot fucking stand text speech.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 19:49
by gasteropod
saltysam wrote:Sophie Ellis-Bextor (what happened to her?)
Nothing, she's released a single this month and the previous one was in May.
Re: Memorable one-hit wonders...??
Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 20:23
by saltysam
gasteropod wrote:saltysam wrote:Sophie Ellis-Bextor (what happened to her?)
Nothing, she's released a single this month and the previous one was in May.
Did it chart?