Forgot one of my favs: Joey...from Concrete Blond. Don't even know if it was a "hit," but it got a bunch of MTV airplay. Great CD (bloodletting)
A song that they play all the time during Rocket games (bits and pieces of it) that's also a great one-hit wonder: I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
does anyone remeber that band called "the jets?" I remeber watching some mtv thing on them but had never really heard of them. I bet they were a no hit wonder. Also Falco Rock me Amadeus that was the coolest when I was a kid I used to think, " that guy is talented. . . listen to what he does with his voice in the beginning" the answer to the EMF question is LIES. In the video its black and white and the leadsinger is messing with a cockroach. Also that Jesus Jones album was pretty good. I still have a poster of them with their autographs on it. their second song out was. REAL REAL REAL. but they also released international bright young thing.
Running through my 80GB of MP3's..... (Many of these are repeats) Moon Unit Zappa (with Frank) - Valley Girl Yellow - Oh Yeah! (from Ferris Buller's Day Off) Gary Wright - Dreamweaver Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like Vanilla Ice - Ice, Ice, Baby Vapors - Turning Japaneese T'Pau - Heart And Soul Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 Trio - Da, Da, Da (Volkswagen song) Swingin' Medalions - Double Shot of My Baby's Love Soft Cell - Tainted Love Sir Mix Alot - I Like Big Butts Kuyo Sakamoto - Sukiyaki Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walking Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk Romeo Void - Never Say Never Ram Jam - Black Betty Quicksilver Messenger Service - Who Do You Love? Poe - Angry Johnny Orleans - Still The One New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (Coke Song) Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women Nina - 99 Luftbaloons MC5 - Kick out the Jams Lemon Pipers - Green Tamborine Kingsmen - Louie Louie K's Choice - Not An Addict King's Harvest - Dancin' In The Moonlight Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Imperial Teen - Woo Hoo Janice Ian - At Seventeen House Of Pain - Jump Around Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky Folk Implosion - Natural One Freddy Fender - Waisted Days And Waisted Nights Frente - Bizarre Love Triangle Doctor Hook & The Medicine Show - On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone David Essex - Rock On Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town Divinyls - I Touch Myself Rick Dees - Disco Duck Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting Cardigans - Lovefool Jim Carroll - People Who Died Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Toni Basil - Mickey Lou Bega - Mombo #5 Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line Brownsville Station - Smokin' In The Boys Room Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag Blue Suede - Hooked On A Feeling Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center Of The Mind Artificial Joy Club - Sick And Beautiful 5 Man Electric Band - Signs 4 Non Blonds - What's Going On 2 Live Crew - Me So Horny
I have been extremely busy the last couple of weeks and have had obsolutely no time to check on the BBS but I just saw this topic and had to contribute. I just skimmed this so it may have been already mentioned but I don't think I saw what I consider the very definition of one-hit wonder: The Future's So Bright (I gotta wear Shades) by Timbuk-3. Also Manny, I have EMF's first album and listen to it fairly often. Very underrated album. I believe the second single off of that album was Lies.
dylan and IVFL are right about the EMF question. The song was Lies. Jesus Jones also had a minor follow-up hit to Right Here, Right Now in Real, Real, Real, which actually went to #4. The Jets a one-hit wonder? Not even close when you had songs like the following: Crush on You - #3 You Got It All - #3 Cross my Broken Heart - #7 Rocket 2 U - #6 Make It Real - #4
