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GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

hard counter posted:

edwin - alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxaAfaCln8

i met edwin when he was bartending in ontario a long whiles back in the late ~2000s, he was so nice a fella i opted not to ask him if it felt good to be alive, figuring he'd heard that one before :v:

edwin was the lead singer for i mother earth

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Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Nutsngum posted:

Ratcat had a couple of other charting hits around the same time, "That aint bad" seems to still get regular air time.

Also you probably dont realize The Avalanches also did songs like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpqm-05R2Jk so they definitely arent one hit wonders.

Look, I just wanted to post some classic tunes that aren't super famous. Fight me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

frankee
Dec 29, 2017

Inceltown posted:

Look, I just wanted to post some classic tunes that aren't super famous. Fight me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

also they have only made 2 albums in the last 20 years


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjfspM5sDIA

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agL9ftHYrRQ

im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgs9QUtWc3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlQpGeTbIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTpqcFt5tY

Chemtrailologist
Jul 8, 2007
It doesn't say music in the thread title.

ryonguy
Jun 27, 2013

Ego-bot posted:

It doesn't say music in the thread title.



Hey, you're right.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

ryonguy posted:

Hey, you're right.


Pfft, somebody forgot about Southland Tales.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Does Tekashi 69 count as he's going to be dead in one hit soon. He's just snitched that cardi b is a blood.

ryonguy
Jun 27, 2013

FactsAreUseless posted:

Pfft, somebody forgot about Southland Tales.



quote:

Budget: 15 million USD
Box office: 374,743 USD

quote:

One hit wonders

Not gonna lie though, that does sound like a loving amazing film.

ryonguy has a new favorite as of 05:40 on Sep 21, 2019

Toys For Ass Bum
Feb 1, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

HEY GUYS REMEMBER THIS?

Grem
Mar 29, 2004

It's how her species communicates


Patrice Wilson is not a one hit wonder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE2wCZNC7sk

frankee
Dec 29, 2017

I wanna be a hippie


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYi5u9BhtI

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.




Haha what? They released 9 albums and are still touring today (which is pretty unbelievable if I'm honest), not really the definition of a one hit wonder....

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
It's poetry in motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev-EIcCfjlY

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


There is an incredible story behind this and I have no way to expand on that. Learning what went into this song was second only to watching Prodigy make a track.

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


Inceltown posted:

There is an incredible story behind this and I have no way to expand on that. Learning what went into this song was second only to watching Prodigy make a track.


It also resulted in this shameful piece of UK music history:

quote:

In 1996, The Smurfs released a parody of the song called "I've Got a Little Puppy" which was included on the album The Smurfs Go Pop! The parody charted within the top 10 in the United Kingdom, peaking at number four for two weeks in September

Drunk Nerds
Jan 25, 2011

Just close your eyes
Fun Shoe

Nutsngum posted:

Ratcat had a couple of other charting hits around the same time, "That aint bad" seems to still get regular air time.

Also you probably dont realize The Avalanches also did songs like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpqm-05R2Jk so they definitely arent one hit wonders.

The new album has my all time favorite song of theirs (and not much else)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0KsZ_MVBc

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

Haha what? They released 9 albums and are still touring today (which is pretty unbelievable if I'm honest), not really the definition of a one hit wonder....

ok.. they are undeniably a one hit wonder in the usa, so my bad i guess.

edit

i hope they executed these guys after this became popular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSOQBcz9hc

Hackers film 1995 has a new favorite as of 16:51 on Sep 21, 2019

Telemaze
Apr 22, 2008

What you expected hasn't happened.
Fun Shoe

Hackers film 1995 posted:

ok.. they are undeniably a one hit wonder in the usa, so my bad i guess.

In the USA they had hits with (at least) Don't You Want Me, Fascination, and Human. Please ignore me though, I am old and know more about 80s music than is healthy.

Speaking of one-hit wonders in the USA, has anyone posted Kajagoogoo yet? When I was about 6 years old I won a roller skating competition to this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpG4XApJ28

Edit: ^^^^holy poo poo it's Geggy Tah! I forgot that song exists!

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Ego-bot posted:

It doesn't say music in the thread title.



It's not like he was a complete unknown before that book. He had written several sci-fi stories and actually gotten a Hugo award for one of them.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

teen witch posted:

Christmas Wrapping is one of line five holiday songs I adore dearly. But most know the Waitresses from this (a beloved go to karaoke staple)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsneH0mOq-0

I ONLY knew The Waitresses from "Christmas Wrapping", which is perhaps my third least favorite Christmas song, slightly better than Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer and Dominick The Donkey. Ick.

Anyway,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhBM7H-ggvY

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEGjLU2egA

They also did a cover of Cats in the Cradle that was pretty big for a brief moment in 93 or something.

E: Oh god it's even worse than I remember

Funky See Funky Do has a new favorite as of 05:19 on Sep 26, 2019

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Funky See Funky Do posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEGjLU2egA

They also did a cover of Cats in the Cradle that was pretty big for a brief moment in 93 or something.

E: Oh god it's even worse than I remember

Did someone say covers that were big for a bit in the 90s that are worse than you remember?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMFm5nKeUc

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

Ego-bot posted:

It doesn't say music in the thread title.



This counts as 3.

:colbert:

fast cars loose anus
Mar 2, 2007

Pillbug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6-uJLteKek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCNUeTFSbA

Douglas Dinsdale
Oct 13, 2006

EMF, "Unbelievable": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfCLt0kTd5E

MARRS, "Pump Up the Volume": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y

Starland Vocal Band, "Afternoon Delight": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1UXCdyNo0

Wild Cherry, "Play that Funky Music": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFiv9M577a4 (live)

frankee
Dec 29, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpqucmEA3P4

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


This is the ultimate one hit wonder because Thomas Bangalter and Alan Braxe released this one track together as Stardust and nothing else since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQlAEiCb8m0

minato
Jun 7, 2004

cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.
Taco Defender
So this is more "novelty track" than One Hit Wonder, but it comes with a question.

"Doop - Doop" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvLDm8821jQ is a novelty "lets put beats to 20's swing" track that hit the charts in '94.

Here's the vinyl coverart:


... and here's the logo of the Democratic Order Of Planets from Futurama, a show which began in '99:



... but I can't find anywhere that says that Futurama used the logo from this awful track. Really obscure inside joke?

Nutsngum
Oct 9, 2004

I don't think it's nice, you laughing.

minato posted:

So this is more "novelty track" than One Hit Wonder, but it comes with a question.

"Doop - Doop" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvLDm8821jQ is a novelty "lets put beats to 20's swing" track that hit the charts in '94.

Here's the vinyl coverart:


... and here's the logo of the Democratic Order Of Planets from Futurama, a show which began in '99:



... but I can't find anywhere that says that Futurama used the logo from this awful track. Really obscure inside joke?

God I remember this. Also charted here in Australia for a while. Good spot on the logo though.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZW57S5Cz8Q

Wet Tie Affair
May 8, 2008

P-I-Z-Z-A

White Town - Your Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU

Wax - California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_RELjHhD2s

The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1umEXpGHc0E

The Nixons - Sister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEG5PE5MEpw

incoherent light
Aug 15, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwD5rQ-_d4

even though the rest of Rubberneck is real real good i.e.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKbk7BPXBa4

Mister Mind
Mar 20, 2009

I'm not a real doctor,
But I am a real worm;
I am an actual worm
Yello - “Oh Yeah”
https://youtu.be/6jJkdRaa04g

Oh, yeeaaaahhh...

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (where my Rosemary goes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcDG_xLWPY

White Plains - Baby Loves Lovin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTcN4Mm4ZDI

First Class - Beach Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t86vOL8gI1c

Pipkins - Gimme Dat Ding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNrmR6M1KtI

Brotherhood of Man - United We Stand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZB96cvBjy8

And the kicker? The lead singer on all of these is the same person - Tony Burrows.

TITTIEKISSER69
Mar 19, 2005

SAVE THE BEES
PLANT MORE TREES
CLEAN THE SEAS
KISS TITTIESS




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU9p1WRfA9w

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Scatman is a two hit wonder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vDkMEdIkY

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

"Real" was my favorite song from that album.

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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

teen witch posted:

Gary Numan has a ton of songs that are worth checking, ditto with Tubeway Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw

Gary Numan has gone some places lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHomCiPFknY

Trent Reznor is also still his biggest fan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qlUFKFHNIU

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