Your favourite 1 hit wonders
Discussion
roop said:
M.A.R.R.S - Pump up the Volume
Matthew Wilder - Break my Stride
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
Red Box - For America
Jack n Chill - The Jack that House built
Corporation of One - The Real Life
Stakka Bo - Here we Go
The Jets - Crush on You
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
JX - Son of a Gun
Kirsty MacColl - New England*
Liquid - Sweet Harmony
Praga Khan - Injected with a Poison
Digital Orgasm - Running out of Time
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Terrence and Philip - Uncle F*cker
*OK, 2 Hit Wonder, Walking down Madison was good too tho'
Walking Down madison was great
what about her teaming up with the Pogues for "Fairytale of New York," The cover of Ray Davies "Days", and "There's a Guy Down the Chip Shop Swears His Elvis," or "They Don't know."(A hit for Tracey Ullman). Lee
WildfireS3 said:
Megablast - Bomb the Bass Was that a hit?
i know that 'beat dis' was a hit for them.
winter in july springs to mind too...
edited to add my own 1-hitters..........'the race' by yello and 'set adrift on memory bliss' by p.m dawn (i know it wasnt their only releases but iirc they were their only real 'hits')
>> Edited by cortinaman on Friday 12th December 05:39
What is the definition of a "One Hit Wonder" anyway?
Is it a group / artist who
1. has one Top 10 hit and is never seen again.
2. has one Top 10 hit, an album and is never seen again.
3. has one Top 10 hit, an album, a follow-up single that bombs and is never seen again.
4. has a Top 10 hit and then a string of Top 40 hits but never get to Top 10 again.
Babylon Zoo seem to fall into (2), Tasmin Archer (3), Andreas Johnson (1)
(Babylon Zoo go on to play Tasmin Archer in the quarter finals.)
Is it a group / artist who
1. has one Top 10 hit and is never seen again.
2. has one Top 10 hit, an album and is never seen again.
3. has one Top 10 hit, an album, a follow-up single that bombs and is never seen again.
4. has a Top 10 hit and then a string of Top 40 hits but never get to Top 10 again.
Babylon Zoo seem to fall into (2), Tasmin Archer (3), Andreas Johnson (1)
(Babylon Zoo go on to play Tasmin Archer in the quarter finals.
)roop said:
M.A.R.R.S - Pump up the Volume
Jack n Chill - The Jack that House built
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
Liquid - Sweet Harmony
Praga Khan - Injected with a Poison
Digital Orgasm - Running out of Time
Rather worringly (I blame the era I grew up in
) The above are some of my favorite driving tunes 
Plotloss said:
Lets face it they should have stopped at the first album. Actually thats not strictly true, Skylined off Jilted (or Music For Joyriders as per the original title fact fans) is truly marvellous.
No no no!!!!!!!
Poison off Jilted is incredible when played loud. And "Their Law", complete with PWEI guitar riffs.
Land of the Fat was a bit too polished for me (despite buying it twice...ahem!), lacked the rawness of the first two.
nobbybombshell said:
How could i forget the Prodigy........mind you 6 years for a new album, get yer finger out Liam, it had better be bloody good.
>> Edited by nobbybombshell on Friday 12th December 11:07
If the last one is anything to go by it will be shite.
Sasha took 12 years to release AirDrawnDagger and its utter wank.
B A Robertson's hit with Maggie Somebody or Other (I can't remember her name either - was it Maggie Bell?) was "a vesrion of "Hold Me". This had been a hit for P J Proby in the 1960s but I'm pretty sure it's actually a pre-war crooning ballad by Cole Porter or George Gershwin or somebody of that ilk.
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