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Post by 76flyingeagles on Apr 19, 2011 21:54:36 GMT -5
Fact Timex Social Club was the first record i bought . Timex Social Club wasn't actually a one-hit wonder. They changed their name to "Club Nouveau" and had their cover of "Lean on Me" and then there was "Why You Treat Me So Bad?", which has been sampled in MANY R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap titles. Here's one, though. A couple more points of order... RE : Jimmie's Chicken Shack. "High" also got a lot of play on rock radio stations, not just "Do Right". RE : The Breakfast Club. They were originally going to be called "Madonna's Boyfriends" due to their tenuous connection. RE : Snap!. Really? What about "The Power" and "Oops Up"? I realize that was a different incarnation of Snap! (Rhythm is a Dancer happened after Turbo B left the group), but still. It was a One hit wonder in the UK. This is the problem with this thread it depends on what side of the pond your on if it counts as one hit wonder or not.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Apr 20, 2011 6:52:09 GMT -5
"Lucas with the Lid off" peaked at #29 in 1994 on the Billboard Top 100. The music video for his the single, directed by Michel Gondry, recieved a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video, Short Form and a MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Male Video in 1995. The video features a very distinctive and memorable style, being shot in one take among a variety of different sets. It was voted #4 in an MTV list of the "Best Videos of All-Time". I remember/loved that video. The crazy thing is no one ever heard of this dude and after this video was done he just DISAPEARED
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Apr 20, 2011 7:02:26 GMT -5
Jimmie's Chicken Shack WAS obscure. But I'd argue that they had two better-known songs: "High" and "What Do I Do". Also, Snap is not a one-hit wonder. Do you remember "The Power"? And I'm pretty sure Alice Deejay had another hit too. Oh crap, I didn't realize Snap did The Power til it was posted here... and I never heard those other JCS songs... my bad There was another version of this song by a guy named CHill Rob G. I remember seeing an interview with him and he was PISSED that the Snap version was much more popular
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Apr 20, 2011 7:21:37 GMT -5
Cheers to the Topic Creator, best thread in a while,
anyhow
This video freaked me out as a kid because it seemed like someone drugged this girls up and FORCED them to sing
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Apr 20, 2011 7:27:16 GMT -5
er...language warning on that first one. That first lady actually had another video (I'm mad as hell I remember this) I don't know if either one of them could be considered HITS though
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Apr 20, 2011 8:09:51 GMT -5
Did this band record ANYTHING else besides this song? I remember there was a short lived kids comedy show that used to come on Saturday mornings in the early 90s, every week these guys would do a new video based on whatever the topic was that week.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 20, 2011 9:07:38 GMT -5
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Post by agent817 on Apr 23, 2011 22:56:53 GMT -5
While they were signed under Snoop Dogg's label at one point, they were badly promoted and they probably wouldn't be known now, especially since this came out a decade ago:
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 23, 2011 23:41:02 GMT -5
Best thing to come out of Robocop 2
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 24, 2011 0:45:04 GMT -5
Best thing to come out of Robocop 2 It was a strange combination of horrible movie and awesome. If the movie could live up to the Robocop-2 gang murder scene and the fight at the end, it would have been at least a deserving sequel to the original. It is kind of like how it is worth having The Phantom Menace for the pod race and the lightsabre duel.
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Post by Hypnotix on Apr 24, 2011 3:05:07 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2011 10:05:52 GMT -5
Juice Newton happened to get mainstream airplay because of the fact at the beginning of every new decade, the radio stations are like, "Hey, here some country."
At least since the 80s there's always been a country music boom period at the beginning of every decade. A well-known singer from that genre will sing a song that mainstream picks up and they're off to the races.
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Post by scarecrow on Apr 24, 2011 10:12:00 GMT -5
This song pretty much gave Prince his fame today.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Apr 24, 2011 10:16:25 GMT -5
This song pretty much gave Prince his fame today. Prince is most definitely not obscure at all. In fact, he has 30 Top 40 hits, with multiple #1's (When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy, Kiss, The Batdance, and Cream) let alone big name classics (1999, Little Red Corvette, Raspberry Beret, and others).
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Post by Snowman on Apr 24, 2011 10:27:03 GMT -5
ummmmmmm no... nowhere near to being a 1 hit wonder...in fact the one song you posted was not even close to their biggest hit...and The Mavericks are certainly not obscure...but thank you for playing... here's mine... and although they had a minor "hit" with the song Pulling Mussels From A Shell and are arguably much more popular overseas this is Squeeze's only real hit in the states... LOL you get all pissy about the Mavericks not being one hit wonders, and then proceed to post a song by Squeeze??? IRONY!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by kevservo on Apr 24, 2011 10:31:09 GMT -5
The f***in' French, man.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 24, 2011 13:28:37 GMT -5
This song pretty much gave Prince his fame today. Where are you from where Prince is obscure and only had one hit in your land?
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Apr 24, 2011 14:15:10 GMT -5
www.youtube.co/watch?v=NyS9XOAKgFgin the 90's it was seen a major thing for Artists to have there songs attached to the Jeans Adverts over this side the pond. That later song was the first song that Fatboy Slim had success with he went on to have one the biggest Music videos in the world in the early 2000's. Actually far from it, Norman Cook a.k.a. Fatboy Slim started playing bass for the Housemartins in 1985, in fact, here he is with them in 1986, closeup of him about 40 seconds in with a pen in his mouth: As they get into the pub you can see Phil Jupitus reading the paper too. Even after breaking away from the band that would turn into the Beautiful South, he'd been with other bands before Freak Power, he formed another one hit wonder, Beats International:
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Post by agent817 on Apr 24, 2011 14:20:38 GMT -5
Despite the fact that this woman did two albums, I think this is the only song she was ever known for:
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Post by agent817 on Apr 28, 2011 20:19:58 GMT -5
Man, I just keep coming with songs that were singles of groups or singers who never really made it. This is no exception, even if they covered a Kim Wilde song:
By the way, the group was called No Secrets.
Also, another one who I just thought of:
I guess Dre really didn't promote too much of his artists that weren't 50 Cent or Eminem, huh?
One more, a member of the Carter family who tried but never reached the successes of Nick and Aaron:
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