The Best One Hit Wonder

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Anubis
the ONLY reason i remember them is because the video for "All The Things She Said"
was basicially a softcore porn

never heard any other song of theirs, or seen a video for that matter

:thumbsup:!

 

[mugs]

Hah... my brother had that album

 

[boomer6447]

Originally posted by: thraashman
The Turtles - Happy Together
The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Turtles have several hits.....

Here's one for all of us old farts

Steve Forbert - "Romeo's Tune"....

 

[BrokenVisage]

First one to say Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning? C'mon people!

 

[sdifox]

A-ha Take On Me would be my vote

 

[UncleWai]

Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI

that song just rulez

 

[RightIsWrong]

Gary Numan - Cars
Tommy Tutone - Jenny 867-5309
Tony Basil - Mickey
Oran 'Juice' Jones - The Rain
Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Modern English - I Melt With You
Biz Markie - Just a Friend
Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Not sure if you could really call it a *Hit*, but it did get alot of air time. Only the old timers here will remember a song by Edward Bear, it was his first song, it was his last song, and IIRC, it was his only song. It was titled, appropriatly enough,
This is the Last Song,(I'll ever write for you).

 

[darkxshade]

William Hung - She Bangs

 

[Kaolccips]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Hands down the best!

lol Idk why but that just made me laugh for the first time.. even though I've seen it so many times.. My god that guy is so f*cking haggard. It's terrible. Mostly the beginning.. his dancing and those clothes.. and the way he looks.. then he starts to sing LOL

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: Anubis
Ah Ha - Take On Me

how can this thread still be going after this post? clearly, it is the winner. even though the correct spelling is a-ha.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek

Originally posted by: Anubis
Ah Ha - Take On Me

how can this thread still be going after this post? clearly, it is the winner. even though the correct spelling is a-ha.

lol google and youtube fail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PxsOUiHFyw

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Kaolccips

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Hands down the best!

lol Idk why but that just made me laugh for the first time.. even though I've seen it so many times.. My god that guy is so f*cking haggard. It's terrible. Mostly the beginning.. his dancing and those clothes.. and the way he looks.. then he starts to sing LOL

welcome to the 1980s

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

The best BAND who were a one-hit wonder was The Verve, IMO, with Bittersweet Symphony. They were a tremendously talented band with two great albums and huge heroin problems. When Bittersweet Symphony was a huge hit, they were suddenly a big band, but were promptly sued. The orchestra riff that forms the whole song was sampled from some late 60's album of Rolling Stones orchestral adaptations, and the rights belonged to the RS's former tour manager. The Verve had to give back ALL of the profits from the song, and promptly sunk into depression and drugs and broke up. Sad story.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone
The best BAND who were a one-hit wonder was The Verve, IMO, with Bittersweet Symphony. They were a tremendously talented band with two great albums and huge heroin problems. When Bittersweet Symphony was a huge hit, they were suddenly a big band, but were promptly sued. The orchestra riff that forms the whole song was sampled from some late 60's album of Rolling Stones orchestral adaptations, and the rights belonged to the RS's former tour manager. The Verve had to give back ALL of the profits from the song, and promptly sunk into depression and drugs and broke up. Sad story.

wow, that is a bittersweet symphony

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI

that song just rulez

Better Marcy Playground song:

St. Joe on the Schoolbus

 

[Rubycon]

The Tubes - She's a Beauty

 

[nCred]

The one and only

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Sir Mix-a-lot - Baby Got Back
Denis Leary - Asshole
Los Del Rio - Macarena
Kung Fu Fighting by ...
Video Killed the Radio Star by ...
My Sharona by The Knack
The Friends Theme Song
The Dawson's Creek Theme Song
The Ally McBeal Theme Song

 

[krunchykrome]

Chumbawumba

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone
The best BAND who were a one-hit wonder was The Verve, IMO, with Bittersweet Symphony. They were a tremendously talented band with two great albums and huge heroin problems. When Bittersweet Symphony was a huge hit, they were suddenly a big band, but were promptly sued. The orchestra riff that forms the whole song was sampled from some late 60's album of Rolling Stones orchestral adaptations, and the rights belonged to the RS's former tour manager. The Verve had to give back ALL of the profits from the song, and promptly sunk into depression and drugs and broke up. Sad story.

wow, that is a bittersweet symphony

wiki-ed that.

can't believe they lost 100% of the royalties on that song. That Allen Klein guy seems like a dick, but The Verve should have had a better lawyer. Seriously they lost 100%????

 

[davestar]

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone
The best BAND who were a one-hit wonder was The Verve, IMO, with Bittersweet Symphony. They were a tremendously talented band with two great albums and huge heroin problems. When Bittersweet Symphony was a huge hit, they were suddenly a big band, but were promptly sued. The orchestra riff that forms the whole song was sampled from some late 60's album of Rolling Stones orchestral adaptations, and the rights belonged to the RS's former tour manager. The Verve had to give back ALL of the profits from the song, and promptly sunk into depression and drugs and broke up. Sad story.

my fave one-hit-wonder band is easily Hum. you might remember "Stars" from 1996-ish (or from the cadillac commercials "But does your car turn YOU on?"). however, their 1998 album Downward Is Heavenward might be the best album of the last 20 years. fucking brilliant

 

[Demo24]

How has this one not made it on here yet?

Butthole Surfers - Pepper


I disagree with A-ha, they've released some new stuff thats still quite good.

These perhaps?:

The Darkness - I believe in a thing called love
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitter
Ruth Ruth - Uninvited
K's Choice - Not an Addict

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: m0mentary

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone
The best BAND who were a one-hit wonder was The Verve, IMO, with Bittersweet Symphony. They were a tremendously talented band with two great albums and huge heroin problems. When Bittersweet Symphony was a huge hit, they were suddenly a big band, but were promptly sued. The orchestra riff that forms the whole song was sampled from some late 60's album of Rolling Stones orchestral adaptations, and the rights belonged to the RS's former tour manager. The Verve had to give back ALL of the profits from the song, and promptly sunk into depression and drugs and broke up. Sad story.

wow, that is a bittersweet symphony

wiki-ed that.

can't believe they lost 100% of the royalties on that song. That Allen Klein guy seems like a dick, but The Verve should have had a better lawyer. Seriously they lost 100%????

yea thats messed up, especially as they got the rights to use it but apperently "used to much"

for those too lazy to find it

Leadoff single "Bitter Sweet Symphony" entered the UK charts at #2. The single reached #12 on the U.S. charts, the band's highest position ever in the USA. The song borrowed a looped sample of a symphonic recording of the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time".[5][6] The band had obtained composition rights to the sample from ABKCO Records owner Allen Klein, which controls the Rolling Stones' back catalogue and permission to use the recording of the sample from Decca, the publisher of the original album.[7]

Just before the CD Urban Hymns came out, Klein obtained a copy of the song and decided that the band had used "too much" of the sample and threated a lawsuit. At that late time there was no way the sample could be removed, so the band and Klein came to a verbal agreement, ?We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split" says band member Simon Jones. Later, when it was apparent that the song was a huge, worldwide hit Klein demanded 100% of the royalties or they would be forced to removed the CD from the record shops. The band settled out of court with Klein resulting in ABKCO Records obtaining 100 percent of the songwriting royalties.[8] Further, as a result of the lawsuit, Rolling Stones members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were given songwriting credits. With full publishing rights to the song, ABKCO Records could legally sell licenses to advertisers and did several times. The song appeared in a Nike commercial against The Verve's will and then in advertisements for Vauxhall automobiles. After the song was used in the movie Cruel Intentions, The Verve filed a moral rights (copyright) suit to ensure the song was not distributed commercially any more. The Verve is said to have not made a penny from the song.[9]

The follow-up single, "The Drugs Don't Work" gave the band their first UK number one single, with the album reaching the same position in the album chart, and hitting the US Top 30, going platinum in the process.[10]

 

[Baked]

what what in my butt - butters