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what's your favorite one-hit wonder song?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:38 pm
by mr_j
for me semisonic's 'closing time' is brilliant.
ps. james, you really should read
this book, if you haven't. it's wonderful.
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:48 pm
by mere1975
Oooooh, I like "Closing Time."
Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" makes me smile every time, as embarrassing as it is.
May I also include Kiki Dee's contribution to "Don't Go Breakin My Heart?" I know Sir Elton doesn't come close to counting as a one-hit wonder, but Kiki Dee does.
- Mere "Whoooo hoo nobody knows it, nobody knowwwwwws" 1975
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:05 pm
by lookout_kid
i dunno if you can call semisonic one hit wonders, not over here anyway, secret smile was their first hit (top 10 i think) then closing time was later (about 15 it got to i think)
for me its inside by siltskin
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:24 pm
by ree-ree
Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" makes me smile every time, as embarrassing as it is.
I'll go with that one, and I don't even think it's embarrassing.
(I play it whenever we go to Rockbottom to shoot pool. I love it.)
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:06 pm
by shen
Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" makes me smile every time, as embarrassing as it is.
I'll go with that one, and I don't even think it's embarrassing.
(I play it whenever we go to Rockbottom to shoot pool. I love it.)
they're other songs are really good too! try 'bella ciao.'
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:16 pm
by ree-ree
Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" makes me smile every time, as embarrassing as it is.
I'll go with that one, and I don't even think it's embarrassing.
(I play it whenever we go to Rockbottom to shoot pool. I love it.)
they're other songs are really good too! try 'bella ciao.'
I will. Thanks. I always wondered if any thing else was worth taking a listen to (problem is always forget to check it out

)
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:59 pm
by Tyler
Come On Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners. kicks ass.
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:25 pm
by ChrisLovesYou
Cool Jerk.
(one thing I hate is professing how I've had aforementioned song stuck in my head for a month now, and the person I'm telling has never heard it.)
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:49 pm
by mere1975
(I play it whenever we go to Rockbottom to shoot pool. I love it.)
YUM, our Rockbottom Brewery in Dallas is gone. Try the asiago cheese dip if you haven't already!
- Mere "craving it now" 1975
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:21 pm
by mdmusick
"The Promise" by When In Rome comes to mind before anything else. Heh.
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:28 pm
by James
Modern English - I Melt With You
and slightly more obscure
Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:31 pm
by monet2u
Modern English - I Melt With You
and slightly more obscure
Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
love them both
also I've been singing in my head an oldie but goodie...
Stacy Lattisaw , Love On A Two-way Street
Re: what's your favorite one-hit wonder song?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:31 pm
by James
for me semisonic's 'closing time' is brilliant.
ps. james, you really should read
this book, if you haven't. it's wonderful.
it's on my "to read" list, with 100,000 other books at the moment. I will get around to it though. I'm sure I'll relate to a lot of it.
As for Semisonic, I liked the previous band a bit better: Trip Shakespeare. What a great band.
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:38 pm
by ree-ree
(I play it whenever we go to Rockbottom to shoot pool. I love it.)
YUM, our Rockbottom Brewery in Dallas is gone. Try the asiago cheese dip if you haven't already!
- Mere "craving it now" 1975
Oh yes I have! mmmmmmmmm!
Even better, the giant garlic pretzels with cheese dip. (Except you better be with others who are eating it too 'cause you really stink like garlic afterwards

).
As far as another one hit wonder(though I think he had more hits in the UK) Rock On by David Essex. That song is the best blasting from the car radio.
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:51 pm
by ifihadahifi
My favorite is always going to be one of those songs that comes on the radio that I haven't heard for a long time. And it'll be that way until the next long lost one-hit wonder is played.
Currently, It's that Mmmmm-mmmmm song by The Crash Test Dummies.