Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

Spook_ie

27 Cannonball
28 Glorious
29 Mickey
30 All the Things She Said

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Sheridan81

27 Dust In The Wind, cause it's deep
28 Glorious, cause it's more profound than Jump Around
29 Video Killed The Radio Star, band ahead of their time
30 Ready To Go, good memories of the mid-nineties

Electric Nitwit

Damien Rice - Cannonball
Beautiful song that

House Of Pain - Jump Around
From the first note, it's awesome!

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
I've said this a few times, but it's the quintessential OHW

Republica – Ready To Go
Yeah, I'm standing on the rooftops shouting out, baby I love this tune!

Mam of 4

Cannonball

Glorious

Video killed the radio star

All the things she said ..

Damien Rice - Cannonball
Luffly.

House Of Pain - Jump Around
When I’m 70 I’ll still jump to this song. Imagine a Zimmer frame made of 4 pogo sticks

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
If I’d remembered to Om Kilido my lust, this would have been on it.
Edit: I’ll say that again - if I had remembered to PM Kolido my LIST!

Republica – Ready To Go
Amazing tune

tusk

Vote: TATU!

What a song.

What a video!

Vote: Kansas for will ferrel's rendition in old school

Declan A Walsh

R1 Match 27:
Damien Rice - Cannonball
VS
Kansas-Dust In The Wind – This one.

R1 Match 28: Don’t know Glorious and I am not that mad about Jump Around, so will give it a miss.

R1 Match 29:
Toni Basil - Mickey
VS
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star – This one (hate the other!).

R1 Match 30:
Republica – Ready To Go – This one – damn catchy!
VS
Tatu - All The Things She Said

Electric Nitwit

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

If I’d remembered to Om Kilido my lust...

...he'd be a very happy man

sKeith

House Of Pain - Jump Around
good jumping tune



Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Good documentary tune



Tatu - All The Things She Said
Kick ass tune

Damien Rice - Cannonball I've heard of it.

House Of Pain - Jump Around Irish American scrotes appeal to me plus the lyrics including Schwarzenegger and Sega Mega Drives.

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star First video on MTV and Mickey is awfully annoying.

Republica – Ready To Go Was on a mobile phone ad back in the day and gets me going.

Declan A Walsh

In relation to Buggles and Video Kills the Radio Star, it fulfills the artificial rules for here for "One Hit Wonder", i.e. no more than 3 Top 20 songs and act associated particularly with one song.

But, just to tip you off, it has been mentioned more than once, including a programme on Channel 4, as a proper one hit wonder, which it is not. Plastic Age, the follow-up single, reached the Top 20 in the UK and Clean Clean reached to lower end of the Top 40 in the UK. Not relevant here, but could be elsewhere!

Kolido

Glorious - Andreas Johnson 5 Vs 5 House Of Pain - Jump Around

While we wait for this to resolve, I will post the next 4

Glorious! I vote for Glorious!

Absolute cracker of a song.

Kolido

Damien Rice - Cannonball 6 Vs 4 Kansas-Dust In The Wind
Glorious - Andreas Johnson 6 Vs 5 House Of Pain - Jump Around
Toni Basil - Mickey 2 Vs 6 Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Republica – Ready To Go 6 Vs 4 Tatu - All The Things She Said

Kolido

R1 Match 31


Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride

Released 1983

Peaked US 5/UK 3


VS


Flying Pickets - Only You

Released 1983

Peaked US NA/UK 1

R1 Match 32


Mr President - Coco Jamboo

Released 1996

Peaked US 21/UK 8


VS


Meredith Brooks - Bitch

Released 1997

Peaked US 2/UK 6

R1 Match 33


Kung Fu fighting - Carl douglas

Released 1974

Peaked US 1/UK 1


VS


Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall

Released 1988

Peaked US 5/UK 9

R1 Match 34


Hazen Dean - Who's Leaving Who

Released 1988

Peaked US NA/UK 4


VS


Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Released 1990

Peaked US 1/UK 1

quickbeam

Only You
Waiting For A Star To Fall

Both better songs than their opponents.

tusk

Kolido wrote: »

Republica – Ready To Go 6 Vs 4 Tatu - All The Things She Said

This is NOT ENOOOUUGGHHH

tusk

Flying pickets.

that intro is some of the best a capella ever! Beautiful

Tell me how

R1 Match 31 - Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
R1 Match 32 - Mr President - Coco Jamboo
R1 Match 33 - Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall
R1 Match 34 - Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Easy decisions all round.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride

Cos nobody's gonna slow me down, oh no.

Kolido wrote:

Meredith Brooks - Bitch

Cos it's a brilliant song.

Kolido wrote:

Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall

Just prefer it.

Kolido wrote:

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Ice ice baby. Brilliant.

#31 - voting for Break My Stride, mainly because I prefer Yazoo's original version of Only You to the Flying Pickets one.

#32 - although Coco Jamboo is a fun tune, I'm voting Bitch as the better song here.

#33 - voting Kung Fu Fighting as it's a bit more fun.

#34 - loathe as I am to vote for Vanilla Ice, I listened to that other one and the chorus does nothing for me. So reluctantly voting Ice Ice Baby.

Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride


Mr President - Coco Jamboo


Kung Fu fighting - Carl douglas


Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Mam of 4

Break My Stride , love that song,

Bitch , because we can be all things rolled up into one

Waiting On A Star To Fall , had forgotten about this one , nice reminder

Ice Ice Baby , cos I nominated it

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Match 31
Only You as it holds stronger memories and reminds me of certain people, although it kills me a little to vote against Break My Stride

Match 32
Coco Jambo because I like the energy of it, but it was another close call here.

Match 33
Waiting For A Star To Fall because its one of my '80s favourites.

Match 34
Ice Ice Baby because I don't care for the other song, and Ice Ice Baby is fun enough.

UrbanFret

Kolido wrote: »

R1 Match 3

Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven
Released 1990
Peaked US NA/UK 1

VS

Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air
Released 1969
Peaked US 37/UK 1

R1 Match 4

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's
Released 1995
Peaked US 5/UK 1

VS

Phil Oakley - Together in Electric Dreams
Released 1984
Peaked US NA/UK 3

I stopped reading this thread after this. Phil Oakley that's phil Oakley from the Human League and giorgio Moroder the father of Disco. One hit wonders my hole.:rolleyes:

TheValeyard

R1 Match 31

Flying Pickets - Only You, (its a better song and gets stuck in your head)

R1 Match 32

Mr President - Coco Jamboo (brings me back to childhood GAA disco getting the shift)

R1 Match 33

Kung Fu fighting - Carl douglas (cause I still sing to this when drunk)

R1 Match 34

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (Its a classi that works on so many levels)

mzungu

Kansas-Dust In The Wind: Sue why not?
House Of Pain - Jump Around: The memories.
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star: Great song.
Republica – Ready To Go: More 90s memories.

mzungu

R1 Match 31
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride


R1 Match 32
Meredith Brooks - Bitch


R1 Match 33
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall


R1 Match 34
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Zaph

Deleted User wrote: »

#27 - Vote Cannonball, though not as good as The Breeders song of the same name.

I actually had The Breeders' song on my list, but when I checked it only made it as far as #40 in the UK so I wasn't sure it would count. One of my all-time favourite songs.

Zaph

Match 31

Only You. The whole of my French class got into trouble for constantly singing this song while the teacher had his back to us at the blackboard. Oddly enough, we were never asked to form an a capella group afterwards.

Match 32

No opinion

Match 33

Kung Fu Fighting, because those kicks were fast as lightning. This made my shortlist and almost made the final cut.

Match 34

No opinion, other than I can't forgive Vanilla Ice for bastardising Under Pressure.