Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

appledrop

I've just joined this thread but definitely a need for more cheesy songs.

Saturday Night by Whitfield has to be included.

Spook_ie

How far are we through, just had a quick scan and haven't spotted any of my OHWs, which worries me they are going to be matched against each other

Zaph

appledrop wrote: »

I've just joined this thread but definitely a need for more cheesy songs.

Saturday Night by Whitfield has to be included.

Was in Arnotts last night and in the middle of all the Christmas music that came on. It was very strange.

Spook_ie wrote: »

How far are we through, just had a quick scan and haven't spotted any of my OHWs, which worries me they are going to be matched against each other

128 songs, so 64 first round match-ups. Plenty to go yet.

ShaneU

Match 15 - Follow me, very catchy

Match 16 - Suzanne Vega, although Tom's Diner is her best song surely, ahead of its time.

Ficheall

I'm a big Suzanne Vega fan, but surely not a OHW? Many of her other songs are better than either Luka or Tom's Diner.


Tom's Diner, incidentally, I believe, was the song used to provide the tuning for the MP3 format.

Declan A Walsh

My votes:
R1 Match 15
Tom Robinson Band - 2‐4‐6‐8 Motorway

R1 Match 16
Suzanne Vega - Luca

Spook_ie

Match 15
Tom Robinson Band - 2‐4‐6‐8 Motorway another from my era, a 2000 song is never going to beat it IMO

Match 16

Suzanne Vega - Luka hard choice, both my era but Luka gets it.

Kolido

Tom Robinson and Suzanne Vega motor on.

Tom Robinson Band - 2‐4‐6‐8 Motorway 6
Vs
Unkle Kracker - Follow Me 5

The Bluebells - Young at Heart 2
Vs
Suzanne Vega - Luka 6

Kolido

R1 Match 17

Chesney Hawkes - You and Only
Released 1991
Peaked US 10/UK 1

VS

The Primitives – Crash
Released 1986
Peaked US NA/UK 5

R1 Match 18

Snow - Informer
Released 1992
Peaked US 1/UK 2

VS

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Released 1987
Peaked US 17/UK 6

Electric Nitwit

Yes, Chesney!
Quintessential one hit wonder. Saw him live years after and he was so sound too, he knows and embraces the fact that everyone only knows one song

Midnight Oil, because the time has come to say fair's fair

Necro

Chesney Hawkes ftw, cos he wrote that song about me ya know :P
Wonder if the lyrics should be changed to 'I am a One Hit Wonder, you can't take that away from me'

Not fussed on second one if I'm honest.

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote:

Yes, Chesney! Quintessential one hit wonder. Saw him live years after and he was so sound too, he knows and embraces the fact that everyone only knows one song

Must have been a short concert :pac:

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Must have been a short concert :pac:

It was an open air, free one and I genuinely remember it being two songs. I may have just forgotten all the others though

Here you go way to fasssssssst. You don’t slow down you’re gonna crassssssh. Love it!

Beds are burning is some tune too. My daughter and I sing it when drunk. Glad someone put it in.

Crash
Beds are burning

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Match 17
Crash because its an absolute tune, has made its way on to many a playlist of mine, and is part of one of the greatest movie soundtracks ever... Dumb & Dumber

Match 18
Informer because licky boom boom now and other such nonsense lyrics. When 'Informer' is the only word in a song that anyone knows, but everyone sings along anyway is how you know its an absolute hit.

Declan A Walsh

R1 Match 17

Chesney Hawkes - One and Only

VS

The Primitives – Crash

Now there's a proper one hit wonder: One and Only, because this really was his only hit, unlike the rules that apply here. While I like that song, I have to give my vote to: Crash by The Primitives.

R1 Match 18

Snow - Informer

VS

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning. My vote goes to: Beds Are Burning.

Happy birthday, necro!!!!!!!

Necro

Strawberry Milkshake wrote:

Happy birthday, necro!!!!!!!

Thanks Strawbs :P

quickbeam

The One And Only Chesney Hawkes. Gotta be a top contender for overall winner because, while it might not be the best song among the 128, it is bloody good and it's quintessential one hit wonder.

The other one I have no opinion on.

Omackeral

Crash because that Chesney Hawkes abomination is the worst song ever made. Thankfully it was his one and only ''hit''.


Informer on the other one. It's risque.

Squall Leonhart

Crash, because no thanks Chesney.

Beds are burning, because it's a great tune, reminds me of time spent in Australia, heard it a lot there.

(for a laugh, check out the mid 90s Jim Carrey parody of Informer called Imposter. Borne from the fact that yer man was Canadian but trying to sound Caribbean)

Mam of 4

Crash , it's an upbeat tune !

Beds are Burning , love that song , think I nominated it , maybe someone else did too though !

Don't think I know any of those 4 apart from Chesney Hawkes, to which I'm fairly indifferent. And I can't really listen to the other three at work without drawing awkward questions! So I'll impatiently wait for the next four to vote again. Will give the winners a spin before Round 2 though.

Zaph

Match 17

Crash. What a tune, Tracy Tracy's voice is just perfect for it.

Match 18

No opinion

Tammy!

I vote Crash. Good song. Chesney Hawkes? You are just an annoying little **** but you're not even the only one of those either.

Beds are Burning. Great song.

Kolido

Chesney crashes at the first round, The Primitives and Midnight Oil advance

Chesney Hawkes - You and Only 3
Vs
The Primitives – Crash 6

Snow - Informer 1
Vs
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning 6

Spook_ie

The Primitives – Crash just a great voice

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning though if it were competing against anything decent it wouldn't have got my vote

Kolido

R1 Match 19


Stone sour - bother
Released 2002
Peaked US 56/UK 28

VS

Seether - broken
Released 2004
Peaked US 20/UK 106

R1 Match 20

Swing Out Sister - Breakout
Released 1986
Peaked US 6/UK 4

VS

Chaz and Dave - Snooker loopy
Released 1986
Peaked US NA/UK 6

Necro

Seether- Broken, anyways.

Great song to play after a night on the tiles and aptly describes my mental state post alcohol consumption.

No opinion on the other one.

Hadn’t heard either of the first match.

Swing out sister - breakout. I love, love, love that song. Had it on replay when it was released.

I do love a bit of chas n Dave though and wish they weren’t paired together.