Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

Squall Leonhart · 15-11-2019 03:25PM

Match 60
Sugar Sugar, it's a sweet song, pun intended

Match 61
Love Changes Everything, catchy decent pop tune

Match 62
Umm... for the fervour of the song, the 80s power ballad brat pack style thing, St Elmos' Fire

Match 63
Wicked Game

Match 64
Heartbeats... because i nominated it... but c'mon, up against THAT sax solo... sigh... but still, heartbeats it is.

Necro · 15-11-2019 03:27PM

TheValeyard wrote:

Los Del Rio - Macarena (classic childhood)

Vale you beautiful bastard just before those sugar crazed freaks took Macarena out in the first round!

Yes!!

Kolido · 15-11-2019 03:28PM

Match 54, I'm going to vote for the Calling, really like both songs here, but I'd probably listen to the calling more.

And with that, round 1 is wrapped up.

I will try get round 2 started tonight.

Kolido · 15-11-2019 03:34PM

I will post the first 2 matches of round 2 now.

First to 6 again, with a reason please.

Declan A Walsh · 15-11-2019 03:34PM

I'm too late with my votes but what the heck...

R1 Match 57
Gotye - somebody that I used to know
VS
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart – My vote.

R1 Match 58
The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
VS
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town - My vote.

R1 Match 63
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
VS
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game. - My vote.

R1 Match 64
Gerry Raferty - Baker Street - My vote.
VS
Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats

super_furry wrote: »

……….
Gerry Raferty - Baker Street - Arguably the best one-hit wonder ever.

Not a fully-fledged one-hit wonder, but okay for this thread:
Night Owl – UK – 5
Get it Right Next Time – UK – 30, US – 21
Right Down the Line – US -12.
Home and Dry – US – 28
Days Gone Done – US - 17.
I know the first three!

Deleted User wrote: »

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#63 - Wicked Game, an absolutely brilliant song. I wasn't sure if Chris Isaak had other hits or not, otherwise may have nominated it myself.

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Blue Hotel –UK - 17
Can’t Do a Thing to Stop Me – UK -36

Electric Nitwit · 15-11-2019 03:35PM

TheValeyard wrote: »

Los Del Rio - Macarena (classic childhood)

I read that and thought "how young are you?", then looked and it was 1993!

So now it's "how old are we?"

Kolido · 15-11-2019 03:39PM

R2 Match 1

Dario G - Sunchyme

Vs

Suzanne Vega - Luka

R2 Match 2

Damien Rice - Cannonball

Vs

Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven

15-11-2019 03:40PM

Sunchyme and Show Me Heaven as they remind me of football and chocolate respectively and are both great tunes in opposite ways.

15-11-2019 03:41PM

Sunchyme - Its happy
Cannonball - Memories

Declan A Walsh · 15-11-2019 03:42PM

R2 Match 1
Dario G - Sunchyme
Vs
Suzanne Vega – Luka – My Vote.

R2 Match 2

Damien Rice - Cannonball
Vs
Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven – My Vote.

15-11-2019 03:43PM

Luka for me as i like stairs

Cannonball as its amazeballs

Irish Aris · 15-11-2019 03:43PM

Match 1: Suzanne Vega-Luka.
For me a very iconic song and I hope it makes it all the way to the final rounds.

Match 2: Maria McKee-Show Me Heaven.
Wonderful ballad - and overall I found the Days of Thunder soundtrack interesting.

norabattie · 15-11-2019 03:44PM

Susanne Vega - Luka - bit depressing but prefer it to the other one

Damien Rice - only cos Show me heaven is annoying!

Spook_ie · 15-11-2019 03:45PM

R2 Match 1
Suzanne Vega - Luka

Intro to Sunchyme doesn't catch me as much as Luka, couldn't hit the skip button fast enough TBH

15-11-2019 03:45PM

Luka - it’s such a sad song

I forgot the other one

15-11-2019 03:46PM

Oh wow, Kolido doesn't waste time!

I'll go for Luka for the first one.
Sunchyme is grand but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it.

For the second one I'll go with Show Me Heaven, nice song with a great vocal. Cannonball is nice enough but a bit overplayed, and I think Damien Rice has better songs than it.

15-11-2019 03:46PM

Oh. Gotta go with cannonball. Don’t think it’s worthy of winning the comp but can’t be having that show me heaven going any further.

Spook_ie · 15-11-2019 03:46PM

R2 Match 2
Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven

Again if the tune doesn't catch me in first 30 or so seconds it's usually a skip to next tune so edges out Cannonball by a full 15 seconds

Necro · 15-11-2019 03:46PM

Kolido wrote:

Dario G - Sunchyme

Video makes this a brilliant OHW. Song is a bit sh1te though but good enough to progress for me here.

Kolido wrote:

Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven

Love this song. Great entry, prob would have entered it myself if Kolido had given me 41 slots instead of 40 :P

TheValeyard · 15-11-2019 03:48PM

R2 Match 1

Dario G - Sunchyme (I dont remember the other one)

R2 Match 2

Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven (just a better song, and the other one disappointing me as it was not the cannonball song I was expecting)

Squall Leonhart · 15-11-2019 03:49PM

Sunchyme and Cannonball

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 15-11-2019 03:49PM

Sunchyme - was a close one and I nearly went for Luka, but the upbeat and sunshiny tone of Sunchyme won me over at the final moment.

Show Me Heaven - absolute belter of a song and feel deserves to be in the competition more, even though I do love Cannonball.

Sam Hain · 15-11-2019 03:50PM

Suzanne Vega - Luka
Great song and probably the best ever song about child abuse .

Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven
Balls to the wall balladry.

15-11-2019 03:53PM

TheValeyard wrote: »

Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven (just a better song, and the other one disappointing me as it was not the cannonball song I was expecting)

:cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RsE3QPlmAQ

quickbeam · 15-11-2019 03:54PM

Tough decision on the first one but Vega by a hair’s breadth for being awesome

Less tough on the second one, McKey is a great song.

Declan A Walsh · 15-11-2019 03:55PM

Sam Hain wrote: »

Suzanne Vega - Luka
Great song and probably the best ever song about child abuse .

Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven
Balls to the wall balladry.

I think it was about physical abuse against a woman.

Sam Hain · 15-11-2019 03:57PM

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I think it was about physical abuse against a woman.

No it wasn't. You mad yoke.

Declan A Walsh · 15-11-2019 04:04PM

Sam Hain wrote: »

No it wasn't. You mad yoke.

I just checked. It looks like your're right! I always thought Luka was a woman and I think quite a few others did too!

15-11-2019 04:13PM

I wasn't around at the start. Could someone tell me if Bjork It's All So Quiet or Toto Africa were in this contest?

Necro · 15-11-2019 04:14PM

Omackeral wrote:

I wasn't around at the start. Could someone tell me if Bjork It's All So Quiet or Toto Africa were in this contest?

Don't recall them being entered actually.

Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

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