90's One Hit Wonder Playlist

IrishAlice · 22-08-2014 10:34am #1

So I'm having a party and decided that for fun I'd make a 90's one hit wonders playlist for the night.

Below is what I have so far, anyone have any other suggestions? I've purposely left off Saturday Night and the Macarena but maybe I should include them?!

1. Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
2. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
3. OMC – How Bizarre
4. Len – Steal My Sunshine
5. House of Pain – Jump Around
6. Haddaway – What is Love
7. Semisonic – Closing Time
8. Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
9. Meredith Brooks – Bitch
10. Jennifer Paige – Crush
11. Tag Team – Whoomp There it is
12. Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm
13. Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch – Good Vibrations
14. Kriss Kross – Jump
15. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
16. Sneaker Pimps – Six Underground
17. New Radicals – You get what you give
18. Joan Osbourne – One of us
19. 4 Non Blondes – What’s up
20. Aqua – Barbie Girl
21. Des Re – You Gotta Be
22. New Radicals – You Get What You Give
23. Six Pence Non the Richer – Kiss Me

sebcity · 22-08-2014 10:44am

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

blastman · 22-08-2014 10:50am

IrishAlice wrote: »

1. Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
2. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
3. OMC – How Bizarre
4. Len – Steal My Sunshine
5. House of Pain – Jump Around
6. Haddaway – What is Love
7. Semisonic – Closing Time
8. Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
9. Meredith Brooks – Bitch
10. Jennifer Paige – Crush
11. Tag Team – Whoomp There it is
12. Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm
13. Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch – Good Vibrations
14. Kriss Kross – Jump
15. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
16. Sneaker Pimps – Six Underground
17. New Radicals – You get what you give
18. Joan Osbourne – One of us
19. 4 Non Blondes – What’s up
20. Aqua – Barbie Girl
21. Des Re – You Gotta Be
22. New Radicals – You Get What You Give
23. Six Pence Non the Richer – Kiss Me

So you really like the New Radicals, eh?

They had a smaller follow up hit with this, which I always liked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmA8qQKhMY

IrishAlice · 22-08-2014 10:53am

blastman wrote: »

So you really like the New Radicals, eh?

They had a smaller follow up hit with this, which I always liked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmA8qQKhMY

Haha - I guess I like them more than I knew

Thought of one more:

Seal – Kiss from a Rose

KT10 · 22-08-2014 11:01am

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
The Rembrandts - I’ll Be There for You
Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5
Mr Ozio - Flat Beat

Welsh Megaman · 22-08-2014 1:01pm

White Town - Your Woman
Urban Cookie Collective - The Key The Secret
Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs

Ten Sharp - You
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
Cece Peniston -Finally
T-Spoon - Sex On The Beach :O
Gala - Freed From Desire
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Stiltskin - Inside
Toni Di Bart - The Real Thing
Jon Secada - Just Another Day
Snow - Informer
Billie Myers - Quiche Lorraine :pac:

And last, but not least...

The Carter Twins - The Twelth Of Never

Savman · 22-08-2014 1:07pm

Sweetness - Michelle Gayle
Stay - Shakespeare's Sister
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
74 75 - The Connells
Come Baby Come - K7
Searching - China Black
Here Comes The Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Baby Come Back - Pato Banton
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
I've Got a Little Something For Ya - MN8
I love Your Smile - Shanice
Boom Shack a Lack - Apache Indian
It Keeps Raining - Bitty Mclean
Mr Loverman - Shabba Ranks
Return to Innocence - Enigma

IrishAlice · 22-08-2014 1:55pm

Excellent, there's some suggestions here that I had forgotten all about!

Searching and Freed from Desire - Brilliant!

I'm being taken back to my early teens listening to the radio outside during summer holidays

groovie · 22-08-2014 2:25pm

One of my own favourites from that era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUGvZsZt3UY

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-08-2014 2:28pm

Goo Goo Dolls: Iris

Maybe also Travis 'why does it always rain on me?', although I wouldn't consider them to be one hit wonders.

NIMAN · 22-08-2014 5:03pm

Some examples of why the 90s was rubbish for music!!;)

1huge1 · 22-08-2014 5:05pm

Cornershop - Brimful of asha

Muirshin Durkin · 22-08-2014 5:07pm

SilverScreen · 22-08-2014 6:21pm

IrishAlice wrote: »

7. Semisonic – Closing Time

They had a hit with Secret Smile as well. I don't see the band as one-hit wonders.

Herb Powell · 23-08-2014 1:26pm

How has this not been mentioned yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyjTrwOMSO4

Owryan · 23-08-2014 1:35pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTQoLydUeWo

LumpyGravy · 23-08-2014 1:40pm

Paradisio - Bailando

Declan A Walsh · 23-08-2014 5:03pm

There are a number of artists mentioned in these posts who were NOT one-hit wonders: Aqua, Chumbawumba, Seal (remember Crazy, for example?), Semi-Sonic (as said above), The New Radicals (as said above), Shakespeare's Sister, Enigma and The Urban Cookie Collective. I'm not sure about The Rembrandts either because they had a couple of hits in the U.S. and, f you are confining it to the U.K., do you count a song which got to No. 58 as a second hit for them?

SilverScreen · 23-08-2014 6:04pm

Chumbawamba is an odd one, as they had a career spanning 30 years and varied their sound quite a bit. Amnesia was a hit for them as well if I'm not mistaken.

Mike Guide 69 · 23-08-2014 11:09pm

Joshua Kadison - "Jesse" , another one hit wonder a favourite that was played in wine bars around the country at the time. Joshua whining about his long lost love and also mentions a cat in the song (Moses), weird or what????

Ipso · 24-08-2014 7:24am

Babybird - You're Gorgeous
Charles and Eddie - Would I lie to you
Pato Banton - Baby come back
Was Chesney Hawkes mentioned?

CINCLANTFLT · 24-08-2014 9:09am

Mike Guide 69 wrote: »

Joshua Kadison - "Jesse" , another one hit wonder a favourite that was played in wine bars around the country at the time. Joshua whining about his long lost love and also mentions a cat in the song (Moses), weird or what????

But which famous Jesse or Jessica was it written for... hint: she chose Ferris Bueller instead!!!

foxtrot101 · 24-08-2014 1:33pm

The Connells - 74, 75.
Boo Radleys - Wake up it's a beautiful morning.

Declan A Walsh · 24-08-2014 9:24pm

Ipso wrote: »

Babybird - You're Gorgeous
Charles and Eddie - Would I lie to you
Pato Banton - Baby come back
Was Chesney Hawkes mentioned?

It's true Charles and Eddie had only one smash hit, but it wasn't their only hit - they had a few other moderate hits.

foxtrot101 wrote: »

The Connells - 74, 75.
Boo Radleys - Wake up it's a beautiful morning.

Boo Radleys were not a one-hit wonder. They had a number of medium-sized hits besides that big Top 10 hit.

SilverScreen · 24-08-2014 9:40pm

The song was called Wake Up Boo! not Wake Up It's a Beautiful Morning. They had already released a critically acclaimed and commercially successful album (Giant Steps) in 1993 two years before they released that single.

Welsh Megaman · 24-08-2014 10:59pm

'Doop' by Doop

*shudder*

cocoman · 24-08-2014 11:12pm

Edwyn Collins - A girl like you
Crashtest Dummies - mmmm mmmm mmmm
Moloko - The Time Is Now

Ipso · 25-08-2014 6:07am

What about Dodgy's Good Enough?
Don't think they had any other fairly big hits.

wendell borton · 25-08-2014 10:21am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE0XcdM22Yo

blastman · 25-08-2014 11:53am

Herb Powell wrote: »

How has this not been mentioned yet?

Because they weren't a one-hit wonder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lObgLdtXYpU

(Not a great copy of the video, sorry)

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx2nVyn_Vcw

Declan A Walsh · 25-08-2014 7:38pm

wendell borton wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE0XcdM22Yo

Firstly, the title of the song is: Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop) !

Secondly and more importantly, it wasn't a one-hit wonder. He had a follow-up hit called Scatman's World.

90's One Hit Wonder Playlist

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