Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

Omackeral

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?

Big fan of Björk (seeing her live for the fourth time in a couple of weeks :cool: ), I just checked on Wiki and she had seven Top 20 hits in the UK, with another thirteen that reached the Top 40.

Björk does not fúck about.

Irish Aris

Sheridan81 wrote: »

I'm disappointed nobody nominated Echo Beach or Sleeping Satellite.

both excellent songs!!

Sheridan81

Sheridan81 wrote: »

That's a surprise. Good thing Hanson wasn't included or Declan Walsh would have thrown his laptop out the window.

Necro

Sheridan81 wrote:

That's a surprise. Good thing Hanson wasn't included or Declan Walsh would have thrown his laptop out the window.

Genuine LOL in the office, everyone looking at me now :pac:

Sheridan81

I'm really enjoying listening to the songs I don't know. Gerardo's Rico Suave has to be the find of the thread for me. Nothing beats foreign rap; he would have been a deserving winner.

Zaph

Zaph wrote: »

Hanson actually had about half a dozen hits in the UK

Did they have one called "Where's the Love"? That's ringing a faint bell in my head. Can't think of any more.

Sam Hain

Sheridan81 wrote: »

I'm disappointed nobody nominated Echo Beach or Sleeping Satellite.

2 superb shouts.

Anyone else have Friday night plans to go searching for one hit wonders that nobody nominated here? Might have to make a separate thread though, don't wanna derail Kolido's great work here!

Spook_ie

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone else have Friday night plans to go searching for one hit wonders that nobody nominated here? Might have to make a separate thread though, don't wanna derail Kolido's great work here!

I have the inklings of a thought for the next Boardsies Greatest......

Might put more into it after Kolido's thread

BTW Great thread so far, even if none of the reprobates on here recognize a good OHW

Declan A Walsh

Spook_ie wrote: »

I have the inklings of a thought for the next Boardsies Greatest......

How about Greatest Genuine One Hit Wonder Song, i.e. act with only one Top 40 hit in UK or US??:)
P.S. Or Top 50, if you prefer!

TheValeyard

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

How about Greatest Genuine One Hit Wonder Song, i.e. act with only one Top 40 hit in UK or US??:)
P.S. Or Top 50, if you prefer!

Declan A Walsh

TheValeyard wrote: »

Sorry, I just couldn't resist! You have to see the funny side!

Spook_ie

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Sorry, I just couldn't resist! You have to see the funny side!

Oh there is most definitely a funny side to the thought alright

Sheridan81

Funny somebody nominated The Bluetones. I was gonna nominate them myself for the song If, only to check wiki and discover how popular they were.

Declan A Walsh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

How about Greatest Genuine One Hit Wonder Song, i.e. act with only one Top 40 hit in UK or US??:)
P.S. Or Top 50, if you prefer!

Go on. You host it.

Tell me how

R1 Match 60
Los Del Rio – Macarena. Plays the role of siege of Ennis at many the function to entice lazy arses off of the chairs.

R1 Match 61
Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything. Because it does. Simples.

R1 Match 62
4 Non-Blondes - What's Up. Even when I was young, I used to laugh at the bands 2 fingers to convention with their name. Someone explained it to me and I thought it was funny, like ‘bless those girls for getting so annoyed’

R1 Match 63
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game. Something both eerily spooky and enticing about this song and video and consequently feel like I can’t really vote against it.

R1 Match 64
Gerry Raferty - Baker Street. Another that was beloved on Atlantic 252 iirc. Liked Heartbeats but think it was too recent to be in the ‘Greatest’ conversation just yet. I mean, 2006 was only a couple years ago. Wasn’t it?

Kolido

Suzanne and Maria advance to round 3

Dario G - Sunchyme 2 Vs 6 Suzanne Vega - Luka
Damien Rice - Cannonball 4 Vs 6 Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven

Necro

I'll take that, Sunchyme isn't THAT great tbh

Tell me how

Necro wrote: »

I'll take that, Sunchyme isn't THAT great tbh

I nominated it, and missed voting for it. :eek::eek::eek:

quickbeam

Sunchyme is good, but Luka is better. As we go through the rounds there are going to be good songs knocked out by better ones. Tis the way.

Green&Red

Luka is a great song, surprised she didn’t have another top 3 hit, Tom’s dinner and Marlene on the wall we’re two great songs too

Cannonball grinds off me now, so Maria McKee

Kolido

R2 Match 3

The New Radicals - You Get What You Give

Vs

Glenn Mederios - Nothings Gonna change my love for you

R2 Match 4

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

Vs

Len - Steal My Sunshine

Electric Nitwit

The New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Really like this song

Len - Steal My Sunshine
Kind of terrible, but can't help but enjoy hearing it

Also Starring LeVar Burton

You Get What You Give - Amazing song, amazing band, shame they split up so early pn

Steal My Sunshine - Feel bad for not giving it my vote the first time, and as much as I love Safety Dance, Steal My Sunshine is just class.

Necro

Glenn Medeiros because he aptly describes how I feel for this contest

And....


Steal My Sunshine, cos Safety Dance is really, really meh.

You Get What You Give and
Steal My Sunshine

First one I love. Second one I like.

Omackeral

Glenn Mederios - Nothings Gonna change my love for you I HATE that get what you give song. Like seriously hate it. I wanna strangle the lead singer.

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance Harmless auld gick.

Irish Aris

Match 3: I won't vote, because I like both, Glenn Medeiros' song is like a guilty pleasure - I was 15 when it came out.

Match 4: vote goes for Safety Dance, a song I grew into the last few years (I don't even remember Steal My Sunshine and listening to it doesn't tell me anything. . .)

Tell me how

R2 Match 3 - Glenn Mederios - Nothings Gonna change my love for you. Best of a bad lot

R2 Match 4 - Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance. For the conviction of the singer winging about such a meaningless topic.

My last two remaining nominations up against each other. Wish I could put both through but if I'm being forced to choose I think Safety Dance is the better song overall. So I vote for Safety Dance, but it'll be bittersweet whichever one goes through.

I must listen to Glenn Medeiros before I make a call on the other one.
EDIT: Oh I do that know song. And it's not good. Vote You Get What You Give.

Zaph

Match 4

The Safety Dance, cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well they're are no friends of mine.

Mam of 4

You Get What You Give is my vote , because Glenn whatchacallhim had a whiney voice

Safety Dance , love it , senseless song just fun !

mzungu

You Get What You Give. Your man Gregg Alexander is a good songwriter, writes hits mostly for other people these days.

Steal My Sunshine. Wouldn't be mad about it, but the lesser of two evils comes into play here.

Green&Red

New Radicals - really disappointed they never went on and did anything else

Len - great summer tune

Kolido

New radicals and men without hats dance safely into round 3

The New Radicals - You Get What You Give 6 Vs 4 Glenn Mederios - Nothings Gonna change my love for you
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance 6 Vs 4 Len - Steal My Sunshine

Kolido

R 2 Match 5

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei

Vs

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

R 2 Match 6

Cutting Crew - I just Died In Your Arms Tonight

Vs

Nena - 99 luftballons

Necro

First one is no contest for me.

DRAGOSTEA DIN TEI!!!

NUMA NUMA GUY!!


Second one a little tougher but Cutting Crew is a fantastic song and should not be denied passage. So just watch and see as it is

sKeith

nena 99 red ballons - brings me back to my childhood years instantly.


O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei - what a fun song.


edit: red ballons - luftballons, doesn't matter, they the same song to me.

quickbeam

Dragostea Din Tei - catchy

I just Died In Your Arms Tonight - tough one this, but a marginally better song.

#5 - Voting for I Ran, because it's a good song in its own right but also because I can't stand that O-Zone one.

#6 - Voting 99 Luftballons simply because it's the better song of those two.

Spook_ie

99 Luftballons I give it 99 votes, the words are melancholic about the destruction caused by a false alarm.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I Ran - its one of my nominees and its class.

I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - also one of my nominees and also class.

TheValeyard

R 2 Match 5

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei (more memorable)

R 2 Match 6

Nena - 99 luftballons (its a classic, great cold war song)

Zaph

Match 5

I Ran. A song that was a lot better than the haircuts of its singers.

Match 6

99 Luftballons. Classic 80s track that's unfortunately still relevant today.

Irish Aris

ah, nice, 2 of my nominations in this one!!

Votes go to:
A Flock of Seagulls-I Ran
and
Cutting Crew-I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight

(I will admit though that the German version of 99 Luftballons is classic 80's too!!)

tusk

ozone for reasons previously stated.

and 99 balloons cos it's an aboslutel tune.

Ectoplasm

R 2 Match 5

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei coz numa numa

R 2 Match 6

Nena - 99 luftballons coz it's a great song in 2 languages

mzungu

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Nena - 99 Luftballons

Mam of 4

I Ran , Flock Of Seagulls , geez it brings me back to my younger days , love it .

99 Red/Luftballons .
Tough choice between this and The Cutting Crew , but this wins for being such an Iconic song for a momentous time in History .

Kolido

O zone and nena drift into round 3

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei 6 Vs 4 A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Cutting Crew - I just Died In Your Arms Tonight 4 Vs 6 Nena - 99 luftballons