Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

Necro

Kolido wrote: »

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

Kolido

R 2 Match 7

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

Vs

Gerry Raferty - Baker Street

R 2 Match 8

Touch and Go - Would you?

Vs

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

quickbeam

Baker Street
Video Killed The Radio Star

Easy choices this time. Two cracking tunes.

#7 - Baker Street. The other guy has an annoying voice.

#8 - Would You. It's a fun, funky tune. Plus I'm sure pretty much everyone else will vote for Video Killed The Radio Star but it's not a song I'm keen on.

Necro

What QB said.

Baker Street and Video Killed the Radio Star.

Cos they're superior songs basically.

TheValeyard

R 2 Match 7

Gerry Raferty - Baker Street (just an awesome sax)

R 2 Match 8

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (gets stuck in your head)

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Beds Are Burning - it has really grown on me since round 1.

Would You? - Its a potential winner of the whole thing for me at this point.

Tell me how

R 2 Match 7 - Gerry Raferty - Baker Street[
R 2 Match 8 - Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

Never in doubt for these two, easy choices.

Green&Red

Baker st is a cracking song

I’ll go for would you in the other

mzungu

Baker Street. For that sax solo alone, but the song in general is great.
Video Killed The Radio Star. Great song and One of the best one hit wonders of all time. IMO of course!

Tell me how

mzungu wrote: »

Baker Street. For that sax solo alone, but the song in general is great.
Video Killed The Radio Star. One of the best one hit wonders of all time.

Don't know about that, not like there's ever been a competition comparing the contenders.

Omackeral

Baker Street for the soul. The crescendo is really iconic.

Would You? for the horny and edginess that was the 90's attitude.

Mam of 4

Baker Street , classic tune , still great today .

Video Killed The Radio Star , just because I don't like the other one .

windy shepard henderson

Baker Street : still a very good song, the other sounds like it's still stuck in the 80s

Video killed the radio star: the other song was just terrible, there has been some excellent covers of the buggles song too which keeps it fresh

Spook_ie

Baker St hut I think my vote isn't needed

Video killed the radio star again I don't think my vote is needed but hey I'm typing anyway

Declan A Walsh

mzungu wrote: »

Baker Street. For that sax solo alone, but the song in general is great.
Video Killed The Radio Star. Great song and One of the best one hit wonders of all time. IMO of course!

I probably would have voted for the first,although I liked Beds are Burning too, and I definitely would have voted for the second. Votes not needed now.

In relation to Buggles, they were not a total one hit wonder. Their follow-up single Plastic Age was in the Top 20 and Clean Clean was in the lower end of the Top 40. But they fulfill the rules for this thread, i.e. no more than 3 Top 20 hits and associated with one song.

Declan A Walsh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I probably would have voted for the first,although I liked Beds are Burning too, and I definitely would have voted for the second. Votes not needed now.

In relation to Buggles, they were not a total one hit wonder. Their follow-up single Plastic Age was in the Top 20 and Clean Clean was in the lower end of the Top 40. But they fulfill the rules for this thread, i.e. no more than 3 Top 20 hits and associated with one song.

They sound like a ohw to me so

super_furry

Gerry Raferty - Baker Street - Just a cracking tune.

Touch and Go - Would you? - Fecking loved As If.

YFlyer

Joy Division one hit wonder?

Kolido

Baker street and the radio star burn the midnight oil to advance

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning 1 Vs 6 Gerry Raferty - Baker Street
Touch and Go - Would you? 4 Vs 6 Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

Pretzill

Just seeing this now (too late?) I wouldn't consider Gerry Rafferty a one hit wonder - Baker Street is a winner though - ( maybe the others are with Stealers Wheels?)

Kolido

R 2 Match 9

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Vs

Los Del Rio - Macarena

R 2 Match 10

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

Vs

Mr President - Coco Jamboo

Ice ice baby

Coco jamboo

quickbeam

Reluctantly, The Macarena as the better of the two there.

No opinion on the second.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Los Del Rio - Macarena

Kolido wrote:

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

These guys cos I nominated them.

And cos they're better and arguably more iconic songs

Pretzill

Ice, Ice Baby because it's not as nauseatingly, catchy. And Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag because it's a great tune.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Macarena - because its so infectious and you can't help but do the dance when it plays.

Teenage Dirtbag - it was one of my nominees and one of my favourite songs of all time.

Spook_ie

R2 9 Macarena it should just go straight to the final 2

R2 10 Teenage Dirt Bag Edges the other one out IMO

Omackeral

Macarena - Will get people on the floor guaranteed.

Coco Jumbo - An absolute guilty pleasure.

Electric Nitwit

Macarena - I hate it but it's undeniably a classic ohw

Teenage Dirtbag - because it's brilliant

Macarena and Teenage Dirtbag

appledrop

Macerana because it a classic +gets everyone on the dance floor.

Coco Jambo because it brings me right back to teenage years.

Delighted there is finally some cheesy tunes!

Squall Leonhart

Ice ice baby and teenage dirtbag.

Just better than their competitors in this round

Zaph

Match 9

No opinion

Match 10

Teenage Dirtbag. Simply a great song.

Tell me how

R 2 Match 9 - Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby. The Macarena has it's place but going for Vanilla Ice here because of his conviction in the quality of the song. Think he got a lot of stick from other 'artists' over the years but he is steadfast in his pride for this.

R 2 Match 10 - Mr President - Coco Jamboo: I nominated this, so guess I got to represent. I don't dislike the Wheetus song but Coco Jamboo does take me back to July and August 1997 every time I hear it.

Green&Red

Ice ice baby for the back story

Teenage dirtbag cause it’s awesome


Heard this version of Macarena a few days ago in Medellin, someone might sort the link please

https://youtu.be/k30tMU5XdTw

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

Heard this version of Macarena a few days ago in Medellin, someone might sort the link please

https://youtu.be/k30tMU5XdTw

If you delete the https://youtu.be/ and just include the code it should work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30tMU5XdTw

Mam of 4

Ice Ice Baby , just a "cool" song

Teenage Dirtbag , as I never heard of the other one .

mzungu

Ice Ice Baby and Teenage Dirtbag would be my choices here.

super_furry

Ice Ice Baby
Teenage Dirtbag

Kolido

Los Del Rio and Wheetus make light work as they advance to round 3

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby 1 Vs 6 Los Del Rio - Macarena
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag 6 Vs 1 Mr President - Coco Jamboo

Kolido

R 2 Match 11


The Firm - Star Trekkin'

Vs

Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

R 2 Match 12


Europe - The Final Countdown

Vs

Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear The Reaper

Tell me how

Kolido wrote: »

Los Del Rio and Wheetus make light work as they advance to round 3

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby 1 Vs 6 Los Del Rio - Macarena
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag 6 Vs 1 Mr President - Coco Jamboo

Wow. Most people do actually have poor music taste.
That's my 5 nominees gone :mad::(:mad:

Mam of 4

The Firm -'Star Trekkin .
Fecking love that song , happy memories just hopping around the place to it !

Europe - The Final Countdown ,
Another one that was a staple of my nights out after work finished , great times

quickbeam

Owner of a Lonely Heart
Don't Fear the Reaper

Both better songs IMO.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

Prefer this one to Star Trekkin which is meh at best.

Kolido wrote:

Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear The Reaper

This is hard. I don't mind which goes through here tbh. But Don't Fear The Reaper is a quality track and gets my vote. First real tough one for me though.

Star trek king

Dont fear the reaper


Both are class

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Owner Of A Lonely Heart - can't remember who they were up against in the last round, but I definitely overlooked this song in round 1. It's a solid tune.

Don't Fear The Reaper - great song and a potential contender to win the whole tournament.

Tell me how

R 2 Match 11 - The Firm - Star Trekkin'. Bit of a meh vote vote I do remember being fond of it as a child.

R 2 Match 12 - Europe - The Final Countdown. Legendary song. If you're going to have a single hit, you could do worse than it being this one. When anyone would ask why you hadn't another, you could just tell them, 'You can't improve on epic'

Two fairly tough matches here, don't mind too much who goes through.
But my choices are:

#11 - Star Trekkin', just 'cause it always raises a smile.

#12 - The Final Countdown, for that iconic riff.