Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

Omackeral

Kiss Me as it's kinda cute and soppy.

Love Will Tear Us Apart as we belt it out at Bohs any time our Center Midfielder Keith Ward slaloms through the opposition but we oh so cleverly change the word "Love" to "Ward" and "Us" to "You". So it goes "Ward....Ward will tear you apart again". Phenomenal.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me

This is tough but beneath the milky twilight lead me... I'm sold!!

Kiss Me.

Kolido wrote:

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

This is less tough as once again I just don't see Joy Division as OHWs.

So the Buggles and their murderous desires towards radio stars get my vote.

Electric Nitwit

Show Me Heaven. Close, but there's a bit more heft to it than Kiss Me

Love Will Tear Us Apart. It's just an incredible song. So incredible that even the Bohs can't ruin it

Zaph

Match 15

Show Me Heaven. It's shocking that this is Maria McKee's only big hit, she had done great songs.

Match 16

Love Will Tear Us Apart. One of the truly great songs of the 80s.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Show Me Heaven - close choice, but slightly prefer this one

Love Will Tear Us Apart - much better song

#15 - Both good songs but I'll go for Kiss Me just because it's more my era and so has nostalgia factor advantage.

#16 - Love Will Tear Us Apart. While I accept Necro's point about Joy Division not really fitting the profile a OHW, it's just a far better song than the other one (imo)

Pretzill

Show me Heaven is the better or the two for me
And the first song ever to be played on MTV ... Video Killed the Radio Star (because it didn't)

Rikand

Kiss me, cause I used to play it at gigs

Pass on the other one. I hate them both

Declan A Walsh

Necro wrote: »

This is tough but beneath the milky twilight lead me... I'm sold!!

Kiss Me.




This is less tough as once again I just don't see Joy Division as OHWs.

So the Buggles and their murderous desires towards radio stars get my vote.

A couple of people have said they don't see Joy Division as One Hit Wonders. Neither is Buggles in that case - they had 2 other Top 40 hits: Plastic Age, which reached the Top 20, and Clean Clean!

In fact, ironically, Joy Division would be more One Hit Wonder as Love will Tear reached the Top 20 three different occasions (so one song) and Atmosphere reached #34! That's only two hits as opposed to three hits for Buggles.

Anyway, here's my votes!

R 3 Match 15
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me - Nice tune with nice guitarwork and accordion (could be keyboards) sounds. My vote.
Vs
Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven - Good performance.

R 3 Match 16
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star - Bit of an iconic tune. However...
Vs
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Classic alternative love song. My vote.

Spook_ie

R3 16

Video killed the radio star, time for a remix though, maybe " mp3's killed the pop star"?

Tell me how

R 3 Match 15 - Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven. Maria winning the 'you know I want to bang you?' mixtape matchup.

R 3 Match 16 - Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star. Buggles kills the dreams of another wannabe star.

Necro

Declan A Walsh wrote:

In fact, ironically, Joy Division would be more One Hit Wonder as Love will Tear reached the Top 20 three different occasions (so one song) and Atmosphere reached #34! That's only two hits as opposed to three hits for Buggles.

Joy Division had three seperate albums chart in the top ten, if that's a one hit wonder I'm a monkeys uncle.

Still we ain't going by album sales so I guess it's technically correct.

Kiss me

And

Love will there us apart

2 lovely songs with music in them

quickbeam

Four good songs. But, Show Me Heaven, I just prefer over Kiss Me.

And Love Will Tear Us Apart is quality whereas Video is merely good fun.

Declan A Walsh

Necro wrote: »

Joy Division had three seperate albums chart in the top ten, if that's a one hit wonder I'm a monkeys uncle.

Still we ain't going by album sales so I guess it's technically correct.

Exactly. Albums are not relevant here or the fact that Transmission got to #4 in the UK Indie Charts!

quickbeam

How, on earth is Joy Division not a OHW:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division_discography#Singles

How many hit singles do they have??

Kolido

Currently Kiss me 6 - 6 Show me heaven

Will call it at 10 and get round 4 under way.

Declan A Walsh

quickbeam wrote: »

How, on earth is Joy Division not a OHW:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division_discography#Singles

How many hit singles do they have??

They had two hits, including Atmosphere. As I said, they are much more OHW than Buggles.

Anyway, both acts qualify under the rules devised for here, in that neither had more than 3 Top 20 songs and each act was associated particularly with one song.

Kolido

Going to vote kiss me as I would have listened more to it back in the day, and I still like it.

So sixpence and joy division go through

Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me 7 6 Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star 4 7 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

quickbeam

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

They had two hits, including Atmosphere. As I said, they are much more OHW than Buggles.

Anyway, both acts qualify under the rules devised for here, in that neither had more than 3 Top 20 songs and each act was associated particularly with one song.

Atmosphere wasn't a hit on the UK charts. Only the UK Indie charts. They only had one it. So pffft :P

Spook_ie

Spook_ie wrote: »

R3 16

Video killed the radio star, time for a remix though, maybe " mp3's killed the pop star"?

X factor killed the rock star

Kolido

At the final 16, we will stick with first to 7 votes this round also.

For anyone interested, here is a spotify playlist of all the songs.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1RZVath00iQIdrxKcRS2VJ

Declan A Walsh

quickbeam wrote: »

Atmosphere wasn't a hit on the UK charts. Only the UK Indie charts. They only had one it. So pffft :P

I beg to differ! It reached No. 34 in the regular UK Charts in 1988. That's a hit in my book. It doesn't matter anyway because it didn't reach the top 20 for these rules. Love Will Tear Us Apart was the only one.

quickbeam

^^ Zackly!

Kolido

R 4 Match 1


Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Vs

Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me

R 4 Match 2


Chris Isaak - Wicked Game.

Vs

The New Radicals - You Get What You Give

quickbeam

Love Will Tear Us Apart is just a fantastic song.

As is Wicked Game.

Both are better than their opponents. That's where my votes lie.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me

LOL. Not gonna say it again. Kiss Me cos I prefer it

Kolido wrote:

The New Radicals - You Get What You Give

Better song than Wicked Game, simples.

Tell me how

R 4 Match 1 - Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me. Rather this one.

R 4 Match 2 - Chris Isaak - Wicked Game. 3rd time voting for this. New radicals should be glad they got this far.

Electric Nitwit

Oh, big guns coming out now!

Love Will Tear Us Apart - I nominated it and I love it

You Get What You Give - I won't argue it's better than Wicked Game, I just prefer it. A lot of that might be timing, I remember it coming out and loving it, still do

Declan A Walsh

R 4 Match 1
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart - This is a classic song. My vote.
Vs
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me - Nice song but outclassed by the above.

R 4 Match 2
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game. - Wonderfully dark and haunting. My vote.
Vs
The New Radicals - You Get What You Give - Love this song but the above just shades it. It was a tight decision!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Love Will Tear Us Apart - better song.

Wicked Game - love them both, but this is the better.

Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Wicked Game.

Both class songs that are better than the opposition. I do like Kiss Me, but I'm only now realising that You Get What You Give is actually quite an obnoxious song: great music and catchy chorus, but the message behind the lyrics coupled with the video is basically "hey young people, it's ok to be an antisocial dickhead as long as you're not rich". This contest has made it go down in my estimation.

Zaph

Match 1

Love Will Tear Us Apart - absolute classic, and potentially an overall winner

Match 2

Wicked Game - just a far better song

Ficheall

Kiss me is an easy call. Need to give the others a re-listen.

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

Kiss me is an easy call. Need to give the others a re-listen.

Tactically, I feel I should I vote against Wicked Game, because I don't particularly like it and it has a very good chance of winning overall, but the other song is dog****, so Chris Isaak it is :P

sKeith

joy division - love will tare us apart
chris issac - wicked game


great songs that outshine their competition.

Kolido

Joy Division and Cris Isaak advance

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 7 vs 3 Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game. 7 2 The New Radicals - You Get What You Give

Kolido

R 4 Match 3


The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love

Vs

Peter Sarsted - Where do you go to, my lovely

R 4 Match 4


Nena - 99 luftballons.

Vs

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Bye bye Nena, you've had your fun. Far better song.

I'm not pushed on the other match massively but will vote once I listen to both on my lunch

Zaph

Again I have to go with my nominations, so

Match 3

Ever Fallen in Love

Match 4

99 Luftballons

Squall Leonhart

Peter Sarstedt and Chumbawamba

sKeith

Voting for Nena and her 99 luftballoons . loved it as a kid and have yet to outgrow it.

Ficheall

Sastedt, though I won't be devastated if the other gets through.

Nena, because I like it and because tubthumping is awful

Declan A Walsh

R 4 Match 3
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love – Finally, I get to vote on this one! Great punk pop. My vote.
Vs
Peter Sarsted - Where do you go to, my lovely – Dreary love song.

R 4 Match 4
Nena - 99 luftballons. – Not mad about this - it’s just alright. I prefer this German version to the English language version. But tactical voting in this case so… My vote.
Vs
Chumbawamba – Tubthumping- I got fed up with this song a long time ago. It was only marginally better than their follow-up hit Insomnia.

quickbeam

Where Do You Go To, I'm still not sure if I even like it, but it coming up against competition that I definitely dislike so, it keeps getting my vote.

99 Luftbalons, again, not particularly passionate here, but I think it's the better of the two.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love

Voting this as its marginally better.

Not gone on either though tbh and theres better songs already eliminated imo but shure that's democracy

Tell me how

R 4 Match 3 - Peter Sarsted - Where do you go to, my lovely

R 4 Match 4 - Nena - 99 luftballons.

Easy decision x 2

#3 - Ever Fallen In Love

#4 - 99 Luftballons

Not sure either of these will be our winner but they're the better of what's on offer here.

Ever fallen in love

Tubthumping

I prefer both

Rikand

Peter sarstedt- one of my dads all time favourite songs