Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song - Live Thread

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

Haven't counted yet, but Baker Street if it still matters

Okay, have just woken up, so was catching up on the thread. Seems reason is essential, so:
Sax, obviously.
Gerry Rafferty is hugely underrated in general; maybe the win would encourage people to check out his other stuff.
The lyrics in this are better.

Don't fear the reaper is still great though.

Tell me how

Final

Gerry Raferty - Baker Street iconic, because of that sax solo. Omackerals clip from the Simpsons depicts just how versatile it is and why everyone recognizes those notes. Thing is, is that why its famous, more so than the entire song?

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper This song is a home cooked roast chicken dinner after a steaming shower at the end of a long week. It just feels good. It's a comfort blanket of a song which allows you to pull it around your ears and forget about your troubles for a few minutes. Although, that seems to be a young Jose Mourinho in the screen grab from the video.


Hmmm.........


For me,..........Blue Oyster Cult.......just.
(winner winner, chicken dinner)

This song is a home cooked roast chicken dinner after a steaming shower at the end of a long week.

What a way to describe a song. Love it!

LadySkunk

Baker Street - Way catchier and upbeat than Don’t Fear the Reaper

Ficheall

I make that 12-11..

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

I make that 12-11..

Nope 11-10. Good job I didn't study maths.

Also - Nena for third place.

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

Nope 11-10.

Nope. Sigh.

Tammy!

Declan A Walsh

Ficheall wrote: »

Nope 11-10. Good job I didn't study maths.

Also - Nena for third place.

There is no third place in this contest, I hope!

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

Nope. Sigh.

So.. an 11-11 tie?
I'll just wait for kolido to count. Back to the edge of my seat.

quickbeam

I'm getting 11-11 too.

Irish Aris

Ficheall wrote: »

Nope 11-10. Good job I didn't study maths.

Also - Nena for third place.

I second that motion!!

For the final I will vote for Don't Fear The Reaper, because I liked teh cover version that Apollo 440 did in the 90's. Lame reason, I know. . .:D

Ficheall

Irish Aris wrote: »

I second that motion!!

For the final I will vote for Don't Fear The Reaper, because I liked teh cover version that Apollo 440 did in the 90's. Lame reason, I know. . .:D

Hmm.. well after the deadline, but it was a tie... Controversial..

Tell me how

Ficheall wrote: »

Hmm.. well after the deadline, but it was a tie... Controversial..

No, to be fair, it was after the deadline.
Others may have read and not posted given the time.

Kolido

After a week long search for the Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder, here is your winner;

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper.

Final Scores

BOC - Don't Fear The Reaper 12 - 11 Gerry Raferty - Baker Street

Necro

NEEDS MORE COWBELL

Kolido

Thanks to everyone for joining in the fun, I didn't expect this to take a week but I've had great fun, hope everyone else did.

Stay tuned to Forum Games, Quickbeam will be along shortly with the next contest.

Electric Nitwit

Great effort Kolido, thanks for all your hard work!

A worthy winner in my eyes (and ears)

Tammy!

Thanks Kolido!

Kolido you’ve done an amazing job! Lots of work running something like this.

Well done you, take a bow!

Woohoo Don’t fear the reaper won! Who nominated it?

Pretzill

Thanks Kolido - a Worthy Winner.

And the song is good too :P

Also Starring LeVar Burton

A Worthy Winner!

Thanks Kolido!

Electric Nitwit

Kolido wrote: »

Quickbeam will be along shortly with the next contest.

OHWs again? If so I'm ready...

Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
Stiltskin - Inside
Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh)
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Idina Menzel - Let It Go
Kris Kross - Jump
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky
The Knack - My Sharona
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
White Town - Your Woman
Babybird - You're Gorgeous
Anita Ward - Ring my Bell
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
Fountains of Wayne - Stacey's Mom
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
The Bravery - Honest Mistake
The Fray - How To Save A Life
Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall
Joe Dulce - Shaddap Your Face
Wannadies - You and Me Song
Caesars - Jerk It Out
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime
All 4 One - I Swear
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)
Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo!
McAlmont & Butler - Yes
James Bay - Hold Back The River
Drenchill - Freed From Desire
Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour

Mam of 4

Thanks Kolido , great show !

And lots of forgotten music to enjoy again , bonus

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote:

OHWs again? If so I'm ready...

You forgot T-Spoon Sex on the Beach

Woah eh oh eh oh!!!

Possibly for the best mind

Well done Kol super effort, sorry I missed today I would have voted for dont fear the reaper also

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

You forgot T-Spoon Sex on the Beach

Woah eh oh eh oh!!!

Possibly for the best mind

sKeith

Thanks kolido, it's been a fun journey.

quickbeam

Great song in fairness. Good work Kol.

So what got nominated? What were the seeds? What were the wildcards? I want stats

Declan A Walsh

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OHWs again? If so I'm ready...

Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
Stiltskin - Inside
Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh)
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Idina Menzel - Let It Go
Kris Kross - Jump
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky
The Knack - My Sharona
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
White Town - Your Woman
Babybird - You're Gorgeous
Anita Ward - Ring my Bell
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
Fountains of Wayne - Stacey's Mom
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
The Bravery - Honest Mistake
The Fray - How To Save A Life
Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall
Joe Dulce - Shaddap Your Face
Wannadies - You and Me Song
Caesars - Jerk It Out
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime
All 4 One - I Swear
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)
Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo!
McAlmont & Butler - Yes
James Bay - Hold Back The River
Drenchill - Freed From Desire
Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour

Depends on your definition of OHW. If your definition is no more than one Top 40 hit in the UK and the US, than at least three of the above are not OHWs. They are highlighted. My favourite song by Journey, for example, is Who's Crying Now which was a hit for them in the US and gets plenty of airplay. The Buzzcocks had a number of Top 40 hits in the UK, for example.

quickbeam

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OHWs again? If so I'm ready...


Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Joe Dulce - Shaddap Your Face

My two favs from that list. Two very different songs.

Are you gonna try host one Declan?

Kolido

quickbeam wrote: »

Great song in fairness. Good work Kol.

So what got nominated? What were the seeds? What were the wildcards? I want stats

Number of nominations in brackets

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (3)
The Vapors - Turning Japanese (3)
Nena - 99 luftballons (2)
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (2)
Cutting Crew - I just Died In Your Arms Tonight (2)
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's (2)
Gotye - somebody that I used to know (2)
Los Del Rio - Macarena (2)
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats (2)
The La's - There She Goes (2)
Chesney Hawkes - You and Only (2)
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (2)
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game. (2)
Toni Basil - Mickey (2)
The New Radicals - You Get What You Give (2)
Afroman - Because I Got High
Aloe black - I need a dollar
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear The Reaper
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA
Charles and Eddy - Would I Lie To You
Chaz and Dave - Snooker loopy
Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Eddie Cooley & The Dimples - Priscilla
Eiffel 65 - Blue
Furniture - You Must Be Out Of Your Brilliant Mind
Gary Jules and Michael Andrews - Mad World
Gerardo - Rico Suave
Gerry Raferty - Baker Street
Glenn Mederios - Nothings Gonna change my love for you
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Kansas-Dust In The Wind
Kung Fu fighting - Carl douglas
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Lou Bega - Mambo No.5
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis
Marcy Playground-Sex And Candy
Mark Owen-Clementine
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Modern Talking - Brother Louie
Olive - You're Not Alone
O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei
Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie
Peter Sarsted - Where do you go to, my lovely
Randy van Warmer - Just When I Needed You Most
Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie
Robin Beck - First Time
Rubber bandits - horse outside
Scorpions - Wind of Change
Seether - broken
Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
Stone sour - bother
Swing Out Sister - Breakout
The Archies - Sugar Sugar
The Bluebells - Young at Heart
The Bluetones - Slight return
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
The Firm - Star Trekkin'
The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
The Primitives – Crash
The Proclaimers - 500 miles
Tom Robinson Band - 2‐4‐6‐8 Motorway
Truth Hurts - Addictive
Yello - oh yeah
Europe - The Final Countdown
Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything
John Waite - Missing You
Unkle Kracker - Follow Me
Sugar Ray - Every Morning
Touch and Go - Would you?
Semisonic Closing time
Eric Idle - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
Tal Bachman - She's So High
Crazytown - Butterfly
Dee-Lite-Groove Is In The Heart
Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Godley and Creme - Cry
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Anúna and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Riverdance
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Jennifer Paige - Crush
Dario G - Sunchyme
Mr President - Coco Jamboo
Glorious - Andreas Johnson
Alannah Myles - Black velvet
5th dimension - let the sunshine in

WildCards

Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
4 Non-Blondes - What's Up
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Snow - Informer
Phil Oakley - Together in Electric Dreams
Billie Myers - Kiss The Rain
Michael Sembello – Maniac
The Calling - Wherever You will Go
Republica – Ready To Go
Big Mountain - Baby I love Your Way
Macy Gray – I Try
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall
Crash Test Dummies - Mmmmmmm
House Of Pain - Jump Around
OMC - How Bizarre
Flying Pickets - Only You
Run DMC v Jason Nevin - It's Like That
Jennifer Rush - The Power Of Love
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Five For Fighting - Superman It's Not easy
Jane Weidlin - Rush Hour
Hazen Dean - Who's Leaving Who
LFO - Summer Girls
O Town - All Or Nothing
Tatu - All The Things She Said
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
Maria McKey - Show Me Heaven
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Suzanne Vega - Luka

Irish Aris

Thank you very much Kolido!!!

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OHWs again? If so I'm ready...

Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
Stiltskin - Inside
Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh)
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Idina Menzel - Let It Go
Kris Kross - Jump
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky
The Knack - My Sharona
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
White Town - Your Woman
Babybird - You're Gorgeous
Anita Ward - Ring my Bell
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
Fountains of Wayne - Stacey's Mom
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
The Bravery - Honest Mistake
The Fray - How To Save A Life
Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall
Joe Dulce - Shaddap Your Face
Wannadies - You and Me Song
Caesars - Jerk It Out
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime
All 4 One - I Swear
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)
Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo!
McAlmont & Butler - Yes
James Bay - Hold Back The River
Drenchill - Freed From Desire
Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour

I would have nominated Your Woman if I didn't think it had already been nominated.

I did think of You're Gorgeous, Ring My Bell, Stay, Je T'aime... and Everybody's Free To wear Sunscreen after the event, would have been happy to see any of those submitted. And Sex on the Beach too!

A few more that may have qualified:
Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever (still gets quite a bit of radio play)

Fiona Apple - Criminal (she has a lot of great songs but this was her only hit in the US)

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (awesome guilty pleasure)

Tweet - Oops, Oh My (because two songs about masturbation just wasn't enough!)

And just for lolz: Doop - Doop.

Can You Dig It, You and Me Song and An Honest Mistake are great shouts, had forgotten about them.

Very surprised nobody went for My Sharona or Don't Stop Believing (though I hate the latter so that's a good thing!)

Electric Nitwit

Kolido wrote: »

Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear The Reaper
Gerry Raferty - Baker Street

Wow, the two finalists only had one nomination each!

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (awesome guilty pleasure)

Great tune!

[Deleted User] wrote: »

And just for lolz: Doop - Doop.

Ha ha, I did think of that but thought people would look at me funny

Necro

Deleted User wrote:

Very surprised nobody went for My Sharona or Don't Stop Believing (though I hate the latter so that's a good thing!)

I'm glad Journey didnt make the cut as it might have walked it and I'd have another reason to hate it, it's just soooooo overplayed.

Gimme Macarena any day, at least you only here that nowadays when you're half cut!

Irish Aris

Nice to see that 3 of my 5 nominations (Cutting Crew, A Flock of Seagulls and Toni Basil) were also nominated by someone else!!!

Spook_ie

Great competition Kolido, wish I'd been around more for some of the votes, though once Riverdance was knocked out it lost all meaning to me

Declan A Walsh

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Are you gonna try host one Declan?

If I was doing this lark full-time, I would consider it. But I have to work and do my life stuff!

Necro wrote: »

I'm glad Journey didnt make the cut as it might have walked it and I'd have another reason to hate it, it's just soooooo overplayed.

Gimme Macarena any day, at least you only here that nowadays when you're half cut!

Journey have had a number of hits, particularly in the US. I can't stand Don't Stop Believing, but I really like Who's Crying Now. Another song I have heard played on Radio Nova, in particular, is Anyway You Want It. They were around before and after singer Steve Perry, but it was mainly during his tenure that they had hit singles.

As I say, I would not be in a position to host such an exercise. My suggestion for what it's worth is an act who only had one Top 40 hit in the UK OR one Top 50 hit in the US. Remember it's a big deal to reach the "Hot 100" in the States. So in my scenario, they could be a OHW in either country.

Electric Nitwit

Irish Aris wrote: »

For the final I will vote for Don't Fear The Reaper, because I liked teh cover version that Apollo 440 did in the 90's

I'd never heard this, and I loved Apollo 440 back in the day. Just listened now and, well, it's terrible... but I love it

Edit, I thought it had finished but it's still going. It's getting better and better!

Tammy!

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I would have nominated Your Woman if I didn't think it had already been nominated.

I did think of You're Gorgeous)

I love You're Gorgeous. I had it on single and the second song was another slightly tweaked version called You're Gorgeous Too. Could never find it on youtube but just found it there!! I think it's such a nice version, makes you appreciate the original...

Zaph

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Very surprised nobody went for My Sharona or Don't Stop Believing (though I hate the latter so that's a good thing!)

I considered My Sharona, but I had too many others ahead of it. Journey had a heap of hits in the US so they wouldn't have qualified.

Thanks again for running a great game Kolido, I really enjoyed it.

Kolido

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

If I was doing this lark full-time, I would consider it. But I have to work and do my life stuff!



Journey have had a number of hits, particularly in the US. I can't stand Don't Stop Believing, but I really like Who's Crying Now. Another song I have heard played on Radio Nova, in particular, is Anyway You Want It. They were around before and after singer Steve Perry, but it was mainly during his tenure that they had hit singles.

As I say, I would not be in a position to host such an exercise. My suggestion for what it's worth is an act who only had one Top 40 hit in the UK OR one Top 50 hit in the US. Remember it's a big deal to reach the "Hot 100" in the States. So in my scenario, they could be a OHW in either country.

I had thought of this after we started and in hindsight might have been a better idea. Finding a genuine ohw in both countries is difficult, in either country would have been much easier.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Irish Aris wrote: »

Nice to see that 3 of my 5 nominations (Cutting Crew, A Flock of Seagulls and Toni Basil) were also nominated by someone else!!!

We must have silimar enough tastes - I was the other Cutting Crew and Flock of Seagulls nominator...

Declan A Walsh

Irish Aris wrote: »

Nice to see that 3 of my 5 nominations (Cutting Crew, A Flock of Seagulls and Toni Basil) were also nominated by someone else!!!

If it had been based on only one hit in the Top 40, Cutting Crew and A Flock of Seagulls would not have been eligible! Incidentally, I always associated Cutting Crew with two songs anyway, the other being Been In Love Before. Also, but irrelevant, A Flock of Seagulls' I Ran was a big hit in the US, but only got to #43 in the UK. Wishing (If I had a Photograph of You) was their biggest UK hit, reaching #10, and does get a bit of airplay.

I Ran was a song I didn't know before the contest - I only knew Flock of Seagulls as a haircut! That and Crash by the Primitives were my favourite "discoveries" from this thread.

Irish Aris

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

If it had been based on only one hit in the Top 40, Cutting Crew and A Flock of Seagulls would not have been eligible! Incidentally, I always associated Cutting Crew with two songs anyway, the other being Been In Love Before. Also, but irrelevant, A Flock of Seagulls' I Ran was a big hit in the US, but only got to #43 in the UK. Wishing (If I had a Photograph of You) was their biggest UK hit, reaching #10, and does get a bit of airplay.

good point. In some cases I had to google artists and make sure that they met the criteria that Kolido set. One of the songs that came to my head was Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance but I instinctively new that it was borderline - and it was, she had 4 or 5 top hits.
As for A Flock of Seagulls, both great songs. I just checked the PM I sent to Kolido and I mentioned both songs and that I would be ok with either of them. I guess since LeVar Burton also nominated I ran it made more sense to have only one song from them.

Declan A Walsh

Irish Aris wrote: »

good point. In some cases I had to google artists and make sure that they met the criteria that Kolido set. One of the songs that came to my head was Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance but I instinctively new that it was borderline - and it was, she had 4 or 5 top hits.
As for A Flock of Seagulls, both great songs. I just checked the PM I sent to Kolido and I mentioned both songs and that I would be ok with either of them. I guess since LeVar Burton also nominated I ran it made more sense to have only one song from them.

One of the rules for this thread was that the artist is particularly associated with one song!

quickbeam

Anyone wanna admit to their noms? These were mine. I couldn't think of a sixth in time once the number was increased from five:

Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis
Scorpions - Wind of Change
The Bluebells - Young at Heart
The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
Tom Robinson Band - 2‐4‐6‐8 Motorway

The find of the competition for me was The Safety Dance. Of course I'd heard of it before, but I'd never given it much attention. I now think it's brilliant, the video is a hoot, and I've the hots for the lead singer, who even still continues to look pretty good - yes, I Googled.