Here are a few that come to mind:
Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Shake You Down (Gregory Abbot)
Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Georgia Satellites)
Come On Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister)
Yes, mine have an 80's slant to them...it's the music of my youth.
Runnin Through My Head-TATU
*****-Meredith Brooks(?)
Space Lord-Monster Magnet (a very underrated band)
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Technically, wouldn't "Touch of Grey" by the Grateful Dead be a one-hit wonder?
Probably not may favorite, but I like the Dead..
Blind Melon
Kajagoogoo (spelling?)
Men at Work (OK, maybe a 2 hit wonder)
Zebra (anyone remember them?)
Just from the 80's:
Gary Numan - Cars
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
On the Loose - Saga
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Just Got Lucky - JoBoxers
Curly Shuffle - Jump In The Saddle Band
Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth
Radioactive - The Firm
Runnin Up That Hill - Kate Bush
19 - Paul Hardcastle
The Rain - Oran "juice" Jones
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Foxx
Pump Up the Volume - M/A/R/R/S
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
The Ballad of Jayne - L.A. Guns
Iko, Iko - The Belle Stars
Bang - Gorky Park
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
90's:
No Myth - Michael Penn
Just a Friend - Biz Markie
Mentirosa - Mellow Man Ace
Hippychick - SOHO
Kiss Them for Me - Siousie and the Banshees
Pop Goes the Weasel - 3rd Bass
Walkin In Memphis - Marc Cohn
Ditty - Paperboy
Rump Shaker - Wrecks in Effect
Jump Around - House of Pain
I Got a Man - Positive K
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
I Wish - Skee Lo
River of Deceit - Mad Season
Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
Closing Time - Semisonic
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
Greenmind - Dink
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
Fastball - The Way
Nada Surf - Popular
Beloved - Come Together
Posting these off a cd I have in front of me
Go Gators!
Hey - got to take issue with the Oils being a one hit wonder. Maybe in the US but they are the 80's equivalent of AC/DC in Oz.
Didn't Kate Bush also sing the Power of Love from the 80's.
Everytime I hear one hit wonder I think of Fairground Attraction - hopeless song but it just sings out as being a one hit wonder. The kiss of death in the 80's was being on the best of or hot hits albums for the year.
"You Don't Want Me Anymore" - Steele Breeze
"3 Strange Days" - School of Fish
"Church of Logic, Sin, & Love" - the Men
"What's Up" - Four Non-Blondes (EDIT : I see now this was included by RL above - my bad)
I apologize in advance if my "recent unhipness" has caused me to miss a 2nd true hit (or more!) by any of these artists.
"I'm virtually free to do whatever I want, but I try to remember so is everybody else..." - Todd Snider
Some older stuff:
Spirit In the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
O-o-h Child - Five Stairsteps
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede
Magic - Pilot
Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
Pop Musik - M
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
"I don't like Mondays" - The Boomtown Rats
School's out. What did you expect?
Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth
Come One Eileen - Dixie's Midnight Runners
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Come Baby Come - K7
Jump Around - House of Pain
Children's Story - Slick Rick
Cantaloop - US3
Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-Lot
Jesse's Girl - Rick Springfield
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
School's out. What did you expect?
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Godfathers- "Birth, School, Work, Death"
Caulfields- "Devil's Diary"
Not really truly hits, but let's see if you've heard of 'em.
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