So what do you think the best one-hit wonder band song is?

[drinkmorejava]

Funny, I was just thinking today if semisonic had another other good songs, but JustAnAverageGuy, Five for Fighting, Lifehouse, and Jimmy Eat World have definitely had more than one.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Are we talking about bands that only had one memorable\famous\semi-popular song?

Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
ATC - All Around the World
Europe - Final Countdown
Default - Wasting my Time
Five for Fighting - It's Not Easy to be me
Fountains of Wayne - Stacey's Mom
Haddaway - What is Love?
Semisonic - Closing Time
Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Jimmy Eat World - In the Middle
Tatu - All the Things She Said

/just skimming through mp3 library.

Best? Probably Lifehouse, Vertical Horizon, or Semisonic

Lifehouse, a one-hit wonder? Are you sh!tting me? Maybe you should check out there recent "You and Me" single from their latest album in 2005 and where it peaked on the charts. Of course, maybe I'm a bit biased, because I love me some Lifehouse.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez

Originally posted by: sniperruff
Cars

gary numan ftw

lol he was a one hit wonder? i bought every album as they came out since 1980! :shocked:

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Are we talking about bands that only had one memorable\famous\semi-popular song?

Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
ATC - All Around the World
Europe - Final Countdown
Default - Wasting my Time
Five for Fighting - It's Not Easy to be me
Fountains of Wayne - Stacey's Mom
Haddaway - What is Love?
Semisonic - Closing Time
Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Jimmy Eat World - In the Middle
Tatu - All the Things She Said

/just skimming through mp3 library.

Best? Probably Lifehouse, Vertical Horizon, or Semisonic

Man, do you really suck at coming up with one hit wonders.

Europe - Carrie
" "- Superstitious
Tatu - Not Gonna Get Us
Five for Fighting - 100 years

 

[BW86]

Frijid Pink - House of the Rising Sun
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky

 

[Scarpozzi]

Didn't Kelly Osborne have a hit....oh wait...she was just covering a Madonna Song....my bad.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Hells Bells.

 

[Away]

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

 

[DrPizza]

Did a little research... A Ha's "Take on me" was #1 in the U.S. They had one other song that hit 20 in the U.S., but the band continued to be very popular in Europe, with one of their hits reaching #1 in Britain. (I heard it on the radio on the way home and remembered that song!)

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Take that back, or deserve punishment.

I dated a bartender named Eileen while that song was popular. I've already been punished enough.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Taggart
Come On Eileen

Dexy's Midnight Runners

My vote too.

BTW, Semisonic had other hits, like Going to the Movies and that song from "10 Things I Hate About You".

Not to mention Fascinating Thing.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Evadman
What was the band that sang 'do it like they do on the discovery channel' whatever it was?

<edit>
bloodhound gang.

They also had Fire, Water, Burn a few years earlier that got a lot of radio play.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Taggart
Come On Eileen

Dexy's Midnight Runners

My vote too.

BTW, Semisonic had other hits, like Going to the Movies and that song from "10 Things I Hate About You".

Not to mention Fascinating Thing.

they didn't in Aus

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Taggart
Come On Eileen

Dexy's Midnight Runners

My vote too.

BTW, Semisonic had other hits, like Going to the Movies and that song from "10 Things I Hate About You".

Not to mention Fascinating Thing.

they didn't in Aus

Guess I didn't realize we were limiting ourselves to backwater holes

 

[Tom]

My pick as the best-

Spirit in the Sky

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Taggart
Come On Eileen

Dexy's Midnight Runners

My vote too.

BTW, Semisonic had other hits, like Going to the Movies and that song from "10 Things I Hate About You".

Not to mention Fascinating Thing.

they didn't in Aus

Guess I didn't realize we were limiting ourselves to backwater holes

ban!

I've never even heard of those songs, but i still hear Closing Time at the pub/club most nights...

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: dug777
I've never even heard of those songs, but i still hear Closing Time at the pub/club most nights...

At least check out Fascinating Thing. I saw them live in Atlanta, they were pretty decent.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Sprung Monkey - Get Em Outta Here

good song

 

[2Xtreme21]

Faith No More - Epic

 

[SSP]

I'd like to add:

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

I liked that song, way back then. What happened to that guy?

 

[zoiks]

'Closing Time' is such a lame song.

 

[Iron Woode]

several so-called one hit wonders posted here have had more than 1 charted song.

here are some really serious one hit wonders:

Paul lekakis
Baltimora
Pseudo Echo
Company B
Betty Boo
Berlin

 

[nakedfrog]

Deadeye Dick - Mary Moon
:music:
She don't eat meat, but she sure like the bone
:music:

 

[Toasthead]

Semisonic isnt a one hit wonder.

 

[KLin]

Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus



Just kidding .