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I need help compiling a list of two-hit wonders. I'm not looking for literal "hits" though. I care more about the songs' general popularity than whether they charted or not.

Dexy's Midnight Runners is the best example I can think of right now. Most know "Come On Eileen." Many less will know "Geno." Even fewer will know "Burn It Down," and it's likely that those who do own an album or two.

So these are bands who have 2 (or maybe 3) songs that are somewhat easily recognizable by non-fans.

I also just thought of the Knickerbockers, "Lies" and "One Track Mind."

― billstevejim, Friday, 14 November 2003 08:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Knack
"My Sharona", "Good Girls Don't"

Golden Earing
"Radar Love", "Twilight Zone"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 November 2003 08:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

Shocking Blue
"Venus", "Love Buzz"

(apologies to s. mclusky)

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 14 November 2003 08:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

Spin Doctors to thread

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 14 November 2003 08:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

Gregory Abbott
"Shake You Down" and "I Got the Feelin' (It's Over)"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 14 November 2003 08:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sabrina "Hot Girls", "Boys Boys Boys"

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 14 November 2003 09:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

Snap!: "The Power" & "Rhythm is a Dancer"
Culture Beat: "Mr. Vain" & "Got to Get It"
Haddaway: "What Is Love" & "Life"
Radiohead: "Creep" & "Paranoid Android"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 November 2003 09:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

John Otway: Really Free (with Wild Willy Barrett); Bunsen Burner
Orange Juice: Rip It Up; Edwyn Collins (solo): A Girl Like You

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 14 November 2003 09:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Primal Scream - "Loaded" & "Rocks"
The Verve - "Bitter Sweet Symphony" & "Drugs Don't Work"

― daarkbee, Friday, 14 November 2003 09:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

I had a hunch stewart osbourne...

"I wonder if he also sang backing vocals on House of the rising sun" John Otway Bunsen Burner b.side (all listed on the insert...

No I was incorrect. Unless you are Jumbo Osbourne?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 November 2003 10:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

Not guilty, (although I must admit to grinning uncontrollably when I even think about the lines:
"No the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and a trunk"
"That's two thing"
"errr.... two things, right....")

Please note for future reference the complete lack of a "U" in both my first name and surname....

I can only think it must have been my sadistic parents idea of joke: "Hey, I've got a great idea - you know how we've got a surname that everyone spells wrong because they assume it's got a "U" in it? Well let's give the little bastard a first name that everyone spells wrong because they assume it's got a "U" in it too!".

It's no wonder I was such an obnoxious, rebellious child and have developed into such a curmudgeonly old git!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 14 November 2003 11:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Well, I'm in there somewhere (i think I hear my harmony vocal in the left channel). Abbey Road, mate...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 November 2003 11:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

re: Dexy's - more people would know "jackie wilson says" than "geno" at a guess

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 11:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

Don McLean, "American Pie" + "Vincent"

― dave q, Friday, 14 November 2003 11:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, Dexy's have had a few:

1 Geno Mar 1980
7 There There My Dear Jul 1980
16 Show Me Jul 1981
1 Come On Eileen Jul 1982 Notes
5 Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) Oct 1982
17 Let's Get This Straight (From The Start) / Old Dec 1982
20 The Celtic Soul Brothers (More Please Thank You) Apr 1983
13 Because Of You Nov 1986

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 November 2003 11:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo! and C'Mon Kids

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

Pink Floyd: Money; Another Brick In The Wall

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Go West 'We Close Our Eyes' and 'The King Of Wishful Thinking'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Proclaimers 'Letter From America' and '500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

What about those bands which had two hits with the same song? Like...

Reel 2 Real feat. Mad Stuntman: "I Like to Move It" & "Can You Feel It?"

Rednex: "Cotton Eye Joe" & "Old Pop in an Oak"


Also, the new remixes of Snap's "The Power" and "Rhythm Is a Dancer" seem to have become moderate hits in their own right.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Panjabi MC is a bit of a two hit wonder SO FAR

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

Skee-Lo 'I Wish' and 'Top Of The Stairs'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

Go West had a couple more, although smaller.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

none really stand out in the mind as much as those two, which is the point here - except maybe 'Call Me'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Damned: Love Song; Eloise

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Faithful" by Go West was played on the radio a lot in 1992

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tuomas: Rednex later hit with mock-country ballad "Wish You Were Here", a real sappy ballad that nevertheless sounded nothing like their first two hits (the most notable thing about "With You Were Here" is it was the first hit written by Max Martin btw)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Re: The Damned. Those may have been their biggest chart hits, but there are songs from their debut which are generally considered punk classics ("Smash It Up", for instance), so I guess singling out two isn't really correct.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

Black Sabbath - Iron Man and Paranoid?
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take it and I Wanna Rock (BLECH!)
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights and Running Up That Hill (and in later years also to some extent This Woman's Work, though I sure hadn't heard the song until I bought the album)
Turbonegro - Get It On and Fuck The World (and to a much lesser extent also "I got erection", which you'd be hardpressed to find a party in the mid-90s where it wasn't played)
I guess those earlier ones might not have been hits outside of Norway though.
The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park and Lazy Sunday

I'm tempted to say XTC too, but they might've had tons of other hits and I'm just being an ignorant-igor: Making Plans For Nigel, Senses Working Overtime.
Surely there must've been something off Skylarking too? OHhhh, Dear God. Duh!
This might be very screwed, as I try to steer clear of radios and such.

Hrmmm, what about Roxy Music? Most people tend to just think "oh, they did that schmaltzy Jealous guy cover, right?"
Surely they must've had a big hit from Avalon that I can't think of right now.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

it's not worth getting too pedantic about this considering the first suggestions was Dexy's Midnight Runners tho

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Human League aren't that much far from qualifying. At least, "Don't You Want Me" and "Human" are the only major hits. But they had several smaller ones.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

Haircut 100 - "Love Plus One", "Favourite Shirts(boy meets girl)"

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Suzanne Vega - "Tom's Diner," "Luka"
Stray Cats - "Stray Cat Strut," "Rock This Town"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hrmmm, what about Roxy Music? Most people tend to just think "oh, they did that schmaltzy Jealous guy cover, right?"
Surely they must've had a big hit from Avalon that I can't think of right now.

Hm. I would tend to think most people would recognize Roxy Music from the song "More Than This", off of Avalon. There's also the title track from the same album, which I would feel people would bring up more than the "Jealous Guy" cover, and going back to their Seventies Glam-Rock era I think more people would also name "Virginia Plain" or "Street Life". Hm.

Human League aren't that much far from qualifying. At least, "Don't You Want Me" and "Human" are the only major hits. But they had several smaller ones.

"(Keep Feeling) Fascination" was smaller? Really? And what about "Sound Of The Crowd"? Wasn't that the song that got them onto "Top Of The Pops" for the first time or something? Or is my memory totally playing tricks on me? Again, hm.

― Pancakes For Breakfast! (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hey, pancakes: Rock and Roll got them on TOTP First off. (Gary Glitter cover)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

You know, Radiohead is very very inaccurate. What about "Karma Police," "Fake Plastic Trees," "Just," and "There There"? Those are pretty big hits, at least as big as "Paranoid Android." Also, wasn't "Pyramid Song" a UK #1 single?

Oasis are two hit wonders, at least in terms of US pop radio - "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tenpole Tudor - "Swords of 1000 Men", "Wunderbar"
Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy", "Go Wild In The Country"

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm just being an ignorant-igor

I do think it's fabulous that ILX is filling up with people with Scandinavian names who expand the stock of English phrases so fruitily. I shall go and call someone an ignorant igor on another thread right now!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Re: The Damned. Those may have been their biggest chart hits, but there are songs from their debut which are generally considered punk classics ("Smash It Up", for instance), so I guess singling out two isn't really correct."

< sigh > but Geir, we are specifically talking about "hits".

"punk classic" != "hit" (partly of course because "punk classic" + "independent label" = very low sales from chart return shops, but that's another story!)

Few things would make me happier than to be able to tell you that The Damned also had hits with Neat Neat Neat, Problem Child, Don't Cry Wolf, I Just Can't Be Happy Today, The History Of The World, There Ain't No Sanity Clause, The Friday 13th EP, Wait For The Blackout, Lively Arts, Lovely Money, Dozen Girls, Generals, Thanks For The Night, Grimly Fiendish, Shadow Of Love, Is It A Dream, Gigolo, Alone Again Or and In Dulce Decorum....

.... but the simple fact is, they didn't.

In fact the truth is that the only reason Love Song managed to claw it's way into the charts was because Chiswick released it in four different picture sleeves (with a different member of the band on each sleeve) and then released it agin a few weeks later in red vinyl!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also, of course, "Smash It Up" wasn't from them debut, it was from Machine Gune Etiquette, their third album.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

I wonder if the Kings' Beat Goes On/Switch Into Glide counts?

― dlp9001, Friday, 14 November 2003 15:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

Falco: Der Komissar & Rock Me Amadaeus
Men Without Hats: Safety Dance & Pop Goes The World

really, though, I think Golden Earring is the classic example.

― d.w., Friday, 14 November 2003 16:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Falco had considerably more hits than those two. In the UK and US he only hit with "Amadeus" anyway, so you will have to take Germany/Austria/Europe into consideration here. And "Jeanny (Part 1)" in particular was a huge hit in most of Europe.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

Read the question! Not literal hits but the songs people remember.

― rw, Friday, 14 November 2003 16:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, but that still leaves just "Falco"

Daphne & Celeste!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

In the US Falco hit with "Rock Me Amadeus" and "Vienna Calling" at a minimum and MIGHT have also with with "Der Kommisar".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

Talk of "Der Kommissar" reminds me of After The Fire, but I'll be fucked if I can think of another hit song of theirs if they ever had one. Alles Klar Herr Kommissar!

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

no, ATF was stuck at one, I think

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Semisonic? ("Closing Time" + "Singing in My Sleep", there may be others I'm forgetting)

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

Greg Kihn- "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)"+"Jeopardy"
Bobbie Gentry (solo in the US)-"Ode To Billie Joe"+"Fancy"
? & The Mysterions-"96 Tears"+"I Need Somebody"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

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Panjabi MC is a bit of a two hit wonder SO FAR

― stevem (blueski), Friday, November 14, 2003 7:59 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

looool

― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

ha

― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 03:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

two hits are SEVERAL YEARS APART, not to mention...TOP 15, AT LEAST. Which is necessity for REAL two-hit wonders.

Okay, but Dwight Twilley still belongs here, I just realized. Two hits, and two hits only, both peaking as close to Top 15 as you can get without getting there: "I'm On Fire" #16 pop in 1975, then "Girls" #16 pop in 1984. Amazed nobody's mentioned him here before.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://www.onehitwondercenter.com/two/twohit_tz.htm

― Moka, Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

Rick Astley, "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Together Forever", at least in the USA.

Nope -- three other top tens! "It Would Take a Strong, Strong Man," "She Wants to Dance With Me" and the DOA "Cry For Help," which got a lot of airplay in spring '91. "Giving Up on Love" barely made the top 40.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 October 2010 00:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Never realized til now that Janis Ian actually had a third Hot 100 hit, six years after "At Seventeen" -- "Under The Covers," which apparently got to #71 in 1981. Not quite a real hit (also not very good), but it's still cool how she hit the Hot 100 exactly once each in three different decades.

― xhuxk, Friday, 31 August 2012 20:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

I guess her Moroder collab wasn't a hit, but it should have been, as it's awesome!

― Tuomas, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

Apparently Tiffany had two other Top 10 hits after "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been", which both went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Pretty sure most people only remember "I Think We're Alone Now" though.

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 31 August 2012 23:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

I sure remember "I Saw Him Standing There"! That was her best.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:11 (8 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Very close, at least, depending on the definition: The r&b band Skyy. Exactly two Hot 100 hits: "Call Me" #26 1982; "Real Love" #47 1990. Eight years apart.

― xhuxk, Friday, 19 October 2012 20:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

If we're talking about world-wide hits, I think Evelyn "Champagne" King would qualify with "Shame" and "Love Come Down". Besides them, she had a couple of minor charting songs in the US ("I Don't Know If It's Right" reached #23 and "I'm in Love" #40), but I'm pretty sure the big two hits are the only ones people remember now.

― Tuomas, Monday, 22 October 2012 09:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

Didn't Evelyn King do "I'm In Love" as well?

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 22 October 2012 10:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

oh sorry, read that wrong.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 22 October 2012 10:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

although I'm In Love is the only song I recognise by her.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 22 October 2012 10:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

For right now, that "Good Time" song has a chance to generate 2 one hit wonders! Obviously, too early to tell for both Owl City and CRJ but that's the way it is to date.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

er, 2 two hit wonders, of course.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

Andrew W.K. - "Party Hard" and "She is Beautiful"
Dschingis Khan - "Moskau" and "Dschingis Khan"
Fatboy Slim - "The Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise You"; I know he's had other singles but they weren't big like those two were they?
Gary Numan - "Are Friends Electric?", "Cards"
The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump" and "Peaches"
Soul Coughing - "Circles and "Super Bon Bon"

― frogbs, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Are Friends Electric?" was by Tubeway Army

"Cards" was by Snap

― Mark G, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

Tubeway Army and Numan were basically one and the same though. The same band played on TPP didn't they?

― frogbs, Monday, 22 October 2012 14:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

In popular memory, though not chart performance, Fine Young Cannibals qualify in the US. I see from Wikipedia that "Don't Look Back" hit #11, but I don't think I've ever heard it whereas "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing" are both pretty universal.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 15:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

oh def. "Don't Look Back" is so awesome though. I'd trade "Good Thing" for it any day.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 October 2012 15:25 (7 months ago) Permalink

I thought Crazy Frog would be this, but he's had at least three hits.

― Siegbran, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

Everyhit says five.

Does anyone remember "We are the Champions" ? I don't!

― Mark G, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:39 (7 months ago) Permalink

I think it went ring ding ding ding ring ding ding

― Siegbran, Monday, 22 October 2012 16:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

five hit singles, one top ten album, another lower down and that difficult third album!

― Mark G, Monday, 22 October 2012 18:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

Fatboy Slim - "The Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise You"; I know he's had other singles but they weren't big like those two were they?

"Right Here, Right Now" was just as big a hit as the other two, and still gets played today. I think it's pretty popular in sports events, for example, because of the anthemic sound; it was one of the two songs he played in his London Olympics performance. ("Gangster Trippin'" was also a big hit after "Rockafeller Skank", but that one seems to get less play these days.)

Also, before Fatboy Slim Norman Cook had already had two hits under other pseudonyms: "Dub Be Good to Me" (#1 on the UK singles chart), and "Magic Carpet Ride" (#24).

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 10:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

Fatboy Slim has a lot more well-known songs in the UK than just those two.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

In popular memory, though not chart performance, Fine Young Cannibals qualify in the US. I see from Wikipedia that "Don't Look Back" hit #11, but I don't think I've ever heard it whereas "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing" are both pretty universal.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No Johnny Come Home?

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

Also, before Fatboy Slim Norman Cook had already had two hits under other pseudonyms: "Dub Be Good to Me" (#1 on the UK singles chart), and "Magic Carpet Ride" (#24).

he had another #1 in 1986 too yo

― set the controls for the arse of your mum (sic), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

had no idea about "Right Here, Right Now", kinda thought that had become famous after the fact - as for "Gangster Trippin" I know the video played quite a bit here but I don't think anyone recognizes it now

― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

No Johnny Come Home?

Not a hit in the US (#76).

― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

in the UK, "Rockafeller Skank" was the lowest-charting single off of You've Come A Long Way, Baby (of those that made the charts; one didn't)

also because I am old, I always default to "Everybody Needs a 303" and "Going Out Of My Head" as the go-to FS singles even though they weren't as massive

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

Also, FBS remixes like Brimful Of Asha and Body Movin' charted on their own.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yeah no way FBS is a 2 hit wonder.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

his "Renegade Master" remix charted too, right?

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

I can't remember gangster tripping at all

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

maybe not in UK. in US I don't think anyone remembers much outside those two unless you count stuff like "Brimful of Asha".

― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

I like "Gangster Trippin'" a LOT more than "Rockafeller Skank"

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

Which one did Walken dance in the video for? That was awesome.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Weapon of Choice", a song very clearly outshined by its video

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

The Cardigans are another really clear example of this, at least in the US ("Lovefool" and "My Favorite Game").

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

the Walken vid was really FBS's only visible moment after 1998 around here. other than "oh my God Palookaville is awful"

― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:39 (7 months ago) Permalink

Carnival, Ma Favourite Game, Burning Down The House?

― Siegbran, Thursday, 25 October 2012 06:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

Another Bad Creation

― suggest butt (Pillbox), Thursday, 25 October 2012 09:31 (7 months ago) Permalink

The Cardigans are another really clear example of this, at least in the US ("Lovefool" and "My Favorite Game").

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:38 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

UK had Erase/Rewind and Rise & Shine.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 25 October 2012 09:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, "Erase/Rewind" was pretty big in here too, I remember it much better than "My Favourite Game".

― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 October 2012 09:40 (7 months ago) Permalink

In fact, looking at the chart placements, looks like "Erase/Rewind" was as big a hit as "My Favourite Game" almost every else except in the US.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 October 2012 09:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

Wonder why?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 October 2012 09:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

I don't know why "Erase/Rewind" didn't hit in the US because it's a pretty awesome song. I think I voted for it in the Cardigans singles poll.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:56 (7 months ago) Permalink

You know what should have been bigger than anything else off Gran Turismo? Hanging Around - always thought that was the highlight of that record.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 25 October 2012 11:00 (7 months ago) Permalink


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