80s "omg I loved that one" one hit wonders mix tape thread

for the longest time I thought Everything But The Girl and Boy Meets Girl were the same band

66. Trio - Da Da Da

I guess they probably had more hits in Germany, and this probably wasn't even a hit until years later in the US thanks to a VW ad. I'm retroactively including it, though.

YES YES YES YES YES YES

67. Opus - Live Is Life

68. Laid Back - "White Horse"

I don't know that Opus song at all.

69. Kim Wilde - Keep My Hanging On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8j2ej5jqQw

for longest time I didn't hear the word "don't" in the lyrics

I thought it was "If you wanna ride/Then ride the white horse"

my parents were... concerned

re: Kim Wilde..."Kids in America" definitely put her on the map a few years beforehand.

70. Taco - Puttin on the Ritz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_W5QnO5UGk

71. Katrina and the Waves - Walkin on Sunshine

by the way, did you know there was a Taylor Swift song called "White Horse"

I am never listening to it so that I can claim it's a cover

ah, yeah, Kids In America. I associate that song with Kids Incorporated for some reason.

72. Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDccgakPvo

I wish Bananarama had never released "Venus" so I could put "Cruel Summer" on this list.

73. Noel - Silent Morning

Banarama had 10 top tens over here!

74. It Bites - Calling All the Heroes

75. Dino - Summergirls

(mining the Freestlye genre now)

I'd never heard Silent Morning before, but wau I love it.

Silent Morning got played next to True Faith a bunch back when I used to ride in the back seat of my parents car.

OMG I just realized that "Pump Up the Volume" totally counts here. So...

76. M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up the Volume

77. Double - The Captain of Her Heart

<3

yesss

oh shit! forgot all about that song. there's a recent song that sampled/replayed that opening and now it's going to drive me crazy trying to track it down.

Massive xposts , but Men At Work had a handful of hits.

78. Rebbie Jackson - "Centipede"

http://youtu.be/a8SdzwoIcwo

UGH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8SdzwoIcwo

79. Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc8wmLul3uw

xp: lol, itt etc 79. Gregory Abbot - Shake You Down

uncanny

80. Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Love Come Down

BA DUM DUM...really surprised it took us 80 songs before anyone thought of this

81. Stacey Q - Two of Hearts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aINmJ5ieM6Y

82. The Escape Club - Wild Wild West

also I heard Tarzan Boy recently for the first time in about 20 years, has not aged well at all

has not aged well at all

GTFO

Johnny, I played Two of Hearts and thought about posting it but didn't.

I want to put

83. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

but I think that only counts in certain countries (also I have five of his albums so)

I will be turning this into a CDR700 btw.

xp Rock Me Amadeus already accounted for fwiw

Rock Me Amadeus is a weird one too because there are about 40 different mixes/edits to pick from.

also there's "Vienna Calling" and "Der Kommisar" to consider

I don't know that Opus song at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vashrNoXTE

ah, I even did a text search for "falco", oh well

also there's "Vienna Calling" and "Der Kommisar" to consider

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This is when the whole one-hit-wonder thing gets murky imo (and why I was hesitant to put Falco (which is annulled now anyway coz frogsbs beat me to it))

83. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

83. The Firm - Star Trekkin'

84. Stacy Lattisaw - Attack of the Name Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvB0rn4SPpg

not one hit wonders in other incarnations, but...

85. The Assembly - Never Never

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIJc4Hx3OVc

not one hit wonders in other incarnations, but...

86. Colourfield, Thinking of You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL66n6icM2g

87. johnny hates jazz - shattered dreams

not one hit wonders in an other incarnation, but...

88. Big Audio Dynamite, E=MC^2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTDkJ-bQqM

89. Rock Steady Crew - (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew

also I heard Tarzan Boy recently for the first time in about 20 years, has not aged well at all

this is patent nonsense