lol yes we have, in the first post of this thread /facepalm
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the "16 years old" part is ew creepy but damn I really love Benny Mardones "Into The Night"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw&sns=em
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Grayson Hugh "Talk It Over"
I posted that somewhere upthread, but I just wanted to point out that I love it too. Let's hang out and listen to records, VG!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 May 2011 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
When he slummed as a terrible pop music critic, Leonard Pitts, Jr. used to promote Grayson Hugh as one of the great underrated artists of our time.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 May 2011 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, here we are:
Hugh's third album Road to Freedom (MCA Records, 1992) was voted "one of the year's top-ten albums" by Billboard Magazine and received rave reviews. Leonard Pitts, Jr. of the Miami Herald said: "Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No."[1]
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 May 2011 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, in the last decade. That's a big call.
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 8 May 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Charlie Sexton mentioned yet?
― Kim, Sunday, 8 May 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QPBzAJ_io
― MarkoP, Sunday, 8 May 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 Charlie
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 8 May 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"Talk It Over" is such a blatant ripoff of "Come and Get Your Love" that I can't believe Redbone didn't sue.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 9 May 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
for Charlie i meant Beat's So Lonely of course, but perhaps Impressed charted well too.in any case it has probably the most archetypal video of a certain 80s vibe (that i can't quite quantify otherwise)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOJWVB2sYpo&feature=relmfu
― Kim, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 9 May 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, you could cut a steak with Sexton's cheekbones.
Also: all his songs have that thud-thud-thud.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSv3kSK41Oo
― Kim, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ for JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky, Grayson Hugh - Talk It Over, and The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Alot of new-wavey one-hit-wonders I thought of had their one hit in 1979 so don't count, darn.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
God... Charlie was one of my top 5 pinup guys. Forgot those lips! Damn. He was like a hotter, taller Roland S Howard. Slightly goth :D
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Face to Face: "10, 9, 8"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmp9kxNZwN8
Bouregois Tagg: "I Don't Mind At All"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUDMeIEMMI
― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
er, Bourgeois
― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMg2keerNHo
― Captain Hyrax (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Was that a hit in the US? Cause it wasn't even their biggest hit in Canada. That would probably be "It Doesn't Really Matter" or "Crying Over You" or "Situation Critical".
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone mention Starpoint's "Object of My Desire"?
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, it cracked the Hot 100 at #82, and that was all she wrote. Growing up in Lake County, OH gave me a lot of exposure to bands from Canada that didn't get much attention here, mostly via radio station CKLW-AM but also there was some music video show that was carried on our cable provider at the time. So I saw/heard plenty of Platinum Blonde, Gowan, Luba, Bruce Cockburn, Blue Rodeo, Doucette, Red Rider, …
― Captain Hyrax (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
You all are killing me! Bourgeois Tagg... totally forgotten that band/song, which was excellent.
Luba had at least one minor American hit - "Let It Go" - I was surprised when I found out she was big in Canada.
I have no idea what Joe Jackson is doing on this list. He had lots of hits - "Is She Really Going Out With Him", "Stepping Out", "Breaking Us In Two" (great song, even though it only nicked the charts), "You Can't Get What You Want", "Right And Wrong". Note - I'm not sure of their chart positions, I just know they were frequently played on mainstream radio).
Eric Carmen and Jermaine Jackson (unfortunately) not one hit wonders.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Burning The Ground posted a great rip of the Boy's Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy 12". Interesting information included: track was signed by Paul Oakenfold!
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Krush - House Arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61rFY4VPADE
― JasonC, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzYu88jIDYs
― JasonC, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJsck5oDCuw&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXcwHBF38aFRSW9qKNrDq0tV&index=5
― andrew m., Friday, 10 June 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlQ8t71r1K4#1 in UK and most of Europe, top 20 in the US. She had a second minor hit in the UK but that's all. Massive in Italy though.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Friday, 10 June 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost. Wikipedia says After 7 had eleven hit singles in the US.
Need to change the title of this thread to "Band who you don't know had more than one hit/ had lots of hits but not in your country/had many hit albums but just one hit single you remember/ otherwise successful artists who released a one-off single under a pseudonym."
― everything, Friday, 10 June 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link