Songs I Love That I Probably Shouldn't

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I might lose the run of myself......(Edit mrspickles Thank you for the needed real world distraction...)

Video killed the radio star Buggles

Sunshine on a rainy day Zoe


Irish ones

Maniac 2000 Mark Mc Cabe

Where's me Jumper Sultans of Ping


Of course Do they know its Christmas is or was a one hit wonder too :-)

Sunscreen Baz Luhrman

Oh and this one Its raining men The weather Girls

And of course The Macerena

I love The Ketchup Song
And thanks for the reminder of Glass Tiger!


This little ditty popped in to my head...Star Trekkin! Across the universe The Firm
It’s in the annoyingly catchy earwormy category!

Living Doll Cliff Richard and The Young Ones
I miss Rick Mayall.

[mrspickles]

You're welcome, @fitz!

Star Trekkin' leads my mind to Doctorin' the Tardis by the Timelords, which I think took a nosedive in popularity after the Gary Glitter trial, but was quite fun for a while.

How about Tarzan Boy by Baltimora?

Or we could go SUPER old school - Billy Don't be a Hero? The Night Chicago Died? One Tin Soldier....

I told my 12 year old the story about my friend and Tainted Love and she said "I love that song!" Good people, she is.

Maybe next time we should do a list of artists we WISH were one hit wonders...

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Tarzan Boy is glorious it’s in the same earworm corner as Men at Work...Come from a land down under

Ohh intriguing who over stayed their welcome and should have been a one hit wonder......

..I’ll be back ( I’m not here I’m asleep in my bed fully prepared for work tmrw! I swear! Y’all are seeing things!)

[famvir]

Sept 25, 2019 14:32:59 GMT -4 mrspickles said:

I looked through all the thread titles, and decided this might be the most appropriate place.

Today is apparently National One Hit Wonder Day!

I have so many running through my head, but the Number 1 King Daddy of all for me has to be Tainted Love by Soft Cell. I was talking to a friend the other day who said he didn't know the song. I said, 'yes you do. You just don't know who it is. I bet if you heard 4 notes, maybe less, you'd know it.' Pulled it up and as soon as he heard the da-dun-dun he said "Oh, yeah! I love that song!"

Kung Fu Fighting

The Ketchup Song is super ear wormy for me.

I could do this all day but I'd rather hear from anybody else who has a contribution. I am particularly interested to know what @pearlysweetcakes, ratscabies and @fitz might have to say because I think it might be mind blowing but I'm hoping for as many as you guys will give me!

Re: Tainted Love, that two note boink. “I’ve got to *boink boink* get away....” is exactly the boink boink of the “Attention all employees of May Company” that I heard a-freakin millions times and it makes my skin crawl and my teeth itch to this day.

[chitowngirl]

Mickey-Toni Basil!

[madangela]

Sept 25, 2019 14:39:22 GMT -4 mojogirl said:

Glass Tiger - Don't Forget Me

Fastball - The Way

And of course, one of my favorite Phineas & Ferb episodes - Flop Starz.

I adore “The Way.” I cry. I was just thinking of it yesterday when I turned on the radio just in time to have missed something else by Fastball.

[ratscabies]

I don’t know how I missed this discussion, and the request for my input, but, better late than never, right?

I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash

Turning Japanese - The Vapors

Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites

Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill

(Not one I actually like, but as a recording guy, I ADORE the fade of the vocal on the last note! It is horrifyingly out of tune, and I can see a producer pulling his hair out, trying to get Hill to hit it in tune, and after hours of fruitless effort, just printing one and lunging for the fader to create the rudest, most unmusical vocal fade to ever grace a hit record.)

Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

(Though I love their rendition of Is That It? from their second album)

May I also pile on the praise for Flop Stars? SO many great songs on that show. My faves are Busted, and Watching and Waiting.

Ok, I need to sleep.

ETA: I gotta stick up for Men at Work, as they are TrafficChick’s 2nd favorite band, and Colin Hay is a fekkin’ genius. There is ALSO Who Can it Be Now, and Be Good Johnny from that same album, and Overkill from the Cargo album might be Colin’s finest work. Though he has a solo song called Maggie that might beat it...

[chonies]

I have a slight fixation on an act that, long story short, led me to the possibly poor choice of reading the lyrics of one of their pieces in public. The c word is in the title, which made sense in context, but there I was at the reference desk, happily reading away, much more George Takei than Helen Lovejoy. I had the brains to use an Incognito tab but apparently not the impulse control to wait until I was on a personal device.

My defense, should i be called to defend myself to web snoops, will be that I was investigating part of their narrative about broadcast bans and language policies.