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There are a few 'one hit wonder' bands that caught me by suprise. I expected them to stick around longer than that.

Len
Caviar
Seven Mary Three
Crazytown
Marcy Playground

Can anyone else think of any?

Everlast....his name makes it that much more ironic.

Fountains of Wayne

Everlast actually had a few songs

"what it's like"
"Ends"
"black jesus"
"i cant move"

and dont forget, he is the former singer from house of pain..if that counts towards his name

yea, it counts. I just thought the name was great.

Oh...how about Kelly Osbourne. It wasent even her song.

ick...she's only famous because of who her father is...i hate her but i actually liked that version of "papa dont preach" because incubus was her backup band

Must be nice to have no talent and a super famous daddy!

lol yah i know really. Dido is another one... i cant stand her

At least you get to see her on the toilet in the Eminem video "Stan". Maybe one of these times she'll fall in.

you know whats funny about fountens of wayne is that one of the memebers wrote music for the movie one hit wonder now whos that for ironic

lol

A, Shocore, Tenacious D

hey hey hey you back of Tenacious D. Most actor turned musician bands suck major testicules, and never get even 1 hit!

Eagle Eye Cherry thats another one hit wonder.

Terrance Trent Darby

as amattter of fact he had a couple of hits with his debut album

I like Tenacious D...jack black is my hero

Not here he diddnt

well the world is more than USA

what bout laura branigan. she has only 1 hit i know SELF CONTROL which was a huge song.

she had a hit with Gloria as well

THANK GOD!!!!! FINALLY SOMEONE LET THESE SMALL MINDED SELF CENTERED FELLOW IDIOT AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MINE KNOW THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T GET A HIT IN THE STATES DOESN'T MEAN YOUR NOT POPULAR!! I can't thank you enough Finti


Most Americans have this wierd denial thing goin where they think: if you're not huge in the states you're not huge at all. Most Americans really have trouble understanding that America isn't the most important or the best country in the world for that matter.


It's Montreaux

First of all Gabriel, I am not a small-minded self-centered idiot American. I happen to be quite proud of being an American thank you.

Also, you can't expect everyone not to know that. It's not like every person goes out and scouts out information on whether a music artist was a one hit wonder or not, they are just speaking from what they know.

I personally would say that Joan Osborne was a one hit wonder. She sung the song "One of Us"

Lind it's nothing to take personally, second of all I wasn't referring to anyone in particular (even the guy finti was talking to) which makes me think "why did you respond to it personally". I just think THE PEEPS OF AMERICA should re-evaluate how they think and why they think certain things. Keep an open mind y'know. Media and the culture are slowly getting rid of independent abstract thought and the like. It's difficult to understand what I'm talking about unless you open your eyes to it.

But this is what this thread is all about, if you gonna post a one hit wonder artist/group it is a good idea to know what you are talking about instead of just throwing out some names

you are rtight about Joan Osborne though,

other OHW
4 non Blonds -whats Up
Lipps Inc -Funkytown
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Nena - 99 luftbaloons(99 reed ballons)
Limahl -Never Ending Story

yeah i like Tenacious D alot but their only hit was Tribute wasn't it. it would be kool if they realeased The F**k Song though. that is brilliant.

Didn't ICP write the F*ck song?

Hey, perhaps we need to clarify what is meant by a one hit wonder. My nomination was made from a point of view, he only had one hit here so to me he would qualify. I certainly do not think that the US is the absolute center of the universe (far from it) and I do not mean to offend anyone, I just offered an opinion.

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Aileen

Ok. That's going back a bit. But it was their one hit.

Dexy's Midnight Runners are probably best known in America as one of new wave's ultimate one-hit wonders, thanks to their 1982 number-one hit Come on Eileen (1982). In the U.K. and the rest of Europe, however, they made a greater impression on the public consciousness with their frequent changes in sound, wardrobe, and personnel.
Their first hit came with Geno in 1980

This is a class example of an artist that made a bigger name for himself in Europe rather than USA, even if Come On Eileen was a smash hit there as well.

At present date we have another artist that is huge in Europe and the rest of the world except USA; that is Robin Williams. He is considered as the worls biggest pop icon even if he havent broken the US market yet.

wild cherry and some other artist who sang those line dancing songs...

Achy breaky heart?

I started the one hit wonder thread for people to post artists who they think had only one hit, and it doesnt matter if they had one hit in a specific country or globally, because not everyone is up to speed on the music charts in other countries. If it turns out that one particular artist may have had one hit in the US, but others in Europe, then hey! we learned something new today.

Robin Williams? Not the actor, right?

Exactly. This is very interesting to me!!

oops it was suppose to be Robbie Williams, i felt something was wrong with his name but I couldnt really put the finger on it. Sometimes you dont se the forrest because of all the trees


that seem to be more of an American problem rather than a European one.

It is. It's unfortunate, but I think most Americans know much less about the rest of the world than the rest of the world knows about us.

well one of the first questions I got when I came to Arkansas was: Is Norway closest to England or London
Yeah besides the National charts we get whats hot in the States ,UK, Nordic countries(nordic includes Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland) and Europe weird way of parting this contnent but that is how it is done

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Robbie Williams did have some hits in the US around 99/00...I think he's a genuinely funny guy, especially since he runs around in his tighty whiteys and is a complete fruitcake. I mean personally, I'm not a fan of guys wearing tighty whiteys, but whatever floats your boat I suppose...
Ahhh getting off track...being distracted by Robbie Williams's underwear. lol. The sad part is, I don't find him to be all that attractive. LoL.
Anyways he had a few super Mtv hits just before 2000, but he never really caught on in the states for very long. I had heard that he was doing very well in Europe and the rest of the world, but I never really heard about him in the US again.