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Have always been into music-could never pick one. Had a hard time keeping it at 7!
Flock of Seagulls: “I Ran (So Far Away)” Soft Cell: “Tainted Love” Modern English: “I Melt With You” Quarterflash: “Harden My Heart” Scandal: "Goodbye To You" The Jeff Healy Band: “Angel Eyes” Vixen: “Edge Of A Broken Heart”
I've been meaning to ask; are your two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year?
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Not necessarily one hit wonders but certainly dissapeared into the shadows of more popular artists that i can think of. here are just a few to think about
a good heart - fergal sharky shattered dreams - johny hates jazz i just died in your arms tonight - cutting crew take my breath away - berlin glory of love - peter cetara cest la vi - robbie neville lets hear it for the boy - deniece williams the lion sleeps tonight - tight fit feels like heaven - fiction factory words - fr david
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Big Country released two pretty good albums with "steeltown" and "the crossing". "the seer" isn't a bad album either. i'm surprised they didn't do better in the u.s.
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Hmm... the problem with questions like this is many artists had different hits in different countries. So 'Soft Cell' for instance, had one big US hit but many in the UK. So, Just to be contrary (my part-time forum role) I'm gonna shine a light on alternatives that were hits - possibly in other countries, or possibly in the same country.
quote:My favorite is Jermaine Stewart, "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off".
Anyone that begins anything with "My favorite is Jermaine Stewart" needs assistance. I'm kidding! Or am I?!
quote:Big Country released two pretty good albums with "steeltown" and "the crossing". "the seer" isn't a bad album either. i'm surprised they didn't do better in the u.s.
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My picks may not qualify-Quarterflash had another hit in "Find Another Fool" (liked that too) and Scandal had "Love's Got A Line On You" Now there's a place I go With a boy I know We're together, gettin' better All the time And there are words I say When we hide away Makes him crazy, makes him love me All the time
Good times-may have that one on 45. They had a hit in "The Warrior"-wasn't down with that one though.
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Club House - Do It Again Meets Billie Jean
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quote:Originally posted by xchazx: Big Country released two pretty good albums with "steeltown" and "the crossing". "the seer" isn't a bad album either. i'm surprised they didn't do better in the u.s.
Big Country was such a great band. My brother bought all their albums so it´s definately not a one hit wonder, at least not for us.
Stuart Adamson´s death was a big shock back in 2001.
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excellent home work there logan...i only rediscovered fiction factory a month ago and forgot about feels like heaven - tremendous song indeed. i really dont know of another song of theirs off the top of my head.
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Fiction Factory has some other good songs, so check em out for sure. At least look for 'Ghost Of Love' off of the same album as 'Feels Like Heaven', it's tremendous.
-Just wanted to add that I love Big Country too. When they get it right, they are quite brilliant.
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quote:i only rediscovered fiction factory a month ago and forgot about feels like heaven - tremendous song indeed. i really dont know of another song of theirs off the top of my head.
'Throw the Warped Wheel Out' is actually a pretty good album. FLH is clearly the best song, but there are others that are pretty good. Like SA says 'Ghost of Love' is pretty good, so is 'Panic'.
Here's some one-hitters I always liked (not including 'Feels Like Heaven' and 'Melt With You' which have been mentioned):
Angry Anderson - Suddenly. It's tacky but I liked it:
-Key Largo, Bertie Higgins -Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone, Glass Tiger -99 Luft/Red Balloons, Nena -Toy Soldiers, Martika -Putting on the Ritz, Taco -Tarzan Boy, Baltimora -surprising also no one mentioned either Take On Me or If You Leave yet
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It's so weird that you mention that, I heard that song on the radio the other day for the first time in forever!
quote: Anyone that begins anything with "My favorite is Jermaine Stewart" needs assistance. I'm kidding! Or am I?!
lol...What's wrong with some Jermaine Stewart?! It's still a great song, a few different people have covered it over the past few years. I know he had other songs, but "We Don't..." is by far his most popular.
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quote:-surprising also no one mentioned either Take On Me or If You Leave yet
They weren't one-hit wonders. In the UK they really weren't one-hit wonders!
quote:ol...What's wrong with some Jermaine Stewart?! It's still a great song, a few different people have covered it over the past few years. I know he had other songs, but "We Don't..." is by far his most popular.
I'm playing with you. Jermaine Stewart doesn't get mentioned much, so I guess he ranks lower on the nostalgia 'hierarchy'. I have no issues with him at all. You like what you wanna like and don't let someone like me stop you!
People like me make me sick!
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Come to think of it, did Patrick Swayze record any other records; if not, "She's Like the Wind" more than qualifies as well.
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I might like you better if we slept together. So snotty! Love it. Had success with "Girl in Trouble" too-so may not be a one hit. They did a VH1 Bands Reunited....that was a good show. Loved the Berlin one.
Thought about Aha/Take On Me-but the song and the video are so intertwined in my head, it was such a breakthrough concept. Remember HBO's video jukebox? Loved that 1/2 hour show!
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There are many that I really like, including "Take on Me" by a-ha, "Something About You" by Level 42, "Fascinated" by Company B, "If You Leave" by OMD, and "Heart and Soul" by T'pau.
That said, I ADORE "Under the Milky Way" by The Church. It wasn't really a big hit here in the U.S., but I think it should have been.
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hmmm..just one??..i don't think it can be done...so here's a few off the top of my head:
The Vapors - Turning Japanese Burning Sensations - Belly of a Whale Combo Audio - Romanticide Dexy's Midnight Runner - Come On Eileen Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star T'Pau - Heart & Soul Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like mondays Dramarama - Anything, Anything Shannon - Give Me Tonight Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
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