Be Excellent To Each Other

Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA


Falco - Rock Me Amadeus


Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden)


Aneka - Japanese Boy


White Town - Your Woman


Dee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart


Men without Hats - Safety Dance

2 of my fave's there!!

Japanese boy and Drinking in LA

Bran Van almost get points for including a Moog Source and a CR8000 in their video but I never really cared for the song that much.

White Town on the other hand is quite brilliant. Who are Kon Kan? Never heard that one. Sounds like a no hit wonder to me..

I predict a win for what I believe to be Mimi's entry but to say what it is now might prejudice voting in some fashion.

So I'll write it in code

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Anyone who has played the Fighting Fantasy book Creature of Havoc should know how to read that.

I don't know why but I strangely feel Plissken might have gone for Falco.

I hate "Drinking in LA".

But overall this week Group A has done the biznis.

Japanese Boy is one of my mum's favourite choons. And I'm with Plissken - Drinking In LA is ghastly.

No one else remember "Vienna Calling" by Falco then?

This week could be annoying, as I was torn between two songs and inevitably, someone's chosen my second choice.

"I Beg Your Pardon" was a number five hit in the UK in 1989.

Men Without Hat's is great. Whoever they are.

The Safety Dance is great, not quite as great as two other songs on here but still very much great.
Here's a few other marvelous one hit wonders:

(Spoilered in case you feel that loads of youtube videos would be rather annoying)



And here's some not so great one hit wonders



Also who remembers this?

I think I would have gone with that, or perhaps



Malc

I am quite amazed that Nena isn't here in the voting. I did consider The Firm but it's just a bit too much of a novelty song rather than your typical one hit wonder.

I am astonished and delighted that Men Without Hats is in the list.

You're right on the novelty thing. I would have gone for minus votes for a novelty record. Apart from "Nellie the Elephant".

We (well I, mostly) had a bit of fun with this kind of thing on NOTBBC a while ago.

My choice of song was a straight toss-up between the song I chose, and this marvellous track:



It is a really strong line-up for this week. There's only one song I'm not too keen on out of the whole lot, and even that's far from being awful.

Also, Dee-lite had another hit called "I believe in the power of love" or something like that. I heard again it the other week in a casino in Vegas.

I've been wondering how I could work Whale into something. I thought they were more of a no hit wonder myself. They certainly never hit it THAT massive unlike most of the others here. I expect most people in the street would know the songs here, but Whale they probably wouldn't.

Are you kidding? Me and the wife love that song - independently too. Didn't think it was a hit here though.

Falco is no longer available. FALCO!*


*NTK in-joke.

White Town - one of the biggest piles of shit I've ever had the misfortune to hear.

Even Babyon Zoo's craptacular effort 'Spaceman' is better (original version, not the speeded up break-beaty one they actually used in the Levi ads, cos that was quite funky.)

According to the mighty Everyhit.com, Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe reached number 15. I'd classify anything that gets in the top twenty as a hit, personally. They were on Top Of The Pops two weeks in a row, too!

You're joking. White Town is the best of all the songs this week, apart from the one I've chosen (quite obviously).

I like the original version of "Spaceman". So there.

I like a fair bit of Babylon Zoo but most particularly Spaceman. Whitetown is definitely brilliantness. But not quite so much as the one I've chosen obviously.

Oh and while a top 20 record is a hit, it's not really your one hit wonder style hit that everyone knows. Not that I mind you linking to it though because it's brilliant.

There's some people I know of (well one person in particular) who is technically a no hit wonder but got lots of dance floor play. I'm also doing a remix or two for her and she's also Bob Holness' daughter.

I thought I'll Do Ya was also a hit, but it seems I'm wrong.

I forgot to enter

I was going to have TMBG, that is why I was asking those questions in the rules thread, but then Mark started talking about them, so then I was going to enter the Divinyls, I touch myself, but couldn't guarantee it is as a OHW, and then forgot. (

TMBG aren't a OHW really are they? Sure they've mainly just had a hit with Birdhouse but still they're well known for other stuff. Like the Daily Show Theme and Malcolm in the Middle Theme.

But they only had "one hit", hence my questions in the rules thread.

A true distinction of One Hit Wonder-ness would be some sort of graph based on the drop-off between the number of Last.fm plays for their first and secondmost popular tracks. So, in the case of this track (which is another one I now wished I'd picked)...



Last 6 month Last.fm plays for:

"I Wish" - 6,567
"The Tale of Mr. Morton" - 262
Percentage plays of song two to song one: 3.98964%

I smell a graph in the offing.

Bjork?

This woman:



Though I'm remixing her newer stuff which sounds more like this



But not when I'm finished with it.

That first Nancy Nova clip is brilliantly 1980s. "Ooh, how can we sum up modern Japan within a few minutes? Ah! Ha! A 110 film camera!" So, you're remixed the original James Bonds' daughter? I do hope you will be making the end results available here somehow.

Should I discreetly whisper that I preferred the first of those two tracks? But anyway, if you're going to remix something, you should always make an effort to completely DESTROY the original. The best example of this is J.G. Thurwell's Deep Throat sample-fest "Lovelace A Go Go" remix of Front 242's Religion. Nirejhenge is already likely to be aware of the following, but it's a point worth making nonetheless. Original:



Remix:



Both quite different from each other, but each works completely satisfactorily on its own merits, effectively (when combined with the remixes by The Prodigy and The Orb on the imported German CD maxi-single) turning a remix disc into a brilliant EP in its own right. All remixes should be like this, but aren't.

Meanwhile, in Interesting Local Colour Corner, the only time I saw the afore-linked video for Front 242's 'Religion' on actual telly was on a Sunday afternoon in the mid-1990s on MTV, as part of their Alternative Nation (or possibly MTV Post Modern) Weekend. That's right - an industrial Belgian techno video where some school kids re-enact the JFK shooting, on MTV, on a Sunday afternoon! Things really used the be THAT GOOD. Slightly annoyingly for me, I still still young enough to be living at home, and my Dad was in the room doing the Mail on Sunday crossword with a killer headache, so I'd had to keep the sound RIGHT DOWN, and I wasn't taping it. Life, indeed, isn't fair. It was a similar situation when the video for KMFDM's A Drug Against War was played early on a Sunday evening around the same time. WHY DID MTV HAVE TO BECOME SO SHIT?

[edit: Become so shit since that point, clearly. As it was clearly fucking awesome around that time. Once Ray Cokes buggered off, it all went to rubbish, in my book.]

The Nancy remixes are a long way off yet but I have her vocal files. When I remix I don't really destroy, I just make the song my style. All I keep are the vocals from the original. But it's still likely to keep a similar tempo.

And of course Nancy's older stuff is much more vibrant and exciting. This Kingbones fellow she's working with these days of FXMusic, while a nice chap, isn't really all that good at mixing or making interesting music.

Nancy's a jolly nice person though.

I'm a little disappointed that I didn't do better this week. I reckon White Town was a Mark X pick and Groove is in the Heart by Mimi.
I'm going for Plissken as the Falco uploader. I wonder if I'm right.

I really thought Japanese boy was going to do well after its initial surge but then everything else rapidly overtook. I'm surprised Groove is in the Heart didn't win it actually.

White Town was probably the worthy winner though. I'm amazed at how popular Men Without Hats were. It's a great song though.

Overall, there wasn't really much in it.

Nirejhenge - The accuracy, or otherwise, of your predictions is to be up in but a few moments. Suffice to say, I didn't pick White Town, but really wish I had done.

I was seriously torn between picking White Town and Kon Kan. Like a twat, I went with the one I thought of first.

I've never heard of Kon Kan. When was that a hit?

Here's proof in line-chart form, courtesy of the frigging brilliant chartstats.com:



Chartstats is my new favourite thing on the internet. Most of the record covers - singles and albums - and more charts than you could shake Peter Snow at.