🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[curious_slut]

Day 29- A song you believe is a genuinely good one hit wonder

I always enjoy a prompt that sparks an instant idea in my head, and makes me know exactly what I want.
This song had me addicted from first listen, and the passage of time has not diminished my appreciation.

White Town - Your Woman

I love this song I'd forgotten about it until Dua Lipa sampled it a few years back. So good!

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder
The 80's were packed with hair metal and synth pop and there were bands popping up left and right and dying out just as quick. I wasn't sure if this was actually a one-hit-wonder, so I had to check their catalogue and sure enough, nothing ever came close to this banger.

And his dance moves. Oh my god the dance moves. And the hair. And his voice. That "I don't give a fuck about this music but I'm going to give it my all anyway" attitude. And for once, check out the comments on the video! Absolute hilarity.

Also I think they have the greatest name in the world.

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

A classic sneaky move

 

[curious_slut]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder

No one's taken this one yet?!? Don't mind if I do The first comment below the video always makes me laugh. "This was my parents song when they first met. They're divorced now."

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

 

[vagrantx]

A classic sneaky move

Mwehehehehe

 

[lingus60]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder

No one's taken this one yet?!? Don't mind if I do The first comment below the video always makes me laugh. "This was my parents song when they first met. They're divorced now."

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

It's interesting .... they had quite a few UK hits but only one in the US. Seems to be the case with quite a few UK bands and probably vice versa

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder
I may be biased but whatever. I like this song.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder
I may be biased but whatever. I like this song.

I like their cover of a certain Erasure song as well. Good album.

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder
Still love this damn song

 

[Pad_Foot]

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder
The 80's were packed with hair metal and synth pop and there were bands popping up left and right and dying out just as quick. I wasn't sure if this was actually a one-hit-wonder, so I had to check their catalogue and sure enough, nothing ever came close to this banger.

And his dance moves. Oh my god the dance moves. And the hair. And his voice. That "I don't give a fuck about this music but I'm going to give it my all anyway" attitude. And for once, check out the comments on the video! Absolute hilarity.

Also I think they have the greatest name in the world.

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

I am ugly laughing

How?!? I don't care. I'm impressed.

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder

 

[vagrantx]

I am ugly laughing

How?!? I don't care. I'm impressed.

Trade secret of master trolls!

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder

Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranklng

I can hardly understand anything of the Jamaican Patois, but I love this nonetheless.

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder

Flagpole Sitta-Harvey Danger

 

[UnquietDreams]

I am ugly laughing

How?!? I don't care. I'm impressed.

And the album this is from, their eponymous debut, is actually a concept album about aliens invading the Earth. So it is even weirder...

 

[lingus60]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

Pat Metheny: Are you going with me

Not a song as such but some of my go to music when I'm travelling and watching the world go by

 

[orangecurious]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

Erland Cooper - Maalie
Or most of any of Erland's works. His music is from the Orkents and has a far away feel that takes you somewhere, anywhere that isn't here.

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Duke Ellington and John Coltrane

In a Sentimental Mood.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one-hit wonder.

Sometimes the question isn't why an artist didn't get a second hit, it is why did they get a hit in the first place. I am a fan of Loreena McKennitt, a Canadian Celtic and World artist. She writes complex, layered songs based in ancient melodies and stories, and plays them on accordion and harp, backing her ethereal vocals. Most one-hit-wonders had an album, maybe a couple. She has released 18 albums -- 10 studio and eight live recording. She has had an amazing career, but is as niche as you can get in a genre no one in the US pays any attention to--Word Music.

Then, in 1997 she released a song about medieval Mummers, the amateur actors who travel from town to town or even house to house. DNA put a drum track behind it, and it went to 14 on the Billboard Top 40. It charted at 17 on the freaking Billboard Rock charts, and almighty Number One on the Alternative chart. Nothing since then even sniffed the charts, and honestly, I think she is probably fine with that.

She is brilliant, an international treasure, and a one-hit wonder.

"Mummer's Dance," Loreena McKennitt

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one-hit wonder.

Sometimes the question isn't why an artist didn't get a second hit, it is why did they get a hit in the first place. I am a fan of Loreena McKennitt, a Canadian Celtic and World artist. She writes complex, layered songs based in ancient melodies and stories, and plays them on accordion and harp, backing her ethereal vocals. Most one-hit-wonders had an album, maybe a couple. She has released 18 albums -- 10 studio and eight live recording. She has had an amazing career, but is as niche as you can get in a genre no one in the US pays any attention to--Word Music.

Then, in 1997 she released a song about medieval Mummers, the amateur actors who travel from town to town or even house to house. DNA put a drum track behind it, and it went to 14 on the Billboard Top 40. It charted at 17 on the freaking Billboard Rock charts, and almighty Number One on the Alternative chart. Nothing since then even sniffed the charts, and honestly, I think she is probably fine with that.

She is brilliant, an international treasure, and a one-hit wonder.

"Mummer's Dance," Loreena McKennitt

I didn't know that she 'ever' had a hit... haha. Super cool.
I'm pretty out of touch with what's going on out there in the world in a lot of ways...
But in the house where I grew up, Loreena McKennitt was played constantly!
So thank you for this really cool selection and post. Great artist and song choice!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I love Joni Mitchell's original recording of this most of all, but it has been featured on here a few times, so I want to show my second favorite version. All of it is brilliant, but it has one of the greatest opening verses ever:

Just before our love got lost, you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, "Constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me, I'll be in the bar"

"A Case of You," Brandi Carlile

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I don't do wistful

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

Take Me Home - Phil Collins

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus
One the Bus - the Replacements

 

[KarenB59]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one hit wonder

Flagpole Sitta-Harvey Danger

My kids hate this song.
Mostly because every time they say they're bored I break out into, "Hear the voices in my head I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring, BUT IF YOU'RE BORED THEN YOU'RE BORING!"
They don't find it nearly as hilarious as I do.