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Guest hardyz1
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EMF "Unbelievable"

 

Ugly Kid Joe "Everything About You" (or was his version of Cat's in the Cradle a hit too?)

 

I can't stand to be around

I get sick when I'm around

I hate everything about you

 

Brilliant.

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Guest Kotzenjunge
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Now I KNOW the Kylie stuff was a joke.

 

"99 Luftballoons" and "The Humpty Dance" own all. Enough said.

Guest Incandenza
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EMF "Unbelievable"

 

Ugly Kid Joe "Everything About You" (or was his version of Cat's in the Cradle a hit too?)

I'd say it was.

Guest Youth N Asia
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I've always thought that The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony is one pretty bitchin' tune.

Son of a bitch. How come I didn't remember that one? I should, I Kazaa'd it like a week ago.

 

GREAT SONG...but the band got NO money from it cause they sampled the musical piece that plays in the background, that the evil Alan Kline owned, without his concent...he took it all from them.

Guest starvenger
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Now I KNOW the Kylie stuff was a joke.

Of course it was. Guess I should have made that clear...

Guest Vern Gagne
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I don't know alot about Kyle, but besides "Can't get you out of my head" as she had any other hits in the U.S. since that song. I know she had a hit song in the late 80's.

Guest Kotzenjunge
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Yes, "Love at First Sight" received considerable airplay on radio and MTV and VH1, as well as a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the Grammys.

 

I'm still pissed off that America just IGNORED "In Your Eyes" and went straight to "Love at First Sight."

Guest Spaceman Spiff
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I don't know alot about Kyle, but besides "Can't get you out of my head" as she had any other hits in the U.S. since that song. I know she had a hit song in the late 80's.

Yeah, "Locomotion".

 

I guess that makes her a 2-hit wonder.

Guest starvenger
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I'm still pissed off that America just IGNORED "In Your Eyes" and went straight to "Love at First Sight."

OK, but are you really all that surprised? Frankly I wouldn't be surprised to see "In Your Eyes" debut as a "new" song this year.

 

btw, I seem to enjoy the "Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head" remix better than the original. Go figure...

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GREAT SONG...but the band got NO money from it cause they sampled the musical piece that plays in the background, that the evil Alan Kline owned, without his concent...he took it all from them.

I thought they sampled the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time" ?

Guest WrestlingDeacon
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"96 Tears" is a great song. But 4 non Blondes? I'll have nightmares for weeks on you just mentioning them.

Guest Youth N Asia
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GREAT SONG...but the band got NO money from it cause they sampled the musical piece that plays in the background, that the evil Alan Kline owned, without his concent...he took it all from them.

I thought they sampled the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time" ?

No. I'm pretty sure it's the symphony piece that's playing in the background. I heard it on VH1 a couple years ago, story on one-hit wonders.

Guest saturnmark4life
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Holy God, it's still fucking bizarre that the US chart has only seen Kylie about twice. If you count the rest of the world she's been huge pretty much all the time.

Guest AlwaysPissedOff
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Digital Underground did have other hits such as

 

1 Same Song, from Nothing but Trouble soundtrack

2 Nose Job, well it did have a video

 

and there is a 2Pac song but I can't think of the name now.

I think "Same Song" was 2Pac's big cameo. I'll have to go back and check, though.

Guest C-Bacon
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New Radicals - You Get What You Give.

And an awesome, awesome album to boot. Too bad they're not around anymore

Guest Kotzenjunge
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I'm still pissed off that America just IGNORED "In Your Eyes" and went straight to "Love at First Sight."

OK, but are you really all that surprised? Frankly I wouldn't be surprised to see "In Your Eyes" debut as a "new" song this year.

 

btw, I seem to enjoy the "Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head" remix better than the original. Go figure...

Dude, CGBMOOMH fucking OWNS. Sadly, I can't find the studio version anywhere on Kazaa, so I've been settling for the live performance at the Brits.

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No. I'm pretty sure it's the symphony piece that's playing in the background. I heard it on VH1 a couple years ago, story on one-hit wonders.

Ckeck this out:

"Finally, in early 1997, McCabe came back to the fold, and as a quintet they recorded Urban Hymns, their breakthrough LP. Heralded by the smash "Bittersweet Symphony" — a single built around a looped sample of a symphonic recording of the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time" — Urban Hymns launched the Verve among the U.K.'s most popular bands; still, even at their peak, the curse of their past lingered on, as legal hassles awarded 100 percent of the song's publishing rights to ABKCO Music, which controls the Stones' back catalog."

 

From:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...Bpr5m961o3ep7~C

Guest Youth N Asia
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Actually...the Verve was allowed the first 100 pounds (English currency) of sales from the record.

 

Alan Kline is music's biggest criminal.

Guest JangoFett4Hire
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Urban Hymns is such a stunning CD though... what a great listen, almost like a religious experience. Especially stoned.

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"Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz

 

"Too Close" by Next

 

"Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark

 

"Be My Lover" by La Bouche

 

"Every Little Thing I Do" by Soul 4 Real

 

"Mambo Number 5" by Lou Bega (Whatever happened to that guy?)

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Kylie is about the furthest thing from a one hit wonder here. Bloody Americans.

 

Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart

The Knack - My Sharona

A-Ha - Take On Me

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

J Geils Band - Centrefold

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New Radicals - You Get What You Give.

And an awesome, awesome album to boot. Too bad they're not around anymore

Definitly. 'Maybe youve been brainwashed too' might be the most underrated album of the 1990s.

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I still get a kick out of the Grateful Dead being billed as a 'one hit wonder'. It is true, they only had one hit ('Touch of Grey' in the mid-80s). Yet even this year they were still selling 20-40,000 tickets for every show, and everyone knew every lyric to every song.

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Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - US3

How Bizarre - OMC

I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis

Mouth - Merril Bainbridge

 

I remember those ones from my early youth. I did like them all (except Bainbridge's, that one was garbage) and never got why they never had anything else.

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Next had a couple of other little hits played on the radio and mtv.

Guest krazykat72
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"Tempted" by Squeeze (since I don't remember if Squeeze had anything close to "Tempted"'s success.)

 

"The Way" by Fastball.

Squeeze had a buch of songs that were somewhat popular(besides Tempted), most notably "Black Coffee in bed", "Pulling Mussels From a Shell", "Another Nail For My heart", and "Hourglass".

 

I've been a big fan for a long time, having seen them or Glenn Tilbrook(lead singer) solo eight times (6 in the last 2 years).

 

Fastball had that modest hit "Out of my Head" in addition to "The Way"

 

-Paul Jacobi-

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