Which one-hit wonders do you wish

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Fullarton Power said:
More than two hit wonders mate

Making Plans For Nigel ( 1979 )
Generals And Majors ( 1980 )
Senses Working Overtime ( 1982 )


Where did Dear God Chart?. Always thought that was their best song.



DEVO said:
By the way, they had about 3 or 4 "Indie" hits in Australia in the late 80's early 90's. 'Don't Lets Start', 'Birdhouse to Your Soul' & 'Istanbul (not Constantantinople)' are absolutely brilliant.

And dont forget Dr Worm, my six year old son's favorite song ATM.



Leaping Lindner said:
It's the only thing that can explain how "Up the Junction", "Pulling Mussells from the shell" and "Another nail in my heart" weren't huge hits.


Black Coffee in Bed is one of the great melancoly songs of all time. I'm heavily into melancoly ATM.




Where does King Missile fit into this thread? Detachable Penis is a great song and their biggest hit but they had much better songs like Jesus was way cool and The Cheesecake Song.

Also is Ian Dury a OHW?
 
Leaping Lindner said:
I don't recall "Making Plans for Nigel" getting anywhere near the top ten in this country.

Neither do I. I suspect it was a B Side to "Are You Receiving Me" which I recall was a hit here.
 
localyokel said:
Also is Ian Dury a OHW?

I Wanna Be Straight
Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
Reasons To be Cheerful (Part 3)
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
*******us Autisticus
There Aint Half Been Some Clever Bastards

...had plenty of hits, IIRC
 

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hotpie said:
I Wanna Be Straight
Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
Reasons To be Cheerful (Part 3)
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
*******us Autisticus
There Aint Half Been Some Clever Bastards

...had plenty of hits, IIRC


Wake Up And Make Love To Me, One Love, Funky Disco, ********ing Ada, If I Was With Woman. Dont get me wrong theres not many bigger Ian Dury fans around than me but I was wondering if Rythym Stick was his only "hit"
 
localyokel said:
Wake Up And Make Love To Me, One Love, Funky Disco, ********ing Ada, If I Was With Woman. Dont get me wrong theres not many bigger Ian Dury fans around than me but I was wondering if Rythym Stick was his only "hit"

Top ten, probably yes. I reckon I Wanna Be Straight would have charted too, possibly Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll. All the songs I named got plenty of airplay though.

what a lyricist. Ian Dury was one clever bastard.

Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.
 
hotpie said:
Neither do I. I suspect it was a B Side to "Are You Receiving Me" which I recall was a hit here.

Close but no cigar. A live version of "Are you receiving me" taken from the 79 Australian tour was the B-side of "Nigel". Receiving was a single in its own right back in 78 and even got a couple of playings on Countdown :eek:
Along with "Life begins at the Hop" all these XTC singles were known but not necessarily hits. They got good airplay on most of the video shows around at the time "Sounds" "Nightmoves" "Music Express" etc but weren't what you or I would call "Hit singles" (eg: Top 10). Funnily enough "Generals and Majors" was a huge hit in Oz but bombed in the UK and "Sgt Rock" was a big hit in the UK but bombed in Oz.
Great Band!
 
hotpie said:
Top ten, probably yes. I reckon I Wanna Be Straight would have charted too, possibly Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll. All the songs I named got plenty of airplay though.

what a lyricist. Ian Dury was one clever bastard.

Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.

I'm not 100% "S&D&RnR" was actually released as a 45 in Australia. I remember seeing import copies of it around at the time( for $2.95 instead of the usual $1.95 for local releases :eek: ) but not a local release. Prepared to proved wrong though.
 
Leaping Lindner said:
I remember seeing import copies of it around at the time( for $2.95 instead of the usual $1.95 for local releases :eek: )

What a rip-off!!!

(probly worth $100 these days!!)
 
hotpie said:
Top ten, probably yes. I reckon I Wanna Be Straight would have charted too, possibly Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll. All the songs I named got plenty of airplay though.





Anyone got the figures for his album sales? I reckon they would have mostly charted.


hotpie said:
Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.



If its any help I know that Clever Bastards was the b-side to Rythm Stick. Now thats two great songs on one 45.
 
Kingsmill (triplej) played a live recording of Drury's 'Hit me with your rythm stick' on today today a week or so ago. Recorded in Sydney. Sounded great.

I gave him a mention in the The thread on anthems


'Wake up and make love to me' is his best song. imo.
 

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localyokel said:
Where did Dear God Chart?. Always thought that was their best song.

Wasn't released as a single from memory. I think they refused to for years.

Does highlight the point though. There is a big difference between an alternative band who 'accidently' have a hit single and a genuine one-hit-wonder. XTC are a pretty major band and their double best of is a great buy.

Plenty of respected alt acts sneak one through but have an impressive back catalogue. The Cure wouldn't have too many hits here wouldn't say they were one-hit wonders though.
 
Weaver said:
Wasn't released as a single from memory. I think they refused to for years.

Does highlight the point though. There is a big difference between an alternative band who 'accidently' have a hit single and a genuine one-hit-wonder. XTC are a pretty major band and their double best of is a great buy.

Plenty of respected alt acts sneak one through but have an impressive back catalogue. The Cure wouldn't have too many hits here wouldn't say they were one-hit wonders though.


IIRC "Dear God" began life as the B-side of "Grass". When it gained a life of it's own it was released as an A-side in a few countries (UK and US for sure) with an accompanying flim clip. Here in OZ Virgin didn't bother to release it locally and instead imported UK copies (7" and 12") which were available at the normal Aust: RRP.
 
Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight.

The biggest one hit wonder ever. Even got their own tv show for a couple of weeks.
 
Topher said:
Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight.

The biggest one hit wonder ever. Even got their own tv show for a couple of weeks.


One hit wonders as perfomers maybe.

But as songwriters they wrote Take Me Home Country Roads for John Denver, one of the biggest hits of all time.
 
Scroater said:
I've got "The Knack" album, there is more than one good song on it.

The Vapors

Promises - Baby it's you.
Skinny blonde with tight blue jeans, white blouse that stuck out way in front. (mmmm yummy) She had her brothers on guitar.

DEVO said:
Brother was actually the keyboardist. Matching braces.

From memory, one brother on guitar the other the keyboardist who forgot to put a shirt on underneath the braces. I think this was the basis for the gag popular with DJs at the time, "And doesn't the lead singer have a couple of fantastic bbbbbbbbbbbrothers."
 

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