eight 90s one-hit wonders

[Darkness_Fish]

I can't vote for any of these, so by default my vote goes to White Town's "Your Woman".

[fange]

I've had that Len song as a bloody earworm all day long. That chorus is fucking catchy, i'll give it that. For trivia buffs though, the hook is taken from a tiny sample from the bridge section of Andrea True's disco hit 'More More More'.

If you don't want to get your full disco on, just click up to 2:20...

[Footy]

Charles and Eddie
Len
House of Pain

[Penk!]

Charles 'N' Eddie is the one I'd actively choose to listen to. A couple of the others are OK on the radio - but I never actually listen to the radio.

The Len one actively annoys me.

The Babylon Zoo one is equal parts brilliant and shit. It would have been amazing in about 1981 but has too much '90s tackiness about it.

[naughty boy]

Of course all of these artists had careers beyond these hits, but it's not surprising they were only known for the one biggie ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF TASMIN ARCHER

You follow up the big hit with something similar, right? especially if you're not talented enough to write something equally great in a different style?



clueless

[Penk!]

Of course all of these artists had careers beyond these hits

The Babylon Zoo fella is some kind of film mogul apparently. On Google there's a picture of him looking dapper in a suit and goatee with Ice T and some busty blonde woman.

[naughty boy]

Once a naughty boy, always a naughty boy!

[The Modernist]

Actually they're all great!

No they aren’t!
Of the four I know, the only one I don’t hate is the New Radicals. And weren’t they a poor man’s James!? I mean ...

Would I Lie To You is an absolute classic, as good as any Philly.
Anybody with ears should get that, this stuff ain't hard.

[The Modernist]

I also like Jump Around and Sleeping Satellite (beautiful melody) a lot.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

Actually they're all great!

No they aren’t!
Of the four I know, the only one I don’t hate is the New Radicals. And weren’t they a poor man’s James!? I mean ...

Would I Lie To You is an absolute classic, as good as any Philly.
Anybody with ears should get that, this stuff ain't hard.

Never heard of it.

[The Modernist]

No they aren’t!
Of the four I know, the only one I don’t hate is the New Radicals. And weren’t they a poor man’s James!? I mean ...

Would I Lie To You is an absolute classic, as good as any Philly.
Anybody with ears should get that, this stuff ain't hard.

Never heard of it.

Play it! Anna will sing along to it with you! It's picked up a reputation in the UK as a real pop classic.

[fange]

Actually they're all great!

No they aren’t!
Of the four I know, the only one I don’t hate is the New Radicals. And weren’t they a poor man’s James!? I mean ...

Would I Lie To You is an absolute classic, as good as any Philly.
Anybody with ears should get that, this stuff ain't hard.

Geez, i wouldn't go that far G. It's a nice enough bit of radio pop-soul, but it's pretty lightweight stuff.

[clive gash]

It’s awful, I’d be surprised if G isn’t preparing a Londonbeat thread as I type.

[clive gash]

Small mercies that Lisa Loeb hasn’t cropped up I suppose.

[naughty boy]

*waits for the old BCB ‘I shagged Lisa Loeb’ tale*

[naughty boy]

Brendan?

[BARON CORNY DOG]

Lisa Loeb v. Duncan Sheik

[harvey k-tel]

For the longest time I thought that New Radicals tune was World Party.

[sloopjohnc]

Lisa Loeb v. Duncan Sheik

Makes me think of another poll: singer songwriters who always wear fedoras.

Tom Waits and Mark Eitzel, the godfathers.

[soundchaser]

I loved Sleeping Satellite and my wife loved Would I Lie To You, so those are the two I chose.