Best Ever One Hit Wonders

[Icy Gull]

They're coming to take me away - Napoleon (forget the number)
Nut cracker suite - Bee Bumble and the Stingers

 

[Man of Harveys]

Alicia Bridges - I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)

 

[Icy Gull]

Fire - Arthur Browne

 

[JJ McClure]

Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only

 

[Knightsworld]

Men at Work - Down Under

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Stiltskin - 'Inside'

A truly majestic song.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

US interesting fact of the day

" Morten Harket of A-HA was shagging the bird from Aqua for quite a while ".

 

[Man of Harveys]

Men at Work - Down Under

No way - Overkill and Who Can It Be Now were just as good and charted high too.

 

[Trufflehound]

Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones

Great band. Great song. But it was never in the charts.

Technically they were "no hit wonders".

 

[tinx]

Stiltskin - 'Inside'

is the correct answer.


Also

Spaceman - Babylon Zoo.

 

[Trufflehound]

No way - Overkill and Who Can It Be Now were just as good and charted high too.

Who Can it Be Now? - #45 in 1982
Down Under - #1 in 1983
Overkill - #21 in 1983
It's a Mistake - #33 in 1983
Dr Jekyll & Mr Jive - #31 in 1983

Oh, the joys of having a Guinness Book of British Hit Singles on your desk...

(It's the 1987 edition though, so just don't ask me anything recent...)

 

[Man of Harveys]

(It's the 1987 edition though, so just don't ask me anything recent...)

Who'd be interested in anything more recent than that? It was downhill from there on in, it's all just noise, not like those nice Exploited etc.

 

[Knightsworld]

No way - Overkill and Who Can It Be Now were just as good and charted high too.

I don't remember them

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Stiltskin - 'Inside'

Readily available on youtube....

Inside...

 

[Trufflehound]

Who'd be interested in anything more recent than that? It was downhill from there on in, it's all just noise, not like those nice Exploited etc.

Exploited:

Dogs of War - #63 in 1981
Dead Cities - #31 in 1981
Attack - #50 in 1982

They also had a hit jointly with Anti-Pasti:
Don't Let Them Grind You Down - #70 in 1981

 

[Man of Harveys]

Exploited:

Dogs of War - #63 in 1981
Dead Cities - #31 in 1981
Attack - #50 in 1982

They also had a hit jointly with Anti-Pasti:
Don't Let Them Grind You Down - #70 in 1981

The epic "f*** A Mod" (to the tune of "Jingle Bells") FAILED to chart?!?

 

[Grendel]

Golden Earring - Radar Love.

 

[Trufflehound]

The epic "f*** A Mod" (to the tune of "Jingle Bells") FAILED to chart?!?

Incredibly it was just pipped by the St Winifreds School Choir and "There's No One Quite Like Grandma".

 

[Seagullible]

Cutting Crew - (I just) died in your arms tonight