1 Hit Wonders Of The 80's

[Magic]

While these "one-hit wonders" may not have actually charted, they were played in abundance on The World Famous 106.7 KROQ here in Los Angeles.

Almost all are found on 80's New Wave compilation cds.



AEIOU - Ebn-Ozn

Are You Ready For The Sex Girls - Gleaming Spires

Belly of the Whale - Burning Sensations

Blowing Up Detroit - John Palumbo

Boogie in Your Butt - Eddie Murphy (that's right!) hyeah:

Break Them Down - Graham Parker

Bring Me Edelweiss - Edelweiss

Buffy Come Back - Angel & The Reruns

Burning Flame - Vitamin Z

Butterfly Wings - Machines of Loving Grace

CA Plan Por Mio - Plastic Bertrand

Compulsion - Martin L. Gore

Daddy's Coming Home - Walk The Moon

Dancing In Heaven - Q Feel

Der Kommissar - Falco

Don Quichotte - Magazine 60

Drop Your Pants - Hilary

Dwarf Tossin' - Bouquet of Veal

88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails

Everything Thing I'm Not - Translator

Flaming Desire - Bill Nelson

Hanging on a Heart Attack - Device

Hey St. Peter - Flash and the Pan

Homicide - 999

Homosapien - Pete Shelley

How Can a Laboring Man Find Time For Self-Culture - Martini Ranch

I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo

I Could Be Good For You - 707

I See Red - The Silencers

I'm an Adult Now - The Pursuit of Happiness

I'm Supposed to Have Sex With You - Tonio K

Jane's Getting Serious - John Astley

Jennifer She Said - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime In) - The Flirts

Just a Gigalo - Barbie and the Kens

Just Got Lucky - Jo Boxers

Lawnchairs - Our Daughter's Wedding

Living in a Box - Living in a Box

Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange

Love and Lonliness - The Motors

Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Nemesis - Shreikback

Numbers with Wings - The Bongos

Marina Men - The Valley Girls

Music For Boys - The Suburbans

Pajama Party - Unit 3 With Venus

Quit - The Waitresses

Sidewalk Talk - Jellybean

Slang Teacher - Wide Boy Awake

Ronnie's Song - LAX

See You on the Other Side - Brian Briggs

Slippin' Away - Dave Edmunds

Smoke Two Joints - The Toyes

Stick to the Grind - King Cotton

Stop This Car - The Woodentops

Swear - Tim Scott

Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage - Killer Pussy

The Fanatic - Felony

The Great Commandment - Camoulflage

Too Young To Date - D-Day

Walk With an Erection - Swinging Erudites

Working With Fire and Steel - China Crisis

Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw

Wot - Captain Sensible

these songs made me

Dwarf Tossin' by Bouquet of Veal

Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage by Killer Pussy

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

I doubt there will ever be a decade that will have more (awesome) one hit wonders than the 80's.

 

[Magic]

You are probably right, Cosmic. Although a lot of these songs are just too cheesy. I cant beleive some of the garbage that hits the radio and actually charts in the top 40.

I like some of the novelty of these songs, I listen to them once, laugh, then move on

 

[Rocker440]

A couple that I can think of, that I think are from the 1980's.


Nena - 99 luft balloons


Falco - Der Kommisar

Where's that spinning disco ball?

 

[Terra812]

Martini Ranch - Reach

The video stars Bill Paxton and was directed by James Cameron

 

[R. Evans]

Got a few that haven't been mentioned yet.











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[lady_barrett2112]

Camouflage-stan ridgeway anyone remeber this about a marine or summat

I've never heard of this song until recently because of my husband. He's a big Wall of Voodoo/Stan Ridgeway fan. Great song! A must play on Memorial Day!

 

[Mr. Bob Dobolina]

I don't think I've seen it mentioned yet, so I will. How about "The Curly Shuffle" by the Jump n' the Saddle Band? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

 

[suebee3490]

Chris DeBurgh - "Lady in Red"
The Jeff Healey Band (RIP Jeff) - "Angel Eyes"

 

[Panorama]

Blanket Of Secrecy - Say You Will (1982)