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My countdown list of one hit wonders- 1. Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry) (1 Viewer)

timschochet said:
16. “Afternoon Delight”- Starland Vocal Band (1976)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1UXCdyNo0

look at this dude with the glasses; how many afternoon delights is he actually getting? (With somebody else that is). Still maybe I’m wrong; those girls seem really happy...

what a great awful song. The 70s were so good at this sort of thing. Bad music that you just loved. 
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This song traumatized me. I was the go to guy for music among my 12 year old friends. I used to ride the bus downtown every week to the "cool record store" and was known among the staff as a kid with impeccable taste in music. They gave me music suggestions (some good, some bad) and I was able to pick the gold from the garbage. So, they stopped with the joke recommendations and only steered me towards the good stuff. They were like the guys from "High Fidelity" and saw me as a younger version of themselves. A new LP would be cracked open and we would sit in one of the stereo sound rooms designed to sell turntables, speakers, etc.and enjoy it. 

My parents had a console stereo in the living room that had mainly country records in it and some Elvis records my Mom had. I'm not sure where the records came from because I had never seen my parents set foot in a record store. This song was in heavy rotation on the local top 40 station and my Mom decided she had to own it. She gave me some money and asked me to pick up the 45 for her on my weekly trip to the record store.

But, I couldn't go to the downtown store. If the guys saw what I was buying I would be a laughing stock. I had to ride my bike to the local mall where I knew my friends would never go. I picked up a couple of other 45s and slid the offending Starland Vocal Band single in the middle of them and walked up to the cashier. At the cash was my friend's oldest brother. What was he doing here? He didn't work here? But, he did. So, the guy 6-7 years older than me and the coolest guy we knew rang up my purchases. He nodded approvingly at my choices and told me his brother told him I had a good ear for music. Then he got to "Afternoon Delight". "This is a mistake, right?" he said. " It's for my Mom" I mumbled. He called his co-workers over to mock me and they started singing the song and saying "But, it's for his Mommy!".Their laughter rang in my ears as I left the store with my face and ears burning red. Of course he told his Brother, who told all of our friends. I was a laughing stock for the rest of the school year.

tl;dr version This song sucks!

 
I don't think I had ever actually hear that Afternoon Delight song before now, although I know the melody thanks to the scene in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon sings a little of it (as a way of mocking a therapist trying to hypnotize him). 

 
9. “Turning Japanese” -The Vapors (1980) 

The Vapors are, for my money, the most undeserving one hit wonder band of all time. This is because their album, New Clear Days, was outstanding: it has no weak songs; it is one of my very favorite albums ever. Here are some of the Vapors songs I most love: 

Spring Collection: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKemEJFsBjI

News at Ten:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSw3x3Hbjc

Jimmie Jones:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1YlD3W7Pg

Waiting for the Weekend:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7_OmqV4uWvY

Prisoners 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eO978F69SdI

I could go on. It’s that good. 

The Vapors broke up in 1983 but reunited last year and put out a concert I watched on YouTube. They played all the old songs, much to the delight of a New York crowd, and I realized there are at least a few other people who love them as much as I do. I swear I cried watching that video. 

 
Up next: The lead singer of this band is a highly respected rock star, who among other ventures spent several years as the replacement to Freddie Mercury. 

 
timschochet said:
16. “Afternoon Delight”- Starland Vocal Band (1976)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1UXCdyNo0

look at this dude with the glasses; how many afternoon delights is he actually getting? (With somebody else that is). Still maybe I’m wrong; those girls seem really happy...

what a great awful song. The 70s were so good at this sort of thing. Bad music that you just loved. 
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Your list has been awesome.

So WTF is this doing on it? It's in the top 10 worst songs of all time, possibly #1.  :excited:

 
timschochet said:
10. “Video Killed the Radio Star”- The Buggles (1979) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ffoTMBlAOA

Of course the trivia question is, “what was the first video ever to appear on MTV?” 

If that event has never happened, this would still be a great rock song. And actually it’s really too bad that it’s considered a OHW, since this band’s first album had at least 3 other excellent songs: “Living In the Plastic Age”, “Clean Clean”, and “Elfstree”. It was an album worth owning. 
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I am partial to the PotUSA version

 
timschochet said:
Up next: The lead singer of this band is a highly respected rock star, who among other ventures spent several years as the replacement to Freddie Mercury. 
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There are 3 songs which could be the answer to this clue (4 if we stretch the definition of "highly respected", "rock", and "several years").

 
8. “All Right Now”- Free (1971) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTfCSRFb0zE

When I was a kid my parents, who were both UCLA alumni, took me to all the Bruins home football games (then played at the LA Coliseum), and to road games against Stanford or Cal every year. And so it was that once a year I got to watch the idiosyncratic Stanford marching band in person, and they quickly became my favorite marching band because they were so weird and wild. For one thing, they didn’t have a theme song tied to the school like so many bands do; when Stanford scored a touchdown or did something good, they played “All Right Now”. And this was my introduction to the song; the first time I heard it on the radio I said “that’s the Stanford song!” 

Anyhow, not much needs to be written about this tune to classic rock fans. It’s one of those all timers, wonderfully sung and played, an expression of sheer joy in musical terms. I don’t get tired of it. 

 
timschochet said:
8. “All Right Now”- Free (1971) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTfCSRFb0zE

When I was a kid my parents, who were both UCLA alumni, took me to all the Bruins home football games (then played at the LA Coliseum), and to road games against Stanford or Cal every year. And so it was that once a year I got to watch the idiosyncratic Stanford marching band in person, and they quickly became my favorite marching band because they were so weird and wild. For one thing, they didn’t have a theme song tied to the school like so many bands do; when Stanford scored a touchdown or did something good, they played “All Right Now”. And this was my introduction to the song; the first time I heard it on the radio I said “that’s the Stanford song!” 

Anyhow, not much needs to be written about this tune to classic rock fans. It’s one of those all timers, wonderfully sung and played, an expression of sheer joy in musical terms. I don’t get tired of it. 
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Just heard this song yesterday and thought to myself... 'Hmm, this could be on Tim's list.'

 
timschochet said:
8. “All Right Now”- Free (1971) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTfCSRFb0zE

When I was a kid my parents, who were both UCLA alumni, took me to all the Bruins home football games (then played at the LA Coliseum), and to road games against Stanford or Cal every year. And so it was that once a year I got to watch the idiosyncratic Stanford marching band in person, and they quickly became my favorite marching band because they were so weird and wild. For one thing, they didn’t have a theme song tied to the school like so many bands do; when Stanford scored a touchdown or did something good, they played “All Right Now”. And this was my introduction to the song; the first time I heard it on the radio I said “that’s the Stanford song!” 

Anyhow, not much needs to be written about this tune to classic rock fans. It’s one of those all timers, wonderfully sung and played, an expression of sheer joy in musical terms. I don’t get tired of it. 
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No argument with Free as a OHW. 

Not a hit, but Mr. Big is a standout tune. The 80s/90s hair band named themselves after the tune.

 
[scooter] said:
timschochet said:
Up next: The lead singer of this band is a highly respected rock star, who among other ventures spent several years as the replacement to Freddie Mercury. 
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There are 3 songs which could be the answer to this clue (4 if we stretch the definition of "highly respected", "rock", and "several years").
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Other songs which could fit the clue:

The Firm (featuring Paul Rodgers): "Radioactive" (top-40 hit in 1985)

The Law (featuring Paul Rodgers): "Laying Down The Law" (not technically a Hot 100 hit, but hit #1 on the rock radio chart in 1991)

Take That (featuring Robbie Williams): "Back For Good" (#7 hit in 1995) - before Queen hooked up with Paul Rodgers, they did a remake of "We Are The Champions" with Robbie Williams. And for the next few years it was rumored that Williams would become Mercury's permanent replacement in Queen. But it never came to be.

 
zamboni said:
No argument with Free as a OHW. 

Not a hit, but Mr. Big is a standout tune. The 80s/90s hair band named themselves after the tune.
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I really like a lot of their songs. “Oh I Wept” and “Muddy Waters” are my favorites. Had Paul Kossoff lived things might have turned out differently for them. 

 
[scooter] said:
Other songs which could fit the clue:

The Firm (featuring Paul Rodgers): "Radioactive" (top-40 hit in 1985)

The Law (featuring Paul Rodgers): "Laying Down The Law" (not technically a Hot 100 hit, but hit #1 on the rock radio chart in 1991)

Take That (featuring Robbie Williams): "Back For Good" (#7 hit in 1995) - before Queen hooked up with Paul Rodgers, they did a remake of "We Are The Champions" with Robbie Williams. And for the next few years it was rumored that Williams would become Mercury's permanent replacement in Queen. But it never came to be.
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Damn Paul Rodgers has been in a lot of bands. 

 
7. ”I Melt With You”- Modern English (1982) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJls

IMO this is the quintessential song of the 1980s. It makes me think of all those John Hughes movies (even though it never appears in any of them) and of course Valley Girl as previously mentioned. Interesting that, as Anarchy99 noted in the other thread, it never achieved top 40 status. Like “Mexican Radio” it’s an MTV hit, except it’s far bigger than “Mexican Radio”. In fact I can’t think of another modern popular song that is so well known that failed to make the charts. Perhaps one of you can think of one. 

 
Up next: When this lead singer left the Canadian glam rock band Sweeney Todd in order to pursue a solo career, he was replaced in that band by Bryan Adams. 

 
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