OK, all you pop music geeks, time to sharpen your pencils and start adding to a superb list. I got this link from another blog that I read.
A site called McSweeney's Internet Tendency has a list of Possible Follow-up Songs For One-Hit Wonders. Cracking good stuff.
My suggestions are below, however, American readers, please realise that as I grew up in the UK, my one-hit wonders will be songs that were one-hit wonders from there:
"Untie That Yellow Ribbon, From That Old Oak Tree We're About To Chop Down"
"Gordon Is Now Referred To A Cerebrally Challenged"
"OK Folks, Sun's Up. Stop Whang-Chunging"
"No-one Died Quite Like Grandma"*
"Aga-Don't"
"Japanese Old Man"
"99 Highly-Irradiated Faded Pink Balloons"*
"I'm Divorced From A German Film Star"OK. Let's hear it.
Posted by Max at July 19, 2004 05:48 PM | Trackback
*Supplied by John.
Our research dept has come up with yet more possibilities:
Axel G (Harold Faltermeyer)
Papa's Pigbag Is Totally Worn Out Now (Pigbag)
Waiting For A Bus (Flash and the Pan)
St Elmo's Central Heating System (John Parr)
One Night In Basildon (And The World's Your Periwinkle) (Murray Head)
Engaged-Tone-A-Diddle-It (Matchbox)
Ullo John, Still Driving That Old Banger Then? (Alexei Sayle)
I've Kinda Gone Off Rock 'N' Roll (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)
Detective Inspector (Smiley Culture)
Downtown Bottom Ranking (Anthea and Donna)
Two Pints of Mild and a Packet of Pork Scratchings Please (Splodgenessabounds)
Haha! I love these things. I suck though, so I'll just sit back and watch hilarity ensue. :-)
Posted by: Annica on July 21, 2004 04:44 AMI knew you'd not be able to resist adding to the list!
Posted by: Max on July 21, 2004 05:34 PMWhat does "resist" mean? ;)
Posted by: John in Brizzle on July 21, 2004 06:37 PM