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post #51 of 65
3/28/07 at 12:00pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
I can vouch for this as well. He had a good string pop confections, a minor acting career, and this wicked cool sci-fi video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9XXbx5fb2g
Thank you. For the life of me, I couldn't remember the music or even the name of that song, but the video stuck with me for years. I remember the video for Billy Ocean's "Loverboy" having a similar WTF? visual approach to a song with absolutely no sf overtones. I guess they knew the way to pre-pubescent nerdy guys' hearts - add more lasers.
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post #52 of 65
3/28/07 at 12:19pm
Further evidence includes Devo's "We're Through Being Cool" and that Aldo Nova video where he breaks into a building by shooting the door with a laser from his guitar.
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post #53 of 65
3/28/07 at 8:00pm
Don't forget Rick Springfield's Saturday morning cartoon show, Mission:Magic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Magic

I'd add Dwight Twilley to this. Though I know he is technically a two-hit wonder, "Girls" came a good 10 years after "I'm On Fire" and I'm sure most people don't know about either one.
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post #54 of 65
3/28/07 at 8:40pm
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"Our god is an awesome god," Awesome God? Thanks, that's stuck in my fucking head now.
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post #55 of 65
3/28/07 at 9:04pm
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I didn't say it was a great song, I just said it was stuck in my head, and with it, memories of all the times I got dragged to church, youth groups, or retreats where that song was played and/or sung. Which, being the heathen agnostic that I am now, I tend not to spend a lot of time these days thinking about.
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post #56 of 65
3/28/07 at 9:12pm
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Originally Posted by Guttenberg Fan Club
I didn't know there was a Springfield fan club. As you were talking about in your reply to Dickson, it's easy to forget that while these acts may have had only one hit, there's no doubt a sizable number of people for whom each of these bands represents a lot more than that. Listening to whatever the fuck album Jessie's Girl was on was probably a brings back lots of memories of youthful summers for those who were at the right age set when it came out.

Damn would I have loved to be in the crowd to see the ice slide move.
Rick did a great job at the Ohio State Fair a couple of years back. He was having a good time, with lots of fans.

No concert of his is complete without "Human Touch"...definitely a sci-fi vibe to that song.
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post #57 of 65
3/29/07 at 12:13am
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7
I have to add "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes.
That song is so fun to sing, it just rolls of your tongue. Especially if you're drunk and you sing it in the highest-pitched, fastest voice possible..
I've always loathed that song.

As far as fun drunk singing, I prefer "Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm" by Crash Test Dummies - "WAAAANSE there was a BOOOOU who GAAAWWWWT into an acci-DANT and wah wah wah..."
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post #58 of 65
3/29/07 at 2:13pm
I propose we derail this to a TWO HIT WONDERS THREAD!
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post #59 of 65
3/29/07 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
Further evidence includes Devo's "We're Through Being Cool" and that Aldo Nova video where he breaks into a building by shooting the door with a laser from his guitar.
I think my favorite Devo video was for the cover for "Are U Experienced" where a Jimi Hendrix lookalike steps out of a coffin and plays the guitar solo on stage. Understandably, they got their asses sued off.
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post #60 of 65
3/30/07 at 9:35am
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Originally Posted by KABONG
I think my favorite Devo video was for the cover for "Are U Experienced" where a Jimi Hendrix lookalike steps out of a coffin and plays the guitar solo on stage. Understandably, they got their asses sued off.
Speaking of Devo, anyone else heard The Network? Supposedly made up of members of Devo and Green Day. Funny little offshoot project. They're not great but pretty fun summer music.

Crap, just did some research. Apparently it is Green Day but no Devo. Strange because the cover of Teenagers from Mars sounds so close to Devo it's scary.
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post #61 of 65
4/1/07 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
Further evidence includes Devo's "We're Through Being Cool" and that Aldo Nova video where he breaks into a building by shooting the door with a laser from his guitar.
"Life is just a fantasy, can you live this fantasy liiiiiiiife!"
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post #62 of 65
4/1/07 at 2:52pm
Can you really call a duet featuring the lead singer of Genesis and a member of Earth Wind and Fire a one-hit wonder? Well dammit, I'm going to, because "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins is one of my favorite songs from the entirety of the 80s.
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post #63 of 65
4/2/07 at 10:52am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
Can you really call a duet featuring the lead singer of Genesis and a member of Earth Wind and Fire a one-hit wonder? Well dammit, I'm going to, because "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins is one of my favorite songs from the entirety of the 80s.
Damn it, Dickson, now that's going to be in my head all day now!

"She's the kind of girl you dream of...."
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post #64 of 65
4/2/07 at 9:47pm
"Shivers", by The Boys Next Door.

Late '70's Australian emo. After recording it, they moved to England and changed their name to The Birthday Party. A few years later, the lead singer (Nick Cave) and the rhythm guitarist (Mick Harvey) formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Twenty or so years after that, Nick Cave wrote the screenplay for a film called "The Proposition", which has received some attention on these boards of late.
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post #65 of 65
4/3/07 at 10:53am
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Originally Posted by BobClark
I can vouch for this as well. He had a good string pop confections, a minor acting career, and this wicked cool sci-fi video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9XXbx5fb2g
Oh good lord, that makes me miss the 80s.

Anyone who labels Rick Springfield a "one-hit wonder" needs to brush up on his/her music history. He's not my bag, but he was a virtual force of nature for a short span in the mid-80s.
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