“Right Here, Right Now” was 1991, and so was their “Real, Real, Real” which got to #4. (If anything, the 90s had a lot of top 10 hits which have been completely forgotten).
“Breakfast at Tiffanies” is the “Pina Colada Song” of the 90s. I’ll second that one.
1999, Mambo #5, Lou Bega.
[sub]No fries with that, thank you Lou…[/sub]
There’s the Unger, who had what, Vanishing Cream? They were a Metallica clone with synthesizers, and that song definitely had a hook.
Make that Hunger, not Tony Randall.
“Who Let the Dogs Out” – was that 1999 or 2000?
Oh baby yoouuuuuu…You’ve got what I neeeeeeeeeed…But you say he’s just a friend…but you say he’s just a friend, OH BABY YOOOUUUU… (repeat, off-key)
How about “One Headlight” by the Wallflowers?
Tubthumping by Chumbawumba.
Barbie Girl by Aqua.
shudder
Or “Freshmen” by The Verve Pipe? I haven’t heard much from them recently, but then again, I stopped listening to Top 40 after college, when I didn’t have to sell the stuff anymore.
I was wracking my brain just the other day trying to remember who did that song. Who was it? I must know!
Wait, wait… despite my nominations of Tubthumping and Barbie Girl I do agree that The Macarena is the definitive 90s one-hit-wonder because it also had that “dance craze” that you’d see performed by young and old at weddings and clubs. Anything that could make people my mom’s age shake their booty, or that could coax respected professionals to make complete asses of themselves on the dance floor at the firm Christmas party, deserves special recognition as a pop culture pox.
Just a Friend by BizMarkie.
I think they had another song after that, Marlena, or something like that…
How about “How Bizzare…” by OMC, thats the ultimate 90’s one hit wonder, it had an infectious chorus, a good video and an inscrutable name…
Was written in 2000. So technically its in the 90’s…but sorta not.
Wrong on both counts. That song drove me crazy in college. It dates to 1997.
http://www.cdshakedown.com/112697.htm
Besides, 2000 is not in the 1990s. It’s in the 10th decade of the 20th century though.
Seems like a lot of people here aren’t getting the point of the ‘one hit wonder’… one big hit followed by smaller hits does not a OHW make. I have to concur with the OP about Dead Eye Dick (which was on the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack, which is what drove it to hit status).
I’m gonna hafta disqualify Wallflowers as much as I hate them. Their “We Could Be Heros” remake and “Three Marlenas” got a lot of airplay.
And nix The Cardigans since “My Favorite Game” was a resonably big hit.
Songs like “Macarena” and “Mambo #5” and even “Barbie Girl” deserve a separate category. Everyone still knows those songs. So they deserve some credit for striking a chord, regardless of how annoying that chord is. Whereas New Age Girl is inherently forgettable. In fact the main reason it lasted as long as it did was the one semi-clever line “she don’t eat meat but she sure likes the bone.”
I’d like to nominate New Radicals’ sucky “You Only Get What You Give”
The Wallflower’s, whose album “Bringing Down the Horse” was the first album I ever purchased - I cherish it to this day - also were modestly successful with “6th Avenue Heartache”, “The Difference”, and “Three Marlenas”. And that’s just their first album. They had a single on their follow-up album “Breach” called “Sleepwalker”, as well as the aforementioned “Heroes” cover for the Godzilla soundtrack. All got substantive airplay.
So, uh, no. You are incorrect sir.
Fastball’s most recent successful single was called, I believe, “You’re an Ocean”. I like it.
I concur, Raygun. It’s not good enough to name any hit single you can remember from the 90s. You people are going to have to dig deeper!
Diggin’ deep…
Citizen King, “Better Days”
Space, “Female of the Species”
SOHO, “Hippychick”
Del Amitri, “Roll to Me”
Michael Penn “No Myth”
Spacehog, “In the Meantime”
Spot “Moon June Spoon”