New Mount Rushmore - One hit wonders of the 1990s

[cartman]

We are now 7 years past the end of the 1990s, so the field should be pretty well defined. Time to post your top 4 one hit wonders. By one-hit wonder, the general definition is that most people can only name one song from the person/group. Remakes or covers are usually not considered either.

Here are mine, in no particular order:

1. Fastball - The Way
2. The Wallflowers - One Headlight
3. House of Pain - Jump Around
4. US3 - Cantaloop

[rowech]

Kriss Kross -- Jump

[bulletsponge]

Kriss Kross -- Jump

i hate that song

[Groundhog]

1. Fastball - The Way
2. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
3. Missing - Everything But The Girl
4. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-Lot

[CU Tiger]

1) Joan Osborne - One of us
2) Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
3) Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart (yes it sucked but it was a hit I suppose)
4) Hootie and the Blowfish - What there were different songs? IO thought there was only 1 they all sounded the same...
4b) Wallflowers - one head light

[Swaggs]

We are now 7 years past the end of the 1990s, so the field should be pretty well defined. Time to post your top 4 one hit wonders. By one-hit wonder, the general definition is that most people can only name one song from the person/group. Remakes or covers are usually not considered either.

Here are mine, in no particular order:

1. Fastball - The Way
2. The Wallflowers - One Headlight
3. House of Pain - Jump Around
4. US3 - Cantaloop

I'd disagree on the Wallflowers as being one-hit wonders. They had three others pretty successful songs from that album (6th Avenue Heartache, The Difference, and Three Marlenas) that all received pretty significant airplay.

[Swaggs]

Jane Child -- "Don't Wanna Fall in Love"
Sinead O'Connor -- "Nothing Compares 2 You"
Los del Rio -- "Macarena"
Montell Jordan -- "This is How We Do It"

[msf518]

Dishwalla- Counting Blue Cars
Los Del Rio- Macarena
Duncan Sheik- Barely Breathing
Right Said Fred- I'm Too Sexy

[cartman]

I'd disagree on the Wallflowers as being one-hit wonders. They had three others pretty successful songs from that album (6th Avenue Heartache, The Difference, and Three Marlenas) that all received pretty significant airplay.

Did any of the other songs chart very high, if at all? The only one I vaguely recognize is 6th Ave. Heartache. If you ask someone to name a song by the Wallflowers, I'm guessing at least 95 out of 100 would name One Headlight.

edit: according to Wikipedia, the only other song by the Wallflowers to chart was 6th Ave. Heartache at #33.

[BrianD]

Seems like any list should include The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen. That song still gets plenty of play.

[CamEdwards]

I'm calling shenanigans on Fastball. "Out of My Head" was also a fairly big hit for the group (Top 20 according to Wikipedia).

I'd go with:

1- The Refreshments "Banditos"

2- Crash Test Dummies "Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm"

3- Blind Melon "No Rain"

4- The Verve "Bittersweet Symphony"

[ISiddiqui]

I'd disagree on the Wallflowers as being one-hit wonders. They had three others pretty successful songs from that album (6th Avenue Heartache, The Difference, and Three Marlenas) that all received pretty significant airplay.

Agreed, 6th Avenue Heartache takes trhe Wallflowers from the one-hit wonder list.

[msf518]

I'd also throw Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby into the mix here as well.

[cartman]

To retort the Wallflowers and Fastball claims, the one hit wonder label is a little hazy. Those other songs might have been popular at the immediate time, riding the coattails of the more popular song to a place in the pop chart. However, they have become footnotes by the passage of time.

A great example of this is Dexys Midnight Runners. No one would say that they were not a one hit wonder with 'Come on Eileen'. But they had several other songs in the Top 20, in the UK at least.

[ISiddiqui]

1. The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
2. Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy"
3. Deep Blue Something - "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
4. Semisonic - "Closing Time"

[ISiddiqui]

To retort the Wallflowers and Fastball claims, the one hit wonder label is a little hazy. Those other songs might have been popular at the immediate time, riding the coattails of the more popular song to a place in the pop chart. However, they have become footnotes by the passage of time.

A great example of this is Dexys Midnight Runners. No one would say that they were not a one hit wonder with 'Come on Eileen'. But they had several other songs in the Top 20, in the UK at least.

Foriegn charts are bit different though. The Wallflowers have at least two big songs though in "One Headlight" and "6th Avenue Heartbreak". I say if you get another song in the Top 40 (edit: On the Hot 100 list), you don't get the one hit label. That's why I didn't put the Mighty Mighty Bosstones in the list.

[Swaggs]

Great thread, by the way.

All of these songs are from my high school/college era and also at the time when CDs broke in, so they remind me of when I first really got into music.

[BrianD]

Here is my list.

1. The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
2. What's Up? - 4 Non Blondes
3. To Be With You - Mr. Big
4. Informer - Snow

I know we aren't supposed to list honorable mention, but if we could I would give Rump Shaker - Wreckx-N-Effect.

[BrianD]

1. The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
2. Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy"
3. Deep Blue Something - "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
4. Semisonic - "Closing Time"

This is a good list. I might like it better than my own.

[Daimyo]

I don't think you can call Fastball and The Wallflowers being one hit wonders. They scored well on the pop charts and they had significant radio time on alternative rock stations.

[ISiddiqui]

Crap, if we can do honorable mentions:

HM: Spacehog - "In the Meantime"

[Jonathan Ezarik]

I know we aren't supposed to list honorable mention, but if we could I would give Rump Shaker - Wreckx-N-Effect.

Great. Now I have that damn song stuck in my head.

[cartman]

Well, if two of mine get chiseled off, I had these two in the warmup circle:

Deee-Lite - The Groove is in the Heart
Everlast - What It's Like

[Maple Leafs]

Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Right Said Fred - I'm too Sexy
Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

[Maple Leafs]

1. The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
2. Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy"
3. Deep Blue Something - "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
4. Semisonic - "Closing Time"
You spent a lot of time trying to get laid in the 90s, didn't you?

[ISiddiqui]

I spend a lot of time trying to get laid in every decade! :cool:

[BrianD]

Great. Now I have that damn song stuck in my head.

Sorry about that. I actually bought that CD since I liked the song (for a week or two) and never liked any other songs on the CD enough to listen to them.

[Swaggs]

List of U.S. #1 hits from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_%28United_States%29

Looking through those takes me back.

[Maple Leafs]

Crap, I forgot EMF's "Unbelievable"!

[BrianD]

Harvey Danger's Flagpole Sitta would be a good choice too.

[Groundhog]

Harvey Danger's Flagpole Sitta would be a good choice too.

Good choice, forgot about that one.

[Groundhog]

I think Fastball should stand too. I vaguely remember seeing another one of their film clips and hearing another one of their songs a few times, but The Way was a massive hit, and nothing else they released came close. Your average joe would be unlikely to name any of their other songs, so I consider them worthy of the one hit wonder status.

[Rizon]

This thread brings back memories.

[hoopsguy]

1. Haddaway - What is Love?
2. Paperboy - Ditty
3. Soup Dragons - Divine Thing
4. Divinyls - I Touch Myself

[Lathum]

Peaches- The Presidents of The United States of America
Bitch- Merideth Brooks
Closing Time- Semisonic
Fast Car- Tracy Chapman

[Groundhog]

Peaches- The Presidents of The United States of America
Fast Car- Tracy Chapman

I call these two. The Presidents had, at the least, two big hits: Peaches, and Lump. Dune Buggy and Kitty were also big over here, maybe not in the States.

I also don't think I've ever heard Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, but her Give Me One Reason was huge.

[Lathum]

I call these two. The Presidents had, at the least, two big hits: Peaches, and Lump. Dune Buggy and Kitty were also big over here, maybe not in the States.

I also don't think I've ever heard Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, but her Give Me One Reason was huge.

I'll give you peaches but not Chapman :)

[Klinglerware]

I call these two. The Presidents had, at the least, two big hits: Peaches, and Lump. Dune Buggy and Kitty were also big over here, maybe not in the States.

I also don't think I've ever heard Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, but her Give Me One Reason was huge.

Agreed on both counts. It wouldn't even be that crazy to say that "Give Me One Reason" was a bigger hit than "Fast Car"--since by the time "Give Me One Reason" came out, Chapman wasn't such a risk to put on the radio anymore...

...and wasn't Fast Car an 80s hit?

Speaking of which, that could be another interesting list: 80s songs that plausibly sound like/people mistake for 90s hits, and vice versa...

[Tigercat]

Gotta go with
"The Freshmen"
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"

for sure, those two songs get significant airplay even today. Two crappy "songs" to round off my list:

"Who let the dogs out"
"Macarena"*

And an honorable mention for a song not mentioned here:
"How Bizarre" I don't even have a clue who sang it.

*May not count because if I remember correctly it was remixed and released at least a couple of times prior to its popularity.

[sabotai]

Biz Markie - "Just a Friend"
Harvey Danger - "Flagpole Sitta"
House of Pain - "Jump Around"
Tal Bachman - "She's So High"

[hoopsguy]

Pretty sure "How Bizarre" is OMC.

Not to be confused with OMD, who is neither a one hit wonder or a 90s artist.

[bhlloy]

Funny how the UK and the US charts share so much of the music, but at the same time some things just don't translate over. For example, the Verve were one of the biggest indie acts of the decade and Semisonic were pretty big as well, but they seem to make quite a few peoples lists. I had also thought Sinead O'Connor was huge on both sides of the Atlantic.

How Bizarre might be the best one I've seen so far. I don't actually know if they ever made an album but that song is catchy as hell. The Macarena of course is up there as well.

[bhlloy]

DOLA - OMC stands for Otaria(?) Millionares Club, which I believe is the area of New Zealand they came from. Thank you VH1's pop up video - it's scary that 10 years later I can still remember these kind of facts but very little of the stuff I learned in college.

[Ryche]

Los Del Rio - Macarena
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
MmmBop - Hanson

And my honorable mention because they keep playing it on the station I usually listen to:

Toadies - Possum Kingdom

For the Crash Test Dummies, I usually think of the Superman Song, but I don't think that was ever as popular as Mmmmmmmmmmm

[Shkspr]

If the Macarena and Who Let the Dogs Out can make it onto Mount Rushmore, you can't keep Lou Bega's "Mambo Number Five" off the list.

[Izulde]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the best whiteboy rap song ever.

Yes, none other than...

Snow "Informer"

[Grammaticus]

Cracker - Low

Blind Melon - No Rain

[stevew]

Scatman John- Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)
Whoomp!(There it is)
Chumbawumba-tubthumping
Donkey Butt-whomever sung that.

[stevew]

Did any of the other songs chart very high, if at all? The only one I vaguely recognize is 6th Ave. Heartache. If you ask someone to name a song by the Wallflowers, I'm guessing at least 95 out of 100 would name One Headlight.

edit: according to Wikipedia, the only other song by the Wallflowers to chart was 6th Ave. Heartache at #33.

They play at least 3 different Wallflowers songs on the Muzak at work, so I'd hardly consider them a typical "one hit wonder" band.

[klayman]

For the Crash Test Dummies, I usually think of the Superman Song, but I don't think that was ever as popular as Mmmmmmmmmmm

They also charted with Peter Pumpkin Head off the Dumb and Dumber(?) soundtrack, I think. They had massive air time in Canada.

Snow had another hit in the '00s, so I don't know if that counts. Again, could be just a Canadian thing.

[MJ4H]

I can only think of 3 really, so I will just throw in Tubthumping with the other 3, 2 of which have already been mentioned here and I completely agree with.

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
2. I'm Gonna Be - The Proclaimers
3. Absolutely (Story of a Girl) - Nine Days
4. Tubwhatever

[BrianD]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the best whiteboy rap song ever.

Yes, none other than...

Snow "Informer"

Well, except for me...in post 18. :)

[Maple Leafs]

I also don't think I've ever heard Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, but her Give Me One Reason was huge.
Actually, a neat piece of music trivia is that Tracy Chapman holds the record for longest amount of time between #1 singles. She had two #1 hits, and about a decade between them.

[Warhammer]

Compare the 90s #1 hits and the length of time they were at #1 with the 80s and it is astonishing. Is that a sign that mainstream music in the 90s was heading downhill or what?

[VPI97]

3. Soup Dragons - Divine Thing
Wouldn't call them a one hit wonder. Their cover of "I'm Free" got a ton of airplay.

[Warhammer]

My Mount Rushmore:

1) I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
2) I Touch Myself - Divinyls
3) Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
4) Mambo #5 - Lou Bega

HMs to:
"The Freshman"
"What's Up?"

[Klinglerware]

Compare the 90s #1 hits and the length of time they were at #1 with the 80s and it is astonishing. Is that a sign that mainstream music in the 90s was heading downhill or what?

I don't know if I would agree with that, one could also say that it is a sign of strength, that there are multiple strong singles out there that could compete.

Also, it's hard to compare the two decades based on charting, since Billboard has changed their methodology several times in the last two decades (to reflect changes in technology that make data collection easier).

Also, weren't the longest lived #1 hits released in the 90s. Memory is hazy, but I recall that Whitney Houston's recording of "I will always love you", "One Sweet Day" w/Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, and the Princess Diana tribute were up there...

[CU Tiger]

2 others I thought of this AM

Soul Asylum - runaway train ( do they qualify? can black gold really be a #2 hit or am I forgetting someything else?)
Coolio - gangsta's paradise i know he had other songs but nothing near as big...well except his hair do

Opinion do either of these count?

[Warhammer]

I don't know if I would agree with that, one could also say that it is a sign of strength, that there are multiple strong singles out there that could compete.

Also, it's hard to compare the two decades based on charting, since Billboard has changed their methodology several times in the last two decades (to reflect changes in technology that make data collection easier).

Also, weren't the longest lived #1 hits released in the 90s. Memory is hazy, but I recall that Whitney Houston's recording of "I will always love you", "One Sweet Day" w/Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, and the Princess Diana tribute were up there...

But that is my point, if you have only a few songs at #1, either they are really good songs, or the other songs out there are not good enough to knock them off the perch.

Comparing the #1s from the 80s and 90s, I'm more inclined to think that songs weren't good enough to knock the other songs off.

[BrianD]

Soul Asylum - runaway train ( do they qualify? can black gold really be a #2 hit or am I forgetting someything else?)

Black Gold, Misery (top 20), String of Pearls.

[Dr. Sak]

New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Tonic - If You Could Only See
The Rentals - Friends with P
Nada Surf - Popular

I was going to add Toad the Wet Sprocket with Good Intentions but I forgot about All I Want.

[Klinglerware]

But that is my point, if you have only a few songs at #1, either they are really good songs, or the other songs out there are not good enough to knock them off the perch.

Comparing the #1s from the 80s and 90s, I'm more inclined to think that songs weren't good enough to knock the other songs off.

To get back to another point, you can't really compare the two decades based on the singles chart, because the methodology for determining the rankings were different in the two decades.

In the 80s, Billboard still relied on surveying radio stations and record stores (often self-reported information) to determine singles performance. This changed in the 90s, with the advent of scanner-sales data and computerized monitoring of media broadcast. It took Billboard several years to find the right methodological mix, once scanner sales were introduced into the calculation.

Also, the 90s were interesting in that so many songs that received airplay were never released as singles (in an attempt to boost album sales). For many years, a song could not be on the Billboard Hot 100 chart if it was not released as a single. "Stairway to Heaven" is cited as a classic example of this--that song was very well regarded, but never was released as a single, so there is no chart information for that song. Billboard changed the policy in the late 90s to counteract the "airplay only" phenomenon, and the fact that with the advent of the digital download, people weren't buying singles in record stores anymore. (I think digital download is now in the calculation these days, but I'm not sure).

[stevew]

2 others I thought of this AM

Soul Asylum - runaway train ( do they qualify? can black gold really be a #2 hit or am I forgetting someything else?)
Coolio - gangsta's paradise i know he had other songs but nothing near as big...well except his hair do

Opinion do either of these count?

Fantastic voyage by Coolio hit #3 on the hot 100, so I would say no.

[Klinglerware]

Funny how the UK and the US charts share so much of the music, but at the same time some things just don't translate over. For example, the Verve were one of the biggest indie acts of the decade and Semisonic were pretty big as well, but they seem to make quite a few peoples lists. I had also thought Sinead O'Connor was huge on both sides of the Atlantic.

How Bizarre might be the best one I've seen so far. I don't actually know if they ever made an album but that song is catchy as hell. The Macarena of course is up there as well.

Good point about the differences--popular musical tastes aren't always the same from country to country. Even US to Canada, I always thought the Canadian chart was much more euro-pop oriented compared to the US. Somewhat related, the Proclaimer's song wouldn't be considered a 90s one-hit wonder in the UK, since it was actually first released in the 80s over there.

[Green Caesar]

List of U.S. #1 hits from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_%28United_States%29

Looking through those takes me back.

I was strolling along remembering every song until I hit this in 1994:
<TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>December 17 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_17)</TD><TD>Here Comes the Hotstepper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Hotstepper)</TD><TD>Ini Kamoze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ini_Kamoze)</TD></TR><TR><TD>December 24 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_24)</TD><TD>Here Comes the Hotstepper</TD><TD>Ini Kamoze</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
I have no recollection of that song ... nothing.

My list:
"The Freshmen" - The Verve Pipe*
"Popular" - Nada Surf
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Somthing
"Possum Kingdon" - Toadies

*Used to catch The Verve Pipe shows when I was at Michigan State. They were a great live band. When I caught them later after "The Freshmen" broke big, they had glammed out and their live shows went downhill. Trivia note: the lead singer Brian Vander Ark played the bassist in Marky Mark's band in Rock Star. (The band before he became a rock star.) He also wrote the "grunge" song that Marky Mark sings at the end to win back Jennifer Anniston.

[Ksyrup]

I was going to add Toad the Wet Sprocket with Good Intentions but I forgot about All I Want.

Walk On the Ocean and Something's Always Wrong actually out-charted Good Intentions. And of course, All I Want was their biggest hit.

[Ksyrup]

A great example of this is Dexys Midnight Runners. No one would say that they were not a one hit wonder with 'Come on Eileen'. But they had several other songs in the Top 20, in the UK at least.

I just happened to catch the end of the Top 100 One Hit Wonders of All Time hosted by Shatner and run on VH1 originally in 2002, and Dexy's was in the top 3, IIRC. So yes, I'd say there's at least someone who would consider them to be a One-Hit Wonder.

[BrianD]

Walk On the Ocean and Something's Always Wrong actually out-charted Good Intentions. And of course, All I Want was their biggest hit.

Wouldn't Fall Down be high on that list too? I seem to remember that one getting a LOT of play for a while.

[Ksyrup]

According to allmusic's Top 40 Mainstream charts:

All I Want - #4
Walk on the Ocean - #10
Fall Down - #24
Something's Always Wrong - #14/39
Good Intentions - #16/17 (I assume both this one and SAW went up and down a couple of times...?)
Come Down - #35

[Qwikshot]

How Bizarre" by OMC
Mambo No. 5 (a Little Bit Of...)" by Lou Bega
"I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred
"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot

[DanGarion]

Come on where is the Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy!"

:D

[Maple Leafs]

I was strolling along remembering every song until I hit this in 1994:
<TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>December 17 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_17)</TD><TD>Here Comes the Hotstepper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Hotstepper)</TD><TD>Ini Kamoze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ini_Kamoze)</TD></TR><TR><TD>December 24 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_24)</TD><TD>Here Comes the Hotstepper</TD><TD>Ini Kamoze</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
I have no recollection of that song ... nothing.

Then you have my sympathy.

Cha-cha-cha-CHING!

[Green Caesar]

Then you have my sympathy.

Cha-cha-cha-CHING!

Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I have now come to the realization that I do know that song ... I just never knew the name (or artist for that metter). I always thought that the song was called, "Lyrical Gangster" or "Word'em Up"

If you were in a strip club around that time ... you knew that song. :D

[RedKingGold]

Did R.Kelly urinate on Celine Dion after recording "I'm Your Angel"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_100_number-one_hits_of_1999_%28USA%29) I don't even remember that song, but apparently it was #1 for a short time.

[Dr. Sak]

Did R.Kelly urinate on Celine Dion after recording "I'm Your Angel"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_100_number-one_hits_of_1999_%28USA%29) I don't even remember that song, but apparently it was #1 for a short time.

Haters wanna hate, lovers wanna love, I don't even want none of the above.
I want to piss on you. Drip Drip Drip, Drip Drip Drip, piss on you

[cartman]

Toadies - Possum Kingdom


I was glad to see this song will be included on the XBox 360 version of Guitar Hero II.

[Grammaticus]

Bust a Move - Young MC

[cartman]

Bust a Move - Young MC

I had considered this song, but it came out in 1989.

[Lorena]

I love Here Comes The Hotstepper!!

Mine:

Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (True Like Dat) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-zLOvWfi4)
Biz Markie - Just a Friend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMU2qsJhvN0)
Candyman - Knocking Boots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q76IlF5HES0)
Ahmad - Back in The Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A40VF3_2Ubw)

Didn't the band Hole (Courtney Love) have a One-Hit Wonder?

[MartinD]

Am wondering how the Proclaimers make it onto this list - no-one's heard of 'Letter from America' (which reached #3 in the UK charts), 'Sunshine on Leith' or 'I'm On My Way' (as used in Shrek)? (and that's before getting onto 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' originally being released in 1988...)

(Information nicked from Wikipedia, for what it's worth.)

Martin

[Shkspr]

Am wondering how the Proclaimers make it onto this list - no-one's heard of 'Letter from America' (which reached #3 in the UK charts), 'Sunshine on Leith' or 'I'm On My Way' (as used in Shrek)? (and that's before getting onto 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' originally being released in 1988...)

(Information nicked from Wikipedia, for what it's worth.)

Martin

Things that happen in the UK don't actually happen.

[cmp]

All of these have probably been listed but these are my top.

My List:

The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Semisonic - Closing Time

[Ryan S]

Funny how the UK and the US charts share so much of the music, but at the same time some things just don't translate over. For example, the Verve were one of the biggest indie acts of the decade and Semisonic were pretty big as well, but they seem to make quite a few peoples lists.

The Verve were at the top of their game just before the split up, with their final four songs reaching the UK top 10.

Semisonic were more successful in the UK, with Secret Smile being their biggest hit by some distance. Closing Time and Chemistry also charted and got radio play.

I am sad to say that Right Said Fred managed four UK top 5 songs in the early '90s.

[Maple Leafs]

How have we made it this far without a mention of "I just want to fly" by Sugar Ray?

[Easy Mac]

They had a few other hits as well. The songs suck, but they charted well

[MartinD]

Things that happen in the UK don't actually happen.

Spoken like a true American - things that happen outside the borders of the good ol' US don't matter... ;)

Martin