For me, it's Hey Mickey

Josie Cotton

Tarzan Boy

>>126912455 (OP)
The GOAT

>>126912455 (OP)
Ugly Kid Joe is my choice

Second runner up would have to be Video Killed the Radio Star

>>126912455 (OP)
12 million copies sold. Based moldovans

>>126912455 (OP)
The one and only true greatest of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWd__w5UWVc

My favorite song of all time from my favorite album of all time. The follow up was also good, to a lesser extent. Their prior releases sounded nothing like this, but they were always a good band to some degree. Absolutely CRIMINAL that this band isn't LEGENDARY, because they deserve to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ1tBVtYOBc

THE most successful one-hit wonder in history (yes, really, look it up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

>DO YOU THINK YOURE BETTER OFF ALONE

>>126912581
>>126913420
These are the two biggest ever, right?

>>126912455 (OP)

>>126912455 (OP)
radiohead - creep

>>126912455 (OP)
The Buggles

>>126912455 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

FUN FACT: a huge number of one-hit wonders disappear because they discover how incredibly horrible this predator-packed business is and want leave as fast as contractually possible: so they basically sabotage themselves.
some stay and find ways to deal with it
some times those ways are drugs and alcohol and so on

you know what they say:
friends don't let friends get involved in the music industry

>>126912455 (OP)
Gotta be You get what you give

Does Don't dream its over count? I know crowded house have other good songs, but none as big as that one.

THIS
this was massive in the mid 1970's
and then became a hit again the 90's when this video was made, iirc:

https://youtu.be/IATz8ZVTALo?si=e0yWN5h1zpSUQrgD

it's a true earworm.
bet you'll hear it in your head when you're trying to get to sleep tonight : )

>>126912455 (OP)
Yeah, don't see too many hits with references to anal sex.

>>126912455 (OP)
Edwin Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6I

>>126912455 (OP)
toni's career is funny cause she was in some really good 60s movies, but she had another single in the 60s that came with a neat short film that you need to personally seek out a screening for. it's funny how much she held back her weirdness to make mickey

Len - Steal My Sunshine
https://youtu.be/E1fzJ_AYajA?si=LZ1Ggt3gg7DJrYCU

>>126913674
This song just screams summer to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUg0Uj81tIE

>>126913430
is this crabcore?

Oasis

>>126913618
Yeah, it's just common sense that they reach they height of success allowed to them before they have to say "yes" to some very uncomfortable questions. And even if you back out, there are still strings attached. Forever.

>>126913618
>a huge number of one-hit wonders disappear because they discover how incredibly horrible this predator-packed business is and want to leave as fast as contractually possible
name five

>>126914300
found it online. love it
https://ubu.com/film/conner_breakaway.html

>>126913420
ok boomer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg

Marshall Crenshaw. Pic related is, objectively, the best album of the 1980s.

>>126912455 (OP)
Not my favorite, but I love Ghost Town DJs' My Boo. Not a genre I'm into but it's great.

>mogs any and all other one hit wonders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_msHpEa3_Y

>>126913646
Internationally I would say so, but they still had massive hits back in Australia/New Zealand.

The Knack - My Sharona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRLuIm2Bjgk

>>126912455 (OP)
I can't help but think of Christgau's comments about this

>>126920441
>>126914005
>But that question opened up the right can of whoopee. “People also think ‘Mickey’ is about butt-fucking!” Basil added.
>"So … is it?” we asked.
>NO! That’s ridiculous. Everyone reads shit into everything. It’s not about anything dirty. You change the name from boy to girl” — i.e., from “Kitty” to “Mickey” — “and they read anything they want into it! When it’s a guy singing about a girl, it’s a sweet line. But when a girl sings it, it must mean butt-fucking! This is how the wrong foot gets cut off when the doc wheels you into the E.R. Then it’s Micky Dolenz and butt-fucking.

>>126920441
>>126920503
I bet David Byrne fucked Toni Basil in the ass.

>>126920613
lucky man