The Beach Boys - Kokomo

New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough

ThePanther said:

Oh, this one just came to mind. Another "hood anthem" LOL

What about some of these? Most are shit hop and I can't remember names.

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Whoomp there it is (Sounded like Whomp that ass) we get the joke already.

Fuck you - Eamon

Mr Vain - Culture Beat

Any German/Dutch rap type crap like Loubega and Pappa Bear, Germans should stick to mullet rock with ESOL lyrics and oompah music.

Snoop Dogg #1 Hit - forgot it

Missing u by Puff Daddy and some forgettable singing Shamikas called Tamiya or someshit.

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Other tacky shit

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Mississippi - Pussycat

Who let the dogs out - Baha Men

Thong Song - Cisco

Let your love flow - Bellamy Brothers (#1 When I was born in US, Mississippi in NZ)

Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cypress

Elvira - Oak ridge boys

All 3 Jive bunny songs that hit #1 in the UK in late 1989

The Bombalurina song about Bikinis

Everything I do for you - Bryan Adams

Gangstas Paradise - Cooleyoh and elvie

I will think of some other shit.

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Any Black eyed peas hits - Boom boom pow and my humps.

Vengaboys - any and all

Ketchup song by Asserjay or whatever their name (I am very poor with exotic names and acts)

That Russian lesbian song - All the things she said

December 1963, oh what a night.

My Sequioa by ??? (1970s I think)

All songs by NSYNC, STEPS, 5IVE, LIBERTY10, SCLUB7, NKOTB

Winds of Change - Scorpions

Cherry Pie - Warrant (Some late 80s hair metal was dreadful)

Spunilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

All Milli Vanilly songs

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Oh Lord, I'd almost forgotten about "My Ding-a-ling".... All the classic tunes Chuck Berry wrote, and it's a novelty song about his penis that ends up his only #1 hit in the USA.

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I actually don't mind "Kokomo". It gets a bad rap, ala "We Built This City" but whereas "City" is indeed crap, I think "Kokomo" is a pretty decent tune. I mean, it's cheese on a stick, but it's tasty cheese (and the lyrics actually make sense). Nice harmonies.

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"Achy Breaky Heart", anyone...?

ThePanther said:

Oh Lord, I'd almost forgotten about "My Ding-a-ling".... All the classic tunes Chuck Berry wrote, and it's a novelty song about his penis that ends up his only #1 hit in the USA.

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I actually don't mind "Kokomo". It gets a bad rap, ala "We Built This City" but whereas "City" is indeed crap, I think "Kokomo" is a pretty decent tune. I mean, it's cheese on a stick, but it's tasty cheese (and the lyrics actually make sense). Nice harmonies.

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"Achy Breaky Heart", anyone...?

kokomo is pure garbage. Achy Breaky could have been a decent country tune if it was called Achin breakin heart. It's the eee sound at the end of the ach and break that make it bad. Sort of like it's cool to be called called Joe, but you hate it if you get called Joey.

One song i can't believe reached number one spot is Family Affair from Sly and The Family; is my favorite from them,such a great song, but not the kind of song that reach number one; is quite somber.

Macarena. Hands down.

The New Zealand charts had a lot of questionable rubbish reaching #1, songs that would barely trouble the chart elsewhere were smashes here. Stuff like Eurodisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s. We seemed to love disco in the 1970s, but not good disco, just imitative Eurodisco. Chic and Donna Summer stayed out of the Top 5 but Ritz and Boney M ruled the airwaves here.

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Locomotion - Ritz (French/African disco group)

Cuba - Gibson Brothers (More Franco African disco crap)

Lady Bump - Gutta Werner

I can't stand the rain - Eruption (Actually not so bad, but the video is ridiculous, think Boney M with disco butterfly wings)

Hands up (Haut les Mains - versions anglaise) - Ottowan, this song from 1979 spent 7 weeks at number 1 in 1982!!

Monkey Chop - DanI (Have no idea where this song comes from)

Shiny Shiny - Hayze Fantayzee

Send me an angel - Real life

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Later #1 hits

Unbelievable - EMF, that annoying pommy accent - aarrrggghhhh!

Justified and Ancient - KLF

Anything by Jesus Jones, but the song that had the chorus oh zen zee, zen zahaa!!!

All songs by Bryan Adams

Black Velvet - Alana Miles

Bring your daughter to the slaughter - Iron Maiden - reasons why songs should be released at #1, that are crap and sink like lead rocks the next week

Little Sister - Ry Cooder - a number 1 hit here

Puttin on the Ritz by Taco (Gay as fuck)

Epic - Faith no more (I like this song, but not the way it rips off the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

All Nirvana and other grunge songs.

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

Pump pump it nice and hard - Icey Blue (There was a lot of trend chasing rap crap in 1989 and the early 1990s.

I would say my girl by Suave but it only reached #6 here.

Most musical acts between 1987 and 1991 who featured people with mullets.

Schnappi Schnappi Crocdile by ?

The gummi bear song -???

Crazy Frog - Axel F - ????

Stole my sunshine - Len

Cherish - Papppa Bear (Germanic Rap type song)

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Then there was our own home grown crap. Anyone heard of a song called Sweet Lovers by Bill Withers, a Wellington pub rock group gave it a Maori reggae touch, complete with the 400lb KFC eating guys with a huge mullet and the song spent 14 weeks at number one.

There was also a terrible Kiwi rock group called Push Push, who were sort of a mix between hair metal and grunge with a hit called Trippin in 1991. It really sucked.

Hey I used to like Owl City!

...and Adorecream, I used to like both EMF and KLF too!......

SeventeenDayze said:

Oh, this one just came to mind. Another "hood anthem" LOL

Those lyrics

SeventeenDayze said:

Oh, this one just came to mind. Another "hood anthem" LOL

Those lyrics

^^ Sorry for posting twice how that happen.

This one gets my vote:




And for those old enough to remember:

And for those old enough to remember:

Ayyyyy - whasa matter you! Ayyyy!

SHADDAUPYOUFACE !

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Love that song, sometimes the novelties are just great. It huge here and in Australia too.

Adorecream said:

And for those old enough to remember:

Ayyyyy - whasa matter you! Ayyyy!

SHADDAUPYOUFACE !

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Love that song, sometimes the novelties are just great. It huge here and in Australia too.

I liked it too, at the time. But years later it is kinda embarrassing that it was #1.

I've always liked Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", I'm not going to lie there.

Likewise, all Spice Girls singles are ace, seeing that they later got a mention in this thread.

As for Starship's "We Built This City", I didn't care for it at first, but came to appreciate the full-on, no-shame dance mix which I added to my dance-rock playlist: http://prince.org/msg/8/405547

Kokomo by the Beach boys, we had some DJ's here (New Zealand) make up a version called "Cocoa Mug" which poked fun at their age. It seemed in the mid -late 1980s, anyone in their 40s still performing was considered old and over the hill. The charts were littered with 21 year old hit makers. When the Stones reformed for the 1989/1990 Steel Wheels Tour, people joked and called it the "Steel Wheelchairs Tour". I mean Mick Jagger was 46 and Ronnie Wood was barely in his 40s. Only Bill Wyman was considered old at 53, and he was heaped with hate when he married Mandy Smith aged 19 in late 1989.

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Now its usual to see the same people STILL performing, the Rolling Stones are well into their 70s, Lionel Richie, Paul Macartney, Bob Dylan, 81 year old Bob Dylan and 90 year old Burt Backerack. Yet now no one cares if someone is like 75, they are not too old to rock and roll.

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I mean I found a 1990 music magazine, which made a joke about Tom Jones being 106 and Mick Jagger being 117 years old and that Aerosmith were way over the hill, because Steven Tyler was turning 42! Even Prince and Morris Day were described as over the hill when GB came out "These brothers are over 30, what do they know about the musical tastes of the youth?". Yet I believe Tyler is still happily performing today and he is in his late 60s.

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Even today most of the new artists with their first hit can be quite old, not are 28 or 30 and Sia, the new sensation is 40! People have become a lot less agist than they were. It is easy to judge a 45 year old performer when you are 13, but less so when you are 40 and the performer is in their late 60s. Prince is not even considered old by todays standards, and he is 57.

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Are people just naming bad pop records, and one-hit wonders that ended up as number ones, or are we just not naming artists we admire who had bad songs that went to number one? C'mon people. Prince, Michael, Mariah, Janet, Madonna, McCartney, all these artists had a shit-sandwich or two that ended up #1 at one time or another.