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Aside from the inaccuracies -

I'd even put Van McCoy's "The Hustle" ahead of "The Macarena" anyday!         

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Hey, I'd put Van McCoy's "The Hustle" above many songs!!!  It's always been a favorite of mine!  ;)

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http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/100_greatest/one_hit_wonders/list_100-81.jhtml

the 100 greatest one hit wonders.. currently being shown this week.. very, very lame..

for some reason, they always forget that Men Without Hats had two hits, "Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes The World".. a quick look through the list of 80s stuff shows a few other glaring mistakes.. they claim their critera was only one hit to make the top 40, but I know for fact "Pop Goes the World" made it to 20..

do these people even bother to do research? I could come up with a more accurate list quicker than these people.. (I'd post one, but VH-1 has a history of "borrowing" from the site and never giving credit where credit is due)
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Get this, During the show they said Men Without Hats Had A minor hit in '87 with "Pop goes the world" so according to them #20 is a minor hit (I guess "Jeremy" by pearl jam was minor hit as well).  They also claim some others on the countdown had minor hits.

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Here are some I disagree on:

73.  "Convoy" by C.W. McCall (1975)

Hey, why don't you check the country charts!

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They wouldn't have to! all is they would have had to do is check the Hot100.  I don't think they should have included the Cardigans what about "Loosing my favorite Game".

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They wouldn't have to! all is they would have had to do is check the Hot100.  I don't think they should have included the Cardigans what about "Loosing my favorite Game".
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I suppose you never heard "The Old Home Fill-'er-Up & Keep On Truckin' Café"?

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I suppose you never heard "The Old Home Fill-'er-Up & Keep On Truckin' Café"?
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No, but i'm not a country music fan. But I meant even If VH1 was to lazy to check the country charts, but still checked the hot 100 they would find he had more crossover hits. as for the hit you named they just needed to check the hot 100 to see it #54 in 1974.

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the most obvious example would be their usage of my top 5 masturbation songs of the 80s for their pop up videos segment "self love songs", which used 4 out of the five on my list, in the same order too if I'm not mistaken.. (they replaced my #1 with Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" which has nothing to do with it)..

their "Where are they know" people actually called me once looking for more info than what was on the site. I wasn't too eager to talk to them, since I'm sure they've raided that portion of the site as much as they could in the past.. they were pretty rude on the phone too..
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Well, Chucky, imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery!  :)  Some lackey probably couldn't come up with an original idea, so 'borrowed' yours and took the credit.  

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Hey, I'd put Van McCoy's "The Hustle" above many songs!!!  It's always been a favorite of mine!  ;)
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I like Disco quite a bit, so it's definitely one of my faves in that category.  :)

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dagwood:  Because they are stupid, pathetic, fools who need to look in the dictionary for the word "hit."
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Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. ;D

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Too bad Chucky doesn't have his own channel, then we could all just watch that instead of VH1.  :)
Does anybody know what VH1 stands for??
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Video Hits 1.

Howard

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http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/100_greatest/one_hit_wonders/list_100-81.jhtml

the 100 greatest one hit wonders.. currently being shown this week.. very, very lame..

for some reason, they always forget that Men Without Hats had two hits, "Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes The World".. a quick look through the list of 80s stuff shows a few other glaring mistakes.. they claim their critera was only one hit to make the top 40, but I know for fact "Pop Goes the World" made it to 20..

do these people even bother to do research? I could come up with a more accurate list quicker than these people.. (I'd post one, but VH-1 has a history of "borrowing" from the site and never giving credit where credit is due)
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>:( >:(What's lame about one hit wonders is that they seem to think music started in the 80s.There's lots of 50s one hit wonders that were a lot better than the choices they had.Also,on music's most shocking moments,no mention is made of the Everly brothers having a fight on stage and breaking up(in 1973).I would say that's a little more notable than that group that took all their clothes off on stage and wore only strategically places socks to preserve their modesty! :oCheers!

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Oprah Winfery #1 of "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons"!?!
With other poorly ranked celebs.  :-/

Britney Spears #1 of "50 Greatest Teen Idols".
And The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Rick Nelson, Frankie Avlon, Annette, and (GASP) Madonna were omitted.

Not to forget an Eminem song at the top 5 position on "25 Greatest songs of the 25 years".
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;D ;DI think with the teen idols,they took theterm literally;Elvis and Madonna weren't teenagers in their heyday.Cheers! ::)

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What's lame about one hit wonders is that they seem to think music started in the 80s.There's lots of 50s one hit wonders that were a lot better than the choices they had.


Saddly, I think it's about demographics.  
Most kids (emphasis on most, not all) don't care about anything before the 80's, possibly the 70's since current artist will "sample" from song from that decade.  Therefore, they don't waste their's and the advertiser's presious time with anything that won't bring in that 13-25year old (or what ever it is these days) demographic and money.
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>:( >:(That sucks!They miss out on a lot of "classics" that way.Cheers!

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Too bad Chucky doesn't have his own channel, then we could all just watch that instead of VH1.  :)
Does anybody know what VH1 stands for??
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well, it's not on TV, just the Internet (and public access radio in Minnesota), but I highly recommend "Crap From the Past", http://www.crapfromthepast.com/  he doesn't just play the songs, he usually has interesting info about them, and also tends to find some really obscure stuff that even I don't know about...

I also have plans to write an 80s music trivia book.. I've been doing a lot of background work on it so far, but I may actually start to get it under way in a few weeks..

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I LOVE THIS SHOW---and highly recommend it to everyone.  Ron is the best and his knowledge of some of the obscure music blows me away...and he links to my website too!!

-Lisa