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Top 10 One-Hit Wonders
Lightning in a bottle, bottled exactly once. Ten perfect flukes.
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A pencil-sketch video and a falsetto that ascends to orbit.
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Come On Eileen — Dexys Midnight Runners
The key change of the century.
- 3
Two synth stabs, instantly recognized forever.
- 4
In a Big Country — Big Country
Guitars that sound like bagpipes, gloriously.
- 5
96 Tears — ? and the Mysterians
The garage-rock big bang.
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Video Killed the Radio Star — The Buggles
MTV's first, prophetic broadcast.
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Bitter Sweet Symphony — The Verve
They didn't even keep the royalties.
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Ça plane pour moi — Plastic Bertrand
Belgian punk bubblegum, inexplicably eternal.
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Spirit in the Sky — Norman Greenbaum
Fuzz-box gospel.
- 10
You already know the choreography. Don't pretend.