I thought he was too shy.

Wow! That song brings back memories!! Gotta love the girl on the video!

Too Shy (new window)

darkhorse23: I thought he was too shy.

Hush hush.

Kerr Avon: darkhorse23: I thought he was too shy.

Hush hush.

eye to eye see what you did there...

The fourth seal has been broken.

Gotta love a band that thanked their hair stylist in the credits.

The lead singer got fired a couple of months after the song hit
#1, by phone.

How much of a douchebag do you have to be to have that done to you?

Let me add nothing to the thread to mention that they previously reunited a few years ago to re-record Too Shy for The Sims 2, in "Simlish". So only do the lyrics not make sense, they don't even make sense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_7TKiEnP0

Ha! Just when you thought their story ended.

They actually got a pretty good screwing form their record label.

steelpeg: Wow! That song brings back memories!! Gotta love the girl on the video!

Too Shy (new window)


FRom WIKI:

Personal life

Miller married Carolyn "Ali" Espley,[34] a former model from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on April 10, 1988. Espley is known as the girl in Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" music video. The pair lives in Santa Barbara, California, with their two sons, Holden (born 1990) and Marlon (born 1993).

Damn. Forgot to mention Dennis Miller.

Dennis Miller

Awkward headline.
Love,
Limahl

This looks like a never ending story.

I'd listen to the crappiest 80s one-hit wonder on an endless loop on a cross-country flight before I'd listen to most of the walrus dung you kids call music today.

From the caption under the picture: "Limahl, left, and his bandmates spilt up in 1983"

I'm sure they spilt up quite a bit when nobody was looking. I'm also pretty sure the hairdresser was involved in the spilting.

1) Too Shy
2) Too Shy (remix)
3) Too Shy (Club version)
4) Too Shy (Extended)
5) Too Shy (Dance mix)
6) Too Shy (1988)
7) Too Shy (Live)
8) Too Shy (12" Extended)
9) Too Shy (Alternate Version)
10) Too Shy (Bonus Video)
11) Another Song You've Never Heard
12) Another Song You've Never Heard
13) Another Song You've Never Heard

BunkoSquad: I'd listen to the crappiest 80s one-hit wonder on an endless loop on a cross-country flight before I'd listen to most of the walrus dung you kids call music today.

THIS

I love the bass line

The most unnecessary, disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s to have been crapped out of the UK and to now reform and torment us with that one song we can't stand is:

Flock of Seagulls?
The Vapors?
Thomas Dolby?
Power Station?
John Parr?
Big Audio Dynamite?
Cutting Crew?
M/A/R/R/S?
Gary Numan?
Soft Cell?
Gang of Four?
Haircut 100?
JoBoxers?
Dexy's Midnight Runners?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Godley & Creme?
Doctor & the Medics?
Modern English?

puckrock2000: The most unnecessary, disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s to have been crapped out of the UK and to now reform and torment us with that one song we can't stand is:

Flock of Seagulls?
The Vapors?
Thomas Dolby?
Power Station?
John Parr?
Big Audio Dynamite?
Cutting Crew?
M/A/R/R/S?
Gary Numan?
Soft Cell?
Gang of Four?
Haircut 100?
JoBoxers?
Dexy's Midnight Runners?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Godley & Creme?
Doctor & the Medics?
Modern English?

In my opinion, the phrase "one hit wonder" should only apply to bands that release one listenable song and then disappear.

Thomas Dolby, and Gary Numan do not belong in your list. Flock of Seagulls has a few good songs too.

Limahl was the one who did the Neverending Story theme, right?

puckrock2000: The most unnecessary, disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s to have been crapped out of the UK and to now reform and torment us with that one song we can't stand is:

Flock of Seagulls?
The Vapors?
Thomas Dolby?
Power Station?
John Parr?
Big Audio Dynamite?
Cutting Crew?
M/A/R/R/S?
Gary Numan?
Soft Cell?
Gang of Four?
Haircut 100?
JoBoxers?
Dexy's Midnight Runners?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Godley & Creme?
Doctor & the Medics?
Modern English?

List horribly incomplete without Link (new window)

puckrock2000: The most unnecessary, disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s to have been crapped out of the UK and to now reform and torment us with that one song we can't stand is:

Flock of Seagulls?
The Vapors?
Thomas Dolby?
Power Station?
John Parr?
Big Audio Dynamite?
Cutting Crew?
M/A/R/R/S?
Gary Numan?
Soft Cell?
Gang of Four?
Haircut 100?
JoBoxers?
Dexy's Midnight Runners?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Godley & Creme?
Doctor & the Medics?
Modern English?

Dude, Dexy's had two hits. And a pretty good sound.

Come on Eileen
I'm in Heaven

Ant: In my opinion, the phrase "one hit wonder" should only apply to bands that release one listenable song and then disappear.

Thomas Dolby, and Gary Numan do not belong in your list.

Ditto Gang of Four. Dexy's and Soft Cell are debatable too.

Ant: I love the bass line

Nick Beggs is a GREAT bass player. Fantastic chops.

Information Society*>every one hit wonder from the UK in the 80's.

*I realize they've had more than one song that charted, but damned if I care

The *song* kajagoogoo is pretty good.

/80s teen

Did somebody say disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s?

Link (new window)

elev8meL8r: Did somebody say disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s?

Link (new window)

Kinda had this thread in mind all along, methinks.

/tho' I think he had another one

MizzouGuy 2009-05-15 10:37:03 AM


1) Too Shy
2) Too Shy (remix)
3) Too Shy (Club version)
4) Too Shy (Extended)
5) Too Shy (Dance mix)
6) Too Shy (1988)
7) Too Shy (Live)
8) Too Shy (12" Extended)
9) Too Shy (Alternate Version)
10) Too Shy (Bonus Video)
11) Another Song You've Never Heard
12) Another Song You've Never Heard
13) Another Song You've Never Heard

Yup.

Big Audio Dynamite a 'one hit wonder'?

puckie you have no idea what you're posting about.

puckrock2000: The most unnecessary, disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s to have been crapped out of the UK and to now reform and torment us with that one song we can't stand is:

Flock of Seagulls?
The Vapors?
Thomas Dolby?
Power Station?
John Parr?
Big Audio Dynamite?
Cutting Crew?
M/A/R/R/S?
Gary Numan?
Soft Cell?
Gang of Four?
Haircut 100?
JoBoxers?
Dexy's Midnight Runners?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Godley & Creme?
Doctor & the Medics?
Modern English?

Pretty much all those bands are better and more important than Kajagoogoo, but Gang of Four?? Really?? Classic, influential, and relevant....

/fark the charts

LonMead: elev8meL8r: Did somebody say disposable one-hit wonder of the 80s?

Link (new window)

Kinda had this thread in mind all along, methinks.

/tho' I think he had another one

Yeah, I kinda remember he had another one that sounded just like the first one. (Or maybe it *was* the first one.)

puckrock2000: Godley & Creme?

Blasphemy.

Mega_Doof:2009-05-15 01:12:46 PM
Nick Beggs is a GREAT bass player. Fantastic chops.

I think that's the guy who toured with John Paul Jones in the mid '90s. I guess you have to be a pretty good bass player when you're playing for a bass player.

To all above: usually "one-hit wonder" refers to appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which tracks a combination of sales and airplay in the US. So for the bands I mentioned, a lot had influence, and may have had hits on alternative charts, but as far as Top 40 goes, they were one and done.

Orgasmatron138:

Dude, Dexy's had two hits. And a pretty good sound.

Come on Eileen
I'm in Heaven

"Come On Eileen" was a #1, but "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" never made the Hot 100.

Ant:

In my opinion, the phrase "one hit wonder" should only apply to bands that release one listenable song and then disappear.

Thomas Dolby, and Gary Numan do not belong in your list. Flock of Seagulls has a few good songs too.

OK, I'll concede on "Hyperactive" and "Wishing", but Gary Numan certainly never appeared on the US charts again.

mfaby: Big Audio Dynamite a 'one hit wonder'?

puckie you have no idea what you're posting about.

Well, their only appearances on the chart were "Rush" (#32) and "Globe" (#72). Not exactly big hits.

Dee Snarl:

Pretty much all those bands are better and more important than Kajagoogoo, but Gang of Four?? Really?? Classic, influential, and relevant....

/fark the charts

Actually, Dee, my mistake; Gang of Four never made the Hot 100.

mfaby: Big Audio Dynamite a 'one hit wonder'?

puckie you have no idea what you're posting about.

Well, their only appearances on the chart were "Rush" (#32) and "Globe" (#72). Not exactly big hits.

'One hit' means one hit.

Their weren't a singles band, any way.

ok, first of all, i cannot stand the song "too shy".

having said that, however, one of their ablums was actually surprisingly listenable: "extra play".

it was kinda groovy and funky, hard to peg what genre it belonged to. but if you didn't know it before hand, you would never guess the music came from the same band who did "too shy", that's how different it was.

won't be seeing them tour or anything, but that was a fun album back in the day...

Bow Wow Wow

Weigard: Bow Wow Wow

Still waiting for the follow-up supergroup T'Pau Wow Wow.

chickyraptor: Mega_Doof:2009-05-15 01:12:46 PM
Nick Beggs is a GREAT bass player. Fantastic chops.I think that's the guy who toured with John Paul Jones in the mid '90s. I guess you have to be a pretty good bass player when you're playing for a bass player.

2001, promoting The Thunderthief, opened for King Crimson. Beggs played Stick exclusively in the show, IIRC. And was awesome.

what's that? The Best 80s One hit Wonder you asked? well, okay...

You'd think someone would have learned by now.