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Sufjan Stevens
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J-Neli wrote:poor poor Marcy Playground...

did the B-52's have any other hits than Love Shack?
that was a pretty cool song though


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jimmie's chicken shack - high
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jimmie's chicken shack had a pretty sizeable hit with 'do right'..i never heard 'high' on the radio, though
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Post by ajk »

Ok, you guys forgot about one big one.

I'm not sure about in the States, but in Canada this band had a huge hit...

Chumba-Wumba.


Remember that "I get knocked down, but i get up again, you're never gonna keep me down.." song?

What the hell happened to them?
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yes i remember that one!!
you hit the nail on that one
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See, when you're a foreign band and you want to hit it big, you either have to have a normal name or extreme talent. Hence, Coldplay and Radiohead are big. Chumbawumba's Tubthumping was ok, but it was doomed to one hit wonder status. It was the song that you sing in a bar, before Andrew WK came around.
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