One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 40)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Forty weeks.

A lot can happen in 40 weeks. Hell, a baby can be conceived *and* born in that time!

And in that time, I've conceived and birthed the monstrosity that is known as the one-hit wonders of the 90s list. Yes, my dear reader, you've been the witness to history. Not only have you seen me make somebody laugh (something that has never been done in the span of human existence...or, well, my existence, anyway), but you've also seen me complete a 40-week project without *any* gaps.

That's right, my plot to take over the world has had many starts and stops

but these posts have come out like clockwork.

We have now reached the end of the line. Week 40. The final edition of...

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 39)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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It's almost here! You are now holding, in your cute little hand (if you're on an iPad or something, at least), the penultimate episode of the one-hit wonders of the 90s!

Are you ready for the extravaganza? The party to end all parties? You remember the Millenium, don't you? (I don't, but for other, more alcohol-related reasons).

This will surpass that! Easily!

The Rapture?

Ok, maybe it won't be *that* big, but you will be in rapture as you're reading it!

(Look at that. He's gone stiff with pleasure!)

(Note to self: check with psychiatrist about this whole "falsely building up expectations" problem you've been having)

Anyway, enough about next week. It's time for this week's edition. I don't want this week's participants to feel slighted or insulted in any way (even though they most likely all suck).

I don't want to play favourites, and I don't want them to think that they're being overlooked because of next week.

Though I do have to say that next's week participants do look awesome, don't they? Oh, yeah, you haven't gone to look yet, have you? GOOD!!!!

Actually, neither have I, so I could be talking out of my ass.

Which is actually quite painful and irritating.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 38)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Happy Halloween, everybody!!!

Yes, that time of ghouls and goblins, werewolves and witches (Disclaimer: no denigration of Wiccans or other "witches" is intended, inferred, implied, or any other "i" word that will keep the lawyers and ACLU off of my back).

Where was I?

Oh yeah.

It's Halloween!

Yes, that time of skeletons and zombies, jack-o-lanterns and vampires (Disclaimer: no denigration of residents of Transylvania, relatives of the real Count Dracula, or any other people with hematophagy is intended, inferred, implied, or any other "i" word that will keep the lawyers and ACLU off of my back).

Where was I?

Oh yeah.

It's Hallow....ah, screw it.

It's this week's edition of the One Hit Wonders of the 90s! *looks around for any lawyer types*

You know, I'm doing this post and I realize something. I say "Self," (because I always start talking to myself by addressing myself), "I'm hungry."

And then I get something to eat.

Now I'm ready to go!

As usual, you can find the list of one-hit wonders I'm taking this from here. Do you think if I glare at you, it will make you not look?

Yeah, that should do it.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 37)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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We all need distractions in our life, but some of them are worse than others. For example, I was going to start this post 20 minutes ago, but as I was getting all my tabs open (this page, last week's page, the one-hit wonders list, Youtube, Google), I got sucked into watching Youtube videos.

Mainly Zoe, because I'm addicted to Australian accents. It's kind of like heroin addiction, except without the needles.

Oh, and I guess without the bad effects on your body as well, though it does depend on who you're watching. I mean, you could be watching these guys.



So if any of you Aussies would like to call me...

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, it's time for this week's one-hit wonders of the 90s post! That hive of hilarity, that bevy of boisterousness, and the analog of alliteration that is the one-hit wonders. You think this guy's funny?

He don't have anything on me.

Of course, I also live in a world overrun by these:

So take it for what it's worth.

We're in the stretch drive of the 90s, heading into 1999 with full speed and no brakes! Everybody get your head inside the window.

As usual, you can find the list here.

And here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 36)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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It's Sunday again, and there are things I would rather be doing than spending 2 hours writing a funny ("HA!!! Funny? Now *that's* funny!" - The Peanut Gallery) post about one-hit wonders.

You know, things like this:

But, I know that you like this, so I am persevering! (That guy totally deserves it, though, so I may have to go take care of that later).

Yes, it's this week's edition of the one-hit wonders of the 90s. We're concluding 1998 this time, a special year for me. It was the year that my chronic rash finally cleared up.

Oh! And it was also the year I got married. Can't forget that.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here. I'm not even going to bother telling you not to go. I'll just let you know that if you *do* go, something special might be waiting for you.

Oh, sorry. That was me before the back-waxing.

I mean this.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 35)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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You know what upsets me?

Yes, the fact that while I have used gallons of Axe body spray, I have yet to be swarmed by nubile young ladies definitely upsets me.

I want my thousands of dollars back.

But that's not what I'm talking about.

No, what upsets me is what some of these artists in my one-hit wonders posts would think of me if they read what I say about them.

I mean, sure, Loreena McKennitt would love what I said about her last week. But what about that guy from the Verve? Would he want to pound my lights out for saying he was an asshole? (Though, *technically*, I just said he was being an asshole in the video).

In fact, I did get together with him last week and we talked things out. He made his points, I said his song sucked but that I still loved him anyway, and then dessert came.

And then he ate a dwarf!

I thought that was kind of uncalled for. So I ducked out on him and left him with the cheque.

Hey, he shouldn't have suggested I have the Prime Rib.

But I digress.

It's time for this week's edition of the one-hit wonders of the 90s! Yes, you thought it would never come. You can stop holding your breath now.

Don't do that again! I can't afford to lose any readers.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here. And I don't even care if you go look or not. I'm beyond caring.

Hey, how'd that get in here! I've been hacked!

Oh well. I'll deal with it later.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 34)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Has it really been 34 weeks since this whole thing started? Somehow I have trouble believing that. Not that this series has been going on so long, but that I've managed to do something on a weekly basis for that long, without missing a beat! I don't think I've ever done anything else that regularly (and successfully) besides run of the mill things like going to the bathroom and popping zits.

Ok, maybe not the popping zits part.

34 weeks? That's, like, 20 billion years or something!

Give or take.

Anyway, we're nearing the end of the decade, and I have to start seriously thinking about what I'm going to do next. I mean, there might only be six to eight weeks left before I'm done! My mind moves slowly.

But it always gets where it needs to be!

So what should I do to celebrate when I finish?

Get my hair done?

Or my nails?

Or maybe just do my civic duty and make sure that these guys shut up?

Let me know!

You can see where I'm taking this list from here, and you can even go look yourself if you want. I'm running out of pictures to post.

How'd he get in here! Scram!

And that is *so* not true...

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 33)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Hello! And welcome to this week's edition of the one-hit wonders of the 90s. The weekly show that's so regular that it doesn't even need the fiber supplement I put it on.

You know, just to make sure. It often asks me about that "not so fresh" feeling too, but I tell it to talk to it's mother about that.

Anyway, we're now entering the glorious year of 1998! If by "glorious," I mean "maybe not quite as irritating as previous years."

We're nearing the end of the decade, and it's been a long haul. Sometimes, I feel like I've been run over by a truck.

But I puff myself out and persevere! Other times, I just do my favourite activity



Kindred spirits, we are!!

You can find the list of songs here. I'm not even going to bother telling you not to go look ahead of time.

We all know how well you listen.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 32)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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I hope you enjoyed last week's post from my past self. Imagine my surprise (and horror) to find that, when I reached the future I had been talking about, it really wasn't any different than what I was experiencing then. Hell, there weren't any rocket packs or air cars! I couldn't believe that so little had changed in such a long time.

I mean, people still care about what Paris Hilton does. What's up with that?

Anyway, with the NFL football season starting up, things are going to be a bit hectic on Sundays from now on. I'm hoping that there will be no disruption in the regular programming, but I just thought I would warn you in advance. We've got NFL Sunday Ticket, so I get to watch my Steelers play every week! Yes, even on a Bye week, because they are just that good. In crisp, clear High-Definition too! What could be better?

Ok, yeah, Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream might be, but other than that?

Oh, and just as an aside. If you watch Larry King Live on CNN, don't watch it in HD. His wrinkles have wrinkles!!!

With all that taken care of, it's time for the usual nonsense that passes for the slight bit of intelligence shown on this blog. Namely, the weekly one-hit wonders post! That grab bag of bad music, bad puns, bad jokes, and bad moods. And if they are that bad, why do I do this every week?

Because I'm bad. That's why.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here, but don't get ahead of me! I don't want to be in the line of fire if you have any gaseous incidents.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 31)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?

No, I don't work for Verizon. I just want to make sure that everybody can hear me, because this is a technical feat that's never been tried before.

This is a special edition of the One Hit Wonders of the 90s, because it's coming to you from...the past!

As I sit here writing this, I have to wonder what the world will be like when it finally gets posted. Will there be flying cars?

What about fancy computers and robots that can run trillions of calculations at once, until they go mad and wreak havoc! Until some courageous (and potentially unhinged) human being asks them to solve some logical conundrum?

Will we have solved our oil problems by creating vehicles that run on hot air?

Yes, I think about the future as I write this, and wonder whether anyone will be around to see what I'm saying. It's like a message in a bottle, with the hope that someday, in some way, somebody will read this.

And hopefully more than usually do.

Yes, it's a future edition of one-hit wonders of the 90s! Where the past meets the future in something similar to the present, or maybe the past perfect (or perfect past?) and the future imperfect?

Ok, now I'm confused.

But you won't be, after the next episode of Soa...I mean the One Hit Wonders of the 90s!

As usual, you can find the list where I'm taking these from here. I won't bother to tell you not to look them up ahead of time, partially because I know you won't listen, and partially because I've used up my allotment of stupid pictures.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 30)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Sometimes, I have no idea what to write in this space. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to write anything at all. Maybe I should just close up shop and move on?

Some would say I should definitely go with that idea.

But it's these times of indecision, my trying to decide just what my readers might want to read (and that's what readers do, you know...read), that I go to my agent and just bounce ideas off of him.

What? You didn't know bloggers could have agents? Of course we can! How do you think we get those pennies that we make!

Anyway, I bounce ideas off of him, but I'm not sure if he's ever *really* helpful.



After that, I come back and just write crap like these one-hit wonders posts.

*whispering from off-stage*

What? Oh, ahem. Sorry. These *wonderful* one-hit wonders posts.

Welcome to this week's edition of the one-hit wonders of the 90s!!! That weekly series where I look at the one hit wonders of the 90s (gee, I think I should make the title a little less obscure) and laugh at them. Or laugh at myself laughing at them. Or laugh at my laughing at myself laughing at them.

Or something like that.

Due to travel, this week's edition is coming out on Saturday rather than Sunday. But don't worry! Even though it's on the wrong day, it will still be bad.

As usual, you can find the list of songs here. But don't worry if you mistakenly click on that link before I'm done. I'm very calm, cool and collected about that, since I've been seeing my therapist.

And here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 29)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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It's a lazy Sunday morning here in the Roy household, and I don't want to be doing this. The thought of sitting here for almost 2 hours, listening to bad music and trying (and usually failing) to be funny.

No, there's something else I'd rather be doing...



Ahhhhh, now I feel rugged!

Though I don't think I'll ever be as rugged as these guys.

But I can try!

It's time for this week's installment of the one-hit wonders of the 90s. We're approaching the pearl anniversary of this weekly show, and you can make out your million dollar gifts to "Dave Roy" at the Money-Hiding Bank, Wengen, Switzerland.

Or you can, oh, I don't know, leave a comment if you're so inclined. That could work too. And hey, if you stumble upon these posts and spend an hour or two reading them all, how about letting me know what you think? Did you find them funny? Or were you just watching the videos?

A guy's gotta eat, you know.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here. But don't you dare look before I'm done! Otherwise, this might get you:

Whoops! That's me when I've been out of the sun too long. I thought I had trashed that picture.

I meant this might get you:

And here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 28)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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I had a dream last night. No, it wasn't that S.E. Cupp and Lauren Sivan were both sitting in the "Legs Chair" and smiling at me, slowly unbuttoning their blouses while they were pontificating on the news of the day (though that would be a pleasant dream, but I won't continue down that road due to the readership of this blog).

Instead, it was that every artist that I've made fun of in one of my one-hit wonders posts decided to band together like some super-villain group in a comic book.

They all banded together and were going to do dastardly things to me (as opposed to truly evil things, because super-villains are always dastardly). But then the Justice League burst into the building just as the creeping laser beam was almost to my crotch ("Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Roy, I expect you to DIE! Or, you know, just be seriously inconvenienced.") (Yes, even in my nightmares, people are kind of nice to me). They made short work of these horrible villains (Spider-Man started making puns about their bad singing, and did I mention he was there too?).

Then, to top it all off, we went camping and had S'Mores!

What could be better than that?

How about this week's one-hit wonders post? Yeah, that might do it! (This week's segueway brought to you by the letter "Q" and this doofus)

Yes, the weekly post that's more regular than something that's regular (and you know that's really regular, if you think about it). We're heading into 1997 now, the home stretch, you might say!

Or....you could say that we probably have at least 15 more weeks of this shit.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here. I'm too bored to tell you not to go look.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 27)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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It's Sunday! And you know what that means. No, it's not time to retire this really lame joke that I've used way too many times before. Though I really should, you know. Give it a retirement party and everything.

I know! I'll call all of its friends, making sure I include those joke emails that have been sent around again and again and again until everybody in the world except somebody living in remote Indonesia has seen them. But I'm not going to call the knock-knock jokes. We have standards, and I don't care whether this joke wants them there. I'm just not going to do it. It can call them itself if it really wants them there.

But there will be cake.

Where was I?

Oh yeah! It's time for this week's edition of the weekly One-Hit Wonders of the 90s! That mainstay of your Sunday morning (or afternoon, considering the only fans of this one who read it on the day it's posted are out East). That bedrock in your life. More dependable than your loving husband or wife! (But it doesn't do windows or gutters). The show that has lasted longer than some TV series, faithfully showing up week after week like a druggie that needs his hit.

Is this where I tell you I'm going to miss a week in September? Well.....maybe not. We'll see.

(this picture has been posted by the Society of "GET TO THE F-ING POINT!")

So sit back and enjoy the last of 1996. We're getting into the home stretch now! Hold on to your hats, because it's gonna be a doozy! (Disclaimer: Said doozy may or may not happen, as the creator of this blog has not actually listened ahead, and thus no guarantee of a "doozy" is actually implied or inferred (or whatever the hell word you use) and thus, the blogger reserves the right to be a loser (not that this is anything different than usual, and why am I using so many parentheses?) and be wrong)

There, now that we've got the legalese out of the way, you can find the list here. And I'm not even going to bother threatening you if you go look ahead. It's not like you listen anyway...

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 26)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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As I sit here staring out of the window, contemplating my place in the universe (and avoiding actually doing any writing, except that I'm writing this right now, but if I'm writing this right now then I'm not just sitting here staring, which means....which means I have a headache), a myriad of thoughts run through my head all at once, like a bunch of cars hitting an intersection at the same time because there are no stop lights. Crashing and burning in my mind, disappearing in a puff of smoke almost before I can wrap my head around them. Is this what life is reduced to? Can I aspire to more? Maybe help out with this economic crisis somehow? Or bring about world peace? (Nah, not the last one...I don't look good in a Miss America tiara, though that dress on the other hand...). Maybe just making sure that I leave the world a better place than it was when I found it?

And can any of that measure up to doing a weekly one-hit wonder post?

I think not.

So I shall continue! The fan out there who was beginning to worry can rest assured. I am never going away.

Not without a restraining order, anyway.

It's time for this week's one-hit wonder post! Where I look at a series of one-hit wonder songs that were popular in the 90s and generally make fun of them. Or make fun of me. Or, usually, both. And you get to play videos for hours on end! It's been gratifying to see some visitors recently find one of these posts and spend the next hour or so going through all of them. Really does make these seem worthwhile.

You should really stop enabling that part of me, you know. I may have to put on my happy face.

And you know you wouldn't want that.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here. But you know you don't want to go look. In fact, you're getting verrrrrrry sleepy.

Hey, wake up!!! You've got some videos to watch.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 25)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Yes, I know I'm late. But I can explain. See, I was getting ready to do my weekly one-hit wonders post, but I decided to go outside and investigate this really large semi-truck trailer that was sitting outside of our building. So I hopped on my trusty Segway to check it out!

Little did I know that whoever parked this in the lot outside had hired an Amazon army as their security! When they caught me, I tried to get away, but it just didn't happen.

I think they released security footage of it.



You can hear the security chief narrating the whole thing. Sounds like a real hard-ass, doesn't he? "Don't grab him!" I'm sure he would rather they just shot me instead.

And sadly, once I was in their custody, I had a hard time breaking out. Thankfully, they didn't confiscate all of my stuff, and I was able to don my handy disguise...

Reach my alternate transportation...

And get away. Sadly, the Segway was trampled in the initial scuffle.

That makes me sad.

But I am happy that I am still able to bring you some one-hit wonder goodness! As usual, you can find the list of songs here.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 24)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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After a night of drunken debauchery otherwise known as the weekly Vancouver Public Library Book Club meeting (What? We were discussing the relative merits of Thomas the Tank Engine), it's hard to get up and get going on this beautiful Sunday morning. But I shall persevere.

Why?

It's not just because the cat's sitting there looking like she'd make a great pair of mittens.

It's also because it's time for the next installment of the weekly post that's against the Geneva Convention in 13 countries. No, not Lindsay Lohan's "What Did I Do This Week?" scrawl.

It's one-hit wonder time!!!!

The hits that make me want to dance...

and sing...

and lots of other things that I can't really talk about (seriously, that restraining order is *so* constricting).

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these super-wonderful songs from here. But don't you dare check it out before I'm done. Otherwise, this will come and get you.

Whoops! That's me before I had my dental work done. I thought I had gotten rid of that!

I mean this.

Don't say you weren't warned.

Here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 23)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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As my earlier post today states, this blog is now one year old today! What does that mean? Well, it still shits in its diaper, but it's a lot more fun at Christmastime than it was last year. It might even be able to open its own presents (though it will probably just try and eat the paper). It might start walking soon, though!

One of the things that keeps me regular on this blog is the weekly one-hit wonder post! No matter what kind of blogging funk I've been in, I've been able to keep this up for a large number of weeks without missing one.

The other thing that keeps me regular is this.

Which can also help with funks of other varieties.

A good friend of mine over at Game Informer has come out against regular blog series because it's difficult to stick to the schedule. While I definitely agree it can be hard, sometimes it's what keeps you going, you know? Some weeks, I just don't feel funny, and I think that might show on the blog ("So you mean every week, right?" - the Peanut Gallery). But I know some of you enjoy them, so I work through it and get them done! Of course, some weeks when I'm done, I look like this:

But that could just be me.

This week, we speed into 1996, and it looks like it's going to be a good year! I actually recognize some of these songs. As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here.

Without further adieu, here we go!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 22)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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The heat wave has arrived!!! Yes, temperatures have reached the high 70s here in Vancouver, and people are sweltering. One citizen I stopped on the street to talk to said that it shouldn't be allowed to get this hot, as his air conditioning bill will go through the roof. He then proceeded to punch me in the gut and take my wallet. I guess he needed it more than I did.

I guess it was a rather rude question. I thought stepping on my face as I was writhing in agony was kind of adding insult to injury, though. What is happening to the senior citizens in our society these days, when they treat us like that???

But you know what's a good thing to take your mind off the heat? No, not holding the cat over the railing of your balcony until she shuts up (though that fantasy can wile away a few hours as well). It's listening to one-hit wonders!!!! That creamy mix of those songs that you love and wonder why the artist didn't continue on and the other songs that you wish could have been at Ground Zero of the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing grounds...BEFORE they were created.

This week, we close out 1995, and I can honestly tell you that I'm reasonably sure there is no rap this week. Yay!

There is, however, this guy:

I know he's a hit at the night clubs here. I'd dance with him.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here. I've totally relaxed on the issue of whether you can go look at this before I'm done or not.

Though that might have been last night's alcohol...

Anyway, on to #1!

One Hit Wonders of the 90s (Part 21)

Hello, dear reader. I have a favour to ask you. The original post begins after all of the asterisks, if you want to skip this.

Now that the One Hit Wonders of the 90s series is over, I'm not going to be doing my weekly revisiting of all these posts (I had to do that to add the new post to the bottom). Thus, I won't be able to catch any broken picture links or deleted videos any more. Yet I want these posts to be as good as possible.

Please, if you happen upon one of these posts, or if you take a walk through a whole bunch of them, let me know if you find anything that doesn't work. You can leave a comment, or you can send me a message using that handy "Contact Me" page linked above.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of the post or any of the videos!

Thank you.

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Happy Independence Day!!!

Yes, it's July 4, the day that Americans celebrate their independence from the evil British Empire (though in return we were given the evil bands Oasis, the Spice Girls, and Wham, so are we really any better off?)

Since it falls on a Sunday, you all are also given the latest one-hit wonders post. Aren't you thrilled? Hey, wait! Don't go back to Britain!!!!!

On a serious note, I do hope all of my American friends and family have a wonderful July 4, with lots of family time, fireworks (hopefully not between the family members) and great food. Barbecue for the win!!!

And don't be like this guy:

(language warning, not to mention almost offensive stupidity)



It's time for our next installment of the one-hit wonders of the 90s! The seemingly endless (though we're over half-way done!) series of posts with serious critical analysis of those songs that hit the Billboard Top 40 charts in the 1990s, only to have the artist disappear off the face of the Earth (ok, not *literally*). As the person giving that critical analysis, I really should dress the part.

Whoops! That's me at Richards on Richards last night.

Here's my reviewing outfit.

Yeah, sometimes this does give me a headache.

As usual, you can find the list I'm taking these from here. Because I've droned on so long, no threats this time. Just on to the juicy goodness!!