Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s

You may not love the song, but how can you not love the hair? It looked like a flock of seagulls had nested in this band's hair, leaving them with something that looked as though the band members may have put their fingers in an electrical socket.

Growing up in the 80s was definitely enhanced by the rocking anthem just begging to be repeated to your parents.

This is such a great song, it's amazing that this band never even had anything even resembling another hit. What happened to these guys? This is easily one of the greatest pop songs of the 1980s and I doubt there's a person out there who can name one other Soft Cell song.

Red flowerpot hats? How did these guys never hit the big time?

I'm starting to wonder if there were any hit songs in the 80s that weren't one-hit wonders! Frankie says relax, folks. With such a great marketing campaign you'd think they would've stuck around a bit longer.

This is another legitimately great song, that leaves you wondering what the heck happened to this band that they never could string together another decent song.

The amazing thing about this song is that it actually hit the Top 20 chart twice, once in 1980 and again in 1989. When Mardones was long forgotten, a radio station in Arizona, ran a segment titled "Where Are They Now? and played the song. Then a program director in Los Angeles, added "Into the Night" to his playlist, and suddenly radio stations across the country were playing "Into the Night" again.

This was the first video ever played on MTV, and sadly it was probably the only Buggles video ever played on MTV.

Possibly offensive, but totally catchy pop music.

Is this song good? It certainly is catchy, and if it came on the radio I wouldn't be able to stop myself from singing along, but at the same time it really is rather annoying and obnoxious at the same time. Oh, the 80s were so confusing!

Not only was this a great song, with one of the more memorable keyboard solos, but the music video was phenomenal also. A lowly waitress dreams that she is transported into the fantasy world of her comic book where she will be wooed by her comic book dreamboat. But wait! He's real!

This simple song reached became immensely popular, with the phrase "Don't Worry Be Happy" printed on just about any neon material that was available. And in the 80s that was a lot of material.

Apparently, q***r is a banned word on this website. While I don't appreciate censorship, I appreciate the hard stance against homophobia. Anyway, totally underrated and under-appreciated, this song asks some hard-hitting questions.

It's not surprising that Thomas Dolby never had another hit single, because to be perfectly honest this song is just plain weird. But enjoyable all the same.

It seems as though in the 80s they let almost anyone with a heartbeat produce a record.

If you can't be David Bowie, you might as well take a character from a David Bowie song and exploit it in your own mediocre pop song.

This is one of those songs that in hindsight it just makes you go, "huh??"