Posted on 02/18/2022 7:03:01 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Nothing to see here. Just an inebriated Gen Xer throwing out another lost hit from the 80s.
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I fully expect someone to post an article making the case that this group was somehow NOT a one hit wonder. They are.
All this time, I thought WHAM had done that song!
Either WHAM or The Human League, who did
“Don’t You Want Me?” in 1981.
The video was so tongue-in-cheek! Great work, and a fun little ditty apropos for the time
Haha, challenge accepted! Sorry, but you are wrong. Animotion was *not* a one-hit wonder. In 1989, they reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a second time, peaking at #9 to be exact, with "Room to Move", a song featured in the soundtrack from the movie My Stepmother Is an Alien. (I actually still have it on CD.)
Animotion had an additional Top 40 hit sandwiched in between their two Top 10 smashes, by the way. Their follow-up to the #6 single "Obsession" in 1985 was "Let Him Go", a #39 U.S. hit.
Lol. Well done! I remember that movie, but I don’t remember anything else by that group. Those electronic drums were quite the rage in the 80s; so was Kim Bassinger. Whew.
<< Lol. Well done! I remember that movie, but I don’t remember anything else by that group. Those electronic drums were quite the rage in the 80s; so was Kim Bassinger. Whew. >>
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Agreed on all counts, my FRiend! In fairness, Animotion had gone through so many personnel changes between 1985 and 1989 that they might as well have been considered a completely different band by the time "Room to Move" made its ascension up the charts. The trivia tidbit I most vividly remember hearing about Animotion while listing to Shadoe Stevens' American Top 40 weekly radio countdown show in the spring of 1989 was how the band's then-current actress/vocalist Cynthia Rhodes (of Stayin' Alive and Dirty Dancing fame) had just gotten married to singer Richard Marx. :-)
“Cynthia Rhodes (of Stayin’ Alive and Dirty Dancing fame) had just gotten married to singer Richard Marx.”
That is the most 80s thing ever. Stayin’ Alive. That was not good. Cynthia Rhodes couldn’t even save it
<< That is the most 80s thing ever. Stayin’ Alive. That was not good. Cynthia Rhodes couldn’t even save it. >>
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Yes! And you know what's ironic about that bummer of a film? It produced a *true one-hit wonder* on the music scene named Frank Stallone. That's right, the young brother of the legendary actor Sylvester Stallone scored his one and only hit, "Far from Over", off of the Stayin' Alive soundtrack, peaking at #10 in 1983!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-y78tM1Aw
Incidentally, Frank fancies himself as a conservative and was interviewed on Sean Hannity's radio show last year.
Good enough.
I am an 80’s metalhead, and I think even the pop music was better back then.
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