Like which one? Katrina and the waves? The knack?

@@ZapperRS oh man, a Katrina and the Waves episode would be awesome! I’ll take anything tho lol

@@TheAmazingBlackStar they're a band that truly deserved more. Their songs are amazing, really worth a listen. About the other band I mentioned, if their lyrics weren't so creepy, I would listen to them everyday lol

​@@ZapperRS Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

we just got 99 luftbaloons!

UnderdogRecords91 Ooohhhhh

Filip Materna it's actually true 😀

It's true.

Wow, that's quite good trivia

It's on the Wikipedia page. He's only briefly in it.

Absolutely. I didn't realise this before but Geoff Downes is the only consistent member of Asia for the band's entire history. Both of these dudes MADE IT.

If you didn’t know , he’s been Keyboards for Yes again since Rick Wakeman & Jon Anderson left the band again after “ Magnification “ in 2001 . He wears a cape I guess in respect of Wakeman. Trevor Horn produced the Yes album “ Fly From Here “ in 2013 which was mainly Buggles tunes from back in the day and is a good album compared to the Yes album after that. 👍.ps in my opinion Heaven & Earth is bloody lame . If it wasn’t Yes would anyone give it two listens ?

Trevor Horn basically invented the 80's so whatever

@@mariaquiet6211 Van Halen helped eith the 80s too along with Micgael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna and Motley Crue. How has he not done production work for them?

@@newforestpixie5297 It's worth noting that Horn also performed encores with them during I think one of their last tours before Chris Squire's passing, and actually recorded the vocals for the remastered version of Fly from Here at the urging of the rest of the band, so that's also pretty cool. It's kind of funny how, in the absolutely buck wild history of Yes, Downes and Horn seem like two of the most universally amiable guys… which, on top of their songwriting skills, would explain why they were drafted into the band in the first place.

And that Yes album was actually really good, considering it had The Buggles replacing Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman.

@@asusmctablet9180 And decades later, after yet another falling out with Anderson and Wakeman, Downes and Horn would again re-join Yes and record another album (Horn was initially only the producer, with Benoit David on vocals, but they would release "Fly From Here: Return Trip" a few years with Horn replacing David). It was also really good, though I sometimes seem to be alone in that opinion.

Same here!

@@Dahnlor Fly From Here is one of my absolute favorite Yes albums.

@@Dahnlor Did Yes ever get over that 2nd falling out with Anderson and Wakeman? Have they established any secure connections where it wont repeat?

Not quite as catchy.

You write commercials?

In short, modern music history exists because of a freakin' one hit wonder band living out the most WTF story in music to ever be told. Welcome to the American Dream. Guy sells a song with no expiration date, ends up being The Guy for the next 20-30 years.

I'm glad to hear that he's still preforming. His personal life has been very tough. :'(

Ironically, it happened in Britain.

I saw Nile Rodgers of Chic at a festival once and he basically did the same thing. It was amazing. "You guys like Le Freak? I wrote that, let me play it. How about Like a Virgin? That was me too. Now let me do Let's Dance. Oh and I know you all love Get Lucky, so that's next. If there's any time after that, I'll play Roam from that B-52's album I produced."

Considering his nationality, I'd say its the British Dream.

The Cycle continues

@@jackthorton10 Wu-Tang. Wu-Tang.

thank you oh my god

Yes. This. It’s not actually about music, but TV killing radio dramas and serials.

Well being the first video on mtv it was prophetic.

And then it turns out this is easily one of the most What The Fuck stories in music history... Is it safe to say this is the single most influential One Hit Wonderland entry on this list?

He seems very good at piano playing.

The piano was perfect. I believe I heard somewhere that he went to musical college

There's a video somewhere where Geoff Downes shows all the different keyboard parts going on in this song...it's amazing how much is going on. Downes is kind of an ass but I still like his work. He's been back in YES for years now. (I used to be a music critic myself and had a few go-rounds with him back in the day...he can be a most unpleasant fellow. But most rock stars are.)

Blue albums better...

The full album version with the keyboard/piano outro just is the cherry on top of this lovely, frothy all time classic !

Indeed.

DRAMA is a damn solid album. Close to top-5 YES for me. Saw them on that tour too!

Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit are amazing Yes songs 👌🏽

Have you heard "Have We Really Got To Get Through With This?" It was a cut song from the album and it's soooooo damn catchy

One of my all time favorite albums! To me, Drama ranks up there with Yes’s best.

Wasn’t there myself but I saw at least one photo of a fan at PC Music’s big SXSW coming-out party wearing a shirt with the ZTT Records logo - which was basically Horn’s attempt to do something similar back in the 80’s, and a _huge_ recommend from me (to whoever’s reading this) if you’re a hyperpop fan with any interest in pop music from a few decades ago. Horn & friends did production work for groups like Propaganda and Frankie Goes To Hollywood full of Fairlight CMI tricks that would still be sonically and conceptually impressive (if much easier, in a technical sense) coming from present-day audio software, packaged in sleeves as information-dense as any of the Web 2.0-core sites that PC Music designed for their songs. (If nothing else I’d highly suggest checking out the Grace Jones album that the ZTT crew made, which is just one monster hit single bookended by 40 minutes worth of experimental remixes built up from different parts of it.)

@@Champiness PC Music & ZTT fan here. 👋

Jim Morrison predicted the rise of music made with computers in the 60's. He saw that as the future of music.

@@colerieger7300 I'm not talking about music made with computers. I'm talking about music made to sound perfect and modern to an intentionally extreme degree, like this song. also "PC Music" is the name of an artist collective that makes similarly "perfect" pop music

if only hyperpop kept going with that deconstruction and didnt just become really shitty pop music. :/

It was also the start of the carieer of one Hans Zimmer, featured in the video playing keyboards.

Or go whole hog and INVENT a band. Pull a Gorillaz/Studio Killerz/Savlonic.

I know some have blamed MTV for the downturn Christopher Cross took after his huge debut. People liked him better as a flamingo.

If you want a clear example of this just look at Ca Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand. The actual singer is a small ugly french guy, he had to fight for the rights to his song because he had no way of proofing that it was him and not the young kid from the music video. here's a great video about it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r62ifcibnKe-f40.html

Same thing happened during the transition from silent to sound films. Some great silent actors ended up sounding dumb as hell, a bit jarring for audiences.

Like how I’d be crushed if I ever saw Todd’s face. I’ve built it up to be far too handsome in my mind for anyone to realistically live up to.

I'm not going to check ur channel but I have a strange feeling I've seen you in stuff relating to ddr

@@NoNo-rf4do correct

Now THAT would make an interesting future One Hit Wonderland episode!

Especially in the wake of AI now being used to make music.

Horn not only produced the song, he co-wrote it and played bass on it too

You can basically link all modern music to some combination of The Buggles and Deep Purple, since those two bands have touched just about EVERYTHING. Like, seriously: The Go-Go's -> Belinda Carlisle/George Harrison (guest guitar solo on her song "Leave A Light On") -> The Beatles/Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band -> Zak Starkey/A.S.A.P. -> Adrian Smith/Iron Maiden -> Janick Gers/Ian Gillan Band -> Deep Purple.

@@Kylora2112 I said it on another one hit Wonderland comment section but I've noticed pretty much the music industry is kind of ran by one hit wonders.

I really enjoyed it. Watching the Proles on Parade.

Yeah/nah, haven't we just paid our dues here?

I know I'm 5 years late but I can't recommend the album enough. I listened to it once because I was really into Yes and liked Video Killed the Radio Star and it just floored me even though it wasn't really my type of music at the time. Banger after banger. You can see how Horn became such a prolific hitmaker because he had the knack for writing incredible hooks.

I've been watching this channel for yonks, but never saw this one...until just having watched his new one on 99 Red Balloons! I think Nena is on to something with these conspiracy theories.

And now you find yourself in 1982 The disco hotspots holding no more charm for you You can concern yourself with bigger things to do (Ooh, ooh)

He should check out Thomas Dolby sometime, another one hit wonder with a gimmick of bad scientist who went on too bigger success but in tech instead.

So that's two prophecies fulfilled? If I meet him I'm gonna ask him to pick my lottery numbers.

same, just in 2015. just gotta throw in "Clean, Clean"

Horn is actually an amazing bass player

Oh hey its the comics reviewer whose name is Drake, ComicDrake.

I second this.

Oh totally!

Had much the same idea, so I'll agree to this!

Your puppy avatar reminds me of a Shy Guy from Super Mario 2.

'Top ten (not) one hit wonders!' Is a video that I would watch.

They did not make it to the year-end list with that song, but it did hit Number 32 at one point in 1999. Does that count as a hit?

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

+LeonheartDelta I would say it counts.

hamster dance ... MAHAHAHAHAhhahahahahah!

EmperorTigerstar nah, kiss me isn't a one hit wonder. they did there she goes too!

so sounds like xtc then.

sounds a bit like Madness

I would...absolutely listen to that.

90125 has some masterpieces on it. I hate fans who don’t understand bands must change with the times and make money, otherwise they will cease to exist

​@@trashyraccoon2615 Changes is a fantastic fucking song. Same with Owner of a Lonely Heart. One of my favorite pop songs

@@Aquatarkus96 Agreed! Leave It is also a huge favorite of mine on there

Trevor Horn clearly has a passion for music. He may not have the greatest voice, but he clearly knew what works and when.

You're saying He wrote the songs that makes the world turn?

nah. It would be a 10 hour, five-part special

Where are those toastyfrog prog band retrospectives? That sounds up my alley.

You'd need a 4-dimensional diagram just to keep track of the band members. The timeline of Yes' band members alone had to have it's own Wikipedia page.

I have since listened to Drama and the Yes catalog post Fragile and tbh, Drama is a good ass album and the songs Trevor Horne wrote for Yes are some of their best ngl.

Honestly you're kinda right. I say kinda because I like 90125 and Fly From Here. There's a better universe where Trevor Horne became a permanent writer for Yes and Union NEVER HAPPENED.

That is so cool!

Does he gave a website you can buy Bruce's stuff on? Interested to hear how he sent you an album.

@@Thomasmemoryscentral I don’t believe he does. He was nice enough to email them to me for free. Stand up guy ❤️

@@katherinewilkins3478 neat. Btw you notice that the beat to Clean Clean sounds as if it's a demo version of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell?

Quite carefully observed

Hey, nothing wrong with that! I found myself liking some of the other Buggles songs he showed too.

The whole first album is a masterpiece, with the exception of Astroboy. It's really innovative, and it's too bad that Todd glanced over how musically complex it was for pop music. So many interludes and new ideas introduced, and their songs rarely relied on repetition for very long. Two songs have kazoo segments (Living in the Plastic Age and Clean Clean), three songs have an outdo unrelated to the rest of the song (Clean Clean, Elstree, Johnny on the Monorail), and believe it or not, Trevor Horne is a hell of a bassist, going as far as to incorporate bass chords into their music. Their second album.... ehhh.

Gage beck I agree although I do feel the second album is a little underrated and would check out adventures in modern recording,on tv,rainbow warrior, and the bonus songs on the deluxe edition.I would also say check out technopop and jhonny on the monorail (the very different version) if you really like there songs Melissa. Also avoid beatnik, vermillion sands, and Astro boy , because they are not there best works but are decent.

@@garfieif8187 "The whole first album is a masterpiece" YES! "with the exception of Astroboy" So you have chosen death.

It makes sense after the initial shock wears off. Asia is a fun rock band, but there’s a corniness lurking underneath their riffs.

@@happypants9428 Can Asia qualify as a one hit wonder? In the 80s, they scored a few hits and yet, Heat Of The Moment is their highest charting and most known hit

Well, you could call The Buggles the owners of a lonely hit.

Love yes, Love the Buggles. But Buggles in my Yes is like Pickles in my Peanut butter,

YES.

shadowlinkbds I'm still waiting for Blind Melon "No Rain"

The Scatman - Scatman John

shadowlinkbds what is love isn't a one hit wonder in the US surprisingly enough. kinda like Rick Astley and Hanson

Nah, Scatman John had other hits

I wish I could pin this comment to the top

Watch the live version. Even if it was originally VTR, it's VCR now.

This song is in one of the "Just Dance" games and that even has the lyric as VTR.

I also always thought the line was "the country whined 'we've gone too far.'" Not so much. Whoops!

Oh, so I WASN'T mishearing it.

Octopus avatar? Niiice. I like In a Glass House a little more but Octopus is definitely among the best of the best.

I agree. Also, "Does It Really Happen" will be stuck in your ears for the next five years to come.

Machine Messiah IS pretty amazing, but Tempus Fugit?! Surely, you're joking!

Tempus Fugit is amazing. If Jon sang it, it'd be a Yes classic guaranteed

The whole thing was completely illogical, and yet it worked.

Katelyn Hill How interesting...

Katelyn Hill The Pillows are a great band.

I read that as 'The Middle East" and was thinking there must be a hell of a story there.

Aren't they the ones who did the music for FLCL? I don't listen to much Japanese music, but I really did like the music in that series. Especially that outro.

Hakajin yes! I honestly enjoy their whole discography.

He also mentioned King Crimson. Oh no

@@adamf.charles5857 Devo too

i love how Yes is now considered an anison band

​@@kfoley275and ASIA

How did that even happen?

Eddyoshi Serendipity!

Because he is a very intelligent man and knows exactly what to invest and put time into at any given moment. The guy is actually a god of Producing music. He can do basically anything.

'All The Things She Said' is cancer to the ears, no matter what language its in.

QJ89 I beg your pardon!

Internet killed the video star- The Limousines

Definitely the internet in general, Ebaums world, Newgrounds and Albinoblacksheep were already killing TV slowly before KZfaq came around.

Apparently ELO's bandleader got ahold of some demo tape Trevor Horn worked on before the Buggles and riffed off of it to make 1981's Time album

Yeah, when people talk about Malcolm McLaren's influence on hip-hop they need to note that he was basically the DJ Khaled of that album while Horn did all the work of making _Duck Rock_ an actual audio product you could listen to.

@@Champiness damnnnnn I actually loved that album, funniest story I head about about it was that they were gonna make World's Famous Supreme Team do a rap version of a amos and andy sketch, and they REALLY didn't want to do that so out of that fuckery they came up with Buffalo Gals instead

@@keyscored3710 Something tells me that idea was a McLaren Original™

@@jamieflowers1493 Yeah, tell that to Christopher Cross.

Been done by The Limousines in 2010. :)

makes no sense to me because most internet stars are becoming so because videos

It doesn't stand true though

@@mariamatedei As a general rule, you don't reply to comments this old -_-

How about Reality TV Killed Human Civilization?

Frahamen Jesus Rollerblading Christ!

Oh my god I thought you were kidding. Nope. He's in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

wolverineminer it's an honour he got for contributions to entertainment cube being lower than sir

It is incorrect to refer to a CBE as sir, only a KBE (Knight Commander) or a GBE (Knight Grand Cross) are afforded the style of "Sir" or "Dame"

Oh I forgot he got knighted.

Which makes more sense in context of the late '50s/early '60s era being referred to in the song and a time when early videotape was real-to-real.