i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

i posted a story yesterday: are you sweet on your sister, sg-1/battlestar galactica, vala mal doran/kara thrace, nc-17. spoilers through sg-1 9x06 "beachhead" and bsg 2x07 "home (part two)". in case you missed it.

thursday, thursday. people, i have a confession: i'm starting to recycle top five lists from two years ago, because it is HARD to think up a new top five list every week for more than three years. i'm not recycling this week, but i am going to start, soon. i mean, how many of you remember a list you made in 2003? i'm willing to bet: not many of you. anyway, just a psa on that subject. i'm lazy, and school starts next week, so recycling is the name of the game, unless you all leave me lots of good list topics in the comments.

today, though, the name of the game is: top five greatest one-hit wonders. what is the all-time greatest one-hit wonder song out there? who recorded it? why is it so damn great, or maybe it's great because it's just that bad, and it was everywhere. i throw open the pairing of the word "greatest" with the phrase "one-hit wonders" to interpretation; is it the ones that were really good, or the ones that were really bad-yet-good, OR BOTH?

my list:

1. "baby got back", sir mix-a-lot. oh, he recorded other songs. none of them is nearly as brilliant as "baby got back", a song to which i know all the words.

2. "afternoon delight", starland vocal band. in actuality: a terrible song. also in actuality: gets this spot on the list because aaron sorkin used it for fantastic comedic effect in sports night , and that's what it makes me think of now.

3. "who let the dogs out", baha men. a truly, truly stupid song, but i always wanted to make a mix that started with baha men, centered around another awful one-hit wonder song, "it wasn't me" by shaggy and rik-rok, and finish up with dave matthews band, "i did it". (before you ask: yes, i really do pretty much require constant supervision. *sigh*)

4. "i'm gonna be (500 miles)", the proclaimers. because they were a one-hit wonder in the states, but if you dig further than this song, they're actually a pretty good band.

5. ... i'm failing to think of a sufficiently wretch-but-awes fifth entry for this list; there are so many choices, and none of them are quite tacky enough! okay, i give up, i'm going to poach something from one of you later on. i'm lazy like that.

NOW YOU GO. let's talk about crappy music, and the best and worst and the so-bad-they're-hilariously-good one-hit wonders of all time.

so far today is about 114% better than yesterday, and i plan to spend the rest of my time at job#1 hiding in my office, writing daniel/vala, thereby thwarting any chances that the most useless coworker ever will find me and ruin my day. \o/