ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc.
Added 2020-03-01 06:57:45 +0000 UTCHere it is, your end-of-month episode! You lucky Patrons, you
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Comments
If this counts as a trainwreckord, could you do a video on Ildewild by Outkast?
gerald oxford
2020-03-23 18:18:49 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0quUM-Nr2c
2020-03-04 01:00:47 +0000 UTCOkay, I'll bite. How was it used in HOTWp1?
Rish Outfield
2020-03-03 20:40:46 +0000 UTCNo mention of how the song was used in History of the World Part 1?
2020-03-01 21:12:29 +0000 UTCGreat episode as always! I will say that the people that wanted a Steal Away OHW are gonna be quite sad with the Robbie Dupree comment. All three of us are very disappointed.
2020-03-01 20:59:28 +0000 UTCI'm just surprised this low-hanging fruit has lasted this long. How has Todd not examined this already? Great episode.
2020-03-01 18:11:00 +0000 UTC"Minneapolis is not a Funky Town." Prince: "Hold my Grain Belt."
Daniel Oliver
2020-03-01 16:08:02 +0000 UTCFunky Town is like the perfect mid point between The Hustle and Word up.
Juan Nunez
2020-03-01 16:00:01 +0000 UTCI don't think Todd is ready to cover Kano, Alexander Robotnik, or Telex yet. Also, Rock It was a hit in the places it needed to be, such as Detroit and Chicago.
2020-03-01 15:28:40 +0000 UTCYou can definitely see the Kraftwerk influence in their album art as well.
Kristopher Bluth
2020-03-01 15:09:41 +0000 UTCI've been going through the decades and I didn't realize there were so many One Hit Wonders in the 80's.
Josh Spicer
2020-03-01 14:32:51 +0000 UTCGreat video! But come on, Ambrosia's "You're the Biggest Part of Me" was a good song.
2020-03-01 14:20:44 +0000 UTCYou weren’t kidding when you said 1980 and 1981 might as well be the aborted remnants of some uncompleted decade. It always amazes me at how sudden disco collapsed.
2020-03-01 14:15:06 +0000 UTCWe’ve been discussing this a lot in Tom Breihan’s Number Ones column on Stereogum regarding what the last disco #1 was now that we’re in late 1979. For me, I think people take the fall of disco too literally thinking once Disco Demolition Night happened in July and My Sharona hit #1 in August that disco just immediately stopped. It was the end of disco’s peak but it wasn’t over yet considering aside from Lipps Inc. you still had disco #1s from Michael Jackson, Donna Summer/Barbra Streisand, Queen, Diana Ross and even Pink Floyd considering Another Brick In The Wall was made with a disco beat. I would even say the last disco or disco-adjacent #1 is probably Kool & The Gang’s Celebration or the Stars on 45 Medley in 1981.
2020-03-01 13:29:54 +0000 UTCWho here thinks about Funkytown and immediately thinks of Bryan Cranston roller skating in Malcolm in the Middle? https://youtu.be/82XxEHOTwlI
2020-03-01 13:15:43 +0000 UTCGood episode! I get why many would find Funkytown as annoying considering how repetitive it is but for a song that gets the party going it gets the job done. Though you’re right in how weird of a legacy it’s left behind where it still gets used in movies and TV shows but at the same time you don’t hear people mention it a lot or hear it at parties where DJs would already play other disco songs.
2020-03-01 13:13:53 +0000 UTCOkay. I checked and it apparently wasn't Coolio but the rest stands. It's the first episode of 6th season of Made.
Vasyl Kerimov
2020-03-01 12:53:16 +0000 UTCIt has nothing to do with anything but there was an episode of some MTV programme where Coolio trained a son of Funky Town songwriter who wanted to be a rapper
Vasyl Kerimov
2020-03-01 12:29:17 +0000 UTCSince they were a British boyband, I guess you could say they were the One Direction of the '90s.
Thomas Carmody
2020-03-01 09:32:05 +0000 UTCWasn't she the woman responsible for the hook in Like A G6? Her collab with the Cataracts also scored her a respectable hit with Back Seat so I really don't think she counts as a one-hitter lol
2020-03-01 08:46:17 +0000 UTCIt's interesting you say that the "mind rebels" against 80s disco, because the 1980s were the decade of Italo disco, a flourishing and memorable genre of music that a lot of people still like, although its only American crossover hit was "Tarzan Boy" (another OHW that you should definitely cover).
Jacqueline Sailer
2020-03-01 08:39:39 +0000 UTCA morbid omen of the second major backlash to dance-pop...
Jacqueline Sailer
2020-03-01 08:37:36 +0000 UTCi think we're about due for another OHW for a 2010s artist, I'd recommend Dev with her sole top 40 hit in 2011 "In the Dark", boy did she fall into obscurity real fast.
RedBedroomRecords
2020-03-01 08:11:19 +0000 UTCI never noticed "Lipps Inc" = "lip sync" until you said it. That seems like such an obvious pun.
Mikaela Thorn - ThornBrain
2020-03-01 07:56:46 +0000 UTCFunkytown? More like Fuckytown, cuz it's fucky how long it took you to cover this song! (JK I love your OHW episodes)
JasSpy
2020-03-01 07:50:25 +0000 UTCCongrats on getting the video out under the wire and remembering to mark it as a paid video!
Michael Russell
2020-03-01 07:43:23 +0000 UTCIn an embarrassingly white/young moment, my first reaction was "oh, that song from Shrek 2!" I will forever live in shame.
2020-03-01 07:38:13 +0000 UTCToo many, sugarfrosted. Way too many
Syl W
2020-03-01 07:30:48 +0000 UTCHow many versions of Funky town have been one hit wonders?
sugarfrosted
2020-03-01 07:14:45 +0000 UTC"It's my job" type answers whenever a creative is asked how they did somethimg are always hilarious.
Dabwiso Mazumdar
2020-03-01 07:05:59 +0000 UTC
