These new wave icons surprisingly only had one Top 10 international hit: “I Melt With You” from 1982. We get it, though. It’s a wonderful song from a wonderful era of post-punk music.

That said, more often than not throughout music history, we tend to remember them as one-hit wonders. There were plenty of them in the 1970s. Here are the 20 best one-hit wonders of the '70s.

To the east of the city, there’s only Lake Michigan’s murky waters. Out of all the one-hit wonders of the 70s, Looking Glass is a pretty unfortunate case of making pop rock music in a sea of ...

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We could probably make a list of just alternative one-hit wonders from the 2000s. “Ocean Avenue” is certainly not the only one in existence, but it might be the best.