Sir, this is AMAZING! I know Kyper is obscure to most, but as a younger lad, I grew up in harder part of Baton Rouge that he was from (we even had a girlfriend in common). Here in the club scene in Louisiana, XTC was a banger of a hit! He had love from all of us, but like you mention, he wasn't really in any kind of "rap" cliques. I used to be able to do an uncanny impersonation of Randall, and sometimes we'd prank call his house and I'd talk to either him or his dad while maintaining character, and I'd only use lines from his songs to make statements or answer questions. It was hilarious. This was great, man. Your read on him (and the scene) is more spot on than you realize! Also, I CAN'T BELIEVE you covered his last album!!! When it came out, the handful of us down here were like "WTF is K doing?" His whole shtick with that album was that his previous one had predicted a bunch of political/social events. It was utterly insane. This made my day. I can't believe this exists, lol. Cheers man. How'd you get into my head? lmao
i really hope i wasn't the only one who thought that song's name was a reference to the british new wave art rock band. it's not it just sounds like 'ecstasy" but. jesus
Randall Kiper is a Territorial Sales Manager in the Baton Rouge area for O'Reilly Auto Parts. I worked with him for a couple years. He's been there a while and he's still there today.
This has to be the most obscure one hit wonder you’ve covered. I was a huge chart nerd at the time, even had a subscription to Billboard from ‘89 to about ‘93, and yet your video is the first time I’ve ever heard or even heard of this song. My compliments on your archaeological skills. Unearthing this fossil is on par with discovering the tomb of King Tut.
I am not exaggerating when I say that Todd's "OHW" video on Kyper's "Tic Tac Toe" actually has more viewers than the actual "Tic Tac Toe" video on TH-cam.
@@dixiechippers yeah I grew up in Florida and knew the song. I was reminded of the song recently because C + C Music Factory references it on their song "Things that make ya go hmm".
you know... I once wondered if there is even possible to have a black vanilla ice... This isn't it, but is as close as I think we will ever get to having a black vanilla ice
Murcia doxial We don't need a black Vanilla Ice. A white Vanilla Ice was bad enough. Although, Vanilla Ice is doing well with his DIY Network show nowadays!
I read their wikipedia page, Then heard their music and think these girl group actually have an interesting story that nobody ever talk about it in TH-cam. One of their song Ich Find Dich Scheisse ("I think you're ****") was very funny as hell. Oh, In 90s era we also have Thai Boy Band name "Tic Tac Toe" too 😆
You haven't 'failed utterly' if your song has a memorable sampled hook, no. You have succeeded by that much. Lots of songs are totally unmemorable from start to finish. That would be utter failure.
Not only did they sample Yes, but if you listen closely at around the 5:35 mark, you can hear a bit of "Tour De France" by Krafrwerk in there too. Kyper really liked his Electro Dance Pop
Owner of a Lonely Heart got stuck in my head one day so I asked my friend to play it in their car. "Sure. Do you know the name of the band it's by?" "Yes." "Great. Who is it?" "Yes." "Yes?" "Exactly." "Oh, ok. 'Exactly'." "No, not 'exactly'. Yes!' "Not exactly yes?" "No! Yes!" This went on for several days.
O is yes and X is no in Japan. It's why the O button is often used in Japanese games on Sony's system, and why X is used for canceling or backing out of a menu.
Crossing things out is often a no. Surrounding them is a gesture of acceptance or trying to keep and protect something. But X is also showing where something is, or a target for an aim. So I can kind of get either, honestly.
X is a death symbol in japan and the black color is also the color of death. The Xbox barely sold or got advertised in japan for more reasons than just it's size. Tic Tac Toe would be a do or die.
"Once you've heard it, youve never forgotten it" Yes indeed. I heard this on a plane ride once. Had one of those off audio jacks on my armrest that i could use to browse a selection of music they provided. This song was the very first one i heard. Never listened to it before then, and never heard it again since this moment. Always stuck with me because it seemed rather catchy, yet dated.
The fact that you had so many one hit wonders and "obscure" genres during that time period (1989-1993) is actually indicative of the creativity of that time, right before the big record companies totally seized back control.
I had no idea this was anything bigger than a regional hit in Louisiana back then. Heard it a lot back then around New Orleans. Good to know he's still around and doing well.
Idk why, but I just absolutely fucking love that I can hear you counting the time for your piano into at the beginning. I'm so, so glad you didn't retake it or edit that out. It's just charming. 🥰
Ha! I was so stuck on the sample during the opening I was confused by the title. I thought I was seriously misremembering the Yes song. Stupid sampling throwing my pop culture recall out of wack.
Dude I feel you. I hate, for example, when you’re listening to Sweet Home Alabama on the radio and some idiot says, “Aw man I love this Kid Rock song.”
Edmund Barker Even then it was originally the other way around. The original Japanese versions of most Playstation games use O as confirm and X as back (which carried over in a few cases, like MGS3). Presumably it got changed in other countries because the O in question is red.
When I heard you playing in the opening I thought "oh, I've heard this". Then you mentioned it was sampled from Owner of a Lonely Heart and I was like "Oh. No. I've heard that."
The relative lateness of Kyper's "electro" sound makes sense if you remember he's from the South, where big 808's never really went out of style, getting revived with the Miami bass movement that came around in the mid-80's / broke through around 1988/89 with Skyywalker Records and whatnot. "What Gets Your Body Hyped (XTC)" feels like a response to both that and the party drug laden house/techno sound coming out of Chicago/Detroit/NY. Combine Miami bass with the darkness of techno and you get... basically electro again! Electronic music genres tend to cycle around like that. I'd still say The Beat Club's "Security" is the perfect version of that sound, predating "(XTC)" by about a year.
11:02 There were a few if not many examples of house music acts going on about social and political issues back then, such as drug use and safe sex. There was that group from the UK known as THE KLF, known for "3AM Eternal", which famously punked the music industry and set 1 million pounds ablaze. Underground Resistance is another group that comes to mind. In fact, techno/house was even rooted in the struggling urban communities in Detroit, and was used to overcome oppression. Sometimes the music left an impact, but other times artists tried too hard to sound meaningful, and ended up just being full of it.
@@NJGuy1973 I don't think you are correct. I remember it being backlash against teaching ABSTINENCE, because despite parents and teachers teaching abstinence, people were still having sex.
Kyper seemed to be involved in the electro break sound that was popular in south Florida, Orlando and Tampa. Looks like he worked with DJ X, and that style of dance music had some mild popularity in the late 90's and early 2000's but was always a niche sub genre of dance music. Similar artists were DJ Icey, Huda Hudia and Jackal and Hyde. Louisiana also later had some additional representation with acts like DJ Trashy.
It's always weird to hear long forgotten one hit wonders from before my time because it makes me wonder what OHWs from my day are so lost to time that kids nowadays won't know about (the first one that always comes to mind is Oops (Oh My) by Tweet)
I'm not sure it does. I've been listening to that track for years, and it sounds more like the siren sample that Chemical Brothers used in 'Song To Siren'. I also checked on 'Who Sampled' and it seems Norman's track isn't on the list of just under 400 entries.
I got extra confused by this cos I'm also an XTC fan. Thought it was gonna be some weird collaboration between XTC, Bowie and...Kyper...that I'd somehow never about.
I had no idea of this song, but it TOTALLY sounds like something that would've been a one-hit wonder in the midpoint between the fall of pop-rap and the rise of boom-bap.
A combination of spin the bottle and truth or dare (whoever the bottle lands on has to tell a truth or do a dare) is a pretty common variation on the game, and that could easily involve stripping, so that line of the spin the bottle song makes sense to me.
The only time I ever heard this song was when the local Top 40 station in Detroit was switching their drive time radio DJ to a guy named Tic Tac and the day before they played this song for like 8 hours straight. People were calling in to the station super pissed. It was hilarious.
I remember this song being at junior high school dances (Chrissakes, that makes me feel OLD...), but I never remembered hearing it on the radio or MTV.
Omg I remember this! I spent the night at a friend's house when I was in like 7th grade, and riding with her "cool" older sister, she had the Kyper Tic Tac Toe cassette in her camaro. This was 1994. Yep.
Technically she's not a one-hit wonder - her song "Love Is" went to #36. That being said, this might be one of those cases where Todd might bite, since it sounds like "Love Is" would have been more famous except that "Black Velvet" was so omnipresent that it got driven out of the charts. Hop onto Patreon and toss him some money when he opens up again. It might be an interesting story.
Morbos1000 maybe it was a really big regional hit? I remember this song getting played at every bar/bat mitzvah. So I'll let you guess where I'm from 🤣
Very first thought was “This sounds like Tone Loc” really similar to “Wild thing”. Enjoyed this video. Obscure one hit wonders are definitely worth doing an occasional video on!
Hey.....you know Todd, technically, XTC is a one hit wonder as their song "Dear God" was the only hit they had in the US. XTC is a great band, that would be an awesome episode of One Hit Wonderland.
@Mike S Oh yeah, I know they had (still have) a solid following. I was just speaking of their accomplishments 'hit' wise. We all know sales and 'hits' truly doesn't say anything about how 'good' a band is.
Oh god... I had totally forgotten about A Bay Bay. I choked on my food when it played. A blast from the past for sure. It was something like a meme among my friends in middle school, at the time it came out.
i've never heard this song before. the production and sound design here is actually insane. holy shit, those record scratches. i think it deserves that if nothing else.
I remember the hell out of this song and Kyper. Then again, I was 17 in 1990 and I don't think TITS was even born, the young lad. And yeah, I only liked it because it sampled Owner of a Lonely Heart.
Todd has alluded to being born in the mid 80's. His IMDB says 1984... and that his name isn't even Todd, so take that how you will. Pretty sure that when this was a relevant thing, it was said that he's older than Lindsay is (and she was born in '86).
So he be 33 now and would have been 6 when this song came out. Sounds legit. I wasn't exactly listening to Top 40 when I was 6. Thanks for the info, you guys. Todd's fans are the TITS!
When break dancing had that weird mini resurgence in the 90's I heard that XTC song a lot. It was some good shit. It was one of those songs that everybody was all "hell yeah I gotta dance to this one" about. Good times. Damn I'm old.
Logan Fields are they a one hit wonder though? Theyre still around today, one of them even put out a dis track on Logan Paul for ripping off Handlebars
I had a cassette single of this song back in 1990. Good times! I actually do remember it. I had a cassette single of "B-Girls" by Young & Restless too. Early 90s hip hop one hit wonders
I used to work at a roller skating rink (2000-2005) and this was a huge favorite there. Its great to skate to! I think it's my daughter's favorite from that era.
My mom had the whole album from Kyper on cassette but there were songs on it. "TIC tac Toe" "XTC" "I want a Freak" the songs were very popular at Richmond Virginia rollerskating rinks as people woul d do synchronized dancing on skates in groups almost like line dancing but on skates very popular 1991 to 1999 they called it jive skating"
If he wants another obscure band to do he should check out Baby Judy by the Hawaiian Pups. The only problem is that while it was super popular in it's day, I can't say for certain that it actually charted.
Gotye: Samples an obscure song to make something timeless
Kyper: Samples a timeless song to make something obscure
What did Gotye sample? I don't remember offhand.
@@KarmasAB123 Seville by Luiz Bonfa. It's that guitar riff repeated on loop throughout the song
@@zinith4524 Oh, nice. Thx :D
What's a gotye? Is that similar to having a goiter the size of a football, like the woman who shagged Mahatma Gandhi on Seinfeld?
Funny that, I remember some Yes fans tried to make "Owner of the Lonely Heart" as a something obscure in their memory 😆
Tic Tac TOE-NER OF A LONELY HEART!
*slow clap* ~_~
And an even slower booooooo
Owner of a Lonely Hit
That’s literally what I thought it was when Todd was playing the keyboard
"Kyper no Kyping! Kyper no Kyping! Kyper no Kyping!"
Kyper: Oh man!
Our hands have fingers, but what does it mean to fing?
Seriously tho: why is their name “Swiper” if they’re not allowed to swipe
This song uses samples from Yes' "Owner of a Lonely Heart", which used samples of Horn Section Blasts from James Brown. Samples of samples.
That's giving me "Good Feeling" by Flo Rida vibes.
Christopher Minutolo more like GDFR by Flo Rida
Yo dawg! I heard you like samples, so I put a sample in yo sample so you can...
@@CharizardMaster69 yessir! Flo Rida sampled Lookas who originally sampled roughly 40% of Lowrider
@@tombstonejones9581 that or warwoves of lounden
"Im gonna do the worm...against racism!" 😂😂
Sir, this is AMAZING!
I know Kyper is obscure to most, but as a younger lad, I grew up in harder part of Baton Rouge that he was from (we even had a girlfriend in common). Here in the club scene in Louisiana, XTC was a banger of a hit! He had love from all of us, but like you mention, he wasn't really in any kind of "rap" cliques.
I used to be able to do an uncanny impersonation of Randall, and sometimes we'd prank call his house and I'd talk to either him or his dad while maintaining character, and I'd only use lines from his songs to make statements or answer questions. It was hilarious.
This was great, man. Your read on him (and the scene) is more spot on than you realize!
Also, I CAN'T BELIEVE you covered his last album!!!
When it came out, the handful of us down here were like "WTF is K doing?" His whole shtick with that album was that his previous one had predicted a bunch of political/social events. It was utterly insane.
This made my day. I can't believe this exists, lol. Cheers man. How'd you get into my head? lmao
i really hope i wasn't the only one who thought that song's name was a reference to the british new wave art rock band. it's not it just sounds like 'ecstasy" but. jesus
@@jockohomosexual - haha, I can assure you... around these parts he was definitely talking about happy-fun-time tablets, lol! Cheers!
I absolutely love this comment. So awesome. 😊
This comment definitely deserves to be on top for Todd to see
Nobody from Baton Rouge says cheers.
I died at “I’m gonna do the worm.... against racism”
I did too.
Randall Kiper is a Territorial Sales Manager in the Baton Rouge area for O'Reilly Auto Parts. I worked with him for a couple years. He's been there a while and he's still there today.
Puffs of Venekor How was it like working with him?
Puffs of Venekor icon
Was he a good manager?
Of course he is!
KYPER MUSIC what are you the actual Kyper?
This has to be the most obscure one hit wonder you’ve covered. I was a huge chart nerd at the time, even had a subscription to Billboard from ‘89 to about ‘93, and yet your video is the first time I’ve ever heard or even heard of this song. My compliments on your archaeological skills. Unearthing this fossil is on par with discovering the tomb of King Tut.
I am not exaggerating when I say that Todd's "OHW" video on Kyper's "Tic Tac Toe" actually has more viewers than the actual "Tic Tac Toe" video on TH-cam.
@@TMC1982Part2 yeah
It was a huge hit in the South, along with other of his songs.
@@dixiechippers yeah I grew up in Florida and knew the song. I was reminded of the song recently because C + C Music Factory references it on their song "Things that make ya go hmm".
This dude has the most sparse Wikipedia page I’ve ever seen, and his hit song doesn’t even have a page.
This song is to "Owner of a Lonely Heart" as "Ice Ice Baby" is to "Under Pressure"
While both Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure remain remembered, this song has largely faded into obscurity it seems, unlike the Yes song it samples.
And I unironically enjoy both Ice Ice Baby and Tic Tac Toe
you know... I once wondered if there is even possible to have a black vanilla ice... This isn't it, but is as close as I think we will ever get to having a black vanilla ice
Murcia doxial We don't need a black Vanilla Ice. A white Vanilla Ice was bad enough. Although, Vanilla Ice is doing well with his DIY Network show nowadays!
No he truly is Chocolate Ice. Just like copying Prince, he'll just copy your stuff.
Tic Tac Toe looks more like bootleg MC Hammer.
I don't think we even needed a white one to be honest. One was one too many.
@@EpicB Yeah, but you could say the same thing about vanilla ice
Fun fact: Not only was Owner of a Lonely Heart sampled in the song Tic Tac Toe, but it was also sampled by the band Tic Tac Toe.
Wait, I know those. "Warum"?
I read their wikipedia page, Then heard their music and think these girl group actually have an interesting story that nobody ever talk about it in TH-cam.
One of their song Ich Find Dich Scheisse ("I think you're ****") was very funny as hell.
Oh, In 90s era we also have Thai Boy Band name "Tic Tac Toe" too 😆
If the ONLY memorable part of your song is the sample, you've failed utterly.
I'd compare it to the rule about your first hit being a cover. .... But then I remember Puff Daddy built a career on lazy sampling.
You pop music fans don't know shit about anything.
You haven't 'failed utterly' if your song has a memorable sampled hook, no. You have succeeded by that much. Lots of songs are totally unmemorable from start to finish. That would be utter failure.
Thanks daft punk.
Owner Of A Lonely Heart is too good for this guy lmao
I remember spinning Kyper when I was a Strip Club DJ in the 90s
i wonder why "Strip Club DJ" is capitalized
@@Flowtail It's a title held in high regard, like The President of The United States.
Not only did they sample Yes, but if you listen closely at around the 5:35 mark, you can hear a bit of "Tour De France" by Krafrwerk in there too. Kyper really liked his Electro Dance Pop
Big props to Kyper. He _still_ makes music (at least as of 10 months ago).
Wow. those videos really made me think of whenever Bill Nye would do some fake rap stuff.
Todd is kind of like a dorky uncle and I love that
Dave Rubin is literally the last person in the universe who I expect to see in an OHW video.
that was like the funniest joke he's ever given, and it was a pun
The intro really fucking confused me.
Owner of a Lonely Heart got stuck in my head one day so I asked my friend to play it in their car.
"Sure. Do you know the name of the band it's by?"
"Yes."
"Great. Who is it?"
"Yes."
"Yes?"
"Exactly."
"Oh, ok. 'Exactly'."
"No, not 'exactly'. Yes!'
"Not exactly yes?"
"No! Yes!"
This went on for several days.
Elmo9001 Cool story Shel Silverstein.
You could really have some fun with The The.
So, whose line WAS it anyway?
So you did the Who's On First derived sketch from Animaniacs. It's okay to admit where you got your jokes from.
My dad did the exact same joke when I first heard Yes.
Great review! The longer I listen to this review, the more I'm convinced Kyper was meant to be a Yu-Gi-Oh villian except he came too soon.
So Kyper the Sky Dragon?
In America!
@@kai615k Screw the rules, I have money!
@@mattdominick1679 Screw the Rules, I have a hit song.
@@waffleless Kyper the -Executive- Musical Producer!
O is yes and X is no in Japan. It's why the O button is often used in Japanese games on Sony's system, and why X is used for canceling or backing out of a menu.
Interesting!
Finally, after all these years, I understand MGS's main menus.
Crossing things out is often a no. Surrounding them is a gesture of acceptance or trying to keep and protect something. But X is also showing where something is, or a target for an aim. So I can kind of get either, honestly.
X is a death symbol in japan and the black color is also the color of death. The Xbox barely sold or got advertised in japan for more reasons than just it's size. Tic Tac Toe would be a do or die.
@@natedash11 *knowledge*
"Once you've heard it, youve never forgotten it"
Yes indeed.
I heard this on a plane ride once.
Had one of those off audio jacks on my armrest that i could use to browse a selection of music they provided.
This song was the very first one i heard. Never listened to it before then, and never heard it again since this moment.
Always stuck with me because it seemed rather catchy, yet dated.
The fact that you had so many one hit wonders and "obscure" genres during that time period (1989-1993) is actually indicative of the creativity of that time, right before the big record companies totally seized back control.
This video has almost four times the views of the song it's about. What a hit.
Not sure "Owner of a Lonely Heart" is the sample you want on a song about sex. I don't think that being lonely is the vibe you're going for.
MrsRCharlton It’s much better than being broken.
I mean, you'd think that, but it does sound really good.
One of my musical pet peeves is when samples are used in a way that doesn't make much sense or doesn't seem purposeful.
If nothing else, hopefully Yes gained a few more fans from people who heard this and got curious about the sample.
I am one of them!
I wonder why I've never heard of this Kyper guy before.
Also, nice shout-out to XTC.
Blake Geometrio I had never heard of XTC until now.
Well, get to it. They're amazing.
Can you tell me what the XTC song he used in the clip is? I swear I've heard it before
@@maggie5990 Senses Working Overtime in the first clip, Dear God in the second. Personally I find covers of XTC better than XTC themselves...
@@davispo7550 Why though?
When I DJed in the 80’sand 90’s, we played it all the time and it filled the dance floor every time!
Kyper’s music before the hit sounds great. It reminds me of Miami Bass.
I think there's a Dynamix II sample in there
Yeah, Dynamix II's Ignition. I missed cause I was caught on that ESG sample
Yeah they seem like tracks that I would have really enjoyed if I were alive back then and my tastes were similar.
The only other time that I'm aware of Todd talking about Miami Bass was in his One Hit Wonderland video on Tag Team's "Whoomp! (There It Is)".
Its defo better than his hit
This was on one of my my BFF's old mixtapes. I think he was both confused and hurt when he found "Owner of a Lonely Heart" on one of mine.
I had no idea this was anything bigger than a regional hit in Louisiana back then. Heard it a lot back then around New Orleans. Good to know he's still around and doing well.
I actually heard this, on the radio multiple times, in Montana when this track was out. I think I even had the cassette single
Heard it upstate New York on a pop radio station. Always loved it!
Idk why, but I just absolutely fucking love that I can hear you counting the time for your piano into at the beginning. I'm so, so glad you didn't retake it or edit that out. It's just charming. 🥰
Ha! I was so stuck on the sample during the opening I was confused by the title. I thought I was seriously misremembering the Yes song. Stupid sampling throwing my pop culture recall out of wack.
Same tbh
Sabrina it's not that it samples, it samples poorly
Howtostudies Yeah, I wasn't trying to leave it opened to all sampling. I was referring to this sampling in particular.
Sabrina fair enough
Dude I feel you. I hate, for example, when you’re listening to Sweet Home Alabama on the radio and some idiot says, “Aw man I love this Kid Rock song.”
7:32 X is for yes?
Isn't X the universal symbol for no? Did Kyper get all Xs on a test and think he aced it?
PixelBro64 Unless he's talking about Playstation controllers?
Edmund Barker Even then it was originally the other way around.
The original Japanese versions of most Playstation games use O as confirm and X as back (which carried over in a few cases, like MGS3). Presumably it got changed in other countries because the O in question is red.
X and O did mean hugs and kisses which was found on notes and letters of the time.
A message would look like: "Call me honey XOXOXOXO."
But then it wouldn't rhyyyyme! Legitimately, probably the only reason x is for yes...
Its just because x rhymes of yes.... kinda
When I heard you playing in the opening I thought "oh, I've heard this". Then you mentioned it was sampled from Owner of a Lonely Heart and I was like "Oh. No. I've heard that."
The relative lateness of Kyper's "electro" sound makes sense if you remember he's from the South, where big 808's never really went out of style, getting revived with the Miami bass movement that came around in the mid-80's / broke through around 1988/89 with Skyywalker Records and whatnot. "What Gets Your Body Hyped (XTC)" feels like a response to both that and the party drug laden house/techno sound coming out of Chicago/Detroit/NY. Combine Miami bass with the darkness of techno and you get... basically electro again! Electronic music genres tend to cycle around like that. I'd still say The Beat Club's "Security" is the perfect version of that sound, predating "(XTC)" by about a year.
11:02 There were a few if not many examples of house music acts going on about social and political issues back then, such as drug use and safe sex. There was that group from the UK known as THE KLF, known for "3AM Eternal", which famously punked the music industry and set 1 million pounds ablaze. Underground Resistance is another group that comes to mind. In fact, techno/house was even rooted in the struggling urban communities in Detroit, and was used to overcome oppression. Sometimes the music left an impact, but other times artists tried too hard to sound meaningful, and ended up just being full of it.
"People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour was a counter to the whole safe-sex thing.
@@NJGuy1973 I don't think you are correct. I remember it being backlash against teaching ABSTINENCE, because despite parents and teachers teaching abstinence, people were still having sex.
@@roguishpaladin I actually think that's what they mean, they've just worded it poorly.
Orbital as well, with albums like Snivilisation and In Sides
Kyper seemed to be involved in the electro break sound that was popular in south Florida, Orlando and Tampa. Looks like he worked with DJ X, and that style of dance music had some mild popularity in the late 90's and early 2000's but was always a niche sub genre of dance music. Similar artists were DJ Icey, Huda Hudia and Jackal and Hyde. Louisiana also later had some additional representation with acts like DJ Trashy.
It's always weird to hear long forgotten one hit wonders from before my time because it makes me wonder what OHWs from my day are so lost to time that kids nowadays won't know about (the first one that always comes to mind is Oops (Oh My) by Tweet)
i was there and i still have absolutely no recollection of that song
I’ve been trying to get Todd to put that song against “Hit Em’ Up Style (Oops)” by Blu Cantrell on his Song vs. Song podcast lol. I remember
Or The Things You Do - Gina Thompson
Since this comment, Oops (Oh My) was used in an episode of Euphoria. So it's not totally forgotten I guess
this is... a new one.
Bob Your profile pick is so fitting
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" is such an obvious hip-hop sample I'm surprised it hasn't been in more.
He’s from Baton Rouge , Louisiana . Really awesome guy . He’s good friends with my dad .
Always great to hear an XTC shout out. And yes, Skylarking is an amazing album.
The siren sample was EVERYWHERE back then! I'm sure I even heard it on some remixes of U2 from back then XD
Yeah, that's "UFO" by ESG; one of the most sampled songs of all time.
PM Dawn used it too, I think. There's a group Todd needs to cover.
I'm not sure it does. I've been listening to that track for years, and it sounds more like the siren sample that Chemical Brothers used in 'Song To Siren'. I also checked on 'Who Sampled' and it seems Norman's track isn't on the list of just under 400 entries.
Kyle, Todd, Lindsay, Doug and Rap Critic in the same week. Wow.
The planets have aligned...
And Allison.
Dublin Jake Who is Kyle again? I forgot.
Kyle Kallgren. Brows Held High.
Or, if you're going really far into the past, Oancitizen
And The Dom
4:20 wow, david bowie's career really went downhill in the 90s
I was wondering when someone was going to point that out...
I got extra confused by this cos I'm also an XTC fan. Thought it was gonna be some weird collaboration between XTC, Bowie and...Kyper...that I'd somehow never about.
Do more obscure things like this, like most act i can read about in wikipedia but this stuff is priceless
Sounds like owner of a lonely heart combined with come as you are
A lot of roller rinks still play this song today. It's a good jam skate song and often played during adult skates.
I had no idea of this song, but it TOTALLY sounds like something that would've been a one-hit wonder in the midpoint between the fall of pop-rap and the rise of boom-bap.
14:40 holy crap that robot song , throw it down,is amazing
The instrumental to this sounds like a song from the Japanese Sonic cd soundtrack
A combination of spin the bottle and truth or dare (whoever the bottle lands on has to tell a truth or do a dare) is a pretty common variation on the game, and that could easily involve stripping, so that line of the spin the bottle song makes sense to me.
I had never "Tic Tac Toe" in my life until now. This was an interesting episode despite how little we know about Kyper.
The only time I ever heard this song was when the local Top 40 station in Detroit was switching their drive time radio DJ to a guy named Tic Tac and the day before they played this song for like 8 hours straight. People were calling in to the station super pissed. It was hilarious.
I remember this song being at junior high school dances (Chrissakes, that makes me feel OLD...), but I never remembered hearing it on the radio or MTV.
Omg I remember this! I spent the night at a friend's house when I was in like 7th grade, and riding with her "cool" older sister, she had the Kyper Tic Tac Toe cassette in her camaro. This was 1994. Yep.
If you heaven't already, woulf you consider doing a One Hit Wonderland on Alannah Myles, known for the song "Black Velvet"?
Technically she's not a one-hit wonder - her song "Love Is" went to #36. That being said, this might be one of those cases where Todd might bite, since it sounds like "Love Is" would have been more famous except that "Black Velvet" was so omnipresent that it got driven out of the charts. Hop onto Patreon and toss him some money when he opens up again. It might be an interesting story.
3:22 Throw Down literally has the beat & flow from the DK Rap from DK64
I was 16 in 1990 and pretty aware of popular music of the time. Even I've never heard of this one!
Morbos1000 maybe it was a really big regional hit? I remember this song getting played at every bar/bat mitzvah. So I'll let you guess where I'm from 🤣
@@ladydontekno ...Israel? New York? You've gotta give us more than that. FWIW I don't remember it getting airplay in the Boston area.
roguishpaladin Long Island
Very first thought was “This sounds like Tone Loc” really similar to “Wild thing”. Enjoyed this video. Obscure one hit wonders are definitely worth doing an occasional video on!
Dude those XTC non-references are mindblowing!
First, MC Hammer used "Super Freak" as the basis for "U Can't Touch This", and now there's this...
You forgot his biggest accomplishment, discovering the region full of comets and asteroids beyond the orbit of Neptune.
For some reason, my mom let me have this cassette single as a kid. I have never forgotten it.
I remember the hell out of this song! This was the anthem of my first freshman year of college!!
Harv72b 😂 I thought I was the oldest person in this comment section. This was a junior high bop!
THANK YOU !! KYPER IS PLAYING IN NEW ORLEANS THIS SATURDAY NIGHT IM GOING!
As a kid from louisiana, I definitely know that robot song 😂
I seem to remember reading that Kyper was pretty heavily into the whole Illuminati thing before it really became a thing.
Harv72b delete this
i like when todd plays the song on piano, and for the gitar riff he just runs his hand across the entire keyboard
Hey.....you know Todd, technically, XTC is a one hit wonder as their song "Dear God" was the only hit they had in the US. XTC is a great band, that would be an awesome episode of One Hit Wonderland.
@Mike S Oh yeah, I know they had (still have) a solid following. I was just speaking of their accomplishments 'hit' wise. We all know sales and 'hits' truly doesn't say anything about how 'good' a band is.
Ah, Electro. Still my favorite genre of music.
Oh god... I had totally forgotten about A Bay Bay. I choked on my food when it played. A blast from the past for sure. It was something like a meme among my friends in middle school, at the time it came out.
No matter what else has been going on if I see a new One Hit Wonderland my day becomes a million times better.
What if you become deaf and blind in a plane crash? Maybe too "going on" too far.
Well, that at least explains why Todd requested THIS monstrosity on Radio Dead Air.
Maybe so.
i've never heard this song before. the production and sound design here is actually insane. holy shit, those record scratches. i think it deserves that if nothing else.
This guy was clearly trying to be Afrika Bambaataa too.
I decree that from this day forward, Dave Rubin shall be known as "The guy from that Kyper video"
I second this
I remember the hell out of this song and Kyper. Then again, I was 17 in 1990 and I don't think TITS was even born, the young lad. And yeah, I only liked it because it sampled Owner of a Lonely Heart.
Word Unheard I think Todd is in his thirties
Hmm. I thought he was in his late 20's. He has a young looking shadow.
Todd has alluded to being born in the mid 80's. His IMDB says 1984... and that his name isn't even Todd, so take that how you will. Pretty sure that when this was a relevant thing, it was said that he's older than Lindsay is (and she was born in '86).
Word Unheard 2015 Todd: I'm 31.
So he be 33 now and would have been 6 when this song came out. Sounds legit. I wasn't exactly listening to Top 40 when I was 6. Thanks for the info, you guys. Todd's fans are the TITS!
What Is This World Coming To (Dear God) sounds like it could be the theme song of the world right now
I still know this song by heart 😆 Great one, Todd... hadn't thought of this song for years
Speaking of which, I'd like to see Todd do "Hurricane Chris- Ay Bay Bay" or more songs from the 2000s for OHW
What is this tic tac toe you speak of? And why is that man playing a huge game of Noughts and Crosses?
You should do Gotye's somebody I used to know as a one hit wonder
Too early. He's still producing music, and is a solid enough songwriter to maybe score another hit in the us.
@@michaelhall5429 Plus it'd probably break Todd to have to do a OHW on someone he put in his top ten end of year video once and had high hopes for.
He already did a review of that song.
Mayfly hits like this are why I watch One Hit Wonderland. Keep it up Todd
When break dancing had that weird mini resurgence in the 90's I heard that XTC song a lot. It was some good shit. It was one of those songs that everybody was all "hell yeah I gotta dance to this one" about. Good times. Damn I'm old.
"My name is Kyper, and welcome to JACKASS"
handlebars by flobots
Logan Fields are they a one hit wonder though? Theyre still around today, one of them even put out a dis track on Logan Paul for ripping off Handlebars
Logan Fields not a one hit wonder
I had a cassette single of this song back in 1990. Good times! I actually do remember it. I had a cassette single of "B-Girls" by Young & Restless too. Early 90s hip hop one hit wonders
I used to work at a roller skating rink (2000-2005) and this was a huge favorite there. Its great to skate to! I think it's my daughter's favorite from that era.
This music sounds like when there is a purposefully bad band in a sitcom
Vanilla Ice's best piece of music was Go Ninja from TMNT 2:Secret of the Ooze.
My mom had the whole album from Kyper on cassette but there were songs on it. "TIC tac Toe" "XTC" "I want a Freak" the songs were very popular at Richmond Virginia rollerskating rinks as people woul d do synchronized dancing on skates in groups almost like line dancing but on skates very popular 1991 to 1999 they called it jive skating"
don't know why you didn't mention "ex's and oh's" which i feel like actually sorta got the metaphor right lol
Jordan Chaney It’s a pair of puns.
And after watching this.....i searched for that XTC song Dear God
Eastyy Enjoy in good health!
Wasn't "Dear God" the song that played during the break into act 3 portion of It (2017)?
....I looked for the sex robot song
needless to say I'm mildly disturbed
it's so quirky and awkward his naive missteps have stumbled their way into my embrace. it's both awesome and so bad it's awesome.
If he wants another obscure band to do he should check out Baby Judy by the Hawaiian Pups. The only problem is that while it was super popular in it's day, I can't say for certain that it actually charted.
According to the oral history of new wave, it was a local New York hit but never caught on beyond that.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
How about a nice game of chess?