One-Hit Wonders of Electronic Pop

Richard Evans, author of Listening to the Music the Machines Make, has picked out 10 one-hit wonders which shaped the course of electronic pop.

• Hot Butter - Popcorn (1972)
• Can - I Want More (1976)
• Telex - Rock Around The Clock (1979)
• Laurie Anderson - O Superman (1981)
• Trio - Da Da Da (1982)
• Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf (1982)
• The Assembly - Never Never (1983)
• Freur - Doot Doot (1983)
• Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body (1987)
• M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume (1987)

You can find the mix as a playlist on Spotify by clicking here and on YouTube by clicking here. 

SPIN Magazine recently published an article about Listening to the Music the Machines Make, describing it as follows: