Songoftheday 9/7/15 - distant lands are not so far away, I don't know why we don't go...

"Holiday" - The Other Ones
from the album The Other Ones (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's SOTD is by the Other Ones, a new wave band that came together in Berlin with three siblings from Australia (Alf, Jayney, and Johnny Klimek) with three Germans in the mid-80s. Their self-titled debut was released in 1987, and the reflective lead single "We Are What We Are" (where Jayney sounds like Chrissie Hynde) became a top-40 hit in New Zealand and was a minor hit in America at #53 on the pop chart and #38 on Billboard's Mainstream rock list. But it was release number two, the B-52's-style party record "Holiday", that gave the group their biggest success....

"Holiday" climbed into the American top 40 in October of 1987. Internationally, the single went all the way to #4 in Germany and #10 in New Zealand, and #87 in the Klimek's native Australia. It would be their final hit, they released an unnoticed second album before continuing on to separate projects, with Jayney lending her vocals to a pair of solo albums from Tony Banks of Genesis.

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and here's the band miming "Holiday" up hilariously for German TV...

...and actually live in concert...

Up tomorrow: Canadian red-leather rockers are dubious.