The Outhere Brothers — "Boom Boom Boom"

Keith "Malik" Mayberry and Lamar "Hula" Mahone had been making music together since 1987, but they didn't explode until 1995. "Boom Boom Boom" released June 5, 1995, from their album *1 Polish, 2 Biscuits & a Fish Sandwich* (1994). The track hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart on July 2, 1995, and held the top spot for four weeks. In America, it peaked at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100, never breaking through the way it did in the UK. But the jaw-dropper came next: the same year, their follow-up "Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)" also reached UK #1—two chart-toppers in a single year.

The song exists in two versions, and they're fundamentally different experiences. The version kids chanted at school discos and that radio stations played was a scrubbed, cleaned-up edit. The original album version carried significantly more explicit content, so the single every kid knew was — in spirit — a different song entirely. In the end, it defined their entire career: a pair of UK chart-toppers who remain eternally linked to the moment their cleaned-up chant owned playgrounds everywhere. (Not to be confused with Vengaboys' "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!"—the two boom-boom smashes get conflated constantly, but they're entirely different acts and eras.)