Onka's Big Moka
This article is about the Toploader album.
For the anthropological film with a similar spelling, see
Ongka's Big Moka.
Onka's Big Moka is an album released in 1999 by the post-Britpop band Toploader. The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight", a cover of the King Harvest song, was featured in a television commercial for supermarket chain Sainsbury's and on the soundtrack of the 2002 American coming-of-age teen romantic drama "A Walk to Remember".
The title is a reference to a 1976 anthropological documentary Ongka's Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea. It was being much played in university anthropology departments in the mid-1990s, around when the band members would have been attending.
Track listing
- "Let the People Know" – 3:54
- "Dancing in the Moonlight" – 3:52
- "Achilles Heel" – 4:18
- "Breathe" – 3:56
- "Do You Know What Your Future Will Be?" – 4:24
- "Only for a While" – 3:51
- "Just Hold On" - 4:01
- "Higher State" – 3:11
- "High Flying Bird" – 4:10
- "Summer Cycle" – 4:38
- "Just About Living" - 4:01
- "Floating Away (In the Bath Tub)" - 3:22
Singles
- 1999 "Achilles Heel" #64 UK
- 1999 "Let the People Know" #52 UK
- 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight" #19 UK (King Harvest cover)
- 2000 "Achilles Heel" (re-release) #8 UK
- 2000 "Just Hold On" #20 UK
- 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight" (remix) #7 UK
- 2001 "Only for a While" #19 UK
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- "Achilles Heel"
- "Let the People Know"
- "Dancing in the Moonlight"
- "Achilles Heel" (re-release)
- "Just Hold On"
- "Dancing in the Moonlight" (re-release)
- "Only for a While"
- "Time of My Life"
- "Some Kind of Wonderful"
- "Never Stop Wondering"
- "A Balance to All Things"
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