Singles to die for (2 per post, 1 post per person, no BSP)

[captain.riot]

What singles would you deliver up your life for?

Mine:

Party Fears Two - The Associates
New Rose - The Damned

[Lancashire Fusileer]

I'll go with Billy Mac's Magnum Opus and Gloria Jones' Tainted Love.

Where's me sequins?

[Martin Our Pravda]

This will change too often, but for the last few months I'd be quite happy with these:

Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
T Rex - Metal Guru

[boom]

Hey Hey My My - Neil Young
The Jam - Butterfly Collector

[5 Not Out]

Rolling Stones - Angie
Salford Jets - Gina

[bancroftboy]

Salford Jets - Gina

oh yeh
rather preferred 'looking at the squares' myself



for me
roadrunner - jonathan richman .......... the greatest single ever made
sheena is a punk rocker - the ramones ............. made me think this music stuff was for me

[pauloso]

Be My Baby: The Ronettes
Love Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division.

[blir]

I wouldn't actually die for them, but songs that are worth living for...

Nowhere Girl - B-Movie
(12" version with that blissed piano intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm01t11Ohzk)

Now - The Plimsouls
(a bit of pure Southern Cal power pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3JEyJiTzU)

[kevo]

Party Fears Two already seems oversubscribed, so I'll go for...

Ceremony - New Order
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

[redc]

Like Foxy, I wouldn't give my life for any record, album or single, but I wouldn't mind suffering minor bruising for:

New Order - Blue Monday.

and to make up the pair, I'll go with Martin's Echo Beach.

BTW on the subject of death & records I recall many moons ago the NME nominating Hendrix's Electric Ladyland the only record worth killing for.

[DalesMan]

Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J

[DalesMan]

"The House of Love - Christine" - good call.

[Martin Our Pravda]

I have to say, this thread has made me put on The Associates - Sulk again, which PF kindly bought me as some competition prize a couple of years back now. What a stunning (and largely under-rated today) record that is!

[kevo]

Nowhere Girl - B-Movie

Ah, the sound of my studenthood! Still have the original on 7" vinyl.

[kevo]

I have to say, this thread has made me put on The Associates - Sulk again, which PF kindly bought me as some competition prize a couple of years back now. What a stunning (and largely under-rated today) record that is!

What version is it tho? There are two 'Sulk's' with completely different track listings (one was originally the US version - which later bizarrely became the first version over here to be released on CD).