Fuck off.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Teenage Fanclub is absolutely bang-on right, good call that man.
― NickB, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Sugababes SUGARCUBES
― NickB, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
^THIS!
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:33 (fifteen years ago) link
No actually, Birthday was their second single, retract! RETRACT!
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
third
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
(in the UK at least)
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Wikipedia claims it was their first outside Iceland, maybe it was just reissued?
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Bela Lugosi's Dead
Never understood all the love for this song. I know it's prototypical goth and all, but I'll take "She's In Parties" or "In the Flat Fields" any day of the week.
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
AFAIK Birthday was the Sugarcubes first single released outside of Iceland. I think that the one that got released before was actually an Icelandic language version of the same song, so, um it sort of counts dunnit?
― NickB, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Magazine - shot by both sides
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Rema Rema - Wheel in the roses
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
No one appears to have mentioned Elvis yet.....And the Beatles? *runs away*
― sonofstan, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The Beatles would be the challop to end all challops.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh, I just said 'challops'.
what have you become
(also otm)
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Chapterhouse - "Pearl"House of Love - "Christine"Lush - "Scar" EP
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"Shine On" was first, wasn't it?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Fairly sure Pearl's not Chapterhouse's first single either
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Mark G, I don't think Rema Rema really count here!
Wikipedia says it is (Chapterhouse), for what that's worth...think you're right about House of Love...how about:
House of Pain - "Jump Around"
and
Terence Trent D'Arby - "Wishing Well"
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Wikipedia says it is (Chapterhouse),
* Freefall (1990) * Sunburst (1990)
* "Pearl" (1991)
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Terence Trent D'Arby - "Wishing Well" "If you let me stay"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Suede - "The Drowners"Gene - "For The Dead"Bobbie Gentry - "Ode To Billie Joe"
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
No it doesn't!
* Freefall (1990)* Sunburst (1990)
well, "Pearl" is listed as their first-released single, for what that's worth...(probably the proverbial tinker's damn, but whatever)...
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Sure, but if you want to go that way, then Scar isn't Lush's first single! </pedantry>
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I knew I'd get busted for that, but I was just looking for any kind of lifeline...
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I had nowhere to turn!
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Sniff 'n' the Tears - "Drivers Seat"
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i would likely as not agree with Elvis P
― Barunka Hussein O'Shaughnessy (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, that's alright Barunka.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
except there's things i'd place on a par with 'mama'
― Barunka Hussein O'Shaughnessy (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
M/A/R/R/S :)
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Pere Ubu: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo/Heart Of Darkness
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Does Jonathan Richman's Roadrunner count?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
He's on the radio right now: Chris Brown
― ILX MOD (musically), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
although all produced music of worth for a long while afterwards.
this got totally ignored yes
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Chris Brown otm
― SIR -- (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Girls Aloud?
― I know, right?, Thursday, 16 October 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Scooter
― Siegbran, Thursday, 16 October 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
christ, the vocals on the first teenage fanclub single are bad. everything on 'grand prix' pisses over it from about 20,000 feet.
duran duran otm though.
― gotta change my screenname (ledge), Thursday, 16 October 2008 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The Sundays.
― NickB, Thursday, 16 October 2008 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
they've only just peaked in the last year!
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 16 October 2008 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
winner?
Cowboy Junkies, "Sweet Jane"
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 16 October 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― gotta change my screenname (ledge), Thursday, 16 October 2008 09:49 (7 hours ago) Permalink
Yes, the vocals are weak and sometimes out of tune, The production is as weak and thin as a balkan peasant's soup and you can't hear the bass guitar but it's STILL one of the very best songs ever written, of all time, debut single or not.
And I love Grand Prix.
― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Thursday, 16 October 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
dinosaur - "repulsion"
― Edward III, Thursday, 16 October 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Deee-Lite, "Groove Is in the Heart"
― mottdeterre, Thursday, 16 October 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Boston - "More Than A Feeling"
― henry s, Thursday, 16 October 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Isn't this *precisely* the wrong question to ask on a board full of people who are into obscure music? Artists whose last single was the best thing they ever did would be more like it
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 16 October 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Start a new one then.
― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Thursday, 16 October 2008 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link