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All of them stevem.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I second Steven's suggestion. The Pet Shop Boys had a run and then stopped to have a fag at quality control never to return. The SFA are still running ...

― deathnight, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

OK some of SFA's singles are alright but "Juxtaposed With U" is WRETCHED! Really really really horrible. And there's a reggae one they did which is a shocker too.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

juxatopsed with u is brilliant for the original steal of the charlie's angels theme.

― deathnight, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i hated 'Juxtaposed With U' at first (yeh yeh, Lighthouse Family yadda yadda) but have warmed to it since - the video strikes again possible. the SFA tracks i'm less keen on are 'Play It Cool' and 'Do Or Die'...and 'Golden Retriever' is okay, only just realised how much it sounds like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's 'Spread Your Love'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno why i'm even bothering trying to top the PSBs here anyway as they're still better than all other bands mentioned on this thread

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was a disappointed when this thread took a turn from talking about how great PSB were to talking about "Hey, what about Dumpy's Rusty Nuts? They had a great run of singles too!".

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

a shame Pulp may not make it to 20

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

In the pub tonight we realised that even if you include songs the PSB wrote or co-wrote or produced for other people (or ESPECIALLY if) they reign supreme

This is so true, they were so good they could even make Patsy Kensit sound fab.

Tom, have you heard Love is everywhere by Cicero? Imagine if Bill Drummond had decided to make gay disco records rather than stadium house, but decided to keep the bagpipes.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Lex, "Joga" was the first single from Homogenic. I remember everyone raving about it at the time, especially Thom Yorke.

Now if I can give my opinion about PSB, I think their list extends way beyond 20. Am I the only one who thinks "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" is the happiest song EVER MADE? And I can't believe how much hate "Liberation" is getting. To me, it's such a sweet and heartfelt love song. Plus the melody is gorgeous! Then you have "Yesterday when I was mad", which is the best song about being in a band EVER MADE!!!

I could go on, but you get my point. I think some of the singles off Bilingual were questionable choices, but the single mix of "A red letter day" redeemed it and "Single-bilingual" had great remixes of "Discoteca" which should have been the A-side.

Also, can I get some love for "Absolutely fabulous"?
Anyone?

― Seb, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
2. Kiss and Make Up
3. Nothing Can Stop Us
4. Join Our Club
5. People Get Real
6. Avenue
7. You're in a Bad Way
8. Who Do You Think You Are
9. Hobart Paving
10. I Was Born on Christmas Day
11. Pale Movie
12. Like a Motorway
13. Hug My Soul
14. He's on the Phone
15. Sylvie
16. Lose That Girl
17. The Bad Photographer
18. How We Used To Live
19. Heart Failed
20. Boy Is Crying
21. Action
22. Soft Like Me

(not quite as strong towards the end there, but an astonishing run nonetheless)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 21 August 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

nice!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 August 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Was "West End Girls" really their first single? I can then honestly now say of a band that I loved them right at the start but lost interest as they went on. You make it all sound really good though.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 August 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh Tim if I ever was going to do a 'sequel' thread that's who I'd pick.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 August 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

1. "Blinded By The Light"
2. "Circus Song"
3. "Spirit in the Night"
4. "Rosalita"
5. "Born To Run"
6. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
7. "Prove It All Night"
8. "Badlands"
9. "The Promised Lands"
10."Hungry Heart"
11. "Fade Away"
12. "Cadillac Ranch"
13. "I Wanna Marry You"
14. "The River"
15. "The Ties That Bind"
16. "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
17. "Atlantic City"
18. "Open All Night"
19. "Dancing In The Dark"
20. "Cover Me"

Not too shoddy,is it?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 August 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

We were talking about St. Et in this regard in the pub the other night, I was surprised when Tom didn't mention them uptheread (now I see he was planning a sneaky article, the sneaky article).

There's a big hairy wart there in the middle called "I Was Born On Christmas Day", about which I'd totally forgotten as they sensibly missed it off "Smash The System".

Also Tim you cheat slightly by including double a-sides, don't you? You can include 52 Pilot too if you want.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 August 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Was Born On Christmas Day" is wonderful Tim! The worst song on that list is "Like A Motorway".

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 August 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

XTC?

No, maybe not.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 21 August 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh Tim if I ever was going to do a 'sequel' thread that's who I'd pick.

can we start a petition or something?

i can't believe i've never posted on this thread saying how great the first post is.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 21 August 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

'Like A Motorway' is great - it's 'Sylvie' i don't like. i used to abhor 'He's On The Phone' but i guess it's okay if you do think of it the right way (best SAW track they never did)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 21 August 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

My car is parked outside / I'm afraid it doesn't work

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim is right about I Was Born On Christmas Day. It's horrid.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: steve m's mention of Madness upthread. I don't know what he means about 'Tomorrow's Just Another Day'. It's wonderfully infused with mania. The Rise & Fall album it's from is Madness's concept album about madness.

First 20:

THE PRINCE
ONE STEP BEYOND
MY GIRL
NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO (lead track on EP. If that doesn't count then add 'UNCLE SAM' to the end)
BAGGY TROUSERS
EMBARRASSMENT
THE RETURN OF THE LOS PALMAS 7
GREY DAY
SHUT UP
IT MUST BE LOVE
CARDIAC ARREST
HOUSE OF FUN
DRIVING IN MY CAR
OUR HOUSE
TOMORROW'S (JUST ANOTHER DAY)
WINGS OF A DOVE
THE SUN AND THE RAIN
MICHAEL CAINE
ONE BETTER DAY
YESTERDAY'S MEN

For me, that beats the Pet Shop Boys' run, the 'my car is parked outside / I'm afraid it doesn't work' line notwithstanding.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with Nick. I also disagree with Ewing upthread when he calls the first dozen 'stylistically inflexible' but we agreed the other night that we were dealing with a small differences issue.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

'The Return Of The Las Palmas 7' is also quite weak as a single tho isn't it? yes its a pleasant enough track but i never understood why it was a single.

'Tomorrow's Just ANother Day' - there's just something about it for me that feels like they've gone TOO formulaic and tired. but 'Wings Of A Dove' is brilliant

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I love TROTLP! Pretty risky to release an instrumental as a single in 1981. Maybe that explains "Waiter!".

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't even decide where t break it into 20 there are so many good ones thta would get lost :(

well, prince's first 32 singles (its starts getting iffy after that) you can choose where to make the break into twenty.

1 Soft and Wet
2 Just As Long As We're Together
3 I Wanna Be Your Lover
4 Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
5 Still Waiting
6 Uptown
7 Dirty Mind
8 Controversy
9 Let's Work
10 Do Me, Baby
11 1999
12 Little Red Corvette
13 Delirious
14 Let's Pretend We're Married
15 Irresistible Bitch
16 When Doves Cry
17 Let's Go Crazy
18 Purple Rain
19 I Would Die 4 U
20 Take Me With U
21 Raspberry Beret
22 Pop Life
23 America
24 Kiss
25 Mountains
26 Anotherloverholenyohead
27 Sign 'O' The Times
28 If I Was Your Girlfriend
29 U Got The Look
30 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
31 Hot Thing
32 Alphabet St.

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

different to UK - 'Paisley Park' and 'Pop Life' were early singles in the UK, not sure how good they are

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

first 24 Prince singles in UK:

i wanna be your lover
1999
little red corvette
when doves cry
purple rain
i would die 4 u
1999/little red corvette
let's go crazy / take me with u
paisley park
raspberry beret
pop life
kiss
mountains
girls and boys
anotherloverholenyohead
sign o the times
if i was your girlfriend
u got the look
i could never take the place of your man
alphabet street
glam slam
i wish u heaven
batdance
partyman

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I got the Pet Shop Boys 'Discography' singles collection based on this thread.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

that prince list just makes me want to weep with joy

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread made me dig out Very last night.... Isn't "To Speak Is A Sin" a lost PSB classic? Ditto "Nervously" off Behaviour... and perhaps even "Love is a Catastrophe" off the new one.

Has anyone heard "Hit and Miss", a b-side to 'Before', I think --- the best PSB tune of the nineties?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" was a single.

― Evan, Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

And how come nobody ever mentions the great original Bobby O version of "West End Girls," their first ever recording? It was an underground hit in New York and Los Angeles.

― Evan, Friday, 22 August 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

HowCanYEtBTS was double-A with StreetsHaveNoName/Can'tTakeMyEyes

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 22 August 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(strongo lists the Jay-Z singles)

kinda falls apart in the home stretch

I think you'll find it pitches head-first over its handlebars with "Hard Knock Life". Then gets back up, staples its bits together, and get creamed by a semi at "Anything".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 22 August 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

haha "Liberation" is my favorite PSB song

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 23 August 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

HCYETOTS? was a stand-alone single in the US.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

If only that was actually the name.

"Now on the hit parade, Hicetots! That is how you pronounce it, right?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

ILM will not like this but what about...

1. Come On
2. I Wanna Be Your Man
3. I Want to be loved
4. It's All Over Now
5. Little Red Rooster
6. Not Fade Away
7. Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
8. Time Is On My Side
9. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
10. Get Off Of My Cloud
11. Heart of Stone
12. The Last Time
13. 19th Nervous Breakdown
14. As Tears Go By
15. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing In The Shadow?
16. Paint It, Black
17. Let's Spend The Night Together
18. We Love You
19. Jumpin' Jack Flash
20. Honky Tonk Women

― Venga, Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevem, 'Pop Life' and 'He's On The Phone' are so fresh. And this is the best gun stroking thread ever.

I wonder if the Fives (Pizzicato and Jackson) should be up in here.

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

1 Hand In Glove
2 This Charming Man
3 What Difference Does it Make
4 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
5 William, It Was Really Nothing
6 How Soon Is Now
7 Shakespeares Sister
8 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
9 The Boy with the Thorn in his Side
10 Bigmouth Strikes Again
11 Panic
12 Ask
13 Shoplifters of the World Unite
14 Single Sheila Take a Bow
15 Girlfriend in a Coma
16 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
17 Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me
18 There is a Light That Never Goes Out
every one a winner!

Pete - has to be 20 - any old idiot can make 18 good singles in a row.

19. Suedehead
20. Everyday Is Like Sunday

Eh? Minor cheating? Who cares about that Marr fellow anyway?

― Luc, Friday, 12 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

“Left To My Own Devices” – The 12” of this is transcendental

Are you referring to the Disco mix?

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 13 March 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

What about this:

Space Oddity
Changes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Life on Mars?
Ziggy Stardust
Starman
John, I'm Only Dancing
Suffragette City
Jean Genie
Sorrow
Drive-In Saturday
Diamond Dogs
Rebel Rebel
Young Americans
Fame
Golden Years
TVC 15
Be My Wife
Sound and Vision
Beauty and the Beast

and then

Heroes
Boys Keep Swinging
DJ
Look Back in Anger
Ashes to Ashes
Fashion
Scary Monsters
Under Pressure
Cat People
Let's Dance
China Girl
Modern Love
Blue Jean

So Mr. Bowie, then?

― Luc, Saturday, 13 March 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

re: Where the streets have no name...
It lit up a miserable winter and it pissed off Bono – what more can you ask?

It pissed off Bono, why? Like the Negativland cover that came out the same year made him happy? What the fuck was/is wrong with that wingnut?

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 13 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The part in that video where they're projecting Neil onto an 50s American car is sublime.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 13 March 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

("Where the Streets Have No Name/Can't Take My Eyes Off You" video that is)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 13 March 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me that I hope Tico posts my FT essay soon. *sniffles*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Anybody feel like doing the Chic production singles list.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Bingo-Master's Break-Out!
2. It's The New Thing
3. Rowche Rumble
4. Fiery Jack
5. How I Wrote "Elastic Man"
6. Totally Wired
7. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
8. Look, Know
9. Marquis Cha-Cha
10. The Man Whose Head Expanded
11. Kicker Conspiracy
12. Oh! Brother
13. C.R.E.E.P.
14. Couldn't Get Ahead/Rollin' Dany
15. Cruiser's Creek
16. Living Too Late
17. Mr. Pharmacist
18. Hey! Luciani
19. There's a Ghost In My House
20. Hit the North
21. Victoria
22. Big New Prinz

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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The Pet Shop Boys' first twenty singles...

My car is parked outside / I'm afraid it doesn't work