Flex Your Head
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Probably this 4 track 7"EP by the TV Personalities. Too many reasons to list, but it was a surprisingly influential release.
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[Music] What is the best single record EVER? (Your choice not the critics ones)
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Yes this could be just about the best ———— till tomorrow....... such memories from Twickenham when my wife, me and friends were so coked up it was a pretty amazing experience when they did this. After 2 E’s I came up on ‘you can’t always get what you want’ and that runs this close.............
Live is just so memorable isn’t it.
Garage_Doors
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Lincolnshire Seagull
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Whitechapel
Famous Last Words
Somehow Frank Ocean managed to cram an albums worth of ideas in to one song. A soul/R&B/Funk/Princeesq/Status Quoesq epic about ancient Egpypt which compares Cleopatra and a prostitue living in modern day Vegas. Here's a few snippets from reviews that do it more justice than I ever could.
"structurally ramshackle though never erratic, it's the type of massive album centrepiece that was inconceivable before The-Dream's stadium-R&B reinvented the genre as a mythological epic"
"so much more than a song; it is an audible baptism, a narrative delicacy, a self-indulgent experience! And you best believe once you press play, this ride will take you to the destination of your choice."
"Verses and hooks collapse onto each other, rhymes pop up out of nowhere, and the singer acts like minutely balancing a 10-minute concept piece is no big deal"
"righteous funk opus that spans nearly 10 minutes"
"a 10-minute, tempo-shifting, minor-chord narrative of Egyptian queens and Las Vegas strippers, marrying Tangerine Dream sequencers and a jazzy John Mayer guitar solo to a rapturous slow jam – and make it all seem to make sense"
Frankie
Put him in the curry
The only record I can remember heading to the dance floor was Love Action by Human League .
The opening 5 seconds of the tune is instantly recognisable , even today it's one of those songs that get people on the dance floor.
The opening 5 seconds of the tune is instantly recognisable , even today it's one of those songs that get people on the dance floor.
Robinjakarta
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So, just the one choice please, no “oooh I’m not sure, could be this could be that and I’ll list 10, which will probably all change tomorrow”
Has to have been released as a single too, no album tracks that weren’t singles
I guess it’s almost certainly going to be a wide choice of songs from the last 70 (feck me) years and depending on your age, a song from your teenage years
Nothing controversial here if you’re an old codger, this is mine
Expecting lots of Punk to appear
https://youtu.be/IwOfCgkyEj0
I was going to pick that one!
Robinjakarta
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Yeah. McCartney's song with Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever on the other side. The very best of both. The only Beatles' record not to make Number 1 since they made it big when kept off the top by Humperdinck FFS.
Robinjakarta
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Robinjakarta
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Same plus honourable mentions for Positively 4th Street and The Times They Are 'a Changin.
The first time I heard Mr Tambourine Man, I was all-night fishing in the Sussex countryside when I heard this sound wafting through the 5am or so early morning breeze from my transistor radio. Couldn't believe what I was hearing. In a great year for music, this was something else, as the influence of the Byrds showed.
I adore their version, played all the time in my 60’s youtube compilation.
Made by Roger McGuinn’s unique vocals.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Mr Blue Sky
An anthem. This was on my shortlist.
Live by the sea
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