Bands who's first single was the best they ever did.

[OzMike]

How about this?

Private Investigations?

 

[OzMike]

Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand.
Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins.
Radar Love - Golden Earing.

 

[OzMike]

Anyway:

I thought that was s**t.

 

[OzMike]

I Can Help - Billy Swan.

 

[OzMike]

Hang On In There Baby - Johnny Bristol.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

 

[happypig]

Radar Love - Golden Earing.

Wasn't their first. It was preceded by several singles including "Dong Dong Diki Digi Dong"

 

[El Presidente]

Sound of the Suburbs: The Members
Teenage Kicks: The Undertones

 

[pastafarian]

Sound of the Suburbs: The Members
Teenage Kicks: The Undertones

sound of the suburbs was not their first single released

this thread is a pedants wet dream


ps give Rosa one from me

 

[pastafarian]

Neds Atomic Dustbin-Grey Cell Green

Officially part of an EP and their first release but i dare anyone to argue this wasnt their first unofficial single.

great stuff after but nothing matched this

Always sounds better on vinyl for some reason........i love vinyl

 

[Trufflehound]

Radar Love - Golden Earing.

Wasn't their first. It was preceded by several singles including "Dong Dong Diki Digi Dong"

Indeed. By the time Radar Love came out, they'd already released about 8 albums and had 16 (sixteen) top-10 singles in their native Netherlands, with two number ones (including the one mentioned above).

They still have the same line up they've had since 1970 and tour here every year...

 

[Trufflehound]

Tenpole tudor, everything after this went over produced and lost their raw sound.

One of my favourite and most over-played singles from that era.

A difficult one for the pedants though, as while technically this was the first 100% Tenpole Tudor effort, he had already had two songs that appeared on chart singles. His versions of Who Killed Bambi? and Rock Around the Clock from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle film were on the flip sides of the Sex Pistols' Silly Thing and the title song respectively.

In his defence, both those tunes are shit, and Real Fun is brilliant.

 

[Trufflehound]

this thread is a pedants wet dream

 

[pastafarian]

I think i have a corker.

Tears For Fears FIRST single was Suffer The Children-It did sod all-never even made the charts

my personal opinion it was their greatest single and worthy of an entry on here,they did great stuff after but this single rocks my Balls

whatever your view enjoy a nice tune.

 

[Trufflehound]

One for the many Clare Grogan fans on here.

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[Carrot Cruncher]

Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand.

Hate to do this to you but 'Darts of Pleasure was their first single.

Bloc Party - Banquet.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Anyway:

I thought that was s**t.

You're not wrong there Mike, but maybe she got locked up for that single and was never to be seen or heard again

 

[W3 BHA]

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something. A corker!

 

[OzMike]

Wasn't their first. It was preceded by several singles including "Dong Dong Diki Digi Dong"

First one I heard.

 

[Seagull58]

Anarchy in the uk