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Post by ChrisB on Aug 26, 2019 12:37:26 GMT
I guess that most of us play albums, or at least parts of them, but the single is probably a bit part of all of our youth. I know it is with me. This is where we can wax lyrical about them. Tell us why your choices are special or significant to you. I don't really want this thread to simply be a list of singles we like and you don't even have to like the track in question!
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 26, 2019 12:40:40 GMT
I'll start.
Robert Plant - 'Big Log'
This was on the radio all the time during a camping trip to Wales. I was a passenger in the car and spent a lot of time in the back seat with my feet sticking out of the window because I had only packed one pair of socks to last two weeks! Despite washing them often, I ended up with trench foot.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 26, 2019 12:52:40 GMT
Despite my loving Led Zeppelin, it was my late wife Aidi who bought the Big Log single, which I still have. I ended up buying The Principle of Moments and it remains my favorite Plant album.
I have a small collection of 7" and 12" singles, some of which remain favorites and I'll sift through them to tell their story.
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 26, 2019 12:53:45 GMT
Excellent!
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Post by MartinT on Aug 26, 2019 14:18:40 GMT
Genesis - Many Too Many
Bought at the time I was romancing my girlfriend whom I'd met while working at Marks & Spencer in Oxford Street, in 1978, we often went to the Shakespeare Head in Carnaby Street for a drink afterwards. We were downstairs in the cellar bar and she put this on the jukebox. We danced to it. It became our song and we stayed together for another five years.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 26, 2019 14:36:27 GMT
Level 42 - It's Over How many of you still have CD Video Clips (singles)? This was from 1986 and was not about a particular loss but just a couple of painful ones. A very good song from Level 42 and a tasteful accompanying video that I enjoyed playing long before the days of YouTube.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 26, 2019 16:03:55 GMT
Singles were our soundtrack in school days from age 13. We had favourites in the top 10 but weren't driven by the charrsss position
Don't have my singles listed anywhere. probably have 100-200 at a guess,including 7" EPs Some may still be unavailable so I ought to look them over
Beatles - all of them Stones - a select few Four Tops, Reach out and others Sam & Dave - Soul Man and others Temptations - Get ready and others Animals - House of the Rising Son and others Alan Bown Set, Jess Roden on vocals
Many more Need to dig them out, maybe play a few...
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Post by MartinT on Aug 26, 2019 16:11:56 GMT
Chris was asking for a story behind a single rather than a list, Mike.
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 26, 2019 16:44:14 GMT
Genesis - 'Many Too Many' It has some great lyrics and I much prefer it to the flat as a fart 'Follow You, Follow Me' from the same album. Mellotron alert, though!
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Post by Slinger on Aug 26, 2019 19:55:15 GMT
Minnie Ripperton - Lovin' You
It takes me straight back to the summer of '74 (along with Terry Jacks' "Seasons In The Sun") and getting stuck in Greenwich Park after they locked the gates. No, I wasn't alone, I was with the first of my fiancées.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 26, 2019 19:57:01 GMT
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry.
I ended up with two copies of this in 1970, bought for me by two young ladies who were both "keen" on me at the time.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 27, 2019 5:10:48 GMT
Roxy Music - Both Ends Burning
This was 1975, I was in Sixth Form and Roxy had really interested me with its arty psychedelia. I don't remember why I bought the 7" single but it was during my first phase of record buying. I had a Connoisseur BD-1 and SME 3009-II record deck back then.
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Post by John on Aug 27, 2019 6:36:33 GMT
One of my favourite songs is The Isley Brothers Summer Breeze. I love this track for two reasons 1. The fantastic guitar solo by Ernie Isley it just sings so well 2. The great vocals It is the ideal Summer song for me I always imagine myself on a beach when hearing this
I have bought less than 10 singles I am not really a singles person to be honest but this does not mean that I do not enjoy a good song
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Post by MartinT on Aug 27, 2019 6:44:06 GMT
Hah! A Mellotron or Hammond solo has made many a song all the greater
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Post by Barrington on Aug 30, 2019 16:56:17 GMT
1977 and Punk had well and truly taken off , I liked the energy of the music and although I didn't buy many Punk records this was the first from a band that weren't actually Punk but the song typified what I liked about the scene , it's still my favourite The Jam record , their debut single In The City reached 36 in the charts , 2 mins of speed rock .
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Post by Slinger on Aug 30, 2019 17:31:28 GMT
Another one I ended up with two copies of, courtesy of two different ladies... one of whom became my wife. I was at a wedding not long after receiving them, and both ladies were there. The DJ put this on and I started grinning; they both kicked me under the table, hard. It didn't help that the lady who didn't become my wife was sitting next to her husband. Oh what a tangled web we weave... Interestingly, this had two different B-sides, and I got one of each.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 30, 2019 20:28:44 GMT
It didn't help that the lady who didn't become my wife was sitting next to her husband Been there, got the T-shirt
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Post by MartinT on Aug 30, 2019 20:33:26 GMT
Yello - The Race
One of the very best 12" singles I ever bought. I first heard The Race at a Hi-Fi show, around 1988, in the Audio Innovations room. I don't remember the speakers, but boy those valve amps could boogie when they weren't self destructing. The sax sounded out of this world. It was an outstanding demo and I went out and bought the single right away. To this day, I love their Flag album and The Race still sounds marvellous to me, a properly weird creation that only Yello could pull off.
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