NME Top Singles of 1988

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The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
12
15%
Everyday is Like Sunday
7
9%
Alphabet Street - Prince
8
10%
Suedehead - Morrissey
10
13%
Destroy The Heart - The House Of Love
10
13%
Big Fun - Inner City
3
4%
Freak Scene - Dinosaurjr
13
17%
Crash - The Primitives
7
9%
Sidewalkin' - The Jesus & Mary Chain
6
8%
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - The Pogues
2
3%
 
Total votes: 78

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby The Red Heifer » 13 Jul 2018, 23:20

gash on ignore wrote:Womack & Womack - Teardrops
Buffalo Stance FFS!!


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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby Rayge » 14 Jul 2018, 11:44

ORORORO wrote:Why isn't 'You Made Me Realise' in that top 10 anyway?


Maybe because it was basically the lead track on an EP?
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby naughty boy » 14 Jul 2018, 12:21

Hell of a tune anyway.

Shame what happened to them.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby clive gash » 14 Jul 2018, 13:00

MM top 20


1. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
2. You Made Me Realise - My Bloody Valentine
3. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
4. Gigantic - Pixies
5. Destroy The Heart - The House Of Love
6. L'amourir - The Young Gods
7. Christine - The House Of Love
8. Sidewalking - Jesus And Mary Chain
9. Feed Me With Your Kiss - My Bloody Valentine
10. Martha's Harbour - All About Eve
11. Follow The Leader - Eric B & Rakim
12. Alphabet Street - Prince
13. UP Home EP - AR Kane
14. Crash - The Primitives
15. Teardrops - Womack & Womack
16. Collision EP - Loop
17. Patti - Scritti Politti
18. The Race - Yellow
19. Revolution - Spaceman
20. Headhunter - Front 242
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby naughty boy » 14 Jul 2018, 14:35

the SUBVERSIVE and INCENDIARY Jesus and Mary Chain :lol:

how far do you think I'd get with crowdfunding to make their houses 'incendiary'?
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby Darkness_Fish » 14 Jul 2018, 17:07

Tonto Papadopoulos wrote:
Darkness_Fish wrote:Well that burst of quality that 1987 provided was all too brief. I love "The Mercy Seat", I must admit, but it's slim pickins otherwise.


Silly boy.

Eh?
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby The Modernist » 14 Jul 2018, 17:35

I went for Big Fun ( although clearly the NME should have picked the superior Good Life from the same year), Destroy the Heart and Cave's most iconic track The Mercy Seat. All good..but some rum choices elsewhere in the years when we were getting the fag end of indie.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby The Modernist » 14 Jul 2018, 17:40

gash on ignore wrote:MM top 20


1. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
2. You Made Me Realise - My Bloody Valentine
3. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
4. Gigantic - Pixies
5. Destroy The Heart - The House Of Love
6. L'amourir - The Young Gods
7. Christine - The House Of Love
8. Sidewalking - Jesus And Mary Chain
9. Feed Me With Your Kiss - My Bloody Valentine
10. Martha's Harbour - All About Eve
11. Follow The Leader - Eric B & Rakim
12. Alphabet Street - Prince
13. UP Home EP - AR Kane
14. Crash - The Primitives
15. Teardrops - Womack & Womack
16. Collision EP - Loop
17. Patti - Scritti Politti
18. The Race - Yellow
19. Revolution - Spaceman
20. Headhunter - Front 242


Poor old deluded MM. They were trying to shove shoegazing on us, when all the cats were getting into house. :lol:

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 14 Jul 2018, 17:57

I don’t even like the ones I like all that much.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby clive gash » 14 Jul 2018, 17:57

There was plenty of house coverage in MM but the block voting from the arsequake cabal came out top.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby naughty boy » 14 Jul 2018, 17:59

Surprised to see Cave doing so well. I like the song a fair bit, but he's always been a figure of fun here on BCB, especially among the Classic Rock Bores.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby naughty boy » 14 Jul 2018, 18:02

there's that really good bit where he goes

I HEAR STORIES FROM THE CHAMBER
CHRIST WAS BORN INTO A MANGER
LIKE A RAGGED STRANGER brghzkduddus AND MAY I SAY

something like that

it's almost worth sitting through the rubbish mood-music that makes up the rest of the track!
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby The Modernist » 14 Jul 2018, 18:04

ORORORO wrote:Surprised to see Cave doing so well. I like the song a fair bit, but he's always been a figure of fun here on BCB, especially among the Classic Rock Bores.


I'm not a Cave fan ( although I bought all the early Bad Seeds records because I was into The Birthday Party records), but this one justifies all the love. It's exciting, dramatic, poetically profound, moving..really everything you could want.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby joklend » 14 Jul 2018, 18:15

Johnny Cash's version is better.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby The Modernist » 14 Jul 2018, 18:26

Cash's version is too respectful, too 'elder statement'.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby naughty boy » 14 Jul 2018, 18:44

Precisely.

I suppose that's what the Yanks go for.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby ChrisB » 14 Jul 2018, 18:47

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 14 Jul 2018, 19:53

ORORORO wrote:Surprised to see Cave doing so well. I like the song a fair bit, but he's always been a figure of fun here on BCB, especially among the Classic Rock Bores.


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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby the masked man » 14 Jul 2018, 21:29

I invoked too many nights spent at 90s indie clubs and loved itwhen they went for 80s tunes, so The Mercy Seat, Freak Scene and Sidewalking it is. Damn Fine they all are. Love Alphabet Street as well though.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1988

Postby Polishgirl » 20 Jul 2018, 23:49

Well, I just adore Alphabet Street.

Also very keen on Crash and Freak Scene, with Mercy Seat as my top also ran.
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