best run of singles in the 70s?

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Roxy Music
0
No votes
Queen
1
5%
David Bowie
5
26%
Sex Pistols
1
5%
T Rex
1
5%
The Clash
0
No votes
Buzzcocks
2
11%
ABBA
6
32%
Slade
2
11%
Elton John
0
No votes
Blondie
1
5%
 
Total votes: 19

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Re: is G right?

Postby GoogaMooga » 21 Oct 2018, 18:28

Goat Boy wrote:It’s a fantastic run and that opening double whammy is as good as Arnold Layne/See Emily Play


Even if you just take openers, it's Slade hands down.

"Wild Winds Are Blowing" (as The Slade)
"Shape of Things to Come"
"Know Who You Are" (UK only)
"Get Down and Get with It"
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Re: is G right?

Postby GoogaMooga » 21 Oct 2018, 18:39

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Re: is G right?

Postby Goat Boy » 21 Oct 2018, 19:23

GoogaMooga wrote:
Goat Boy wrote:It’s a fantastic run and that opening double whammy is as good as Arnold Layne/See Emily Play


Even if you just take openers, it's Slade hands down.

"Wild Winds Are Blowing" (as The Slade)
"Shape of Things to Come"
"Know Who You Are" (UK only)
"Get Down and Get with It"


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Re: is G right?

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Re: is G right?

Postby Rayge » 21 Oct 2018, 20:14

The Modernist wrote:People are telling me I'm wrong but I notice they're avoiding addressing that run of Roxy singles to show why I'm wrong. Maybe because they can't.


Well, the problem is that, apart from the first two, their run was of 'singles off albums', that Do the Strand was never released in the UK in 1973, while The Thrill of it All was withdrawn, and so the run is actually of six singles (four of them basically marketing ploys to help shift albums, and presenting no new material) that trail away in quality - there's nothing on Siren that would make the cut on For Your Pleasure – in more than three years, a very miserly rate of issue.

The Pistols first three or four are a better run. Not as long, but seismically better. Same applies to Joy Division, although maybe Atmosphere dips into the 1980s. I also think that T Rex, the Buzzcocks and the Clash have a claim, without disappearing down any obscurities rabbit holes - for instance, I'm sure some American soulster must have knocked out a run of classics.
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Re: is G right?

Postby Deebank » 21 Oct 2018, 20:45

Blondie

And I’d also suggest The Police.

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Re: is G right?

Postby Brickyard Jack » 21 Oct 2018, 20:58

SOS to i have a dream.

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Re: is G right?

Postby naughty boy » 21 Oct 2018, 21:03

ABBA
Buzzcocks
Pistols
T Rex

seem like sensible suggestions to me

Sparks, too
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Re: is G right?

Postby never/ever » 21 Oct 2018, 21:32

Queen.
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Re: is G right?

Postby naughty boy » 21 Oct 2018, 21:40

but it's probably Bowie
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Re: is G right?

Postby Bent Fabric » 21 Oct 2018, 21:57

ABBA, Queen - certainly.

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Re: is G right?

Postby Bent Fabric » 21 Oct 2018, 21:58

The Bee Gees really get lost for a few years after Run To Me, but things go pretty right from 75-79.

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Re: is G right?

Postby Robert » 21 Oct 2018, 22:27

Bent Fabric wrote:
Goat Boy wrote:Dance Away


I'm hardly their biggest fan, but - yeah, that one breaks my heart every time.



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Re: is G right?

Postby Robert » 21 Oct 2018, 22:29

THE SMOOTH SOUL STYLINGS OF SUMPTUOUS SI wrote:but it's probably Bowie



Of course

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Re: is G right?

Postby Robert » 21 Oct 2018, 22:50

UK singles:

STARMAN
JOHN I'M ONLY DANCING
THE JEAN GENIE
DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
LIFE ON MARS
LAUGHING GNOME
SORROW
REBEL REBEL
ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE
DIAMOND DOGS
KNOCK ON WOOD
YOUNG AMERICANS
FAME
SPACE ODDITY {1975}
GOLDEN YEARS
TVC 15
SOUND AND VISION
HEROES
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
BREAKING GLASS (EP)
BOYS KEEP SWINGING
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JOHN I'M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN)
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Re: is G right?

Postby The Modernist » 21 Oct 2018, 22:58

Bent Fabric wrote:ABBA, Queen - certainly.


Queen -give me a break. They have one of the worst.

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Re: is G right?

Postby NMB » 21 Oct 2018, 23:05

Nobody suggested The Who yet? And mostly proper stand-alone singles, not album tracks.
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Re: is G right?

Postby The Modernist » 21 Oct 2018, 23:09

NMB wrote:Nobody suggested The Who yet? And mostly proper stand-alone singles, not album tracks.


In the 70s?

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Re: best run of singles in the 70s?

Postby Polishgirl » 22 Oct 2018, 00:12

It's ABBA.

Waterloo
SOS
Mamma Mia
Fernando
Dancing Queen
Money Money Money
Knowing Me, Knowing You
The Name of the Game
Take A Chance On Me
Summer Night City
Chiquitita
Voulez Vous
Angel Eyes
Gimme Gimme Gimme
I Have A Dream

A bonanza of pretty much perfect pop. ( We won't talk about Does Your Mother Know? because it's a shocker. )
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Re: is G right?

Postby NMB » 22 Oct 2018, 01:36

The Modernist wrote:
NMB wrote:Nobody suggested The Who yet? And mostly proper stand-alone singles, not album tracks.


In the 70s?


Yes of course in the 70s.
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