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was of 'singles off albums', that Do the Strand was never released in the UK in 1973, while The Thrill of it All was withdrawn, and so the run is actually of six singles (four of them basically marketing ploys to help shift albums, and presenting no new material) that trail away in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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