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Floyd's Arnold Layne/See Emily Play/Apples & Oranges may just be unbeatable.

― G. Samsa (G. Samsa), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Mary Chain:
Upside Down, Never Understand, You Trip Me Up

(then not a bad next three with Just Like Honey, Some Candytalking, April Skies)

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric B & Rakim managed to release not just three but six classic singles in two years.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I Can't Explain
Anyhow Anyway Anywhere
My Generation
(+ Substitute)

Anarchy in the UK
God Save the Queen
Pretty Vacant
(+ Holidays in the Sun)

― PFS (pfs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the rain (supa dupa fly)
sock it 2 me
beep me 911

goodies
1 2 step
oh

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"Swing the Mood"
"That's What I Like"
"Let's Party"

― My Mind is Opener than Yours (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah...

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― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I only like the Stock Aitken and Waterman one.

― My Mind is Opener than Yours (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the next Beastie Boys single after "Fight For Your Right To Party" and "No Sleep Til Brooklyn"?

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I think they'd already released a few singles before those.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Beastie+Boys

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

"Talk Talk" b/w "Come on in"
"The People in Me" b/w "Maculine Intuition"
"Double Yellow Line" b/w "Absolutely Positively"

― tim ellison (tim ellison), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"We Could Send Letters"/"Pillar To Post"/"Oblivious" is a fairly impressive run, which becomes even more impressive adding "Walk Out To Winter" as the fourth one.

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Some other great initial runs:
Dreaming Of Me/New Life/Just Can't Get Enough
West End Girls/One More Chance/Opportunities
Less Than Zero/Alison/(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
Killing An Arab/Boys Don't Cry/Jumping Someone Else's Train
That Is Why/I Wanna Stay Home/The King Is Half Undressed
Maybe Tomorrow/Come And Get It/No Matter What

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Thursday, 30 November 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Blowin' in the Wind/ Subterranean Homesick Blues/ Like a Rolling Stone

― John Barlow (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ABC
I Found That Girl
Want You Back
(then :
I'll Be There
Who's Loving You
The Love You Save)

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Geir, the first 3 Aztec Camera singles were:

Just Like Gold (with We Could Send Letters on the B-side)
Mattress of Wire
Pillar To Post

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

He's still right though.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Eye Know
Me Myself and I
Say No Go

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Although it only appeared in the UK on import, "Jenifa (Taught Me)" pre-dates all of those.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

prince & the revolution :

Let's Go Grazy
When Doves Cry
I Would Die 4

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I assume that the absence of Beatles Band from this thread thus far is due to "My Bonnie" being considered their first single.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Even if "Love Me Do" was the first single, the trio isn't quite up there with "Please Please Me"/"She Loves You"/"I Wasnt To Hold Your Hand"

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I Wasnt To Hold Your Hand? Is this an alternate take we don't know about?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The negativity of the lyrics was too risque for Parlophone to dare release it at the time :)

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Although it only appeared in the UK on import, "Jenifa (Taught Me)" pre-dates all of those.
-- mike t-diva (mikejl...), November 30th, 2006 11:22 AM. (later)

To say nuthin' of "Plug Tuning (we got 3 minutes)"

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Beatles Band also had serious problems with their Xmas 1964 single "I Peel Fine"...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The three De La I listed were the first three 7 inches rather than their first free singles.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Tears Are Not Enough/Poison Arrow/Look Of Love/All Of My Heart

Sound of The Crowd/Love Action/Open Your Heart/Don't You Want Me

Ceremony/E.G.G/Temptation

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh fuck FIRST three singles.

OK Human League please to ignore. Thks.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

.. De La Soul ... their first free singles.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), November 30th, 2006 11:50 AM. (later)

Right here, an image of the flexi of "Me Myself and I" as per off the front of a Frosties cereal box, and a comment like "this was the first one, don't know about the others"

if there was one on Google.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

prince is a good one!

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Transmission/Love Will Tear Us Apart/Atmosphere

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

One Chord Wonders / Gary Gilmore's Eyes / Safety In Numbers
The Drowners / Metal Mickey / Animal Nitrate
Fairplay / Feel Free / Keep On Movin'
Falling & Laughing / Blue Boy b/w Love Sick / Simply Thrilled Honey
Relax / Two Tribes / The Power Of Love
Hong Kong Garden / The Staircase (Mystery) / Playground Twist
Public Image / Death Disco / Memories
I Can't Stand My Baby / (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures / Top Of The Pops
Gangsters / A Message To You Rudy / Too Much Too Young
Dance Stance / Geno / There There My Dear
Bingo-Master's Break-Out! / It's The New Thing / Rowche Rumble
30 Seconds Over Tokyo / Final Solution / Street Waves
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll / Sweet Gene Vincent / What A Waste
Spiral Scratch / Orgasm Addict / What Do I Get
Memorabilia / Tainted Love / Bedsitter
Hand In Glove / This Charming Man / What Difference Does It Make?
Ball Park Incident / See My Baby Jive / Angel Fingers
Oh Bondage! Up Yours! / The Day The World Turned Dayglo / Identity

Yes, I am old.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

work it out
crazy in love
baby boy

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"from a band", not a brand!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

No votes for Anarchy/Queen/Vacant then?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(tho' they too were, strictly speaking, a brand...)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah but the sex pistols were shit!

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Relax / Two Tribes / The Power Of Love

Okay, this might actually be my favourite triplet of them all.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh fuck FIRST three singles.

OK Human League please to ignore. Thks.

Being Boiled/Empire State Human/Holiday '80 is pretty good, son.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

DUH!

wannabe
say you'll be there
2 become 1

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

television :
"Little Johnny Jewel"
"Marquee Moon"
"Prove It"

guns n roses :
It's So Easy
Welcome To The Jungle
Sweet Child O' Mine

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Lex I think you're confusing the Sex Pistols with yourself.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

JT :
"Like I Love You"
"Cry Me A River"
"Rock Your Body"

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

My answer is still the correct one.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"Say You'll Be There" wasn't particularly good, was it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

yes it was (certainly not significantly worse than the other two)

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Fucking horrible, but you can't admit that you rockists!!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The Pistols were mentioned by PFS at the top of the thread.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

FGTH is a very good call. The astounding commercial success of all three singles adds some strength to the 'greatest' thing.

The Pet Shop Boys may have the greatest ever first 20 singles by an act but 'Love Comes Quickly' and even 'Opportunities' good as they are would be in the lower half of that 20 so mentioning them here probably not worth it ooh too late.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Flares'n'Slippers/I'm Not A Fool/Bad Man

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the FGTH trilogy really that great though, with hindsight?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Two Tribes was a bit shit, let's be honest.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the FGTH trilogy really that great though, with hindsight?

Yes.

Two Tribes was a bit shit, let's be honest.

No.

Wow, that was easy.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Easy like your mum.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

you wish Philip

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It's Phillip, dude.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

big friendly giant who cares

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The 12-inch of "Two Tribes" is great until the song starts.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah, the FGTH trilogy would get my vote as "greatest ever" - also helped by the impact which they had, and by the way they form such a strong, self-contained trilogy in their own right. Sex, death and love, with the theme of power running through all of them... perfect.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

a more interesting list might be 'Worst ever first three singles by a band who eventually became great'.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Radiohead! etc.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

But they didn't become great!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

oh what an evil web we weave

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

This is all inaccurat. The correct answer is the pierless George Michael with his immiculate melodics trilogy of the love he lost - Careless Hands, Turn My Corner and I Want No Sex.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you are mistaken!! Take your old homoness out of here!! In ESTONIA we understand the geniuses of Robert Williams and his tirst three single - "Freedom '96", "Old Before I Young" and "Lazy Gays"!! All top music and best music man since Ian McCulloch (who was an actor too - we in ESTONIA hope Robert plays acting too!)!!

― Pitor Skut (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Love Comes Quickly" was their fourth single (fifth, even, if you count two different versions of "West End Girls")

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Comstock's was better.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"Love Comes Quickly" was their fourth single (fifth, even, if you count two different versions of "West End Girls")

yeah we know

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

nigga plz yo niggaz be forgetting how tha xtc krew came off the mean streez of easside swindon comin out of tha ghetto and ghostridin on our massiv rims into the homes of yo white boyz that be playin our gangsta music yo

niggaz know bout "science friction up in my ho", "three fuckin' d ep" and "statue of liberty aint no nigga"

nigga me and c-money and those two niggaz that later shot my black ass in my limo we be playin so tight that we were outta the ghetto and in our pads with our hos and drinkin crissy yo niggaz

― gangsta andy partidge (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"Lovertits"
"Red Leather"
"Set It Off"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

prince & the revolution kind of wins though

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i dont know who dis said vacante nigga iz but yo better no mess with tha xtc krew because we be real muthafuckin swindon G's

― gangsta andy partidge (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Prince & the Revolution is cheating.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Transmission/Love Will Tear Us Apart/Atmosphere

would be pretty unbeatable but wasn't it actually Transmission/Atmosphere/Komakino...

― G. Samsa (G. Samsa), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: Butbutbut "Science Friction" was the lead track on the 3DEP...

Nevertheless, Science Friction / Statue Of Liberty / This Is Pop is still pretty damned fine...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

yo think yo know tha xtc krew nigga???

nigga i beat yo ass in freestyle rappin at tha swindown town hall if yo got tha ballz

but hell yeah nigga "this is me poppin a cap in yo ass" was hella tight yo and i bet poppin a cork off a crissy it was so damn fine nigga

― gangsta andy partidge (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Two Tribes certainly isn't shit, at least you gotta admit it has one of the best basslines ever in pop.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

An I'd still say Say You'll Be There was pretty mediocre compared to Wannabe and 2 Become 2, I can't even remember how it goes.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't say it was shit, I said it was a bit shit.

BIT, SON!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

What bit?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a bit shit overall. It just doesn't seem to gel together? Alriiiight?

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

convincing arguments for sure.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I Can't Wait
Point of No Return
Should I Say Yes
[Nu Shooz]

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

convincing arguments for sure.

Piss off, Old Hairy Arms!!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Everybody
Burning Up
Holiday

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five should be in here as well but I don't know the order of their early singles and can't quickly find a proper discography ("Superrappin," "Freedom" and "Birthday Party" is I think how it goes).

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Spooky, was just thinking of them - but decided that "Superrappin" wasn't up to scratch.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

so, what did everyone learn from No List November as it draws to a close?

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

It's probably not AS good as the other two, but I was surprised the last time I heard it--much better than I had remembered.

Also, purists will cringe, but the Sugarhill Band maybe belong in here also: "Rapper's Delight," "Eighth Wonder," "Apache" (same problem as Flash, though, not completely sure that's right). I will defend "Rapper's Delight" 'til death.

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Right Said Fred
Hole in the Ground
Gossip Calypso.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, Nu Shooz are my ultimate answer--a perfect run from a perfect band who never went anywhere else.

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Public Enemy #1 b/w Timebomb
You're Gonna Get Yours b/w Rebel Without A Pause
Bring The Noise

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

nwa :
"Panic Zone"
"Straight Outta Compton"
"Express Yourself"

snoop :
"Who Am I (What's My Name)?"
"Gin and Juice"
"Doggy Dogg World"

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
"Leader of the Pack"
"Give Him a Great Big Kiss"

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Devotion / Right Back To You / That's The Way Love Is. Immaculate!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

stricly as The KLF ft. The Children Of The Revolution

What Time Is Love / 3AM Eternal / Last Train To Trancentral

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess "No-List November" doesn't apply in the sandbox!

Whatever. I say "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"/"Heart Of Darkness", "Final Solution"/"Cloud 149", and "Street Waves"/"My Dark Ages". (Pere Ubu)

Oh, and Dylan's "Mixed-Up Confusion" was actually released as a single, and therefore predates "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Like A Rolling Stone". (And possibly "Blowing In The Wind" too...)

― Monty Von Bygone (Monty Von Bygone), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, Pere Ubu! Also Wire.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Mr Tambourine Man/I Knew I'd Want You
All I Really Want to Do/I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
Turn Turn Turn/She Don't Care About Time

(Including b-sides because "All I Really Want to Do" doesn't really belong, but "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" definitely does.)

― PFS (pfs), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Comstock and Pitor both very wrong.

Greatest ever first three singles from act was legendary English Samuntha Fux, which first three singles, "Touch Me", "Do Ya Do Ya" and "Hold On Tight" gave my people lot of alone sexytime!!
Hi-Five!!!

― Borat the Kazakh (borat70), Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Gangster Boogie / Maniac"
"CIA / Cold Blooded Blitz"
"PSK / Gucci Time"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 1 December 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Popozao . . . Lose Control . . . America's Most Hated

― Stephen Bush (Stephen Bush), Friday, 1 December 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

jk jk jk

Hand In Glove / This Charming Man / What Difference Does It Make?

winner ^

― Stephen Bush (Stephen Bush), Friday, 1 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Protect Ya Neck / Method Man
Cream / Da Mystery Of Chessboxing
Can It Be All So Simple / Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin' To Fuck With

― Rodney Von Bushwickin The Barbarian Mother-Funky Stay High Dollar Billster (Rodn, Friday, 1 December 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The Shangri-La's had two singles out prior to "Remember..." the the group signing on to Red Bird-"Wishing Well" (w/an adorable and insane Mary Weiss lead) and "Simon Says." One of those singles was re-released and Red Bird rush-released not one but two singles to fight it ("Give Him..." and a fake live take of "Maybe").

― C. Grisso/McCain (sandglocks), Friday, 1 December 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My nom:

Virginia Plain
Pyjamarama
Do The Strand

― C. Grisso/McCain (sandglocks), Friday, 1 December 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

shot by both sides/my mind ain't so open
~~touch and go/goldfinger~~
give me everything/i love you big dummy
rhythm of cruelty/tv baby
~~touch and go/goldfinger~~

― dan (dan), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's run, "How Do You Do It"/"I Like It"/"You'll Never Walk Alone" was not at all bad either.

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Friday, 1 December 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Cranked Up Really High
Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone
Dame to Blame

― sterl clover (s_clover), Friday, 1 December 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I do think Hand In Glove/This Charming Man/What Difference Does It Make takes it. But I'd also nominate:

Hedi's Head/You/Split
Beat Box/Close to the Edit/Moments in Love

― Douglas Wolk (Douglas), Friday, 1 December 2006 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link

How about...

Nude Photo / Strings of Life / It Is What It Is

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Hedi's Head was the B-side (to Ain't You), and Split was by a different band (Lilliput)...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link

.. in name only though.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Bondage Up Yours/The Day The World Turned Dayglo/Identity ....

....is the winner.

Also :

One Chord Wonders/Gary Gilmore's Eyes/Safety in Numbers

Hong Kong Garden/The Staircase(Mystery)/Playground Twist

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Smokescreen/The Medium Was Tedium/New Cross, New Cross.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Protect Ya Neck / Method Man
Cream / Da Mystery Of Chessboxing
Can It Be All So Simple / Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin' To Fuck With

Game over, dude, game over...

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't believe nobody's gone here yet:

Bingo-Master's Break-Out! / Psycho Mafia / Repetition
It's The New Thing / Various Times
Rowche Rumble / In My Area

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Gotta give a tip of the hat to Drunks With Guns, since just about their entire catalog is on 3 singles:

#1 Punched In The Head / I Got The Gun / Bloodbath
#2 New Wave Negro Girl / Beautiful Happiness / Cowboy / Hellhouse / Dick In One Hand
#3 Zombie / Leprosy / Enemy

What about Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, or Minor Threat?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The Sex Pistols have been mentioned in this thread, not once, but twice.

I thought about the Buzzcocks and reluctantly decided that "I Don't Mind" doesn't quite pull its weight.

― PFS (pfs), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The Fall, Buzzcocks & Sex Pistols have all been done already!!

I Don't Mind was their 4th single. I like it better than What Do I Get though.

I don't really like Salad Days much.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, goggles be foggy.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still waiting on an OTM for the Mary Chain :(

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Shocking Blue w/ Mariska Veres (R.I.P.): Send Me a Postcard/Long Lonesome Road/Venus

Partridge Family: I Think I Love You/Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted/I'll Meet You Halfway

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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