Don't drag me into this.
I didn't mean this to be in anyway ambiguous, or for that matter El Presidente's dream thread.
A simple thought crossed my mind listening to West End Girls.
'I loved that single and have been disappointed by everything else, since'.
'I wonder how many other bands did...
The thing with The Charlatans is, as much as I love TOOIK, if anyone had piped up with any one of a half dozen tracks that are better, I'd have backed down.
I thought I was onto something with The Charlatans and The Only One I know.
It's a cracking track even though The Charlatans have released some brilliant singles.
But according to Wiki Indian Rope :shrug: charted at the dizzying heights of 89 before hand.
I guess I mean best single release, probably :shrug:
If you want to do 'obscure album tracks and b-sides that were better than all the singles released by a band', then knock yourself out.
Having just heard it on the wireless I give you:-
I remember thinking it was pretty good, on release.
Yet everything else since has either been, at best the same, very poor, or disappearing up their own backside (no pun intended).