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I guess I mean best single release, probably
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.
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Bands who's first single was the best they ever did.
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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.
studio150
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Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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Prompted by this thread I dug out Three Imaginary Boys and then the underrated single Play For Today
Super Steve Earle
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For me Daydream Believer was a better song. I went to an Indie all-dayer at Dingwalls in about '88, headlined by The Brilliant Corners. At the end of the show, the band finished and this track came on. It was a nigh on perfect ending.
Do Nothing and Rat Race were also better!
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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IMO Ghost Town was one of their worst, although it does have some merit as The Irish National Anthem
BadFish
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The Cure have the ability to write amazing pop songs like Love Cats and terrible terrible dross like Friday I'm in Love. That is what makes them the band they are.
BadFish
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A letter to Elise is currently in circulation in my house.
Not strictly true. The re-release of Whole Lotta Love in the mid-late 90s was released here and charted at 20-something.
I hadn't realised that the thread was only UK singles - I thought it was simply a band's first single
Ghost Town is the greatest number 1 single of all time.
Obviously there are hundreds if not thousands of songs out there, by rubbish bands, that are far inferior, but I don't think there are a pair of songs that I dislike so much from a band that I actually really LIKE.
There are bands whose early output I did really like, but who then went a different (wrong) direction, but that's a slightly different situation. The Soup Dragons, for example, were a decent indie guitar band that I had a lot of time for, but who were dead to me the day they tried to jump on the baggy band-wagon and released 'I'm Free'.
BadFish
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Agree with your sentiments re Friday I'm in love but I love Love Cats. Novelty pop yes but there is nothing wrong with that imho like.
Did you love it when REM got Kate Pearson on board and released Shiny Happy Cocking People, as well?
BadFish
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My good no. I lost interest in then after Green.
But there's 'nothing wrong with a bit of novelty pop'....
I'm the opposite way round on those two. FIIL is a classic pop song. It's just a shame that Wish didn't overall reach the amazing heights of Disintegration though as an album.
They wrote stuff at that time (I think 'Show me, show me, show me' was on Wish?) that are GOOD pop songs. Friday, as you've correctly already pointed out, was so very clearly written, with the mindset 'Let's write a song to get Radio One airplay' rather than 'Let's write a GOOD song'.
kevo
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Not only wasn't it their first single, someone else has already posted their actual first single in this thread!
Yup. Putting Cure albums into a preferred order could take up a whole day I suspect (and live albums don't count!).