studio150
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Think this should have its own thread, the best and worst of novelty pop....sing Lofty...shaddup your face....
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Bands who's first single was the best they ever did.
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Think this should have its own thread, the best and worst of novelty pop....sing Lofty...shaddup your face....
Ghost Town would be good even if it was an instrumental.
tinycowboy
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No way José - FIIL is a corker. Definitely one of my favourite post-Disintegration songs, possibly THE favourite.
Not often we disagree on musical STUFF. Not for me, though.
I don't think its a BAD track. I think its a bad CURE track. Its not what I want from them. That probably makes no sense, but it does to me.
Put it this way - if I were in an office or a shop being forced to listen to Radio One, and it came on, it would be a pleasant surprise, and I'd be glad to hear it.
If I were listening to a Cure collection and it came on, I might skip it.
tinycowboy
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If I was listening to all Cure tracks on random shuffle, I would skip vast swathes of KMKMKM, a fair bit of The Top and just about everything after Disintegration. However, FIIL would send not just me but my whole family into spasms of joy - if I want catchy pop from The Cure, I don't go to Lovecats, I follow the guitars.
Well it definitely IS much better than LoveCats. That much we can all agree on!
Buckley's Mad Eye
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The Police-Roxanne
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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
charted at the dizzying heights of 89 before hand.
It's a cracking track even though The Charlatans have released some brilliant singles.
But according to Wiki Indian Rope
charted at the dizzying heights of 89 before hand.Not even close - this was their sixth single
kevo
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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
Glad you saved me there, I was going to suggest that.
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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.
studio150
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Perhaps you would like to name the five issued before Roxanne, I only got Fall Out before the issue of Roxanne in April 1978, therefore looking forward to know the other four.
Apologies - just noticed Roxanne was originally released as their second single - my mistake
tinycowboy
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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
I've got the 12" of Indian Rope. It's rubbish. TOOIK is much better.
BadFish
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Nothing wrong with novelty pop indeed. That isn't the same as liking every novelty pop record ever made
. It is about quality well written music regardless of genre. Love Cats is well written novelty pop imho. Love the bass line too.
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studio150
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Their first hit but 3rd single
The Modfather
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Cant be arsed to look through 11 pages so this has probably been posted. The clash - White riot
Also,
Suede - The drowners
Libertines - What a waster
The Specials - Gangsters
Also,
Suede - The drowners
Libertines - What a waster
The Specials - Gangsters
The Modfather
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Joint greatest no.1 with Going Underground surely?
Fair comment