[Music] What is the best single record EVER? (Your choice not the critics ones)

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Raleigh Chopper

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Sep 1, 2011
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Plymouth
It has to be a song that made a major change in music, it does not matter if you don't actually like the song.
This charted in 1969 a difficult time for afro carribean people both racial and musical, this song did so much to change that, it gave people both black and white something different to listen and dance to, it was huge.
Luckily, I also love it and here is a recent version of a timeless, epic single.

https://youtu.be/Y-6mdN48qDY
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
52,155
Faversham
Ooh this is difficult. A classic indie pop number


Superb choice. I found some live footage of them on youtube recently. Magical :thumbsup:
 








BRIGHT ON Q

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Jul 5, 2003
9,139
Time by Pink Floyd,
Listen to that loud and then tell yourself it's nearly 50 years old.
 






Albion in the north

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Jul 13, 2012
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Ooop North
2 of my all time favourites (Sympathy for the Devil, Move on up) have already been used and I could probably go for a Beatles song but theyve been mentioned as well, so Im going for this. At the time I used to listen to it (Ok Computer, ad infinitum) and think "How on earth do you come up with a song like this?".
https://youtu.be/K50UVfgwVuA
 


Igzilla

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Sep 27, 2012
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Worthing
I would normally plump for Japan in situations like, this, Quiet Life or Visions of China for instance, but this single always gets me singing and dancing along whenever I hear it on the radio, so as far as singles go, this must be up there for me as one of the very best ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mc0yvRNk
 






CorgiRegisteredFriend

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May 29, 2011
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Boring By Sea
Got this free with NME some point in the eighties. They went through a period of releasing free e.ps which were sellotaped onto the front cover. Played it loads and one of the best hip hop tracks ever.

 




Charlie Muggins

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May 21, 2018
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CorgiRegisteredFriend;97 79707 said:
Got this free with NME some point in the eighties. They went through a period of releasing free e.ps which were sellotaped onto the front cover. Played it loads and one of the best hip hop tracks ever.



Good call - have not heard that for ages.
 








South Stand Bonfire

Who lit that match then?
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Jan 24, 2009
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I had this made as a present for my brother 4 weeks ago.....

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kevo

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TugWilson

I gotta admit that I`m a little bit confused
Dec 8, 2020
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Dorset
A few more worth a mention ,
W.O.L.D. Harry Chapin
Messages OMD
Midnight Rider Paul Davidson version
Burn Baby Burn Hudson Ford
Pretty much anything by Robert Palmer and ELO on single .
 


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