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I have been sitting tonight listening to all the old vinyl and it's made me think about compelling my top ten favourite singles of all time so here we go number 10.Telephone line -ELO 9.Echo Beach -Martha and The Muffins 8.The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies 7.Fix You-Coldplay 6.Romeo & Juliet -Dire Straits 5.Spirit of Radio-Rush 4.Heroes- David Bowie 3.Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin 2.The Logical Song - Supertramp 1.Up The Junction - Squeeze

Now get racking your brains and see of you can come up with a better top ten than that. Be interesting to see the diversity of all you good peoples musical tastes .

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1) Rolling Stones : It's All Over Now


2) Beatles : Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds


3) Fairport Convention : Meet On The Ledge


4) Fleetwood Mac : Man Of The World


5) John Mayall's Bluesbreakers : It Hurts Me Too


6) Cream : White Room


7) Free : All Right Now


8 ) Rolling Stones : Brown Sugar


9) Albion Country Band : Albion Sunrise


10) Deep Blue Something : Breakfast At Tiffany's




Very difficult to choose your all time top 10. Looks like I'm caught in a late 60's/70's time warp as I've tended to picked those that had a big effect on me when I first heard them.



There's a lot of stuff from the 80's and 90's I could have picked too.


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Too many to limit to a Top 10 plus mood changes from day to day. As at today, and in no particular order my picks are:

1. The Weeping Song - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

2. Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool

3. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Bold As Love

4. Cream - White Room

5. Runrig - Alba

6. The Jezabels - Look Of Love

7. The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

8. Taste - Born On The Wrong Side Of Time

9. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man

10. Love - Alone Again Or

with hundreds of others on the interchange bench.

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1. Springsteen - Thunder Road

2. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place from Stop Making Sense

3. The Ronnettes - Be My Baby

4. Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now Baby Blue

5. Rolling Stones - All Down The Line

6. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of The Matinee

7. The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual

8. Van Morrison - St. Dominic's Preview

9. The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues

10. The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

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no particular order

1. Nobody's Hero- SLF

2. Letter from Perth- Michael Marra

3. Joyful Kilmarnock Blues- Proclaimers

4. Schizophonic- Wildhearts

5. Black Windows- Ginger

6. Remedy - Little Boots

7. Cemetry Gates- The Smiths

8.White Man in Hammersmith Palais- The Clash

9. Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond

10. You've got to hide your love away- The Beatles

Quite eclectic really....

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10. Boredom - The Buzzcocks.

9. It'll Never Be Over For Me - Timi Yuro.

8. Complete Control - The Clash.

7. Coz I Luv You - Slade.

6. God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols.

5. Happy - Velvet Hammer.

4. Down In The Tubestation At Midnight - The Jam.

3. The Never Played Symphonies - Morrissey.

2. Oh Bondage Up Yours - X-Ray Spex.

1. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths.

Grimbo

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1) Rolling Stones : It's All Over Now

2) Beatles : Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

3) Fairport Convention : Meet On The Ledge

4) Fleetwood Mac : Man Of The World

5) John Mayall's Bluesbreakers : It Hurts Me Too

6) Cream : White Room

7) Free : All Right Now

8 ) Rolling Stones : Brown Sugar

9) Albion Country Band : Albion Sunrise

10) Deep Blue Something : Breakfast At Tiffany's

Very difficult to choose your all time top 10. Looks like I'm caught in a late 60's/70's time warp as I've tended to picked those that had a big effect on me when I first heard them.

There's a lot of stuff from the 80's and 90's I could have picked too.

Pub bands would love you.

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Not bad choice Grim- get them to play that lot at Ainslie Park next time the Champions Elect are down and I'll be happy!

Unfortunately the pillars with the fingers on the iPod of Sparta aka the P.A. system know nothing of musical taste & insist on what they perceive to be tannoy tunes of timerous tripe.

Should an anonymous note of musical requests be twitter-fed then possible changes could be rung in. Unfortunately & unbelievably they don't listen to me, eh?

Grimbo

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Too many to limit to a Top 10 plus mood changes from day to day. As at today, and in no particular order my picks are:

1. The Weeping Song - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

2. Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool

3. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Bold As Love

4. Cream - White Room

5. Runrig - Alba

6. The Jezabels - Look Of Love

7. The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

8. Taste - Born On The Wrong Side Of Time

9. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man

10. Love - Alone Again Or

with hundreds of others on the interchange bench.

Eednud - surely the Taste track was never a single?

OP - in Desert Island Discs, the guest chooses 8 Pieces of music, not singles. And to be a narrative to life events. That's what makes it such a successful formula. (I like yours too, though.)

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1) Rolling Stones : It's All Over Now

2) Beatles : Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

3) Fairport Convention : Meet On The Ledge

4) Fleetwood Mac : Man Of The World

5) John Mayall's Bluesbreakers : It Hurts Me Too

6) Cream : White Room

7) Free : All Right Now

8 ) Rolling Stones : Brown Sugar

9) Albion Country Band : Albion Sunrise

10) Deep Blue Something : Breakfast At Tiffany's

Very difficult to choose your all time top 10. Looks like I'm caught in a late 60's/70's time warp as I've tended to picked those that had a big effect on me when I first heard them.

There's a lot of stuff from the 80's and 90's I could have picked too.

Ha! 4 of those were in a set that a band I was in at Uni used to play?

Like you I tend to go first of all to late 60's mid 70's stuff. I've listened to loads since then but it's not so well ingrained.

As for my top 10????? I'll give it some thought

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Eednud - surely the Taste track was never a single?

OP - in Desert Island Discs, the guest chooses 8 Pieces of music, not singles. And to be a narrative to life events. That's what makes it such a successful formula. (I like yours too, though.)

Bold Rover - Didn't take note of the OP reference to singles but the Taste track was the B-side of Blister On The Moon released on Major minor in 1968 then again as a B side on Polydor in 1969 with What's Going On as A and Blister a double B. It was also an A side on subsequent releases in Italy & Japan. That's if Wikipedia is to be believed.
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Ha! 4 of those were in a set that a band I was in at Uni used to play?

Like you I tend to go first of all to late 60's mid 70's stuff. I've listened to loads since then but it's not so well ingrained.

As for my top 10????? I'll give it some thought

Man of The World?

It Hurts Me Too?

White Room?

All Right Now?

Don't forget to post your own Top Ten.

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Bold Rover - Didn't take note of the OP reference to singles but the Taste track was the B-side of Blister On The Moon released on Major minor in 1968 then again as a B side on Polydor in 1969 with What's Going On as A and Blister a double B. It was also an A side on subsequent releases in Italy & Japan. That's if Wikipedia is to be believed.

Thanks, Eednud. Back in the day, Rory seemed above the singles nonsense.

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I doubt they are all singles but these are ten songs which I'd happily have as my desert island discs.

Ludovico Einaudi- Fuori Dal Mondo

CRW- I Feel Love

Paul Oakenfold- Southern Sun

Delirium- Silence

Lange- Follow Me

Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen In Love

Madness- Baggy Trousers

The Verve- History

The Stone Roses- Breaking into Heaven

Faruk Sabanci- Jessica's Sanctuary

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Thanks, Eednud. Back in the day, Rory seemed above the singles nonsense.

My cousin had the original Major Minor release and it was probably the first time I heard Taste as it was released before the first album. The label might have been Irish. I can remember having the Dubliners "Seven Drunken Nights" and David McWilliams "Days Of Pearly Spencer" on it.

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Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair

Primal Scream - Burning Wheel

DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt (not a single but I want this on a desert island)

Spacemen 3 - Big City (everybody I know can be found here)

Spiritualized - I Think I'm In Love

LFO - LFO

Tom Petty - Free Fallin

Phil Collins/Philip Bailey - Easy Lover

Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

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Man of The World?

It Hurts Me Too?

White Room?

All Right Now?

Don't forget to post your own Top Ten.

3/4 Man of the World, It Hurts Me Too, All Right now + Meet on the Ledge

My top 10 ( Going by most played in i tunes )

John Mayalls Bluesbreakers ( with Mick Taylor ) Vacation

Richard Thompson Put It There Pal

Mark Knopfler Speedway at Nazerath

Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower

Incredible String Band October Song

Alan Stivell Spered Hollvedell

Kinks Celluloid Heroes

Colosseum Elegy

Albion Band Princess Royal

Gary Moore Supernatural

No idea how many, if any are singles.

Also doesn't include some of my favourites such as Waterloo Sunset, Honky Tonk Women or anything by Peter Green who is probably my favourite blues guitarist

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