Best singles ever (including Stranglers/Hugh)

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You know another good one? Heard it in Trader Joe's a few days back:

Simply Irresistible. Robert Palmer.
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Heaven or Hell. It should have charted!
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Heaven or Hell. It should have charted!
It did here in the Netherlands :shock:
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Icicle Works - Love is a wonderful colour
Comsat Angels - Independence Day
Madness - Michael Caine
Lush - For Love
Sham 69 - Outside the Warehouse
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evonx wrote: 18 May 2026, 00:26
Heaven or Hell. It should have charted!
It did here in the Netherlands :shock:
Oh great. What number?
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Millennium by Killing Joke
First picture of you by the Lotus Eaters
Up the junction by Squeeze
Torch by Soft Cell
Making plans for Nigel by XTC
Strange or be forgotten by Temples
Save a Prayer by Duran Duran
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Heaven or Hell. It should have charted!

It did here in the Netherlands 

Oh great. What number?
77 ...
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T Rex - London Boys
Slade - Far Far Away
X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage up Yours
Casuals - Jesamine
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Panic Smiths
Embarrassment Madness
Walking In the Sunshine Bad Manners
I Don't Know Where It Comes From Ride
Gangsters Specials
Police Car Larry Wallis
Baby Stop Crying Bob Dylan
Homicide ,999
Invisible Sun Police
Moonlight & Muzak M
State Of Independence Donna Summer
Milk & Alcohol Dr Feelgood
Mind Games John Lennon
There There My Dear Dexys Midnight Runners
Fade To Grey Visage
Same Old Scene Roxy Music
Life's Been Good Joe Walsh
Outdoor Miner Wire
Hope Wah
Again & Again Status Quo
This Is The Day The The
River Euphrates Pixies
Highly Inflammable X Ray Spex
Will You Hazel O Connor
Haitian Divorce Steely.Dan
My Life Billy.Joel
Drive Cars
Here Is The News ELO
What A Fool Believes Doobie Brothers
Our Lips Are Sealed Fun Boy Three
Passionate Friend Teardrop Explodes
Power Of Love FGTH
Major Tom Peter Schilling
Hell Raiser Sweet
All The Young Dudes Mott The Hoople
Stay With Me Faces
Great Expectations New Model Army
Supernature Cerrone
It's Only Love Bryan Adams
I'm Not Scared Eighth Wonder
Duel Propaganda
I Ran A Flock Of Seagulls
Born To Be Wild Steppenwolf
Toy Soldiers Martika
Young Turks Rod Stewart
Rise PIL
I Will Follow.U2
The Seeker The Who
Storm In A Teacup.Fortunes
Pinball Brian Protheroe
Strange Brew Cream
Come Live With Me Heaven 17
Forever Autumn Justin Hayward
Straight To Hell the Clash
Transmission Joy Division
When You're Young Jam
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evonx wrote: 18 May 2026, 08:56
Heaven or Hell. It should have charted!

It did here in the Netherlands 

Oh great. What number?
77 ...
Ah right! :lol:
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2nd List This adding songs could go on forever :lol: We are so blessed that there are so much great music in the world.
Yes 3 songs by Wedding Present its almost too hard not to include all the songs from the first two albums.

Perfume (Loved Up) - Paris Angels
Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman
Your Father And I - Beautiful South
Jelly Pop Perky Jean - Julian Cope
Atmosphere - Joy Division
BAD - U2
Weapon Of Choice - Fat Boy Slim (Featuring Bootsy Collins)
My Favourite Dress - Wedding Present
No - The Wedding Present
Bewitched - The Wedding Present
All The Small Things - Blink 182
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz
Catch - The Cure
Does Your Mother Know - Abba
Brimfull of Asha (Norman Cook remix)
Back For Good - Take That
Surfin Bird - The Trashman
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
New York - Sex Pistols
Elephant Stone - The Stone Roses
Dont Talk To Me About Love - Altered Images
Love Is Strange - Buddy Holly
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
Is The The Way To Amarillo - Tony Christie
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Bring It Back - S Club
It Felt Like Dream - Anabella Lwin
Haunted - Shane Mcgowan
Laid - James
Phsyche - Killing Joke
Smash It Up - Damned
Hurts So Good - Susan Cadagon
I can See Clearly Now - Jimmy Cliff
New York - Sex Pistols
Train In Vain - The Clash
Bhindi Bhagee - Joe Strummer
I Gotta Getta - Undertones
V 13 Single version - Big Audio Dynamite
Ghosts - The Jam
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I have quite a few , can't limit it as there are so many good ones....and I'll no doubt forget a fair few . I will start with most of us here's favourite band and why most of us are here. :
The Jam
Sorry , The Stranglers .... Grip, NMH , Sleazy, 5 Minutes , Duchess , Nuclear Device
Adverts...Gary Gilmores Eyes
Pistols..Pretty Vacant , Holidays in the Sun
Dead Kennedy's......Holiday in Cambodia , California Uber Alles , Kill the Poor
Clash...Complete Control , English Civil War
The Jam..In the City , All around the World , This is the Modern World , Going Underground, Eton Rifles
Demob...No Room For You
Damned...New Rose, Love Song , Smash it up , Can't be Happy
Buzzcocks...Promises, Spiral Scratch, Ever Fallen in Love
Lurkers.... Dirty Town , New Guitar in Town
Chelsea.....Evacuate , War Across the Nation , High Rise Living , Rockin Horse , Freemans , Standout
Blood...Stark Raving Normal , Megalomania
Ramones.... Blitzkrieg Bop , Sheena is a Punk
Boys...Brickfield Nights , Better Move on
Animals...House of the Rising Sun
Small Faces ...Tin Soldier
Hawkwind...Silver Machine
SLF... Alternative Ulster , Straw Dogs , Gotta Getaway, Nobody's Hero , At the Edge , Suspect Device
Undertones...Teenage Kicks , Jimmy Jimmy
Skids.....into the Valley , Masquerade, Charade , Yankee Dollar , Circus Games
Partisans...Blind Ambition
Defects....Survival
UK Subs.....CID , New York State Police
Sham 69.... If the Kids
Elvis Costello....Radio Radio , Pump it Up , Olivers Army
Cockney Rejects....Flares n Slippers , Not a Fool, Badman
Angelic Upstarts.....Liddle Towers
Zounds....Demystification
GBH...Sick Boy , No Survivors
Taxi Girl..... Cherchez le Garcon
Dr Feelgood..Milk and Alcohol
Only Ones ...Another Girl Another Planet
Mekons....Where were you
ATV.....Life , Action Time Vision
Ruts....Babylons Burning
Members.....Sound of the Suburbs
Cure....Primary , A Forest
Saints...Stranded
Killing Joke ....Empire Song , Millennium , Pandemonium , Wardance , Requiem
Eater ...Thinking of the USA
Magazine ...Shot by both Sides
The Dark...John Wayne , The Masque
Motorhead...I got Mine , Killed by Death
Rolling Stones...Paint it Black

Of course all mainly punk or related , that's the stuff I know and listen to mainly .. probably forgotten loads as I said .
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