Does Gary Numan's "Cars" count in this?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Wait, that was '79.
Springsteen and "Atlantic City?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
xp Tubeway Army were still Numan backing band for a number of years. They just stopped using the name.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3X6KtQ7nxQ
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG3c79ZxZ38
YEAHHH
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgwmLq1acIo
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
great single, but nix. even less legit than tom petty, who at least included "& the heartbreakers" on all his previous album covers. and i'd nix petty too if i had the supreme authority.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevhpfOjyKg
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRZpxGHwDM
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
i want to thank croup for breaking my browser several times.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
sorry
all future obscurities will be linked not embedded
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Tommy Shaw - Girls with Guns.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
What about Robbie Robertson?
He wasn't the lead singer but he was considered the leader of The Band. Showdown at Big Sky was his debut single, a vintage piece of late 80s Daniel Lanois production.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
WHAT ABOUT MIDNIGHT BLUE
killfiling bastards I knew it I knew it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
voted Midnight Blue
I hadn't heard it for about 20 years and then it came in a supermarket and I wondered, "Who is this?" and then I thought "Why am I not listening to music that sounds like this all the time?"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
It's no Midnight Blue, but we should pay our respects to the great Ray Parker Jr, whom upon leaving Raydio began a doozy of a solo career with his epic The Other Woman.
Nobody understands modern romance like Ray Parker Jr.
Also, what about Daryl Hall, Dreamtime?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
had to vote 'midnight blue' over 'in the air tonight', both huge classics, but man o man did 'desert moon' tempt me. there's enough suggestions not in the poll here to do a followup poll imo.
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
Pete Townshend's (who sang lead a bunch, but obviously wasn't The Lead Singer) first solo album came out in 1972, but his first solo single, "Let My Love Open The Door," was released in 1980 (and was as big a hit as the Who ever had, hitting #9).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
I adore "Dreamtime" despite being about a minute too long and boasting too much unhinged David Stewart; it's still a better production than "Don't Come Around Here No More" as far as luxuriant mid eighties paisley psychedelic rock goes. It's cool though that Hall's first solo single is as discrete a sonic entity as, say, "Out of Touch."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
Suedehead
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
haha i just listened to 'dreamtime' (not nearly as fond of it as you are) and was somewhat mystified by the production, trying to figure out hall's vision and thinking 'this is what you might imagine an eric carmen record from around this time might sound like if you didn't know all too well what an eric carmen record from around this time actually sounds like', just a weird mess of bad mid 80s production ideas and hamfisted "60s" touches. how i didn't immediately think 'dave stewart' i don't know.
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
Many of these "solo" options offer a significantly different sound than if they would have done the same song with their original band. The George Michael singles are a huge leap from the WHAM! material, but could anybody really call WHAM! a "band"; seriously, they were an act. Singles like Midnight Blue Lights Outand Oh Sherrie could have just have easily been Foreigner, J Geils and Journey singles; so they should not get as much credit as something In the Air Tonight where Collins made a whole new sound that turned out be a bigger influence on the Genesis sound than the other way round.
Top marks go to what Byrne did with Eno on Regiment. In fact, of all the singles listed, I submit that none of them are on an album that established a new direction in a more satisfying way than My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. If Rei Momo would've had a single he could have slipped another one before the end of the decade -- and again, a fresh new direction.
So, with a premium placed on defining styles that expand or diverge from the band from which they came...
David Byrne, by a mile.
also rans include;Phil CollinsStingDavid Lee Roth (really?)
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
i like the mick and the sting up there far more than i should
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
haha i just listened to 'dreamtime' (not nearly as fond of it as you are) and was somewhat mystified by the production
I like how what is in essence a guitar song bolsters one of Hall's most assholic performances ("I saw you standin' and I FELT your rage") where the synths and harmonic patterns on the H&O stuff mitigated the nastiness. It only works once. I actually own this album. Man, does it sound expensive.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Thought about Robbie rob when I went in my binge but dude wasn't a "lead singer" in the band by any measure
― da croupier, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
rather; Many of these "solo" options don't offer...
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
write-in votes for lindsey buckingham's 'trouble' and stevie nicks 'leather and lace' (though not quite solo)
― doodle cock-up (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
All this talk about "Dreamtime" made me wonder if there weren't any singles released off of Daryl Hall's first solo album Sacred Songs.
"Something In 4/4 Time" was!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
apparently 'stop draggin' my heart around' was the first single from bella donna, 'leather and lace' was the followup. pretty canny of her to have her first two solo singles not be flying solo. can you imagine holding 'edge of seventeen' in reserve?
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
and "Stop Draggin'" remains Tom Petty's biggest chart hit too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
discogs lied to me about the order of those, but the catalogue numbers tell the truth
― doodle cock-up (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
it just seemed a little weird to me that 'leather and lace' would be her first single, though it makes sense - eagles plus fleetwood mac! - there's no fucking way that record's not a hit.
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
Hahaha, turns out I've never heard Lou Gramm's "Midnight Blue" before and assumed we were talking about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxk4bD6LoKM
Gramm's is pretty Seger/Mellencampy.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, I love Midnight Blue SO much, I can't possibly vote for anything else.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 06:20 (nine years ago) link
I kind of wonder why Sting is held in such low regard and disdain. I mean I get it, but he doesn't strike me as any more full of himself than say Bono or Paul Simon. anyone?
― campreverb, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
That's it: he's just as full of himself but with few solo songs commensurate with his self-regard.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/E9x-Mu5xyXE
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
bah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9x-Mu5xyXE
lindsey buckingham's 'trouble'
ooh that's a bad miss. Would be strongly impelled to vote for this.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Don't think I've heard "I Found Somebody", but Frey's second solo single "The One You Love" still gets tons of airplay in my area and I've developed a certain appreciation for it, such a sweet saxophone groove
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
DON: Well, yeah.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
is it just pavlovian at this point
― da croupier, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
It is interesting, on their first solo records, how closely Frey hewed to the Eagles sound while Henley was like "LOL time to make a new wave record!"
― brimming with misplaced confidence (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah i'll ride for the one u love. It has a v unfreylike grace.
still can't not love dirty laundry even though the scoldy judgy lyrics are abonimable. I just love the arrangement and production so much.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
all she wants to do is dance can GTFO though
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
i have my limits
FM is a tough one. They have less of a lead singer than they do three singers who sing lead.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Not gonna lie, I stopped reading and voted after I saw the first choice.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link