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Oasis - Columbia
[i think was their first, before Cigarettes and Alcohol...]

That's a bit tricky. Columbia was issued as a white label in demo form, but Supersonic was their first official single. Which, actually, fits the thread just fine thank you.

― Aaron W., Tuesday, 8 October 2002 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Knack -- and don't you *DARE* try to tell me that "Good Girls Don't" is in *ANY* way superior to "My Sharona"!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

so solid!

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 07:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

spice girls: wannabe
they never even came close to touching that song after it came out. i'd take it over all the slo-jams in the world

― ddd, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Who, "Can't Explain"

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

phlar

― phlar, Saturday, 23 April 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Pere Ubu - "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"/"Heart of Darkness"
LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"/"Beat Connection"
The Cure - "Killing An Arab"
Duran Duran - "Planet Earth"
Mudhoney - "Touch Me, I'm Sick"
Dizzee Rascal - "I Luv U"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 23 April 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 23 April 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Pylon - "Cool" (debatably...some might consider "Crazy" to be better)
The Past Seven Days - "Raindance" (it was their only one!)

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 23 April 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

bearsuit - hey charlie hey chuck

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 24 April 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

The Creation- "Making Time"
Roxy Music- "Virginia Plain"

― D. Bachyrycz, Sunday, 24 April 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Mission of Burma: Academy Fight Song/That's When I Reach For My Revolver

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 24 April 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

That's when I reach for my revolver is from the Signals, Calls and Marches EP. The B-side to Academy Fight Song is Max Ernst.

It is a great single, but they didn't do any others (pre-reunion) did they? So it doesn't really count for this I suppose.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 24 April 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

MEKONS "Never Been in a Riot" b/w "32 Weeks" & "Heart & Soul"

DINOSAUR "Repulsion"/ "Bulbs of Passion"

― Mike McGonigal, Sunday, 24 April 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"

― billstevejim, Sunday, 24 April 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

their ONLY single...

― $V£N! (blueski), Sunday, 24 April 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Predict a Riot"

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Sunday, 24 April 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost Mission of Burma released a second single (Trem Two/OK No Way), which I prefer to the first

― todd (todd), Sunday, 24 April 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank you todd. I knew my mom had at least two singles by MOB before "Dirt" buy couldn't remember what the second one was.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 24 April 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I was gonna say "Academy Fight Song" but I'm a "Trem Two" sort of boy.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Sunday, 24 April 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Trem Two rules, but I like Tremolo more. Too bad that wasn't a single.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 24 April 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Nelly - Country Grammar

Before moving to Philly I lived on a street mentioned in the song...how can it not be my fav of the Lou's recent claim to musical fame?

― mono.mono (mono.mono), Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark - Electricity

― Zach S, Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Public Image Limited - "Public Image"

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Zager and Evans
Terry Jacks
Gerry & The Pacemakers
Babylon Zoo

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The Drowners EP rules this but how about;

Jesus and Mary Chain - Upside Down
Elastica - Stutter
Shanks and Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate (not entirely sure about that one thou...)
and just about ever indie band to emerge this century Hope of The States, Hot Hot Heat, The Vines, The Hives etc all released rather fun debuts then slid into deep pits of rubbishness.

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

terence trent darby,bros,transvision vamp.

― matt and luke, Monday, 25 April 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link

New Order - Ceremony. head and shoulders above.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Monday, 25 April 2005 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

I was sure the was a similar thread about bands whose entire career had been downhill since their debut single, but I can't find it. Help?

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 06:22 (seven years ago) link

This one? It's about bands who never bettered their first song on their debut album, so not quite what you were looking for, but maybe.

All Downhill from Here...instances where an artist peaked with the first song on their first album

― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 07:49 (seven years ago) link

Aye, that's what I was thinking of. I must have conflated that one and this one in my head.

Anyway, in that "all downhill from the debut single" conflation, I was going to mention Doves; The Cedar Room came on at home yesterday and I just thought wow, this is still amazing, still gives me shivers, still doesn't really sound like anything else anyone else has done, let alone anything else Doves have done, and I'm sad they couldn't / didn't ever mine that vein any further.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:22 (seven years ago) link

I'm surprised it took that long to get to Elastica, "Stutter"

― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link

Sultans Of Swing

― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link

'Another Girl, Another Planet' The Only Ones

― Bloody Snail, Thursday, 25 August 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link

I'm surprised it's taken this long to mention this, but: 'Me, Myself & I' was not De La Soul's first single.

Shite song, in any case.

― Austin, Thursday, 25 August 2016 03:33 (seven years ago) link

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