My Top 5 Singles Bands Evah

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I've had a few beers tonight, but whilst watching "Heart of Glass" on the TV in my local I started discussing the idea of my favourite run of killer singles. I'm thinking about the band/artist that's produced the biggest number of essential 45s. My Top 5 tonight is something like:

1. Blondie
2. ABBA
3. Supremes
4. Madness
5. Rolling Stones

I'm thinking in vague terms of a hazy awesomeness/strike-rate ratio here, so I await your refutations with interest.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Check out this totally fricking stellar sequence of 45s released by the Music Machine/Bonniwell Music Machine:

1. Talk, Talk/Come On In
2. The People In Me/Masculine Intuition
3. Double Yellow Line/Absolutely Positively
4. The Eagle Never Hunts The Fly/I've Loved You
5. Bottom Of the Soul/Astrologically Incompatible
6. Me, Myself And I/Soul Love
7. You'll Love Me Again/In My Neighbourhood
8. Tin Can Beach/Time Out For A Daydream
9. Advise And Consent/Mother Nature Father Earth

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

New Order
Pet Shop Boys

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Prince
CCR
Outkast
Beatles
A Tribe Called Quest

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

I figure Beatles/Stones to be kinda obvious, but also. . .

Who
Temptations
Buzzcocks
Mouse and the Traps
CCR (yes)
Tommy James/Shondells

Something tells me the Drifters and Lovin Spoonful would belong here if we expanded beyond Top 5.

― JAS, Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Motown pwns this thread

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Waiting for the return of the Lohan's titties (The Famo, Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Kinks
Madness
Jam
Blondie
Blur

― zeus, Thursday, 1 September 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys
Madness
Buzzcocks
The Jam
hmmm....Robbie Williams? But then there was that awful record that sounded as though it was from Starlight Express, which made me realise that he's quite hit'n'miss...
The Wonderstuff

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Pulp
Pet Shop Boys
Madness
Saint Etienne
The Beatles

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

hello, the Smiths?

― sympathizer (sympathizer), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Yes, this is the Smiths.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea which Smiths songs were the singles besides a couple of the obvious ones!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Also "Girlfriend In A Coma" sucks.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

No, but "How Soon Is Now?" drags.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

the cure

― ihope (ihope), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
The Police
Squeeze
Missy Elliot
REO Speedwagon (hipsters who scoff can take their Amon Duul records and shove them.....)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

CCR seems obvious.

Tom Petty/Heartbreakers is a good pick.

It's my understanding that a band called The Beatles had many popular singles in the 1960s.

Also, if Missy counts (solo artist), then I guess maybe Sinatra and Elvis do too?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

prince
psb
blur
abba
new order

― piscesboy, Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

CCR, CCR, CCR.

and The Smiths, Ricky Nelson, and The Beatles (UK).

― PB, Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

top 5
1- super furry animals
2- blondie
3- saint etienne
4- stone roses
5- clash

― paulx, Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I suppose Elvis had several hit singles...

― PB, Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

he was one of the most successful rockabilly singers, besides Ronnie Self and Charlie Feathers.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Up until the last album, I would have said Green Day.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

no need to waste your hipster strawman on reo speedwagon

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Boston.

― PB, Friday, 2 September 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Boston
Chicago
Kansas
Miami
Big Bopper

― PappaWheelie II, Friday, 2 September 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Killer singles has to go to the Stones, followed by the Beatles, Beach Boys and Kinks. But I dare say Elton John and Rod Stewart have had a few as well.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Madonna anyone?

Also Donna Summer, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, and Bjork.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Buzzcocks
Bob Seger & The Last Heard/Bob Seger System
The Miracles
The Guess Who (yep!)
ABBA

A pathetic list! There's DOZENS more equally worthy bands that I could've chosen, of course, including a few obvious ones that were just too predictable (tho still worthy.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

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