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Charming. Anyway, he didn't fall, he was pushed! :lol:

01 Royksopp - What Else Is There? 02 Hard Fi - Hard To Beat 03 Goldfrapp - Ooh La La 04 Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. 05 Coldplay - Speed of Sound 06 Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot 07 Madonna - Hung Up 08 Rihanna - Pon De Replay 09 Razorlight - Somewhere Else 10 Killers - Somebody Told Me 11 Coldplay - Fix You 12 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor 13 Garbage - Why Do You Love Me? 14 Missy Elliott - Lose Control 15 Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart 16 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) 17 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl 18 Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends 19 Audio Bullys ft Nancy Sinatra – Shot You Down 20 Sugababes - Push The Button

Brilliant album. My favourite is probably Seconds - about the assassination of JFK. I Am The Law was surely a reference to Judge Dredd. Also not to be forgotten was the remix album Love And Dancing and a remix of Do Or Die which appeared on a compilation album Methods Of Dance. Also brilliant was the 12" of Love Action which added an instrumental Hard Times.

Now that's a CD I'd buy (well, if it had a few more tracks on it!) What is it with Bananrama murdering tracks from 1970? Although, to be pedantic, the Steam single was released in October 1969, and Shocking Blue in December 1969! Singles were aloud to find their own way into the charts in those days without massive hype; so neither made until January 1970.

Good list but I was born in May 59 so my own list would be really retro! Perhaps I'll give it a go because I don't agree with Rob that music before then was "really bad".

You can count me as one of the "old buggers" who likes some of the new indie precisely because it doesn't turn its nose up at pop music. There's nothing wrong with a good tune. Indie is always at its worst when it is being surly towards the rest of the world and popularity in particular. All indie has its roots in 60s beat/psych - it's a style of music that hasn't really changed it's blueprint for 40 years - and, at the time, the groups were trying to sell records and get in the charts, not turn their back on it. Indie today has become a catch-all term for anything with guitars in it that isn't specifically rock - in other words with a pop element in it. I like some of Rob's selections and dislike others - but it's the same with thisispop's list. Each is a list of indie records - neither is more indie than the other. My own list will follow!

The US has about five times our population: UK 60 million, US 300 million. :P

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark didn't shorten their name. People who couldn't spell manoeuvres did!

Aah… punk. This is where I came in. I'd already started collecting records when punk happened and changed everything. Suddenly Yes and Mike Oldfield seemed unlistenable. If you couldn't say it in three minutes you were definitely out of date. OK, I've mellowed a bit since then! Here's my album… The Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) This was their first single, and still my favourite. Saw them at Guildford Civic Hall in May 1977 (my first punk gig). Guildford was their home town (they started off as the Guildford Stranglers). They challenged the audience to get rid of the chairs which had been laid out in front of the stage - they ended up in a huge pile at the back of the hall. Punk gigs were banned at the venue for nearly a year! Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind My favourite Buzzcocks single. Love the key change towards the end. Swoon! Saw them at Guildford Civic Hall as well, in 1978. The Undertones - You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?) Their other great single - and, to continue on a theme, I saw them at Guildford Civiv Hall as well, in 1979! The Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK The one, the only, the snarling, roaring Anarchy In The UK. After this everything was different. 999 - Nasty Nasty Recklessly over the top pop-punk on green vinyl! Their finest three minutes. X-Ray Spex - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo Poly Styrene was a true original. Saw them live at Croydon Greyhound in 1978. The venue was upstairs above some shops. Pogoing was banned because the plaster was coming off the ceilings in the stores below! The Heartbreakers - One Track Mind Johnny Thunders carried on with this punk band after the New York Dolls broke up - they even toured with the Sex Pistols. The Vibrators - Automatic Lover Cartoon punk from this lot, who's first two albums are definitely worth a listen. The Clash - Complete Control My favourite of their early singles - produced by Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Saw them at the Anti-Nazi Rally in Victoria Park in 1978. The Ramones - Swallow My Pride Yet another great single from Da Brudders. Get their first four albums. The Damned - New Rose The first single by a UK punk band. Bought it when it came out in 1976 and I've loved it ever since. Saw them in London at the Marquee in summer 1977. It was their first anniversary gig and they gave away a free single; Sick Of Being Sick / Stretcher Case Baby - wish I still had my copy. Generation X - Wild Youth Billy and the boys with three minutes of stompalong action. Bonus track The Saints - (I'm) Stranded All the way from the other side of the world, Australia's Saints may not have looked very punk but they sure sounded it.

01 Goldfrapp - Train 02 Blu Cantrell ft Sean Paul – Breathe 03 Junior Senior – Move Your Feet 04 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 05 Black Eyed Peas ft Justin Timberlake – Where Is The Love? 06 Goldfrapp - Strict Machine 07 Beyonce ft Jay-Z – Crazy In Love 08 Pink - Trouble 09 Jamelia – Superstar 10 Black Eyed Peas – Shut Up 11 Mis Teeq – Scandalous 12 Coldplay - Clocks

01 Sugababes – Freak Like Me 02 White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl 03 Elvis vs JXL – A Little Less Conversation 04 Pink – Get The Party Started 05 Aaliyah - More Than A Woman 06 Pink – Just Like A Pill 07 Coldplay - In My Place 08 Oasis – Stop Crying Your Heart Out 09 Sugababes – Round Round 10 Garbage - Cherry Lips

Yes, after Ian Hunter left.

Some great choices so far - plus some I haven't heard - which is always good. New Order - Blue Monday A seminal track that virtually kick-started indie-dance crossover all by itself. The Secret - Starkissed Totally over-the-top and totally obscure trance record - all 11.30 minutes of it! Breakdown after breakdown and garish yellow vinyl - what more could you want? Daft Punk - Digital Love Love this track - such a great song. Fluke - Tosh (Gosh) They rather lost out to Underworld - sounds similar but they started it! Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path More of a song than a dance track maybe, but still my favourite of theirs. Features vocals by Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. Goldfrapp - Train Thundering great dance track from a great act. Mory Kanté - Ye Ke Ye Ke (The Afro-Acid Remix) Afro-house that made the Top 30 in the late 80s. The Shamen - Pro>Gen A hit a year later as Move Any Mountain, the first version was my favourite. Underworld - Dark And Long (Dark Train) Loads of classics to choose from - so I've chosen this! Legend B - Lost In Love (Red Jerry Remix) I have a feeling I picked this for another compilation on here - well here it is again! Marmion - Schoneberg (Marmion Remix) Totally classic trance track. The Clash - Rock The Casbah Let's end on another seminal dance/rock crossover track.

There's just too much to choose from, so here's a random selection. Ray Pollard - The Drifter Awesome soul ballad that just gets bigger and bigger as it goes on. Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances The best version of this song - and a great party track. The Temptations - Get ready Great uptempo track that tends to get forgotten in favour of their later 'social conscience' stuff. The Four Tops - I'm In A Different World I never tire of Levi Stubbs' voice. One of their lesser hits, but still a classic. The Contours - Do You Love Me? Another great party track. A hit in an inferior version by Brian Poole and the Tremeloes! Judy Street - What? Northern Soul classic covered by Soft Cell. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay Obvious maybe, but still a haunting, soulful track. Bobby Hebb - Love, Love, Love Best known for 'Sunny', this is a good Northern dancer. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come Quite possibly the most moving song ever committed to vinyl. Monumental. The Drifters - I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing Forget their 70s naffness, their 60s stuff is great. Archie Bell and the Drells - Tighten Up Thought by some as the first disco record - and it's from 1968! The Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Loving Levi Stubbs again - what a voice! This, of course, should be a four CD box set! Great music.

Dave Berry - Tribute To Buddy Holly Wilson Pickett - Cole, Cooke and Redding (Nat 'King' Cole, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding) Cabaret Voltaire - James Brown What about song titles that mention the artist who wrote them? Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley Is A Lover Mott The Hoople - Ballad Of Mott

01 Daft Punk - Digital Love 02 Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You 03 Missy Elliott - Get UR Freak On 04 Goldfrapp - Lovely Head 05 Destiny’s Child - Survivor 06 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 07 iio - Rapture 08 Rui Da Silva Touch Me 09 Eve feat. Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind 10 Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? 11 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood 12 Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal 13 Feeder - Buck Rogers 14 Moulin Rouge (C.Ag, Pink, Lil Kim, Mya & Ms Elliott) - Lady Marmalade 15 Zero 7 - Destiny

01Daft Punk - One More Time 02 Madonna - Music 03 Sugababes - Overload 04 Kelis - Caught Out There 05 Aaliyah - Try Again 06 Eminem - The Real Slim Shady 07 Coldplay - Yellow 08 REM - The Great Beyond 09 Richard Ashcroft - A Song for the Lovers 10 Spiller ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

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If you were to pick three groups who were genuinely New Romantic it would be those two and Visage. New Romantic was a club scene and the two you name came from the clubs (Blitz, Rum Runner). They may have made pop but the were the very epitome of New Romantic! :smoke: <New romantic smiley!

01 Blondie - Maria 02 Blur - Tender 03 Madonna - Nothing really matters 04 TLC - No Scrubs 05 ATB - 9pm (Till I Come) 06 Madonna - Beautiful Stranger 07 Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) 08 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 09 Fatboy Slim - Praise You 10 Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl 11 Blur - Coffee & TV 12 TLC - Unpretty

01 Madonna - Ray Of Light 02 Air - Sexy Boy 03 Cher - Believe 04 Hole - Celebrity Skin 05 Madonna - Frozen 06 Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's Like That 07 Massive Attack - Teardrop 08 Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (N.Cook Remix) 09 Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar '98 10 Radiohead - No Surprises 11 Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid 12 Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) 13 Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) 14 Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children ... 15 Placebo - Pure Morning

I've already been through this once before. I used to by loads of seven inch vinyl singles (still do, when there's something I want) but that all came to a close in about 1994. Woolworth were the last chain to stock sevens, but they stopped in the spring of that year (Boots and WH Smith had already stopped). This meant there was no incentive for the major labels to make sevens any more so they didn't (except for indie stuff). Now we're seeing the same thing with the CD single (which I have to admit, I've never liked). There is no incentive for the record labels to make them. Several people on this thread have suggested a price drop to encourage sales, but the record companies are already losing money on them; so where's the incentive? At least they make a few pence on downloads. I think 2008 will be the year it all changes. By the end of this year physical singles will be extinct for all but indie and dance. With 95% of sales as downloads there is no incentive for labels to make them or shops to stock them. The labels have spent the last 25 years turning the single from a profit centre into a loss leader and now we're seeing the consequences. In real terms, allowing for inflation, singles should cost about £5 each. Yes really! Sorry for going on at length, but I just feel a sense of unreality when reading some of the posts on this thread. It really is over and you're just going to have to come to terms with that - just like I had to when the seven inch single all but disappeared. :(

Lots of classics in this chart - here's my favourites. 18 - 02 - 03 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - RELAX 06 - 20 - 10 - Van Halen - JUMP 12 - 15 - 14 - Shannon - LET THE MUSIC PLAY 06 - 17 - 15 - Matt Bianco - GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED 09 - 13 - 20 - Cyndi Lauper - GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN 05 - 25 - 23 - Carmel - MORE MORE MORE 03 - 30 - 24 - Soft Cell - DOWN IN THE SUBWAY 09 - 18 - 26 - Madonna - HOLIDAY 07 - 21 - 30 - Smiths - WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE 04 - 43 - 37 - Sade - YOUR LOVE IS KING 02 - 48 - 38 - Bananarama - ROBERT DE NIRO'S WAITING 06 - 27 - 44 - Swans Way - SOUL TRAIN 08 - 29 - 46 - Thomas Dolby - HYPERACTIVE! 03 - 55 - 47 - Was (Not Was) - OUT COME THE FREAKS 02 - 76 - 50 - Scritti Politti - WOOD BEEZ (PRAY LIKE ARETHA FRANKLIN) 13 - 53 - 52 - Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - WHITE LINES (DON'T DO IT) 04 - 52 - 58 - World Famous Supreme Team - HEY DJ 08 - 40 - 61 - Eurythmics - HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN 05 - RE - 64 - Icicle Works - BIRDS FLY (WHISPER TO A SCREAM) 08 - 51 - 72 - Big Country - WONDERLAND 17 - 70 - 74 - Michael Jackson - THRILLER 1 - NEW - 82 - Billy Idol - REBEL YELL 17 - 86 - 87 - Smiths - THIS CHARMING MAN 48 - 88 - 89 - New Order - BLUE MONDAY 13 - 80 - 93 - This Mortal Coil - SONG OF THE SIREN 1 - NEW - 100 - Laid Back - WHITE HORSE - only discovered this one a few years ago on the Disco (Not Disco) compilation. Amazing when you think that there are about half a dozen or more of the decade's classics in the chart at the same time (Blue Monday, Holiday, This Charming Man, White Lines, Thriller, Song To The Siren, Jump).

01 Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours 02 Ting Tings - That's Not My Name 03 Hellogoodbye - Here (In Your Arms) 04 Killers - Read My Mind 05 Natalie Imbruglia - Glorious 06 Amy Macdonald - Mr Rock & Roll 07 Reverend & the Makers - Heavyweight Champion of the World 08 Hoosiers - Worried About Ray 09 View - Same Jeans 10 Feist - 1234 11 Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby 12 Klaxons - Golden Skans 13 Kings Of Leon - On Call 14 Bjork - Earth Intruders 15 Maximo Park - My Velocity