100 best debut singles

[tbone_ 14125]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/greatest-debut-songs-singles-990470/billy-ray-cyrus-achy-breaky-heart-995056/

 

Interesting list.

[Dennis Taylor 18828]

1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/greatest-debut-songs-singles-990470/billy-ray-cyrus-achy-breaky-heart-995056/

 

Interesting list.

 

Lots of typical Rolling Stone horseshit mixed in there. Dream On at #62 is ridiculously low and STP's Sex Type Thing being omitted is a joke.

But #1 made me laugh, though

[Dennis Taylor 18828]

just realized they left GnR off the list, Welcome to the Jungle should be top 10 at worst by any possible rationale, so there you go...Rolling Stone gonna Rolling Stone       

[TriStone 1724]

They wanted to, but then they wouldn't have had room for true classics like MMM'Bop.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 hours ago, tbone_ said:

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/greatest-debut-songs-singles-990470/billy-ray-cyrus-achy-breaky-heart-995056/

 

Interesting list.

 

If the song achy break heart is on that list, I'm not even clicking on it.

[C-Man 27230]

27 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

If the song achy break heart is on that list, I'm not even clicking on it.

It's #100 -- you can just stop there. 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

95: Dire Straits, “Sultans of Swing”

 

90: The Weather Girls, “It’s Raining Men”

 

Whelp, that's far enough for me to read.

Edited May 19, 2020 by Cheeseweasel

[C-Man 27230]

I looked through it -- it's like part serious, part troll job.

[Noah Fence 480]

This shitty list is shittier than most shitty Rolling Stone lists.

[hullabelew 3724]

Why do I click on those fucking lists?  WHY???!!!!!!

[jimmyjazz 45960]

I hit Dire Straits and just started laughing.

[jimmyjazz 45960]

OK, I like Archers of Loaf, but if you had ever asked me to name just a single, I would have not been able to do so.  Same for Pylon, Pere Ubu, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, and Black Flag.  I mean, there's probably 30-40 artists on that list that I know little to nothing about, so it's hard to have an opinion there, but these bands, I know quite a bit about, and they didn't have "singles", much less great ones.

Not a Pet Shop Boys fan, but I can see "West End Girls" being higher.  Same for Boston's "More Than a Feeling", Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe", oh fuck it, I quit.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 hours ago, C-Man said:

It's #100 -- you can just stop there. 

It shouldn't even be on the list at all. I can name 50 Beatles songs better than that POS.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Same for Pylon,

The only reason I know who Plyon is was REM's cover of "Crazy". That's the only Plyon song I've ever heard and I've never heard them sing it.

[C-Man 27230]

14 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

It shouldn't even be on the list at all. I can name 50 Beatles songs better than that POS.

Of course it shouldn't, which is why I said you didn't have to look very far to discover and therefore invalidate the list. One issue with your Beatles comment -- the Beatles only had ONE debut single. There is a band on there that is sort of represented twice, though.

Also, Radiohead is my favorite band. "Creep" belongs nowhere near the Top 100 all-time best debut singles IMO.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Just now, C-Man said:

Of course it shouldn't, which is why I said you didn't have to look very far to discover and therefore invalidate the list. One issue with your Beatles comment -- the Beatles only had ONE debut single. There is a band on there that is sort of represented twice, though.

Also, Radiohead is my favorite band. "Creep" belongs nowhere near the Top 100 all-time best debut singles IMO.

Yeah knew that was an off topic remark after I hit submit reply.  Singles haven't even really been a thing for a long damn time have they ? I can remember buying  45's in jr. high school (7th, 8th, 9th grade).

[jimmyjazz 45960]

I'd put "Creep" in the Top 100.  Then again, I'm not a particularly huge fan of Radiohead.

[Chad Fuck 17683]

15 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'd put "Creep" in the Top 100.  Then again, I'm not a particularly huge fan of Radiohead.

I would as well.  That single dropped like a bomb.  

But all you guys dissing Dire Straits can fuck right off.  Mark Knopfler is a king among men.

[jimmyjazz 45960]

1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:

I would as well.  That single dropped like a bomb.  

But all you guys dissing Dire Straits can fuck right off.  Mark Knopfler is a king among men.

Who's dissing Dire Straits?  I started laughing because they had "Sultans of Swing" at #95, instead of #5 or so where it probably belongs.

[Dennis Taylor 18828]

Where is Kajagoogoo or Dexys Midnight Runners? 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

13 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

But all you guys dissing Dire Straits can fuck right off.  Mark Knopfler is a king among men.

You've got it wrong. I could make a strong argument for #1, but at least top 10. I mean "It's raining men" is a fine song if you are at a Male Strip Show (NTTAWWT), but there's no planet in the omniverse that it should be ahead of Dire Straits.

[tbone_ 14125]

Too shy shy....

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

11 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Where is Kajagoogoo or Dexys Midnight Runners? 

In the One Hit Wonder bin.

[Chad Fuck 17683]

My apologies.  Watched Shaun of the Dead lately and it got my hackles up re Dire Straits.

 

[Dennis Taylor 18828]

6 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

In the One Hit Wonder bin.

Have you seen the list? There's a bunch of 0 hit wonders on there 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Just now, Dennis Taylor said:

Have you seen the list? There's a bunch of 0 hit wonders on there 

You're just mad that it stopped raining men.

[smuggs 9353]

Quote

…Baby One More Time” is an apocalyptic thunder-clap of a song...

Says this guy, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield:

 

 

 

[jimmyjazz 45960]

Am I missing something, or is this list missing

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

34 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

I would as well.  That single dropped like a bomb.  

But all you guys dissing Dire Straits can fuck right off.  Mark Knopfler is a king among men.

One of the best first albums ever.

[Chad Fuck 17683]

35 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

One of the best first albums ever.

I was not a tremendous fan of Pablo Honey.  Though I did see Radiohead play at Trees and they put on a good show.  

You were talking about Dire Straits, weren't you?

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

I was not a tremendous fan of Pablo Honey.  Though I did see Radiohead play at Trees and they put on a good show.  

You were talking about Dire Straits, weren't you?

Oh yeah, that first side blew me away.

[GhostOfTomJoad 9324]

I don't know what all their criteria was & if work in a previous band counts against a solo artist, but in what world would a publication omit Van Morrison's 'Brown Eyed Girl' while simultaneously claiming that  'Baby One More Time' changed the world? 

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

I don't know what all their criteria was & if work in a previous band counts against a solo artist, but in what world would a publication omit Van Morrison's 'Brown Eyed Girl' while simultaneously claiming that  'Baby One More Time' changed the world? 

 

It would make me change the dial on the radio. Does that count ?