Favorite Single

Nimbik · 12-17-2002, 02:55 PM

Whats everyone favorite singles? for me it'd be in no particular order-

Rolling Stones-Satisfaction
The Beatles-Hey Jude/Revolution
The Beatles-Strawberry Feilds/Penny Lane
Janis Joplin-Try
Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze
The Who-Substitute
The Who-My Generation
The Kinks-You Really Got Me
The Pixies-Velouria
The Pixies-Gigantic
The Pixies-Monkey Gone to Heaven
Talking Heads-Psycho Killer
Talking Heads-Burning Down the House
Talking Heads-Once in a Lifetime

Maybe I'll get some others later

AngryGerbil · 12-17-2002, 03:27 PM

Singles meaning a single song?

jimmy - Tool

thaak · 12-17-2002, 11:01 PM

/agree

But I think he meant singles like how you can buy a CD with that particular song and maybe a few other songs. My choice; TooL - Prison Sex

I think it's the whole ph4+ ch1c thing....

Nimbik · 12-18-2002, 02:26 AM

Singles are what bands release as a "Single" song, for radio play. Some bands even release singles when they don't get radio play (Pixies.) Normally singles have one or two extra songs called "B-Sides"

Poker In the rear · 12-18-2002, 10:10 AM

Pearl Jam also releases many B-Sides for their singles. They have some damned good popular ones that get played on the radio. Anyone ever hear of "Yellow Ledbetter"?

Poker in the Rear

Jadaki · 12-18-2002, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Poker In the rear
Anyone ever hear of "Yellow Ledbetter"?

Yes, thats my favorite PJ song

VelMonk · 12-18-2002, 07:36 PM

I fucking applaud the guy who managed to translate the lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter.

My favorite single was probably something Pearl Jam related, likely Jeremy. Hell, probably the most lauded single of the early-mid 90's

somecleric · 12-19-2002, 02:00 PM

Yay, I love singles. I mostly judge them on how likely they are to catch my attention when they come on the radio, and how fun they are to sing along with while driving down the freeway. My favorites:

Ash | Burn Baby Burn

North american punk pop sucks, but Ash prove the genre doesn't have to be boring, derivative and juvenile. This single is pure energy, with an incredible wall of guitar that almost recalls My Bloody Valentine. It's only 3 and a half minutes long, but by the end of it, you'll feel years older.

The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations

Maybe the best single ever. You know you love it.

The Beatles | Penny Lane

My favorite Beatles song, a brilliant single, perfect in nearly every way.

Belle & Sebastion | If You're Feeling Sinister

Hi, we're ripping off The Velvet Underground, but in a cute way, okay? Infectious guitars, and sublime lyrics that you can't help but sing along to (who doesn't want to sing 'if you are feeling sinister, go off and see your minister, he'll try in vain to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever'?)

Blondie | The Tide Is High

Disco excess without the guilt of liking a disco song, perfect.

Bob Marley & The Wailers | No Woman No Cry

Another song you can't help but sing along to.

Bran Van 3000 | Astounded

Sweeping strings, a perfect dance beat, and a wonderful Curtis Mayfield vocal track. More disco excess without the taint of real disco.

Bruce Springsteen | Thunder Road

Spawned a million fantasies. And namechecks Roy Orbison!

The Buzzcocks | What Do I Get?

The Sex Pistols were fun, but they couldn't match the humour and intensity of The Buzzcocks when it came to early brit punk.

Byron Lee & Mighty Sparrow | Only A Fool

Sublime calypso lament.

Circ | Destroy She Said

A song long metaphor for love, perhaps the most offensive ever. 'Like towers falling down/like a bomb blast in your town/like a hostage tied in chains/I could not forget your name'. Built on a minimal synth beat and 808 drum beat, with breathy little girl vocals. 'Like a helicopter crash/like a ghetto that's been smashed/like bodies on a battlefield/I can't live with how you feel'. Inappropriately hilarious, and touching.

Cocteau Twins | Lorelei

Elizabeth Fraser's incredible vocals over the most beautiful thing the Cocteau Twins ever wrote.

Console | 14 Zero Zero

Love song from a computer to it's user, with vocoded vocals and glitchy drum beats and throbs. Can't help but love it, especially as the computer drones, 'why? why? why? why?' over and over.

The Cure | Inbetween Days

The Cure had a lot of great singles early in their career. I like this one.

Curve | Perish

Love the guitars, love Toni Halliday's detached vocals. Love the incredibly beautiful melody.

The Damned | Alone Again Or

Takes a while to get started, but this somewhat gothy dance anthem is incredible in it's intensity, and the way it builds and falls until the final, violent climax.

David Bowie | Rock N Roll Suicide

Oh no love, you're not alone. Can anyone forget David Bowie going from a detached cool to his anguished shouts mid song?

Dead Prez | It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

A eulogy for good rap music. I love shouting 'it's bigger than bling bling!' at the end of the first chorus.

Depeche Mode | In Your Room

Dark and haunting and frightening. At it's core, it's a ballad, but it's surrounded by this impenitrable wall of static and distortion that makes it so much more.

Dntel | (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan

Starts with a drum loop built from static and adds swooping synth melody far in the background. Then actual drums cut in, seemingly suddenly, but in a perfectly natural way, matching the still present static loop. Then Ben Gibb's incredible vocals, recalling a night club encounter with a girl, overtop it all. 'he then played every song from 1993/the crowd applauded as he curtsied bashfully/your eyelashes tickled my neck with every nervous blink/and it was perfect...'

Enrique Iglesias | Escape

I know, I can't believe it either. I just love the pulsing drums, mixed to the front, the baritone guitar, and Enrique's distorted vocals.

The Faint | Worked Up So Sexual

The politics of stripping, in darkwave mode. And in fine fashion, it'd be perfect background music for a strip tease.

Francoise Hardy | Message Personnel

I like french pop, and this is such a ridiculously beautiful song.

The Go-Betweens | Right Here

Sort of a guilty pleasure. This australian band should have been bigger than U2, but things just never clicked for them.

Heavenly | C Is The Heavenly Option

Best chorus ever.

Hefner | Hello Kitten

Hefner are so awfully bad. Really. But they occaisonally stumble upon greatness. Who thought hand claps, amateur night drumming and the stupidest lyrics you've ever heard ('hello kitten/I don't miss sex/it's just the feeling of skin against skin I want', 'I thought you were perfect/but that racist joke/made it all bittersweet'?). Still, 'I'm so fucking happy it hurts' is hard to resist.

The Hidden Cameras | Ban Marriage

Bizaare, upbeat song about the horrors of weddings. But not in the way you think. 'hey hey/oh oh/hey/oh oh/I was limping into church on the morning of my ceremony/stayed up till eight the night before pondering holes in the dark/morning came bright in my eyes made my skin look pale and pained in the light/there were steps my palms loose by my body/I began to walk to aisle the congregation looked behind/but I continued past the pews and met my angel in a suit with a smile/and as I looked him the eye I heard my best friend cry/we're all supposed to fall in love but most people ask why/ban marriage oh oh/ban marriage'

Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart

The best single ever. Anyone who's ever broken up with anyone should think so.

Linda Scott | I've Told Every Little Star

Such a simple, sweet song. I think everyone who saw Mulholland Drive went around with this stuck in their head for days afterwards.

Liz Phair | Fuck & Run

Poor Liz, she just wants a boyfriend. What ever happened to a boyfriend? The kind of guy who tries to win you over? What ever happened to a boyfriend. The kind of guy who makes love cause he's into it? She wants a boyfriend.

Love & Rockets | Haunted When The Minutes Drag

Love that drum line, and the aural assault of the chorus.

Manic Street Preachers | You Stole The Sun

Starts with that cheesy drum machine dance beat, but then the incredible guitars come in over top, and suddenly it's a rock anthem. How'd that happen?

The Matt Good Band | Rico

At their best, The Matt Good Band wrote incredible rock anthems that made you want to move. This is definitely their best.

Múm | Green Grass Of Tunnel

Sounds like a children's toy to start, then this menacing throb appears and dominates the song (most of which still sounds like some children's toy). For two and a half minutes, you get caught up in this bizaare icy soundscape, then Gyoa and Kristin Valksdyottir's voices breaks from the mess of unplaceable sounds, and suddenly it's the most menacing lullaby you've ever heard.

The New Pornographers | Letter From An Occupant

That song from the scene in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back when the girls are partying after the heist. Neko Case wailing in 'robo german space babe' mode. Thunderous synth crashes, drums and guitar. God, I love this song.

Nick Cave | Let It Be

Nick Cave takes an incredible Beatles tune, and makes it better. Yes, better.

Nirvana | Son Of A Gun

Up up up and down turn turn turn around. Nirvana recorded a dance song!

Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark | Enola Gay

Who writes songs about nuclear destruction? Now would be a great time to rerelease this cautionary tale built over an incredible beat and what sounds like warning sirens.

Pet Shop Boys | A Different Point Of View

Synths and drum machines and girly vocals about weird relationships. Vintage Pet Shop Boys.

Peter Murphy | I'll Fall (With Your Knife)

Anyone else find it weird that when Bauhaus broke up, both Peter Murphy and his backing band (redubbed Love & Rockets) both went on to be greater than ever? One or the other I could understand, but what was holding back Bauhaus? Anyways, a great, moody, energetic ballad.

The Pixies | Gigantic

I always get excited as soon as I hear that bassline open up.

Pluto | Goodbye Girl (Pop Goes The Girl)

Sounds like disco as recorded by The Beatles on lots and lots of meth, or something.

Protex | Don't Ring Me Up

More incredible brit punk.

Puffy Ami Yumi | Green Apple

Weird Japanese 60s throwback pop, with a great hook?

Pulp | Common People

I can't help but feel for Jarvis Cocker and his frustrations. And just a great, great single.

Queen & David Bowie | Under Pressure

Ice Ice Baby...whoops, wrong single. This is the better use of that bassline.

The Ramones | Blitzkrieg Bop

I could list Ramones singles all day long, so I'll stick with one. Why not this one, which everyone loves?

The Replacements | Within Your Reach

Paul Westerburg and some bizaare guitar work and a drum machine.

Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin | J t'Aime Moi Non Plus

French pop by the master of the form and the sexiest woman to ever have an orgasm while recording a song (reportedly).

The Shins | New Slang

Like Simon and Garfunkel if they were cool. And wrote weird lyrics no one understood.

Shonen Knife | Daydream Believer

I wasn't sure if I should use the Monkees version, this cover or the U2 cover. I like cute Japanese girls though, and this one is edgier than the others.

Sleater-Kinney | Good Things

Why wasn't this a bigger hit? It has everything going for it.

Stereolab | Lo Boob Oscillator

I bet this song haunted the dreams of everyone who saw High Fidelity.

The Strokes | Someday

Yeah, trendwhore. I like it, you would too if you gave it a chance.

Suicide | Dream Baby Dream

One ancient drum machine + one korg + two guys in leather = the first, and best, synthpop single.

Talking Heads | And She Was

David Byrne, boy genius. Nothing I can say can do justice to this single.

Television | Venus

These guys invented the guitar work that REM, Husker Du, U2, The Smiths and every other guitar based 80s band would ride to glory.

Tiger Trap | My Broken Heart

Sweet girls singing about heart break and playing like they were The Ramones. Love it.

This Mortal Coil | Another Day

Elizabeth Fraser and an all star band. Kind of mellow for a single, but deserving of being on this list.

The Velvet Underground | Stephanie Says

Another band who I could list singles for all day. I'll stop at this one, which is simply incredible.

The Walkmen | Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone

What if Radiohead recorded a single with what's left of Joy Division and The Ramones. You'd get this. Fucking incredible.

Hikaru · 12-19-2002, 02:43 PM

jesus christ dude

Benren · 12-25-2002, 05:53 AM

Pooooooooooooooseeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuur!

Hahahaha.

Jobrill · 12-25-2002, 11:08 PM

Speaking of Foreign Music Singles, one of my favorites is -

Je vais Dormir encore tout seul ce soir - Elmer Food Beat.

Weird Band name, but it's a pretty cool song.

Your Hero · 12-26-2002, 12:09 PM

Elton John | Candle in the Wind

OMG PRINCESS DI DIED OMG ROOFLES

GREATEST
SELLING
SINGLE
EVAR

OMG LOL ROFLMAO ROOFLES!

Nikkohung You · 12-26-2002, 02:48 PM

Kena - Hell Bent

Blarney Blackstone · 12-26-2002, 08:43 PM

Anything by the Doobie Brothers.

Jobrill · 12-26-2002, 11:48 PM

Candle in the Wind Princess DI version sucked. the Marilyn Monroe version was cool tho.

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Nimbik Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 78 -1 Internets	Favorite Single Whats everyone favorite singles? for me it'd be in no particular order- Rolling Stones-Satisfaction The Beatles-Hey Jude/Revolution The Beatles-Strawberry Feilds/Penny Lane Janis Joplin-Try Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze The Who-Substitute The Who-My Generation The Kinks-You Really Got Me The Pixies-Velouria The Pixies-Gigantic The Pixies-Monkey Gone to Heaven Talking Heads-Psycho Killer Talking Heads-Burning Down the House Talking Heads-Once in a Lifetime Maybe I'll get some others later Last edited by Nimbik : 12-19-2002 at 02:12 AM.

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12-17-2002, 11:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
thaak Disgruntled Warrior Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 86 -1 Internets	/agree But I think he meant singles like how you can buy a CD with that particular song and maybe a few other songs. My choice; TooL - Prison Sex I think it's the whole ph4+ ch1c thing....

12-18-2002, 02:26 AM	#4 (permalink)
Nimbik Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 78 -1 Internets	Singles are what bands release as a "Single" song, for radio play. Some bands even release singles when they don't get radio play (Pixies.) Normally singles have one or two extra songs called "B-Sides"

12-18-2002, 10:10 AM	#5 (permalink)
Poker In the rear Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Cali/Mass Posts: 156 +0 Internets	Pearl Jam also releases many B-Sides for their singles. They have some damned good popular ones that get played on the radio. Anyone ever hear of "Yellow Ledbetter"? Poker in the Rear

12-18-2002, 07:36 PM	#7 (permalink)
VelMonk Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 578 +0 Internets	I fucking applaud the guy who managed to translate the lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter. My favorite single was probably something Pearl Jam related, likely Jeremy. Hell, probably the most lauded single of the early-mid 90's

12-19-2002, 02:00 PM	#8 (permalink)
somecleric Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 121 -1 Internets	Yay, I love singles. I mostly judge them on how likely they are to catch my attention when they come on the radio, and how fun they are to sing along with while driving down the freeway. My favorites: Ash \| Burn Baby Burn North american punk pop sucks, but Ash prove the genre doesn't have to be boring, derivative and juvenile. This single is pure energy, with an incredible wall of guitar that almost recalls My Bloody Valentine. It's only 3 and a half minutes long, but by the end of it, you'll feel years older. The Beach Boys \| Good Vibrations Maybe the best single ever. You know you love it. The Beatles \| Penny Lane My favorite Beatles song, a brilliant single, perfect in nearly every way. Belle & Sebastion \| If You're Feeling Sinister Hi, we're ripping off The Velvet Underground, but in a cute way, okay? Infectious guitars, and sublime lyrics that you can't help but sing along to (who doesn't want to sing 'if you are feeling sinister, go off and see your minister, he'll try in vain to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever'?) Blondie \| The Tide Is High Disco excess without the guilt of liking a disco song, perfect. Bob Marley & The Wailers \| No Woman No Cry Another song you can't help but sing along to. Bran Van 3000 \| Astounded Sweeping strings, a perfect dance beat, and a wonderful Curtis Mayfield vocal track. More disco excess without the taint of real disco. Bruce Springsteen \| Thunder Road Spawned a million fantasies. And namechecks Roy Orbison! The Buzzcocks \| What Do I Get? The Sex Pistols were fun, but they couldn't match the humour and intensity of The Buzzcocks when it came to early brit punk. Byron Lee & Mighty Sparrow \| Only A Fool Sublime calypso lament. Circ \| Destroy She Said A song long metaphor for love, perhaps the most offensive ever. 'Like towers falling down/like a bomb blast in your town/like a hostage tied in chains/I could not forget your name'. Built on a minimal synth beat and 808 drum beat, with breathy little girl vocals. 'Like a helicopter crash/like a ghetto that's been smashed/like bodies on a battlefield/I can't live with how you feel'. Inappropriately hilarious, and touching. Cocteau Twins \| Lorelei Elizabeth Fraser's incredible vocals over the most beautiful thing the Cocteau Twins ever wrote. Console \| 14 Zero Zero Love song from a computer to it's user, with vocoded vocals and glitchy drum beats and throbs. Can't help but love it, especially as the computer drones, 'why? why? why? why?' over and over. The Cure \| Inbetween Days The Cure had a lot of great singles early in their career. I like this one. Curve \| Perish Love the guitars, love Toni Halliday's detached vocals. Love the incredibly beautiful melody. The Damned \| Alone Again Or Takes a while to get started, but this somewhat gothy dance anthem is incredible in it's intensity, and the way it builds and falls until the final, violent climax. David Bowie \| Rock N Roll Suicide Oh no love, you're not alone. Can anyone forget David Bowie going from a detached cool to his anguished shouts mid song? Dead Prez \| It's Bigger Than Hip Hop A eulogy for good rap music. I love shouting 'it's bigger than bling bling!' at the end of the first chorus. Depeche Mode \| In Your Room Dark and haunting and frightening. At it's core, it's a ballad, but it's surrounded by this impenitrable wall of static and distortion that makes it so much more. Dntel \| (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan Starts with a drum loop built from static and adds swooping synth melody far in the background. Then actual drums cut in, seemingly suddenly, but in a perfectly natural way, matching the still present static loop. Then Ben Gibb's incredible vocals, recalling a night club encounter with a girl, overtop it all. 'he then played every song from 1993/the crowd applauded as he curtsied bashfully/your eyelashes tickled my neck with every nervous blink/and it was perfect...' Enrique Iglesias \| Escape I know, I can't believe it either. I just love the pulsing drums, mixed to the front, the baritone guitar, and Enrique's distorted vocals. The Faint \| Worked Up So Sexual The politics of stripping, in darkwave mode. And in fine fashion, it'd be perfect background music for a strip tease. Francoise Hardy \| Message Personnel I like french pop, and this is such a ridiculously beautiful song. The Go-Betweens \| Right Here Sort of a guilty pleasure. This australian band should have been bigger than U2, but things just never clicked for them. Heavenly \| C Is The Heavenly Option Best chorus ever. Hefner \| Hello Kitten Hefner are so awfully bad. Really. But they occaisonally stumble upon greatness. Who thought hand claps, amateur night drumming and the stupidest lyrics you've ever heard ('hello kitten/I don't miss sex/it's just the feeling of skin against skin I want', 'I thought you were perfect/but that racist joke/made it all bittersweet'?). Still, 'I'm so fucking happy it hurts' is hard to resist. The Hidden Cameras \| Ban Marriage Bizaare, upbeat song about the horrors of weddings. But not in the way you think. 'hey hey/oh oh/hey/oh oh/I was limping into church on the morning of my ceremony/stayed up till eight the night before pondering holes in the dark/morning came bright in my eyes made my skin look pale and pained in the light/there were steps my palms loose by my body/I began to walk to aisle the congregation looked behind/but I continued past the pews and met my angel in a suit with a smile/and as I looked him the eye I heard my best friend cry/we're all supposed to fall in love but most people ask why/ban marriage oh oh/ban marriage' Joy Division \| Love Will Tear Us Apart The best single ever. Anyone who's ever broken up with anyone should think so. Linda Scott \| I've Told Every Little Star Such a simple, sweet song. I think everyone who saw Mulholland Drive went around with this stuck in their head for days afterwards. Liz Phair \| Fuck & Run Poor Liz, she just wants a boyfriend. What ever happened to a boyfriend? The kind of guy who tries to win you over? What ever happened to a boyfriend. The kind of guy who makes love cause he's into it? She wants a boyfriend. Love & Rockets \| Haunted When The Minutes Drag Love that drum line, and the aural assault of the chorus. Manic Street Preachers \| You Stole The Sun Starts with that cheesy drum machine dance beat, but then the incredible guitars come in over top, and suddenly it's a rock anthem. How'd that happen? The Matt Good Band \| Rico At their best, The Matt Good Band wrote incredible rock anthems that made you want to move. This is definitely their best. Múm \| Green Grass Of Tunnel Sounds like a children's toy to start, then this menacing throb appears and dominates the song (most of which still sounds like some children's toy). For two and a half minutes, you get caught up in this bizaare icy soundscape, then Gyoa and Kristin Valksdyottir's voices breaks from the mess of unplaceable sounds, and suddenly it's the most menacing lullaby you've ever heard. The New Pornographers \| Letter From An Occupant That song from the scene in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back when the girls are partying after the heist. Neko Case wailing in 'robo german space babe' mode. Thunderous synth crashes, drums and guitar. God, I love this song. Nick Cave \| Let It Be Nick Cave takes an incredible Beatles tune, and makes it better. Yes, better. Nirvana \| Son Of A Gun Up up up and down turn turn turn around. Nirvana recorded a dance song! Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark \| Enola Gay Who writes songs about nuclear destruction? Now would be a great time to rerelease this cautionary tale built over an incredible beat and what sounds like warning sirens. Pet Shop Boys \| A Different Point Of View Synths and drum machines and girly vocals about weird relationships. Vintage Pet Shop Boys. Peter Murphy \| I'll Fall (With Your Knife) Anyone else find it weird that when Bauhaus broke up, both Peter Murphy and his backing band (redubbed Love & Rockets) both went on to be greater than ever? One or the other I could understand, but what was holding back Bauhaus? Anyways, a great, moody, energetic ballad. The Pixies \| Gigantic I always get excited as soon as I hear that bassline open up. Pluto \| Goodbye Girl (Pop Goes The Girl) Sounds like disco as recorded by The Beatles on lots and lots of meth, or something. Protex \| Don't Ring Me Up More incredible brit punk. Puffy Ami Yumi \| Green Apple Weird Japanese 60s throwback pop, with a great hook? Pulp \| Common People I can't help but feel for Jarvis Cocker and his frustrations. And just a great, great single. Queen & David Bowie \| Under Pressure Ice Ice Baby...whoops, wrong single. This is the better use of that bassline. The Ramones \| Blitzkrieg Bop I could list Ramones singles all day long, so I'll stick with one. Why not this one, which everyone loves? The Replacements \| Within Your Reach Paul Westerburg and some bizaare guitar work and a drum machine. Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin \| J t'Aime Moi Non Plus French pop by the master of the form and the sexiest woman to ever have an orgasm while recording a song (reportedly). The Shins \| New Slang Like Simon and Garfunkel if they were cool. And wrote weird lyrics no one understood. Shonen Knife \| Daydream Believer I wasn't sure if I should use the Monkees version, this cover or the U2 cover. I like cute Japanese girls though, and this one is edgier than the others. Sleater-Kinney \| Good Things Why wasn't this a bigger hit? It has everything going for it. Stereolab \| Lo Boob Oscillator I bet this song haunted the dreams of everyone who saw High Fidelity. The Strokes \| Someday Yeah, trendwhore. I like it, you would too if you gave it a chance. Suicide \| Dream Baby Dream One ancient drum machine + one korg + two guys in leather = the first, and best, synthpop single. Talking Heads \| And She Was David Byrne, boy genius. Nothing I can say can do justice to this single. Television \| Venus These guys invented the guitar work that REM, Husker Du, U2, The Smiths and every other guitar based 80s band would ride to glory. Tiger Trap \| My Broken Heart Sweet girls singing about heart break and playing like they were The Ramones. Love it. This Mortal Coil \| Another Day Elizabeth Fraser and an all star band. Kind of mellow for a single, but deserving of being on this list. The Velvet Underground \| Stephanie Says Another band who I could list singles for all day. I'll stop at this one, which is simply incredible. The Walkmen \| Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone What if Radiohead recorded a single with what's left of Joy Division and The Ramones. You'd get this. Fucking incredible.

12-19-2002, 02:43 PM	#9 (permalink)
Hikaru I love pajama pants Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 287 -1 Internets	jesus christ dude

12-25-2002, 05:53 AM	#10 (permalink)
Benren Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 74 -1 Internets	Pooooooooooooooseeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuur! Hahahaha.

12-26-2002, 12:09 PM	#12 (permalink)
Your Hero Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 264 +0 Internets	Elton John \| Candle in the Wind OMG PRINCESS DI DIED OMG ROOFLES GREATEST SELLING SINGLE EVAR OMG LOL ROFLMAO ROOFLES!