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my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 03-01-2014
DAVID BOWIE "sorrow" b/w "amsterdam" 1973
six singles today prior to this one and all six are crap!
can we make it seven in a row...no way!
i love this Bowie song even if it is a cover,it beats the original hands down IMO...
"b" side is a bit of a strange song, but thats what you sometime got with Bowie,either way i like that one also
this single reached #1 here back in the day and rightfully so!
"sorrow" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDVc80Z3FI video
"amsterdam" **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=153Abqg7_3I audio
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
ELO "midnight blue" b/w "the diary of horace wimp" 1979.
both tracks come from their superb "discovery" album...
"a" side is a smoldering ballad, i can really hear a lot of George Harrison in this track
"b" side, well not really a "b" side because this charted a 'double-a-side' hit both here and in the UK...
this side has all the hallmarks of Beatles circa 1967 all over it, the lyircs and wordplay are as good as their "a day in the life" track,sublime stuff IMO!
single should have been a smash hit but only reached #48 here, i guess everyone who wanted this had got the album by time this,the fourth single from the album was released!
"midnight blue" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7airwrU95ho video
"the diary of horace wimp" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A30Bt29i5KM video
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
TOYAH "rebel run" b/w "to the mountain high" 1983
UK punk/new wave band similar to Siouxie And The Banshees...
this was one of the last singles...
i dont like either side of this whatsoever!
single failed to chart here
"rebel run" *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Xna15BjSk video
"to the mountains high" *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B-AOToCHU audio
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
THE SELECTOR "celebrate the bullet" b/w "last tango in dub" 1981
not sure why or where i'd have got this one as ive never been a fan of this UK ska band...
i dont like either side of this single at all!
single failed to chart down this way
"celebrate the bullet" *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNMcXRbvVmc audio
"last tango in dub" *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GsLpzWZ68 audio
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
DAVID BOWIE "space oddity" b/w "the man who sold the world" 1973
1973 re-issue of his 1969 hit...
this "a" side is classic Bowie,it dont get much better than this IMO!
"b" side, his original version of the hit by Lulu(which ive already posted in this thread), and probably better known amongst the younger generation as a Nirvana song(and very well covered also!) from their "unplugged" set...
single reached #9 here
"space oddity" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyuKUtgyZ8 video
"the man who sold the world" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSH--SJKVQQ audio
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
LOUIS ARMSTRONG "what a wonderful world" b/w "game of love" 1988
a re-issue of two classic tracks, the "a" side by Loius, and the "b" side by Wayne fontana & The Mindbenders...
both track were taken from the brilliant robin Williams movie "good morning vietnam"...
the "a" side has got to be one of the most beautiful songs ever written IMO and Loius' vocals suit this perfectly...
i defy anyone to say they dont like this song!
single,upon reissue, went to #1 on our charts,yet in 1969 Louis' song only peaked at #22 here and Wayne's song peaked at #38, its amazing what a movie can to for a song!
"what a wonderful world" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM 1969 tv performance
"game of love" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-weeowZvvc tv performance
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
AZTEC CAMERA "somewhere in my heart" b/w "everybody is a number one" 1988
Scottish new wave band...
similar in sound and style to fellow Scottish artist Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, but not as successful...
this was these guys only charting hit here, but they around twenty hits in the UK and none in the US!
very melodic songs on this single,and its a mystery to me why they never had anymore success!
single only peaked at #34 here
"somewhere in my heart" **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4pWcVPUybE video
"everybody is a number one" **
no link available
this "a" side is one you'd probably all enjoy so give it a whirl!
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
DAVID BOWIE "underground(radio edit)" b/w "underground(full length version)" 1986
by 1986 Bowie had run his race with me so its strange that i own this single,but i do...!
i dont like the radio friendly 4minute version, and neither do i like its 5 and a half minute complete version...
even Bowie's distinctly Bowie vocal ability cannot save this one for me!
single climbed to #26 here
"underground(radio edit)" *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwVqOs3Aess vevo video
"underground(full version)" *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPRh537QyVo audio
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
BANANARAMA "venus" b/w "white train" 1986
by far their biggest worldwide hit was a cover of a 1960s classic...
the B's do an okay version of the "a" side, but yet again, another really bad "b" side from them
single made it to #1 here
"venus" **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3WvI_S6-k video
"white train" *
no link available
my "singles" collection - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
PHIL COLLINS "a groovy kind of love" b/w "big noise(instrumental)" 1988
coincidence or what?...
we had Wayne Fontana up there a couple of posts ago and then we have Uncle Phil's cover of one of his songs come out?!
ya know what?....i love Phil's cover,great stuff indeed!
"b" side is a stupid instrumental piece, i mean, this is really bad...give me Knopfler's instrumentals anyday!
single got what it deserved in the charts by scaling the charts to its peak position of #1 here
"groovy kind of love" ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsC_SARyPzk video
"big noise" *
no link available