But this one's better than their 'classic' single...

[Jockice]

The best Clash single was Hitsville UK.
The best Buzzcocks single was Promises.
The best Undertones single was Here Comes The Summer.
The best Pet Shop Boys single was Jealousy.
The best Pulp single was Razzmattazz.
The best Beautiful South single was Prettiest Eyes.

And so on.

[itsfredtitmus]

The best Blur single is Sunday Sunday, not Parklife

[Jockice]

Blur's best single was Beetlebum I think. Which is generarally regarded as a classic. And did top the chart. But the best Oasis single is Cigarettes And Alcohol. Did you know there are two version of the video for that, one of which totally removes any actual smoking or drinking? Sell-outs.

[Funcrusher]

Isn't 'For Tomorrow' supposed to be the best Blur single.

I like early Kate Bush but I've never been wild about 'Wuthering Heights'. I love Laura Nyro but wouldn't put 'Stoned Soul Picnic' in my top faves of hers.

[phantom_power]

The best Blur single is Sunday Sunday, not Parklife

Does anyone other than Sam FM think Parklife is the best Blur single?

[Dr Rock]

The best Pulp single was Razzmatazz.
The best Blur single was Tender
The best Oasis single was All Around The World.
The best Ash single was Goldfinger.
The best Damned single was Stranger On The Town

[itsfredtitmus]

Isn't Parklife the classic one?

[daf]

Isn't Parklife the classic one?

Song 2?

Actually, there are too many contenders - Girls and Boys, Beetlebum, Tender, Coffee & TV, There's No Other Way, For Tomorrow, The Universal . . .

It's like The Batchie Beatles - too many songs in such different styles that nobody can agree on a definitive answer (unless you are willing to accept 'Country House' - as that's probably their biggest hit by metric craptonnage sold - but down that path lies madness and schism as NOBODY thinks Country House is their best single)

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

The best Monkees single was Pleasant Valley Sunday
The best Hollies single was King Midas In Reverse
The best Move single was I Can Hear The Grass Grow (excellent thread by the way, Nowhere Man)
The best Doors single was Touch Me
The best Sweet single was Teenage Rampage
The best Mud single was The Cat Crept In
The best solo Beatles single was Photograph by Ringo Starr

[Kane Jones]

Isn't Parklife the classic one?

I've always felt Parklife is a silly novelty song. I don't really like 'funny' music.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Isn't Parklife the classic one?

Girls and Boys is the classic Blur Britpop single, surely?

In any case, For Tomorrow, Popscene, Beetlebum, To The End and Tender were obviously their best singles.

[Kane Jones]

Girls and Boys is the classic Blur Britpop single, surely?

It's certainly better than cockney stinking eel pie Parklife.

[asids]

The best A-ha single was The Sun Always Shines On TV, NOT Take On Me (good though it is).

[Brundle-Fly]

Twenty suggestions to Radcliffe & Maconie that these bands did record singles other than the same ones you play week in, week out.

The best Specials single was Stereotype.
The best Madness single was One Better Day.
The best Beat single was Save It For Later.
The best Selecter single was Celebrate The Bullet
The best Bad Manners single was Just A Feeling.
The best UB40 single was The Earth Dies Screaming.
The best Boomtown Rats single was House On Fire.
The best Stranglers single was Nice 'N' Sleazy.
The best Ian Dury & The Blockheads single was I Want To Be Straight.
The best XTC single was All You Pretty Girls.
The best Sex Pistols single was Silly Thing.
The best Damned single was I Just Can't Be Happy Today.
The best Adam & The Ants single was Goody Two Shoes
The best Squeeze single was Another Nail In My Heart.
The best Elvis Costello & The Attractions single was New Amsterdam.
The best Japan single was Visions Of China.
The best Heaven 17 single was Let Me Go.
The best Depeche Mode single was Masters & Servants.
The best Gary Numan single was Bombers.
The best Kate Bush single was Army Dreamers.

[itsfredtitmus]

Tomorrow's another day and Michael Caine never get any time

[PaulTMA]

Falling by McAlmont & Butler is better than Yes

[Brundle-Fly]

The best Damned single was Stranger On The Town

One of their best, but wasn't a single as far as I can gather (in the UK anyway)

[itsfredtitmus]

It's grimly fiendish

[Norton Canes]

The best Adam & The Ants single was Goody Two Shoes

Adam Ant. Solo.

[daf]

I've always felt Parklife is a silly novelty song. I don't really like 'funny' music.

You should hear the demo with Damon doing the cockney patter - your anus will seal over in shame and horror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAZ_PpMQns

As Danny Baker rightly spotted during his tenure on the Radio One Saturday shows, the best song on Parklife was not one of the singles, but this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5bdb-sKRcE

[Dr Rock]

One of their best, but wasn't a single as far as I can gather (in the UK anyway)

Oh does it have to have been a single? I was breaking the rules. Ok

The best Damned single was The History of the World (Part 1)

[Dr Syntax Head]

The best Oasis single is Do you know what I mean. Fact!

The best Manics single is not Design for Life, it's From Despair to Where.

[Nowhere Man]

Tomorrow's another day and Michael Caine never get any time

Those two and The Sun and The Rain are fantastic. Lovestruck and NW5 are brill too from the post-comeback.

[Serge]

I don't really like 'funny' music.

Apart from Kiss, amirite?

[Dr Rock]

The best Adam & The Ants single is Kings of the Wild Frontier.
The best Adam Ant single is Friend Or Foe. Runner up Apollo 9. Other runner up Prince Charming.
The best Squeeze single is Labeled With Love (though really it's what everyone would say, Up The Junction)
The best Duran Duran single is Skin Trade.

[itsfredtitmus]

I always thought that Lovestuck was a classic Madness song before I googled it and found out it was a come back single

[Jockice]

The best A-ha single was The Sun Always Shines On TV, NOT Take On Me (good though it is).

Agreed. I was also quite fond of Train Of Thought.

[Jockice]

As for the Two Tone ones mentioned by Brundle-Fly, he's right on The Beat And Madness but the Specials' best single was Do Nothing and The Selecter's was Missing Words.

Open Your Heart was the best Human League single.
Show Me was the best Dexys' single.
Everyday I Write The Book was Elvis Costello's best single. From his best album, but that's a whole different argument.

[Dr Syntax Head]

The best Duran Duran single is Skin Trade.

No it's Girls on Film

[Brundle-Fly]

As for the Two Tone ones mentioned by Brundle-Fly, he's right on The Beat And Madness but the Specials' best single was Do Nothing and The Selecter's was Missing Words.

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Can't disagree there. Those were my other choices.