I was thinking probably something from Dark Side of the Moon . What are your choices ?
I would go the other way and ask what singles were the best song on the album: I find singles are very rarely the best songs on the album.
Mayo and Whiley played The Chain last week and said it hadn't been released as a single. If that's the case then it's a strong contender.
I was thinking probably something from Dark Side of the Moon .
Close, but I'd go for 'Sorrow' by the same band. (Momentary Lapse of Reason) One of my favourite tracks anyway.
Drinking again - Neverland.
I would go the other way and ask what singles were the best song on the album: I find singles are very rarely the best songs on the album.
I’m with mikey on this one. Way too much choice for album tracks that are way better than any of the singles from any given album.
There are many bands who’ve only released a few, if any singles, Zeppelin never did, at least in the U.K., I have a US single by them. The Beatles released loads of singles that were ever album tracks.
Cast no Shadow was my favourite Song from Whats the story.
History by the verve. I may have missed it being released though! Awesome arrangement.
Agree re cast no shadow too btw.
Dire Straits and Telegraph Road.
Same album no beer, but I really like Stormy Clouds
Gimme Shelter.
As already said Led Zep have this down up 🙂 Kashmir, Immigrant Song, Whole Lotta Love...
Nobeer I'm sure I had a copy of History as a single. Great song.
It was released 18 September 1995 as the third and final singlefrom the album, charting at #24 in the UK Singles Chart
Oops, my mistake.......
History by the verve. I may have missed it being released though! Awesome arrangement
History was released as a single, the last from A Northern Soul and very near the time of their first split - if I remember correctly. The cover of one version had a cinema depicted on the cover with the words “All Farewells Should Be Sudden’ on the sign above. Seemed so apt at the time.
I would suggest So It Goes from that album as my suggestion from it. Great song for playing heartbroken and drunk in the small hours.
My 90’s suggestions would be:
- Until The End of The World. U2 (Haters going to hate! 😉)
- Tightrope. The Stone Roses
- Inside Looking Out. The Charlatans
- Lucky. Radiohead
- Birdman. Ride
- Vampire. The Bluetones
- Lounge Act - Nirvana
Inside Looking Out. The Charlatans
That’s the first one I thought of. Why oh why does it just fade away? I’d love to listen to the original tapes. Truly beautiful.
There is a light that never goes out, from The Queen is Dead.
(Ok, it was released years later, after they split up, but I don't think that counts)
I’ve got a few...
Van Morrison Caravan <i>Moondance</i>, 1970
Possibly the most monumental pop song ever, and it got grand live run outs on Morrison’s own classic live album It’s Too Late to Stop Now, and The Band’s The Last Waltz. Just brilliant, and definitely the last word in summer night campfire classics.
And
Aretha Franklin Ain’t No Way <i>Lady Soul</i>, 1968
Written by her sister, this understated beauty was obscured by the day’s more boisterous hits. It’s been a grower ever since.
And
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Stevie Wonder Isn’t She Lovely? <i>Songs in the Key of Life</i>, 1976
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<div class="body">The Motown singer refused to release this as a single. It became one of his best-loved melodies none the less.
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Impossible to answer. Maybe if I had about 10 albums, or something!
Maybe within a certain year? Although, if its the year Dark Side.. came out I’ve probably only got a T Rex album. So.. The Slider (might be a year or 2 out).
I'm pretty sure 'birdman' was the lead single off carnival of light. I remember seeing it on TOTP.
Bowie, the Prettiest Star was 1973.
I’m pretty sure ‘birdman’ was the lead single off carnival of light. I remember seeing it on TOTP.
You are right! How did I miss that...?
Was gonna say Red hill mining town, but thinking about it it is more album material.
Rush - YYZ
Surely it's Stairway to Heaven. Never released as a single banned in every music shop in the world but is a sublime track, acoustic guitar, screaming vocals great solo and rocking outro
Lonely Souls by Unkle
Agree on the Unkle track, and, obviously, the Led Zep ones.
How about "Age of Consent" by New Order…
Given that Whole Lotta Love (OK the Alexis Korner version) was the TOTP theme tune for many years I don't think Led Zep needed to release any singles 🙂
Any track off Lost Sides by Doves. And any track off any of their albums that wasnt a single.
Same as Oasis Masterplan. Noel must surely have regretted spunking all that stuff away on B sides when he was at the height of his powers, when you consider the turgid pub-rock shite they ended up churning out
The Charlatans also have bucket-loads of contenders too
Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver by The Beatles.
Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver by The Beatles.
Good choice!
The Charlatans also have bucket-loads of contenders too
Obviously, I agree totally with that.
The answer is Stairway to Heaven all day long.
Pfft!! Stairway to Heaven is an album track if ever there was one. I love it, but a single? No chance!
Hiw about anything by Half Man Half Biscuit who never bothered with singles
My present favourite off their fantastically titled album ‘Nobody Cares About Your Creative Hub, so Cut Your ****ing Hedge’
I don't think concrete jungle Bob Marley was ever a single. Great song. Political, catchy
Fatoldgit has it for me ..it's the one I was going to suggest..slightly? too long to be a single but big Clarence's Sax solo has been known to bring a tear to my eye late at night after having a few with the headphones on ..
Great choice .
Toiler on the Sea
Surely a single should be 3-4 minutes long? So while Stairway and Jungleland are both great, they're not singles. For a Springsteen single, 'Surprise Surprise' and 'Save my Love' are both more like a single.
‘I don’t know’ from Hello Nasty, flipping love that song and a very different to everything else the beastie boys have done
they’re not singles
Uh, yeah, dat was da point of da fread
Deep Purple "April"
+1 for Tomorrow Never Knows
I can’t remember Jane says by Janes Addiction being a released single. Never understood this as it was mine and an awful lot of other people’s fav song from Nothing Shocking and still stands as one of if not my fav of their songs.... just played it to death over 25 years.
Voodoo Chile.
TV Eye - The Stooges
Showing my age here but I remember Voodo Chile being released as a single in the UK just after Hendrix died . Singles at the time cost 9 shillings and 11 pence in old money but Voodoo Chile only cost 6 shillings and 6 pence so unsurprisingly , given the low price and the recent demise of Hendrix , it went to number 1 in the charts .
Dire Straits and Telegraph Road.
Yeah, I can go with that.
Surely a single should be 3-4 minutes long? So while Stairway and Jungleland are both great, they’re not singles. For a Springsteen single, ‘Surprise Surprise’ and ‘Save my Love’ are both more like a single.
Doesn’t have to be, Dire Straits Private Investigations was 6’40”, Laurie Anderson’s O Superman 8’27”, both were Number One, IIRC.
I was going to mention King Crimson 21st Century Schitzoid Man, but it turns out it was released as a 7” single in 1969...
..and still sounds fresh today !
Epitaph from the same album would also be a good shout..
This is one of the best - should have been a single....
Beck - Debra...from Midnight Vultures album
Good call Jeff - anything from Midnight Vultures that wasn't a single automatically qualifies, it's stone cold all killer no filler that album
same for entroducing by DJ shadow
My oh My, from White Ladder by David Grey
voodo Chile being released as a single in the UK just after Hendrix died . Singles at the time cost 9 shillings and 11 pence in old money but Voodoo Chile only cost 6 shillings and 6 pence so unsurprisingly , given the low price and the recent demise of Hendrix , it went to number 1 in the charts .
Being a young whipper snapper I don't remember that. I do remember Camembert Electrique and Relics, 99p albums every house you went in had a had a copy of both. We knew a girl who worked on the record counter in Woolies, so singles were free.
The single was Voodoo Chile Slight Return.
I do remember Camembert Electrique and Relics, 99p albums
I dont remember Relics at that price but I love to image look on people's faces when they first played their 45p copy of Faust Tapes.