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.
