fave 12" single

[sludgeguts]

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Lynard Skynard - free bird
Wham - club Tropicana

[stuckinthe80's]

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In retrospect, Bros were okay. I played I Owe You Nothing on tonight's show and it actually sounds pretty good pop compared to the NDubz of today, yet they were reviled back in the day by serious music critics. You get saddled with the 'teen act' label and it's pretty hard to build a long career, no matter how good you are.

I agree. Bros were quite good. I saw them live and Matt Goss had a great voice. The 'Illegal Mix' of I Owe You Nothing & When Will I Be Famous are fantastic. Full of samples from films, TV and other music. They are on a double A side white label promo 12". I luckily have a copy. Also the 'Art Mix' of Drop The Boy is much funkier than the regular 12" mix.
Also Shep Pettibone is one of my favorite remix producers. His mixes are nothing short of genius IMO.

[stockportyears]

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In retrospect, Bros were okay. I played I Owe You Nothing on tonight's show and it actually sounds pretty good pop compared to the NDubz of today, yet they were reviled back in the day by serious music critics. You get saddled with the 'teen act' label and it's pretty hard to build a long career, no matter how good you are.

[stuckinthe80's]

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Need You Tonight - INXS
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Love In Itself - Depeche Mode
C'est La Vie - Robbie Nevil
Erasure - It doesn't Have To Be (Cement Mix)
Blow Monkeys - It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
Haywoode - Roses (2nd release US Remix)
Dead Or Alive - Brand New Lover (Dust Monkey's Love Bubble Club Mix)
Dead Or Alive - Something In My House (Mortevicar Mix)
Bros - IOU Nothing/When Will I Be Famous (White Label 'Illegal Mixes')
Bros - Drop The Boy (Art Mix)
Yazoo - Nobody's Diary
Carol Lynn Townes - 99 1/2
Carol Lynn Townes - Believe In The Beat
The Real Roxanne - Bang Zoom (lets go go)
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (1/2 Way 2 House Remix)
Buffalo Stance (Give Me A Muthuf***ing Break Beat Sukka Mix)
Neneh Cherry - Manchild (Old Skool Mix)
Yazz - Where Has All The Love Gone?
Lisa Stansfield - People Hold On
Joe Smooth - Promised Land
Sounds Of Blackness - I'm Going All The Way
Plus loads more. Too many to list. I love 12" singles and have a massive collection!

[Richard1978]

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I've got many of those, but on CD though.

By the time I got into buying singles only Dance tracks seemed to be released on 12", & as I didn't have good spending power I tended to buy albums so didn't get many CD singles either.

[lifestyle2011]

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Pretty much every song on this list is a classic!!!!

Fade to grey - Visage
Night train - Visage
Stool pigeon - Kid Creole
Leave in silence - Depeche mode
Living on the ceiling - Blancmange
Everything counts Depeche Mode
Wings of a dove - Madness
Confusion - New order
This charming man - The Smiths
The killing moon - Echo and the bunnymen
People are people - Depeche Mode
Why - Bronski beat
Hammer to fall - Queen
This is mine - Heaven 17
Close to the edit - Art of noise
We close our eyes - Go west
Lets go crazy - Prince
Some like it hot - Power station
Duel - Propaganda
Running up that hill - Kate Bush
Election day - Arcadia
The sun always shines on tv - A ha
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Pretty on pink - Psychedelic furs
Bizarre love triangle - new order
True faith - New order
New sensation - Inxs
Blind - Talking Heads

[branny]

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Fade to grey - Visage
Night train - Visage
Stool pigeon - Kid Creole
Leave in silence - Depeche mode
Living on the ceiling - Blancmange
Everything counts Depeche Mode
Wings of a dove - Madness
Confusion - New order
This charming man - The Smiths
The killing moon - Echo and the bunnymen
People are people - Depeche Mode
Why - Bronski beat
Hammer to fall - Queen
This is mine - Heaven 17
Close to the edit - Art of noise
We close our eyes - Go west
Lets go crazy - Prince
Some like it hot - Power station
Duel - Propaganda
Running up that hill - Kate Bush
Election day - Arcadia
The sun always shines on tv - A ha
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Pretty on pink - Psychedelic furs
Bizarre love triangle - new order
True faith - New order
New sensation - Inxs
Blind - Talking Heads

[FLYING SAUCER]

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Blue Monday - New Order (I like the bit where the plane gets shot down! have a listen)
Tin Tin Stephen Duffy - Kiss Me (1982 version not the 1985!)
Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
Freeze - I.O.U.
Japan - Life In Tokyo
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement - All Heaven 17's discs were wonderfully illustrated!

[kevpk]

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Sweet Talkin' Woman... ELO , because of the cover, (the spaceship) and the purple coloured vinyl
Lawnchairs.... Our Daughters Wedding, because it annoyed my mates and its the longer version than the 7"
Lavender Blue ... Marillion, because its a long version of great song with Freaks on there as well, also a Cracking picture disc
Down in the park... Tubeway Army , because its a quality track and its worth a little bit now !!

[stockportyears]

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'Say Hello, Wave Goodbye', 'Big in Japan' and 'Smalltown Boy'

Good call, with the dramatic intro, way more dramatic than the puny radio edit.

[zip55]

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Got to be 'Blue Monday'

[Marine Boy]

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'Say Hello, Wave Goodbye', 'Big in Japan' and 'Smalltown Boy'

[stockportyears]

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Two Tribes, with Chris Barrie doing Reagan's voice.
'First Picture of You', Lotus Eaters (gorgeous guitar break in the middle).
I'll probably think of more, but those two instantly come to mind, where I *have* to listen to the full 12 inch version, the 'short' one on the radio just gets me annoyed lol.

[dwain-dibley]

new order-blue monday
blue pearl-naked in the rain
patrick hernandez-born to be alive
depeche mode-personal jesus
donna summer-i feel love
change-searching
ammii stewart-knock on wood
soft cell -tainted love
golden earring-twilight zone
blue oyster cult-shooting shark