12" singles

[raleighnut]

This is really a 12" EP but it was the first time I came across the 45rpm 12" format

View: https://youtu.be/p6yW2iiKRho

Edit - My original copy is in better 'nick' though

 

[Accy cyclist]

Enjoy! Bought the 12 inch when it came out and its worn to fook

I listened to it,but it wasn't as good as the first one.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Ok no mention of blue monday here

Ok no mention of, ahem, Blue Monday from me...my fave 12 inch of all time...EPIC

I'm not happy. I listened to the towns they mentioned, but no Accrington in there!

 

[raleighnut]

Anyone else got Brian May's 'Starfleet project'

View: https://youtu.be/frNGVuOz5Js

Edit - if you play this really loud Eddie Van Halen's 'E' string breaking comes across really well.

 

[raleighnut]

I think my favourite 12 incher (calling @Fnaar ) must be this though

View: https://youtu.be/T5emcbg_wZk

 

[raleighnut]

BTW - I went to see Tanita Tikaram but only because the support was 'Brendan Croker' and for those who don't know who he is,

View: https://youtu.be/Fbn_F_VEpsk

 

[biggs682]

This was my first 12" and i had the blue copy

i wonder where it is know

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztZ7WFo3nw

 

[biggs682]

and i think this was my 2nd one

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AztWseIdU

 

[roadrash]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-63Wh2DEc8

 

[roadrash]

Duel 12" ...propaganda

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTM_apWWcO0

 

[Foghat]

This'll wake you up.....Sham on blinding form.

And Jimmy, the shouter to beat all shouters, shouting like his life depended on it. Brilliant.

 

[Smokin Joe]

One of the best records ever made, twelve minutes of pure bliss -

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcqs5z0yEl4&list=RDHcqs5z0yEl4

 

[MontyVeda]

The Frankie Goes to Hollywood 12"s were all mostly excellent. I made a cassette with all the mixes of Relax on it, no gaps and hence... a 30 minute mix.

Other overplayed 12"s from my youth are Tears For Fears, Mother's Talk: Beat of the Drum Mix. Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up Extended Mix. I'll not mention New Order's Blue Monday, but i played it a lot. Duran Duran, The Reflex, Nile Rogers remix, Tears for Fears, Broken/Head Over Heals/Broken (I think it was a 10"). Phil Oakley & Georgio Moroder, Together in Electric Dreams and several more which i can't currently recall.

In my early 20s i got into funk and disco... a couple of stand-outs being Parliament's Red Light being a superb bass heavy throbfest, and the 12" of Donna Summer's version of Je T'aime is silky and sumptuous throughout... and strangely has no B side. It's just glossy grooveless plastic. Never seen that before, or since.

 

[User6179]

I'll not bore you with the background to why I have started this thread, but this has to be the best 12" single ever. I can still remember getting home, turning the lights off in my bedroom and lying down to listen to it.

Outstanding.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVDC6kPCkWA


And if anyone posts anything by New Order I shall be reporting you!!!!

When I read the thread title the song that popped into my head was Welcome to the Pleasuredome


Who-ha who-ha
Who-ha who-ha

View: https://youtu.be/AbCEF4sYSiY

 

[threebikesmcginty]

This, as everyone knows, is the best 12".