Buzzzzzz Jimmy Gordon is one of my fave 45's, a great surf fuzz instrumental!

I've been under the impression for the last 33 years or so that the best 45 of all time is "Surrender" b/w "Auf Weidersehen" by CHEAP TRICK. 

I can't think of the BRIDES without thinking of the time they played a matinee show up here in Green Bay and Ross and the boys got busted for drinking in the parking lot...by a BIKE COP. They were just sitting there, sheepishly, while a man in bicycle shorts dutifully wrote them a ticket in broad daylight. That took a little of the edge off their swagger that show, that's fo' sho'. I always thought their best song was their cover of "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" by SOLOMON BURKE.

Pam and the Passions - Summertime

Eastern Dark - Johnny and dee Dee

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden

Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop

Plunderers - Didnt see them

Dillinger - Chinese Soul Train

Doom Town - Walking through walls

Modern Pets - Plastic Mind

A10 - Badly Burned

Hellacopters - City Slang

Goodbye Johnnys - Night will fall

The Greenhornes Loving in the Sun / Your body, not your soul.

Amazing. The version of Loving in the Sun (A side) is the garage rock stomper (as opposed to the laid back acoustic version you hear most often). But the B side is the real corker. Their cover of Cubby + Blizzards "your body, not your soul" is simply my favorite cover song ever. And the sleeve is a nice recreation of the original from 1965.

Some of my most fave:
The Hondells-"Hot Rod High"/"Little Honda"
The Sigma Five-"Comin' Down"/"Pop Top"
Warren Smith-"Miss Froggie"/"So Long I'm Gone"
MC5-"Looking at You"/"Tonight"
T.V. Slim-"Flatfoot Sam"/"Darling Remember"
The Dictators-"Who Will Save Rock 'N' Roll?"/"Savage Beat"
The Howlin' Wolf-"Evil is Goin' On"/"Baby How Long?"
The Replacements-"I'm in Trouble"/"If Only You Were Lonely"
The Lime Spiders-"Slave Girl"/"Beyond the Fringe"
Bill Walker-"Party Time"/"Wineo"
The Mutants-"I Say Yeah"/"Cafe au Lait"

Especially on the nekkid lady Amazon label !
 
James Porter said:

"You, I" b/w "Stay With Me" - Rugbys

"You, I" b/w "Stay With Me" - Rugbys

The Keggs 7'' on Orbit from 1967 with To Find Out/Girl. I'll post more 60's double sided killers when I think of more.

I'LL KEEP THAT IN MIND , FOR SURE ,  BUT , I THINK THE CHEAPEST I'VE SEEN IT WAS MAYBE $69.99 .
 
whatwave dave said:

And worth every cent for the stupid grin it puts on my face every time i play I Can't Hardly Stand It  or   The Way I Walk    or Drug Train   or...the list goes on. Way better sound then the original LP's i've owned since they came out.

I was able to get it for $80 Canadian  when it came out, so theoretically it should be way cheaper in Chicago....

John Battles said:

I KNOW I SHOULD , but , Hey , Seuss! IT'S LIKE , $80.
 
whatwave dave said:

The Cramps    File Under Sacred Music     Early Singles 1978-1981

Best single i've bought in ages times 10 cause there's 10 killer singles in the box. Really nice pressings (at least mine is, and i bought it when it came out late last year) where you can actually hear Lux breathing at times. It's on Munster Records and i've seen copies at a coupla local record stores recently, so there's still copies floating around waiting to be nabbed by the likes of you!

And worth every cent for the stupid grin it puts on my face every time i play I Can't Hardly Stand It  or   The Way I Walk    or Drug Train   or...the list goes on. Way better sound then the original LP's i've owned since they came out.

I was able to get it for $80 Canadian  when it came out, so theoretically it should be way cheaper in Chicago....

John Battles said:

I KNOW I SHOULD , but , Hey , Seuss! IT'S LIKE , $80.
 
whatwave dave said:

The Cramps    File Under Sacred Music     Early Singles 1978-1981

Best single i've bought in ages times 10 cause there's 10 killer singles in the box. Really nice pressings (at least mine is, and i bought it when it came out late last year) where you can actually hear Lux breathing at times. It's on Munster Records and i've seen copies at a coupla local record stores recently, so there's still copies floating around waiting to be nabbed by the likes of you!

 SOME OF MY FAVES....nOT EVEN SCRATCHING THE SURFACE , BUT......

PAUL REVERE AND tHE RAIDERS "oRBIT - tHE sPY"/ "Beatnik Sticks"

Johnny Hallyday - "Voyage Aus Pays DES vIVANTS"

Love - "7 and 7 is " mixed hotter than Hell.

DONNY B. WAUGH. i'M SORRY , SCREW SPRINGSTEEN . wAUGH IS tHE jERSEY ROCK KING

"yOU bETTER bELIEVE IT" / "C'mon Everybody"

Chuck Berry "No Money Down" / "Downbown Train.

Ann-Margret "It's a Nice World To Visit (But not to Live In)/"You Turned My head around."

Dave Berry '' dON'T gIMME nO LIP cHILD".

svt "wANNA sEE yOU Cry"

Nervebreakers - All 3 original singles ( reished on gET hIP).

any Little Richard on Specialty

I KNOW I SHOULD , but , Hey , Seuss! IT'S LIKE , $80.
 
whatwave dave said:

The Cramps    File Under Sacred Music     Early Singles 1978-1981

Best single i've bought in ages times 10 cause there's 10 killer singles in the box. Really nice pressings (at least mine is, and i bought it when it came out late last year) where you can actually hear Lux breathing at times. It's on Munster Records and i've seen copies at a coupla local record stores recently, so there's still copies floating around waiting to be nabbed by the likes of you!

NICE. That image will always remind me of former funnyman , Dan Akyroyd as Tom Snyder and Mick Jagger as himself on SNL.
 
G. Wood said:

I'm more interested in picture sleeves than the actual music, I confess. Recently got this one, which I've been looking for forever.

The Cramps    File Under Sacred Music     Early Singles 1978-1981

Best single i've bought in ages times 10 cause there's 10 killer singles in the box. Really nice pressings (at least mine is, and i bought it when it came out late last year) where you can actually hear Lux breathing at times. It's on Munster Records and i've seen copies at a coupla local record stores recently, so there's still copies floating around waiting to be nabbed by the likes of you!

Right off the top o' my head, 2 come to mind  no, 3:

The Dogs first 45- 19/Charlie Was a Good Boy/No Way

The Fun Things single- savage/(I Ain't Got)Time Enough For Love/When The Birdmen Fly/'Lipstick'

And the debut of the New Christs- Waiting World/Face A New God

All moody, cranked-up and pissed-off classics.

The Fall-Outs rule, noone out there like 'em. Plus, Dave Holmes is just a sweet guy.

Steve said:

And this SuperElectro 7"
by The Fall-Outs
Sleep b/w It's A Shame, Talk

Totally agree with that estimation on the Brides 45. PC Action is my favorite Time Flys song too.

Saints- One Way Street/Erotic Neurotic

Brides- Pushed Around/Get To You (possibly the best garage punk single of the 90's)

Teengenerate- Plays the Kids

Rip Offs- Make up your mind/Wild Jayne

Time Flys- Energy/PC Action

It's less open ended for me because I mostly just listen to Garage, but I think it's pretty easy after spinning for a while to tell which ones are good and which ones are pure genius.

I have been waiting for this one to come for like two weeks now... why are they doing this to me?

Sean G. said:

After obsessing over the hilarity of this vid, I finally found the single at the bottom of a crate at the local record shop. Only 3 bucks!

I found a nice copy of this for about the same price several years ago.

Favorite 45s is such a board question. One day it could be Motorhead - The Bomber, Next day VOM - Live at Surf City, then maybe T-Rex 20th Century Boy, on to K&K -  Quick Joey Small, Bobby Peterson - Mamma Get Your Hammer, Fun Things ep, Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Hollies - Look Through Any Window, Mickey Lee Lane - Hey Sha-Lo-Ney, Lemon Pipers - Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Mamalade).... too many to name.

I definitely think 45s are the best format. And as G. Wood mentioned, I too, unfortunately am obsessed with obtaining picture sleeves, but I am more interested in the music.

Most recently I've been buying bubblegum/ psych, and glam. But that's not to say I over look metal or punk sections.

Ever since I was 8-the perfect little pop song:

It's Cold Outside- The Choir

And this SuperElectro 7"
by The Fall-Outs
Sleep b/w It's A Shame, Talk

This one gets the most regular spins around my house.

Underdog by Sly and the family stone 

Liars liars by the castaways

After obsessing over the hilarity of this vid, I finally found the single at the bottom of a crate at the local record shop. Only 3 bucks!