Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room The most prized 7"single in your collection ? *

Denwise: The picture disc of Endlessly (purchased in Plymouth I think as I couldn't find it in Exeter in the summer of 82)

Nondenwise: This from Leigh's** finest
Shelley/Devoto at the height of their powers

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Foxx-wise it'd have to be one of the later gatefold singles with all the lovely artwork and extra 7" with some exceptional C and D sides, that dare I say it - I probably play more than the original A sides. Also 'Burning Car' on picture-disc just for the novelty of some marketing guru at Virgin in 1980 thinking that it was such a pop single it should be on picture disc.

Foxx aside, I'd have to go for my St. Pancras edition of 'Skank Bloc Bologna' with handmade fold-out sleeve and inner labels or the original Fast edition of 'Being Boiled'

Sisters of Mercy 7"s also warrant a mention for great music and hilarious messages in the run-out grooves.

Foxx-wise, No One Driving. For "Glimmer". My first non-Ultravox Foxx. A pivotal moment in my musical development.

I am also fond of my copy of LFO's "LFO" single - quite apart from the bleeps and bass it has warped significantly and looks fab.

Then there's a Flaming Lips 7 inch that was only available with the "Christmas on Mars" vinyl edition.

Have to echo both sentiments on the abovementioned Foxxy singles: No-One Driving 2 x 7", for EVERYTHING it stands for, and the later ones if ONLY for the artwerk.

I'd have to get the box out to have a rummage but off the top of me head I would never part with Gary Numan's "We Are Glass" or OMD's Dep2 live at Eric's artefact thing given free with Organisation.

I am also the proud owner of The Human League's "Holiday '80" gatefold double 7" with only one disc...

Foxxwise for me its easily the 1980 7" double-pack of 'No-One Driving', artwork and music, its all there, one of Johns many stylish and defining moment's of that period.

Non-Foxxwise, this one's a 10", does it count? -

Virginia Astley's 1982 EP 'A Bao A Qu'. Even though I've never played it in decades, with no access to a turntable, its haunting music is still in my mind, and I'm sure its probably still her best work for me.

I had to sell off all my vinyl before emigrating to South Africa (would have cost an arm and a leg and my first-born to have it shipped over here) so I no longer have a collection. However, when I did my John Foxx one would probably have been the picture disc of Burning Car, which I hung up on my bedroom wall because I also had the black vinyl version that I could listen to.

Non-Foxx would be more difficult to pinpoint just one. Maybe the original Tom Hark , an instrumental recorded in 1958 by Elias & His Zig Zag Jive Flutes , which I tracked down at a flea market in Tavistock whilst on holiday in Devon quite a few years ago. I loved the Piranhas vocal re-working of it (had that too), but the rawness, simplicity and naivete of the original has a certain charm about it.

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Without a doubt, it has to be the first single that I ever bought - "Band on the Run" by Paul McCartney and Wings. 45p - and that was a hefty invest,ent in those days!!! And I still have it, althought it is completely unplayable now - I just can't dispose of it! How impractical is that??
1973? So I would have been 8ish - seems unreal!

I just say the first one that comes to my mind:

'Dream Soldiers' by Fallout Club.

I can't decide which song I like more, dreamlike A-side or Thomas Dolby penned 'Pedestrian Walkway' on the B-side. Neither track appear on album - since there is no Fallout Club album - which makes this 7" even more valuable.

'Dream Soldiers' cover is the only vinyl record cover I have taken to a gig to get signed (by Thomas Dolby).

Fallout Club were Trevor Herion, Paul Simon, Thomas Dolby and Matthew Seligman.

I discovered Foxx back to front via Urevox & the first single I bought Foxxwise was the re-issued Slow Motion/Quiet Men/HMA single.

Before that not a lot apart from Cerrone's Supernature & some late period ABBA singles.

ABBA's SOS being one having a lovely Moogy bit of synth on it.

Brian

Interesting topic ....

I would say my picture disc of Tubeway Army's "Are Friends Electric", Tubeway Army "That's Too Bad" which is a double 7 inch which is mispressed as both 7 inch have the same B Side.

John's "No One Driving" Double 7 inch.

Quite a few of the clear vinyl Ultravox singles from "Vienna" and "Rage In Eden".

My prized album possesion is Gary Numan's "Photograph" which was withdrawn within minutes of being put on the shelves at Virgin Records! Can fetch anything from £100 to £200!