TOP RATED 5 SINGLES: (A+B)/2

[mr. splendid]

Well these would be the Top 5 double siders according to the TBM Top 1000 list :
Things To Come - Speak Of The Devil ( #6 ) / Sweet Gina ( #49 )
Human Expression - Calm Me Down ( #18 ) / Optical Sound ( #37 )
Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion - She's The One ( #17 ) / Tryin' To Mess My Mind ( #44 )
Alarm Clocks - No Reason To Complain ( #26 ) / Yeah ( #48 )
Stoics - Hate ( #20 ) / Enough Of What I Need ( # 59 )
While I don't agree with all of them , I was surprised that nobody had mentioned the Human Expression and the Alarm Clocks yet !

 

[Heitkotter77]

My psych top 5:

1. Pretty: Mustache In Your Face/The Electric Hand
2. Sound Apparatus: One (Dream On)/Travel Agent Man
3. Eric Burdon & the Animals: When I Was Young/a Girl Named Sandoz
4. Children of the Mushroom: August Mademoiselle/You Can't Erase a Mirror
5 (tie). Black Narcosis: Land of Stone/Everybody's Blind
The Journey Back: Synthetic People/Run Away Baby

Subject to change by whim (except #1).

Add this to the tie for #5:

Graveyard 5: Theme/The Marble Orchard

I can't believe the thread got this far without this being mentioned (yeah yeah I know; I missed it, too).

 

[Heitkotter77]

While I don't agree with all of them , I was surprised that nobody had mentioned Things To Come yet !

Maybe I need another addition to my #5 tie. Or just round out a top ten by adding that and
One Way Streets: Jack the Ripper/We All Love Peanut Butter
The Ritual: Speed Freak/Walls Of My Mind

 

[Amfiog]

Teddy and his Patches - Suzy Creamcheese/From Day to Day
Pretty Things - Honey I Need/I Can Never Say
Great Scots - The Light Hurts My Eyes/You Know What You Can Do
A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight/A Passing Fancy
Bees - Voices Green and Purple/Trip to New Orleans

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Well these would be the Top 5 double siders according to the TBM Top 1000 list :
Things To Come - Speak Of The Devil ( #6 ) / Sweet Gina ( #49 )
Human Expression - Calm Me Down ( #18 ) / Optical Sound ( #37 )
Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion - She's The One ( #17 ) / Tryin' To Mess My Mind ( #44 )
Alarm Clocks - No Reason To Complain ( #26 ) / Yeah ( #48 )
Stoics - Hate ( #20 ) / Enough Of What I Need ( # 59 )
While I don't agree with all of them , I was surprised that nobody had mentioned the Human Expression and the Alarm Clocks yet !

Oddly, I totally forgot about these, apart from Dr. Spec's... which I mention somewhere above. Things to Come will definitely have to come in my top 5 (along with 9 other 45's).

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Add this to the tie for #5:

Graveyard 5: Theme/The Marble Orchard

I can't believe the thread got this far without this being mentioned (yeah yeah I know; I missed it, too).

Especially as it's continually scrolling across the top of this website.

 

[Berman]

Well these would be the Top 5 double siders according to the TBM Top 1000 list :
Things To Come - Speak Of The Devil ( #6 ) / Sweet Gina ( #49 )
Human Expression - Calm Me Down ( #18 ) / Optical Sound ( #37 )
Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion - She's The One ( #17 ) / Tryin' To Mess My Mind ( #44 )
Alarm Clocks - No Reason To Complain ( #26 ) / Yeah ( #48 )
Stoics - Hate ( #20 ) / Enough Of What I Need ( # 59 )
While I don't agree with all of them , I was surprised that nobody had mentioned the Human Expression and the Alarm Clocks yet !

Human Expression is over over over rated in my opinion and Alarm Clocks is a "dream record" I know I'll never get an original copy...

 

[nu_sound]

How about the Bourbons of old approx?

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

How about the Bourbons of old approx?

I've never understood why that 45 is so highly rated; whereas something like the Aardvarks on FENTON; the Deepest Blue on BLUE-FIN; or even the common-as-dirt Boss Five on IMPACT, I do understand.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Human Expression is over over over rated in my opinion

 

[Berman]

maybe, but it is what I'm thinking about this 45, if anyone offer it to me as a gift I wouldn't take it ..or take it to sell it to buy records I'm interested in

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

maybe, but it is what I'm thinking about this 45, if anyone offer it to me as a gift I wouldn't take it ..or take it to sell it to buy records I'm interested in

DOUBLE CRAZY.

Although myself I'd love a free copy of Love at a Psychedelic Velocity but I'd not turn down Optical Sound.

 

[peppermint]

Bit'a'sweet - out of sight out of mind/is it on is it off
Standells - Dirty water/Rari
Young Aristocracy - Don't lie/look and see
Mourning reign - satisfaction guaranteed/Our fate
Little Phil & the nightshadows - The way it used to be/so much

 

[beccabear67]

I was going to try and come up with a five great double sided Vancouver groups list but have to admit I failed... mainly because The Seeds Of Time's My Home Town wasn't backed by Cryin' The Blues. Anyway, here are four I think are semi-immortal...

No No No b/w Afraid Of The Dark - The United Empire Loyalists
Hard To Cry b/w Get Away From It All - The North West Company
This Ain’t Love b/w You Lied - The Nocturnals
She Loves Me She Loves Me Not b/w Just Don't -Vancouver Playboys

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

No. 2 I know, but the others, I really need to get to know if they're in the same league! I have the Nocturnals on History of Vancouver R&R, but the other two don't appear in my database.

 

[beccabear67]

I think a facsimile of the The United Empire Loyalists single was part of that fairly recent garage greats vinyl series. The Vancouver Playboys were fronted by Tom Northcott. I used to have multiples of that single. The Nocturnals had a number of good gritty singles, though some later sides were lighter weight. Even though I am a bit of a freak for Terry Jacks, I still couldn't name a Chessmen single as a double sider classic (sighs).

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Thanks for the info Beccabear:)

 

[bosshoss]

I've never understood why that 45 (Bourbons) is so highly rated; whereas something like the Aardvarks on FENTON; the Deepest Blue on BLUE-FIN; or even the common-as-dirt Boss Five on IMPACT, I do understand.

It only gives you everything!
Loud snotty vocals complete with sneering lyrics, movin' melodic bass, berserk primitive guitar with lashings of wild harp, pumping combo organ, machine-gun snare drum stylings. Then there's the tune itself, which is very unusual and which I really like, and the fact that all the players are playing at maximum intensity and at the limits of their ability. Add in great sound and a loud pressing, it rates 9 out of 10 on the garage-o-meter for me.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Okay, okay, I'll give it another listen - maybe I'll be able to raise it's rating

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

c'mon the bourbons includes the line -

".. the inner explosions of desire,
an empty hand my brains on fire"

and the pee-ooww - pee-ooww - pee-oww pee-ooww (the sound the guitar makes) break comes in twice. It surely is beautifully ugly.