Everyone is posting their lists of the best LPs/albums/whatever and singles of 2008. I'm going to do something different. The other day http://terrapinlistens2.blogspot.com/2008/12/magazine-give-me-everything.html I said I had rated Magazine's "Give Me Everything" the best single of 1978 at the time. To my enormous surprise (I consistently rate a brain age in the mid-seventies on Nintendo Brain Training) I managed to dredge up the whole Top 10 from the corners of my addled mind and here it is.
1. Magazine - "Give Me Everything"
2. The Clash - "White Man In Hammersmith Palais"
3. Sham 69 - "If The Kids Are United"
4. The Clash - "Tommy Gun"
5. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - "What A Waste"
6. Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods EP
7. The Cure - "Killing An Arab"
8. Magazine - "Shot By Both Sides"
9. Rezillos - "Destination Venus"
10. Flying Lizards - "Summertime Blues".
I'm not saying that I would choose them now as the best singles of 1978 (the Flying Lizards single is an especially embarrassing choice) but it's interesting. Conspicuous by their absence are The Fall, whom I discovered the following year. Also Siouxsie & the Banshees - I thought "Hong Kong Garden" was rubbish, but their album "The Scream" was the best of the year.
Happy Xmas and New Year everyone!
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