'Needn’t be their absolute best but it’s got to be a belter.
Let’s ave it!
Too lazy to post but probably The Bronx - Heart Attack American
REM - Radio Free Europe
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead. 1979 but sounds totally timeless.
Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop. 1976.
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne. 1967.
The Cure - Killing An Arab. 1978.
to be honest, didn’t actually realise this was the first single until I looked it up just now, assumed it would’ve been seek & destroy (which wasn’t a single at all)
Guns N’ Roses - It’s So Easy got to number 84 in 1987.
I don’t care what anyone says - the dueling guitar solo into the standalone bass line into that final ripping solo is the ultimate “We are here” sequence in rock history.
The Smashing Pumpkins - "I Am One"
That joke aside, Love Buzz does fulfil the brief.
stop pretending it isn’t this - it’s this