What's Your Top 3?: Debut singles

No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.

Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Supersonic - Oasis
Hard To Explain - The Strokes

3 Likes

Oasis - Supersonic
Orbital - Chime
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne

2 Likes

Ride – Chelsea Girl
Nas – Halftime
Wu-Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck

5 Likes

Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)
Talking Heads - Love > Building on FIre
R.E.M - Radio Free Europe

4 Likes

Weezer - Undone
Pearl Jam - Alive
Radiohead - Creep

2 Likes

Twilight Sad - That summer at home
Exit Calm - Higher Learning
Interpol - PDA

Feel like there’s a couple I’m missing. Oh well.

2 Likes

Excluded radio free europe due to the ep before it. Dunno what the rule is there.

R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
Bjork - Human Behaviour
Francoise Hardy - Tous les garçons et les filles

2 Likes

RFE counts, was the first ‘single’ they put out.

1st version came out in 1981 before Chronic Town :nerd_face:

Mudhoney - Touch Me I’m Sick
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name

7 Likes

Chuck Berry - Maybelline
Shellac - Billiard Player Song
D’Angelo - Brown Sugar

1 Like

Fuck this is a good one.

Suede - The Drowners
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

8 Likes

Would have been on my list if I’d remembered it exists.

1 Like

Hope of the States - Black Dollar Bills
Spacehog - in the meantime
Foo Fighters- This is a call

4 Likes

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Elastica - Stutter

4 Likes

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Wham - Wham Rap!
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

1 Like

Mudhoney - Touch Me I’m Sick
Wu-Tang - Protect Your Neck
Oasis - Supersonic

Spiritualized - Any Way That You Want Me
Eels - Novocaine For The Soul
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (and the 1981 version is the best one too)