Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun 
The Cranberries - Dreams
Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
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Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Six By Seven - European Me
Dubstar - Stars
This one was harder than I first expected, because turns I wasnāt right about what lots of actsā debut singles were.
Special shout-out for Pet Shop Boys, whose debut single was West End Girls, but not the classic version.
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The Divine Comedy - Something for the Weekend
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Sugababes - Overload
Britney Spears - ā¦Baby One More Time
2 Likes
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
New Order - Ceremony
Talking Heads - Love ā Building on Fire
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Hmm, technically that was a mail order only three track EP of tracks from the first album rather than an actual single.
Point still stands.
Umpireās decision is final Iām afraid
If weāre going to get technical about it, both Europop and Timewatch were released two years before that. And on the bandās website Something For The Weekend is listed as being the first single.
But FINE. Iāll remove it.
Hmph.
Through The Wire - Kanye West
The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) - Missy Elliott
The Letter- The Box Tops
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LCD - Losing my Edge
Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (have taken over the asylum)
+1 for Virginia Plain
+1 for Wham! Rap
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
Mudhoney - Touch Me Iām Sick
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the mars volta - Inertiatic ESP
65daysofstatic - retreat! retreat!
kraftwerk - autobahn
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The Modern Age was the first Strokes single, no?
Modern Age is an EP.
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New Order - Ceremony
Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdropsā Drops (if weāre not counting EPs are per above)
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
EPs will have their own thread in due course.
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lots of people having more early singles than iād expect, ruining my plans
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This is tricky, Iāve lots of EPs in mind but three momentous ones that I donāt think have been mentioned:
The Damned - New Rose
Velvet Underground - All Tomorrowās Parties
The Stooges - I Wanna Be your Dog
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a-ha - Take On Me
Allo Darlin - Henry Rollins Donāt Dance
Megadeth - Wake Up Dead
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