What 7-inches have you listened to lately?

Are any of you also fans / collectors of 7-inches, or as we used to call them, 45s? If so, what 45s have you listened to lately? I have indies plus tons of oldies.

i have a love/hate relationship with singles. cuz they're an awesome thing to collect in theory, but i almost never listen to them at home, and don't DJ out enough to make it worth cultivating a collection for bar-play or whatever. but lately, um, i dunno. the Aran Ruth single is pretty cool. i bought a replacement copy of the Witches & The Warlock "The Wanderer"/"Nowhere To Run" 45, which is a favorite of mine.

A while back I did score copies of the Dead C's first single and the Meat Puppets first as well. Typically I don't think I've listened to them more than a few times, and they're now sitting in the box along with the other singles I don't listen to but can't force myself to get rid of.

fugi - mary don't take me on no bad trip (cadet)

listen to that one all the time and play it out ... '60s acid / funk / soul

among new stuff -- been liking the Real Estate 7" on Woodsist (guy from Ducktails), and Ariel Pink's "Can't Hear My Eyes" on Mexican Summer

The Jesus Lizard 'shower curtain' collection of re-issued singles (from Rekkid store day this past spring). Sounds GREAT!

Just ordered Dust/Omit - Fore-casts, and the Bottom of the World comp, with RST, Omit, Surface of the Earth and Sandoz Lab Technicians

bottom of the world is, and this is probably obvious, wayyyy too short.

even at 33rpm, you're probably right. just keen to finally get a listen to some Surface of the Earth, even if the medium don't suit. £2.99 each ain't a bad price anyway.

I am excited because I dug out a few boxes of 7-inches and I have "You Little Trustmaker" still in its sleeve and played only about twice! They have value again now that I can rip them. I don't understand how I went from thinking that 45s were the greatest thing ever to, by 2000 or so, thinking they were a royal pain in the butt. I hope they will regain their charm for me.

I also have a pile of Stiff and assorted post-punk 7-inches that I found in one giant heap IN A THRIFT STORE and they are sooo cute!

i played only one 7-inch (thee oh sees' "tidal wave") during a 3-hour radio show this week which is really weird

I buy a lot of 7" singles, though I play them out DJing & they're cheaper to ship to NZ than 12" singles/LPs. My latest shipment in from the UK:

The Joy Formidable - Whirring 7" on Friends Vs Records
Bloc Party - One More Chance 7" inc Holy Fuck mix on Wichita
A Grave With No Name - And We Parted Ways At Mt Jade Limited 7" on Popular Recordings
Peter Doherty - Broken Love Song Ltd 7" on Parlophone
Lily Allen - 22 7" picture disc inc Big Pink Mix on Parlophone
Screaming Lights - Volts 7" on Anti
Young British Artists - Small Waves 7" on Red Deer Club
Arthur And Martha - Autovia 7" on Happy Robots
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday/Side Ponytail 7" on Fortuna Pop
The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale 7" picture disc on Mercury

i note you're a norman records customer

haha busted! I used to use Rhythm in Cambridge but their fill ratio got worse & worse. Switched to Norman about 6 months ago with no complaints

Actually that list makes it look like I just buy everything they recommend - it's not true, honestly!

oh i used to! i had to stop buying from them as it was sending me to the poorhouse

me too, tho I figure I'd be in good company

found all my 45s from when I was young, still in the wire frame holder.

Ohio Players - Funky Worm / Paint Me

Music from 'The Sting' - The Entertainer / Solace

The Sweet - Little Willy / Man From Mecca

Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown / A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' The Blues)

Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree / I Can't Believe How Much I Love You

KISS - Beth / Detroit Rock City

McCormick Brothers - McCormick's String Picnic / I'm Happy To Know

The DeFranco Family - Heartbeat - It's A Lovebeat / Sweet, Sweet Loretta

M -Pop Muzik / M Factor

The Knack - My Sharona / Let Me Out

Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? / Scarred and Scared

Queen - Bicycle Race / Fat Bottomed Girls

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust / Don't Try Suicide

Pink Floys - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) / One of My Turns

Gary Numan - Cars / Metal

Little River Band - Lonesome Loser / Shut Down Turn Off

Dickie Goodman - Mr Jaws / Irv's Theme

Vince Vance and the Vandals - Bomb Iran / Bye-Bye, Baby

Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me / Clock Strikes Ten

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes / Mistaken Identity

Bee Gees - Stayin Alive / How Deep Is Your Love

Paul McCartney - Coming Up / Coming Up (live) & Lunch Box/Odd Sox

John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over / Kiss Kiss Kiss

George Harrison - All Those Years Ago / Writing's On The Wall

Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five) / Calm Before The Storm

Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 / Sing For The Common Man

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia / Rainbow Ride

Bee Gees - Tragedy / Until

Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down / Dreaming of 4000

Lipps Inc - Funkytown / All Night Dancing

John Travolta, Olivia Newton John and Cast - Summer Nights / Louis St. Louis - Rock'N'Roll Party Queen

Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll To Me / Through The Long Night

Lee Ofman & Gridnitz - Houston Oilers Number One / Houston Oilers Number One

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody / You're My Best Friend

A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie / World Spin

KISS - I Was Made For Lovin' You / Hard Times

Blues Brothers - Soul Man / Excusez Moi Mon Cherie

Chic - Le Freak / Savoir Faire

Meco - Empire Strikes Back (Medley) / The Force Theme

Stars on 45 - Medley / Stars on 45

The Mr. Bill Show - Book and Record

I don't get out my 45s at home often enough but I brought these to my last DJ gig last Saturday afternoon and played most of em -

Fugi - Mary Don't Take Me on no Bad Trip
Blackbyrds - Do It Fluid
Ballin'Jack - Found a Child (a remix/edit version)
Meters - Ease Back
Fatback Band - Put Your Love in my Tender Care
Strangeloves - Night Time
Rare Earth - Magic Key

i bought a bunch of italo/europop singles at the fleamarket on holiday in France, one of which turned out to be by Princess Stephanie of Monaco o_O

Got some really nice condition copies of some of the Honey Cone singles on Hot Wax recently and, man, these are some really great sounding records. Apart from the big hit, really like "Girls It Ain't Easy" and "Stick Up."

a well-mastered 45 can be a beautiful thing. you really do notice such an improvement in sound quality.

45s rule. The other thing about them is that they can look beat to shit and still sound good.

Like, 45s if I was grading on an LP scale I would rate as "good" or "fair", can still sound pretty OK and even good. durable little suckers

polvo -- celebrate the new dark age 3x7"

GOTTA SEE JANE

have reached beyond max density in the LP dept so no more records until I purge
but got a few 45s at the John Doe Jr metal show:

Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! / !aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT

Butthole Surfers - Pepper / Birds

Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks / Shake It Up

man, a pepper 45!!!! jealous!!!

A factory sample
A Raincoat
NYoung mymyheyhey

Shellac - 1st 2
3Ds - Beautiful Things
Basinski/Martin/Heeman double 7"
Barbara Manning - Don't Let It Bring You Down

I have like 6 CDRs of my favorite singles that I burned, but recently discovered that a bunch of them have some kind of mono/stereo encoding problem. So I have to re-record a couple of dozen, will be bumping this some more.

xpost yeah, it's 'jukebox play only' on a generic Capitol brown label. too cool... i'm surprised they still made jukebox 45s in 1996, I thought they had all converted to CDs by that point.

I have a Liz Phair jukebox 7" from 1998! On Polygram I think, with the little paper display slip.

It's Saturday and nothing goes better with springtime yard work than oldies!

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Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Wet Cement
Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul (never too far from the table)

It's a P day:

Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
Pink Military - Did you see her
Pink Kross - The Active Dalmation EP
Peter & the Test Tube Babies - Banned from the pubs
Pastels - Songs for children
Pissed jeans - Don't need smoke