OPO: 12" single that you own

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SERIOUSLY, that you own!!

i barely own any 12" singles. i think it is either madonna "angel"/"into the groove" or lisa lisa & the cult jam "can you feel the beat" dub remix

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Fields of the Nephilim - "Psychonaut (Lib. III)"/"Celebrate (Second Seal)"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

The Sugarcubes - "Deus"

― Voodoo Child, Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

toss up:

GENIUS OF LOVE tom tom club
(purchased aged 18 in 1993 cost: £13.)

POPSCENE blur one sided 'dj only' promo
(purchased *just* before their big takeoff circa 93. total cost 0.50p.)

― piscesboy, Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

welt in scherben 3. its the only 12" single i own

― don't be jerk, this is china (FE7), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Cabaret Voltaire-Yashar
Factory Records 1982, FAC82

A (Re)Production of John Robie oberdubs mix

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

most of the records i own are 12"s so i don't think i could ever answer this.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

BUT YOU HAVE TO MR DJ

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Maybe UR's "Galaxy 2 Galaxy" then.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

"say hello, wave goodbye" by soft cell.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

"swap" - lawrence (picked because it's a pretty recent purchase that not only has great cover art (meta-homoeroticism + joy division/peter saville homage), but the song itself is something that i am continuously in awe of)

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

ghost cauldron-ambient skit (superpitcher's ambient mix)

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Killing-Joke-Eighties-83495.jpg

...and I cherish it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Not that I get one, but second choice...

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/l/o/loveandrockets77409.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Happy Mondays - Delightful

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh, fuck this question raw. Seriously.

I mean, why not ask people which hour of the day they're only allowed to breathe while you're at it?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

gosh. probably red turns to 'deep sleep' because that's the one i've been enjoying the most in recent times. although kent makes a good case..

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh, all right...

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-50756-1085824940.jpg http://www.discogs.com/image/R-50756-1100545849.jpg

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

"Stop The War" by Raw Sex, Pure Energy - Rip, Rig & Panic in disguise?

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

The Fall - Victoria. I need Guest Informant.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

new order " blue monday".

― fane jonda, Monday, 5 September 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

fuzzbox " self ".
why would queen allow " bohemian rahpsody" to be covered .
Fuzzbox must've been drunk to sing that bad.
why wasn't the cute pixie-blonde drummer pictured.

― fane jonda, Monday, 5 September 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.plastikfantastik.nl/comersus/store/catalog/slx00019x.jpg

Not that you can tell from the picture, but that's the Dhar Braxton "Jump Back" single on Sleeping Bag

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Second choice (cos it's a dumb question):
http://80music.about.com/library/artist/images/dominatrix.jpg

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

"Killing Moon (All Night Version)" Echo & The Bunnymen. i didn't even know this version existed when i happened across it and this version pisses all over the original, which is still a fantastic song. and it's even longer. hooray!

The other candidate would be "Tremelp EP" which was my introduction to MBV, but does an EP count as a single? who knows.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Either : New Order : Everything's Gone Green/Cries and Whispers/Mesh

Or : Happy Mondays : Freaky Dancin'/The Egg(Mix)/Freaky Dancin'(Live)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

When you've heared "Freaky Dancing (Live)", you never go back to the non-live one.

Anyhow, the 12" single would have to be "Andi in a Karman" by The Senseless Things.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Easily "Propaganda's "The Testament of Dr Mabuse".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

first one i bought:

http://www.808state.com/discogs/808pages/sinpages/sinpacif/sinpaci6.jpg

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

sensoria 12" - cabaret voltaire

changed my life in many ways that record.

followed closely by the officially unreleased KISSPOWER 12" by Age of Chance

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

i don't have all that many, well i do but they're all in dad's shed and i can't remember them too well, but maybe

'FLOATATION' by THE GRID (is it the grid? i can't remember. possibly it has a weatherall remix)

― N_RQ, Monday, 5 September 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-474282-1118919229.jpg

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

http://i18.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/b4/2f/7e_1_b.JPG

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

"My name is Ted... And one day... I'll be dead, yo yo yo."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

dee, that's really funny - while it's utterly impossible for me to pick only one, that's certainly in the finals. and i never hear anyone talk about that record, so i'm shocked to see it mentioned here!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

yo, the good dr bill, that's a fucking mini-album ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Why does it gotta be so damn tough...to pick one. Donut dead-on!

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Patti Smith's "Hey Joe" b/w live version of 'Radio Ethiopia".

This narrowly beats out my 12" of Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream"/"Radiation"

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

It used to be the JAMMS' "It's Grim Up North" until my erstwhile home burned down.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

for cheering me up earlier in the morning:
http://www.rexthedog.net/images/proto_thumb.gif

― etc, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Obviously impossible. "Torch" by Soft Cell, perhaps.

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 5 September 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

"Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)" by Flock of Seagulls

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

only one I own
http://www.gocontinental.com/photos2/boys2a.jpg

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Out of gobs of 12-inchers, I'll pick a straw out and say "Tour de France" by Kraftwerk.

― brianiac (briania), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

the only 12 i own is SISQO - THONG SONG, so, that one

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

"Shake It Right/Bang 'em Right" by Cab Volt offshoot Six Sed Red, because this is, to my knowledge, their only recorded product.

Honorable mention prize to Arthur Baker's wacky razor-blade editing on Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop."

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think Baker really did that...probably farmed it off to the Latin Rascals or someone.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

hmmm

the first one that springs to mind is
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-42313-1081711818.jpg

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

that hani mix is seriously to die for

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

4 Jazz Funk Classics by 69

― wtin, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

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― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

er: ihttp://offisual.givemeit.de/lullaby/12in_lullaby_uk_ficsx298719911_front.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

goddammit.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I'll go with "Bring Me Closer" by Altered Images.

Not because it's the "best" or even "my favourite" of the 12"s I own, but it is too often overlooked and a good example of an extended version improving on the basic song. Also, when i first bought it, the record wouldn't play properly on my cheap turntable (needle kept jumping and skipping grooves) so it was a loooong time before I got to hear it in all it's glory.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

The Feelies doing "Dancing Barefoot."

(Although really probably "Genius of Love" too.)

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

seventeen years pass...

The Feelies doing "Dancing Barefoot."
(Although really probably "Genius of Love" too.)

Their version is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0Hok-2Prs

― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 April 2023 19:32 (two years ago)

as soon as i saw this thread revival one 12" came into my head.
and yeah, its the same one i said 17 years ago.
not sure if thats a good or a bad thing.

― mark e, Saturday, 29 April 2023 19:59 (two years ago)

I don't own too many, but definitely FAC 179:

https://i.discogs.com/sEElYpuC9taN2PkDxApXyDsNX3_ZMeF6CNSJLyncGlU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:555/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNjgz/LTE1MTM3NjEyNjUt/NDc1MS5qcGVn.jpeg

(Honorable mention to this one – as my copy is signed across the cover, with a few words to me, by Mayo:)

https://i.discogs.com/DPUdsnpzJLGb5j-sUfb2IKa4iGpuj2ARBVTnUad8JeM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcwMDk2/NS0xNjI3NzI5NDA2/LTI5MzAuanBlZw.jpeg

― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Saturday, 29 April 2023 20:12 (two years ago)

I collect LPs and have some 7”s and 10”S but very few 12” singles. Probably a Principe 12” would be my favourite (and most valuable)

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 30 April 2023 03:17 (two years ago)

Oh actually whatever it’s Joe’s “Claptrap”, I love that single

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 30 April 2023 03:20 (two years ago)

this is so hard

I guess Dinosaur L's "Kiss Me Again"?

― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Sunday, 30 April 2023 03:29 (two years ago)

or New Order's "Perfect Kiss"

― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Sunday, 30 April 2023 03:29 (two years ago)

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