50 Great Singles Of The Pop/Punk/New Wave Era, 1976-1979

Submitted by Imposter on Thu, 09/23/2004 - 03:48
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  • "(I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp" - The Soft Boys
  • "(I'm) Stranded" - The Saints
  • "1 2 X U" - Wire
  • "10:15 Saturday Night" - The Cure
  • "2-4-6-8 Motorway" - Tom Robinson Band
  • "Airport" - The Motors
  • "Anarchy In The UK" - Sex Pistols
  • "Another Girl, Another Planet" - The Only Ones
  • "Back Of My Hand (I've Got Your Number)" - The Jags
  • "Baggy Trousers" - Madness
  • "Blank Generation" - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
  • "Born To Lose" - The Heartbreakers
  • "Cars" - Gary Numan
  • "Cool For Cats" - Squeeze
  • "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" - The Jam
  • "Ever Fallen In Love" - Buzzcocks
  • "Forming" - The Germs
  • "Get Over You" - The Undertones
  • "Gloria/My Generation" - Patti Smith
  • "I See Red" - Split Enz
  • "I'm The Man" - Joe Jackson
  • "Is Vic There?" - Department S
  • "Jocko Homo" - Devo
  • "Kid" - The Pretenders
  • "Little Johnny Jewel" - Television
  • "Making Plans For Nigel" - XTC
  • "Mercury Poisoning" - Graham Parker
  • "Nightclubbing" - Iggy Pop
  • "Oh Bondage Up Yours" - X-Ray Spex
  • "One Chord Wonders" - The Adverts
  • "Psycho Killer" - Talking Heads
  • "Public Image" - Public Image Ltd.
  • "Ranking Full Stop" - The Beat
  • "Roadrunner" - The Modern Lovers
  • "Rockaway Beach" - The Ramones
  • "Shot By Both Sides" - Magazine
  • "So Lonely" - The Police
  • "Sonic Reducer" - Dead Boys
  • "Starry Eyes" - The Records
  • "Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.)" - Wreckless Eric
  • "Teenage Depression" - Eddie & The Hot Rods
  • "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" - Mission Of Burma
  • "They Don't Know" - Kirsty MacColl
  • "Too Much Too Young" - The Specials
  • "Transmission" - Joy Division
  • "Watching The Detectives" - Elvis Costello
  • "We Got The Neutron Bomb" - The Weirdos
  • "We're Desperate" - X
  • "White Man In Hammersmith Palais" - The Clash
  • "You're All I've Got Tonight" - The Cars
Author Comments: 

I was originally going to do 20, then it swelled up to 40, then I realized I had left off some marvelous singles, so now I'm stopping at 50. What a great era, when seemingly everything released was pure gold.

And bless you, Stiff Records.

JAMOOL07/29/2008

"What a great era, when seemingly everything released was pure gold."

AMEN! These are some great tunes