Welcome to another Singles Night at the Virtual Hot Tub with your host, Platinum Al!

As previous, I spent the evening listening to a stack of 45 rpm singles that I’d acquired over time from several sources.  Whilst imbibing some fine alcohol.  The following is a list of those singles, A and B sides listened to in order.

There are some particularly sweet slabs of vinyl in this edition.  As always, however, we’re never too far away from some rank cheese…

1. INXS – “The Gift” / “The Gift (Extended Mix)”
2. Sweet – “Action” / “Sweet F.A.”
3. Rod Stewart – “Reason to Believe” / “Maggie May”
4. The KLF – “America: What Time is Love?” / “America No More”
5. ABBA – “Mamma Mia” / “Tropical Loveland”
6. Elvis Presley – “Trouble” / “Young Dreams” / “Crawfish” / “Dixieland Rock”
7. Cream – “Strange Brew” / “Tales of Brave Ulysses”
8. Right Said Fred – “I’m Too Sexy” / “I’m Too Sexy (Instrumental)”
9. Anthrax – “Indians” / “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” / “Taint”
10. The Stranglers – “All Day and All of the Night” / “Viva Vlad!”
11. W.A.S.P. – “I Don’t Need No Doctor” / “Widowmaker”
12. Beastie Boys – “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)” / “Time to Get Ill”
13. Iron Maiden – “The Clairvoyant” / “The Prisoner”
14. AC/DC – “Let’s Get It Up” / “Back in Black”
15. Yes – “Into the Lens” / “Does It Really Happen?”
16. Marillion – “Incommunicado” / “Going Under”
17. Kim Wilde – “Cambodia” / Watching for Shapes”
18. The Beatles – “Day Tripper” / “We Can Work It Out”
19. The Spencer Davis Group – “Keep On Running” / “Somebody Help Me” / “Every Little Bit Hurts” / “I’m a Man” / “Gimme Some Lovin'”
20. Booker T and the M.G.s – “Time is Tight” / “Hang ‘Em High”
21. The Byrds – “Mr Tambourine Man” / “I Knew I’d Want You”
22. The Skids – “Circus Games” / “Onedecree”
23. Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – “The Portugese Washer Women” / “Never on Sunday”

Note: the B-side of the Anthrax single is actually their track “Imitation of Life”. 

I’m mighty proud of that selection.  Not that I had anything to do with it, the choice was random – I just took whatever disc was top of the pile and made my way through.

But what a bunch of scorchers!  One of my favourite Beatles tracks; Cream; Booker T; some classic metal and the Beastie Boys.  It doesn’t get better than that.

Or rather, it won’t.  Most of the rest of the pile of 7″ singles isn’t up to that quality…