Favourite EPs of all times

[profpike]

You know what I'm talkin' about-the EP-it never really fit into the American Single/Album mindsite, did it? And yet, they were a staple of the european market for years.

Heck, it seemed everytime Andy Partridge went to the can he left an eps worth of tunes in the bowl.

So, what were our favorite Eps? Here's a couple to get us started:

Afoot-Let's Active-I enjoyed Let's Active back when it was more of a band and less of the "mitch easter experience" I don't know-but the longplayer's that appeared under the name Let's Active-always seemed to go on a bit-this however, was a handful of fizzy pop-goodness that melted in your brain, not in your hand-wonderful!!

Black Market Clash-and on the seventh day Epic Records stuck a bunch of UK releases on 10" slab of vinyl and it was good.

Dream Hog-The Suburbs-Danceable weirdness from one of the Twinc Cities all time greats.

The Miracle Legion-The Backyard-this is one extended player I really wish was longer-file under: one of my favorite pop expericnes of the 80s.

The Hawaiin Pups-Split Second Precision-Damn-this is just...damn..I think we all knew where we were when we first heard "Baby Judy"

okay-ransack your reckid collections!!



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[Frau_Blucher]

It's AMAZING the sort of threads that haven't got thought up after all these years! [:p]

The Bangles EP

Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch

New Order - Factus8 81-82

The Pretenders EP

Blancmange - Irene & Mavis

The Nerves EP

Joy Division - An Ideal for Living

[Mathman]

Some great choices already. I also liked the 10" New Muzik release of Straight Lines.

[KYYX4ever]

Crown of Thorns EP

all those darn Cocteau Twins EPs (Peppermint Pig, Echoes in a Shallow Bay, Tiny Dynamine, Love's Easy Tears, etc.)

[Bitter Almonds]

First one that came to mind was Martin L. Gore's [i]Counterfeit[/i] e.p. Definitely the first three songs on it I listened to over and over when I first got it. That's the e.p. that got me into Tuxedomoon, The Durutti Column, The ComSat Angels, and Sparks.

[Grunch]

Crown of Thorns
New Models
The Gluons
Factual
New Math
IfThenWhy
Modern Pioneers
The Start
84 Rooms
Animation - Loud Day (Yes, Animation, not Animotion)
Passionel - The Apostle
Arms Akimbo
What Is This
Units - New Way To Move
Three O'Clock - Baroque Hoedown
Buzz of Delight
Oh-OK
Cathedral of Tears
Figures On A Beach - Swimming
Hilary - Kinetic
The Sleep of Reason
The Sound - Shock of Daylight
Isle of Man
Industry
Illustrated Man
Ignatius Jones
Humans - Play
Language - Alphabet City
Leap of Faith
Pop Art
MEO 245 - Rites of Passage
O-Positive
November Group
ODW
Bongos - Numbers With Wings
The Rescue
The Continentals
Necropolis of Love
Scars
City of Glass
The Monroes
The Tweeds
Norm Norman
Richard Burgess
Dean Ray
Invisible Zoo
Bone Symphony

To name but a few........The US had a TON of great EPs in the 80s.....I just picked the ones I've manage to either get on CD or convert to CD. So many more I've yet to even get done

[hexicon]

Big Country, Wonderland. Hey, you said "favorite," not "good." [:D]

[DevoManiac101]

Innocence Of Danger - EP
produced by the great Ivan Ivan
1984

The Rescue - EP
another classic! produced by the great Tony Mansfield of New Musik fame

[UniversalRadio]

Tench by Shriekback. GOD I want that on cd sooooo bad!!

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[rotator]

Careful not to use standard 12" singles with remixes....
these are my FAVORITE E.P.s

[b]•Images In Vogue : IIV E.P.
•Big Dipper: 'Boo-Boo' E.P.
•Human League: 'Fascination' E.P.
•B-52's: 'Mesopotamia' E.P.
•The Cramps: 'Gravest Hits' E.P.
•Duran Duran: 'Carnival' E.P.
•Duran Duran: 'Night Romantics' E.P.
•Echo & The Bunnymen: 'Life At Brians' E.P.
•Killing Joke : 'Pssyche" E.P.
•Martin L. Gore: 'Counterfiet' E.P.
•Men Without Hats: 'Folk Of The 80's" E.P.
•New Order: 'Factus8 81-82' E.P.
•Simple Minds: 'Sister Feelings Call' E.P.
•Specimen: 'Batastrophe' E.P.
•Talk Talk: 'Talk Talk' E.P.[/b]


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[SomebodySomewhere]

Grunch stole most of my answers!

In no particular order...

Missing Persons - "Missing Persons"
Scandal - "Scandal"
Berlin - "Pleasure Victim"
Industry - "Industry"
Payola$ - "Introducing the Payola$"
The Monroes - "The Monroes"
The A's - "Four Dances"
New Models - "Sight and Sound"
Robin Lane - "Heart Connection"
November Group - "November Group," "Persistent Memories" and "Work That Dream" (yeah, all of them)
Units - "New Way to Move"
Digney Fignus - both self-titled EPs (1983 on Starstruck, 1985 on Columbia)
Calculated X - "Calculated X" and "Some Change No Change"
Sex Execs - "Sex Execs"
Burning Sensations - "Burning Sensations"
Combo Audio - "Combo Audio"
Sherry Kean - "Mixed Emotions"
Peter Godwin - "Images of Heaven"
The Rubinoos - "Party of Two"
Roman Holliday - "Roman Holliday"
The Pink - "Tickled Pink" and "Get the Pink"
Romeo Void - "Never Say Never"
The Waitresses - "I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts"
The Style Council - "Introducing The Style Council"
The Sherbs - "Defying Gravity" (not originally an EP, but the dumbasses at Atco U.S. butchered it and released it that way)

[react010]

My favorite was a 7" EP with 4 tracks:
Bill Nelson - Living In My Limousine.

[tileboy]

mission of burma-Signals,calls and marches

[Frank_Chickens]

Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias - Kill EP

The punk scene in a nutshell and takes the piss out of it at the same name. The reggae track also lampoons the punk's attempts to do reggae.


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[SynthesizerMan]

Hey Crunch,

Thanks for remembering our EP!

Doug Lynner
Invisible Zoo

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