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| Further Away |
   
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5 | 4.50% |
| I Live To Fall Asleep |
  
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3 | 2.70% |
| Judge Yr'Self |
  
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10 | 9.01% |
| 1985 |
  
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36 | 32.43% |
| Nobody Loved You |
  
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2 | 1.80% |
| Patrick Bateman |
  
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2 | 1.80% |
| The Girl Who Wanted To Be God |
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8 | 7.21% |
| Yes |
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41 | 36.94% |
| Other |
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4 | 3.60% |
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23-12-2011, 01:35
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Best "Proposed" Single From Their Albums
Thanks to all who helped out flesh the list from one of the other threads, my last poll promise, best proposed single from their albums? I know there's interviews out there where they mentioned these songs as possible releases. I included the songs released in Japan only, as I would have liked to have seen those in the UK /US/EUR charts as well.
That said, if I've missed off a song I've included an "Other" option as well. 
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23-12-2011, 01:37
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Yes, Yes and Yes.
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23-12-2011, 01:49
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I know this is the best list of them all, but I'm thinking of how lovely it would be to hear I Live To Fall Asleep on the radio and in the Supermarkets everywhere. (And there would have been loads back then
 )Patrick Bateman would have been great but then I'd thought it would have burnt Richey and the band out earlier, wouldn't even rule out them getting a massive legal bill through releasing that, and never even get to record THB for five years. So probably wouldn't have been the conditions to write JFPL. I know 1985 slipped through fingers and Japan is getting a better night if Further Away and Nobody Loved You is on the set. But I'm sticking with I Live To Fall Asleep. Now all we can do is hope in the far, far future, I Live To Fall Asleep appears on an advert.
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23-12-2011, 01:54
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This is one of the few occasions 1985 only comes in second place.
Got to be Yes. Even if just for the ridiculousness of releasing a single where the fourth word is "cunts" and the chorus talks about tearing off people's willies.
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23-12-2011, 02:13
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23-12-2011, 05:34
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1985 for me for reasons previously discussed over the last, what, 6 or so years?
Yes is a geat song (like i needed to say that here), but the problem is if they pushed to have that out as a single no doubt the label would have insisted on a "radio edit", and i cannot allow the song, even in an imaginary conversation, to suffer that fate. basically anything on that list would have made a good single, in particular Other, which was fuckin' banging, man.
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23-12-2011, 06:29
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The Forever Delayed/Motorcycle Emptiness (2003 Mix) double A-side should of really been released.
Enola/Alone, No Surface, Ready For Drowning and Black Dogs all had promos/test tapes so maybe they were all considered at one point; http://theloveof.atspace.com/
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23-12-2011, 08:51
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1985.
How it wasn't a single is nothing short of incredible. I can understand how Yes wasn't, what the "C" word being in the first line of the song and the chorus and that...
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23-12-2011, 09:00
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I voted for 'Yes', despite the fairly obvious problems with releasing it. They could have just put it out in the spirit that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released 'Bang': just trust that the vocal is so indecipherable that no-one will hear the swearing. Alternatively, a radio edit could have been fun:
He's a boy You want a girl, so tear off his socks Tie his hair in bunches, muck him, call him Rita if you want Second choice: 'Judge Yr'self' Third choice: 'I Live To Fall Asleep'
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23-12-2011, 10:03
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Gone for Nobody Loved You.
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23-12-2011, 10:52
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It's definitely either Yes or 1985.
Yes because it's one of the best songs the band have ever written, and getting a song with lyrics like that into the top 40 would have such an incredible triumph. 1985 is just excellent. Gorgeous music and brilliant lyrics. Releasing this first would have also VASTLY improved the chances of Lifeblood being a success, and I think it could have got to number one. I also had a wonderful daydream about the video, with the band playing the song in a 'sad Welsh chapel' cut with scenes from the Patrick Jones video (coincidentally, the only good one he's done) Nicky recently suggested that Forever Delayed should have been a single over TBTGOG, which is pure madness. Both excellent though.
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