433. The Supremes: “Where Did Our Love Go”
A magnificent pop record, at once cold and stately and also swaggering and hip-shaking, and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of hearing it for as long as I live. (10)
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384. The Supremes: “I’m Giving You Your Freedom”
Not awful or anything, but this is a relic from an age already past, and there was very much better to come. Try the A-side, for starters. (5)
383. The Supremes: “Run, Run, Run”
A brilliant pop record, the best thing the Supremes had released since their long-forgotten début I Want A Guy almost three years previously. (9)
355. The Supremes: “Standing At The Crossroads Of Love”
Really quite charming, more so in the knowledge that this is one of the last chances we’ll ever get to hear these unschooled, decidedly teenage Supremes doing their thing. (6)
354. The Supremes: “When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes”
A breakthrough, in more ways than one – but not the way it’s often described. (7)
313. The Supremes: “(The Man With The) Rock And Roll Banjo Band”
This is a complete embarrassment, and were it not for the existence of the truly wretched (He’s) Seventeen, this would be the worst record the Supremes ever made. Listen to it once out of morbid curiosity, and then wipe it from your mind as best you can. (1)
312. The Supremes: “A Breath Taking Guy”
It isn’t half as catchy as it thinks it is, meaning it was probably never likely to trouble the upper echelons of the pop charts. In truth, this has “B-side” written all over it. (5)
270. The Supremes: “You Bring Back Memories”
Not awful, but not even worthy of a place in the top ten songs Smokey would ever write for the Supremes. (3)
269. The Supremes: “My Heart Can’t Take It No More”
An album filler track with ideas above its station, a strange curio with limited replay value. (3)
238. The Supremes: “Time Changes Things”
A nice set-filler, a pretty bit of enjoyable “middle of Side Two” album padding, but it’s not catchy or instant enough to cut it as a hit record in its own right. (6)
237. The Supremes: “Let Me Go The Right Way”
Certainly this isn’t a logical stepping stone in the development of Motown’s quintessential group; it feels more like a “holding pattern” release, keeping the group’s name alive while Motown figured out what to do with the Supremes. (5)
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