Le Tigre - Deceptacon
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Sunday, 23 October 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
Big Country - 'In A Big Country'
― Turrican, Sunday, 23 October 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Neu! (first thing I thought of for this thread)agreed on King Crimson, "Starless" and "Epitaph" are close but "Schizoid" is going to be the band's legacypost-puberty Michael Jackson ("Don't Stop Till You Get Enough")Telex - "Moscow Discow"
― frogbs, Sunday, 23 October 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
Radiohead.
― foxes freud (Leee), Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
The Jesus and Mary chain
― public static Session currentSession (John Lennon), Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Mudhoney - Touch Me, I'm Sick
Elvis Presley
― public static Session currentSession (John Lennon), Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure The Fall isn't a valid answer. I mean, it's been 36 years of sustained brilliance but at the start of it all lurks 'Frightened', always there, always peering out at us
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
Leonard Cohen – "Suzanne"
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
'Blues Run the Game', Jackson C Frank
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
definitely Gillian Welch, "Orphan Girl"
more contentiously, the Velvets with "Sunday Morning"
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Stiff Little Fingers -- "Alternative Ulster"― hector savage, Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:59 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hey poster from 2006, did you mean Suspect Device or were you just wrong on the internet?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
the dovers
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
how about Martha and the Muffins "Echo Beach"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
Vehemently disagree about Welch. Nearly everything on the next 2 albums slays me in a way that nothing on Revival (great as it is) does.
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
The Twilight Sad, Scottish shoegaze band.
First song is great, next two are also great but follow the exact same formula, everything else on Fourteen Autumns... sounds like diminishing returns of the same thing, as does the entire second album, after that even more boring indie-schmindie
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^otm
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
The third track is my favourite tho
I still sometimes listen to that trio of songs occasionally and pretend they just released a single and then gave up and became accountants or whatever
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
Aimee Mann--"I Should Have Known"
― ellaguru, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
The arc of the Ramones is long, but it heads in a straight line from Blitzkrieg Bop, bending slowly downwards
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Beyonce - "Crazy in Love"(arguably, although this is not my favourite song by her).
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
Same for Britney with "Baby one more time".
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
You could make a case for Violent Femmes with "Blister in the Sun." There are other songs on that record I'm more inclined to want to hear but that may be conditioned by the utter inescapability of "Blister."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 December 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
Led Zeppelin
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 December 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
while i do not agree, i know a few people who could make a reasonable argument for the grateful dead here.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 28 December 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
"Noticeable One" by Missing Persons. whole first album is great though
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 December 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
America: opener 'Riverside' is arguably not the best track on side one, but they definitely peaked with that first side of their first album. An ever-accelerating downhill ride into Blandsville from thereon, I'd say.Heart - I suppose this depends on whether you prefer 'Magic Man' to 'Crazy on You', but anyway peaked on at least track three of album #1.OK, here's one that's nailed on: Living Colour - 'Cult of Personality'.
― Bloody Snail, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
I know someone who thinks 'Ruckzuck' is the best thing Kraftwerk ever did.
― 3×5, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure there are at least a few posters here that feel that way about "ruckzuck"
― the late great, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
"Blister In The Sun" is where a band records something so definitive that I wouldn't care less if everyone said that they peaked there and then
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:33 (eight years ago) link
Fountains of Wayne - "Radiation Vibe"
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
Ruckzuck is really cool.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 06:17 (eight years ago) link
This thread is even harsher:
Artists whose first single was the best thing they ever did.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 07:40 (eight years ago) link
ELO.
― new zingland (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
I was about to object, then realized that, while there are probably 15 FoW songs I like almost as much, you're probably right
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
Delays - "Nearer Than Heaven"
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Raspberries - "Go All the Way"
― Lee626, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link
If you were a Move fan, sure.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
Britney Spears OTM
Also agree with Fountains of Wayne
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
Ron Carter with his debut as a band leader- Where album, with Dolphy/Waldron, which is a minor masterpiece. Not really felt much else he did, although Uptown Conversation isn't terrible.
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
ELO.If you were a Move fan, sure.
That would explain why I was going to say OTM
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
Guns N' Roses?
― octobeard, Thursday, 31 December 2015 05:12 (eight years ago) link
Meek Mill is never going to top Dreams And Nightmares (Intro) is he?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
Enh he's recorded lots of stuff that's at least comparable in quality, if not urgency
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
t/s: blue gene tyranny 'next time might be your time' vs annette peacock 'i'm the one'
who bodied 70's avant-jazz-pop harder on the first try
― imago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
What is Annette Peacock's first album, though? Revenge: The Bigger The Love The Greater The Hate has been re-released under her own name (and also features a version of "I'm the One", but not as the first track!).
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
a perplexing intrusion! nonetheless, picking between those two songs is quite the task isn't it. (i mean i am personally going BGT but they're both incredible)
― imago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
"Jacking the Ball" by The Sea and Cake
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link