― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― HooSteen, Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sexy MFA (Hexy M.F.), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― hector savage, Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
"Uh-oh, Love Has Come To Town", Talking Headers
― mynci madness, Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Fugazi - "Waiting Room", while I love the majority of their catalog, this is undenaibly their peak, and it was the first song on their first EP...
― Earl Gray, Sunday, 28 May 2006 03:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 28 May 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 May 2006 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 28 May 2006 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 28 May 2006 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 May 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link
1 trik pomy w/ diminishing returns
― joey deacon, Sunday, 28 May 2006 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Sunday, 28 May 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― tonyD (noiseyrock), Sunday, 28 May 2006 06:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Gravity Grave and A Man Called Sun are the two best Verve songs, and are tracks 1 & 2 from their first EP
― DougD (DougD), Sunday, 28 May 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Sunday, 28 May 2006 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 28 May 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
With that said...Throwing Muses: Call Me certainly counts. Does there exist a better Throwing Muses song than that? Undoubtedly no.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vornado, Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vornado, Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
"There, we did it! NOW FUCK YOU, FANS." (triple live album CDR of stoned complaints to follow)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Monday, 29 May 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
still <3 them and I am completely discounting a couple of low-key Denmark-only albums but Mew is sadly a valid answer to this question
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I would also like to nominate King Crimson, because hey sure Starless was great but c'mon they only did one song which truly took a clawhammer to the face of music
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
(no, 'The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum' does not take a clawhammer to the face of music)
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
The Cooper Temple Clause! Anyone remember them? Yeah they did this too. Final tracks on each of their first two albums push it close, but really, Did You Miss Me is the pinnacle of all they stood for
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I was about to start a thread on this and thought better of it. Search & find.
Hoodoo Gurus - "I Want You Back"
The idea that this has happened to anyone, let alone a number of relatively famous acts, is pretty depressing.
― skip, Friday, 27 August 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
And of course, I'm wrong that it was the first song on the first album--only on the American CD. Awesome.
― skip, Friday, 27 August 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
there are days when i'd say the clash "janie jones." there are other days when i wouldn't.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 August 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i want you back was track 2 on the original sequencing
i prefer tojo on that LP anyway
― the mandelbrot cassette (electricsound), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Not many bands can boast a song better than Janie Jones. The fact that The Clash have several speaks volumes.
Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops i see you already mentioned that
― the mandelbrot cassette (electricsound), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
It's hard to do this, but since EPs and singles don't really count on this thread:
Pavement - Summer Babe
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
^Speaking Truth to Power^
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Friday, 27 August 2010 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles (I am actually serious - by far my favourite Beatles song)
― sonofstan, Friday, 27 August 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
― mein voight-kampff (corey), Friday, 27 August 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Did the Damned top "Neat, Neat, Neat"?
― Cunga, Friday, 27 August 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
InterpolSeam
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The Feelies (not a dip after the first song, but not a rise either)
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
haha interpol. very nearly. but the first song on that album probably isn't quite the best.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It really is, though.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah Joy Division definitely! Good call.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel this way about MBV "Soft as Snow (but Warm Inside)" but fully understand that I am insane.
― tickle me lmao (unregistered), Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
killing joke
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
totally disagree with joy division
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:32 (thirteen 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