Cat Power - Dear Sir
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 10 May 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Godspeed You! Black Emperor cassette tapeFather John Misty's first 7 albums as J. Tillman
(disagree w Kraftwerk, 2Pac and Bob Dylan)
― it me, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
Randy Newman - Randy Newman
― da croupier, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Failure - Comfort
― soyrev, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Carole King - Writer
― da croupier, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd107/music13luvr/nicholas_jonas_--06__lg.jpg
― da croupier, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
disagree w Kraftwerk
those albums and the third have been out of print for decades and are excluded from the numbering with which Kraftwerk advertise their public appearances of the last several years
I mean, I love early Kraftwerk, but
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Monday, 11 May 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
The Kraftwerk debut is sounding more intense and avant than I remembered, and even more to original point: that it shouldn't be neglected (just because its parents disowned it).
― dow, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link
Ditto very early live workouts/freakouts, which are or were on YouTube.
― dow, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link
OP says is, not should
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Monday, 11 May 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
gbv - Devil Between My Toes
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 11 May 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Pablo Honey woulda counted if not for "Creep" (though really that song stands on its own, outside of that album).
Judas Priest - "Rocka Rolla" (they actually played a song live from it in 2009 but mostly that album's been ignored - and isn't well regarded outside of trolly ILX polls)
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 11 May 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
katy perry - "katy hudson"
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 11 May 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Green Day - 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours & Kerplunk
― LimbsKing, Monday, 11 May 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't the first UFO album somewhat, um, different
― Mark G, Monday, 11 May 2015 07:08 (nine years ago) link
I was going to say that Eurythmics one which is very different to the rest of their catalogue. Think it has its own fans possibly. I was very glad to get the remaster a few years ago cos previous cds were really tinny sounding. Not sure if the band was a permanent line up elsewhere, here it's members of Blondie & Can among others.
I think both Pink Floyd's PATGOD and New Order's Movement are seen as at least anomolous exploring directions not really explored elsewhere. PATGOD is probably pretty popular but stands alone from the rest of Floyd doesnt it. Not sure how many people into their later, established stuff would be aware of it. Probably not automatic thought that this is the same band as did The Wall or whatever for a large number of people.
I've also heard that R.e.o. Speedwagon's 1st 2lps are decent almost stoner hard rock.Oh & Journey started out good as a non-latinate Santana offshoot playing good almost psychy jazz-rock.
― Stevolende, Monday, 11 May 2015 07:49 (nine years ago) link
― LimbsKing, Monday, May 11, 2015 4:08 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this doesn't fulfil a single one of the original criteria, good work
― pull blart, maul cops (DJ Mencap), Monday, 11 May 2015 07:52 (nine years ago) link
idk his narrative that well at all but isn't Alice Cooper's first album really totally different/not usually talked about?
― soyrev, Monday, 11 May 2015 08:09 (nine years ago) link
Al Stewart – Bedsitter Images
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Monday, 11 May 2015 08:13 (nine years ago) link
Chrome - The Visitation
― thono, Monday, 11 May 2015 09:46 (nine years ago) link
That album that Refused did before The Shape Of Punk To Come
― paolo, Monday, 11 May 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
rihanna - music of the sun
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 May 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
Noooooo that's still one of my favourites.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 May 2015 10:17 (nine years ago) link
Supposedly the Rush debut but fans are generally so unenthusiastic about it, I cant be bothered checking if theyre right.
There are two radio staples on this + they played "Working Man" live when I saw them in 2002.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
(I can't remember another song from it aside from "In the Mood" and "Working Man", though.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2015 12:01 (nine years ago) link
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
― DavidLeeRoth, Monday, 11 May 2015 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Faith No More - we care a lot?
― StanM, Monday, 11 May 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
- Robert Adam Gilmour
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2015 12:55
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2015 13:01
Come to think of it I don't much like Fly By Night apart from the lovely title track.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 May 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Slipknot - Mate Feed Kill RepeatBeth Orton - Superpinkymandy
Does that first Feist album fit the bill?
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 11 May 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
Stoney & Meatloaf
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 11 May 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link
The Offspring - The Offspring
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 May 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
would Peter Gabriel's first count? He never recorded another song with "moribund" in it again.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 May 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, May 11, 2015 10:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tim F, Monday, May 11, 2015 10:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's one of my favourite rihanna albums but popular and critical consensus - wrongly! - holds that she became important with GGGB
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 May 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
John Martyn – London Conversation
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Monday, 11 May 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
The Flaming Lips – Hear It Is
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Monday, 11 May 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
Peter Gabriel debut had Solsbury Hill
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 11 May 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Huey Lewis and the News
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 11 May 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
ZZ Top--ZZ Top,s First Album
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 11 May 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Replacements
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
The Who "My Generation"
I know, but ignore the single(s) and mm, how many tracks have anything to do with the band they became?
― Mark G, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Don't see it listed but first thought of:Paul Simon- Paul Simon Songbook (1965)
― jetfan, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
Sufjan Stevens - A Sun Came maybe? Don't know if he ever played any of those songs live and besides "it's kinda decent" I've never heard anyone speak well of it.
Glass Hammer - Journey of the Dunadan, an almost infamously awful concept album about Lord of the Rings that embodies everything lolworthy about prog in 70+ minutes. And it doesn't do it in a way that's actually somewhat awesome, the way a lot of their later albums would...lots "Synth Fanfare 2"-type melodies and hilariously terrible vocals.
Fluke - Techno Rose of Blighty - dunno if the fans dislike this one, but it's kind of a bad take on Madchester, it's nothing like what they'd get famous for, and most of their better material didn't even make the album (which I believe was only like 6 tracks/30 minutes on its first release?)
Robert Wyatt - End of an Ear, do people like this one at all?
Also - how about those first two Primal Scream albums?
Otherwise it's really easy to come up with albums that meet some of those criteria; prog rock in general has a ton of "false start" albums, but I think they're all enjoyable to some degree (especially the VdGG and Yes ones)
― frogbs, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
End of an Ear is a p solid Brit free improv rec
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
ZZ Top's First Record has Brown Sugar, which shows up on best-of's and they played in concert on a recent tour. And though it's not their best work, it's definitely good and all the components of their early 70s aesthetic are basically there.
I feel like there's a distinction to be made between that type of album, where the band is not quite firing on all cylinders and a few years away from a great record, and the first 10 or so mentioned on the thread, where the albums are viewed as actual embarrassments (Y Tori Kant Read) or not officially the start of their discography (like the album Bjork made when she was 12).
― intheblanks, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Like I don't think any ZZ Top fan is going to listen to the first album and think, "It was a mistake to release this, I bet they regret this youthful indiscretion," or "Wow, this is an like a whole other band that is totally underdeveloped and it's weird to think of them putting this out."
Same goes for The Who, and maybe the Green Day examples above.
― intheblanks, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
also, great thread idea, kornrulez6969
― intheblanks, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
― Mark G, Monday, May 11, 2015 11:05 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was going to mention this too, mainly because it's not served well by oldies/"classic rock" radio, and non-fanatics generally aren't aware of it.
But in addition to the title song and "The Kids Are Alright," I think every song here (except maybe "I Don't Mind" and "Please Please Please") was a blueprint for what they became. Until Moon died, they never strayed from the basic approach on this record, and continually expanded on it. "In a Hand or a Face" is a more knowing "La-La-La-Lies," "Who Are You" is an older, grizzled "Circles," and "Cut My Hair" is "Out In The Street" from a different perspective. For that matter, Quadrophenia is really just "My Generation" expanded to 2 LPs.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young - s/tLou Reed - s/tRush - s/t
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
^||
― Mark G, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes it feels like Bleach is silo'd away from the rest of Nirvana's discography, all of which feels of a piece to me, or has a narrative at least, and yet while it's got some classics and no Nirvana fan would be without it, the line-up is different and it's still the sound of a band finding its identity (to me at least).
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link