"Ripcord" is about all I have time for off of Pablo Honey, it's not a bad record but <The Bends by a mile, I think The Zombies is a good example too
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
I don't know that it's as much that the Zombies improved a great deal after their first album as it is that they got way more ambitious with their second (see also: pretty much every band that released an album around '65 and followed it up with another album around '67).
― I Do Dumb Things And Then I Cry (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Motorpsycho ?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
DL, Well if you count Ichabod, then they massively improved to "Everything's alright forever"
And if you don't, they improved again with "Giant Steps"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
I really like the Zombies around the time of things like Summertime and She's Not There so I do enjoy that first lp. It is very different to Odessey and Oracle obviously but I think still good.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
hall & oates?
― Sgt. Coldy Bimore (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
andrew jackson jihad
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
Chrome
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
Scritti Pollitti
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
No.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
Pussy Galore. Right Now! is great 'n' all, but Dial 'M' for Motherfucker is amazing.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
Teenage Fanclub.
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
xpost. Dial 'M' is still after all these years pretty underrated. One of the few albums where I have no idea how the people involved managed to create what they created. I don't think it's ever really going to get its due; maybe when Jon Spencer dies.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Feel like an argument could be made to include Husker Du and The Replacements here.
― Darin, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
Talk Talk
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
Possibly a lot of bands who found their own way after passing through a hardcore phase, note found their own way rather than moving into anything else generic.Or that could be expanded to a number of different genres. Where first lp is band following rules of genre to a large extent followed by them finding out what works for them.
But that probably goes without saying.
Just noticed it being said or paraphrased concerning 2 different generations music. But probably happened 60s -beat/r'n'b into individual sound via psychedelia.70s punk80s hardcore, not sure what it would be in 90s baggy or Britpop or something?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Another solo artist rather than band: Lou Reed
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
Oh!
At the Drive-In
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Sarah McLachlan.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
the replacements' first two albums are both fantastic, just in different ways. everything that was ever great about them is evident on that debut. and is evident again on album #2, with a twist or two here and there.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
Agreed
― Jim Reeves in the Temple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 June 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
Indigo GirlsNeutral Milk Hotel
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 3 June 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
Built To Spill
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 3 June 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
Humble Pie
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 June 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
^ good one!
Actually, Small Faces count in a way don't they? I mean, their Decca singles still hold up fairly well, but the leap from the debut LP on Decca to their first LP for Immediate is quite something.
― Turrican, Friday, 3 June 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I wasn't sure about Small Faces since (iirc) the Decca record was compiled/released without their input/permission.
I wasn't completely sure about Humble Pie either, but I just gave the first two a spin, and as admirably heavy as the first one is, Town & Country is so impossibly gorgeous. It's my favorite UK response to the Band's Music From Big Pink (and it's a crowded field).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
I like that Immediate years 2cd Humble Pie set. But thought I listened to the 1st disc a lot.
Isn't the cobbled together Small Faces Decca set the From The Beginning one? I thought the Decca s/t was recorded as an lp.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
Yes, you are correct! I had been mixing those two (From the Beginning and the Decca thing) up in my head.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
The TimeD'angelo Hot Chip LCD Soundsystem Girls Aloud SpoonSt. Vincent Cut Copy The Juan Maclean The Divine Comedy OutkastSlowdiveYellow Magic Orchestra Big Star
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 4 June 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link
GVSB
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 4 June 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
OutKast is another, like Prince, where I think of the jump between albums #1 and #2 as being less dramatic as those between #2 and #3.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 4 June 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
I'd put ATLiens ahead of Aquemini these days.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 4 June 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
ATLiens is and always has been their best work.
― Austin, Saturday, 4 June 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
Hot Chip
I like most of Hot Chip, but as a whole album, I like the first one best.
Girls Aloud
Undoubtedly, but the stuff on the first album by the lineup that did the second album pointed clearly that way.
Cut Copy
If you mean from I Thought Of Numbers to Bright Like Neon Love, sure. If you mean from Bright Like to Ghost Colours, nah. They just learnt how to sound a bit more like '90s New Order.
Outkast
The first four Outkast albums feel more like a group wanting to do different things each time out, and getting more skilled as they leave their teens, than any significant leap in quality overall from any one album to another. (Underscored by the shift from the first album being all Organized Noize, and the second one being nearly half-and-half.)
― glandular lansbury (sic), Saturday, 4 June 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
Neutral Milk Hotel
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, June 3, 2016 4:28 PM (6 hours ago)
horse hockey
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Saturday, 4 June 2016 05:36 (seven years ago) link