Sarah McLachlan.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
Feel like an argument could be made to include Husker Du and The Replacements here.
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