Lou Gramm, "Midnight Blue" (1987)George Michael, "I Want Your Sex" (1987)Morrissey, "Suedehead" (1988)Bob Mould, "See A Little Light" (1989)
one of these
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
It seems like these albums should be in this conversation too.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Bella_Donna_%28album%29.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/LindseyBuckinghamLawandOrderAlbumcover.jpg
Granted, Stevie's first solo single was actually a duet.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
ohhhh man if "trouble" was on here i so would vote for it
i was gonna be all WHERE'S EASY LOVER but apparently, despite the BEHOLD A NEW ERA grandiosity of the video, it was actually the first single from philip bailey's second album
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk9-NzavCPg
sadly doesn't qualify because she made a solo album named Manhole in the early '70s
(not sad grace slick made an album called manhole in the early '70s, tho)
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPG15_P3D8
marty balin's '81 debut single was a top 10 hit
btw video gets Not Safe For Life about 2:45 in
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
this is a good one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMPStLDUhSA
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
i loved workbook at the time and maybe love it even still, but I'm not giving mould extra credit for a solid album in a singles poll
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
woah, just recalled a big one no one's mentioned yet
CRAZY TRAIN
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
for posterity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tRmBD1UnrA
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shO8vAqPtKQ
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUvNOex8EE
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUITyhP-C3s
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
lol
Looking Back with Love is Mike Love's only solo album. It was released in 1981 under Boardwalk Records. The track "Be My Baby" was produced by Brian Wilson, who also sings background vocals on the cut.
Strangely, some copies came with stickers promoting the album as "the first solo album by a Beach Boys member", despite the release of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue four years earlier, Carl Wilson's self-titled album earlier in 1981, and Bruce Johnston recording solo albums before he even joined the band, in addition to his 1977 album Going Public.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjtHkPXE2I
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=332SqqV-buk
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
was just about to post homosapien, great song!
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e72sMIsKdg
unless you want to count "endless love"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Marc Almond - "The Boy Who Came Back" and Ian McCulloch - "Proud to Fall" are nice too. My vote goes to George Michael.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
If it weren't for Midnight Blue, I'd be voting for The Knife Feels Like Justice, some Grade A roots rock.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0w8YcyLPmE
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GgvoOKH4t8
post-king crimson & UK, pre-Asia
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
For a second I totally blanked on what "Midnight Blue" sounds like, again, but then just as quickly I remembered it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNAy15RB2vs
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
dammit apparently paul rodgers played EVERY INSTRUMENT on his '83 solo album but the single aint on youtube
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Does Gary Numan's "Cars" count in this?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Wait, that was '79.
Springsteen and "Atlantic City?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
xp Tubeway Army were still Numan backing band for a number of years. They just stopped using the name.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3X6KtQ7nxQ
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG3c79ZxZ38
YEAHHH
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgwmLq1acIo
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
great single, but nix. even less legit than tom petty, who at least included "& the heartbreakers" on all his previous album covers. and i'd nix petty too if i had the supreme authority.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevhpfOjyKg
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRZpxGHwDM
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
i want to thank croup for breaking my browser several times.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
sorry
all future obscurities will be linked not embedded
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Tommy Shaw - Girls with Guns.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
What about Robbie Robertson?
He wasn't the lead singer but he was considered the leader of The Band. Showdown at Big Sky was his debut single, a vintage piece of late 80s Daniel Lanois production.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
WHAT ABOUT MIDNIGHT BLUE
killfiling bastards I knew it I knew it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
voted Midnight Blue
I hadn't heard it for about 20 years and then it came in a supermarket and I wondered, "Who is this?" and then I thought "Why am I not listening to music that sounds like this all the time?"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
It's no Midnight Blue, but we should pay our respects to the great Ray Parker Jr, whom upon leaving Raydio began a doozy of a solo career with his epic The Other Woman.
Nobody understands modern romance like Ray Parker Jr.
Also, what about Daryl Hall, Dreamtime?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
had to vote 'midnight blue' over 'in the air tonight', both huge classics, but man o man did 'desert moon' tempt me. there's enough suggestions not in the poll here to do a followup poll imo.
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
Pete Townshend's (who sang lead a bunch, but obviously wasn't The Lead Singer) first solo album came out in 1972, but his first solo single, "Let My Love Open The Door," was released in 1980 (and was as big a hit as the Who ever had, hitting #9).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
I adore "Dreamtime" despite being about a minute too long and boasting too much unhinged David Stewart; it's still a better production than "Don't Come Around Here No More" as far as luxuriant mid eighties paisley psychedelic rock goes. It's cool though that Hall's first solo single is as discrete a sonic entity as, say, "Out of Touch."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
Suedehead
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
haha i just listened to 'dreamtime' (not nearly as fond of it as you are) and was somewhat mystified by the production, trying to figure out hall's vision and thinking 'this is what you might imagine an eric carmen record from around this time might sound like if you didn't know all too well what an eric carmen record from around this time actually sounds like', just a weird mess of bad mid 80s production ideas and hamfisted "60s" touches. how i didn't immediately think 'dave stewart' i don't know.
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
Many of these "solo" options offer a significantly different sound than if they would have done the same song with their original band. The George Michael singles are a huge leap from the WHAM! material, but could anybody really call WHAM! a "band"; seriously, they were an act. Singles like Midnight Blue Lights Outand Oh Sherrie could have just have easily been Foreigner, J Geils and Journey singles; so they should not get as much credit as something In the Air Tonight where Collins made a whole new sound that turned out be a bigger influence on the Genesis sound than the other way round.
Top marks go to what Byrne did with Eno on Regiment. In fact, of all the singles listed, I submit that none of them are on an album that established a new direction in a more satisfying way than My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. If Rei Momo would've had a single he could have slipped another one before the end of the decade -- and again, a fresh new direction.
So, with a premium placed on defining styles that expand or diverge from the band from which they came...
David Byrne, by a mile.
also rans include;Phil CollinsStingDavid Lee Roth (really?)
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
i like the mick and the sting up there far more than i should
― balls, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
haha i just listened to 'dreamtime' (not nearly as fond of it as you are) and was somewhat mystified by the production
I like how what is in essence a guitar song bolsters one of Hall's most assholic performances ("I saw you standin' and I FELT your rage") where the synths and harmonic patterns on the H&O stuff mitigated the nastiness. It only works once. I actually own this album. Man, does it sound expensive.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link