― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Warren Zevon, maybe (though I guess there was an Eminem-style early years album years before his "debut", so I suppose he's disqualified)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
upthread: SPOON???!!? what'r you, nuts?
― 666, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
>no way is the first red cross ep better than Born Innocent<
And "I Hate My School" and "Annete's Got the Hits" and "Cover Band" are the best songs Red Cross/Kross ever did. So their debut EP was their best record, in my book. (And their second EP, *Teen Babes From Monsanto,* beats anything they did after it, though *Neurotica* comes close.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Interpol will probably count for this. I can't imagine them making anything that tops Turn on the Bright Lights.
― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, CeCe Peniston, who I'm listening to right now.
And I gave some thought to Lenny Kravitz, but ... nahh.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Or (re QOTSA): Loose Groove, or whatever the label was. (The split EP was on Man's Ruin, though, I think.)
Screaming Blue Messiahs belong here, too.
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Billy Joel?Rod Stewart! (not that i know the entire recorded output of either, unfortunately)
ODB.
(I wanna disagree about Tiffany tho -- as I recall, "we're both thinking of her tonight" is on her 2nd album, and that's her best track. also her "comeback" album recently kills her 3rd, which isn't hard to do at all tho. probably OTM about debbie gibson however.)
Green Day?The Offspring!311!RATM!
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
but that album has "detox mansion"! which is on the wagon but off the sappy!
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Not Thaat Chuck, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's the brown one I was talking about, on Loose Groove, and it's my favorite, too. (But I wasn't referring to Kyuss, either -- the split with Beaver Man's Ruin EP is QOTSA, not Kyuss--a band who, bizarrely enough, I have never even listened to much. Though probably I should, someday.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
And how can you discuss the great songs off the "Warren Zevon" album without mentioning his Stairway To Heaven, The French Inhaler?
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Come off it, no way was Gold Against the Soul better than the Holy Bible.
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Muse, who whilst making increasingly poor albums, have become more and more popular
No way, 'Showbiz' is easily their weakest, though I'll give you 'Origin Of Symmetry' > 'Absolution'.
My suggestion: Foo Fighters.
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 20 May 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― elwisty (elwisty), Friday, 20 May 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Friday, 20 May 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon, Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link
In the case of solo Sting, #2 > #1. Otherwise, OTM about Sting, but certainly not about The Police, who ended their career with their one and only masterpiece.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Their second album did include "Richard III" (which I'll readily admit I thought was pants when I first heard it, but which did eventually grow on me), "In It For The Money" and best of all "Sun Meets The Sky"; their third one at least had "Moving" and "Pumping On Your Stereo" in it's favour; and the fourth one contained absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever at all as far as I can recall.
The more I think about this the more convinced I am that this Supergrass the best example yet.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 21 May 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 21 May 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― late adopter, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), May 20th, 2005 8:25 PM.
There must be at least 15 NWW albums that invalidate that, but at the very least: Shipwreck Radio is one of the best releases in years.
I'll submit A Certain Ratio.
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I was going to mention this as a possibility, though I see that Xhuxk got there first. I can't say with certainty though, since I haven't heard their later albums.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
This morning I am actually thinking they might be one of the best examples of it.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
And Prince might work if he started with his third album, as far as I'm concerned.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― ryansf (ryansf), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Echo & the Bunnymen?Sorry, I prefer Heaven Up Here over Crocodiles.
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link