Gerry Rafferty's Can I Get My Money Back? (1971) is a weird one. Tucked in between the three Humblebums albums that proceded it and the three Stealers Wheel albums that followed, it was ignored upon its release and still (undeservedly) gets little attention now. It would be another seven years before City to City, which topped the charts in the US and many probably think is his solo debut.
― Lee626, Saturday, 16 May 2015 07:16 (nine years ago) link
John Cale's Vintage Violence fits doesn't it?Think it's his first, stylistically different etc. VU were still obscure when he left.Not sure what's on it though, so he may have reworked songs live.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 16 May 2015 09:13 (nine years ago) link
First Little Big Town album (Monument 2002) also fits.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 16 May 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
Did Dead Can Dance get a mention already?
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Saturday, 16 May 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
First two Sparks albums? No hits on either of them, recorded with a different band to the "classic" era, and I guess most people assume their recording career started with "Kimono My House".
What about Mark Everett's pre-Eels solo records? I guess "Bad Dude In Love" probably doesn't count as it was self-released and obscure to the point of being an urban legend, but "A Man Called E" and "Broken Toy Shop" must do.
― Pheeel, Saturday, 16 May 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah did think of those, they're a more pop version of himself..
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 May 2015 08:44 (nine years ago) link
Suave House released an album Rick Ross recorded back in 2002-04 ("Rise to Power") after he dropped Port of Miami.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Sunday, 17 May 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
"Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation"
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― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Sunday, 17 May 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link