― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
Also:Busta Rhymes - Woo Ha (Got You All in Check)Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. 2 (was this their debut? the title would seem to indicate otherwise)Stone Temple Pilots - Sex-Type ThingTripping Daisy - My UmbrellaLinkin Park - One Step Closer
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
magnetic fields - 100,000 fireflies
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link
Neeeeeeed! Help me out here..;-)
but Pulp weren't really known in the US, then. If anything, they were barely a blip. It did take a while for people to stop saying, "Who the hell are they"?-- Nichole Graham
Oh sure, point taken, but are we talking about *actual official* debut single or just "the first single a band/artist released when people actually bothered to take notice and acknowledge their existence"? The former, surely, hence my exclamation. 'Snot my fault some people are so slow on the uptake...*ducks*
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
I think the fact that I've never hear of most of these must count against them to an extent.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
Why sure. But first repeat to yourself, "Bloodflowers is a very good album. Ned and Dan have very accurate critical perceptions..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― turkey (turkey), Thursday, 31 July 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― matthew james (matthew james), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
That wasn't even on their debut album; I'm guessing that "Peer Pressure" was their first single, although I could be wrong.
― djdee2005, Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
Post-punk before punk. Bonus points for being indie.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
Parliaments - I adore "Testify," but I don't know if it was their first. I think they recorded for other labels before Revilot.
Speaking of having more than one debut single out at once . . . Moby Grape. Out of five, only "Omaha" charted, but they're all pretty great.
Also:(I'm sure someone already mentioned) "It's Like That"/"Sucker MCs"Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, "It Takes Two"Dylan's first single - "Mixed Up Confusion" - is pretty cool, and a nicely odd bit of his historySuperchunk - "What Do I"/"My Noise"/"Train From Kansas City"Zombies - "She's Not There"Was (Not Was) - "Wheel Me Out"The Move, "Night of Fear"/"Disturbance" (I still think Quasi should cover either or both sides)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 12 April 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 12 April 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Monday, 12 April 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link
plus maybe:Plush - "found a little baby"Quickspace - "friend" (well...they'd dropped the Supersport and half the band, so kind of a 2nd debut....?!)Four Tet - thirtysix twentyfiveNeneh Cherry - buffalo stanceThe Monsoon Bassoon - "wise guy"Tindersticks - marbles (or was "patchwork" first?)PJ Harvey - "dress"Mudhoney - "touch me i'm sick""kill Your Televisio..." oh ok, maybe not that one..
and unless i missed them, Sugababes "overload"/Tweet "oops"/Tricky "aftermath" too..
― pete badmusik (pete badmusik), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
― m., Monday, 12 April 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
Here's thirty.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 July 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Devo - "Mongoloid/Jocko Homo" changed my life.
― Get aboard the flappy bird, departing gate 19 (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Losing My Edge because it proves its own thesis by being the best thing LCD ever did.
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 July 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
seal - crazy
― dyl, Monday, 16 July 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
Good one!
I can't stand "Losing My Edge," as I mentioned on FB.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 July 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
the field mice - emma's housee-40 - captain save a hoe
― devvvine, Monday, 16 July 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
Organised Konfusion - Fudge PudgeCurtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To GoJanelle Monae - Many MoonsRhythm Formation - Ready for the Darkness (aka Kelli Hand and Claude Young - I think this was the debut single for both of them)Rythim Is Rythim - Nude Photo
― Tuomas, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Beyonce - Crazy in Love Cassie - Me & U
how has noone suggested these!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 16 July 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
Beyonce's first solo single was 'Work It Out' no?
― nashwan, Monday, 16 July 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
I think you’re right.. I used rateyourmusic as the source which separates singles and soundtrack work.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 16 July 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
Other debut singles still unmentioned:
Young Marble Giants - Final DayNew Order - CeremonyLana del Rey - Video GamesM.I.A. - GalangSugarhill Gang - Rapper’s DelightRamones - Blitzkrieg BopThe Stooges - I wanna be your dogManu Chao - ClandestinoSoda Stereo - Nada PersonalMaldita Vecindad - MorenazaThe Band - The WeightBon Iver - Skinny LoveVan Morrison - Brown eyed girlPhil Collins - In the air tonightLorde - RoyalsErykah Badu - on & on
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 16 July 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Moar:
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me MaybeKiiara - GoldAlthea & Donna - uptown top rankingNancy Sesay - C’est FabKraftwerk - AutobahnHuman League - being boiledShura - TouchGrimes - VanessaWhitney - No WomanMaggie Rogers - AlaskaMirah - Cold cold waterJens Lekman - Maple LeavesHaim - Don’t Save MeThe XX - CrystallisedLykke Li - Little BitFever Ray - If I had a heartTv on the radio - staring at the sunSigur ros - svefn g englarAphex twin - windowlicker (was this actually his firsr single?)Rheingold - Dreiklangs dimensionen
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 16 July 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
I'd be surprised if Windowlicker was even Aphex's 30th single.
Autobahn was far from Kraftwerk's debut, too.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Monday, 16 July 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
Rym might not be the most trustworthy source for discographies.
I’m doublechecking on discogs for Aphex and I see remixes, eps and collab singles but no Aphex Twin singles until windowlicker. He did have several under the AFX moniker prior to it though.
I guess if we count eps as singles his first one is Analogue Bubblebath from 1991 which is a pretty great debut single too.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
Aphex singles:
Analogue Bubblebath (1991)Analogue Bubblebath vol 2 (1991)Bradley's Beat (1991, as Bradley Strider)Xylem Tube EP (1992)Digeridoo (1992)Joyrex J4 (1992, as Caustic Window)Joyrex J5 (1992, as Caustic Window)On (1993)Universal Indicator Red (1993)Bradley's Robot (1993, as Bradley Strider)Joyrex J4 (1993, as Caustic Window)Quoth (1993, as Polygon Window)Analogue Bubblebath 4 (1994, as AFX)GAK (1994, as Gak)Ventolin (1995)Donkey Rhubarb (1995)Hangable Auto Bulb EP (1995, as AFX)Hangable Auto Bulb EP 2 (1995, as AFX)Girl/Boy EP (1996)Come To Daddy (1997)
plus Power-Pill as Pac-Man (1992), which I don't think of as being part of the Aphex project per se, and several remixes of other bands that were released with Aphex also front-cover credited as artist. If you count Analogue Bubblebaths 3 and 5, and Universal Indicator Green, as "not-albums" then you just about get to thirty by Windowlicker!
hi silby
X-POST: I don't know how you count Windowlicker as even his first single of 1997!
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
Because all of those you enlisted are EPs or under the AFX moniker as I stated. I too would count most of those as singles though.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
I’m not saying they are not singles that just how discogs and rym have them categorized.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
I refute them! but no matter how you count, it's going against the thread's principle of "the first thing they ever released being so good you wondered if hey could top it"
(Come To Daddy didn't say EP on it, had a video, and went Top 40 months before Windowlicker. Donkey Rhubarb didn't say EP on it, and had a video. Ventolin did say EP on it (not in the US though!), but had a video, and went Top 50. On didn't say EP on it, had a video (famously directed by Jarvis Cocker), and went Top 40.)
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
Sam & Dave had about ten singles out before Hold On, I'm a-Comin'.
My suggestions not yet mentioned itt would include:
The B-52s - Rock LobsterThe Doors - Break On Through (to the Other Side)Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe/Mississippi DeltaAstrud Gilberto - The Girl from IpanemaThe Go-Go's - Our Lips Are SealedMary Hopkin - Those Were the DaysJanis Ian - Society's ChildGrace Jones - Sorry/That's the TroubleLisa Lisa & Cult Jam - I Wonder If I Take You HomeLaura Nyro - Wedding Bell Blues/Stoney EndThe Marvelettes - Please Mr. PostmanShannon - Let the Music Play
― Josefa, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
Some of my favorites that I don't think have been mentioned
Supergrass - Caught By The FuzzChange - The Glow Of LoveGarbage - Vow The Blue Nile - I Love This LifePrefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone) Art Brut - Formed A Band Minnie Riperton - Les FleursGoldfrapp - Lovely Head Chic - Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah) Dexys Midnight Runners - Dance Stance Amerie - Why Don't We Fall In Love Elastica - Stutter OMD - Electricity Life Without Buildings - The Leanover Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground Broadcast - Accidentals Little Boots - Stuck On RepeatGorky's Zygotic Mynci - Merched Yn Neud Gwallt Eu Gilydd Quadron - Slippin' D'angelo - Brown Sugar Altered Images - Dead Pop StarsCherrelle - I Didn't Mean to Turn You OnAnnie - The Greatest Hit
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
many good choices since I last read this! & how fun to open a thread and find it’s an ancient one you started and forgot about
― Paul, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
even though they’re not exactly considered a singles band, apparently the first two released (in 1966) by The Velvet Underground were:“All Tomorrow’s Parties (edit)”/“I’ll Be Your Mirror” and “Sunday Morning”/“Femme Fatale”makes me wonder if there are four better opening A’s/B’s by any other artist - suspect that’s hard to beat!
― Paul, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
if you have/find a reasonably good condition copy of either of those Velvets singles, you can sell them for serious money, check discogs
― Paul, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
best debut singles that aren't by Richard D. James:
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dipper Mouth BluesThe Mills Brothers - Tiger RagThelonious Monk - 'Round About Midnight/Well, You Needn'tThe Fleetwoods - Come Softly to MeLoretta Lynn - I'm a Honky Tonk GirlBarbara Lynn - You'll Lose a Good ThingSly & The Family Stone - UnderdogOs Mutantes -A minha meninaSagittarius - My World Fell DownJeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. Vainica Doble - Un Metro Cuadrado/La BrujaSqueeze - Take Me I'm YoursEBTG - Night and Day/Feeling Dizzy/On My MindA.R. Kane - When You're SadLamb - Cotton Wool
― shaped as cats and postmen (unregistered), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
Something I definitely heard via ILM back in the day comes to mind:
Junior Boys - "Birthday"
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 07:02 (five years ago) link
The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
The Go-Go's actually had earlier versions of "We Got The Beat" b/w "How Much More" out on a single on Stiff prior to signing w/I.R.S. Both recordings are surprisingly obscure: "WGTB" only appeared on CD stateside on a reunion maxi-single, and "HMM" on Rhino's "New Wave Women" comp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJHx1yplIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EToEhep4rco
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
Would add The Mamas & the Papas - California Dreamin' but there's a technical question since they had a single just before, "Go Where You Wanna Go," that was withdrawn and may just exist in promo copies only
― Josefa, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
Public Image.
Yes
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Tears For Fears - Suffer the Children
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
I made a playlist of all of my (available) faves: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/0Q4eNrtXH5YRD2eEEEaJMq?si=oPbdkMk6TeiEdy84mgvOAw
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Those not mentioned here yet:
Dusty Springfield - "I Only Want To Be With You"The Dixie Cups - "Chapel of Love"The Honeycombs - "Have I the Right?"The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"Procol Harum - "A Whiter Shade of Pale"Friends of Distinction - "Grazing in the Grass"R.B. Greaves - "Take a Letter, Maria"Commodores - "Machine Gun"Carol Douglas - "Doctor's Orders"Blondie - "X Offender"Nervous Eaters - "Loretta"Buzzcocks - "Orgasm Addict"The Germs - "Forming"Odyssey - "Native New Yorker"The Stranglers - "Get a Grip on Yourself"Talking Heads - "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town"XTC - "Science Friction"Prince - "Soft and Wet"The Buggles - "Video Killed the Radio Star"Machine - "There But For the Grace of God Go I"Pretenders - "Stop Your Sobbing"Indeep - "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life"Cyndi Lauper - "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"Big Audio Dynamite - "The Bottom Line"'Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"Crowded House - "Mean to Me"E.U. - "Da Butt"M/A/R/R/S - "Pump Up the Volume"Tracy Chapman - "Fast Car"Michael Penn - "No Myth"Arrested Development - "Tennessee"Belly - "Gepetto"Veruca Salt - "Seether"Primitive Radio Gods - "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand"Hanson - "MMMBop"The New Pornographers - "Letter From an Occupant"The Killers - "Mr. Brightside"The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights"Scissor Sisters - "Comfortably Numb"Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"Vistosso Bosses - "Delirious"Azealia Banks - "212"CHVRCHES - "The Mother We Share"Savages - "Husbands"Courtney Barnett - "Avant Gardener"The 1975 - "Sex"
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
Science Friction, yeah. What a killer song. One of their best, certainly of the live period.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link