It's hard to do this, but since EPs and singles don't really count on this thread:
Pavement - Summer Babe
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:55 (fifteen years ago)
^Speaking Truth to Power^
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Friday, 27 August 2010 09:02 (fifteen years ago)
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles (I am actually serious - by far my favourite Beatles song)
― sonofstan, Friday, 27 August 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
― mein voight-kampff (corey), Friday, 27 August 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
Did the Damned top "Neat, Neat, Neat"?
― Cunga, Friday, 27 August 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)
InterpolSeam
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:53 (fifteen years ago)
The Feelies (not a dip after the first song, but not a rise either)
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
haha interpol. very nearly. but the first song on that album probably isn't quite the best.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)
It really is, though.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:02 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah Joy Division definitely! Good call.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:08 (fifteen years ago)
I feel this way about MBV "Soft as Snow (but Warm Inside)" but fully understand that I am insane.
― tickle me lmao (unregistered), Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)
killing joke
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:31 (fifteen years ago)
totally disagree with joy division
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)
shellac
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)
Yes, cannot be said enough.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:49 (fifteen years ago)
loooooool
― markers, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:51 (fifteen years ago)
JJ Fad
― the kelpolaris usic prize (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2010 05:18 (fifteen years ago)
Much as I love the Ramones, there's a case for them going downhill after Blitzkrieg Bop.
― ithappens, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:39 (fifteen years ago)
Did they better it? Probably not.
Still, not a steep downward curve.
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:47 (fifteen years ago)
it's weird how some "classic" artists could legit fit in here - eg my favourite missy elliott song is often "hit 'em wit da hee", ie the...first (non-intro) track on her first album.
otherwise, various examples from the elephant's graveyard of failed r&b babydivas (teairra mari) and those kinda boring MOR types who somehow build a really long career on only one song that people care about (natalie imbruglia, gabrielle)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:49 (fifteen years ago)
Garbage
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 16 September 2010 09:58 (fifteen years ago)
I meant the band. The first track on their first album rocked quite a lot.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:02 (fifteen years ago)
i was about to post garbage
― sexy mfa (history mayne), Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)
resists temptation to repost on the 'out-of-context' thread.
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:08 (fifteen years ago)
nas
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:09 (fifteen years ago)
Screamingly obvious answer:
Oasis - Rock and Roll Star
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:15 (fifteen years ago)
is it possible to go downhill if you start off at the very bottom?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:18 (fifteen years ago)
Evidently so!
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:25 (fifteen years ago)
Orange Juice-Falling and LaughingIan Dury & The Blockheads-Wake up and Make Love to meThe Sleepy Jackson-Good DancersLuther Vandross-Never Too MuchHeaven 17-(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
and as much as I love everything they do, Art Brut are yet to top Formed a Band.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:51 (fifteen years ago)
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat(though it's possible New Rose is as good)
― ithappens, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)
'Garbage' OTM
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:16 (fifteen years ago)
even if it is a whopping great Only Shallow rip-off
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:17 (fifteen years ago)
haha, i was about to say that about only shallow!
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:43 (fifteen years ago)
am also a fan of Vow and Only Happy When It Rains tbh
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:48 (fifteen years ago)
Mercury Rev - Chasing a Bee
― now they know how many holes it takes to ban buffandmaxsmom (Pillbox), Saturday, 22 October 2011 09:19 (fourteen years ago)
I wouldn't stake too much on it, but I was listening to "Re-make/Re-model" today and wondering if it was the best thing Roxy Music ever did. Close, if not.
― DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Sunday, 23 October 2011 02:20 (fourteen years ago)
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Sunday, 23 October 2011 02:55 (fourteen years ago)
Big Country - 'In A Big Country'
― Turrican, Sunday, 23 October 2011 03:07 (fourteen years ago)
Neu! (first thing I thought of for this thread)agreed on King Crimson, "Starless" and "Epitaph" are close but "Schizoid" is going to be the band's legacypost-puberty Michael Jackson ("Don't Stop Till You Get Enough")Telex - "Moscow Discow"
― frogbs, Sunday, 23 October 2011 06:18 (fourteen years ago)
Radiohead.
― foxes freud (Leee), Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:44 (fourteen years ago)
The Jesus and Mary chain
― public static Session currentSession (John Lennon), Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:14 (fourteen years ago)
Mudhoney - Touch Me, I'm Sick
Elvis Presley
― public static Session currentSession (John Lennon), Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)
I'm not sure The Fall isn't a valid answer. I mean, it's been 36 years of sustained brilliance but at the start of it all lurks 'Frightened', always there, always peering out at us
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 14:33 (ten years ago)
Leonard Cohen – "Suzanne"
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 14:56 (ten years ago)
'Blues Run the Game', Jackson C Frank
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:03 (ten years ago)
definitely Gillian Welch, "Orphan Girl"
more contentiously, the Velvets with "Sunday Morning"
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:04 (ten years ago)
Stiff Little Fingers -- "Alternative Ulster"― hector savage, Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:59 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hey poster from 2006, did you mean Suspect Device or were you just wrong on the internet?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:09 (ten years ago)
the dovers
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:47 (ten years ago)
Britney Spears OTM
Also agree with Fountains of Wayne
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:38 (ten years ago)
Ron Carter with his debut as a band leader- Where album, with Dolphy/Waldron, which is a minor masterpiece. Not really felt much else he did, although Uptown Conversation isn't terrible.
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:33 (ten years ago)
ELO.If you were a Move fan, sure.
If you were a Move fan, sure.
That would explain why I was going to say OTM
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 22:40 (ten years ago)
Guns N' Roses?
― octobeard, Thursday, 31 December 2015 05:12 (ten years ago)
Meek Mill is never going to top Dreams And Nightmares (Intro) is he?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:21 (seven years ago)
Enh he's recorded lots of stuff that's at least comparable in quality, if not urgency
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:42 (seven years ago)
t/s: blue gene tyranny 'next time might be your time' vs annette peacock 'i'm the one'
who bodied 70's avant-jazz-pop harder on the first try
― imago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:23 (four years ago)
What is Annette Peacock's first album, though? Revenge: The Bigger The Love The Greater The Hate has been re-released under her own name (and also features a version of "I'm the One", but not as the first track!).
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:04 (four years ago)
a perplexing intrusion! nonetheless, picking between those two songs is quite the task isn't it. (i mean i am personally going BGT but they're both incredible)
― imago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:56 (four years ago)
"Jacking the Ball" by The Sea and Cake
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:10 (four years ago)