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)
how about Martha and the Muffins "Echo Beach"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:48 (ten years ago)
Vehemently disagree about Welch. Nearly everything on the next 2 albums slays me in a way that nothing on Revival (great as it is) does.
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:12 (ten years ago)
The Twilight Sad, Scottish shoegaze band.
First song is great, next two are also great but follow the exact same formula, everything else on Fourteen Autumns... sounds like diminishing returns of the same thing, as does the entire second album, after that even more boring indie-schmindie
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:57 (ten years ago)
^^^^^otm
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:58 (ten years ago)
The third track is my favourite tho
I still sometimes listen to that trio of songs occasionally and pretend they just released a single and then gave up and became accountants or whatever
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:06 (ten years ago)
Aimee Mann--"I Should Have Known"
― ellaguru, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:45 (ten years ago)
The arc of the Ramones is long, but it heads in a straight line from Blitzkrieg Bop, bending slowly downwards
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:29 (ten years ago)
Beyonce - "Crazy in Love"(arguably, although this is not my favourite song by her).
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:54 (ten years ago)
Same for Britney with "Baby one more time".
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:57 (ten years ago)
You could make a case for Violent Femmes with "Blister in the Sun." There are other songs on that record I'm more inclined to want to hear but that may be conditioned by the utter inescapability of "Blister."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 December 2015 04:12 (ten years ago)
Led Zeppelin
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 December 2015 16:36 (ten years ago)