So, yes, fits the thread.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
Moby Grape? Debut is definitely iconic, second album was a sharp stylistic detour...but I'm not that up on their later records.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Rober Miles is the perfect example of this. A huge crowdpleaser hit with Children and a similar sounding debut album, but everything he did since is completely left field: IDM, jazz and psychedelic rock.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
Pavement. They dropped most of the Fall and VU aping after Slanted & Enchanted (not counting the eps)
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Wire is a stupid answer, and most of these are heavily debatable at best
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
License to IllThe Great Adventures of Slick RickCritical BeatdownLoc-Ed After DarkAll For OneCypress HillBreaking AtomsBizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
I don't think slight developments or polishing that may have been achieved by the second album really qualifies an artist for this thread.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Illmatic
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
Where's that NV post
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
I don't even know if it was NV
But basically - "Specific-purpose ILM anthology threads basically turn into lists of everyone's favourite bands"
Stop bending the rules to suit whichever signifiers of your awesome tastes you want to list. Every entry here from now on should require a written justification
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
I don't know where you get the idea that this a place where people discuss music
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
Basehead, maybe.
Otherwise, Fleetwood Mac, in contention. Feelies maybe (inspiration for this thread, but I discovered them via Good Earth). Men Without Hats maybe, since nobody stuck around for Pop or the later stuff. Patti Smith, Pavement, etc. all had great albums down the road.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac? Fuck off. Just fuck off.
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
Stop bending the rules to suit whichever signifiers of your awesome tastes you want to list.
Not sure anyone was doing that but they certainly will be from now on, hopefully.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
Radiohead, because Creep is still totes their most iconic song lol!
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
The Beatles, because I don't know!
This seems like a good use of your time.
― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Says the guy who must have spent upwards of an hour on fake Kenny Logging anagrams
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Fucking autocorrect
Yeah, that was fun. I had fun that day.
― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
^^^that's an anagram of Kenny Loggins btw xp
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
I like a lot of Patti Smith, and Horses isn't even my favourite work of hers, but it does feel like a bit of an outlier to me. The next two albums are much more straightforward rock albums to my ears.
I like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac but it seems crazy to say that this is their most iconic work.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Comus probably counts here, despite not having the most extensive discography.
Steely Dan: I encounter "Reelin' In The Years" & "Do It Again" on the airwaves more than any of their other songs. Pretty stark stylistic divergence from the rest of their catalog, also David Palmer sings quite a bit on that one.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
STEELY DAN! BINGOOOOO! I GOT A BINGO
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
The Cardiacs probably.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
:D
basically the only artists who belong itt are ones whose debut albums have more RYM ratings and different primary genre tags than all subsequent albums. there's this little thing called SCIENCE but most of you guys probably haven't heard of it http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif
― ridiculously dope soul (unregistered), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
I feel you, imago.
ok, Spiderman of the Rings - Dan Deacon's first real album (there are a handful of EPs and two collections of college assignments and experiments that preceded it), it's the only time he was ever the full on "Mongoloid man-child" (Polish flyer description), spazzy neon freak dude image that people still associate with him. Ever since Bromst, he's made a concerted effort to emphasize his academic background and considerable abilities as a composer and arranger. the party rager dude in "The Crystal Cat" video was his schtick until he got famous and "Drinking Out of Cups" went viral. When the pernicious rumor that he was locked in a closet tripping on acid in that video was going around, I think it really annoyed him, and beginning with Bromst, he started playing with ensembles and recording much more intricate work: player piano, strings, massive productions. Yet he still plays "The Crystal Cat" at every fucking show.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
LJ, you may find that it's easier to get your point across if you explicitly call us 'sheeple' and perhaps use the phrase 'wake up' at least once or twice.
― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
lol screw u unreg
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
meant with affection obv
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
Nothin but luv itt, bruv.
― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
imago bringing the spirit of ilx past alive. i miss those halcyon days when i could like get seriously mad about somebody implying that devo's second album is a massive departure from their first.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
I just don't want us sleepwalking into yet another fermentation of our silage
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
MGMT!
― J. Sam, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
^accurate
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah that one seems correct
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
you can sit on my side of the classroom J Sam
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac? Fuck off. Just fuck off.― imago, Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:55 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:55 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
How 'bout you fuck off?
― Fleetwood Mac (Turrican), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
There's viola on "Lady Godiva's Operation" and "Here She Comes Now".
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
i'd definitely agree on Ride.
― piscesx, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
xxp:
j/k, ofc :P
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
You're a Rumours Isn't Obviously Their Most Iconic Album By A Zillion Miles truther too? Did they use Dragonfly in enough M&S ads to tilt your brain, send you wacko? What's happened, Turrican? Who's in there?
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
xxp and i guess Lush if you count GALA as an album 'proper'.
― piscesx, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
― imago
welp, i tell you what, i may be a city boy now, but i grew up just down the way from Space Farms, and i still remember what they said to me. they said to me, "ain't nobody never caused their silage to ferment by making specious claims about the amount of viola on _white light/white heat_". well, ol' clem down at space farms, he was a good feller but he didn't always say exactly what he meant to say. but in this case, thinking back on it... i think ol' clem was wiser than i gave him credit for at the time.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
haha
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
ABC?
― piscesx, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Wait, it's Albatross, not Dragonfly. Not memorable, not iconic
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
― piscesx, Thursday, March 2, 2017 3:25 PM (forty seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Can you clarify? Are they really that stylistically different?
― Evan, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Surely there can't actually be that many actual examples of this. Imago is right, this often feels like people just listing the usual bands that crop up on these threads 'cuz they can't think of any actual examples. And no, Fleetwood Mac isn't a correct answer. Or Steely Dan.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Saturday, 4 March 2017 10:13 (seven years ago) link
The Damned
― palko, Saturday, 4 March 2017 10:14 (seven years ago) link
There probably are a lot of examples of this, but nobody cares because the band became completely obscure after the change. Something like The Bravery for instance.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 4 March 2017 11:14 (seven years ago) link
Elastica (ducks)
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 March 2017 12:51 (seven years ago) link
I would question how iconic the first album is in this case.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 4 March 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
"What Goes On", man
I'll withdraw my offhand VU suggestion if no one agrees but I don't hear this song as all that weird and droney. It seems like a pretty straightforward upbeat rock tune to me, based on a variation on a standard 3-chord progression, at least compared to something like "Venus in Furs".
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 4 March 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), 4. marts 2017 14:38 (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's definitely their 'most' iconic one, though...
― Frederik B, Saturday, 4 March 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
Ha, OK
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 4 March 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
Casket Girls - first one is their best
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 24 August 2017 05:39 (six years ago) link
A lot of shoegaze/proto-shoegaze bands could go here (some, like Ride and JAMC, have been listed already).
Plenty of second wave techno too, e.g. LFO.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link
blood sweat & tears, obv.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 24 August 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
There's a thread of albums that are 20 years old, and I've seen a bunch of recognition for stuff that is turning 30.
But we all seem to have agreed to let 2017 go by without acknowledging that Velvet Underground & Nico turned 50.
― I'm walking on Sondheim (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link