― xhuxk, Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vornado, Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vornado, Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
"There, we did it! NOW FUCK YOU, FANS." (triple live album CDR of stoned complaints to follow)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Monday, 29 May 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
still <3 them and I am completely discounting a couple of low-key Denmark-only albums but Mew is sadly a valid answer to this question
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I would also like to nominate King Crimson, because hey sure Starless was great but c'mon they only did one song which truly took a clawhammer to the face of music
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
(no, 'The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum' does not take a clawhammer to the face of music)
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
The Cooper Temple Clause! Anyone remember them? Yeah they did this too. Final tracks on each of their first two albums push it close, but really, Did You Miss Me is the pinnacle of all they stood for
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 19 September 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I was about to start a thread on this and thought better of it. Search & find.
Hoodoo Gurus - "I Want You Back"
The idea that this has happened to anyone, let alone a number of relatively famous acts, is pretty depressing.
― skip, Friday, 27 August 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
And of course, I'm wrong that it was the first song on the first album--only on the American CD. Awesome.
― skip, Friday, 27 August 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
there are days when i'd say the clash "janie jones." there are other days when i wouldn't.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 August 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i want you back was track 2 on the original sequencing
i prefer tojo on that LP anyway
― the mandelbrot cassette (electricsound), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Not many bands can boast a song better than Janie Jones. The fact that The Clash have several speaks volumes.
Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops i see you already mentioned that
― the mandelbrot cassette (electricsound), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
^Speaking Truth to Power^
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Friday, 27 August 2010 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles (I am actually serious - by far my favourite Beatles song)
― sonofstan, Friday, 27 August 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
― mein voight-kampff (corey), Friday, 27 August 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Did the Damned top "Neat, Neat, Neat"?
― Cunga, Friday, 27 August 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
InterpolSeam
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The Feelies (not a dip after the first song, but not a rise either)
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
It really is, though.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah Joy Division definitely! Good call.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
killing joke
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
totally disagree with joy division
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
shellac
― charlie h, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, cannot be said enough.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooool
― markers, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
JJ Fad
― the kelpolaris usic prize (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Much as I love the Ramones, there's a case for them going downhill after Blitzkrieg Bop.
― ithappens, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Did they better it? Probably not.
Still, not a steep downward curve.
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Garbage
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 16 September 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
i was about to post garbage
― sexy mfa (history mayne), Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
resists temptation to repost on the 'out-of-context' thread.
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
nas
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Screamingly obvious answer:
Oasis - Rock and Roll Star
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
is it possible to go downhill if you start off at the very bottom?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Evidently so!
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat(though it's possible New Rose is as good)
― ithappens, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
'Garbage' OTM
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
even if it is a whopping great Only Shallow rip-off
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, i was about to say that about only shallow!
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Same for Britney with "Baby one more time".
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
Led Zeppelin
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 December 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
while i do not agree, i know a few people who could make a reasonable argument for the grateful dead here.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 28 December 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
"Noticeable One" by Missing Persons. whole first album is great though
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 December 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
America: opener 'Riverside' is arguably not the best track on side one, but they definitely peaked with that first side of their first album. An ever-accelerating downhill ride into Blandsville from thereon, I'd say.Heart - I suppose this depends on whether you prefer 'Magic Man' to 'Crazy on You', but anyway peaked on at least track three of album #1.OK, here's one that's nailed on: Living Colour - 'Cult of Personality'.
― Bloody Snail, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
I know someone who thinks 'Ruckzuck' is the best thing Kraftwerk ever did.
― 3×5, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure there are at least a few posters here that feel that way about "ruckzuck"
― the late great, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
"Blister In The Sun" is where a band records something so definitive that I wouldn't care less if everyone said that they peaked there and then
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:33 (eight years ago) link
Fountains of Wayne - "Radiation Vibe"
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
Ruckzuck is really cool.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 06:17 (eight years ago) link
This thread is even harsher:
Artists whose first single was the best thing they ever did.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 07:40 (eight years ago) link
ELO.
― new zingland (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
I was about to object, then realized that, while there are probably 15 FoW songs I like almost as much, you're probably right
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
Delays - "Nearer Than Heaven"
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Raspberries - "Go All the Way"
― Lee626, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link
If you were a Move fan, sure.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
Britney Spears OTM
Also agree with Fountains of Wayne
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
ELO.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 (eight years ago) link
Guns N' Roses?
― octobeard, Thursday, 31 December 2015 05:12 (eight years ago) link
Meek Mill is never going to top Dreams And Nightmares (Intro) is he?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
"Jacking the Ball" by The Sea and Cake
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link