Best Debut Singles Evah!

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"Sweet Child O Mine"
"Losing My Edge"

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

("Welcome to the Jungle" was before that)

"Doo Wop (That Thing)" by Lauryn Hill

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

"Danger! Danger! (High Voltage!)" Wild Bunch

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

anyone notice the track on Xristina's album that nicked the undercarriage of "Overload"? wish I could remember the name - should be easy to find. anyway, wonder did they buy it or appropriate it (bit much for fairuse, tho) ?

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

i don't have the album Paul :(

We should be ashamed not to have mentioned "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)" yet!!!!! (Why do all my choices have parentheses??)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

run-dmc - "it's like that"
jesus & mary chain - "upside down"
replacements - "i'm in trouble" b/w "if only you were lonely"
kinks - "you really got me"

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, duh. How could I forget "Welcome to the Jungle"!

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

Missy Elliott "The Rain"
Pharcyde "Passin' Me By"
The Clean "Tally Ho"

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

...um, In Your Car was so not Kenickie's first single. Was it not Catsuit City? Not 100% on this.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

So Solid's debut was actually "Oh No" which qualifies anyway

― sean g, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

Has anyone mentioned "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus yet?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

Sloan - Underwhelmed.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

Public Image.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

Damn you people don´t read up on your artists

Catsuit city was Kenickie first (on slampt)

― Jens (brighter), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

Caught out there - Kelis
Lovertits - Peaches
Addictive - Truth hurts
What do you want from me ? - Monaco
Modulor mix - Air

― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

"Tutti Frutti"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

"Ceremony" (original version)
"Radio Free Europe" (original Hib-Tone version of course)
"Modular Mix"
"I Will Follow"
"Buddy Holly"
"Arnold Layne"
"The Unguarded Moment"
"In the City"
"The Modern Age"
"Upside Down"
"Do It Again"
"Holiday"
"Planet Earth"
"I Can't Explain"
"West End Girls" (Bobby O. version)
"Eric B. Is President"/"My Melody"

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

And "Loser" by Beck

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

"Holiday"

if you mean madonna's "holiday," that was her third single, at least. "everybody" and "burning up" both came before. it was her first great single, though.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

Oh God. You're right. Silly me.

More: "Talk Talk," "(I Wanna) Testify," "All Fall Down," and "Touch Me, I'm Sick."

The Kinks' debut single was not "You Really Got Me." It was "Long Tall Shorty."

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

Caught out there - Kelis
Lovertits - Peaches
Addictive - Truth hurts

Yes, yes and yes.

I haven't even HEARD of Catsuit City.

Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bang
Air - Sexy Boy
Darude - Sandstorm

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

The Kinks' debut single was not "You Really Got Me." It was "Long Tall Shorty."

oh god. you're right. silly me.

hee hee.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

Does U2 - "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" count?

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

Nas--"It Ain't Hard to Tell"
Mantronix--"Fresh is the Word"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

"Suspect Device" b/w "Wasted Life" - Stiff Little Fingers
"Sonic Reducer" - Dead Boys
"White Riot" - The Clash
"California Uber Alles" - Dead Kennedys
"12XU" - Wire

― Ben Dot, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

Party At Ground Zero - Fishbone
Testify - Parliament
Little Girls -Boingo
Loser -Beck

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

"unguarded moment" was the church's 2nd or 3rd single i believe

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

poundsign's "the almondy many" was an ace debut

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 31 July 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

Oasis: Supersonic

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

Iced Earth: Enter the Realm/Iced Earth

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:30 (twenty years ago) link

I even have the 'Ring Ring' Lp, I think I mixed up my ABBA Eurovision entries. Bikini Kill 'New Radio', but that's not really the sort of thing this is after

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:33 (twenty years ago) link

who is this Pulp? english people are funny.

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:37 (twenty years ago) link

"Another Girl, Another Planet"

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:04 (twenty years ago) link

was 'please, please, please' james brown's first single? if so, then that.

also whichever out of geno and dance stance/burn it down was first

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

New Rose

(Not just The Damned's debut single of course but also the first UK punk single)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

"Another Girl, Another Planet"

Is my memory playing tricks on me again or didn't "Lovers Of Today" come out before that one?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:10 (twenty years ago) link

Orbital - Chime

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:21 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, "Waterloo" was the first Abba single, since they were called (deep breath) Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha, & Anna-frid before their second stab at Eurovision, and they changed their name (via a phone-in poll) immediately prior to their famous appearance at Brighton!!!!

Mind you, their first single as BBAA wasn't "Ring Ring", it was "People Need Love", which to be honest, was utter tripe!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

Orbital - Chime (crosspost with Matt!)
De La Soul - Say No Go
Tricky - Aftermath
Omni Trio - Mystic Stepper (Feel Good)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

also 'Gangsters' is a pretty incredible way to announce yourselves

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

Dead Prez: "Police State"
Wu-Tang Clan: "Protect Ya Neck"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:31 (twenty years ago) link

TFC "Everything Flows" ... has no-one mentioned this yet? Hmm.

― jon dale, Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

i'm not sure 'protect ya neck' is that great considering what was to come for the wu, but it is brilliant as a statement of intent - i particularly like the way odb bursts in an is immediately obliterated under a torrent of swear-word obscuring buzzes

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

De La Soul - Say No Go

Wow, I was always convinced it was "Me, Myself and I" -- which also works.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 July 2003 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

What no love for "Dog on Wheels"? But can a debut single count if two albums preceded it?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

They should have put the first album out as a single with 9 B-Sides. That would have counted in the statement-of-intent/changed-things sense.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link

Wu-Tang member solo debut time!
Method Man - Bring the Pain
ODB - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
GZA - Shadowboxing

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 Thing
Tripping Daisy - My Umbrella
Linkin Park - One Step Closer

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, so another that may not count as a true "debut" but what about "Hallowed be thy Name" "Run to the Hills" and "Number of the Beast" the 3 singles off of 1982's Number of the Beast. I could be mistaken but i believe they were all released as singles about the same time w/ that album. Album was the transition between Di'Anno and Dickinson on vocals. Not the bands debut, but the debut of the classic, wonderful, amazing, immortal, never-be-beat-in-metal Maiden line-up, so that has to mean something.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link

if a first single released sometime after a first album counts, then:

magnetic fields - 100,000 fireflies

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

who is this Pulp? english people are funny.
-- autovac

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

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