sextonseven said:

B-52's along w/Devo has always been one of my all time favorite New Wave groups and that will never change. I still rock out to thier music.

MsLegs said:

It doesn't get any more New Wave than them.

At least not in America.

NWF said:

True.

NWF said:

You might be right. Missing Persons comes close, but I can't think of a more pure U.S. new wave act. Blondie always seemed more punk to me.

sextonseven said:

Definitely Missing Persons and Blondie 4 sure.

GangstaFam said:

I'm surprised I didn't think of that. Admitting, his later albums
all have shimmerings of absolute brilliance and beauty, but they
never reach a level of cohesiveness and strangeness that his debut
portrayed.

IstenSzek said:

I'd have to say it's probably his best, but I often find myself listing Pre-Millennium Tension as my fave.

GangstaFam said:

Haha. what is it about PMT that makes it so wonderful? Soon as I hear
"ChristianSands", "Makes Me Wanna Die", "Bad Dream", "Piano", I start
to think that there was never a better record, ever.

IstenSzek said:

It's certainly up there.

What makes it so wonderful is that it was definitely his blue period. Aside from the obvious clues in the artwork, the music just reeks of it. Something like "My Evil Is Strong" couldn't exist in any other time/space than that album. Love it.

GangstaFam said:

Kewl, you look further than your own taste. For many artists here their debut album ('cept Little Earthquakes, which is a second album, really, innit?) is something hard to top. It is hard not to include your own faves. To me, Vibrator by TTD is his best, but no one knows it. Most people stopped listening after The Hardline...
Same with D'Angelo, The Strokes, etc. They all fulfill their hype, then find out what hype is about. People like Tori Amos seem to be able to at least go with the flow, others, like Annie Lennox and D'Angelo do not seem to care.

For many their debut album is an accumalation of past demons that need to be exercised, then their second album needs to pack the same intensity into it to better it. Not many people can.

I have to disagree with at least Lenny Kravitz. Let Love Rule was certainly good, but Mama Said was better.

IstenSzek said:

Are you sure about that?

Actually, I think Maxinquaye is his most boring record, but that's just me. A lot of tt sounds just like H&M background music to me.

Novabreaker said:

No man. When it was released, it was certainly a strange record.
I had a lot of trouble cracking it at the time. But once I did,
it became one of my fav records ever. I like the way it seems to
come from a world that is very similar to the one everyone else
sees, but somehow slightly off key and unreal, as if there are
fractures in the fabric of it's making.

IstenSzek said:

And yet you had trouble crackin' it?

LoL

TINDERSTICKS

RED HOUSE PAINTERS

- Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes I think Boys For Pele is equally as good
- Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule he bettered this album by far with the Mama Said and Are You Gonna Go My Way? albums
- The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses agreed
- Living colour - Vivid their next one, Times Up is a better album
- Pearl Jam - Ten agreed
- Rage against the machine - Rage against the Machine agreed
- Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left probably true, though Pink Moon is a classic

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Jimi Hendrix

Mariah Carey.

lilgish said:

You mean album, er, tape, er, CD? I can't think of many brilliant debuts...even Ps. TTD is a good candidate.

My faves by the Pretenders are not even on that debut (besides Brass in Pocket...nice bass). My City Was Gone's bass was fonky!

OK, need to admit I didn't listen to whole album (though someone I knew had it), Rockwell (aka Berry Gordy III or IV or ...)

Nick715 said:

Emotions is better.

HamsterHuey said:

Well, Diva is what got me into her and was when I was at the height of my Annie fandom in terms of collecting, following her, etc. But later, I had played that album out and her subsequent releases were more enjoyable to listen to, simply cuz I felt like there was something to get out of them. But I can't deny that Diva is still her best. When I think about it, probably my favorite too.

IstenSzek said:

If "Strugglin'" was the only track on there, it'd STILL be one of the most fucked up things in existence.

tommysoul said:

I'll go along with the tindersticks, though I think that the second album is really just as good as the first and at times I've found myself preferring it to the debut.

Ocean Beach is my favourite RHP lp though, far and away. The first album is very nice, but I basically think of it as the template for the band they would become (if you think of them as a band, that is...)

kisscamille said:

That's a matter of pereference on that one.

novamonkey said:

whoa whoa whoa...

Are you experienced ( classic debut)
Electric Ladyland ( equally as brilliant)
Axis bold as Love-this is my fave Jimi album ( another brilliant album)

granted to each thier own about Music but u'd have to be either deaf or just plain souless to not recognize the beauty of all 3 albums.

HamsterHuey said:

I have that with some albums

Sinead O'Conner...

i love all her albums but her debut has a certain energy that was never recaptured...

TheRealFiness said:

Thank you TRF. I couldn't respond...



...while I was using my aneurysm home repair kit.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

yeah that blew my mind LOL

JANFAN4L said:

TheRealFiness said:

I love all his other albums.
I thought the question was whether the artist bettered their first album, and in my opinion Jimi Hendrix did not, his first album is one of the best ever.