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Hit the ground running...
Posted by Paul Waring on 9 June 2011 - 9:46pm.
Just sat here listening to the early Suede Remasters - and I got to thinking - did anyone ever start their career with three albums (and associated singles/b-sides) better than Suede/Dog Man Star/Coming Up?
Off the top of my head, maybe The Fabs, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths... but after that?
Convince me.
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Steely Dan
Imho, there's a case for saying the first 7LPs are an unparalleled run of excellence.
See also Roxy Music.
The first 4 Jackson Bowne LPs are classics, too.
CPL 593H !
Come on ! Clearly it's the first 3 Roxy lps - and remember , both Virginia Plain and Pyjamarama didn't appear on first two Roxy lps (although VP did get added onto cd of first lp). No contest ...you might as well make it 5 and add on Country Life and Siren..
Fact!
Bum Rushing the Show
Public Enemy, first three albums were masterful & each improved on the previous
No
I am re-discovering how brilliant they were.
The first three Waterboys albums were better though!
The first three HJH albums do not get a look in.
R.E.M.
Murmur, Reckoning, Fables.
Arguably 10 straight off the bat all the way through to New Adventures.
Also, Art Brut, with all 4 of theirs to date.
BTW, in retrospect, Coming Up isn't *all that*.
Sadly, must concur
Coming Up is an overall painful listen. Like U2's later albums - it has the bombast of a Greatest Hits and lacks the 'light and shade' of a properly satisfying album.
But what great singles....
By the Sea
redeems Coming Up, still one of my fave Suede tunes
Yep.
By The Sea is cracking, but for me the almost-redeemer on Coming Up is The Chemistry Between Us.
Given my poptacular leanings, you'd think I'd love all the Trash and Beautiful Ones stuff, but those songs are PISH.
Coming Up
I never liked that LP, but was re-considering buying it because Suede have done remastering PROPERLY, haven't they? Maybe I won't bother after all, now you've reminded me it's not Actually That Good.
Coming Up is a fine album,
Coming Up is a fine album, just a little lightweight compared to the two that came before it.
Bombastic and fantastic
I love the big Bowie wannabe songs like Trash and Beautiful Ones and love the melancholy ( although still done in that great Haywoods Heath shout) of Saturday Night.
It's no filler and all killer, kids.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are you Experienced?
Axis: Bold As Love
Electric Ladyland
I seriously concur
No one had a run quite like that. What he could have done afterwards? Lordy, who can imagine?
Paul!
I'm basking in the glory that is the Dog Man Star Deluxe and, quite frankly it never sounded better.
An astonishing album.
I have been living with the Deluxe of the first album for a few weeks now but this album has blown me away. I knew I liked it but I didn't know just how brilliant it was.
modern music is rubbish - FACT!
I've only got Coming Up
There's really no excuse for me to get out the wallet, is there?
Me as well Ivan
And I also have a strong feeling that any other Suede album couldn't come close.
Blimey, for some of us Suede IS modern music!
:-)
Here's the scary thing...
...to some of us, Suede IS modern music!
(sorry Stimps, didn't see your post until it was too late. Great minds eh?)
Costello
My Aim Is True
This Year's Model
Armed Forces
...although personally I wouldn't put MAIT in my top 15 EC records.
Arctic Monkeys
were nearly there, then "Humbug" happened. Pity "Suck It And See" hadn't been their third, as it's rather good.
Wire
Pink Flag
Chairs Missing
154
is
the correct answer
but see also public image limited, magazine etc
for the bunnymen include the first four..as per scott walker..
Massive Attack:
Blue Lines
Protection
Mezzanine
Nick Drake:
Five Leaves Left
Bryter Layter
Pink Moon
The Pixies:
Surfer Rosa
Doolittle
Bossanova
Brian Eno:
Here Come The Warm Jets
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Another Green World
The attack
Massive Attack is a great shout. I don't think I've ever loved an album when it came out as much as Mezzanine. God I played that thing to death.
Jean Michel Jarre's first 3 proper albums(Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields) are amazing. Chemical Brothers first 3 are pretty decent too.
David Bowie?
Wont list them, but his imperial phase was pretty much The Man Who Sold The World till Scary Monsters surely?
**KLAXON**
Ah but TMWSTW wasn't his debut, Bowie definitely didn't hit the ground running - laughing gnome and all that.
And the answer is...
Little Feat, obviously:
Little Feat
Sailin' Shoes
Dixie Chicken
Feats don't fail me now
Pure aural magic. Good call on Steely Dan and Jackson Browne tho.
should you not add
The Last Record Album to that excellent list?
Dexys
In, three masterpieces, and out.
the answer
is Richard and Linda Thompson and Nick Drake
R and l
Bright Lights
Hokey Pokey
Silver
Drakey Boy
5 Leaves
Brighter Layter
Pinky Moon
Frank Zappa
Over 80 wonderful albums starting in 1966 with:
Freak Out
Absolutely Free
We're Only In It For The Money
Talking Heads
'77
More Songs About Buildings and Food
Fear of Music
and the next one wasn't bad either.
How about Peter Gabriel? I, II then III?
I also think The Beatles first is underestimated, whereas 2nd & 3rd are amongst their best.
The other answer
is the Clash.
Oh, and Gillian Welch.
Sparks
The first two albums may not be very well known but they are very very good and they hadn't even peaked by the time Kimono My House came out.
The first three
Velvet Underground albums are pretty special. Not personally fan of 'Loaded' but you could make an argument for all four studio albums being mighty impressive...
I thought of VU mainly because the debut is so incredible.
Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells
Hergest Ridge
Ommadawn
Belle & Sebastian
Tigermilk
...Sinister
Boy With the Arab Strap
Perfect. And then, like Suede, there followed a sharp decline.
Felt
I'd be tempted to say they made the perfect 10 albums, but the first three really are pretty special -
Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty
The Splendour Of Fear
The Strange Idols Pattern And Other Short Stories
PIxies.
Surfer Rosa.
Doolittle.
Bossanova.
Beat THAT. No, sorry, you can't. It's impossible. Stop trying.
But a creditable mention has to go to The Hold Steady (did I mention I like them?):
Almost Killed Me.
Separation Sunday.
Boys And Girls In America.
How about...
Come On Pilgrim
Surfer Rosa
Doolittle
Pixies... They can only be beaten by... Pixies!
The Band
Big Pink
The brown album
Stage Fight
then their studio albums went downhill fast...
The first three
albums by The Pogues - Red Roses for Me, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and If I should fall from grace with God - all classics.
A predictable answer from me...
Gary Numan
The Pleasure Principle
Telekon
Dance
And these were preceded by
Tubeway Army
Replicas
That's five classics in three years!
The The or Elbow
Soul Mining
Infected
Mind bomb
Dusk
That's a pretty amazing four in a row.
And then Elbow manage to trump it with an incredible 5...
Asleep at the back
Cast of thousands
Leaders of the free world (their best in my opinion)
Seldom seen kid
Build a rocket boys
The Suede three (particularly the first two) are fantastic though. Coming Up is a great album, but just pales beside the first two.
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Master of Reality
Then they started taking cocaine and it all went a bit helter skelter.
Actually, come to think of it, that sentence probably applies to most bands who made three successful records.
Predictable answer from me
Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3, Scott 4.
Also The Divine Comedy: Promenade, Liberation, Casanova, A Short Album About Love. Then a decline only revived by Absent Friends