i like the first song this band did but nothing else

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What the fuck is this? I seem to see this a lot on threads, are there really so many bands/artists this applies to?

― paul b, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

cant think of any offhand (what, just the first single?). i'm sure there are some though, but i'd have to rack my brains for that

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The Strokes. I liked the Modern Age single, but there was little else on the album worth listening to.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I liked "Hard to Explain" too. Scrap that!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Haven- Say Something is sweet, but I haven't heard anything else good by them.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"Always Your Way" by My Vitriol was kind of jolly at first, less so when rereleased with band name in Really Bad Font on the sleeve.

― alexfack, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I kinda liked the first Hooverphonic single, but it's a vast wasteland after that.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

They became horrible immediately afterwards but the first Cranberries ep is very good.

Mull Historical Society's first b-side is great and the rest is certainly nowhere near as good.

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"Same Picture" by Goldrush is fucking amazing. Everything they've released since, including the rerecorded version of "Same Picture", has been excreable.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

'handsome devil' is great but I'm not sure what was on the other side or what they've done since.

― jon (jon), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

'Always Your Way' wasnt My Vitriol's first single surely

i'm tempted to say Blue...

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

but Blue have another one thats pretty good too don't they?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

'Fly by II' is arguably better than 'All Rise' i suppose yeh

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Primal Scream enough that it makes me feel like people who say they liked "Velocity Girl" but nothing else are twits. That's where this thread was born. "The Modern Age" is a better example- most of us were probably listening to that ep 9 months before it was force-fed through every media outlet avilable. When the album came out, it was good and all, but the recordings lacked the oomph present on the first release.

― paul b, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Drowners'!

― DavidM (DavidM), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I was going to say The Drowners but the next two singles were OK too.

187 Lockdown are another 2-singles-then-rubbish outfit.

I love "Spiral Scratch" and hardly ever listen to any other Buzzcocks but I wouldn't say I didn't like the other stuff.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Britney Spears?

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Pedantry time: yes, 'Always Your Way' was MV's first single, although they released a re-recorded version as their fourth or fifth single. Technically, "Same Picture" was the first Goldrush single but they released three records under the name Whispering Bob prior to this. "Velocity Girl" was Primal Scream's second single ("All Fall Down" being the rather excellent debut, provided you don't count the aborted "Orchard" song which I would kill to hear).

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Re: the entire "only their early stuff was good" thing... A lot of times it's true. Folks shoot their wad early and then have no furhter inspiration, you know, "you have your whole life to write your debut, but only a year to write the follow-up."

On the other hand, it's also an über-hip pose to make this pronouncement about a band. Nothing makes you look cooler than, right after someone's professed their love for a new album, saying, "That's shit. Only their early stuff is any good." Music snob trump.

― wl (wl), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

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