[Music] Awful 1st Albums but success followed

[studio150]

To reverse the current threads on best debut and third albums, I thought it would be fum to look at terrible debut albums where the group went onto better things. May well be restricted to earlier times when labels were prepared to let groups develop over time.

So for starters

From Genesis to Revelation - Genesis
Supertramp - Supertramp
Thin Lizzy - Thin Lizzy


Others?

 

[brakespear]

To reverse the current threads on best debut and third albums, I thought it would be fum to look at terrible debut albums where the group went onto better things. May well be restricted to earlier times when labels were prepared to let groups develop over time.

So for starters

From Genesis to Revelation - Genesis

You beat me to it

 

[Stat Brother]

So can I put forward a bands 5th album and say they were shite after that point, or am I supposed to read the thread title?

 

[Machiavelli]

Beyond Creep, Pablo Honey is dire. Everything else thereafter has been masterful. Case closed.

 

[Pevenseagull]

If I had been around to hear 'Bob Dylan', Bob Dylan and 'David Bowie', David Bowie when they came out I wouldn't have given a toss if they recorded another song.

 

[Stato]

Hammond's Folly:

 

[Pevenseagull]

That's the one

 

[Bold Seagull]

Beyond Creep, Pablo Honey is dire. Everything else thereafter has been masterful. Case closed.

I'd never thought to put Pablo Honey in the dire or awful category. Harsh.

 

[DavePage]

Stoney and Meatloaf, more unknown than awful, maybe
but followed by Bat Out of Hell or was it being a part of the OST of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Or was Bat his first truly solo album.

 

[kevo]

Beyond Creep, Pablo Honey is dire. Everything else thereafter has been masterful. Case closed.

Yes. The obvious answer.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Dull UK eighties bands that went on to IMHO success out of all proportion to their talent largely due to dumbass American stadium rocksheep would include

- Depeche Mode
- Simple Minds
- Duran Duran

Shallow as f*ck. Make U2 look DEEP by comparison.

 

[daveinprague]

Johnny Osbournes first album was pretty forgettable. His second, Truths and Rights is a reggae landmark album. Every tune is an anthem.

 

[lawros left foot]

Dull UK eighties bands that went on to IMHO success out of all proportion to their talent largely due to dumbass American stadium rocksheep would include

- Depeche Mode
- Simple Minds
- Duran Duran

Shallow as f*ck. Make U2 look DEEP by comparison.

Can we add Def Leopard to this list?

 

[pearl]

The Boomtown Rats

could they get any worse tbh

 

[Albion Dan]

Dull UK eighties bands that went on to IMHO success out of all proportion to their talent largely due to dumbass American stadium rocksheep would include

- Depeche Mode
- Simple Minds
- Duran Duran

Shallow as f*ck. Make U2 look DEEP by comparison.

Depeche Mode WTF?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Depeche Mode WTF?

You ever see them around the time of their first album? Looked and sounded like Essex bank clerks who'd just been to the Next sale.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Boomtown Rats

could they get any worse tbh

Well, Bobby G went on to achieve Live Aid-related sainthood, but it was nowt to do with The Boomtown Rats. Ditto Midge Ure who by rights should now be back playing pubs or doing a milk round. Certainly nothing to do with any innate musical talent. It means nothing to me.

 

[pearl]

Well, Bobby G went on to achieve Live Aid-related sainthood, but it was nowt to do with The Boomtown Rats. Ditto Midge Ure who by rights should now be back playing pubs or doing a milk round. Certainly nothing to do with any innate musical talent. It means nothing to me.

I just googled Midge Ure out of curiosity, (why would you call yourself Midge FFS) .... it's the phonetic reversal of his diminutive real name James

Yeah ... Reknaw

 

[Albion Dan]

You ever see them around the time of their first album? Looked and sounded like Essex bank clerks who'd just been to the Next sale.

Maybe but they certainly went on to create some very good music. Violator was a great album.

 

[larus]

The Boomtown Rats

could they get any worse tbh

Actually, I think Rat-Trap is a great tune. I’d say what came later was worse.