Groups and first albums that made you buy anything else that they've done

[MrScorpio]

Sade DIAMOND LIFE

To me, she can do no wrong

[FreedomFry]

1. Joni Mitchell's "Song to a Seagull," 1969

She released about one album a year after that, and I snapped up every one -- even after I realized I preferred her earlier works. Still needed to hear that evolution of words and sounds.

[AmandaRuth]

2. U2

Boy

[CanuckAmok]

3. Weezer.

Best. Debut. Album. Ever. Too bad they haven't measured up to it.

[Dukakis88]

4. "Pinkerton" was pretty good...

...but after that, agreed. I don't know what they are signing about any more. "Hash Pipe?" "Dope Nose" Why? Huh?

[CanuckAmok]

5. Pinkjerton was okay, but the first one...WOW! It's on my desert island lst

[bloodyjack]

7. why can't people come to appreciate Pinkerton?

it's got everything! pared-down mock-Albini production, beautiful harmonies peppered about, lots of hopeless horniness, innovative solos (unlike their recent output)

I'm tired
so tired
I'm tired
of having sex
(so tired)

my heart bleeds for you, Rivers.

[Dukakis88]

6. Was (Not Was) - "What Up Dog?"

I didn't like their final album much, but everything else was quirky and great as all hell.

[MrScorpio]

8. Are you from Detroit?

Detroiters love them.

I know I was addicted to their first album, Was (Not Was) and played the tape 'till it gave out.

Ah, those were the days

[Dukakis88]

16. Nah, saw their music in an animation film festival...

A music video for "Hey Dad (I'm In Jail)" played here and I went to the music store immediately to figure out who had done it.

I just got the two new CD Was (Not Was) re-releases from Ze Records... they contain a lot of extra tracks.

[Bossy Monkey]

17. "Said GO... NOW!" Nothing like it.

I'm also the one person on Earth who loved "Born to Laugh at Tornadoes." Yeah, yeah, yeah, I already know I don't have any taste.:D

[getoffmytrain]

9. U2 Boy

[HEyHEY]

10. Shit - first albums? Hmmmmmm

Drawing a blank.

[samplegirl]

11. Sade

Your making me dance inside. Love anything by her.

[samplegirl]

12. Delbert McClinton

Bet you cant buy just one!!!

[CanuckAmok]

13. Jim "Foetus" Thirlwell

I have collected nearly everything he's recorded since hearing his "Hole" album for the first time in 1984.

He records under various pseudonyms, including "Scraping Foetus off the Wheel", "Clint Ruin", "Steroid Maximus", "Wiseblood", and "Manorexia"...

"Hole" wasn't his first album, per se, but the two full-length LPs ("Deaf" and "Ache") he self-released a few years earlier were long out-of-print and very rare.

[nickgutierrez]

14. Clinic, "Internal Wrangler"

I've bought everything else by them I can find since then - but they haven't quite done anything since to match it.

[Oscar2000]

15. I'm into rock in spanish

so the first time i heard rock in spanish was back in '93. I heard Fobia's "Leche" album on tape, which was a copy a friend gave to my older brother. Everything started from there.

[Chovexani]

18. Malice Mizer.

Voyage Sans Retour. Totally blew me away, and also introduced me to the visual kei scene of Japanese rock which I love. This is their last lineup (they broke up in 2000):

(They're all guys, btw :P)

Gackt Camui was their second frontman, and I have followed his solo career. Not only is he scorchingly hot but I love his voice, it's like being caressed with silk. He is not really into the visual scene anymore but I will buy anything with his name on it. I have yet to hear a Gackt song I don't absolutely love.

[Fusions_Minion]

19. Rage.

their first album kicked ( | ). :nuke:

[Heidi]

20. Too many . . .

and I think my list makes me too uncool for this thread. (These aren't the artists' first albums, but they were new to me.)

"Mermaid Avenue," Volumes I and II, Billy Bragg and Wilco
"Saved," Bob Dylan (gift from my dad when I was about 17)
"Roothog or Die," Mojo Nixon and Skip Roper
"New Skin for the Old Ceremony," Leonard Cohen (another gift from my dad)
"John Prine Live," John Prine
"Moondance," Van Morrison

[donheld]

21. Actually it was her third - Ms Morissette

Not to mention Dave Matthews, Counting Crows, etc

[xcmt]

22. STP

Stone Temple Pilots. Core, Purple, and Tiny Music are my personal choice for three best consecutive albums ever. So good, in fact, I purchased all their subsequent albums despite knowing they would (and did, and still do) suck.

And I'm looking at Velvet Revolver for no other reason than Weiland is involved. I'd probably hate the 80's power rock vibe, but...I don't care how many times you go to rehab, Scott. You'll always get another chance from me.

[Insider]

23. Level 42

1981 debut
the single that sealed the deal was starchild

[Whoa_Nelly]

24. Led Zeppelin

and still have all those original LPs
Also, Pink Floyd...bought their first album that was in a shocking hot pink cover back in '67...stopped buying after Darkside came out.

other than that...everything Doobies :-)