Red Mosquito • View topic - Bands where the very first song defines their whole deal

Peeps · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 12:41 pm **Posts:** 5813

the cars - just what i needed

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sat January 08, 2022 6:38 pm

Question: of the bands whose sound hasn't changed much, which of those have first songs that don't sound anything like the rest of their music?

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sat January 08, 2022 9:57 pm

I’m really waffling on PJ Harvey’s potential inclusion. Rid Of Me is more raw and live sounding than much of what came after, but it fully captures the ends of her creative spectrum (very quiet/very loud), and it had a decidedly dramatic stage persona element with the “lick my legs” a cappella that closes the song

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Sun January 09, 2022 12:50 am

Weird Al - Another One Rides The Bus

Strat · **Posted:** Sun January 09, 2022 12:53 am

bodysnatcher wrote:

Weird Al - Another One Rides The Bus

10/10

Norris · **Posted:** Sun January 09, 2022 1:03 am

Strat wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

Weird Al - Another One Rides The Bus

10/10

Except My Bologna was first.

Strat · **Posted:** Sun January 09, 2022 1:04 am

i retract my statement.

Thanks, Chud.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47208

ban bodysnatcher

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Sun January 09, 2022 2:36 am

I hate myself

warehouse · **Joined:** Sat January 05, 2013 3:34 pm **Posts:** 4361

Chris_H_2 wrote:

warehouse wrote:

'first song' as in 'first hit' or 'first track on their first album'? i'm going with the former

teen spirit
one armed scissor
sail
pumped up kicks
put your hands where my eyes can see
get at me dog
break on through

ants marching

its literally 'warehouse' and i will quote myself from 12 years ago about why

warehouse · **Joined:** Sat January 05, 2013 3:34 pm **Posts:** 4361

talk show host

oasisfan35 · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3367

warehouse wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

warehouse wrote:

'first song' as in 'first hit' or 'first track on their first album'? i'm going with the former

teen spirit
one armed scissor
sail
pumped up kicks
put your hands where my eyes can see
get at me dog
break on through

ants marching

its literally 'warehouse' and i will quote myself from 12 years ago about why

Warehouse very much encapsulates a lot of what DMB was before 2009 but it is neither their first hit or the first track on their first album. Ants Marching would be both of these, depending on your criteria of 'hit'.

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16507

warehouse wrote:

talk show host

do what now?

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Wed January 12, 2022 2:31 am

Yeah I haven’t understood warehouse’s logic throughout this entire thread

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7612

Foo Fighters - This Is a Call?

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed January 12, 2022 3:59 am

liebzz wrote:

Foo Fighters - This Is a Call?

I wish to god they had continued down this track

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Wed January 12, 2022 5:17 am

tragabigzanda wrote:

liebzz wrote:

Foo Fighters - This Is a Call?

I wish to god they had continued down this track

I’m by no means a Foos historian, so I ask out of naiveness. But how much of the Foos first album were songs that Dave wrote in his time with Nirvana? If there were ones written after Nirvana disbanded, it seems like most were affected by Nivana’s style. curious how much of his writing for that album was reflected by the type of songs Nirvana wrote (in contrast to the type of songwriter he evolved into)

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15095

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters_(album)

Quote:

Nine of the songs in the album were composed before or during Grohl's tenure with Nirvana ... The only compositions done after Cobain's death were "This Is a Call", "I'll Stick Around", "X-Static" and "Wattershed".

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Wed January 12, 2022 6:35 am

damn i'm good

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed January 12, 2022 2:09 pm

Also his Late! - Pocketwatch self release was very similar to the first Foos record, and that was released just around the time he joined the band.

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