Excuse my indie roots but the following's best works were their first:
Kasabian Kasabian
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV
Embrace The Good Will Out
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Maximo Park A Certain Trigger
Dan
Their first album was their best Page 2
F**kin' BRILLIANT!
Looking at the tracks there... In which comedy was Paddy McGinty's Goat referenced? Was it Brass Eye - I can't even remember in what context... 
EDIT: No, silly me, it was that sketch in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle!
EDIT: I want to hear O'Rafferty's Motor Car! Now!
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 18 2009, 11:23 AM BST
EDIT: I want to hear O'Rafferty's Motor Car! Now!
Quote: swerytd @ September 18 2009, 11:05 AM BSTExcuse my indie roots but the following's best works were their first:
Kasabian Kasabian
I think West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is even better.
I agree with the Artic Monkeys though and would add Franz Ferdinand to the list.
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 18 2009, 11:23 AM BST
Looking at the tracks there... In which comedy was Paddy McGinty's Goat referenced? Was it Brass Eye - I can't even remember in what context...
There's a TV news reporter called Paddy McGinty, or something very simillar and I can't help shouting the word 'goat' every time is name is mentioned on the news.
Quote: Morrace @ September 18 2009, 11:30 AM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovk67yMiFI
Love the effort with the visuals.
Quote: Morrace @ September 18 2009, 11:30 AM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovk67yMiFI
Genius! 
God bless those bog-brained Paddys!
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 18 2009, 11:34 AM BSTGod bless those bog-brained Paddys!
Tee-hee! I wondered who'd be the first. 
Well, you wouldn't have your trains from Bristol to London without them.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 18 2009, 11:32 AM BSTI think West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is even better.
I don't. It's *very* good, granted, but Kasabian is pretty much perfect from start to finish. I'm not dissing any other stuff, by any of the other bands btw, it's just that their first albums are *so* good, they'd be hard to beat.
I thought Coldplay's Parachutes wouldn't be bettered, but they did it straight away with A Rush Of Blood To The Head.
The Music's eponymous debut is also probably their best, in terms of tracks. The second is more polished and holds better together as an album, but it doesn't blow you away like the first did. Third can't beat it either.
Agree about Franz Ferdinand too.
Dan
Quote: swerytd @ September 18 2009, 11:39 AM BSTI don't. It's *very* good, granted, but Kasabian is pretty much perfect from start to finish. I'm not dissing any other stuff, by any of the other bands btw, it's just that their first albums are *so* good, they'd be hard to beat.
Maybe it's because I'm listening to it a lot at the moment.
The Specials - The Specials is a good example of a perfect debut album.
Going all eighties:
Lexicon of Love is a great album that ABC never bettered.
Similarly Soft Cell and Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.
Quote: JohnnyD @ September 17 2009, 11:20 PM BSTThe Doors - Maybe
For me their final album, L.A. Woman, is their finest work.
Quote: Splodge @ September 18 2009, 10:50 AM BSTI will add The Smiths by The Smiths,
Strangeways Here We Come.
Quote: swerytd @ September 18 2009, 11:05 AM BSTArctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Prefer the latest one, Humbug. It's a more interesting piece of work, though I would agree their are more obvious, heads down thrills on the first album.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ September 18 2009, 12:18 PM BSTPrefer the latest one, Humbug. It's a more interesting piece of work, though I would agree their are more obvious, heads down thrills on the first album.
It's very difficult to get into. Still trying.
First album's Fake Tales From San Francisco: "You're not from New York City, You're from Rov'rum!" -- second best lyric of all time.
Dan
Quote: swerytd @ September 18 2009, 12:26 PM BSTIt's very difficult to get into. Still trying.
First album's Fake Tales From San Francisco: "You're not from New York City, You're from Rov'rum!" -- second best lyric of all time.
Dan
This beats it for me, from the same song:
"Yeah but his bird thinks it's amazing, though
So all that's left
Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf"