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First track from their debut, self-titled album released in 1989.
"Radio Free Europe" was released in 1981 as R.E.M.'s debut single, and was later re-recorded and included on their 1983 debut album. The song features "what were to become the trademark unintelligible lyrics which have distinguished R.E.M.'s work ever since", according to a review by The Scotsman.
First track from her fifth studio album, "Hounds of Love". katebush.com
First track from Tom Petty's debut solo studio album "Full Moon Fever", which featured contributions from members of his band the Heartbreakers as well as Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and George Harrison, Petty's bandmates in the Traveling Wilburys.
First track from Pink Moon, the third and final studio album by Nick Drake. 🌝
ANOTHER amazing first track from a debut album. Nice one, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
First track from My Bloody Valentine's second studio album.
This first track opened the Beatles' 1968 double album The Beatles (aka the White Album).
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Best first tracks! This one from Fugazi's self-titled debut album (aka "7 Songs")
FUN FACT: That's not a bass guitar you're hearing. The riff was created by running Jack White’s semi-acoustic 1950s style Kay Hollowbody guitar through a DigiTech Whammy pedal that was set down an octave. 🎸
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Opening track and lead single from the band's second album.
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From the debut studio album released on August 8, 1988 on Eazy-E's label Ruthless Records. Dr. Dre and DJ Yella produced, and this was the group's only release with Ice Cube before he left the group in 1989.
The lyrics are based on a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called 'Un Chien Andalou'. According to Black Francis:
"I wish Buñuel were still alive. He made this film about nothing in particular. The title itself is a nonsense. With my stupid, pseudo-scholar, naive, enthusiast, avant-garde-ish, amateurish way to watch Un chien andalou (twice), I thought: 'Yeah, I will make a song about it.' [He sings:] "Un chien andalou"... It sounds too French, so I will sing "un chien andalusia", it sounds good, no?'"
A contentious first track. The Femmes had a bitter breakup in 2007 after frontman Gordon Gano licensed “Blister” for use in a Wendy’s commercial. Thankfully they've gotten back together since!
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Chicago's Sport of Kings was featured in one of the OG Sub Pop Zines. Engineer Ian Burgess, who worked on their "Sing Mary Sing" album, helped define the sound of the Chicago post-punk music scene in the 1980s and early 1990s, working with Ministry, Big Black, Naked Raygun, The Effigies, Get Smart!, Ministry, Green, Bloodsport, Pegboy, Poster Children, Bhopal Stiffs, and many more!
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The song was inspired by a trip to the Channel Island of Jersey: "We tried our holiday in the sun in the isle of Jersey and that didn't work. They threw us out." That trip was followed by a couple of weeks spent in Berlin. Although they described the city as "raining and depressing", they were relieved to get away from London. Said John Lydon, "Being in London at the time made us feel like we were trapped in a prison camp environment. There was hatred and constant threat of violence. The best thing we could do was to go set up in a prison camp somewhere else. Berlin and its decadence was a good idea. The song came about from that. I loved Berlin. I loved the wall and the insanity of the place. The communists looked in on the circus atmosphere of West Berlin, which never went to sleep, and that would be their impression of the West."
Hendrix was asked how he wrote songs; he responded, "I dream a lot and I put my dreams down as songs. I wrote one called 'First Look Around the Corner' and another called 'The Purple Haze,' which was about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea."
Mudhoney's Mark Arm describes the U-Men thusly: "The U-Men are one of the best bands I've ever seen. They were hypnotic, frenetic, powerful and compelling. It was impossible to resist getting sucked into their weird, darkly absurd world. They effortlessly blended The Sonics, Link Wray, Pere Ubu, and Captain Beefheart. Their shows were loose-limbed, drunken dance parties and no two shows were alike. The U-Men were avant garage explorers and, most importantly, they fucking rocked. I was lucky enough to live in their hometown and I saw them every chance I could. "
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