Today sees the release of new albums from The Monkees, Paul Simon & Dexys. In the pre-streaming/on-demand age, this would have sent me to a record shop to pick up those albums on the day they came out. Today I have “Saved” those records into my Spotify, but I really only feel compelled to pick up a copy of The Monkees. For the last Dexys album, which I thought was really great, I have never bought a physical copy.
So who are your “Day One” artists? Who’s new release do you still want to hear as soon as it comes out? Do you still need to buy a physical copy or has that tradition fallen away…
Bob and Bowie are the main ones I can think of, but of course being only a Johnny-come-lately to Bob, this has happened precisely twice, and as for the other fella….
Oh and physical all the way, although autorip is an exceedingly good invention that stops me waiting on the doormat on Fridays.
The beginning of that post got me all upcited, then I realised it was about buying music.
Who d’you think I am, Olivia Newton John?
No, I couldn’t possibly think about you getting all sweaty. Not at all.
hurrrrrrrr
Hey! @disappointment-bob – you’re up there* with Bowie!
*in a manner of speaking
Thanks for the reminder, Uncle Saucepot! The Disappointment Choir are definite Day 1 artists for me, along with that other Bob bloke.
Are we calling the Disappointment Choir the Dissies?
The Pointies.
How about the Choiries? Oh …
Not `household names` but they should be;
Big Big Train
Moulettes
I recommend these bands very highly.
Bowie, Prince, REM and Kate Bush. I’m 75% fucked, then…
Although to be fair, there’s probably more chance of further new releases from the Dame and PRN than La Bush.
Richard Thompson, Thea Gilmore – that’s about it for those CD (oh yes, physical product for me please) I will always buy before release.
I’m ever so physical, me. Can’t be arsed with all this new fangled downstreaming malarkey. I still buy loads of day 1 stuff from artists too numerous to mention. And as Gatz mentioned her, Thea Gilmore would definitely be one of them. Seldom disappointed too.
Always want the physical copy, and with Amazon you can get just about guaranteed delivery on the day of release.
The ones I chase (which might involve queuing up at HMV) are:
Iron Maiden
Manic Street Preachers
Paul Weller
In the past, Blur and Oasis would’ve featured in the list (so by association, you can add Noel Gallagher to the list).
Probably Paul Weller and Steven Wilson for me.
For a lovely split second I thought they’d made a record together.
hold that thought….
Haven’t bought a physical record/CD for, oh, three hundred years. Three artists I download without even thinking about it are Ryan Adams, Beth Orton (given their mutual if brief history perhaps not surprising) and that Dylan bloke ( the old bastard’s music since around 1978 is usually deleted well, well before Tiggs 6-listen rule).
I’m probably down to these as Must Have Day One purchases at the moment
Throwing Muses
Nick Cave
The Twilight Sad
Future of the Left
The Fall
Wedding Present / Cinerama
Shriekback
Whatever-Bob-Wratten-Does-Next
Plus a host of people (My Bloody Valentine, Cranes, Shellac, Thomas Dolby, Blue Aeroplanes, These New Puritans etc) who put things out sufficiently infrequently that they probably don’t count.
Nobody these days on day one, but even if it’s on Spoty I will shell out for anything new from the big five of Bob, Bruce, Sir Van, Lucinda and RT within a week or two.
As it goes I wandered into HMV today for the first time in months and noticed Paul Simons so bought that. Also Uncle Bob’s, but I’m not holding my breath….
Listening to Uncle Bob again right now. I like it even more each time.
I have always admired you but I am increasingly worried you are slowly losing your mind….
Back atcha, Wrongster!
I have never admired Mrs Breakfast, but there were long, lonely nights when I yearned for her …. ached for her … when her coltish form and come-hither eyes obsessed me to the point of madness … when (That’s enough – Ed.)
Honey, is you trippin’?
Afterword member features in the latest issue of Viz
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I haven’t given this much thought.
Agnes Obel
Burial
Goldfrapp
Paul St. Hilaire
Four Tet
Spoon
Alabama Shakes
Paul Simon
Melanie De Biaisio
The Fall
Björk
Massive Attack
Radiohead
GoGo Penguin
Kendrick Lamar
Ngoni Ba
Melody Gardot
Roger Robinson
Natalie Prass
Grimes
Flying Lotus
Matthew Halsall
Frazey Ford
Run The Jewels
D’Angelo
FKA Twigs
The Black Keys
Robert Plant
Scott Walker
Buika
The Haxan Cloak
Nick Cave
Vampire Weekend
Earth, Wind & Fire
Daft Punk
Nile Rodgers
Erykah Badu
Tal National
Donald Fagan
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
Frank Ocean
Tore Gustavsen
Johnny Dowd
Leonard Cohen
Sigur Rós
Ry Cooder
The Beatles
Interesting. I’d say in my entire life the “day one” purchases I’ve made could be counted on one hand, partly through lack of funds and inertia, but also because I reserve such faith for familiar acts right in the groove of brilliance.
I recall New Order’s Brotherhood, Very Pet Shop Boys, Orbital In Sides, and Super Furry Animals’ Mwng as specific albums, but all of these acts have also released albums I was in no rush to hear.
And Spotify has killed my willingness to take a blind punt stone dead.
Nils Frahm.
Agnes Obel.
Matthew Halsall.
Jonathan Wilson.
Tierney Sutton.
Prefab Sprout & Scott Walker, so I don’t tend to spend a lot of time waiting impatiently for the postie.
I’m waiting for someone to say Guns’n’Roses.
Job, perhaps.
The La’s and Mary Margaret O’Hara. It’s a cheap hobby.
Harp and a Monkey are possibly the only band I’m now excited enough by to have that ” first day” desperation about. And it has to be physical, only real decision being do I buy from them on line or get it at the show which would mean it’s a few days after release. Sleepless night of turmoil to figure that particular dilemma.
My only one is Eels.
And I get whatever the biggest bundle is, vinyl, CD, T shirt, poster etc.
I stop myself trying to find a leak of the release, I save myself for the day of release and then listen four or five times in a row.
And now I find myself slightly grumpy, realising that it has been more than a year since the last live album and more than two years since the last studio album and, dammit, I want MORE!!!!!!!!!
You’re not alone there – I want more Eels too.
Coincidentally I took delivery of both Paul Simon and Dexys today – haven’t played Simon yet but Dexys is excellent especially a lovely version of Carrickfergus.
For me Richard Thompson and Elvis Costello.
The Church. They’re the only band left in town. Loved them since I bought the first singles on import. Still fill my adult diaper at the prospect of a new album.
Before them, it was Bruce, but he plumb wore me out.
Oh, hang on – The Shoes. Not the most prolific of groups, but every album a treat.
Thanks @h-p-saucecraft – the other day you alerted me to the fact that The Alpha Band released three albums, not just the two I’ve got and now I learn that Shoes (assuming you mean the Klebe / Meyer / Murphy brothers group) have continued to be active over the decades. I’m listening to “Ignition” as I type.
You’ll be telling me The Pinkees released a second album next . . .
Isn’t Ignition great? They’ve never made a bad album. Let me know if you have difficulty tracking anything down – I have it all.
The Pinkees?
Yes, really enjoying Ignition.
I bought Black Vinyl Shoes and Present Tense sometime around 1980 and over the years forgot about them. Your mention made me take them off the shelf and I’m surprised to find I’ve also got Stolen Wishes from ’89 – no recollection of buying it. And now I learn they never went away so thanks for that, There’s loads of their stuff on Spotify.
I liked The Pinkees in the early ’80s, not so much now . . . .
According to Wiki their only album is number 123 on the list of albums in the Ultimate Power Pop Guide!
Depeche Mode. Generally get the CD. In 2009 I invested $250 in a deluxe box set which is worth a helluva lot less now.
Gnihc-rek!
Ry Cooder is possibly the last one. For almost 50 years it used to be Dylan, but a recent run of stinkers has changed all that. Same with Macca. Kisses On The Bottom killed the love affair somewhat. The last few have been a bit so-so too.
But you can always rely on Ry.
The Ramones, for the first 5 albums. I even paid over the odds for the first three by buying them ‘On Import’.
Neil Young, during the ’70s. Gave up as we entered the ’80s. Given up on him completely now.
Loyd Cole
Suede
Wire
No-ones that good.
I much prefer the researched scientific process of browsing and choosing by virtue of the name and cover. (Bit like my Shiraz buying, really.)
I was going to say something like “Steve Gunn is a ‘Day One’ artist for me” … when I realised that Steve Gunn released his new album yesterday (“Eyes on the Lines”), and I haven’t ordered it yet.
So that’s that theory out the window…
The Divine Comedy are (is) probably my one remaining day one act. This year’s album comes out on my 50th birthday. Yay!
New Model Army
Nick Cave
That’s probably it now. I’ve had others over the years, but they’ve either disappointed me once too often or died, and there hasn’t been much to replace them since.