Best 1-2 Punch On A Debut Album

Flyleaf

1. I'm So Sick
2. Fully Alive

 

Garbage

1. Supervixen
2. Queer

 

Jackyl

1. I Stand Alone
2. Dirty Little Mind

 

Jesca Hoop

1. Summertime
2. Seed of Wonder

 

Jewel

1. Who Will Save Your Soul
2. Pieces of You

 

Kittie

1. Spit
2. Charlotte

 

Mazzy Star

1. Halah
2. Blue Flower

Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions

1. Drop
2. Suzanne

 

And for one (well, two) that will make your jaw drop on a good vinyl system:
The Holy Hour
Primary

Dynamics, treble delicacy, stentorian six-string bass (32 Hz). Heaven!

N.B. as this is The Cure (Faith), there's that little Cure Curiosity of another kind of '1-2'. That is, that the titular track (often the Side B closer) is usually a blinding second punch also, e.g., 'Three Imaginary Boys', 'Seventeen Seconds', 'Faith', etc.

 

Poe

1. Hello
2. Trigger Happy Jack (Drive By a Go-Go)

 

Rednex

1. Cotton Eye Joe
2. Hittin' the Hay

 

12 pages in and no...
Toto-Child's Anthem & I'll Supply The Love.

 

Sophie B. Hawkins

1. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
2. Mysteries We Understand

 

Those Darlins

1. Red Light Love
2. Wild One

 

Tracy Bonham

1. Mother Mother
2. Navy Bean

 

ZZ Ward

1. Till the Casket Drops
2. Put the Gun Down

 

Skynyrd-I ain’t the one
Tuesday’s gone

 

1- Let Me Out
2- Your Number Or Your Name

The Knack- "Get The Knack"

 

The Move - Yellow Rainbow - Kilroy Was Here

 

Blind Faith - Had To Cry Today - Can't Find My Way Home

 

I quite like:

Shapes Of Things &
Let Me Love You

By Jeff Beck on Truth from 1968!

 

New Radicals

1. Mother We Just Can't Get Enough
2. You Get What You Give

 

The Bothy Band/The Bothy Band (Mulligan 1975)

"The Kesh Jig, Give Us A Drink Of Water, The Flower Of The Flock, Famous Ballymote"

opens the LP and is quickly followed by:

"The Green Groves Of Erin, The Flowers Of Red Hill"


After this killer, one-two knock-em-senseless opening punch, don’t even pause for breath, take no effing prisoners gambit, then the album gets really good.

 

The Stooges

1969
I wanna be your dog

Tim

 

Moby Grape:

1. Hey Grandma
2. Mr. Blues

 

Mountain - Mountain Climbing!

1. Mississippi Queen
2. Theme From An Imaginery Western