AC/DC - Back In Black Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (I know Zaireeka was released first, but TSB/Z were both recorded simultaneously with Z being a 4CD experiment of TSB offcuts released first, so I regard it as the B-sides from TSB) Suede - Coming Up (as mentioned before)
Another vote for ESP by Miles! What was the first Coltrane classic quartet album? The one just called 'Coltrane' with Out of this World on it? Not my favourite, but still excellent.
~"Sky Blue Sky"- Wilco Any & all Wilco line-up changes have brought great results/albums,but that line-up & their debut is my favorite of all... ~"Fear & Whiskey"- The Mekons ~"Fleetwood Mac"- Fleetwood Mac
Wake of the Flood - Grateful Dead 1973 debut of Keith and Donna Godchaux. New direction for the band.
Sanders & Allcock are both great (& great guys- met the whole band in Rochester NY on a tour in the early-mid 90's) but... As a huge Fairport fan, for me, the biggest & best changes were: ~Sandy Denny joins on "What We Did In Our Holidays"- their first of 3 albums from '69 ~Dave Swarbrick & Dave Mattacks join on "Liege & Lief"- their third album from '69. Their greatest line-up ever was for a one-off live performance filmed for television 1981) with: ~Richard Thompson ~Linda Thompson ~Dave Swarbrick ~Simon Nicol ~Dave Pegg ~Dave Mattacks
Steeleye Span - Below The Salt (1972) You'd think losing musicians of the calibre of Martin Cathy and Ashley Hutchings would have fatally damaged the band but they brought in Bob Johnson & Rick Kemp, and recorded what I, if no-one else, regard as their masterpiece.
Wall of Voodoo, after making a big change in their sound without personnel changes-- a move away from the dark mystery of their debut LP to the warmer sound of Call of the West (including "Mexican Radio") -- brought in a new lead singer/songwriter and a new drummer. Seven Days in Sammy's Town moved them in an Americana direction while embracing the new wave attitude of the 1980's. Probably their best work. Renaissance, born of the ashes of The Yardbirds, lost all of their regular members before releasing the Prologue LP. The concept was the same, but their symphonic rock sound gained polish as well as an exceptional lead singer in Annie Haslam.
It went similarly for Duran Duran in my estimation, and twice to boot: Notorious (1986) Medazzaland (1997)
