Cake released their debut album Motorcade of Generosity on Capricorn Records in 1994.
Here is the discography surrounding Cake's debut album:
Rancho Seco (1987 single as John McCrea)
How Do You Afford Your Rock & Roll Lifestyle (1993 single)
Sampler (1994 sampler) Motorcade of Generosity
Ruby Sees All (1995 single)
Jolene (1995 single)
When Buffalo Springfield went to the Monterey Pop Festival, Neil Young was unable to attend and was replaced for the performance by Doug Hastings. Doug Hastings was first a member of The Daily Flash, a folk/psych rock outfit. The Daily Flash never released an album but gained respect in the live scenes of Seattle and LA. A compilation of their recordings I Flash Daily came out in 1984.
Here is the complete discography for The Daily Flash:
Queen Jane Approximately (1966 single)
The French Girl (1967 single) I Flash Daily
Jack of Diamonds (1996 compilation EP)
Timemazine CD Compilation #2 (2007 compilation song)
Probably Jack Nitzsche's most notable collaborations were with The Rolling Stones (visited two stops ago) and Neil Young. The two first collaborated while Young was still with Buffalo Springfield on the songs "Expecting to Fly" and "Broken Arrow". Nitzsche co-produced the songs and arranged the orchestration for the latter. Buffalo Springfield released their second (!) album Buffalo Springfield Again in 1967 on Atco Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Buffalo Springfield's second album:
Bluebird (1967 single) Buffalo Springfield
Rock & Roll Woman (1967 single)
Expecting to Fly (1967 single)
"Expecting to Fly" by Buffalo Springfield
"A Child's Claim to Fame" by Buffalo Springfield
"For What It's Worth" & "Mr. Soul" by Buffalo Springfield
Starting with their second album came The Rolling Stones's collaboration with producer, composer, and arranger Jack Nitzsche. He was credited with playing the "Nitzsche-phone", a name for a non-existent invention given to the particular recorded sound of Jack's piano/organ. Jack Nitzsche released his first album The Lonely Surfer in 1963
Here is the discography surrounding Jack Nitzsche's debut album:
The Lonley Surfer
Song for a Summer Night (1963 single)
Rumble (1963 single)
Chris Farlowe came to greater public exposure with his signing to Immediate Records (a record company we've seenbefore). Immediate was co-founded by Andrew Loog Oldham, early manager for The Rolling Stones. This makes the third time the tour's covered a band's second album (who'd have thought they'd be so rare), and The Rolling Stones released their second album The Rolling Stones No. 2 at the dawn of 1965.
Here is the discography surrounding The Rolling Stones's second album:
It's All Over Now (1964 single)
Five by Five (1964 EP)
Time Is on My Side (1964 single)
12 X 5 (1964 US album)
Little Red Rooster (1964 single)
Heart of Stone (1964 single)
The Complete British Radio Broadcasts - Volume 2 1964 (compilation)
Route 66 (1965 single) The Rolling Stones No. 2
Under the Boardwalk (1965 single)
"Reelin' and Rockin'" by Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds
Peter Solley produced The Romantics's debut album but started his recording career as a keyboard player in Chris Farlowe's backing band The Thunderbirds. They released their debut album Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds in 1966.
Here is the discography surrounding Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds's debut album:
Air Travel (1962 single as Chris Farlowe)
I Remember (1963 single)
Blue Beat (1964 single as The Beazers)
Girl Trouble (1964 single)
Just a Dream (1964 single as Chris Farlowe)
Buzz With the Fuzz (1965 single)
Stormy Monday Blues (1965 single as Little Joe Cook)
The Fool (1965 single as Chris Farlowe)
Air Travel (1965 EP as Chris Farlowe) Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds
Steve Forbert signed to Nemperor Records, a small, largely unsuccessful label with a big name attached to it with Brian Epstein. Although Forbert had a fair amount of success, their most successful signing was probably The Romantics. The Romantics released their debut album The Romantics in 1980 on Nemperor.
Here is the discography surrounding The Romantics's debut album:
Little White Lies (1977 single)
Tell It to Carrie (1979 EP)
What I Like About You (1979 single) The Romantics
When I Look in Your Eyes (1980 single)
Tell It to Carrie (1980 single)
Ramones were co-managed by Linda Stein with Danny Fields. She also managed young folk troubadour Steve Forbert. Forbert released his debut album Alive on Arrival in 1978 on Nemperor Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Steve Forbert's debut album:
Goin' Down to Laurel (1978 single) Alive on Arrival
Thinkin' (1979 single)
Arriving Live (1979 promo single)
The Oil Song (1979 single)
"Grand Central Station, March 18. 1877" by Steve Forbert
Cheetah Chrome and the Dead Boys were encouraged to move permanently from Cleveland to New York on the recommedation of Joey Ramone. The Ramones formed in 1974 and quickly became one of the leading and foundational bands of New York's punk scene. Their debut album Ramones came out in 1976 on Sire Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Ramones's debut album:
Radio City Demo (1975 Feb 10 demo)
Live at CBGB's (1975 May 15 live bootleg)
Live at CBGB's (1975 live bootleg)
The 914 Sessions (1975 live session)
Blitzkrieg Bop (1976 single)
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (1976 single) Ramones
Live at "The Club" (1976 May 12 live bootleg)
First Euro Show (1976 July 4 live bootleg)
Live at The Roxy Theater (1976 August 12 live bootleg)
Live at Starwood (1976 August 16 live bootleg)
We end our tour of the survivors from Rocket from the Tombs with Gene O'Connor and Johnny Madansky. They were the only ones who kept their stage names from their Cleveland days and are still known as Cheetah Chrome and Johnny Blitz, respectively. They formed the band Dead Boys with frontman Stiv Bators. After a move to New York, they released their debut album Young Loud and Snotty in 1977.
Here is the discography surrounding Dead Boys's debut album:
Eve of the Dead Boys (EP compilation of 1976 material as Frankenstein)
Sonic Reducer (1977 single) Young Loud and Snotty
Live at The Waldorf (1977 live bootleg)
Younger Louder and Snottier (1977 rough mixes)
The third thread from the Rocket from the Tombs cloth is another individual, like Laughner, who floated from band to band. Craig Bell just did so with less urgency. Although other members of Tombs spinoffs wanted Bell as a member for their groups, he instead moved to Connecticut. Music was still in Bell's life, but not his life. He created a handful of bands with his wife and friends over the years and his most notable group was Saucers. Saucers never released a proper studio album, but a compilation of their singles and other takes was compiled in 2002 (hot on the release of the Rocket from the Tombs compilation).
Here's the complete discography for Saucers:
What We Do (1979 EP)
A Certain Kind of Shy (1980 single)
I Love New York (I Hate New York) (1983 single as The Plan)
America Now (1985 compilation song as The Bell System)
Die Orgasmus Bigband (1985 compilation song as C.W. Bell with Cassie O'Tone) What We Did
Babylon's Burning: The Rough 'n' Ready Rise of PUNK RAWK (1973-1978) (2007 compilation song with Peter Laughner)
Second Saucers (2011 EP)
The life of Rocket from the Tombs was short lived and broke into many different bands that survived it, each kept a different affectation of the artistry of the original alive. Peter Laughner originally survived the band as an original member of Pere Ubu with David Thomas. He co-wrote and performed a couple of Ubu's first singles but fell out of the group due to his substance abuse. Though he is often seen as an important string of Ubu (not wise and a venturesome mistake), it's probably best to view his work (and any, if any, influence) as a singular discography outside of it to better put it all in perspective.
Laughner never released a proper studio LP during his life time, but many demo, radio and live recordings survive him either as a solo artist or a member of a band. Although he had talent as a guitarist, singer and songwriter, he was aware that (but could never escape) his greatest weakness, a hero-worship of the New York scene, of Lou Reed specifically, and to a lesser degree Dylan and old bluesmen, could only be tempered by being in a band. So he had many of all kinds: a blues trio, a folk duo, proto-punk, punk, art-punk, post-punk, and new wave. My favorite is probably his collaboration with Don Harvey on reed organ. Each were unique from the others but only a couple (Rocket from the Tombs because he had no real control and Pere Ubu because the project wasn't his) really could distance themselves from Laughner's influences. That influence usually came out as an unnatural number of Reed or Television covers (always the same ones throughout his recordings), songs that needed to be reworked time and again so they wouldn't be mistaken for a Reed or Dylan song, a singing voice that only stopped imitating when he was too drunk or high to try, and his inability to keep a band together due to his abuse of drugs and alcohol and lack of leadership skills despite having great potential to be a leader. He was a better guitar player sober, but was hardly ever that by the end of his life. Bands were often better off without him but couldn't survive without his impetus, ideas, charisma, or star-power.
On the Cleveland rock scene, David Thomas remised the fatal flaw of Cleveland punk as simply being unlikeable from the outside looking in, a counterpoint to the cool New York scene. To him, Laughner's fatal flaw was trying to be a New Yorker, to escape his Cleveland fate by bridging the two cities together through his music and to a more tragic extent, through his body. Neither were successful in accomplishing it, but his death was. It forged a myth and misunderstanding around his music and influence and extended it to the Cleveland scene that could no longer escape his phantom fingerprints. For better or for worse.
He died at 24. The best compilation of his work to date is Take the Guitar Player for a Ride released in 1993.
Here is the complete discography for Peter Laughner:
Do Re Mi (1972 live recording as The Original Wolverines)
WMMS Coffee Break (1972 live recording with John Sferra)
Cinderella Backstreet's Last Show (1973 live bootleg as Cinderella Backstreet)
Early Demos (1972-1974 demos and other recordings)
Live on CWRU (1974 live recordings plus demos)
Cinderella's Revenge Last Show (1975 live bootleg as Cinderella's Revenge)
Rehearsal (1975 rehearsal recording with The Wolves)
Live in January (1976 live recording with The Wolves)
Creem Offices (1976 recordings with Lester Bangs)
The Ann Arbor Tapes (1976 recordings with Don Harvey)
Setting Son (1976 acoustic home recordings)
Earth by April (1976 bootleg compilation as Friction)
Live at Pirate's Cove (1976 live bootleg as Friction)
Last Rehearsal (1977 live recording with The Wolves)
Nocturnal Digressions (1977 home recordings)
Peter Laughner: (1982 compilation album)
Baby's on Fire (1992 single with The Finns) Take the Guitar Player for a Ride
Babylon's Burning: The Rough 'n' Ready Rise of PUNK RAWK 1973-1978 (2007 compilation song with Craig Bell)
Play On Beloved Son (2015 compilation album)
Rocket from the Tombs didn't last long but their remains are many. The longest lasting and possibly most influential remains are the art-punk incarnation called Pere Ubu, a band headed by ex-Tombs member David Thomas. They released their debut album The Modern Dance in 1978.
Here is the discography surrounding Pere Ubu's debut album:
30 Seconds Over Tokyo (1975 single)
Final Solution (1976 single)
Street Waves (1976 single)
The Modern Dance (1977 single) The Modern Dance
Datapanik in the Year Zero (1978 compilation EP)
Live at the Longhorn (1978 live bootleg)
Girly Machine, and many other of Ohio's Columbus punk scene, owe a lot to Cleveland's punk scene of the mid-70s. A lot of these bands released their debut recordings on the Datapanik label, a label that got its name from a Pere Ubu single. Of course, the fountainhead of the Cleveland punks was proto-punk band Rocket from the Tombs. Although Tombs never released a proper album, their 1975 bootleg recordings played an important role in mapping out the development of early punk music (especially outside of the New York scene). Rocket from the Tombs released a compilation of these recordings in 2002.
Here is the discography surrounding Rocket from the Tombs's debut album:
WMMS Live (1975 radio performance)
Ain't It Fun (1975 single)
The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs (2002 compilation of 1975 recordings)
"Search & Destroy" by Rocket from the Tombs
"30 Seconds Over Tokyo" by Rocket from the Tombs
"Never Gonna Kill Myself Again" by Rocket from the Tombs
In producing her debut album, Jenny Mae recorded help from almost every local Columbus punk band. One man who found himself engineering on that album also produced the one-and-done band Girly Machine. They released their only album Girly Machine in 1994.
Here is the complete discography for Girly Machine:
Split (1989 split single with Pica Huss)
Bumped by Karaoke: Datapanik's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1992 compilation album)
65 Seconds (1993 single) Girly Machine
Ubu Dance Party: A Tribute to Pere Ubu (1997 tribute album)
While playing with Gaunt, drummer Jeff Regensberger also performed with the short lived Vibralux. Vibralux was headed by guitarist and songwriter Jenny Mae Leffel who would go on to record solo as Jenny Mae. Jenny Mae released her debut album There's a Bar Around the Corner... Assholes on Anyway Records in 1995.
Here is the discography surrounding Jenny Mae's debut album:
For You Ears Only! (1993 split single as Vibralux)
Cowtown EP Vol. II (1993 compilation album as Vibralux)
Corporate Groupings (1993 compilation album as Vibralux)
If We Wait / Red Chair (1993 split single)
Hercules (1994 single as Vibralux) There's a Bar Around the Corner... Assholes
Runaway + 2 (1995 EP)
Gaunt and New Bomb Turks both hailed from the punk scene in Columbus, Ohio during the early nineties. The two bands recorded, at the onset, for the local Datapanik label, covered each other's songs, and featured together on a couple split singles and compilation albums. Gaunt released their debut album I Can See Your Mom from Here in 1995 on the Thrill Jockey label.
Here is the discography surrounding Gaunt's debut album:
Rocket to Nowhere / Dear Richard (1989 single by Two Hour Trip)
A Datapanik Split Single EP (1991 split single EP)
Fielder's Choice (1992 single)
Bumped by Karaoke: Datapanik's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1992 compilation album)
Jim Motherfucker (1992 single)
Whitey the Man (1992 EP)
Cowtown EP Vol. I (1992 compilation EP)
Solution (1993 single)
Good Bad Happy Sad (1993 single)
Pop Song (1993 single)
For Your Ears Only! (1993 compilation album by Gaunt and Vibralux)
Rock 'n' Roll / Ohio (1993 split single)
Cowtown EP Vol. II (1993 compilation EP by Vibralux)
Corporate Groupings (1993 compilation single by Vibralux)
Hercules (1994 single by Vibralux)
Sob Story (1994 EP)
National Postal Museum (1994 single) I Can See Your Mom from Here
The Spaceshits were notorious for their live shows leading to incidents that would get them banned from many of the Montreal venues they played at. One such incident involved another, more established punk band, New Bomb Turks. New Bomb Turks released their debut album !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! in 1993 on Crypt Records.
Here is the discography surrounding New Bomb Turks's debut album:
A Datapanik Split Single EP (1991 split single EP)
Bumped by Karaoke: Datapanik's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1992 compilation album)
So Cool, So Clean, So Sparkling Clear (1992 EP)
Trying to Get By (1992 single)
Cowtown EP Vol. II (1993 compilation EP)
Bottle Island (1993 single)
In the Wee Small Hours (1993 split single)
I Wanna Sleep (1993 single)
I'm Weak (1993 single)
Drunk on Cock (1993 EP)
Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus (1993 compilation album) !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!
The Next Big Thing (1993 single)
So Young, So Fair, So Debonair (1993 single)
Sharpen-Up Time (1993 single)
Tattoed Apathetic Boys / Dogs on 45 Medley (1993 split single)
Live '93 (1993 live EP)
Live Munster '93 (1993 live EP)
Peel Session 1993 (1993 Peel Session)
When Nolan Strong and The Diablos received the tribute album treatment in 2010, their most famous song "The Wind" was covered by Canadian musician Mark Sultan. Mark Sultan is a man of many bands and many projects with his first being the lead singer of the Montreal punk rockers The Spaceshits performing under the moniker Creepy. The Spaceshits released their debut album Winter Dance Party in 1997.
Here is the discography surrounding The Spaceshits's debut album:
I'm Dead (1996 EP)
Full Fisted Action! (1996 2x7")
Showdown on 3rd! (1997 single)
More Abuse (1997 single)
By My Side (1997 single) Winter Dance Party
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles were heavily influenced by The Diablos, another doo-wop and early rock and roll vocal group of the Motor City. In fact, one of their early recordings was a cover of the first Diablos single "Adios, My Desert Love". The Diablos, mostly led by the powerful vocalist Nolan Strong, cut a handful of singles in the late fifties that would compile into their debut album Fortune of Hits in 1961 on the Fortune Records label.
Here is the discography surrounding Nolan Strong & The Diablos's debut album:
Adios, My Desert Love (1954 single as The Diablos)
The Wind (1954 single as The Diablos)
Route 16 (1955 single as The Diablos)
Do You Remember What You Did (1955 single as The Diablos)
The Way You Dog Me Around (1955 single as The Diablos)
You're the Only Girl, Dolores (1956 single)
Try Me One More Time (1956 single)
The Mambo of Love (1957 single)
My Heart Will Always Belong to You (1958 single)
Come Home, Little Girl (1958 single as The Diablos)
Goodbye Matilda (1959 single)
If I (1959 single)
Since You're Gone (1960 single) Fortune of Hits
"My Heart Will Always Belong to You" by Nolan Strong and The Diablos
The phenomenon of Little Stevie Wonder was discovered by Ronnie White. Ronnie White was a member of The Miracles, one of the first groups signed to the Motown label and one of their most defining artists. The Miracles released their debut album Hi... We're the Miracles in 1961.
Here is the discography surrounding The Miracles's debut album:
Got a Job (1958 single)
Money (1958 single)
Bad Girl (1959 single)
It (1959 single by Ron & Bill)
I Need a Change (1960 single)
The Feeling Is So Fine (1960 single)
Way Over There (1960 single)
Shop Around (1960 single) Hi... We're The Miracles
"They Call It Pretty Music, but the Old People Call It the Blues" by Little Stevie Wonder
When Marvin Gaye moved to the Motown label, his recording career faulted out of the gate, and, early on, Gaye became more notable on the label for his role as a session drummer and songwriter for other Motown artists including Martha and The Vandellas, The Miracles, and Stevie Wonder. Then known as Little Stevie Wonder, the boy musical genius signed with Motown at the age of 11 and released his debut instrumental album The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie a year later in 1962.
Here is the discography surrounding Little Stevie Wonder's debut album:
I Call It Pretty Music, but the Old People Call It the Blues (1962 single)
Little Water Boy (1962 single with Clarence Paul) The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie
As The Moonglows began to fade as a vocal group in the late fifties, both alternating lead singers Bobby Lester and Harvey Fuqua tried to keep the group going, though seperately. Leaving off from the latter, Fuqua contracted The Marquees (at one time shepherded by Bo Diddley) to perform with him as The New Moonglows. This iteration only recorded a couple singles before Fuqua's goals changed. He moved to Detroit and form his own record label, Tri-Phi Records. With him went one Marquee named Marvin Gay still under contract as a session musician. In Detroit, Gay's singing impressed those at the native and newly minted Tamla Records to which Fuqua would sell most of his stake in Gay's contract. Changing his name, Marvin Gaye recorded his debut album The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye in 1961 with Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Marvin Gaye's debut album:
The Bells (1956 single as The Marquees)
Hey Little School Girl (1957 single as The Marquees)
Santa Done Got Hip (1957 single as The Marquees)
Close to Me (1958 single as The Marquees)
I'm in Misery (1958 single as The Marquees)
Who Will Be the First One (1959 single as The Marquees)
Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide (1961 single) The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye
Sandman (1962 single)
(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over (1962 unreleased single)
"(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over" by Marvin Gaye
