Title: TOP 3 BEST DEBUT ROCK ALBUMS EVER Source:
youtube URL Source:http://various Published:Jun 25, 2018 Author:YOUR OPINION Post Date:2018-06-25 17:47:16 by Liberator Keywords:MUSIC, ALBUMS, EXTINCT-ART Views:5150 Comments:86
Fully subjective of course, but most of us (loosely the Baby-Boomer Generation) have grown up listening to the best music this culture has been able to offer -- namely from the 50s-late 80s. We more than other generation were able to fully gauge, critique and appreciate each era and genre fully with a discriminating ear.
For the sake of this exercise of opinion, the premise and challenge is, "BEST 3 DEBUT ALBUMS".
The stiffest competition would actually be between the 70s and 80s.
Rock Music (as a viable "Pop Music" genre died in the 20th Century. ergo, RIP, 1955-1999
Given the 1950s were mostly a decade of singles as were much of the 60s, they are numerically at a disadvantage.
I would give the nod to the 1970s as by far the best decade for album themed music. It combined the best of production value, technology resources, and conscious decision by record companies to produce "theme" albums. Often artists and groups would be embarrassed to include "filler".
I'm going to cheat and submit 5 Top Debut Albums (in chronological order):
1) Chicago (Transit Authority, 1970) 2) Derek and the Dominoes (Layla, 1972) 3) Bad Company (Bad Company, 1974) 4) Boston (1976) 5) Foreigner (1977)
The Knack -- funny but I was a captive audience to listening to 'My Sharona' seemingly for the entire summer of 1979 while working on the Seaside NJ boardwalk. (Record stand nearby, so I would listen to every summer's array of "IN" music.) Aaah, those were the days.
I never did hear any other tune on the album. Pretty good?
Right -- The Knack was projected to be an up and comer but that was its apex of commercial success. They never did make it.
The Knack -- funny but I was a captive audience to listening to 'My Sharona' seemingly for the entire summer of 1979 while working on the Seaside NJ boardwalk. (Record stand nearby, so I would listen to every summer's array of "IN" music.)
That kind of reminds me of Meatloaf's "Two out of three ain't bad" in 1978. It was played 3 times an hour on any radio station you tuned in to. I liked it at first but grew sick of it by the end of the summer. I sort of like it again now, mostly because I don't have to listen to it every 30 minutes.
That kind of reminds me of Meatloaf's "Two out of three ain't bad" in 1978. It was played 3 times an hour on any radio station you tuned in to. I liked it at first but grew sick of it by the end of the summer.
GREAT debut album by Meatloaf -- A definite Top Debut Album. Came out of the chute like absolute gangbusters. Like Boston, it seemed to be one of those albums that was its own genre. Arguably THE "Album of the Summer of 1978".
But yeah, "Two out of three ain't bad" was waaay overplayed, ruining it to a degree.
FWIW, the intro to 'Bat Out Of Hell' is a Top 3 Best intro to any song.
