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:7777 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)
A couple of the Boston tracks do sound a bit dated...
But over all, pretty still fresh to me.
We're all bound to have a diverging opinion, but to me Boston's debut album was 20 years a head of its time. There's still nothing that sounds like it.
D&D...Timeless album. To bad they couldn't follow it up. Clapton was a amzing artist.
Drummer Jim Gordon -- ever hear *his* story? GREAT drummer. Too bad he was psychopath.
Drummer Jim Gordon -- ever hear *his* story? GREAT drummer. Too bad he was psychopath.
I'll see you, and raise you "Beware of Mr. Baker" on Netflix or wherever.
I love listening to Clapton in any of his incarnations, with any other group of musicians. Has anybody else ever been a founding member of so many supergroups? It's too bad he's in decline finally but man, what a legacy.
Ever catch any of the Crossroads Blu-rays or CDs? I bow my head just thinking about them.
Inside a gated compound in South Africa, one of rock's most legendary drummers is still making enemies
Excerpt:
"F**kin' hell!" Ginger Baker shouts at the South African sunrise. His ritual morning curse complete, the 69-year-old drummer for Cream takes a deep pull on his morphine inhaler and throws his body back into the leather recliner where he spends the majority of his days.
As the drug takes effect, his tanned, weather-beaten face contracts and his vivid blue eyes go wide. His girlfriend, Kudzai, a beautiful 27-year-old from Zimbabwe he met on the Internet, hovers over him counting out his daily handful of antidepressants, stomach pills and painkillers.
"What are you looking at, Yankee!" Baker barks at me, his voice cutting through the silence like an animal shriek. Now that the morphine is running strong, he pops up out of his chair with the nervous energy of a teenager, but still he walks like a creaky old man....
Over the course of his life, during which he's raced bicycles and played polo, Baker has broken most of his ribs, mangled one of his arms and had his front teeth smashed in. He was recently diagnosed with a degenerative spine condition and the onset of emphysema. "God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can," Baker says bitterly.
Ginger Baker. He's been blessed than more than 99% of the population. Despite that the guy smoked like a chimney; Been a heroine addict for 50 years; Was reckless and rebellious and willfully disrespected his own body his entire life. Now it's all God's fault?
You wonder how the "Counselors" of the "Newton Model" would handle the case Ginger Baker. I'd imagine Baker's when his number was called, it would cause even that unlucky "team" to scatter ;-)
