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:7856 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)
I guess I can't let this thread age out without a nod to George Thorogood and the Destroyers. I was in radio through the middle of the '70s (Disco Sucks!) and knew the band casually, back when they still called themselves The Delaware Destroyers.
That was, and is, one kick-ass good-time bar band gone bigtime kick-ass good-time band.
I guess Journey is somewhere down the list, too; good band in the earlier years. Got my one-and-only coke bump from Neal Schon.
As long as I'm namedropping, I also got the worst case of the flu in my life from Debbie Harry (yeah, she really was that hot) and probably caught contact emphysema (no symptoms to date, fortunately) from Tom Waits.
