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:7837 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.
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.
I agree. It came out of nowhere,and flat took over.
And "Is dated now" doesn't mean squat. We are talking about DEBUT albums,and the impact that they had.
I can't remember which one it was off the top of my head at the moment,but whichever one was the first Allman Brother Band Album has to be right up there,too.
I agree. It came out of nowhere,and flat took over.
And "Is dated now" doesn't mean squat. We are talking about DEBUT albums,and the impact that they had.
Hear ya. That Boston album hit like a nuke. Still nothing like it since. There are "great" debut albums, then there are albums that sound like they were composed in a different era, on a different planet. Few are in that category.
AND...if nothing still doesn't sound like it, IS it really "dated"?
I can't remember which one it was off the top of my head at the moment,but whichever one was the first Allman Brother Band Album has to be right up there,too.
Hear ya. That Boston album hit like a nuke. Still nothing like it since. There are "great" debut albums, then there are albums that sound like they were composed in a different era, on a different planet. Few are in that category.
I think he was trying to stand on the shoulders of Emerson,Lake,and Palmer. Same kinda stuff,and done so well even live that it was almost scary.
