In order to qualify to be on a list of truly fantastic albums the record must be able to be enjoyed on all tracks such as Abbey Road by The Beatles.
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Bang Bang You’re Terry Reid
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Soft Machine “Third” or Frank Zappa’s Yellow Shark |
Sorry if I’m breaking the "rules" but this was taking too long. I had to browse through 3000+ titles so this was a journey of sorts and nonetheless enjoyable. I had to create three categories in an attempt to prevent insanity.
My no brainers...Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Van Halen, Dire Straits
My faves...Foreigner, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Ray Vaughn
My contenders...The Black Crowes, Mike + The Mechanics, Tesla, The Traveling Wilburys
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Crosby Stills & Nash - who spawned a bunch of groups who tried to sound like them - most notably. the Eagles |
Crosby Stills & Nash - who spawned a bunch of groups who tried to sound like them - most notably. the Eagles |
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Boston "Boston", Stevie Ray Vaughan "Texas Flood" Aha "Hunting High and Low." The Smiths "The Smiths" |
I kinda mentioned Tiny Tim ‘tongue and cheek’, but when you think back to when it was released, it made quite the impression....nobody knew quite what to think, and he became an over night oddball success. Everyone took notice, young and old. |
bekeske.....Tiny Tim is really a good album, with a Bowie tune on it....hooda thunk?
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Do you mean "best" compared to their work that followed? I'll throw out Edgar Winter's "Entrance" and Led Zeppelin. Most other acts started pretty rough compared to when they were seasoned later.....I'm thinking Beatles and Billy Joel....both of whom I worship! |
Richard Barone - "Cool Blue Halo"
It came out about a year before MTV Unplugged started, and it pretty much started the chamber pop movement. |
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@mitchagain
Yep, Singing Dog Records was right around Crazy Mama’s. Popular record Store at the time, along with Moles Record Exchange further north on High Street. ‘We’ (my friends, I included), put on a performance at Singing Dog with an ensemble we called The Null Set, which was basically an avant-garde performance art group which played on the surfaces in the store, among other things. Fun times back then, and very creative things going on.
I saw the Psychedelic Furs at the Agora in Cleveland (the original Agora). I always liked that band. But, saw many great shows at the Columbus Agora over the years as well, including The Band (sans Robertson) the night before Manuel killed himself. That was a shocker, but glad I saw them before that happened. |
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Thanks for the Mark Eitzel stories! His concert monologues are legendary. I can only imagine what he is like to talk to. I lived in Ohio for 3 years in the 80's, and my job frequently had me on High Street near the OSU campus. There was a great record store in that area that I think was called Singing Dog Records.
One of my favorite concert stories happened in Columbus. I went to the Agora Ballroom to see The Psychedelic Furs. Right before the show started someone walked up to me and asked "what I thought the first song would be?" This contest idea had never occurred to me, so I went with the first song that came to mind, which was "Into You Like a Train." Turns out I was right; and, the bewildered look that he gave me was priceless! |
@mitchagain Mark Eitzel: "60 Watt Silver Lining" Wow, now there is a blast from the past. I knew Mark when he lived in Columbus and a member of ‘The Cowboys’, a sorta punk/‘new wave’ local band at the time. I still have their only 45 released at that time. In fact, we were sitting in Crazy Mama’s (a club in the OSU area) on High Street, he gave me the 45, (which he had a bunch selling them at the club), and as we sat and talked, wrote a rambling little note on the 45 cover, and signed it ‘Billie Lee’, the name he went by with the Cowboys. That 45 is worth some bucks, but may be more so as he signed it. Eventually he and others put together another band called The Naked Skinnies (which another friend of mine played drums), I have their only 45 from that time as well, and they soon moved to San Francisco. It was there that he eventually formed The American Music Club. Mark was/is incredible. Obviously a gifted writer, but also, a very nice guy if you could penetrate his personality. A very interesting mind to listen to, either through his music or by talking to. A larger than life personality even back in the ‘old days’. |
There are SO MANY great ones listed. I'm taking notes to listen to ones I'm not familiar with. A great album (to me) is one in which every song is a good listen. I think its usually a debut album because the artist records the best of their work for max impact. So a couple of my favorite debut albums that are like this: Basia - Time and Tide Kaleo - A/B Good thread...no trolls... |
vinowino,
"Fleetwood Mac. ( aka The dustbin album. Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac)"
Green's Mac were a bit like Barrett's Floyd, or Curtis's Joy Division (now there's another great debut album - 1978s Unknown Pleasures) compared to what came later.
Less commercial maybe, but certainly no less good.
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+ 1 on the "usual suspects": Doors - Hendrix - Led Zep - King Crimson - Television - Dire Straits - Rickie Lee Jones - Pretenders - Elvis Costello - Joe Jackson & REM.
+ 1 on the "not so" usual suspects: Dada - Jellyfish - Spirit - Velvet Underground.
Here's a few more in the latter category:
JJ Cale - "Naturally"
Jim Carroll: "Catholic Boy"
Lloyd Cole & Commotions: "Rattlesnakes"
"Crack The Sky"
Mark Eitzel: "60 Watt Silver Lining"
Michael Franks: "The Art of Tea"
PJ Harvey: "Dry"
Martha and The Muffins: "Metro Music"
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HI,
Another two:
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicous
10CC - 10CC
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Not easy to beat...
Kristofferson (by Kris Kristofferson)
An album on which Help Me Make it Through the Night, For the Good Times, Sunday Morning Coming Down, and Me and Bobby McGee are just "some of the songs".
Honorable mentions:
Dire Straits
Songs of Leonard Cohen
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Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced ’Lĕh-’nérd ’Skin-’nérd)
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The Rolling Stones, England’s Newest Hit Makers
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Wow, no one’s claimed GNR Appetite? I’ll take that one! |
Janis Joplin's "Cheap Thrills" and the Sex Pistols 'Never Mind the Bollocks".
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Rickie Lee JonesGregory Alan Isakov
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@buddhachild - listened to LH "to Zion" just the other day, with volume!
(tongue in cheek - my digital system never sounded so vinyl)
Tracy Chapman self-titled, for that I would renege on London Grammar.
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Montrose
...s’been a long education
but my homework is done ... |
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Fleetwood Mac. ( aka The dustbin album. Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac) |
@oregon, good call on the Los Lobos
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Hot Tuna
Love the live acoustic debut. None of the others are in my collection. |
Los Lobos (a time to dance...)
Santana
Cream
The Doors |
Hard to argue with Zeppelin and Hendrix. Also not yet mentioned, I'd add Jeff Buckley. |
Los Lobos/How Will The Wolf Survive? |
Some really good debut albums noted.
I like Joan Osborne, "Relish"
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Air - Moon Safari
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets |
Led Zeppelin (first album), for me as a teenager, for Classic Hard Rock.
Meet The Beetles, for me as a 9-year old, the music that began it all. |
+1 for Chicago Transit Authority
also Kansas’s debut album is their best work, IMO
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Michael Schenker Group S/T
Hard Rock MASTERPIECE as far as the music. Production not so much😒
What a Shame. |
As an R&B lover, I'd say:
Mary J. Blige -- What's the 411
Keith Sweat -- Make it Last Forever
Lauryn Hill (solo) -- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Missy Elliott -- Supa Dupa Fly (I remember seeing this in a Record Store posted everywhere, and I thought "who is she and why should I but that CD?" until I got home and listened to it. I'm glad I took that chance.. I've loved her ever since.
And on another note, I really loved:
Madonna -- Madonna (I always thought HOLIDAY would be a classic)
Nora Jones -- Come Go with Me
English Beat -- I Just Can't Stop It (my most listened to CD in college) |
Jethro Tull - This Was. Check out Steven Wilson's remixed version. I love hearing this band when they were young, just developing their style. This is primarily a blues record, a style that they ultimately abandoned. Still - listening to "Some day the sun won't shine for you", you'd swear that you could stand right up and stand amongst the band. The whole album is like that. Really enjoyable! |
Willis Alan Ramsey. Perfect album. |
John Prine
The Band
Hot Tuna - Acoustic
Jackson Browne- Saturate Before Using
Sarah Jarosz - Song Up in Her Head
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Styx S/T🍸 Great debut!
Grew up on Styx
Love this band!!!😎 |
