Your Favorite Debut Album

saarangnarayan said:
I don't think any other band/artist has something as impactful as Van Halen I was. But my personal favourite has to be Slipknot.
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I would argue that Jimi Hendrix' debut album Are You Experienced probably had more impact than Van Halen, given what music was around back in 1967. Van Halen was was a ground breaking album for its time, but its all a matter of context. 👍
 
unix-guy said:
Excellent!

Fun fact: my band TooMuchFiction got our name from The Sundays song Summertime 😄
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Haha, that's cool!
It's been a minute since I've listened to them but as soon as I play any off that first album, I'm transported right to my high school days. Good times hanging on the beach playing volleyball. :love
 
I think it's hard to top Boston's debut though. Every friggin' song has been played relentlessly on FM radio since coming out.
The only negative would be that you've heard it too many times. :LOL: Not to mention the impact it had on artists and bands coming up, and Scholz's added influence on the guitar electronics scene -- which in itself was and is huge.
 
The Cars came out in 79, and led 80's new wave, airc, so I'd put it up there with Van Halen, Boston, & Are You Experienced for how much new ground it broke. Heck, the entire first side was on the radio.

We'd worked up Good Times Roll, we'd finish the song, and our other guitar player would launch into My Best Friend's Girl, so we worked that one up. Same thing happened when he launched into Just What I Needed.

Then, on side 2, we did You're All I've Got Tonight. Bill starts playing Bye Bye Love, so that got added, and then Moving In Stereo. We did 6 songs off that album!
 
TheTrueZoltan! said:
Well, that lady is just (in lack of a better word) awesome. Saw her live on the Book of Secrets tour (damn, that was roughly a quarter century ago) and almost cried during the whole set. What an outstanding musician!
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I had at least one of her albums back in the day... Might have been that one.

I was big into Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Edie Brickell, etc...

Speaking of Natalie and sticking with the thread topic, this is an amazing first release:

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Blew me away when they were kids my age releasing an album like that. Still kind of blows me away when I think about those circumstances today, 30 years later.
 
unix-guy said:
I had at least one of her albums back in the day... Might have been that one.

I was big into Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Edie Brickell, etc...

Speaking of Natalie and sticking with the thread topic, this is an amazing first release:

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Huge fan. So much so that I was one of 2 guys that went with about 8 mutual female friends
to Lilith Fair in 1998. We may have been the only non-Dad men there. :LOL:
 
la szum said:
Huge fan. So much so that I was one of 2 guys that went with about 8 mutual female friends
to Lilith Fair in 1998. We may have been the only non-Dad men there. :LOL:
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I'm sure I would have enjoyed Lilith Fair. I never made it, though...
 
Air's Moon Safari
The New York Dolls
Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Stone Roses
The La's
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles' Please Please Me
The Clash
The Smiths
Françoise Hardy's Tous les garçons et les filles
Oasis' Definitely Maybe
...
 
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