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Iā€™m in the huuuuuge minority here. In the majority of cases, Iā€™ve always favored sophomore efforts and single album releases such as Buckingham/Nicks over first album releases.

Now, where is that second album favorites Thread? My list is very, very long.
 
Off the top of my head, all these are self titled.

Black Sabbath
Rush
Led Zeppelin
Bloodrock
Runaways
April Wine
Brave Belt

Wow, Brave Belt takes me back! Randy Bachman and Chad Allen... only song I remember is Dunrobin's Gone, but I believe that may be from the second album...? Anyway, pre BTO if anyone is not familiar....
 
I know it has been mentioned , but , to me the best Debut album EVER, hands down, is:
Are you Experienced- The Jimi Hendrix (a.k.a. GOD) Experience...

And if they would have included All Along The Watchtower on that album...it would be a serious contender for the best ever...not just debut...but best ever..I don't think people that weren't following music or weren't around back then realize how much the music world changed with Hendrix...to hear those things he did in 1967...was just unbelievable...other high profile bands were just in awe of him...I can remember many bands admitting that they didn't want to follow him at a live show..because he was so good...how good was he...well he only had 3 studio albums...and yet he is usually considered the best guitar player in the history of rock...and some go farther that just rock...I remember those first few times I heard him on the radio..it was...as Gos would say...amazing...I would stop what I was doing and just listen...this was in the pre "air guitar" days..in the 60's..and to this day All Along The Watchtower gives me goosebumps
 
Wow, Brave Belt takes me back! Randy Bachman and Chad Allen... only song I remember is Dunrobin's Gone, but I believe that may be from the second album...? Anyway, pre BTO if anyone is not familiar....

"Dunrobin's Gone" is from the second album the other singles were "Never Comin' Home" and "Another Way Out". Brave Belt II was re-released as Bachman Turner Bachman to capitalize on BTO's success. The first album contained "Crazy Arms, Crazy Eyes", (& if I remember right)"Rock and Roll Band" and "Scarecrow" all which recieved heavy airplay on Winnipeg radio station CKRC and I'm sure on CFRW and CKY as well, I don't know how popular they were in the rest of the country but less so than in Winnipeg.
 
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Great thread and some fantastic posts.

From a collection of over 20,000 CD's/LP's, etc, my all time favorite album is a debut: Moby Grape. Five guys, three guitars (bass makes four.) All of them write and sing. All original material. Get a copy with Don Stevenson's bird left in tact, not airbrushed out.

OK, I've laid back in the weeds on this thread, BUT need to comment on some things:

1- Brave Belt 2 is a favorite of mine. My Husband and I discussed this band he never heard of while listening to BTO's Four Wheel Drive on our way to Milwaukee last weekend. Although the Chad Allen stuff is OK, 2 is really BTO under another name.

2- Joe thinks I'm nuts for loving An Evening with Wild Man Fischer. A mint copy is going into the hundreds. Or, you could buy a few monkeys and/or donkeys with those $$$.

3- ZAZU by Rosie Vela. She was Jeff Lynne's girlfriend way back when and a very hot fashion model. Magic Smile is one of my favorite tunes. Becker, Fagen and Gary Katz were involved in thus project.
Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6Iwhoever posted the video can't spell her name!
Live performance on Letterman's 1st late night show in '86: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwjfFYrqJCU
... I guess love is real...

4- I'm a big fan of both Emitt Rhodes and Merry-Go-Round.
Fresh as a Daisy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5wdpBfGIZU
Merry-Go-Round medley from Hollywood Palace's all A&M show in '67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmioAfzhXE
You're a Very Lovely Woman (American Bandstand lip synch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEZQJ-cCSk

Some great choices, although some of them actually were 2nd albums, Elton John and Surrealistic Pillow among others.

Some fantastic 1sts, though: Can't Buy a Thrill, Santana, CTA, Child is Father, Doors and Are You Experienced. Experienced didn't have Purple Haze in its' original UK version.
 
I knew you couldn't resist this thread Linda......and you didn't disappoint me. :) I love your knowledge and love of music. I'm like a kid in a candy store when I read your posts.... :smoking

On a side note - I really am a music junkie...and I don't often get to share my geeky love of music (talking and listening) around central IL...no one seems to love it like I do...but when I do find someone.....I could go on for hours.....
 
2- Joe thinks I'm nuts for loving An Evening with Wild Man Fischer. A mint copy is going into the hundreds. Or, you could buy a few monkeys and/or donkeys with those $$$.

I love all the Wild Man Fischer albums. They are like telegraphs from the other side of madness, much like Syd Barrett. In fact I made a compilation called "Syd Barrett Meets Wild Man Fischer." If anyone is Fischer curious, there is a movie about him called Derailroaded. There is some disturbing stuff from a disturbed man, but Frank Zappa recognized that Fischer had something to say that is worth hearing.

My other favorite by him is Pronounced Normal. It was produced by Billy Mumy of Twilight Zone and Lost In Space fame, later a co-creator of Barnes and Barnes. Fish Heads anyone? It will never happen, but Pronounced Normal would be intense in surround!

As for An Evening with Wild Man Fischer, I have a mint copy that was unsealed and played just once for a needle drop conversion.
 
Fish Heads, eat them up, yum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-K2DZojWi0 Good old Art & Artie Barnes...

Wild Man Fischer on Laugh-In: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TvnG3B-DjU
Monkeys vs. Donkeys on Kimmel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lWqA1uzPs
If you were ever at a Dodgers game, you may have bought peanuts from this guy.

I love all the Wild Man Fischer albums. They are like telegraphs from the other side of madness, much like Syd Barrett. In fact I made a compilation called "Syd Barrett Meets Wild Man Fischer." If anyone is Fischer curious, there is a movie about him called Derailroaded. There is some disturbing stuff from a disturbed man, but Frank Zappa recognized that Fischer had something to say that is worth hearing.

My other favorite by him is Pronounced Normal. It was produced by Billy Mumy of Twilight Zone and Lost In Space fame, later a co-creator of Barnes and Barnes. Fish Heads anyone? It will never happen, but Pronounced Normal would be intense in surround!

As for An Evening with Wild Man Fischer, I have a mint copy that was unsealed and played just once for a needle drop conversion.
 
Great thread and some fantastic posts.

From a collection of over 20,000 CD's/LP's, etc, my all time favorite album of all time is a debut: Moby Grape. Five guys, three guitars (bass makes four.) All of them write and sing. All original material. Get a copy with Don Stevenson's bird left in tact, not airbrushed out.

OK, I've laid back in the weeds on this thread, BUT need to comment on some things:

1- Brave Belt 2 is a favorite of mine. My Husband and I discussed this band he never heard of while listening to BTO's Four Wheel Drive on our way to Milwaukee last weekend. Although the Chad Allen stuff is OK, 2 is really BTO under another name.

2- Joe thinks I'm nuts for loving An Evening with Wild Man Fischer. A mint copy is going into the hundreds. Or, you could buy a few monkeys and/or donkeys with those $$$.

3- ZAZU by Rosie Vela. She was Jeff Lynne's girlfriend way back when and a very hot fashion model. Magic Smile is one of my favorite tunes. Becker, Fagen and Gary Katz were involved in thus project.
Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6Iwhoever posted the video can't spell her name!
Live performance on Letterman's 1st late night show in '86: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwjfFYrqJCU
... I guess love is real...

4- I'm a big fan of both Emitt Rhodes and Merry-Go-Round.
Fresh as a Daisy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5wdpBfGIZU
Merry-Go-Round medley from Hollywood Palace's all A&M show in '67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmioAfzhXE
You're a Very Lovely Woman (American Bandstand lip synch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEZQJ-cCSk

Some great choices, although some of them actually were 2nd albums, Elton John and Surrealistic Pillow among others.

Some fantastic 1sts, though: Can't Buy a Thrill, Santana, CTA, Child is Father, Doors and Are You Experienced. Experienced didn't have Purple Haze in its' original UK version.

Gos is right...you are a musical treasure...a "human" music Wikipedia...I've learned so much from your posts since I'm been on this forum and also discovered how little I know about some bands I thought I was familiar with...and all the while doing it in such a graceful manner...never condescending...just informative:)..we are lucky to have you on the forum(y)
 
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