Has anyone mentioned this one:
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Dreamboat Annie was the first dbx encoded album that I bought back in the day. I found a used pristine copy in a rack for $5. What a steal.
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Has anyone mentioned this one:
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Dreamboat Annie was the first dbx encoded album that I bought back in the day. I found a used pristine copy in a rack for $5. What a steal.
Elton John - Elton John
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...
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....
Two self-titled favorites - Marshall Crenshaw and The Pretenders
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 $$$.
I love all the Wild Man Fischer albums. They are like telegraphs from the other side of madness, much like Syd Barrett. In fact I made a compilation called "Syd Barrett Meets Wild Man Fischer." If anyone is Fischer curious, there is a movie about him called Derailroaded. There is some disturbing stuff from a disturbed man, but Frank Zappa recognized that Fischer had something to say that is worth hearing.
My other favorite by him is Pronounced Normal. It was produced by Billy Mumy of Twilight Zone and Lost In Space fame, later a co-creator of Barnes and Barnes. Fish Heads anyone? It will never happen, but Pronounced Normal would be intense in surround!
As for An Evening with Wild Man Fischer, I have a mint copy that was unsealed and played just once for a needle drop conversion.
Great thread and some fantastic posts.
From a collection of over 20,000 CD's/LP's, etc, my all time favorite album of all time is a debut: Moby Grape. Five guys, three guitars (bass makes four.) All of them write and sing. All original material. Get a copy with Don Stevenson's bird left in tact, not airbrushed out.
OK, I've laid back in the weeds on this thread, BUT need to comment on some things:
1- Brave Belt 2 is a favorite of mine. My Husband and I discussed this band he never heard of while listening to BTO's Four Wheel Drive on our way to Milwaukee last weekend. Although the Chad Allen stuff is OK, 2 is really BTO under another name.
2- Joe thinks I'm nuts for loving An Evening with Wild Man Fischer. A mint copy is going into the hundreds. Or, you could buy a few monkeys and/or donkeys with those $$$.
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.
Fish Heads, eat them up, yum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-K2DZojWi0 Good old Art & Artie Barnes...
Monkeys vs. Donkeys on Kimmel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lWqA1uzPs
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