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The Most Impressive Debut Albums
I’ve written about great Third Albums already, but in doing so, I glossed over acts that hit a home run right out of the gates. Given how hard it has been historically to get a record deal, and how different recording is from performing live, and how little money most new acts get to invest…
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Guns-N-Roses – Appetite for Destruction
(Album ©1987, Geffen Records) 1987 was a weird year in popular music. The top selling album for the calendar year was Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet (released in ’86) and, while the mid-’80’s were split between the era of hair metal and mainstream mega-stars like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, and Bruce Springsteen, by 1987, hair…
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Van Halen – Van Halen
Bruce, The Kinks, The Stones and The Who got me through Middle School, but by 1983, I knew there was other exciting music out there. I had already picked up on snippets of harder rock, from Rush (“Tom Sawyer”) and the aforementioned Kiss to Queen and AC/DC (“Back in Black,” “For Those About To Rock”)…
