Rolling Stone Magazine's The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time
04-09-13, 07:19 PM
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Rolling Stone Magazine's The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time
Recent article in Rolling Stone: "The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time"
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-time-20130322
Just the basic list...
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-time-20130322
"It was fifty years ago today that the Beatles’ released their first album, Please Please Me. In honor of that world-changing LP, we’ve compiled a list of the 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time. A note on how we made the list: Albums got docked points if the artist went on to far greater achievements (which is why Please, Please Me and Greetings from Asbury Park, great as they are, didn't made the top ten); conversely, we gave a little extra recognition to great debut albums that the artist never matched (hello, Is This It and Illmatic!). We also skipped solo debuts by artists who were already in well-known bands, which is why you won’t see John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band or Paul Simon. We focused, instead, on debuts that gave you the thrill of an act arriving fully-formed, ready to reinvent the world in its own image."
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04-09-13, 08:13 PM
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Just like any of these kinds of lists, there are a bunch of really great ones and a bunch that they only put on there to seem relevant.
04-09-13, 08:20 PM
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Their criteria that albums "got docked points if the artist went on to far greater achievements" just sounds like a bad approach to this. So a band that had a solid 1st album but crap afterwards would seemingly be rated higher than a band with a solid 1st album and then went to follow it up with other solid albums.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
04-09-13, 08:33 PM
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04-09-13, 09:23 PM
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Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time
Their criteria that albums "got docked points if the artist went on to far greater achievements" just sounds like a bad approach to this. So a band that had a solid 1st album but crap afterwards would seemingly be rated higher than a band with a solid 1st album and then went to follow it up with other solid albums.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
04-09-13, 09:24 PM
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Their criteria that albums "got docked points if the artist went on to far greater achievements" just sounds like a bad approach to this. So a band that had a solid 1st album but crap afterwards would seemingly be rated higher than a band with a solid 1st album and then went to follow it up with other solid albums.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
04-09-13, 09:46 PM
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Led Zeppelin at 72 and The Velvet Underground and Nico not being number one makes the list null and void to me.
04-09-13, 11:23 PM
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I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with you Todd. If there is room for Missy Elliott's Supa Dupa Fly or Drake's Thank Me Later, there is room on the list for Closing Time.
04-10-13, 12:56 AM
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04-10-13, 10:16 AM
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Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time
Let's see, yet another Rolling Stone list. It must be definitive then.
U2 is ranked #52
Springsteen at #37
R.E.M. kickin' around the top 20 at #18
... WAIT where's Bob Dylan? You're slipping, Wenner.
U2 is ranked #52
Springsteen at #37
R.E.M. kickin' around the top 20 at #18
... WAIT where's Bob Dylan? You're slipping, Wenner.
04-10-13, 11:52 AM
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Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time
Other possibilities:
Chemical Brothers: "Exit Planet Dust"
Funkadelic: "Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow"
King Crimson: "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Air: "Moon Safari"
The Gun Club: "Fire of Love"
Fairport Convention: S/T
Mission of Burma: "Signals, Calls and Marches"
The La's: S/T
Supergrass: "I Should Coco"
Pixies: "Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim"
Roxy Music is my number one. That album came out of left field as a fully formed vision of the world that everyone is still trying to catch up to.
Chemical Brothers: "Exit Planet Dust"
Funkadelic: "Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow"
King Crimson: "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Air: "Moon Safari"
The Gun Club: "Fire of Love"
Fairport Convention: S/T
Mission of Burma: "Signals, Calls and Marches"
The La's: S/T
Supergrass: "I Should Coco"
Pixies: "Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim"
Roxy Music is my number one. That album came out of left field as a fully formed vision of the world that everyone is still trying to catch up to.
04-10-13, 12:45 PM
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Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time
Huh, that list actually included most of the ones I'd pick from my collection.
I might add "Crocodiles" from Echo and the Bunnymen.
I might add "Crocodiles" from Echo and the Bunnymen.
04-10-13, 12:52 PM
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And I agree with fist of doom; no danzig= NO SALE!
04-10-13, 03:13 PM
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Just the list of albums behind The Killers Hot Fuss is enough to invalidate this whole list. Especially since they ripped off from a lot of those albums.
04-10-13, 03:43 PM
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I tend to not get too worked up about lists like these because so many are way off base. I do however find it absurd that Queen isn't on there.
04-10-13, 04:16 PM
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Rolling Stone just continues to stick around so Pitchfork can't take the claim as number one shitty music source.
04-10-13, 05:16 PM
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Agreed with The Cars, and Arctic Monkeys, and The Killers.
However, The Doors should have been much higher than #34 and Guns and Roses should have been #1.
The Beastie Boys at #1 is a fucking joke.
However, The Doors should have been much higher than #34 and Guns and Roses should have been #1.
The Beastie Boys at #1 is a fucking joke.