A Band’s First Album
Stu Choddongle’s comments on my RATM post kinda raises a bold statement from myself.
A band’s first album is their best album.
There are a few perfect examples and notable exceptions to this rule I suppose. I’ll use a combanation of my favourite bands and bands that have been in the charts recently.
- Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine
- Tool: (IMO) Laterus
- Artic Monkeys: Whatever people say I am that’s what I’m not
- Oasis: Definately Maybe
- ACDC: Back in black
- Megadeth: well it’s NOT Killing is my Busniess, I can’t descide between the rest
- Metallica: Master Of Puppets
- Coldplay: Parachutes
- Kasabian: Kasabian
- Green Day: Dookie
- Placebo: Placebo
- U2: It’s all shit
That didn’t settle anything really, I wonder if a local university would commision research into the study of first albums……
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He works full time in IT and spends his evenings feeding the farm that is his home has become. Mark loves playing Ultimate every now and again, toying with his camera and has just started scuba diving.
Rust.
Daniel corrects me on Green Day’s first album being Kerplunk.
Green day should be Red.
U2, fair play if you say “I don’t like it” but to dismiss it as “shit” undermines any musical opinion you express. One of the most influential bands EVER. Fact. From the guitarist (Edge) through to the lead singer (Bono) they have pushed the boundaries;
* politically – who else helps broker the Northern Ireland peace deal and increase the USA aid donations to Africa?
* Stage sets – they recognised the need to entertain audiences beyond simply coming on stage on playing instruments. Most of the stage sets nowadays owe themselves to U2 pushing the stage set boundaries back in the 1980′s. Think Zooropa and Pop mart in the 90′s
* Religion – name another band who express religion so freely in their music?
* Ability to bounce back from a disaster – not many bands come back from something as bad Pop/Original Soundtracks.
* And most importantly Musically – there’s not many bands who make so many varied songs and have such a varied back catalogue. Dance, pop, rock, blues, gospel…..
I could go on. Yes I’m a superfan and its obvious. I don’t listen to music by artists like Korn or Slipknot. Does that mean they shit? No. It’s just they ain’t my cup of tea……..
IMO