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 [...]

RATM

It’s a little torturous that a band as great as Rage Against the Machine might reform and then not tour or even write new shit. It’d like baking an apple pie and then sealing it in a glass box so that you can only look at the pie without sampling its sugary goodness (Mmmmmm Pie). I [...]