Basshole Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Of course there are a lot great albums, but what was a album that took the US by storm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Led Zeppelin's first LP was incredible for a first LP but i voted for Boston..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Yep... I gotta say Boston, based muchly on the fact that it turned out to be what "made them". Zepp turned out scores of more and arguably better stuff whereas Boston peaked on their first album, imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Boston. Only because Guns and Roses' Appetite For Destruction isn't on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Didn't some guy named Hendrix have a decent first album back in the 60's ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeVeeWee Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Led Zeppelin, 'cause you can't buy everything:-" ...and apart from that, I can give you a bunch of great 'first albums'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshole Posted November 5, 2009 Author Share Posted November 5, 2009 Led Zeppelins first album was basically just cover songs right? I mean they took songs and made little changes in them. :D How many more times=How many more years The Lemon Song=I ain't got you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellen Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 wolfmother-wolfmother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Of course there are a lot great albums' date=' but what was a album that took the US by storm? [/quote'] Well if your're talking first album and taking the country by storm then there's only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I'm a big fan of Boston. Last yr my physics teacher gave me their self titled album as motivation. I got an A in that class. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I'm a big fan of Boston. Last yr my physics teacher gave me their self titled album as motivation. I got an A in that class. Good stuff. The fact that Brad Delp (RIP) sang every freakin note on that album is amazing. Great songs and sound that never really progressed past that first album so everything after was kinda a let down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Led Zeppelins first album was basically just cover songs right? I mean they took songs and made little changes in them. How many more times=How many more years The Lemon Song=I ain't got you Yup. They got the crap sued out of them and had to change album liner notes to credit the real writers. I don't have much love for Zeppelin I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 All great albums, but Boston was my pick! That album blew me away and I can still listen to them for hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluezboy Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Boston with Rush and Zeppelin a close second Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzep59 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I voted for Zeppelin, because that's what I like, but all are excellent. I'm surprised that so many people voted for Boston, did not see that coming. Also noticed that the Beatles were missing, even though their later music (Let it Be, Abbey Road) is the good stuff. Regarding Zeppelin's first album- yes, they did steal a bunch of blues songs, but they played them extremely differently. With Led Zeppelin 1 we get to see the beginning of "hard rock" drag itself out of the blues, and we also get a new, unique, and incredible expression of the blues. The electric guitar screams and moans on "Dazed and Confused", Plant really belts out the sexual tension hidden within the blues on multiple tracks, Bonzo beats the living sh#t out of the drums like never before, and even Jones does some elaborate organ work on "Your Time is Gonna Come". Imagine putting on the record and hearing "Good Times Bad Times", and then flipping it over to hear "Communication Breakdown"- it is moving. Just mentioning that Zeppelin appropriated some ideas does not validate the notion that the whole album is bunk. Zeppelin I is their coming out party that had to be framed in a language that people could understand- the electric blues. BTW, don't forget the sick album cover of the blimp bursting into flames! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHO Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Not sure High Voltage should be on that list. First off, the High Voltage album the world outside of Australia got is a compilation of AC/DC's first two albums. Also, it could hardly have taken the US "by storm", as the follow-up album Dirty Deeds, didn't see a US release until 1981 following the success of Back In Black, five years after the rest of the world got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbtop Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Gee, I was around when they all were new and different and I don't remember Ac/Dc, Zeppelin and certainly not Boston taking anything by storm. Hendrix took England by storm. Now, Elvis did a little taken and heart breakin' and maybe the Stones a little, but The Beatles did the only storm takin' in the U. S. that I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myspace.com/jessenoah Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Led Zeppelins first album was basically just cover songs right? I mean they took songs and made little changes in them. How many more times=How many more years The Lemon Song=I ain't got you I would say zep is good @ honoring their idols [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vUwqIgICgY[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE] [/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevef Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Gee' date=' I was around when they all were new and different and I don't remember Ac/Dc, Zeppelin and certainly not Boston taking anything by storm. Hendrix took England by storm. Now, Elvis did a little taken and heart breakin' and maybe the Stones a little, but The Beatles did the only storm takin' in the U. S. that I recall. [/quote'] I agree... Only a couple of "debut albums" from that era hit big. The Doors, Blind Faith, maybe Janice Joplin. Blind Faith jumped to #1 in the US on release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Natural Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 How about Dire Straits, 1978? Not a bad first effort.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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