"I Don't Think They Ever Topped Their First Album!"

[JethroZepFloyd]

I think the Mahavishnu Orchestra (with john mclaughlin) never topped their first album (Inner Mounting Flame) It was a brilliant album.

 

[JethroZepFloyd]

And my favorite King Crimson and Yes albums are their debuts.

 

[Fug]

If ALL THINGS MUST PASS counts as Harrison's first album (there were two before it, but neither were in the rock idiom), then that's a great example of it all going downhill from there.
JcS

"Wonderwall Sounds" was Harrison's "first" album, kind of. Harrison himself does not appear on the album; rather, he presides over the groups of Indian and British musicians, with half of the cues recorded in London, the other half in Bombay.

"Electronic Sounds" was his "2nd" album. It consists mainly of Harrison fooling around with a synthesizer. And when you consider that synthesizers were only capable of playing one note at a time and sounds could not be stored or recalled with the push of a button, the achievement becomes even more remarkable. Alas, George never followed up on this direction, which, like the Zapple label it appears on, was abandoned after this release. One could consisder these 2 "albums" his first and second. But I don't!

Like John Lennon's first and second albums, Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins, and, Life with the Lions: Unfinished Music #2, "Wonderwall Sounds" and "Electronic Sounds" are remembered only as "Rock" oddities. All four are remarkably ill-concieved.

 

[Martha Washington]

one of the guys from Beaver and Krause (sorry, can't remember which one) has long maintained that Harrison pretty much ripped them off when he did "Electronic Sounds".

I guess they provided him with demonstration tapes of the instument's capabilities and they felt his own work added nothing to them, in fact did little more than replicate them.

Beaver or Krause (whoever it was) provides one of my Beatles stories when he says he confronted George about this. He says George said "Trust me, I'm a Beatle"

I liked the whole idea of the 'Zapple' label. The Fabs presumed that because they were interested in something then a segment of their audience might be interested as well.

It's a theory!

 

[DarkWishWall]

Even though I don't really like them, Stereophonics debut album was easily their best, they were still a rock 'n' roll band then. King Crimson, Court... was definately their best. Guns 'n' Roses are a terrible band if you don't count 'Appetite For Destruction' (but let's face it on the face of things it doesn't much improve them). The Sex Pistols and Ramones? The Velvet Underground & Nico is my favourite Velvets album and had a good say for being their best.

 

[eccentric man]

Jimi Hendrix

WHAT?

have you ever even heard 'electric ladyland'?

while they aren't really classic rock i'm gonna say soundgarden peaked on UltramegaOK and didn't hit the same level again until superunknown.

 

[Martin Q. Blank]

oddly enough, 'Candy O' is my favorite Cars album.
I like how the songs are more 'albumy'
stupid reason but that's my reason.

The Cars' first is my favorite, but I'm actually a big fan of the much maligned "Panorama." I'd even put it ahead of "Candy-O."

 

[Martin Q. Blank]

Another great first release

Devo - Q: Are We Not Men

It is indeed great, but I like the four after that just about as much. "Duty Now For The Future" tends to be my favorite Devo album.

 

[Martin Q. Blank]

Here are a few:

 

[Reverend Rock]

My vote goes to Boston.