1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

[Needs More Cowbell]

R.E.M.- Radio Free Europe

 

[Needs More Cowbell]

Vanilla Fudge- Ticket To Ride

 

[Hydrazoic Acid]

 

[Big Ears]

Rock the Nation by Montrose from Montrose. This pointed towards the greatness yet to follow:

I Can't Wait Much Longer by Robin Trower from Twice Removed From Yesterday. James Dewar wasn't just a great singer, he could play a heavy bass riff (at 2:45):

 

[Hydrazoic Acid]

 

[Nora]

Hit the Lights - Metallica

 

[Big Ears]

Stranglehold by Ted Nugent from the first S/T solo album. He has struggled to match this ever since. The track shows the lineup and album should have had a band name. Derek St. Holmes and Rob Grange moved on to form the excellent St. Paradise. Tragically, Cliff Davies appears to have committed suicide in 2008.

 

[Nora]

Lighting to the Nations - Diamond Head

 

[Big Ears]

How did I forget this? 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson, from In the Court of the Crimson King, live at Hyde Park. The Rolling Stones' crowd must have wondered what hit them:

 

[Hydrazoic Acid]