First Post = Best Firsts

Contrabulations and welcome to my first post. As my first official top 5 of the blog, I decided to lead off with my favorite first albums.


5. Television - Marquee Moon

Most people think of punks playing one-minute-nothing songs with very little technical ability. Marquee Moon manages to be punk while avoiding both of those stereotypes, particularly in the nearly 11-minute masterpiece, "Marquee Moon".

4. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

This one starts out so great, I'm just going to use the first few lyrics as the description: "Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah!"

3. Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell

I watched a making-of documentary about Bat out of Hell on VH1 Classic, and it really gave me a deep appreciation for what it took to make the album. Nobody wanted to help an overweight, sweaty, operatic rock singer make an album. Todd Rundgren came to the rescue, and the rest is history... until Meat Loaf came out with Bat out of Hell 3.

2. Boston - Boston

You can hear every song off of Boston's debut album on every classic rock station in the country, and there's a reason for that. Boston rocked it out on their first album. Every song.

1. Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77

I'm being a little biased here. Talking Heads is my favorite band of all time. While they continued to refine their style over the years, adding more instruments and more worldly influences, their debut album epitomizes the art-punk and CBGB sounds from beginning to end.