Van Halen introduced us to the widdlly diddly rock guitar.
A fine album.
Debut albums that defined a new genre or type of rock/pop.
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Another top tune from the album.
Blue Lines – trip-hop
Two songs I probably haven’t heard in over 40 years – my best friend who introduced me to metal had Van Halen albums, but they didn’t connect with me like other bands did – and I hear immediate references – KLF: Chill Out and Apollo 440 respectively ,- I do like serendipity. Thanks!
Baggy – Bummed.
Is that not merely a comment on a young fellow’s trousers?
The Stone Rose’s pretty much defined the Indie Dance thing that was dubbed Madchester, even if The Happy Mondays got there first and were the tabloid embodiment of “the scene”
Brit blues – John Mayall/Beano Bluesbreakers album.
Not just widdle . I think this was the album that made tapping de rigueur for aspiring metal guitarists
Candlemass’s first album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus gave name to doom metal and, possibly, all the animals.
Massive Attack, Blue Lines; Triphop
My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything; Shoegaze (the previous mini-LPs don’t count)
The Rolling Stones – British Rhythm and Blues.
DONOVAN – like, everything?
Spot on – a great album – EVH has a very distinct sound. Hadn’t heard a debut album with so much punch since Montrose’s first.
I think even those who don’t care a jot for the Mahavishnu Orchestra would have to concur that their 1971 debut single-handedly created and defined what we now identify as ‘fusion’. And yes, like everything, there are bits of precedents here and there in the 3-4 years before it, but this is the fully-formed beast.
Blimey – Hot Rats beats it by 2 years. Bitches Brew? In a Silent Way? And to stick with Miles’s band members, Tony Williams Emergency also 1969. Not sure how JM gets any credit here, apart from playing on 3 of the above.
Is Extrapolation, from two years before, not a fusion album? What about the first Mike Gibbs album?
Er, Jack Johnson? Bitches Brew?
Extrapolation sounds less fusion than BB to me. Jack Johnson was also 1971 and Gibbs 1970.
Headhunters Shirley? Proper hit album.
Yebbut 4 years after Hot Rats. Same year as that 2nd Peter Green Fleetwood Mac CD in fact…
Hot Rats isn’t fusion. Fact. It’s brilliant but it’s not fusion.
Such nonsense. But have it your way. Bitches Brew then.
I’m good with that. Zappa doesn’t play jazz. He’s basically a blues player.
Eh?! He’s one of the few who doesn’t stick to the pentatonic or blues scales. Wash your ears out Twang. Big Swifty is more fusion than Headhunters anyway.
I KNEW all this stuff would be brought up. I still maintain that it all coalesced into ‘the finished article’ with TIMF.
Ice-T – Rhyme Pays – gangster rap. Beat NWA etc to it by over 18 months.
Suicide – Suicide
Buggered if I know the genre but definitely a new one.
Suicidal I would guess.
Death synth?
On a similar them (and there a few debut albums in there, keeping with the original theme).
Plus, it is a list which is always a good thing
https://www.loudersound.com/features/21-albums-that-changed-the-way-we-play-guitar
Saturday night fever OST – Disco?
Donna Summer was already established as the queen of disco by then.
Well, it was between her and Thora Hird.