From Van Halen to Patti Smith to Blondie to Devo to Gram Parsons, here are our picks for the greatest debut albums of the 1970s, ranked.
Let's explore the gems by everyone from Van Halen to Patti Smith to Meat Loaf to the New York Dolls.music team will be traversing a half-century of history. Each Saturday, we will be ranking the best debut albums from every decade between the 1960s and 1990s—culminating in a full 20th Century list and then, dare I say it, a greatest debut albums of all time ranking that spans from the 1950s until now.was the easiest of the bunch.
Vashti Bunyan’s first album was also the only one she would release for 35 years. After her debut was met with little excitement in the months and years following its release, Bunyan disappeared again, this time for good from the music world. She had a newborn child to care for, and after selling the few hundred copies ofthat she pressed, she moved herself into a cottage with her friends in the Incredible String Band.
Smith was simultaneously punk’s augur and its harbinger. Her foresight was as strong as her recollection of the past. What else is there to say about how the album opens, how she growls it into motion with the lyric “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine”? I can’t help but hear the way she sings it as a rallying cry for all outsiders.
There were recognizable molecules within the group’s DNA — Bob Dylan’s knotty poetry; the tangling saxophones of Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp on; the rhythmic sproing of Cream — but the quartet’s months of woodshedding and gigs around New York allowed them to twist those fragments into new shapes that kept listeners in a state of blissful confusion.
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