20 TERRIBLE DEBUT ALBUMS BY GREAT ARTISTS (REACTION)
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I'm not a big Elton John fan, but the title track of Empty Sky is one of the best things he ever did. I love the early David Bowie stuff; obviously nothing like his mature work, but it has so much charm. The Yes debut is terrific.
Empty Sky is a decent enough track, but it out-stays its welcome at over eight minutes long.
I love the title track. Also the bonus tracks on the later reissues are better than the main album IMO.Lady Samantha, Just Like Strange Rain and it's me that you need are very good. If you want to hear truly bad Elton albums try Victim of Love, Duets or The Lockdown Sessions.
Prince's For You is a very good album, screw Rolling stone magazine
It would make more sense if it’s called “underwhelming debuts” rather than “terrible debuts”. If so, I agree with most of these picks, even though I do like some of these albums like David Bowie’s debut, Genesis’ debut, Blur’s debut etc. Prince’s first two albums are pretty damn good but i guess it’s not purple rain.
But, how the heck are Yes and Journey on this list? The Yes debut album is one of my favourite Yes albums. The Journey debut album might be their best album - this was Journey at their proggiest before they were making commercial radio music.
David Bowie's 1967 debut is actually pretty good. I like it for how clear and recognizable his voice is. Ive listened to the Thin Lizzy for years and have always enjoyed it.
YES, Wonderwall Music, Thin Lizzy, Empty Sky, Genesis, and David Bowie, are all part of my collection. Rolling Stone jumped the shark some time ago.
I will never understand the dislike of Lou’s first album. I love it. But then again, I have really bad taste in music….
Larry, I'm impressed u have all Bowies studio cd's. A month ago, it was u who convinced me to buy Hero's and Low, in one of your videos. Thx! I like Peter Banks. He was good. Very underrated. The early covers are great. I've only heard the title track to Open Sky and it's good! Later dude, back to March Madness Basketball. My Tenn. Vols are playing tonight! ☮
Thx for the 💙. The EJ album is titled Empty Sky, not Open. Never heard the album but I love the title track!
Journey's first album is awesome. The first albums from YES and Genesis are pretty good. I like Billy Joel, but havent heard his debut.
They could’ve called this “the average to low debut. Because truthfully compared to their later output they do pale in comparison.
But, none of these are “terrible!” That’s a bit dramatic. Especially YES. That’s a great album.
‘Different and unique “ can be used to describe every Bowie album. No other artist like him.
Would be a good idea to listen to this list on Spotify and see if they do really suck. Rolling Stones lists are a joke at times.
It's Rolling Stone , they are usually wrong about everything
The first Blur album is not very good, but not terrible. They hadn't found themselves as a band yet. As a fan of Beatles, Kinks, and Bowie, you really should give Blur a try. Start with Parklife then The Great Escape, Modern Life Is Rubbish, and the self-titled Blur album. There is a lot of the classic British song craft and clever arrangements of the other artists I mentioned. Blur were carrying on the tradition and updating it for a new generation. Also check out Supergrass. You'll be glad you did.
The debut Yes album is opposite of terrible, it’s fantastic
Adam and the Ants debut is the sort of album that your average Rolling Stone journalist would hate.
In other words, it's great.
Off to listen to that, Yes, and Lou debuts. 👍
Yes’s debut does exactly what the band concept was about. I really like that album!
Thin Lizzy’s debut is not like the band that became big later on. It’s a product of it’s time. I wouldn’t say bad, though. Some tracks are alright.
Pantera! I just picked it up used in January. It’s a debut by a young metal band in 1983 who don’t know how to place keyboards well in their music. It’s okay. I bought it because I could.
Love that Tori Amos cover! I’ve never seen that one! Ooh, pop rock queen? Nope.
Elton John’s Empty Sky and Lou Reed’s debut are not bad albums at all.
I also like Genesis’s first album as well as Yes’s first album. Always thought Peter Banks was underrated, loved his stuff with Flash.
Blur’s debut album is definitely not terrible in my opinion. In fact I enjoy it. I think most of the albums on this list are not terrible. xxx
I actually enjoyed David Bowie’s debut album from 1967. It’s different from his other albums but it was enjoyable for me.👍
Oddly enough, I have not heard any of these albums!
None of these albums do I want, accept for Yes 'Yes', that I want!
Prince For You is also an excellent album!
I have George Harrison's Wonderwall Music and enjoy it quite a bit. Several interesting tidbits: 1) It's the first solo album by a Beatle, 2) One of the tracks is simply the Beatles B-side "The Inner Light" minus the vocals. 3) There is some question over how much George Harrison actually plays on it--the musicians were mostly from India. I also have the Wonderwall movie, but I haven't watched it yet--I hear it's good.
Will definitely check out that Yes debut album.
"The Inner Light" was a bonus track - not on the original release.
Just been listening to the first Sparks album. That is a really great debut.
Yes! 💯
I haven't heard any of these albums Larry but I can see why some of these artists would be upset,David Bowie for example looks like a regular guy,not some space oddity and John Cougar as Johnny Cougar sounds and looks so teeny bopperish,like he's a Donny Osmond clone or something,that had to be pretty embarrassing. Bob
That blur album is no way horrible.
Agreed .. it's a fine debut.
It's ok, but doesn't sound like Blur
Rolling Stone IS TERRIBLE
Abysmal
3:35
Blur's Leisure a terrible album? NO WAY! It's not their best album, but it's still a good album. All the songs I've heard on that Adam and the Antz album are really likeable. I'm not a huge Journey fan, but their debut album is respectable; it's kinda like pop jazz, if that makes sense. Some not so great debut albums (maybe you mentioned these on another video): Pink Floyd, Rush, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Iron Maiden.
Leisure by Blur isn’t that bad. It’s not what they became and cribs influence from the baggy scene at the time but like a lot of these albums it’s a start. She’s So High is a great song as are many other songs on this list. Apart from anything by Kid Rock
I agree with you. I also like the album Yes very much. Great music, certainly at the time it came out,
I usually avoid calling albums terrible. Couldn't they have called the albums mediocre instead? I haven't heard the Zevon, Cougar, or Elton John debuts, but all have a reputation for being not very good. I have heard the Billy Joel debut, and it was bad mainly because of the remastering error. It contains some good songs; in fact, one of them, "She's Got A Way", was later a hit in a different version.
I didn’t think the Sonic Youth EP was considered bad at all, maybe Rolling Stone aren’t familiar with that kind of experimental music? The Blur inclusion also shocked me, that’s a very good album and “She’s So High” is a classic song. I also think Billy Joel’s debut is pretty good once you get used to the speed. I’m surprised they didn’t put Radiohead’s Pablo Honey on there, even though I don’t think it’s a bad album.
Blur's debut album must have come as a big disappointment to anyone who'd discovered the band through Parklife and Modern Life Is Rubbish. It has one stand-out track (There's No Other Way) but the rest is fairly forgettable.
I'd have included Surfin Safari by the Beach Boys. Generic early 60s pop, tons of filler, not a hint of the greatness that was soon to come.
A friend of mine played on the John Mellencamp album, so I have heard it. It's pretty bad. It's mostly poorly recorded cover songs. There are a few originals on there too and they pretty much just sound like a young guy who didn't really know what he was doing yet. MCA was trying to make him out to be some kind of teeny-bopper "teen idol" and it just didn't work.
I think the first Tori Amos album is not a bad synthpop record, it fitted in with the sounds of the time, but it was a big mistake to try and make a talent like hers conform to other people's standards.
I bought Wonderwall recently and love it.
I love Lou Reed’s first album. One of my favorites. I play it very often. 🤷♂️
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Blur’s Leisure isn’t as good as any of their other albums, but half of the album is fantastic and the other half is just okay, it was before the band found their sound but some songs on it are classics such as Sing
What's your favorite Blur album? It's a cliche, but I pick Parklife. The new one is pretty nice, but could have used a couple more upbeat rockers.
Bowie's debut is enjoyable in a British 60s pop vein. He admitted the Anthony Newley influence. Lou Reed's debut is very good although problems in the mixing stage gave it a muted sound.
Zevon’s Wanted Dead or Alive is not his best work, but has a few songs I really like. I listen to it a bit. It did not deserve to flop, and some of the songs appeared on Midnight Cowboy
I love the Yes album. Got it when it first came out. The Beatles cover is fantastic as are Survival, Harold Land and Beyond and Before.
Dirk Wears White Sox is a brilliant proto goth, post punk, art school album.
I listen to it regularly.
Of the albums I’ve actually heard:
David Bowie I agree with for the most part. It’s not something I necessarily enjoy listening to.
Wonderwall Music is okay as a soundtrack. Again, not one I’ve played more than once or twice.
Empty Sky by Elton John is a great album. It’s a solid debut and I really enjoy it. One of my favorite early-Elton compositions “Skyline Pigeon” is on it. “It’s Me That You Need” should have been on the album though, that’s one of Elton’s best early songs as well but was released as a single instead of on the album.
Cold Spring Harbor to me is amazingly underrated. “She’s Got a Way,” “Falling of the Rain,” “Everybody Loves You Now,” “Tomorrow is Today,” and more. A beautiful album with some of the most beautiful melodies that Joel ever wrote. I actually enjoy both the corrected and sped-up versions of the album.
I have Empty Sky and it is not a terrible album
Some great albums in this list. Magazine with the worst lists ever, a clear winner 🏆I think
Elton John "Empty Sky" is an amazing album. Every bit as good as the "Elton John" album.
Prince's debut album was actually really quite solid. It's on Spotify. I don't think he ever released a bad album.
Blurs first album isn’t terrible just not a great Blur album. It’s generic of the time and using Baggy Sound and Shoegaze music. Got some decent tracks but off their whole discography it’s their worst
You should check out Blurs new album “The Ballad Of Darren” I think you actually may like it
The Tori Amos record is appalling , so much so that despite her huge success in the 90's she refused to allow it to be reissued & to this day its only had a very limited RSD release due to the demand of hapless Tori completists paying hundreds of dollars for it on resale outlets.
Interesting. I used to listen to quite a bit of her and had never even heard of that one
It's not a Tori Amos record; it's a Y Kant Tori Read (band) album. I paid 49 cents for it, still sealed cutout, I liked it, played it on college radio especially "Etienne Trilogy," and sold it to a high school friend for $20.
I have a bootleg of the Y Kant Tori Read album and admittedly she was being steered in a direction she didn't agree with at the time. Are Alanis Morrissette's early Canadian MCA releases on the list?
I love that first Lou Reed album! It has a few of the songs the Velvets were playing live before they broke up,
Totally disagree with Elton John's empty sky. It's one of my favourites debuts
The only albums on the list I’ve heard is the Yes, Genesis and Tori Amos albums. I like them all. They are different from the albums that came after but that don’t make them terrible, they are all very enjoyable. Tori is ashamed of her debut album, though, but the songs are good, it has the typical techno sound of the eighties though and that is very far from Toris sound on her official albums.
The Genesis debut album really has the sound of the pop music from the sixties and they were in no control of the production, just like Tori on her album. But the songs are really good in my opinion. Peter Gabriel is shining, but all the other members are very much pulled back.
Tori's debut solo album was "Little Earthquakes." Y Kant Tori Read was the name of the band; that album was not Tori's debut solo album. I like what I have heard of all the debut albums mentioned here.
I love Elton John and have Empty Sky and it’s a good album in my opinion! Thanks Larry!
That yes album is not horrible.
Thanks for your input on albums you've never heard. A little confused about the goal of this video.
Have you heard them all too? For any albums I haven't heard some of my viewers will give their thoughts on them...
Yes' debut terrible? I have never heard that opinion before. It's a perfectly good album. Yes has done much worse albums many years later (I don't have Open Your Eyes, for example due to reputation). Johnny Cougar's The Chestnut Street Incident is very much universally reviled, and Mellencamp himself has nothing good to say about that era of his career.
Terrible is a strong word. Maybe some are not good but terrible they may not be either.’
Dirk Wears White Sox is a fine post-punk album. Less glam than what followed, spikey and taut instead.
I like For You by Prince, nothing wrong with it
I have all 3 of Journey's albums before Steve Perry joined. They're so similar to Santana's early work that I wondered why they'd bother leaving Santana only to play the exact kind of music as Journey. Not surprised those albums didn't sell well.
Nothing worse than the first and only album by the Shaggs. It's so incredibly bad it's great!
I enjoy it for what it is.
I think it's great, too. But "Philosophy Of The World" was not the only The Shaggs album. "Shaggs' Own Thing" was the other.
They really do supply rubbish lists
Nothing beats the company of a sensible, generous, engaged, informed, and original human being interested in the same stuff as me. And a scream, to boot.
I’m a huge Bowie fan and the only album I can safely say I don’t like is the 67 debut haha
I made a playlist for journey’s first 3 albums, after watching your videos.
I’m enjoying these lists.😊
Thank you!
I love these videos.❤
Thank you very much!
Yeah, Lou Reed's 1st album has some good (leftover VU) songs. The production isn't great, i have fond memories of the album.
R$ critics, like those creepy G
Scarfe illustrations from Floyd's the Wall.
Adam & the Ants' album is great... Adam & the Ants was a very popular band in the early 80s in the UK, that album is from before they achieved fame and is perhaps the best they made!
Yeah the Billy Joel one was sped up too much for his taste. Apparently he heard it for the first time and threw it in the street.
Threw it like a frisbee from what I've read.
Yeah dude was not happy. I mean as a Billy Joel fan I like it just fine. It's definitely not on the level of hate but by his standards he was only going up. @@pinkpigot9564
And Journey is not bad at all. But Next is way better!
Thanks! 🎻🙂🤔 😎 I say listen to the album first and then read the reviews. Easy to do these days with Spotify and CZcams.
Like I said, I don't have the time and my viewers can tell me if the albums are terrible or not...
@@TheCanadianStudmuffin Yep! There are things to do, etc. There’s so much new music to find time to listen to. I’m discovering music from the 60’s through the 80’s that I didn’t know about or listen to at the time. Thanks!!😎
A couple of others to add to the list:
Judas Priest: Rocka Rolla (a totally different style from any of their other albums; decidedly non-metal)
The Doobie Brothers: Self-titled (features their debut single, "Nobody", which failed to make the Billboard Hot 100)
I disagree that both of those albums are terrible.
@@davidl570 Not terrible, but definitely weak compared to what came afterwards.
Hey Larry, I stumbled on a Top 100 albums that his not by the terrible Rolling Stones magasines that you might like and want to react to on your channel. The web site is called NME and it is The top 100 Greatest albums of all time. Even if you already did a top 100 albums reaction, i'm sure you'd like this one better.
I'll check it out!
@@TheCanadianStudmuffin Nice! Thanks you very Much!😁😁😁
Journey 1st album is pretty good. Have it on CD.
ELO’s first album is terrible on first listen. Some of it sounds like cellos played with saws. It’s a grower though. Totally agree with Billy Joel’s first. Would be much better at the proper speed.
ELTON JOHN S. EMPTY SKY.
ITS A GREAT EARLY ALBUM.
GO LISTEN LARRY. ITS WORTH
A LISTEN. THE FIRST TRACK
ONE OF THE BEST ON IT.
The harpsichord version of Skyline Pigeon is on this - the version used eventually in the film The Favourite.
Thanks. I really like early elton
John's early albums. You can
Listen and enjoy your song.
Sound track of friends.
Fantastic song writing from
Bernie and Elton's 75 now
What a great talent.
And Bernie lyrics. Never
Really dates but latter on
In the 80S his stuff got
A bit lost I'm still standing.
Is OK but really he mean
He still there. But blue eyes.
And song for guy are really
Nice songs. But apart from
That no albums l really not
Interested in 80S of Elton's
Stuff. But concerts then
On wards worth seeing.
He can live a retired happy
Man . Think what he accomplished
All those years. And to the music industry. Better back then. And
Life. Until that nasty bug come
On the seen . And ruined
Every body's happiness
I DIGRESS. Love your
Music elton john and Bernie
Musically influence me.
Always great musos in there
Own right. Like Mr Ray Cooper
Brilliant percussionist Cooper
And elton together in Russia
I think. Two good musos
Together. Like he bet john
Lennon if whatever gets you
In the night which I like
A lot. 74 walls and bridges
Album reg sorry elton. Sing
Back or together on that
Song if that song hits number
One elton concert Lennon
Turned up singing on it
It be came a live album.
Forget name. But
That's enough bull shit
Off me tonight. Thanks
Cheers
Terrible is a harsh term. I haven't heard most and don't like the ones I have but terrible isn't the word I'd use.
They say you have a lifetime to make your first Album and only moths to make your second
But it is rear to be fully formed out the gate
These are not bad albums just comparing to great work that followed.
Dirk wears White Socks is a great Album as is Yes Album
Blur is good Album foo
Neil Young : Neil Young was underwhelming solo debut considering his work to that point
Journeys first album i think is there best album
red hot CP debut
Rolling stone is just looking for discourse with this one. But hey, at least most of them are actual rock albums and not crap rap albums and at least King Gizzard’s 12 Bar Bruise isn’t on it.
How come yo are a LR fan when he said he hated The Beatles?
Because I don't care what other artists think of other artists, I can form my own opinion.
Lou Reed often said things to be controversial whether he truly believed it or not.
The question is were Adam And the Antz a great artist? 😮😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂
Dirk Wears White Sox is different to how they became - this is the lineup Malcolm McLaren took to be in Bow Wow Wow.
Kings of the Wild Frontier is excellent. Prince Charming is quite good in spots.
You need to listen to more types of music but Rolling Stone is a joke!
I probably listen to way more types of music than you do...
@@TheCanadianStudmuffin but i dont go through lists saying “I dont know this or that” in a process to back up my argument!
@@TheCanadianStudmuffin IM BASING MY COMMENTS ON YOUR WORDS!
@@davidkornblatt851 Perhaps if you did your own CZcams videos you would. As usual, whenever there is a RARE negative comment it is from someone with no content of their own. Comment again and you will be blocked. Have a nice day.
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