The Contrarians Panel Discussion: Best First Two Album Runs by a Band
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- Our incredible cast of amazing musical aficionados gets together to each pick a band they think had some of the best first two album runs.
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Which band do you think had one of the best first two album runs??
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Iron Maiden had the greatest 1st two albums of all time. It's a shame they replaced the tremendous Hard Rock vocalist Paul Di'anno with that one trick pony opera singer.
A few bands come to mind but Suprgrass's first two for me are top notch in fact I don't think they have a weak album in catalogue.
Acid Bath. Period. First two and unfortunately last two
Jellyfish-Only 2 albums but both brilliant.
Venom \m/
Alice in Chains
Red Fang
The first band that came to mind was Motley Crue.
Dio Holy Diver and Last in Line
Santana and Abraxas.
My immediate thoughts were: Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, The Cars, Boston, Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix.
Dang, I forgot SRV, Skynyrd and Allman Bros !!!!!
I agree Led Zeppelin's first two albums were phenomenal. But come on, Led Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti? Those are f**king classic albums. I can listen to both w/out skipping a track!
@Clockwork Beaver Some of the guests chose to interpret it that way. But the video description doesn't say that: "Our incredible cast of amazing musical aficionados gets together to each pick a band they think had some of the best first two album runs."
The Cars was my first thought for sure.
The Band…’Music from Big Pink’ and ‘The Band’.
When Grant said that the band he picked came from Menphis and was an influence on alll those specific bands, I shouted: Big Star. My fav first two album run band is The Pretenders.
oh yeah!!
Lynard Skynard pronounce and second helping standout. Two massive albums
First band that I thought of when I saw the topic was Boston. Also thought of The Cars, King Diamond & Chicago.
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? / Axis: Bold As Love
R.E.M. - Murmur, Reckoning
Led Zep - I & II
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath & Paranoid
King Crimson - In The Court of Crimson King and In The Wake of Poseidon
R.E.M. is another one I would have mentioned other than Big Star....I love the first two albums!!
Master of Reality is a better album than BS and Paranoid.
I saw this topic and Motley Crue immediately came to mind. Their first two albums are far and ahead their best albums.
Alice in Chains also fits here. "Facelift" and "Dirt" are monsters that are the best they've ever done.
Boston's first two albums are definitely their best.
I could see some people wanting to list the first two Def Leppard albums as their most metal sounding albums.
Dirt is much superior to Facelift so the band does not really fit imho.
Definitely for me the best first 2 albums By Motley Crue stand out for me! Too Fast for love and Shout at the devils afterwards there was a slump for me, great topic guys! Love the channel
Obviously, we all hear 👂 things differently, but the first 2 CARS albums. Cars debut/ 7️⃣8️⃣and CANDY-0,/ 7️⃣9️⃣ are to me anyway , “ stone - cold classics. MARCO and CO. Tremendous show 👍💯
That Cars debut album is immaculate
@@alexandergilles8583 Remember. Substitution/ mass confusion/ clouds ☁️ inside your head. 79. Tremendous. Love it. Ben ORR I absolutely love. Highly underrated! IMO 👍💯
Sorry. In hurry. 7️⃣8️⃣. Bye bye L0VE
If I hadn't mentioned Big Star, I was going to go with The Cars first two albums. Brilliant stuff!!!!
@@vinylrec / I have the Big ⭐️ star albums as well. Enjoy night 👍💯
Another great show & interesting to see the different interpretations of the topic. Totally agree with Wildhearts, Oasis, Van Halen & Maiden. My honourable mentions are Giant, Matchbox 20, and Black Stone Cherry. My choice tho’ is Loverboy. Hate the name but love those 1st two albums. The debut has a real edge with Turn me loose, the kid is hot tonite & Prissy Prissy. Get Lucky is more straight ahead great AOR with Working for the Weekend, Lucky Ones, & Jump.
In Van Halen's case I love the first four albums. My favorites in order is Fair Warning, Van Halen, Women and Children first and Van Halen II. I got to see them at the Great Western Forum in June of 81 and the band was killer. I then saw them at the US Festival on metal day and DLR was too fucked up! I also saw them in 2015 on their last tour and DLR was a shadow of what he had been. Eddie, Alex and Wolfie were tight and sounded great! Eddie was why I was such a VH fan and I still remember the first time I heard eurption in 78!
@@mbankslje0nk I’d go W&C1st, VH, FW then VHII but there’s not a lot between them. Unfortunately I only got to see them with Sammy but the band were still really good.
@@parishofrock2963 my wife got a drum head cover signed by all four of the Van Hagar band! 😂
@@mbankslje0nk that’s cool.
Loverboy is a great pick for this topic. Self-titled and Get Lucky they were on fire. Then a little bit of a slump with Keep It Up, and came back strong with Loving Every Minute Of It. Wildside and Unfinished Business are great albums, also.
I think Honeymoon Suite also fits this topic.
My pick: Alice In Chains
Those first two albums are brutal. So many awesome riffs, solos, and Layne’s vocals are absolutely stunning. Dirt my favorite album of the 90s and Facelift is one of my favorite debut albums of all time
My 1st honorable mention is Van Halen. Van Halen and Van Halen II. Enough said. VH one of my favorite debuts and several of VH II’s songs are in my top VH songs. Obviously their entire DLR era was amazing and I love all their albums, but man, those first two.
My 2nd honorable mention is the Doors. That debut is basically a greatest hits album. Definitely a top 3 favorite debut of all time. And Strange Days has some of my favorite tunes. Love Me Two Times, Strange Days, People are Strange, and I Can’t See Your Face in My Eyes all are in my top 25 Doors tracks. I think these two are when the doors were their most psychedelic
My pick would be Tesla with Mechanical Resonance (1986) and
The Great Radio Controversy (1989). Those two were so incredibly good! My second choice is Ratt with Out of the Cellar (1984) and Invasion of Your Privacy (1985).
First two Queensryche albums - The Warning and Rage for Order. (though you could go the EP + The Warning as well).
Definitely a contender
Operation Mndcrime and Empire ???? Some argue that those two are much better than the two you listed
Great show guys! My pick is Annihilator, Alice in Hell and the second album, Never Neverland. Jeff Waters writes some of the coolest riffs on the planet. Cheers fellas! \m/ \m/
Thanks Drumdude74!!! Appreciate it! Nice pick!
Mercyful Fate for sure! Rainbow would be my second choice! Sabbath, Budgie, Gillan, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rush, ELP, Iron Maiden, Ted Nugent, Tygers of Pan Tang, BOC, Queen all have a great sequence of debut albums!
Queen II is my favourite album of all time by anyone
Oasis is a great choice for this topic. Lightning in a bottle. I do think that some of their later period albums were good and more varied, but those 1st two albums had iconic songs that captured a unique moment in time.
To be in the UK at that particular part in time was something special.
The country was changing, and Oasis changed it(along with the other "Britpop" bands)
Plus the whole premise of the Britpop movement was to specifically NOT lick the arse of the American music industry... (The clue is in the title...)
First band that came to mind
Boston- Boston and Don’t Look Back
Another band that came to mind that would fit this discussion along with your episode a few days ago of bands that should have made it big but didn’t would be
Junkyard- Junkyard and Sixes,Sevens,& Nines. Both fantastic albums in my opinion and a band that should have made it big. If I remember right I believe they had issues with the record label. Just a great rockin bluesy with a a little southern rock based band. I’ve turned a lot of people on to this band in my knock of the woods. Love em and still on my rotation to this day.
Those to me are like Boston Vol. 1 & Vol 2
Surely The Band? Music From Big Pink and "The Brown Album" are considered stone cold classics critically and are their best sellers.
Thanks for recommending the Wildhearts. Checked out their videos and knew instantly that I would need to investigate more. Ordered Earth vs Wildhearts. Great show
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced and Second Helping. Almost 50 years after their release you still hear half of the songs on classic radio and at the concert.
The Saints- first album and “ Eternally Yours@.😀❤️
Jane’s Addiction. Nothing’s Shocking and Ritual de lo habitual. The true originators of the 90s alternative movement - in 88 and 90.
Jane's first album was the live self-titled album. But it still works. JA and Nothing's Shocking are 2 great records.
Great topic and episode! Excellent picks all around but Oasis was the first to jump out at me. Fantastic albums! Yes, they were bigger in the UK but they were played plenty in the States, especially the singles from (What's the Story) Morning Glory. And speaking of bands with sibling rivalries, how about the Black Crowes? I only saw two people mention them in the comments which surprised me. Shake Your Money Maker and Southern Harmony and the Musical Companion, respectively, are excellent albums with several songs that hit were all over the radio from 1990 to 1993. A popular band that has become very underrated over the years and all of their albums range from solid to superb.
The first that came to mind was Bad Co.
Rainbow, Dio, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Metal Church and the first two Iron Maiden albums.
It's hard to argue against Ozzy (solo), Motley Crue, Boston, and Van Halen. My only issue with VH is that, IMO, VH 1 is so much better than VH 2 that any pairing of them unfairly warps the sentiment somewhat. Like talking about a typical NHL all-star (VH 2, outstanding) and Wayne Gretzky (VH 1, unbelievable).
good point about VH, Ozzy! I should have thought of those two.
My pick is Masters of Reality. Their first self-titled (1989) album had two songs that had a little bit of airplay; "The Candy Song" and "Gettin; High"...great Blues-based Stoner Rock. Their second album, "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" (1992) is a little more diverse and features the late, great Ginger Baker on drums (and 'vocals' on "T.U.S.A."). The album starts off with hard driving song that saw minimal airplay, "She Got Me (When She Got Her Dress on)" and the album continues with various styles: hard rock, blues, melodic rock and trippy psychedelic stuff. I highly recommend giving these a listen! These are two of my favorite albums of all time! Btw, my favorite bands are Rush, BOC, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and AC/DC among others.
My old band had covered every song off of "Sunrise..." and most of the first one live at one time or another.
Excellent! It's hard to find MoR fans out there...rock on!
Echo and the Bunnymen "Crocodiles" and "Heaven up Here." All five of the original line-up's albums are great, though; they just rank 3-5 to me. (They played both of those albums in their entirety on their 2011 U.S. tour.)
c'mon duran duran's self titled debut and the classic rio!!! i knoiw it ain't metal, but two really great records. also could go The Monkees
Hi, nice picks from everyone. I would choose Dire Straits. Strong discography, but the first two are the best for me. Greetings
There are some bands that only have few albums, which are all great, like:
Nick Drake
Police
Cream
Jimi Hendrix
Joy Division
Then there are some, where the first 2 are great, but not my favourites, like:
Doors
Opeth
Led Zeppelin
Peter Gabriel
And then there are some, where the first 2 are among my faves, like:
Dio
Amorphis
Pearl Jam
Santana
Tori Amos
Metallica
Garbage
Marillion
Baroness
But I have two bands, where the first two are not only among my faves, but also changed their line up between album 1 and 2. One lost their singer and the other lost their main songwriter, guitarist and singer.
So I would go with Pink Floyd as runner up. The first two albums took me some time to get into, but they are so much fun and I listen to them more than to Dark Side or The Wall now.
And my Top pick would be Candlemass. I like most of their catalog, but those two are on top. Johan left the band after the first album and did no music at all until 2019, when he rejoined with another banger of an album. And Messiah made 3 great albums in a row, before leaving. The band then had some mediocre albums, until he rejoined for the great self titled album in 2005.
The first two Cult albums are my favorites too.
As a huge Death Metal fan I can think of Entombed, Dismember, Morbid Angel and Grave.
Let me add Autopsy.
@@Morbidous I do enjoy quite a bit everything I did after "Shitfun" though.
Simple! first two Zeppelin.
First I thought of is Dio. Holy Diver and Last in Line are ridiculously amazing and definitely the best in Dio's catalog.
ya both are 10/10!
Sabbath, Metallica, Maiden, Queen.
Just a few: Nick Drake, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Monkees, Led Zeppelin, 13th Floor Elevators, Traffic, Eno, Jade Warrior, Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young), Little Richard, Nazz, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, Howlin' Wolf, James Brown, Crowded House, Steve Miller Band, Tir Na Nog, Bothy Band, School Of Seven Bells, This Mortal Coil, Planxty, Third Ear Band, Peter, Paul & Mary, Free...that's a start.
Hi Martin and everyone else. My two picks for my favorite albums are Led Zeppelin 1and 2 the second choice is Disreali Gears and Wheels of fire by Cream
Nice picks!!! Welcome!
@@thecontrarians2438 I probably should have picked Fresh Cream it's there first album but I like the two I better. I have all there ablums except for goodbye Cream. I have Heavy Cream and Live Cream vol 2 that came out in 1972. Led Zeppelin 1,2,3,4 I have an physical Graffiti.
Hello to Martin popoff /contrarians. Always listening to you Martin on the fun house Friday's.
Josh's Mercyful Fate Melissa & Don't Break The Oath is a great pick!!!
Dio came to mind first. Van Halen, Tesla, AIC, Black Crowes, Boston, LA Guns, Lynch Mob, Life of Agony, Molly Hatchet, Mr. Big, Night Ranger, Ra, Ratt, MSG, Tool also qualify for me.
Tool, really? Their third album is Lateralus!
The Mars Volta, Roxy Music
Great show! Great topic! Easily my picks off the top of my head, and I tend to listen to together separate from the rest of the catalog...
KISS/Hotter Than Hell
ANGEL/Helluva Band
QUEEN/Queen II
Van Halen/VHII
The Cars/Candy-O
I totally love KISS and Hotter Than Hell, i think they are the best two (song wise definitely) out of the catalog, but everyone knows how big of a KISS fan I am and it would have been no surprise if i picked them lol
Foreigner is another group self titled followed by double vision
Iron Maiden, W.A.S.P., Metal Church, Mercyful Fate, Venom, Pavlov's Dog, Japan
Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago II, Boston and Don't Look Back, The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed and In Search of the Lost Chord, The Cars and Candy-O.
Great stuff! Have to go for testament with the legacy and the new order since they declined after those outstanding releases. I do like practice what you preach and the ritual but they are not at the level of the first two, not even close. Don't think they ever topped the quality of the debut and the sophomore
Honorable mentions
Mahavishnu orchestra-inner mounting flame and birds of fire
Leprous-tall poppy syndrome and bilateral
Emperor-in the nightside eclipse and anthems to the welkin at dusk
Mercyful fate-melissa and don't break the oath
Autopsy-severed survival and Mental funeral
The Cult would be my top choice with Alice in Chains a close second.
I’ll have to agree with some of the comments here:
Dio Holy Diver and Last In Line
Boston s/t and Don’t Look Back
Van Halen l & ll
Most of the bands I listen to started out good but increasingly got better. Runs of 4, 5, 6 or more were not terribly rare. Eventually every good thing comes to an end, but the first two being the best two was my take on the topic. For that specifically, I would say;
Badlands. s/t and Voodoo Highway
Starz s/t and Violation
Ram Jam s/t and The Portrait Of…..
Eddie Money s/t and Life For The Taking
Matchbox 20 Yourself Or Someone Like
You and Mad Season
Jonny Lang. Smokin’ (with The Big Bang)
and Lie To Me
These are just a few, there are plenty more I’m sure…..
Two obvious ones would be: Hendrix and The Doors. But my picks are not always loved by most people, but I LOVE them (especially the first one) and that band is Yes! I LOVE that early Psychedelic Jazz Pop they do on those albums 😸
Avantasia: The Metal Opera Pts. 1 and 2. And yes I know I'm all alone. :-)
SABBATH. 2 game changing albums, launched a new genre & outlet for Rock & Roll. Although not my 2 fave Sanbath albums. 2 of the most important albums in Rock History.
Pearl Jam's debut album TEN is arguably 1 of the best rock albums of the past 30 years. It sold over 1 million more domestic copies than Nirvana's NEVERMIND and they followed that up with an equally strong 2nd album VS. At the time, VS held the record as the highest selling (e.g., 900,000 copies sold) record in its first week of release. What is even more impressive is that Pearl Jam followed up TEN and VS with the commercially and critically successful album VITALOGY. Hopefully, this group of musical aficionados will create a panel discussion regarding the bands with the best first THREE album runs and maybe Pearl Jam will not be ignored in that discussion.
Great show!! Interesting picks. For me it has to be The Doors - first two albums are definitely my favorites and the most important for music history.
HM are Biohazard and The Mission - God's Own Medicine and The First Chapter (although this one is considered a compilation so I don't know if it counts). Wondered no one picked Dio - usually the first two albums are considered his best.
Yeah, but the first four Mission records are great, so it works. :)
Ok, I go metal, but not the million sellars (It would be Van Halen + Iron Maiden). First Crimson Glory I + Tresendence, Second Manowar Battle Hymns + Into glory ride, Third Mercyful Fate Melissa + Dont break the Oath.
There's a lot to say about the first 2 albums of those southern rock bands: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers Band, 38 Special, Point Blank, Molly Hatchet. To me they're easily the best of those bands. And in another genre, the first 2 Robert Plant solo albums...just awesome! Cheers.
Rose Tattoo!
Wow! Nick's Honorable Mentions are killer!!! totally agree with Starz, King's X & Love/Hate Amazing records!
I also want to mention RIOT Rock City/Narita great 1 2 punch!
Thank you kindly! RIOT is a prefect example.
Andy Partridge of XTC was a big fan of the New York dolls. Good show.
Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman.
I was thinking of Mercyful Fate as well, they would be my choice...but I didn't think of Queen... great choice there! Love those first two albums. One of my runner ups would be Savatge... their first 2 were amazing... but a case could be made that Hall of the Mountain which came later is as good if not better.
Good pick with Big Star and the New York Dolls.
Not sure if Joy Division counts seeing they only released 2 albums.
The Velvet Underground would be another one.
Motley Crue, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Led Zep, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Mercyful Fate, and The Stooges.
These albums have been listened to death, but Black Sabbath/Paranoid. Metallica; Kill 'Em All/ Ride The Lightning. The Stooges/Fun House. Iron Maiden/Killers and The Misfits; Walk Among Us/
Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood.
even still great picks!
What about Master of Reality, Master of Puppets and Raw Power?
Great conversation. I think of these albums as "make or break" as to whether I would to continue to follow these bands. If a band's first couple albums aren't very good, many times I would move on to another group. All of these albums listed were so good, I couldn't wait to hear each new release.
Top pick:
Monkees - Monkees (1966), More of the Monkees (1967) Untouchable and outsold EVERYONE at the time including the Beatles!
Honorable mention:
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago
Dio - Holy Diver, The Last In Line
Michael Schenker Group - Michael Schenker Group, MSG
Saga - Saga, Images at Twilight
Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night, Crimes of Passion
Mike Batt had two very strong albums at the beginning of his career before he lost some steam. Are these albums lightweight prog or complex pop or film scores without a movie? However, he was a master of melodies.
Vio-Lence. Eternal Nightmare and Oppressing The Masses are two of the greatest Thrash albums of all time imo. Deicide. Deicide and Legion are an amazing first and second album. Nocturnus. The Key and Thresholds are awesome albums and a great first two album run. Those are 3 great examples imo.
Audioslave (self titled and out of exile), a perfect circle (mer de noms and 13 steps, black country communion (self titled and 2), linkin park (Hybrid theory and meteora), slipknot(self titled and iowa), octafonic (monster and mini buda), witherscape (the inheritance and the northern sanctuary) pearl jam (ten and vs), alice in chains (facelift and dirt), stone temple pilots (core and purple) come to mind
The third STP album is their masterpiece imho. And Audioslave? Really? The second one is not really a great album to me.
Bad Company. Debut & Straight Shooter.🎸
Dio would be my #1. Both are desert island records. I would add The Doors and Diamond Head as my honorable mentions. The first DH album has always been known as influential. But Borrowed Time is great, and all of the new tracks on it feel like epics. I just wish they would have used other three "Four Cuts" ep songs on it instead of redoing Am I Evil and Lightning.
1-molly hatchet...2-lynyrd skynyrd...3-iron maiden...4-motorhead...5-vanhalen...6-allman brothers...7-the eagles...8-motley crue...9-kiss
Venom, Mercyful Fate, Destruction and Vio-lence.
Definitely Iron Maiden/Killers... DiAnno era is my favorite... and side by side with Maiden is
Def Leppard On Through The Night/High N' Dry, which OTTN is my favorite Def Lep album
I like the Queen pick. I'm not a Queen fan but, I recently heard their first two albums. I'm thinking if they did more albums like their first two, I might be a fan. I'm not a huge Van Halen but, I think their first album is much better than their second. Same goes for The Cars and Boston.
The other band I thought of w/two great first albums is Winger. Their self-titled debut is awesome and the second is good but not as mind-blowing as their first. I'm a casual Def Leppard fan and I'm surprised no one mentioned On Through The Night or High-N-Dry. Most hard rock and metal fans would say they're the best. I, however, think Pyromania and Hysteria are their best.
Kiss, Motley Crue, Aerosmith and Cheap Trick would be my picks.
U2----Magazine------Witchfynde--The Police------Venom-------Bluetip.
1) Fleetwood Mac - self titled + Rumours (even though I don't like this era of the band) 2) Rush- Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures 3) Mercyful Fate- first two albums 4) Venom-first two albums 5) Boston- first two (I don't actually like them) Honorable Mentions: Uriah Heep (Demons & Wizards + Magicians Birthday), The Damned (Machine Gun Etiquette + The Black Album), Joy Division, NY Dolls, Big Star, The Cars, Ozzy, The Cult (Electric + Sonic Temple), Angel (first two), Marillion (Misplaced Childhood + Clutching At Straws)
My bad, I just realized this was the 1st two albums, some of my choices were runs in mid-career, sorry !
Europe first 2 albums are my favorite in their catalog but my choice would be by the band Saviour Machine - their first 2 are one concept album and not only the best in their catalog but my 2 favorite albums of all time
Weezer fit here perfectly.
Def Leppard's 1st 2 albums are their best.
Oasis is definitely an anomaly for sure, it is odd they were never really that popular in the US, those first two albums are great.
First album went platinum in the US, second went 4 times platinum. They were pretty big in the US, though they were obviously bigger in the UK.
@@EdHerzog1 they were big in certain areas of the US though, not nationwide, their tours did not draw near as many people in the in the as they did in the UK, only certain states.
Budgie and BÖC. No way. That is madness😉. Bandolier and Secret Treaties are above and beyond prior releases.
Mercyful Fate. Diamond Head. Master's Hammer. Venom. Destruction. Possessed. Razor. Exciter. Morbid Angel. Slayer. King Diamond.
And of corpse Iron Maiden.
Budgie debut and In for the kill is their best albums.
Big Star #1 Record is my fourth favorite album of all time. Radio City isn't far behind.
YESSSSS!!!! Witchfider General!!!!
haha ya I felt the same way!
Pearl Jam - Ten & VS (I had high hopes for this band until I heard Vitalogy. It's been downhill ever since for me!
First thoughts NY Dolls, Ramones, beastie boys
maybe its not the correct forum, but a death metal band Deicide . their first two albums are their best. also i would mention that from Possessed.
Bands in which first 2 are my faves: Pretenders, Pearl Jam and Tame Impala.
I thought that the guy with his t-shirt of Genesis trick of the tail would choose them but not.... Thats my contrarian choice the first two albums from Genesis with Phil Collins singin tott and wind and wuthering was very great and runner up Journey two first albums with Steve Perry Singin and co singer greg rollie with évolution and Infinity.
Not many would say Genesis, as who loves "To Revelation"? For most they really start with Trespass.
Van Halen
Led Zeppelin
Bad Company
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Black Sabbath
Candlemass
Entombed
Hatebreed
Manowar
Pentagram
Warrior Soul
and I'm probably on my own here, but I think Metallica would be my #1 pick
For me, the first two Cheap Trick albums are perfect. Also, U2, The Ramones, & The Razorcuts.
Edit: The Stooges!!!
The Stooges? What about Raw Power? Love that album. I know technically it is by Iggy & The Stooges though.
How about Acid Bath? Two perfect albums then broke up.
Elvis Presley!
100%
I’m voting for venom welcome to hell and black metal …original as hell
Venom with Welcome to hell and Black Metal!!
THE TUBES
MetallicA : Kill ‘Em All & Ride The Lightning
Van Halen without a doubt
Ya that was my pick!
@@thecontrarians2438 maybe an episode on 3rd album's! Lots of good one's
@@sdavis6806 Good idea!
Not sure how but perhaps bands that either had a breakthrough or peaked , for example 3 of the big 4 all had their what many consider best albums, I say 3 because to me Megadeths 3rd album wasn't as good as their 2nd..and as a VH fanatic woman and children first is amazing but they we're already huge