Chin Diesel
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Favorite/Best leadoff singles from artist's first albums. I'm thinking of first major release since many artists had smaller releases that never went national.
Back in the day (up until the past 10 years), it mattered and could make/break and artist when records, cassettes and CD's were delivered to radio stations.
So, a few that are in my head.
1. Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced had Purple Haze as the first song on his first album (US release). A bit too young for my time, but I'm thinking in 1967 no one had ever heard of anything like that. It immediately gets your attention that the artist has something going on beyond what you know as music.
2. Guns and Roses Appetite For Destruction's Welcome To The Jungle. Rock had hit a low point in mid to late 1980's (Yes, I'm looking at you Nelson and Winger). Summer of 1987, Appetite Comes Out and boom, rock it back.
4. Nirvana Nevermind Smells Like Teen Spirit. I have to think for Gen X this was like Beatles or Hendrix. Completely unlike anything that had ever been heard.
5. Beatles. From what I understand a bit backwards because they had singles before an album. I'll defer to the old beezin's for significance of I Saw Her Standing There in the context of how well known the Beatles were before they put out an album.
Back in the day (up until the past 10 years), it mattered and could make/break and artist when records, cassettes and CD's were delivered to radio stations.
So, a few that are in my head.
1. Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced had Purple Haze as the first song on his first album (US release). A bit too young for my time, but I'm thinking in 1967 no one had ever heard of anything like that. It immediately gets your attention that the artist has something going on beyond what you know as music.
2. Guns and Roses Appetite For Destruction's Welcome To The Jungle. Rock had hit a low point in mid to late 1980's (Yes, I'm looking at you Nelson and Winger). Summer of 1987, Appetite Comes Out and boom, rock it back.
4. Nirvana Nevermind Smells Like Teen Spirit. I have to think for Gen X this was like Beatles or Hendrix. Completely unlike anything that had ever been heard.
5. Beatles. From what I understand a bit backwards because they had singles before an album. I'll defer to the old beezin's for significance of I Saw Her Standing There in the context of how well known the Beatles were before they put out an album.