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The weird thing about black bands were many of them found success with their 2nd album. Earth, Wind and Fire, Sly Stone, Ohio Players, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, etc. Zapp was the main band that came out with a MAJOR hit on their first try.
 
The greatest blues-rock band of all time, The Allman Brother Band. And their first album, self-titled, has, in my opinion, one of the greatest intros in popular music history. And here's the kick--the first cut, which is entitled "Don't Want You No More," is actually just the introduction to the second cut, "It's Not My Cross to Bear." Even though the record company showed these two songs as separate tracks, there's no pause at all between the cuts. They are the same song, in my opinion, and I'm gonna take credit for both as one of the greatest first song, first album candidates. "Don't Want You No More" is actually a surprise--it's a very jazzy instrumental, featuring Gregg Allman's blues organ and the dual lead guitars of Dickie Betts and Duane Allman. (Why jazzy? I've read that Duane was a big fan of Miles Davis, and listened to his music incessantly.) "It's Not My Cross To Bear" starts after a seamless segue, and it's an archetypal gospel/blues tune. It begins with a howl from Gregg, and moves into lead guitars by Dickie and Duane. It's a marvel.

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To diversify things a bit, a few oldies but goodies from my formative years:

Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill, All I Really Want


Do I stress you out?
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say, how appropriate
I don't like to dissect everything today
I don't mean to pick you apart you see
But I can't help it
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Fiona Apple, Tidal, Sleep to Dream
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Fiona Apple - Sleep To Dream

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I tell you how I feel, but you don't care
I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare
You say love is a hell you cannot bear
And I say gimme mine back and then go there, for all I care
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fine. wonderful. I get it. no beats from this century. lovely. okey doke, so scanning the way back, and in honor of the luv that won't flow, here, have an aptly named tune, which was my intro to their music. new to me. lol. youse need to dance more, it's good for ur health.
'1,2,3,4, i'm your boogie man!'
 
and, these guys were both then, and now, so I guess I can cover both centuries with this. I heard this tune live, before it apparently was even on an album(dookie), which wiki says was their first major label release, so im going with that.
'I heard you cry aloud, all the way across town,
you've been searching for that someone
and its me out on the prowl...'
 
The Robinson brothers came out swinging.

The Black Crowes - Twice As Hard

 
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Conndog said:
Who knew they'd make it so big? The Ramones!
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If only they made so big. I must have seen them a half dozen times at the Agora and they were always on the small stage. The Plasmatics and Missing Persons were on the big stage for cryin' out loud.
 
CTBballfan243 said:
U2 - The Album - Boy - the Song "I Will Follow" Just a great great debut album

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Agreed! I was at their first show in America. November 1980 at The Ritz on East 11th Street, right after Boy came out. The place was packed and abuzzz...we all knew.
 
Robert Palmer was someone who kind of defied categorization, but pretty much everything he did was funky in some way:

 
The Band - “Tears of Rage” - Music From Big Pink
 
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Santana's first three albums were as good as any three albums anyone put together. That three-man percussion section with Gregg Rolie and Carlos Santana was a sound I could listen to all the time.

 
Sturgill Simpson came along and flipped the bird to Bro Country.

 
Good first number. Unfortunately the lead singer Phil Campbell recently left the band. :(

Only Friend - The Temperance Movement

 
A little bit of a story behind this choice. I was looking for something to do for fun with my wife as she was bored and getting on me for never planning anything fun to do. I have always enjoyed listening to music and she was singing in a semi professional chorus (The Handel Choir of Baltimore) at the time, so I started poking around looking for a small venue with talented but maybe not so familiar artists. I started poking around on the "Dirty Linen" website that covered the folk and roots music scene in the Baltimore/Washington area and came across a show by "John and Mary" at a place called the Iota Cafe in Arlington Virginia. The description of the duo, John Lombardo from 10,000 Maniacs (who left the band right before they made it big) and Mary Ramsey as two musicians who brought modern takes to traditional English folk songs in addition to original material sounded interesting.

Their live show was excellent. Of course, CD's were on sale at the show. The first track of their first CD just reinforced what we got out of their first show and we have been fans ever since through four albums as the duo of "John and Mary" and another four through their joining "10,000 Maniacs" (or rejoining them in John Lombardo's case). for nearly 30 years now.

From Victory Gardens, track one "Red Wooden Beads."

 
first song, first released us album.
'it's a little bit funny, this feeling inside..'

someone else must like him too, since I hear that only elvis has more top 40 hits here.
'how wonderful life is, while you're in the world.'
 
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