great debut albums – michael jarmer

#674: D is for The Doors

For such a humorless lot, they sure were funny, those Doors: Let’s, for example, be the first band in rock to feature an organ.Let’s write the most iconic organriff, as iconic perhaps as the guitarriff in “You Really Got Me” or “Satisfaction,” and we’ll featurethat organ riff in our most successful hit song from ourContinue reading “#674: D is for The Doors”

#645: C is for The Cars

I have fired my alphabetizer. Despite the fact that when these albums were brand new, I bought onlythe first two, both masterpieces in the blend between new wave and top 40 rock. Could therebe a more perfectdebut album, for example, a record where nearly everytrack became a single,or at least, got radio action?I’m hard pressedContinue reading “#645: C is for The Cars”