First Albums?

[jwhitcomb3]

Besides being a brilliant debut, it is one of the greatest guitar duo albums ever. 

[Gino]

1969 - Let It Bleed - I'm an old fart...

[ChugD]

 

My mother was mortified.

[cmatthes]

Uh...

[LucSulla]

I know what I'm inclined to say is probably not the debut album I listen to the most. 

I could say the first Sabbath, VH, or LZ albums. 

But If I'm being honest, I've listen to Remission (Mastodon), Appetite for Destruction (GnR), and Kill 'em All (Metallica) far more often. 

[Brooks]

On 9/8/2026 at 4:42 PM, Biz Prof said:

Singer Kelly Holland left at the end of the tour in support of Brother.   He had some serious demons in terms of mental health and alcohol addiction, and a near-18-month-long tour didn't help.

Drummer Jason Patterson moved to Texas to join Chris Duarte's band, then eventually moved back to NC where he's played with a Skynyrd tribute band, Tuesday's Gone.

Kelly roomed w/ my drummer pal from the Skynyrd tribute I joined when I moved to Raleigh in '93. Back then I was also friendly w/ Jason, who in recent years has done several tours w/ C.O.C.

 

PS - my all-time fave bands are Sabs & Zep, but both their debuts pale in comparison to their latter work IMFO. VH gets my vote

Edited Wednesday at 12:16 AM by Brooks

[BruceM]

[a.bandini]

This has a pretty good claim: 

[LucSulla]

On 9/8/2026 at 7:30 PM, jwhitcomb3 said:

Besides being a brilliant debut, it is one of the greatest guitar duo albums ever. 

That's one of the few 70s CBGB/New Wave/Punk adjacent albums I love. There is a moodiness to it that is so unique to that album - I can only listen to it in the right mindset because it taps on that so hard. It's the same feeling I'd get as a teenager driving around late at night by myself feeling like both everything is happening and that nothing will ever happen, just chain smoking the ennui and listlessness away in my old Chevelle. I didn't really listen to it until I taught a Rock and Society class when I was a doc student at Florida in my 30s, so it's not a nostalgia thing. I'm also not generally into music from that scene, so it doesn't really touch on anything else I was listening to back in the 90s. 

I think when an album does that, it really has achieved something artistically perfect. I also find it very rare in the genres Television gets most associated with.

[jwhitcomb3]

4 hours ago, LucSulla said:

That's one of the few 70s CBGB/New Wave/Punk adjacent albums I love. There is a moodiness to it that is so unique to that album - I can only listen to it in the right mindset because it taps on that so hard. It's the same feeling I'd get as a teenager driving around late at night by myself feeling like both everything is happening and that nothing will ever happen, just chain smoking the ennui and listlessness away in my old Chevelle. I didn't really listen to it until I taught a Rock and Society class when I was a doc student at Florida in my 30s, so it's not a nostalgia thing. I'm also not generally into music from that scene, so it doesn't really touch on anything else I was listening to back in the 90s. 

I think when an album does that, it really has achieved something artistically perfect. I also find it very rare in the genres Television gets most associated with.

You nailed it!

Marquee Moon is kind of its own sub-genre. 

The only other recording I've heard that taps into it is the menacing and much more obscure "Moonhead" by Thin White Rope, the title track being a masterpiece of rock guitar interplay that slowly builds tension to a glorious climax. All wrapped in a weird Tex-Mex gothic horror movie soundtrack vibe. 

 

Sticking with this topic, their "Exploring the Axis" debut album is pretty wonderful, too. 

Edited yesterday at 08:33 AM by jwhitcomb3