The greatest XX albums in history are selected almost every year as reserved programs for major music magazines and music media to harvest traffic. Last year, for example, Rolling Stone magazine re-selected the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", Marvin Gay's "What's Going On" topped the list, and popular singers such as Adele and Taylor Swift were selected.
But there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and it is difficult to be completely objective in ranking music, not to mention that this kind of ranking is available every year, which is really not new.
So today we think about the whole new life: every singer and band has its own masterpiece to a greater or lesser extent, but in the long river of music, whose first album is the most powerful?
These first specialties, debut is the peak
First of all, let's take a look at the Chinese music scene that we are most familiar with, with the always strict Douban score for Chinese music as the standard, Jay Chou's "Fantasia", Tao Zhe's "David Tao", Dou Wei's "Black Dream", Zhang Huimei's "Sister" all exceeded 9 points, and Luo Dayou's "Zhihu Zhi Ye" even got a high score of 9.5 points, which can be called a god.
The above are all works that are still regarded as classics, but the quality of an album is also related to the environment and influence at the time of release. Speaking of current influence, there is a person who is not sleepy -
In 2004, Dao Lang's debut solo album "The First Snow of 2002" was released, and the genuine version sold more than 2.7 million copies. Even if it has become the tears of the times, as long as you have experienced that era, you will not deny the popularity of this "first album".
Another representative of the peak of debut is the flower band formed by middle school students at that time, and their first album "Happy Side" released in 1999 will bring The niche punk music in China to the mainstream vision, and the young people of that era are proud of having a picture of "Happy Side".
Looking at the European and American music circles, the debuts of several popular musicians have performed well, Lady Gaga's "The Fame", Taylor Swift's "Taylor Swift", Adele's "19", Billie Elise's "When WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?"...
Subjective evaluations aside and the numbers that measure the performance of the debut album, we will see a familiar name - Guns N' Roses Guns and Roses.
Their debut album Appetite For Destruction, released in 1987, sold more than 30 million copies, sold more than 18 million copies in the United States, and received 18 Platinum certifications, making it the best-selling debut album in the United States and the highest-selling debut album ever in the world.
Gun flowers and their desire for destruction
Gun and Rose, known to fans as "Gun Flower", is one of the most influential rock bands in history, with a style full of American charm, lyrics with very liberal colors, violent music and decadence, reflecting the characteristics of American underground culture at the end of the last century.
In 1985, Gunflower was officially established, and the perennial underground club allowed them to accumulate a lot of popularity before the official release of the work, but the release of the first album "Desire to Destroy" in 1987 was exchanged for dismal sales and repercussions.
What made "Desire to Destroy" popular was a MV promotion that the record company owner used his personal friendship to win for them. At MTV at four o'clock in the morning on Sunday, the first single "Welcome to the Jungle" MV from "Desire to Destruction" aired, which unexpectedly attracted a lot of attention, and even someone called the TV station to ask for a replay.
"Welcome to the Jungle" MV Zhu Yu in front, the band took advantage of the hot iron to shoot another single "Sweet Child O' Mine" MV, and released it on TV, which really made the nameless gun a hit.
This "Sweet Child O' Mine" was co-written by several of the band's main creators, and was a love song written by the band leader Exo Ross to his girlfriend at the time, Irene Everly, and the two later married, and the pair of golden children also passed on as a good story in the music industry for a time.
Although "Sweet Child O' Mine" is still cloaked in the shell of rock and roll, it is a "sour" deep love in its bones. The riff and solo techniques of the band's two guitarists, Slash and Ace Stadlin, have also become the hallmark charm of Gunflower music.
Since the success of Desire to Destroy, Gunflower has soared, producing excellent works at the end of the last century. Even though the band members were almost disintegrated, the return of Slash in 2016 made old fans cheer up and start looking forward to a new era of rock and roll.
Another iconic "work" of Gunflower is their classic band logo , the metallic barrel of the gun with thorns wrapped around the roses, dangerous and charming, delicate and rough, faintly exuding an air of violent aesthetics.
In the vicinity of a group of genuine musicians officially launched by Universal Music a few days ago, the sweatshirt printed with the iconic logo of gun flower is based on the aesthetics of hard rock, combined with the current aesthetic trend, and matches the new and old gun flower fans! At present, the major platforms are in hot sales!