The Super 8 Debut Albums Blog Hop!!!

Today is the Super 8 Debut Albums Blog Hop and let me tell you it was not easy to pick my top 8. (please visit all the blogs participating by clicking their links in the blog hop list at the end of the post)  What I ended up doing was just picking my personal favorite 8 Debut albums that came out during my lifetime.  At the end of my list I will share a few honorable mentions that came out before my day.  So here it is, my 8 personal favorite debut albums. (In no particular order)

Number 8

Need I say more?

Number 7


An amazing debut album, and one that I can personally listen to from track 1 until the end.  With tracks like Sunday Morning, This Love, Harder to Breathe, and Shiver, Maroon 5 knocked it out of the park with this one.  To this day my wife and I still argue over whether this is the best Maroon 5 CD or not, quite a feat for a debut album to be considered your best.

Number 6


The first CD I ever owned!  This might be the CD that cemented my love for Heavy Metal.  It also introduced me personally to the whole idea of Rap/Rock which is still very popular today although some bash the genre.  Personal favorite tracks: Know your Enemy & Freedom.

Number 5


Rap is something I still can't decide whether I love or hate.  There are so many great rap albums out there but then again there are 5 shitty ones for every great one.  One that sits right up at the top of the list for me though is Doggystyle from the one and only S-N double O-P/D-O double G.  Lodi Dodi and Gin and Juice are my favorites off this debut record.  Murder was the case wasn't bad either, however I never understood why there were so many versions of the song out at the time.

Number 4


Do I seriously even need to explain this one?  I will say though, against popular opinion that Black is my favorite song on the album for the simple fact that it brings me back to my youth, plus it was always fun to try to figure out just what the hell Eddie was saying.

Number 3


Another one that brings me back!  Appetite might possibly be the best of all the GnR albums.  I know, I know the Spaghetti Incident(?) is better right?  Wrong, stop going against the grain just for the sake of being different.  You know this album still rocks your world to this day.  Sweet Child O' Mine & Mr. Brownstone take the cake with Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City close behind.

Number 2


I absolutely love this CD!  After many months of talking shit about this group I finally gave in to my wife and gave them a listen.  WOW, was I amazed!  I might not necessarily listen to every single song on the CD but the ones that I do are "must have" tracks on any mp3 player that I own.  Also this album is another in the great debate as to whether a debut album can be a bands best.

Number 1

This CD is my absolute favorite debut album of all time.  Every single track is a monster jam, and at the time of its release I think everyone was saying what do these crazy white dudes from NY think they are doing in the rap game?  Well I think it only took one try for them to solidify their status in the world of rap with Licensed to Ill.  Once again it's very hard to argue that this isn't the Beastie Boys best album.  Favorite tracks:  Paul Revere & No Sleep till Brooklyn.

There you have it my 8 personal favorite debut albums from my generation!  And while you're still here reading I would like to propose another blog hop to those involved in this one, and Mr. Discconnected since I believe you started this one, if I have permission, I think we should have a "Top 8 Album covers/artwork of all time blog hop"  what do you think? ( let me know in the comments)

Now for those honorable mentions.  These are also some fantastic debut albums that came out a little before my time!  Also, please comment and debate/argue below, the more comments the better!

The Eagles - "Eagles"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd"

The Doors - "The Doors"

Tom Waits - "Closing Time"

Top 6 Horror flicks

I've seen a bucket o' horror films in my day, but these 6 are the ones that I would choose to keep if I had to sell my entire horror DVD collection (which consists of over 300 horror films). It was a grueling process to decide on just 6 and there will be honorable mentions at the end but these 6 (in no particular order) are the films that I enjoy watching the most and have had the most impact on my taste in horror films.

1.Dawn of the Dead 1978

This was actually the first horror movie I ever remember watching. I don't remember exactly what year it was but I do remember it was Easter Sunday. How inappropriate is that! The whole idea of being stuck in a mall while the zombie apocalypse occurred around us struck me as one of the most terrifying things anybody could come up with and still haunts me to this day.

  

2. Nightmare on Elm Street 1984

Total f$#%ing classic! This was a "Movie Mania Classic" in other words a movie I rented from our local movie mania video store so many times, the tape began to wear out. I also remember right after seeing this film my cousins telling me Freddy lived in their basement, and because I was like 6 at the time believing them. When I'm coming up from the basement in any house I still zip like the flash up the stairs without looking back because of this movie.

3. Evil Dead II 1987

Not much I can say about this classic that hasn't already been said other than I was a little late to the Evil Dead party. I didn't see this movie until high school. I remember thinking ugh how bad is this shitty sounding movie going to be? Little did I know that I would be watching the legend himself Bruce Campbell in his greatest acting role to date!  The one-liners and over the top gore and special fx were what mad this movie stick in my head for days after the first viewing. It wasn't long after watching this that I went back to movie mania to rent and catch up on a lot of the classics that I had skipped out on up until that point.

4. Friday the 13th 1980

OK to be honest I still wonder if this movie have any impact on my horror fan parents decision in naming me Jason? They won't fess up to it but the horror fanatic in me can't help but believe its true. This is one of those movies that whenever I watch totally brings me back to my youth. I can remember sitting in my living room scared shitless, eating potato chips, inhaling bowls of ice cream, and drinking Faygo, staying up way past my bedtime. Another inappropriate movie viewing was of this movie on the night that my family put up our Christmas tree one year!

5. The Return of the Living Dead 1985

This is another one of those films where I don't quite remember my first viewing but I do remember watching it over and over on HBO. Linnea Quigley may have been one of my first scream queen crushes and this was the movie that introduced me to her. The Tarman absolutely freaked my mind when I was just a kid.

6. Halloween & Halloween II* 1978/1981

*The reason I list these together is that the very first time I saw these movies they were one after the other and I feel that they should be watched as one viewing experience.

Again late to the party. I do remember my first viewing of these two movies was my freshman year of high school when I purchased them from one of K-Mart's old school much missed Halloween budget bins. I came home that night and watched them along with Halloween III all right in a row. Again these are films I can't say too much about that you haven't already heard, and I really do owe it to these films to give them full blog postings which will come at a later date.

Honorable mentions: Halloween III:Season of the Witch 1982, Phantasm 1979, Re-Animator 1985, Trick r' Treat 2008.

So there it is, my top 6 Horror films and some honorable mentions. Let me know what you think of my list by clicking the comments tab right down below.