Essential Albums: Sophomore Efforts
Submitted by JohnnyW on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:26
Tags:
- 1.Buffalo Springfield/Again
- 2.Bob Dylan/The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
- 3.Jefferson Airplane/Surrealistic Pillow
- 4.Led Zeppelin/II
- 5.My Bloody Valentine/Isn't Anything
- 6.New York Dolls/Too Much Too Soon
- 7.Nirvana/Nevermind
- 8.Roxy Music/For Your Pleasure
- 9.Santana/Abraxas
- 10.The Stooges/Fun House
Author Comments:
I knew I should have finished this list up last night--now lbangs has beaten me to it! That's fine, he has good taste, if I do say so myself...Anyway, I tried to include artists who, in my opinion, bettered their debut with their second album. In some cases their sophomore album is their first great one; in other cases, the debut is good too, but not up to the same heights as their second. Once again, these are in alphabetical order.
Hard to argue with anything on this fantastic list. Question: Do you prefer Too Much Too Soon to the Dolls' debut? I'm only curious...
Nice to see Isn't Anything make a list!
I'm not sure if you're interested or not, but the reissue of The Band's second album is being released August 15 or thereabouts. I highly recommend it (it is number 5 on my all time list, for what that's worth)!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs