But hey, if you wrote an album that’s sold 33 million and counting, than you outta sing it loud and proud. Morisette now seems to be accepting that fact she recently re-released the 20th anniversary collector’s edition and has taken to singing the old hits with today’s youngsters, like she just did at the AMAs, rocking “You Outta Know” with Demi Lovato. After getting dropped by her first label, Morisette moved to L.A., found collaborator Glen Ballard and Maverick records, and dropped this angsty pop classic packed with six singles (and one excellent blow job reference) that still sound better than anything else Morisette, or the starlets who now try to emulate her, have managed to put out since. (Kidding.) For us Southerners, this Rolling Stone Top 500 album was as ubiquitous as Zubas were back in the mid ’90s. And last time I checked, nobody lives in Canada. Though “Jagged Little Pill” technically was not Alanis Morissette’s first album, it’s the first one anyone outside of Canada heard first. It also allowed us to see that Los Angeles wasn’t all surf and sun.Īlanis Morissette “Jagged Little Pill” (1995) “Straight Outta Compton” made us all take note of the truth about life in Compton. Ice Cube was noticeably absent from the band’s follow up, “100 Miles and Runnin’,” but equally difficult to get over was the fact you can only have your eyes opened once. I like to think I’ve been a little harder ever since. None of us white boys from Aurora, Colorado had ever heard anything like it. You wanna talk about coming out the gate strong? N.W.A. But none of them - either together or separately - would beat the world like this album did. Dre, Ice Cube, and Easy-“Motherf-ing”-E all went on to great success. Heck, they couldn’t even be in the same room with Axl after a couple of years.Īs individuals, Dr. But hey, if it’s all about the music, then that’s how you have to write when you’re covering “Appetite.” Well, technically there should be a lot harder drugs and an orgy blowing up all around as well, but do you want me to finish this list or not? Anyhow, point being, the band could never duplicate the intensity, or the success. After a blistering riff and a demonic yet angelic howl, the first four words we ever heard from the band pretty much set the tone for their stay at the top: “Welcome to the Jungle.” And the album doesn’t come down from that nasty ledge at all just gas pedal from here to “Rocket Queen” - perhaps the single most powerful bookend songs of any album ever, or at least any album I can recall at this late hour, what with all the whiskey and weed and powerful rock flowing through me. debut ever - gets better after song one is a testament to how damn good it remains. The mere fact that the album - the best-selling U.S. Guns N’ Roses “Appetite for Destruction” (1987) Alas, she hasn’t produced much more than Marley grandkids and a fat tax bill ever since. The album sold more than any other female effort in the first week at the time, and Hill became the first hip hop artist to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Which is what Hill did - with help from Rohan’s production - by swirling rap, reggae, R&B, and soul into mainstream perfection. And if you’ve got Marley’s seed growing in you, you’re bound to reach new musical heights. Well, you know how powerful that Marley spunk is, and sure enough, Hill got knocked up and wrote this album. While still a “Fugee,” Hill started seeing Rohan Marley, son of Bob, teammate of The Rock and Ray Allen at the U. Lauryn wasn’t alone in the endeavor either the saying, “behind every dope album is a man with dreadlocks” is totally applicable here. Turned out Hill was a whole lot more than just the hot girl from the Fugees, and we learned that big time in 1998.
Lauryn Hill “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (1998) But all flew so close to the sun on that first effort, their subsequent output just never got out of the shadow.
How well would you take to finally getting everything you ever wanted? Fame, money, sex, drugs, and new instruments? That’s not to say that some of the artists below didn’t persevere respectably. Once the fame comes, the slump hits even harder for some.
Unfortunately, the sophomore slump happens frequently, which is why we have so many honorable mentions below. But when a band or artist fails to back that album up, and their sophomore effort doesn’t come close to the first, it’s nearly as bad as falling out of love with that same girl. How refreshing is it to hear a new sound that just reaches out and touches your soul right from the get-go? It’s like a first kiss with a woman you know you’re eventually going to fall in love with.
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