You don't get a second chance at a first impression. That's something each artist in the list below of the Top 35 Opening Songs on Debut Albums knows all too well. The first song on that first album ...

Not only is “Baba O’Riley” by The Who the best album-opener they could have picked for the 1971 album Who’s Next, but it’s also one of the hard rock band’s greatest songs of all time. This track sets ...

When it comes to the greatest classic rock debut albums of all time, it is relatively subjective—though some works do stick ...

Call it a summer listening project. After years of speculation and fan clamoring, Bruce Springsteen finally releases Friday “Tracks II: The Lost Albums,” an expansive seven-album box set and sequel to ...

The boundaries between country and pop are getting more porous by the day, but back in 1999, the lines were far more rigid — and the Chicks were at the forefront of a movement to push their genre ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by BBC News. We compiled more than 30 end-of-year lists from leading music ...