Culture Shifting Debuts (3 album box)
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A collection of sonically pioneering classics, featuring the likes of Elvis, Patti Smith and N.W.A to name a few.
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About This Box
What you’ll be listening to...
Your box will include a handpicked selection of three albums from this collection of eight:
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
The recording of Elvis's debut for RCA was a rushed affair. Unsure whether their latest investment would prove a flash in the pan and if rock'n'roll had any staying power, they quickly pieced together seven new tracks with five recycled from his days at Sun.
Elvis Presley’s eponymous first album was released on RCA Victor in March 1956. It contained all the material recorded for RCA Records to date plus five unreleased tracks Presley had recorded for Sun the previous July. Elvis’ full-length debut was the first million-selling rock ‘n’ roll album and the first to make it to the top of the charts, remaining at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart for ten weeks.
Tracklist
Blue Suede Shoes
I'm Counting On You
I Got A Woman
One-Sided Love Affair
I Love You Because
Just Because
Tutti Frutti
Tryin' To Get To You
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)
I'll Never Let You Go Blue Moon
Money Honey
Ramones
Ramones
Ramones
Ramones
2016 Remastered Version. The Ramones' self-titled debut is a justifiably adored album - not just one of the best albums to come out of the initial New York punk explosion of the mid-'70s, but one of the greatest rock and roll albums of all time.
Change ups like the bubblegummy near-ballad I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and the uncharacteristically harsh 53rd and 3rd (an unsentimental song about Dee Dee Ramone's days as a teenage hustler) vary the album's sound and mood more than its detractors (and even some of its fans) maintain.
Tracklist
A1 - Blitzkrieg Bop
A2 - Beat on the Brat
A3 - Judy is a Punk
A4 - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
A5 - Chain Saw
A6 - Now I want to Sniff Some Glue
A7 - I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement
B1 - Loudmouth
B2 - Havana Affair
B3 - Listen To My Heart
B4 54rd & 3rd
B5 - Let’s Dance
B6 - I don’t Wanna Walk Around With You
B7 - Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
Horses
Patti Smith
Horses
Patti Smith
A two-disc special edition of Smith's pre-punk masterpiece, the "remastered" original Horses cleans up Smith's lacerating vocals so effectively that a revolution could be taking place in your loudspeakers. Thirty years old and fresher for the refit, these are songs of dignity, fury, alienation, love, loathing and desolate beauty. Free Money documents two outsiders plotting an escape they know will never come; Birdland erupts with political insight. On the second CD, a live performance of Horses at this year's Meltdown festival is curiously peppered with wolf-whistles.
It isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock and roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics - all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic.
Smith is a rock critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; Land carries on from the Doors' The End, marking her as a successor to Jim Morrison, while the borrowed choruses of Gloria and Land of a Thousand Dances are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the '70s.
Producer John Cale respected Smith's primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvisatory song structures worked with her free verse to create something like a new spoken word / musical art form: Horses was a hybrid, the sound of a post-Beat poet, as she put it, "dancing around to the simple rock & roll song."
Tracklist
A1 - Gloria
A1.1 - In Excelsis Deo
A1.2 - Gloria (Version)
A2 - Redondo Beach
A3 - Birdland
A4 - Free Money
B1 - Kimberly
B2 - Break It Up
B3 - Land:
B3.1 - Horses
B3.2 - Land, Of A Thousand Dances
B3.3 - La Mer (De)
B4 - Elegie
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Still astoundingly modern today, Roxy Music remains not only one of the finest debut albums in history, but rock music’s first true postmodern masterpiece.
What follows is an attempt to trace the influences and pop culture references in an album that continues to go beyond all expectations – not only of what a rock group can do, but what a true work of art can accomplish.
Tracklist
A1 - Re-make/Re-model
A2 - Ladytron
A3 - If There Is Something
A4 - 2 H.B.
B1 - The Bob (Medley)
B2 - Chance Meeting
B3 - Would You Believe?
B4 - Sea Breezes
B5 - Bitters End
Madonna
Madonna
Madonna
Madonna
Originally released in 1983, Madonna is the self-titled album by the Queen of Pop herself.
Originally released in 1983, Madonna is the self-titled album by the Queen of Pop herself. With almost every track on the album composed by Madonna, candidly covering the topics of love and relationships, it sold over 10 million copies worldwide, clearly demonstrating Madonna’s ability as a songwriter and global success. The album includes globally renowned hits such as Holiday, Lucky Star and Borderline. The album received five stars from AllMusic and was described as ‘cleverly incorporating great pop songs with stylish, state-of-the-art beats’ and it was a ‘showcase for a dynamic lead singer’, whilst Entertainment Weekly graded the album with an A
Tracklist
1 Lucky Star 5:38
2 Borderline 4:00
3 Burning Up 3:46
4 I Know It 3:47
5 Holiday 6:09
6 Think of Me 4:56
7 Physical Attraction 6:40
8 Everybody 4:55
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
Dark, enigmatic and compelling, Joy Division’s debut album, ‘Unknown Pleasures’, has retained its allure in the decades since its release
Joy Division’s debut album, Unknown Pleasures, has been exhausting superlatives ever since its initial release in the summer of 1979. Now widely hailed as one of post-punk’s most important touchstones, it’s one of a few truly singular rock albums deserving of the over-used epithet “seminal”, yet its influence on successive generations amazes no one more than Joy Division’s remaining members.
Tracklist
A1 - Disorder
A2 - Day Of The Lords
A3 - Candidate
A4 - Insight
A5 - New Dawn Fades
B1 - She's Lost Control
B2 - Shadowplay
B3- Wilderness
B4 - Interzone
B5 - I Remember Nothing
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