A selection of bands whose best album was their first album. Includes Weezer, Van Halen, The Velvet Underground, & The Stone Roses.

Mozart Breath’s 5 Questions for Steve Hanft is an enjoyable experience. Steve kindly answered some questions that I did indeed feel to be of worth and also of value as well, he is a real nice chap for his time and it is my hope that the reader will dig his responses. It […]

When asked about their touring plans for 2008, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien told interviewer Steve Lamacq that the band will probably start touring in May and that they plan on starting the tour in America.
He also said that they may be performing at the Glastonbury festival in England in 2008. Although no plans are […]

“All I Need” is the song on the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, that most grabbed me from the first listen. It’s one of the most direct and universal songs Radiohead has recorded since The Bends. It features one of the best singing performances of Thom Yorke’s career and a hauntingly beautiful yet simple melody. […]

The DigiTech RP 200 guitar pedal is not intended to (or able to) mimic the tones of classic rock guitar. It’s a simple, easy to use, and cheap guitar pedal that’s great for beginners who just want to experiment with different sounds. It’s also able to create some pretty unusual rather interesting sounds if you […]

It seems reasonable enough for the first MusicByDay.com retro album review to be for what is considered by many music critics to be the most important album ever recorded. As an example of the critical acclaim the album still commands long after it’s release in 1967, it ranked #1 on Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums […]

When you come to this guy’s MySpace page you get a huge banner ad for his new single “Overrated.” To whom this would be not annoying, I’m not sure. Five Times August appears to be a dude named Brad Skistimas in Austin, Texas who is attempting to single handily destroy any reputation the city has […]

Is Hollywood Undead the worst music ever? After listening to the songs on their MySpace page this seems like a completely reasonable question. Their sound is like all the worst aspects of every awful music trend from the last 20 years.
It’s like Limp Bizkit mixed with Eminem and the Backstreet Boys. It’s hard to imagine […]

Videos from Radiohead’s November 9, 2007 Webcast including music video made for “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” and live performances of “Reckoner” & “Bodysnatchers.”

With 27 million copies sold in the US and at least that many more again throughout the world, Thriller is the most commercially successful album of all time.