Without further ado, your picks.
Best Debut Album: Many
endorsed Are You Experienced? Cited most often as an alternative
was Led Zeppelin I. A "tour de force of guitar virtuosity and blues
reworked
London style," says Fred Walder of
Madison, Wisconsin.
Also cited quite a bit: Weezer's The Blue Album. One respondent
proffered
Bob Dylan's self-titled (and entirely acoustic) first
album. Another chose the "eponymous" self-titled
Boston debut
(remember "More Than A Feeling"? I know - how can we forget?).
Dumbest Song (by Good Musicians): "Convoy" by C.W. McCall,
"Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen, every song on Tales from Topographic
Oceans by Yes, "anything by Yes," "Savoy Truffle" by the Beatles,
"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits, "She's Goin' Bald" by the
Beach Boys.
Dumbest Song Lyrics (by Good Musicians): Dan Young of San
Diego suggests "Squeezebox" by the Who: "Mama's got a squeezebox,
she wears on her chest/And when Daddy comes home, he never gets no
rest/'cause she's playing all night, And the music's all
right/Mama's got a squeezebox, Daddy never sleeps at night." What,
Dan, you have something against complete inanity?
Several readers cited lapses by the most vaunted songwriting team
in rock history, Lennon and McCartney. Christine Holton Cashen of
Highland Village,
Texas, wrote: "What about the Beatles' 'I am the
Walrus?' What in the world is 'Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for
the van to come/Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday/Man, you
been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long/I am the eggman,
they are the eggmen/I am the walrus, goo goo g' joob.' This is one
of the world's greatest bands? Goo Goo G' Joob?"