Best debut album of all time?
For me it has to be Are You Experienced..
Don't know whether or not I have been listening to too much Jimi (if that's possible) recently, and this album never fails to blow me away - perfection.
I mean surely an album with Red House, Can You See Me, Fire, 3rd Stone from the Sun and Are You Experienced? must be well up there.
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probably The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Good call.
The Avalanches -Since I Left You
Closely followed by Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels and Television - Marquee Moon
Pink Flag
Weezer
The Clash?
Or maybe it's Pretenders.
Ulver - Bergtatt
Genuinely incredible how a new band came along with such an assured, original and coherent narrative, in a genre beknowned for conservatism and inaccessibility
REM - Murmur
I also think it's their best album overall... :-)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
...and it never ceases to amaze me how much they improved in such a short space of time. That's why I love listening to Substance 1977-1980 as well as the debut album.
Agree completely
and even if it isn't the best debut of all time, the best opening track for sure
the stone roses - the stone roses
or maybe lazer guided melodies....or MC5 kick out the jams
^ Lazer Guided Melodies
Patti Smith 'Horses'
Jesus and Mary Chain 'Psychocandy'
Pavement 'Slanted and enchanted'
Is This It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRmxBK-GXvA
You are such a boring cunt
You hear it a lot then?
shake your dicks
this pissing contest is over
whats wrong with discussing the same topics over and over, this forum has a pretty frequent turnover of new users, and even old users aren't on 24/7 so maybe the last time a subject came up it passed them by, maybe people have something new to add, if someone is sick of discussing it they could just not click on the clearly signposted thread.
noticed some people do this alot on message bords, you get people who will point out its been discussed or link to the previous discussions (sometimes genuinely helpful, sometimes quite rude), I always think why bother why not just start from fresh with those who want to, if everyone really is bored of the subject it wont get many responses, if it does get alot of fresh discussion then it was worthwhile, imagine in real life a group of people discussing something and someone comes over and says 'we discussed that a few weeks ago, boring', think sometimes some peoples ideal forums are a completely inactive undisturbed archieve where everything is neatly organised into different threads where nothing went off topic and nothing got repeated
Radiohead
Exactly
When I see people saying 'we discussed this last week' or posting a link to a related thread, I just take it as confirmation the person spends too much time here, because they know the details of every single thread.
If you look at any other posts by "Alpha Deluxe"..
It will all become clear how much of a bell end he is.
not exactly contradicting him there
AlphaDeluxe..
Probably a wee guy about 5 foot high with a user name like that.
Just like yer mother then.
Good spelling of Gonorrhea by the way.
irony here is
the only thing I'm tired of seeing all the time in the music forum is AlphaDeluxe_'s lame indifference and petty arguing
He is a tosser of the highest "form."
Ha ha, what a sucker of balls.
PAAAAAAAAT
Led Zeppelin I
You've got to be kidding
Y u no likey?
It's a plodding blues snore
Big fan of everything from II to Presence though
nah.
It might be my favourite
It's not my favourite Led Zep album
But it's a remarkable debut. Good Times Bad Times, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, Your Time is Gonna Come, Communication Breakdown - that's a pretty spectacular group of tracks right there.
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4286225
turn on the bright lights
The Darkness - Permission To Land
You are taking the piss.
Appetite for Destruction
just putting it out there. I would also rate:
Are You Experienced?
Led Zep I
Unknown Pleasures
The Doors
Television - Marquee Moon
Biggie - Life After Death
Nas - Illmatic
Pink Floyd - Piper @ da gatez
It's funny how you mention doors in that last sentence
because the band is called The Doors!
f# a# oo
Def Leppard
On Through The Night
Hi Cronin
Happy to make your day
3 feet high and rising
gish
music from big pink
airing of grievances
heartbreaker
surfer rosa
yerself is steam
lost souls
Music from Big Pink better than the self-titled album?
Never..
they are equally brilliant..
but as Big Pink is the debut, i opted for that one.
Got Northern Lights-Southern Cross?
'It Makes no Difference' is perhaps my favourite tune by them - bloody superb.
couldn't agree more..
one of danko's finest moments. i love the version in The Last Waltz so much!! Garths sax outro!! (swoon)
Totally agree man..
Sublime doesn't do it justice.
not a patch on the original..
but in case you've somehow missed seeing this--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzXqBGxtPWM
Aphex Twin - SAW 85-92
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Throwing Muses - s/t
All deserve an honourable mention.
My namesake, of course
Crocodiles is obviously completely awesome.
Psychocandy.
Isn't Anything.
Starlite Walker.
Slanted & Enchanted*.
Turn on the Bright Lights.
Future Perfect.
Since I Left You.
Everything All the Time.
Gish.
Black Tambourine.
Los Angeles.
The Decline of BSP.
Internal Wrangler.
Parachutes.
Dreamtime.
Marquee Moon.
Madonna s/t.
Today.
Bee Thousand.
Appetite for Destruction.
Grace.
Boys Don't Cry (3 Imaginary Boys).
Exile in Guyville.
Surfer Rosa.
Laced with Romance.
What's the Story Morning Glory.
Never Mind the Bollocks.
Murmur.
The Pretenders (I).
Would make my list.
Scratch GbV's Bee Thousand
It occurs to me Propeller was first(?) or fuck I dunno. Deffo not Bee Thousand, though.
Devil Between My Toes was the first GBV album
That'd be a pretty good shout for this though.
See also shy_retirer response. Biggie's 'Life After Death' was not his debut. And What's The Story... was not a debut.
Anyway great debut's, Devo 'Q: Are We Not Men...', Richard Buckner 'Bloomed', Black Sleep 'A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing', Red House Painters 'Down Colorful Hill', B-52's 'S/T', Chis Isaak 'Silvertone', They Might Be Giants 'S/T', Go-Go's - 'Beauty and the Beat'...
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Remission
Kill 'Em All
Damaged
well, feel stupid plumping for stuff in the 90's, but...
Tricky - Maxinque
Portishead - Dummy
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
...all have to be good shouts.
Pablo Honey
Amirite?
jfc
How dare you even mention those hypocrites
I'm like a crap thread bot
I search and destory
on that note
nobody has mentioned The Stooges!
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Talking Heads 77
The Ramones
36 Chambers?
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
* The King Of Limbs II
Throwing Muses
Prodigy
Shadow
Variations On Swing
Ramones - Ramones
Ramones. Truly inspirational debut. Also agree that "Appetite For Destruction" was a very strong debut album. Surely folks aren't being serious suggesting "Pablo Honey"?
My Aim Is True
Tindersticks-Tindersticks
sprawling, jaw dropping intense masterpiece.
the vastly differring fidelity of the recordings kinda ruins it for me a BIT
still amazing though. I just wish Blood sounded a bit less like a demo. I'm probably just missing the point or w/e.
A few spring to mind:
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Burial - Burial
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Cracking shout with Five Leaves Left..
Better then Pink Moon though?
Personal Favourites
Kasabian
The Wonder Stuff - Eight Legged Groove Machine
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking (Debut Studio Album - I know there was a live album 1st)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Exit Calm - Exit Calm
The Duke Spirit - Cuts Across The Land
Amplifier - Amplifier
Black Angels - Passover
BRMC - BRMC
The Early Years - The Early Years
Fields - Everything Last Winter
Crystal Head - Crystal Head
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
Van Halen - I
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theatre
The Black Angels - Passover probably just wins it overall with Jane's Addiction a close 2nd
^ This for Ten
Cracking fully rounded tuneful yet loud debut.
Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side
It's pretty good, but a bit tuneless in places
She hit the spot with Kevin Shields guesting on Hollow Of The Morning though.
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
If he'd had those singing lessons he'd been saving up for...
...then maybe.
Yeah,
because all the best albums are perfectly tasteful, technically masterful and in-key at all times
Greg Dulli can carry off out-of-tune...
...HOTS bloke can't and numerous people have pointed out the latter before. There's a threshold of tolerance for bum notes and I think he steps over it.
Still can't believe nobody has mentioned Forever Changes.
That would defo be second on my list.
That was their third album
Probably why nobody has posted it then...
The Strokes: Is This It
Asia
Fever To Tell has got to be up there for me
As a furious, raw statement of intent it's hard to beat.
Sadly almost everything since has been gash. Cue some tard trying to tell me It's Blitz is their best.
Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche
would be my pick from the past 10 (ok maybe 11) years - 32 minutes of unblinking revelation