Best Debut Album Of All Time?

by **annex** » 17 Oct 2009 08:14

Suicide's eponymous debut.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (actually their only album proper, which makes it even more remarkable!)

by **NewOldVinyl** » 18 Oct 2009 05:16

Not his first album, sorry. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. was the first,

Oh crap, how right you are. I stand very corrected. Also embarrassed. :oops:

by **LivingColour** » 18 Oct 2009 06:23

Korn's first album.

by **kai0ty** » 18 Oct 2009 08:03

Maybe not best of all time, but here's a few newer debuts that are definitely impressive:
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Rage Against the Machine self titled
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
For the older stuff:
The Allman Brothers Band self titled
The Band - Music from Big Pink
The Who - My Generation
Best debuts of all time have to be Led Zepplin's I, Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill, and Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced.

by **alphatoner** » 18 Oct 2009 18:30

sparrow wrote:
JoeE SP9 wrote:Chicago --- Chicago Transit Authority
Christopher Cross --- self titled

My wife loves Christopher Cross'' first album..as we don;t share the same tastes ..I don't..

You and JoeE are married? Was this a civil ceremony?

by **alphatoner** » 18 Oct 2009 18:36

The answers you see with this type of thread often puzzle me. the original post was

Best Debut album of all time?

Thats singular NOT plural, so why do so many posters insist on listing an endless stream of albums 2/3/4 even 6 they cant all be the best ever.

So come on guys don't sit on the fence just pick ONE

by **GTH** » 18 Oct 2009 19:13

alphatoner wrote:The answers you see with this type of thread often puzzle me. the original post was

Best Debut album of all time?

Thats singular NOT plural, so why do so many posters insist on listing an endless stream of albums 2/3/4 even 6 they cant all be the best ever.

So come on guys don't sit on the fence just pick ONE

Read the first post; three choices allowed. I do agree with you that more than that and non debut's is beyond the scope of the post.

by **exojam** » 18 Oct 2009 19:28

Black Sabbath (like others have picked. I do not believe that kind of sound was around before the album).

Van Halen - Van Halen. I think this was a great debut album.

by **sparrow** » 18 Oct 2009 19:47

alphatoner wrote:
sparrow wrote:
JoeE SP9 wrote:Chicago --- Chicago Transit Authority
Christopher Cross --- self titled

My wife loves Christopher Cross'' first album..as we don;t share the same tastes ..I don't..

You and JoeE are married? Was this a civil ceremony?

Cheeky....My wife likes The Christopher Cross album and I don't.. :wink:

by **midfi** » 19 Oct 2009 05:21

Led Zepellin

Pearl Jam

Stone Temple Pilots (everyone forget how the Core album crashed on the scene in 92).

by **frankswings** » 19 Oct 2009 22:33

Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and hell yeah, Van Halen! All great debuts, and The Sex Pistols too.

by **Bateau Ivre** » 22 Oct 2009 02:40

Incidentally for Pearl Jam fans, I was watching a public TV story about Austin City Limits being the longest running music show on TV and they mentioned that Pearl Jam is going to be on Austin City Limits in November.

by **Zamvdio** » 24 Oct 2009 02:51

Stone Roses - s/t
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk

by **finsaa** » 27 Oct 2009 19:03

Seriously, not a mention for The Velvet Underground And Nico in 5 pages?

Others

REM - Murmur
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Make up the top 3.

and
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Roberta Flack - First Take
Nina Nastasia - Dogs

I could go on. A large amount of my favourite albums are debuts