OT: Best Debut Album
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The Black Crowes- Shake Your Money Maker
Boston - Boston (absolute masterpiece). It was created in Tom Scholz's basement.
That is my number 2. It is a great album.
Off the cuff for me...
GNR - Appetite
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Weezer - Blue Album
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
GNR - Appetite
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Weezer - Blue Album
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees
Boston Boston
Hootie and the Blowfish. Cracked Rear View
Hootie and the Blowfish. Cracked Rear View
August and Everything After - Counting Crowes
GOAT. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Depends on whether you count Bleach, which I don't, but-
Nirvana- Nevermind
Nirvana- Nevermind
Came here specifically to say this.....
I thought a Weezer was a kid w/ asthma?
Top 5 Ranked
Boston - Boston
Van Halen - Van Halen
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses
Doors - The Doors
Pronounced - Lynyrd Skynyrd
If you look at the music landscape that existed when these albums debuted, it demonstrates what great albums they were. At the time of their release or even before, there was nothing like them musically.
Others:
License To Ill - Beastie Boys
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Ten - Pearl Jam
Please, Please Me - The Beatles
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Boston - Boston
Van Halen - Van Halen
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses
Doors - The Doors
Pronounced - Lynyrd Skynyrd
If you look at the music landscape that existed when these albums debuted, it demonstrates what great albums they were. At the time of their release or even before, there was nothing like them musically.
Others:
License To Ill - Beastie Boys
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Ten - Pearl Jam
Please, Please Me - The Beatles
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, all day every day.
Other phenomenal debuts:
John Prine by John Prine
Murmur by R.E.M.
Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 by Thelonious Monk
Other phenomenal debuts:
John Prine by John Prine
Murmur by R.E.M.
Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 by Thelonious Monk
Got to go with Matchbox 20-Yourself or Someone Like You. Top to bottom brilliant.
Great thread. Two candidates I have to throw in not yet mentioned
STP. Core
Clint Black. Killing Time
STP. Core
Clint Black. Killing Time
That album was really good but I’ve refused to see them perform ever since Brad Delp committed suicide.
Here are two eponymous debuts I don’t think folks have mentioned:
The Ramones
Rage against the Machine
The Cars was awesome. I went on this thread to list them.
Best by general understanding and my intent is singular. I appreciate the lists, but I could have done that initially. Many of the albums mentioned are great to me also. Let's try to keep this as a deserted island thing and you can have only one debut album.
Very underrated band. Ric Ocasek was the face of the band, but Benjamin Orr and Elliott Easton were the ones who really made it great.
Boston was also my first choice.
Here's another that is more obscure, but a terrific debut album. Not Dan Hicks debut, but with his new band at the time. If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend you give it a try. Style-wise it's a combination of folk, swing, jazz, country music, & of course, Dan Hicks great sense-of-humor:
Shootin' Straight - Dan Hicks & The Acoustic Warriors
If you want a quick look at the kind of music:
Savin' My Loving - Dan Hicks and the Acoustic Warriors - YouTube
Dan Hicks & The Acoustic Warriors-Doing It - YouTube
Dan Hicks & the Acoustic Warriors : Hell I'd Go - YouTube
Bottoms Up (Live) - YouTube
Here's another that is more obscure, but a terrific debut album. Not Dan Hicks debut, but with his new band at the time. If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend you give it a try. Style-wise it's a combination of folk, swing, jazz, country music, & of course, Dan Hicks great sense-of-humor:
Shootin' Straight - Dan Hicks & The Acoustic Warriors
If you want a quick look at the kind of music:
Savin' My Loving - Dan Hicks and the Acoustic Warriors - YouTube
Dan Hicks & The Acoustic Warriors-Doing It - YouTube
Dan Hicks & the Acoustic Warriors : Hell I'd Go - YouTube
Bottoms Up (Live) - YouTube
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Even though their new schit sucks,
Aerosmith.
Aerosmith.
Right on both points. Great band in the early years. I liked their comeback remake of Walk This Way with Run DMC. But literally everything after that is garbage.
It had "Dream On" , "Mama Kin" , "Walking the Dog" and this one which for reasons unkonwn never broke into the radio air waves.
Bleach was an awesome album, and you kind of have to count it.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's debut album had
Free Bird
Tuesday's Gone
Gimme Three Steps, and
Simple Man.
There are only 8 songs on the album.
I'd also go with the Sex Pistols. They only put out like two albums but the first one defined a genre (punk rock).
Last Metallica. Kill 'Em All is a badass album. If you like speed metal, that is.
Free Bird
Tuesday's Gone
Gimme Three Steps, and
Simple Man.
There are only 8 songs on the album.
I'd also go with the Sex Pistols. They only put out like two albums but the first one defined a genre (punk rock).
Last Metallica. Kill 'Em All is a badass album. If you like speed metal, that is.
^^^OP tryna control his own thread. an SPS first***
Yes, and Ric and Benjamin are both gone now. They had a different sound from all the other bands playing at the time. I was going to school at State the first time I heard them and Tom Petty as well. They were played on WMSB (before WMSV) a couple of weeks before the mainstream radio stations started playing them.