What´s the best debut of all time ?
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What´s the best debut of all time ?
Mr. Tambourine Man, The Clash (UK), Velvet Underground And Nico, The Band´s Music From the Big Pink, Stone Roses, #1 Record, Moby Grape, The Stooges, Steely Dan´s Can´t Buy a Thrill, Are You Experienced ?
nope,
IMHO the best debut album of all time is :
My Aim Is True ( A strangely underestimate collection in here )
Whats yours ?
nope,
IMHO the best debut album of all time is :
My Aim Is True ( A strangely underestimate collection in here )
Whats yours ?
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Lotsa of good choices already - a few more to add from the '76-81 era
The Ramones - The Ramones
The Specials - The Specials
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
The Undertones - The Undertones
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Jam - In The City
Wire - Pink Flag
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo
Gang of Four - Entertainment
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Ramones - The Ramones
The Specials - The Specials
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
The Undertones - The Undertones
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Jam - In The City
Wire - Pink Flag
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo
Gang of Four - Entertainment
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
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Aside from a few popular singles (which probably weren't even on the UK release), I very, very rarely listen to their first album. There's something about Dave Davies' voice pre-1966 that annoys the hell out of mepophead2k wrote:Couple of keepers:
The Kinks
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Quite right.Who Shot Sam? wrote:A pedant writes...pophead2k wrote:Murmur: REM
That was technically not their debut, though it was their first LP. The Chronic Town EP preceded it - and that's pretty damn good too.
My new answer is REM - Chronic Town
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I like the suggestions for High Land, Hard Rain and the wondrous Five Leaves Left Also...
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Swoon - Prefab Sprout
1977 - Ash
Hour of the Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy
Stone Roses
Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
However, not mentioned yet...the greatest debut ever has got to be
Grace -Jeff Buckley.
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Swoon - Prefab Sprout
1977 - Ash
Hour of the Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy
Stone Roses
Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
However, not mentioned yet...the greatest debut ever has got to be
Grace -Jeff Buckley.
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Understood, but with all the bands doing retro garage rock these days, this album stands up as one of the granddaddies of them all. I dare the Strokes to make an album that sounds this real.BlueChair wrote:Aside from a few popular singles (which probably weren't even on the UK release), I very, very rarely listen to their first album. There's something about Dave Davies' voice pre-1966 that annoys the hell out of mepophead2k wrote:Couple of keepers:
The Kinks
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An EP ain't an album - you were right first time!noiseradio wrote:Quite right.Who Shot Sam? wrote:A pedant writes...pophead2k wrote:Murmur: REM
That was technically not their debut, though it was their first LP. The Chronic Town EP preceded it - and that's pretty damn good too.
My new answer is REM - Chronic Town
IP beat me to it: Unknown Pleasures.
MAIT wouldn't make my list of top 10 Elvis LPs.
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A second vote for Van the Man's Astral Weeks. Also...
Dexy's Midnight Runners - In Search of the Young Soul Rebels
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True (as if that needed to be said!)
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley (think it was his first)
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch a Fire (his debut with Island)
King Crimson - In Search of the Crimson King
Dexy's Midnight Runners - In Search of the Young Soul Rebels
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True (as if that needed to be said!)
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley (think it was his first)
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch a Fire (his debut with Island)
King Crimson - In Search of the Crimson King
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If it were best second album, TYM would be top of my list (well, that and Closer, of course). The gulf between MAIT and TYM is pretty enormous in my book. It's not just that the songs are much better, the whole realisation of the LP is so much more impressive and exciting.
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In my humble, simplistic and certainly not learned opinion, MAIT is a handy little blueprint of the next four albums. I mean, "I got this camera click-click-clickin' in my head..."
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In my humble, simplistic and certainly not learned opinion, MAIT is a handy little blueprint of the next four albums. I mean, "I got this camera click-click-clickin' in my head..."
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Astral Weeks for me too. (I don't count the Bang recordings, which were made for singles, but the two Them records sorta disqualifies this)
that one, or
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (But this doesn't really count either, 'cause Linda sang on Henry The Human Fly, so they had made an album together before, and then there was Fairport...)
Other great debuts, many of which have already been mentioned:
Antony & the Johnsons
the Band - Music From Big Pink
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
The Clash
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
My Aim Is True
Dag Nasty - Can I Say
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Gunder Hägg - Tigerkaka
Daniel Johnston - Songs Of Pain
King Creosote - Kenny & Beth's Musakal Boat Rides
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
Modern Lovers
Randy Newman
Gram Parsons - GP (after Byrds & Burritos, this is really no debut either)
the Pixies - Come On Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa (and Frank's solo debut)
John Prine
Ramones
REM - Murmur
SNFU - And No One Else Wanted To Play
Ron Sexsmith (the eponymous one; Grand Opera Lane is more of a demo)
Patti Smith - Horses
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
the Velvet Underground & Nico
Loudon Wainwright III - Album I
Tom Waits - Closing Time
the Weakerthans - Fallow
Weezer
Zappa & The Mothers - Freak Out!
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (not really a debut either, but still...)
that one, or
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (But this doesn't really count either, 'cause Linda sang on Henry The Human Fly, so they had made an album together before, and then there was Fairport...)
Other great debuts, many of which have already been mentioned:
Antony & the Johnsons
the Band - Music From Big Pink
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
The Clash
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
My Aim Is True
Dag Nasty - Can I Say
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Gunder Hägg - Tigerkaka
Daniel Johnston - Songs Of Pain
King Creosote - Kenny & Beth's Musakal Boat Rides
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
Modern Lovers
Randy Newman
Gram Parsons - GP (after Byrds & Burritos, this is really no debut either)
the Pixies - Come On Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa (and Frank's solo debut)
John Prine
Ramones
REM - Murmur
SNFU - And No One Else Wanted To Play
Ron Sexsmith (the eponymous one; Grand Opera Lane is more of a demo)
Patti Smith - Horses
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
the Velvet Underground & Nico
Loudon Wainwright III - Album I
Tom Waits - Closing Time
the Weakerthans - Fallow
Weezer
Zappa & The Mothers - Freak Out!
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (not really a debut either, but still...)
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