Great debut albums
Discussion
Amused2death said:
FGTH, Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Loved it from the first time I heard it and still play it in it's entirety.
Although it unfortunately didn't inspire any imitators, Welcome to the Pleasuredome was new take on the concept album. It was fresh, new, revolutionary. It's the sort of album I wish someone would make today.Loved it from the first time I heard it and still play it in it's entirety.
ks has been mentioned... .Great thread and some fantastic debuts mentioned already especially ABC, The Blue Nile, Black Sabbath. So many to choose from...
I've kept it to ten (in no particular order) I don't think have been mentioned but all of which are imho fine albums.
Talk Talk - The Party's Over
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Patti Smith Group - Horses
Echo And The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
I've kept it to ten (in no particular order) I don't think have been mentioned but all of which are imho fine albums.
Talk Talk - The Party's Over
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Patti Smith Group - Horses
Echo And The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
woowahwoo said:
woowahwoo said:
Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out
Ultuous said:
Love that record - much overlooked IMHO, probably due to the amount of formulaic Britpop bandwagon jumping at the time!
Zod said:
That is a great album. They could have been huge.
I have just dug out the original CD and I am glad to say that the music has aged much better than the case. I am going full-throwback digital hipster, enjoying a physical disc far more than a rip or a duffer amazon stream - on venerable 1990s equipment, too! I am also eyeing a couple of Dodgy albums...but that may be a 90s brit-pop step too far.
I'll also second Experience by The Prodigy (sounds very dated now but a perfect vignette of my introduction to 'rave' music) and add in the following:
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush (often said to be before her peak but my personal favourite of hers and an incredible debut for one so young at the time!)
Suede - Suede (listened to it 100s of times when I was younger, and only one track that comes anywhere close to 'filler' IMHO)
I've been meaning to give the House of Love album a listen for years - will be taking advantage of the MP3 era to do so very soon!
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush (often said to be before her peak but my personal favourite of hers and an incredible debut for one so young at the time!)
Suede - Suede (listened to it 100s of times when I was younger, and only one track that comes anywhere close to 'filler' IMHO)
I've been meaning to give the House of Love album a listen for years - will be taking advantage of the MP3 era to do so very soon!
Ultuous said:
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush (often said to be before her peak but my personal favourite of hers and an incredible debut for one so young at the time!)
Suede - Suede (listened to it 100s of times when I was younger, and only one track that comes anywhere close to 'filler' IMHO)
If my list had been 12, those two would have been on it!Suede - Suede (listened to it 100s of times when I was younger, and only one track that comes anywhere close to 'filler' IMHO)
Royal Blood and Kill em all have both already been mentioned.
I think a debut album, when listened back to after subsequent releases, is often a good reminder of the band or artist's roots and the real expression of what their music is about. Of all the Metallica albums, and their subtle shifts in style, it is still my favorite.
I do hope Royal Blood can live up to their first album in years to come.
I think a debut album, when listened back to after subsequent releases, is often a good reminder of the band or artist's roots and the real expression of what their music is about. Of all the Metallica albums, and their subtle shifts in style, it is still my favorite.
I do hope Royal Blood can live up to their first album in years to come.
Marvindodgers said:
Van Halen - Van Halen
Pearl Jam - Ten
Very much those! Certainly VH was light years ahead of its time.Pearl Jam - Ten
I'd also include :
The interplay between Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart is fantastic, especially Morning Dew and Ol' Man River
ETA : Trespass by Genesis has been a copper-bottomed favourite of mine for as long as I can remember (coincidentally, I'm in the process of "finessing" the guitar work on "Dusk" at the moment)
Edited by vournikas on Wednesday 16th December 22:18
What, House of Love has already been taken? Damn!
Have to be The La's then (grocers apostrophe band's own work, lol). An album so good Lee Mavers refused to make another because he knew he'd never come close. And runners up in no particular order;
Spacemen 3's Sound of Confusion ... not actually even their best album but talk about creating genres!
Fields of the Nephilim Dawnrazor for proving Goff didn't have to be effette and wear purple velvet
CRASS Feeding of the 5000 for proving punk didn't have to be stupid
New Model Army Vengeance for being very angry but still erudite
Killing Joke (eponymous) for still being THAT angry all these years later
The Doors (eponymous) for still being worth a listen no matter how many times you hear it
Rammstein Herzeleid because I never imagined a stageshow involving cannibalism, fireworks, half-dressed gimplike Germans, and a giant prosthetic penis with weird aniseed-flavoured ejaculate would ever be something I was like, y'know, into...
oooooh, hang on, nearly forgot RDF's Bordeline Cases. Awesome!
....actually, what about Hawkwind (eponymous) cos that was the start of the soundtrack to my yoof.....
...this one might run and run, lol
Have to be The La's then (grocers apostrophe band's own work, lol). An album so good Lee Mavers refused to make another because he knew he'd never come close. And runners up in no particular order;
Spacemen 3's Sound of Confusion ... not actually even their best album but talk about creating genres!
Fields of the Nephilim Dawnrazor for proving Goff didn't have to be effette and wear purple velvet
CRASS Feeding of the 5000 for proving punk didn't have to be stupid
New Model Army Vengeance for being very angry but still erudite
Killing Joke (eponymous) for still being THAT angry all these years later
The Doors (eponymous) for still being worth a listen no matter how many times you hear it
Rammstein Herzeleid because I never imagined a stageshow involving cannibalism, fireworks, half-dressed gimplike Germans, and a giant prosthetic penis with weird aniseed-flavoured ejaculate would ever be something I was like, y'know, into...
oooooh, hang on, nearly forgot RDF's Bordeline Cases. Awesome!
....actually, what about Hawkwind (eponymous) cos that was the start of the soundtrack to my yoof.....
...this one might run and run, lol
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