Great debut albums

[Jarcy]

The The - Soul Mining
Django Django - self titled
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (I know it's already been mentioned, but my life is incomplete without this in my world)
Bastille - Bad Blood
London Grammar - If You Wait
Razorlight - self titled
The Lover Speaks - self titled
U2 - Boy

[anonymous-user]

Brenda Russell's self titled debut release in 1979.

[generationx]

A couple more that I really enjoy which haven't been mentioned yet:

Robbie Williams: Life Thru a Lens
Marina and the Diamonds: Family Jewels
Kate Nash: Made of Bricks
Republica: Republica (Mmm - Saffron... )

[ALawson]

Anyone into Gerry Cinnamon - Erratic Cinematic?

[counterofbeans]

Raygun said:

Brenda Russell's self titled debut release in 1979.

Did you forget that you started this thread 4 years ago?

[irocfan]

have we mentioned Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath? Pretty damn good as a starter!

[toon10]

Thread revival. The XX had a cracking debut. Shame they went a bit lame after that.

[anonymous-user]

counterofbeans said:

Raygun said:

Brenda Russell's self titled debut release in 1979.

Did you forget that you started this thread 4 years ago?

I see that earlier and hoped no one would notice,lol

[cherryowen]

irocfan said:

have we mentioned Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath? Pretty damn good as a starter!

As good as it gets

Track #1 has the same title as the forbidding band name; said track opens with rain, thunder, clanging church bells; opening guitar riff uses just two distorted notes that are the "devil's interval" apart (the root note and a flatted 5th, in this case G and Db)

Perfect

[Halmyre]

cherryowen said:

irocfan said:

have we mentioned Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath? Pretty damn good as a starter!

As good as it gets

Track #1 has the same title as the forbidding band name; said track opens with rain, thunder, clanging church bells; opening guitar riff uses just two distorted notes that are the "devil's interval" apart (the root note and a flatted 5th, in this case G and Db)

Perfect

As an aside, one of the few examples of same band name, album title and song title; Bad Company being the only other example I can think of.

[popeyewhite]

Halmyre said:

As an aside, one of the few examples of same band name, album title and song title; Bad Company being the only other example I can think of.

Band name, debut album, album title, first track side 1 - Motorhead. Hmmm..

[droopsnoot]

What about "Damned Damned Damned", by The Damned? OK, so there's no track of that name, but having the band name three times must make up for it, surely?

[Halmyre]

popeyewhite said:

Halmyre said:

As an aside, one of the few examples of same band name, album title and song title; Bad Company being the only other example I can think of.

Band name, debut album, album title, first track side 1 - Motorhead. Hmmm..

Grrr...



*amongst* such examples are - Black Sabbath, Bad Company, Motorhead...

[DaveTheRave87]

Hot Fuss by The Killers.

[Alex_225]

Slipknot - Slipknot
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Snot - Get Some
System of a Down - System of a Down

[popeyewhite]

Alex_225 said:

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

What was 'great' about it? Virtually all their subsequent albums were better.

[gazza285]

popeyewhite said:

Halmyre said:

As an aside, one of the few examples of same band name, album title and song title; Bad Company being the only other example I can think of.

Band name, debut album, album title, first track side 1 - Motorhead. Hmmm..

Yes, but that was a Hawkwind cover.

[popeyewhite]

gazza285 said:

popeyewhite said:

Halmyre said:

As an aside, one of the few examples of same band name, album title and song title; Bad Company being the only other example I can think of.

Band name, debut album, album title, first track side 1 - Motorhead. Hmmm..

Yes, but that was a Hawkwind cover.

No it's not. Wriiten by Lemmy, sung by Lemmy when in Hawkwind and an eponymous title for his new band. How can the writer of a song 'cover' his own song? Any examples?

[TeaNoSugar]

I’m sure a lot of these have been done but some great debuts I can think of:

Stone Roses - Stone Roses (all-time favourite)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Doors - The Doors
Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the infinite sadness
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Suede - Suede
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
arctic Monkeys - Whatever People say I am...
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Nirvana - Bleach
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Beck - Odelay
Eels - beautiful freak
Air - Moon Safari
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Killers - Hot Fuss
The Music - The Music

Have to admit there were a few awesome albums I thought were debuts but i wasn’t 100% so checked and found I was miles off!!

REM - Document. Can’t believe it was their 3rd album.
Flaming Lips - transmissions from the Satellite Heart. Miles off with this one it looks like they did 4 albums before it!!

[Ultuous]

TeaNoSugar said:

Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the infinite sadness

That's their third album as far as I'm aware... Awesome list other than that tho!