Great debut albums

[popeyewhite]

Nik da Greek said:

....actually, what about Hawkwind (eponymous) cos that was the start of the soundtrack to my yoof.....

...which reminds me of Motorhead's self-titled first album.

[Halmyre]

The Doors' first album

The Velvet Underground and Nico - somebody once said that hardly anyone bought it, but those that did felt inspired to go out and form a band.

Portishead - Dummy

[MikeT66]

Massive Attack - Blue Lines


Roxy Music - Roxy Music


Led Zeppelin - I


Tom Waits - Closing Time

[SilverSixer]

Isn't every band's 1st album their best album?

I'll nominate Shed Seven's 'Change Giver'.

[Tom_C76]

SilverSixer said:

Isn't every band's 1st album their best album?

I'll nominate Shed Seven's 'Change Giver'.

Led Zepp clearly disprove your point, 2, IV and Physical Graffiti are all better than their debut (fine album though it is in its own right).

With you on Shed Seven though.

[V8mate]

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

[dandarez]

SilverSixer said:

Isn't every band's 1st album their best album?

I'll nominate Shed Seven's 'Change Giver'.

Not by a long chalk, especially if you have been listening for a good many years.
There are loads...
instantly I can think of first studio albums by Thin Lizzy, Wishbone Ash, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (each using their band name as album name).

[worsy]

Evanescence - Fallen
I know they released Origin prior to that but it was a self funded Ep not available everywhere.

Big Country - The Crossing

FM - Indiscreet

[Crackie]

The Pretenders - The Pretenders
Ride - Nowhere
Spear of Destiny - Grapes of Wrath
The Sundays - Reading, writing and arithmetic.
Sneaker Pimps ~ Becoming X.
Simply Red ~ Picture book. ( increasingly dismal ever since )


Trevor Horn
Seal ~ Seal.
ABC ~ Lexicon of Love
Frankie Goes to Hollywood ~ Welcome to the Pleasuredome.

[MarshPhantom]

Portishead - Dummy

Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight..Yeah!

Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men

Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycocandy

Libertines - Up The Bracket

Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

Dexys - Young Soul Rebels

[Kinky]

Kinky said:

Ozzys 'Blizzard Of Ozz'
Aslan 'Feel No Shame'

Forgot to add Sex Pistols 'Never Mind' to the list.

[popeyewhite]

Kinky said:

Kinky said:

Ozzys 'Blizzard Of Ozz'
Aslan 'Feel No Shame'

Forgot to add Sex Pistols 'Never Mind' to the list.

I took care of that on the previous page.

[mp3manager]

Propaganda - A Secret Wish



The Cars - The Cars



Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material



Madness - One Step Beyond
(with probably the greatest opening track of any debut album in music history)

Edited by mp3manager on Friday 18th December 03:56

[Munka01]

XX by The XX

Amazing album that never really went mainstream (they won the mercury music award)

[SickAsAParrot]

Nik da Greek said:

....actually, what about Hawkwind (eponymous) cos that was the start of the soundtrack to my yoof.....

I'm a massive HW fan and this is the one album I hardly ever listen to, it's more like a hippy folk album, so unlike the wall-of-sound-synth-wash-space-rock that followed I don't really count it as part of their output.

[Nik da Greek]

SickAsAParrot said:

Nik da Greek said:

....actually, what about Hawkwind (eponymous) cos that was the start of the soundtrack to my yoof.....

I'm a massive HW fan and this is the one album I hardly ever listen to, it's more like a hippy folk album, so unlike the wall-of-sound-synth-wash-space-rock that followed I don't really count it as part of their output.

I'd agree it's not necessarily representative of what came after, but I had to include it cos without the first Hawkwind album there wouldn't be any subsequent Hawkwind albums. I actually love the chilled out strum-along-a-Dave vibe to it, I guess it owes a lot to th'Boy Brock's previous career as a busker. The re-issued extended version shows a bit more of what was to come, packaged with a few rarities like Sweet Mistress of Pain from the Hawkwind Zoo EP and a great cover of Floyd's Cymbaline from the More album.

Case for the defence, lol.

[Halmyre]

SickAsAParrot said:

Nik da Greek said:

....actually, what about Hawkwind (eponymous) cos that was the start of the soundtrack to my yoof.....

I'm a massive HW fan and this is the one album I hardly ever listen to, it's more like a hippy folk album, so unlike the wall-of-sound-synth-wash-space-rock that followed I don't really count it as part of their output.

As an aside, I recently saw Hawkwind referred to as "Black Sabbath with vacuum cleaners".

[Finlandese]

Goldfrapp: Felt Mountain
Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand

[MarshPhantom]

Nik da Greek said:

Spacemen 3's Sound of Confusion ... not actually even their best album but talk about creating genres!

Good call, I love Spacemen 3.

[killingjoker]

Tubeway Army (self titled)
Kasabian (self titled)