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Best debut album ever?

Tony L said:
I’m not convinced. Radiohead are one of those bands that took a few albums to find their feet and I’d argue that it wasn’t until Kid A that they really arrived! Pablo Honey is a bit too generic grunge to my mind, I’ve never really connected with it. The Flaming Lips are similar, lots of albums before they really knocked the ball out if the park with The Soft Bulletin and then Yoshimi.

PS I’d argue Eno peaked a lot later too with Music For Airports, Apollo etc. That is when he really found his ‘thing’.
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I think they arrived with The Bends & smashed it with OK Computer. I like Kid A but never grabbed me like the two previous releases
 
Tony L said:
I’m not convinced. Radiohead are one of those bands that took a few albums to find their feet and I’d argue that it wasn’t until Kid A that they really arrived! Pablo Honey is a bit too generic grunge to my mind, I’ve never really connected with it. The Flaming Lips are similar, lots of albums before they really knocked the ball out if the park with The Soft Bulletin and then Yoshimi.

PS I’d argue Eno peaked a lot later too with Music For Airports, Apollo etc. That is when he really found his ‘thing’.
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Agree re: Radiohead but not Eno but yet your argument works for both; whilst they both found their aesthetic later I feel Eno was far more successful with his debut, off the back of Roxy Music that's probably not surprising, in my top 3 Eno albums and therefore I stand by it.
 
stefane said:
For me, it looks something like that:

01) Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
02) The Band – Music from Big Pink
03) Mike Hurley – First Songs
04) Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
05) Curtis Mayfield – Curtis
06) Jackson C. Frank – Jackson C. Frank
07) Guy Clark – Old No. 1
08) Dr. John – Gris-Gris
09) Sandy Denny – The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
10) Gillian Welch – Revival
11) Jeff Buckley – Grace
12) David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name
13) Gram Parsons – GP
14) The Dream Syndicate – The Days of Wine and Roses
15) Cowboy Junkies – Whites Off Earth Now!!
16) James Luther Dickinson – Dixie Fried
17) Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
18) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced
19) Rickie Lee Jones – Rickie Lee Jones
20) Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
21) The Gun Club – Fire of Love
22) Townes Van Zandt – For the Sake of the Song
23) John Prine – John Prine
24) Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield
25) Son Volt – Trace
26) Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy
27) Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Safe as Milk
28) The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band
29) Palace Brothers – There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You
30) Liz Green – O, Devotion!
31) New Riders of the Purple Sage – New Riders of the Purple Sage
32) Terry Callier – The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
33) Trees – The Garden of Jane Delawney
34) The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico
35) Tav Falco's Panther Burns – Behind the Magnolia Curtain
36) Thin White Rope – Exploring the Axis
37) Kris Kristofferson – Kristofferson
38) Big Star – #1 Record
39) Richard & Linda Thompson – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
40) Television – Marquee Moon
41) Jackie Leven – The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery of Death
42) Congregation – Congregation
43) Hazeldine – How Bees Fly
44) Tindersticks – Tindersticks [First Album]
45) Bert Jansch – Bert Jansch
46) Tim Hardin – Tim Hardin 1
47) Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim
48) Lloyd Cole and The Commotions – Rattlesnakes
49) Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
50) Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Kate & Anna McGarrigle
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Mc Garrigles at 50? You jest, sir!
 
nobeone said:
Nirvana stated they were trying to emulate the pixies on nevermind ... they were a clear influence, bleach is raw, and not easy, but it is a good album. The first track from unplugged MTV is from bleach ...
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Not emulating this lot from Medway, then?

 
4 great powerpop/punk/new wave debut albums:

Undertones - Undertones
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Supergrass - I should coco

PS, yeah, Horses should be up there. Another year zero album.
 
Joe said:
These lists always end up as "good albums by people I like"

I cannot believe that even the posters of these suggestions really believe that they are offering up to us " The best debut album EVER '
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i think it's more of a 'relative' term (?) - i.e. 'where the debut album is much better than what came later'? seems to me the first post was highly subjective anyway
 
Tony L said:
I’m not convinced. Radiohead are one of those bands that took a few albums to find their feet and I’d argue that it wasn’t until Kid A that they really arrived! Pablo Honey is a bit too generic grunge to my mind, I’ve never really connected with it. The Flaming Lips are similar, lots of albums before they really knocked the ball out if the park with The Soft Bulletin and then Yoshimi.

PS I’d argue Eno peaked a lot later too with Music For Airports, Apollo etc. That is when he really found his ‘thing’.
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on eno - absolutely agree ... discreet music and another green world being the first 'good' ones IMO

I would like to hear peoples' opinions on radiohead - knowing that most here are of the same age as myself ... to my mind they were kind of 'also ran' newcomers ... very good nonetheless but derivative ...
 
Arkless Electronics said:
Nirvana's Bleach is one of the worst albums I've ever heard..... a copy went round about 5 people in my circle many years ago when each person listened to it, decided it was crap and gave it away to someone else! What a transformation with their next album!
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A fellow loon tells a beautifully Erisian tale about Nirvana. They and their mates traveled 80 odd miles to see a band night in Chicago in the late 80s. The first band on were terrible and they knew it. They came off stage and actually went round apologising to members of the audience for their shambles of a performance handing out copies of their 45 on vinyl as an apology. Driving the 80 miles home from Chicago that night several copies of said single were to become frisbees out of the car window. The band in question was Nirvana and those singles now fetch up to 4 grand a piece.

The one debut that stands out for me personally and not specifically because of the music rather, of all the albums I've ever bought , it's the one album I can honestly say that, around 20 odd people went out and bought it the day after I first played it to them is Dire Straits eponymous album. I heard it on a Saturday afternoon being played in a shop down the Portobello Road. Asked who it was , went out bought a copy, by the next weekend virtually every one of my flatmates and crowd I hung out with at college had gone out and bought their own copy.

Three belting debut albums often overlooked. Neu; Neu.... Bran Van 3000; Glee......Masters of Reality; In A Blue Garden (as it is mostly referred to these days though it's actually self titled)
 
FireMoon said:
A fellow loon tells a beautifully Erisian tale about Nirvana. They and their mates traveled 80 odd miles to see a band night in Chicago in the late 80s. The first band on were terrible and they knew it. They came off stage and actually went round apologising to members of the audience for their shambles of a performance handing out copies of their 45 on vinyl as an apology. Driving the 80 miles home from Chicago that night several copies of said single were to become frisbees out of the car window. The band in question was Nirvana and those singles now fetch up to 4 grand a piece.

The one debut that stands out for me personally and not specifically because of the music rather, of all the albums I've ever bought , it's the one album I can honestly say that, around 20 odd people went out and bought it the day after I first played it to them is Dire Straits eponymous album. I heard it on a Saturday afternoon being played in a shop down the Portobello Road. Asked who it was , went out bought a copy, by the next weekend virtually every one of my flatmates and crowd I hung out with at college had gone out and bought their own copy.

Three belting debut albums often overlooked. Neu; Neu.... Bran Van 3000; Glee......Masters of Reality; In A Blue Garden (as it is mostly referred to these days though it's actually self titled)
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I'm certainly a fan of Dire Straits first album:)
 
Pretenders - Pretenders
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Dalek I Love You - Compass
Rebecca Pigeon - The Raven
Air - Premiers Symptomes
Average White Band - AWB
Cars - The Cars
Devo - Are We No Men
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Associates - The Affectionate Punch
Royksopp - Melody AM
Leftfield- Leftism
Ultramarine - Every Man And Woman Is A Star
Maxwell - Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite
 
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The Allman Brothers Band - their self titled debut set the stage for everything that was to come from them. With a southern blues-rock jazz inspired sound, they laid down 7 songs that would remain mainstays of their live performances for decades.

The only other album that comes close, in my opinion, is Led Zeppelin 1.
 
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