Best Debut Album of all time

[BannedTroll]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: Actaeon
Green Day's Dookie was pretty good.

are you fvcking retarded? that was like their 3rd or 4th album.

my vote goes to Boston or Pearl Jam's Ten. Although I think for sustained quality from song 1 to the last song, Pearl Jam's Ten will beat any album anyone has mentioned. Yeah, so Appetite For Destruction had two really KILLER songs but the rest was filler at best and utter crap at worst.

Smashing Pumpkin's Gish is close, though. It looks worse in comparison because their later stuff was even better, whereas most of the bands in this thread never matched their first albums.

Whooaah...now I have to ask if you are fvcking retarded. The only song that may even be mediocre on Appetite is Anything Goes.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: GT578
Oasis's Definitely Maybe has Pearl Jam beat.....Ten is a great debut album but saying that Appetite for Destruction has only two good songs??...please....might as well say Ten only has Alive and Evenflow as the only good songs on the album.

There are no good songs by Pearl Jam.

GnR AFD pwn Pearl Jam any day.

Oasis sucks the big one as well. (beatles wannabes)

 

[dragonballgtz]

Guns N Roses- Appetite for destruction

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Jimi Hendxrix: Are You Experienced
AIC: Facelift
G&R: Appetite For Destruction
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King
Kanye West: College Dropout
Mad Season: Above
Temple Of The Dog: Temple Of The Dog

 

[furie27]

Yet another vote for Appetite, almost 20 years later and I still listen to it like it's the first time.

 

[BannedTroll]

Originally posted by: furie27
Yet another vote for Appetite, almost 20 years later and I still listen to it like it's the first time.

Holy fvck I'm old. Thanks asshat.

 

[Dubb]

hmmm...slightly shifted according to what I've been listening to lately

the shins- oh, inverted world
Iron & wine - the creek drank the cradle
beth orton - trailer park
wilco - AM (though there is the prior uncle tupelo thing)

then there's a whole host of amazing solo debut albums from people who grew their legs in bands, lou reed, peter gabriel, stephen malkmus...

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Ahh, yes, another vote for The Doors - The Doors... and one more: The Smiths - The Smiths... Also honourable mentions to Duran Duran - Duran Duran and The The - The The

 

[faZZter]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Pretty Hate Machine.

Seconded

 

[Siva]

Kerplunk definately counts as Green Day's debut as far as I'm concerned. Just because it was huge doesn't mean it wasn't released and widely distributed.

Anyway, my vote goes for Sublime- 40oz to Freedom. That album got me hooked.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: boggsie
The BEST is too hard to choose, but I know the one at the other end of this argument.

Nirvana's - Nevermind

bingo

 

[spherrod]

Stone Roses by The Stone Roses

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: spherrod
Stone Roses by The Stone Roses

:thumbsup:

damn good album.

 

[Siddhartha]

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

 

[Midnight Rambler]

First off, YES was voted best new group of 1969, and their debut album was also rated over Led Zep's debut. No big surprise. Zep couldn't shake the Yardbirds-wannabe tag, esp. with a wannabe like Page on guitar (and he still wishes he were as good as Jeff Beck ... never happening).

As for Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell, I don't know if it's fair to credit him with that or not. Steinman wrote a lot of the lyrics, and Todd Rundgren (with some help from his band at the time, Utopia) wrote and performed most of the music, as well as all male background vocals.

P.S. - As for best debut, I'll have to give the nod to Cream. I'd have to mention Todd's album "Something/Anything" as well ... technically not his first album, but it was his first solo album, and he did everything himself save a few studio musicians who joined in on a couple tracks.

 

[Tylanner]

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

Dead And Bloated
Plush
Creep

weee

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: Midnight Rambler
First off, YES was voted best new group of 1969, and their debut album was also rated over Led Zep's debut. No big surprise. Zep couldn't shake the Yardbirds-wannabe tag, esp. with a wannabe like Page on guitar (and he still wishes he were as good as Jeff Beck ... never happening).

As for Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell, I don't know if it's fair to credit him with that or not. Steinman wrote a lot of the lyrics, and Todd Rundgren (with some help from his band at the time, Utopia) wrote and performed most of the music, as well as all male background vocals.

P.S. - As for best debut, I'll have to give the nod to Cream. I'd have to mention Todd's album "Something/Anything" as well ... technically not his first album, but it was his first solo album, and he did everything himself save a few studio musicians who joined in on a couple tracks.

Wow Midnight, you and I have similar music tastes and ideas!

 

[luv2chill]

Originally posted by: Dubb
hmmm...slightly shifted according to what I've been listening to lately

the shins- oh, inverted world
Iron & wine - the creek drank the cradle
beth orton - trailer park
wilco - AM (though there is the prior uncle tupelo thing)

then there's a whole host of amazing solo debut albums from people who grew their legs in bands, lou reed, peter gabriel, stephen malkmus...

Great taste you have there!

I will add Jeff Buckley's "Grace", although if you want to get technical he never completed a second album (yes, I know his greedy mom is going the Tupac route with "new material"). Grace is a must-own for people who love music.

l2c

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude

Originally posted by: boggsie
The BEST is too hard to choose, but I know the one at the other end of this argument.

Nirvana's - Nevermind

bingo

BLEACH you tools, BLEACH!!

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: BannedTroll

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Actaeon
Green Day's Dookie was pretty good.

That was not a debut album.

for all intents and purposes it was. It was the first major label with a wide distrubution. Most of the albums listed aren't really "debut" albums.

for example GnR's first was Live Like a Suicide.

Well, if you're going to only count major label debuts, I would have to say Camper Van Beethoven's Our beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart as a great "debut." I also agree with Boston, Van Halen and G'n'R. I would also like to add Men At Work's Business as Usual. Don't forget the 80's.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: psiu
Pearl Jam Ten

Excellent choice !

I would add

Van Halen- Van Halen

To that list also.

Ausm

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: FinalFantasy
any Tu Pac album...
any Jay Z album...
any Nas album...

any questions?

Yes. How did you ever fit your head so far up your arse?

 

[new2AMD]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Oasis - Definitely Maybe

You mean:

Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory? I wouldn't count DM as a debut for Oasis...not very widely played.

I dont understand this. DM was going to be my choice. It was their debut. It rocked.

 

[DeMeo]

The Atomic Enchalada
Taco sauce

 

[Qwest]

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