Best Debut Album of all time

[Siddhartha]

Jimi Hendrix "Are You Experienced?"

 

[PMChris]

It's The Doors - The Doors.

I'm surprised no one has voted for The Ramones yet.

I like Gang of Four - Entertainment! too.

 

[TGirl]

Dark Side of the Moon, for SURE!!!!

 

[TGirl]

Oh Crap - Debut??? Dark Side of the Moon, no Debut, but still BEST album of all time.

I'd have to agree with CORE - Stone Temple Pilots!!!!

 

[oslama]

Petshop sounds by the beach boy

 

[KnickNut3]

Slim Shady LP remains my favorite CD beginning to end and was Eminem's first mainstream release, although he had made "Infinite" two years earlier.

 

[ZeroEffect]

Bjork - Debut

She's simply elegant

And she owns everyone because the topic of this thread is the name of her album!

 

[soupdog23]

Here's some of my favorite debut albums from over my time here on earth(in a chronilogical order of sorts)
The Beatles - Please Please Me
The Doors - The Doors
Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
The Ramones - The Ramones
The B-52's - The B-52's
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
The Cars - The Cars
The Specials - The Specials
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood
Run D.M.C - Run D.M.C.
Beastie Boys - License To Ill
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Moby - Moby
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Audioslave - Cochise

And a couple country ones to boot!
Garth Brooks - Garth Brooks
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces

Late!

 

[Robor]

Boston's "Boston" -- It may be short on songs but it's great start to finish

Pearl Jam & Van Halen had great ones as well.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon

Originally posted by: glen
Boston: Boston 1976 11th best selling album of all time, and highest début album for anyone.
16 million copies have been sold in the USA alone.

Oh my god, it took this long for someone to mention, without a doubt, the BEST debut album of all time (and one of the best albums of all time)???

Yeah if you like one song played ten different ways.
Of those 16 million copies I'm sure 12 million were bought by adolescent girls.

I'll pick Jimi Hendrix's "Are you experienced"

You say Boston all sounds the same then you vote for Hendrix? I love Hendrix but I don't understand that...

 

[Rayden]

Because of this thread I purchased Ten by Pearl Jam and the title album by Rage Against the Machines.

I am not a music afficianado, and certainly not well knowledged in music before late 90's, cept for Beatles.

I would ask about a few I didn't see, though may have been mentioned. I am in no way implying these are good albums as I don't think I've listened to them much. Just curious as to how well they match up.

Metallica
Coldplay - Parachutes
Soundgarden
Korn
Third Eye Blind - title (this is an excellent album?! where is its recognition?)


Debut albums I do like, but won't bother comparing them to others.
Counting Crows - August and Everything After (excellent like someone said, but I don't see it as any better than the rest of their stuff. I find all their albums pretty equal in quality.)
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
The Postal Service

 

[AlienCraft]

Led Zeppelin
Journey
Return to Forever
Kansas
Inner Mounting Flame (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
all kick those posers from GnR's ass

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: glen
Boston: Boston 1976 11th best selling album of all time, and highest début album for anyone.
16 million copies have been sold in the USA alone.

Glad you have th info....because this is the album I was going to list. I knew it was the top selling debut of all time.

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: 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

:thumbsup: agreed. Buckley as well as costello would have to be up there on my list too.

 

[slydecix]

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World ( :heart: )
John Mayer - Room for Squares (I like Heavier Things better though)
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium (Not counting the At the Drive-In thing)
Rooney - Rooney
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: luv2chill

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
Some more that I like:

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

All awesome albums, except 1 & 3 are not debuts. Sigur Ros's debut album was called Von. Nick's debut is Five Leaves Left.

l2c

Bah I dunno why I put the Nick Drake one there, shoulda known. I coulda sworn Agaetis Byrjun was their debut though, but apparently it was just their US debut. Still great stuff though, and a :thumbsup: to VW for getting me into folk music.

 

[William23]

The most influential albums for me are, Eminem-The Slim Shady LP. Nirvana-nevermind(although it's not their debut album)!!

As for Pearl Jam .....The greatest band ever IMHO!!!!! ALL their albums are awesome,some are better than others though

 

[William23]

Originally posted by: William23
The most influential albums for me are, Eminem-The Slim Shady LP. Nirvana-nevermind(although it's not their debut album)!!

As for Pearl Jam .....The greatest band ever IMHO!!!!! ALL their albums are awesome,some are better than others though

Also some debut albums I love to listen to while building computers,
Cold-Thirteen ways to bleed on stage

Trapt-Self titled

Oh,and another awesome album(not sure if it's a debut) is TOOL-Undertow)!!

 

[erikistired]

i'd have to go with appetite for destruction or boston. both great albums that i still listen to (okay so i was in diapers when boston came out, but still a great album).

To be truthful I had forgotten all about Boston's debut. (Prolly because they waited 15 years or more to release a follow up.)

am i missing something?

boston - 1976
don't look back - 1978
third stage - 1986
walk on - 1994
greatest hits - 1997
corporate america - 2002

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon

Originally posted by: glen
Boston: Boston 1976 11th best selling album of all time, and highest début album for anyone.
16 million copies have been sold in the USA alone.

Oh my god, it took this long for someone to mention, without a doubt, the BEST debut album of all time (and one of the best albums of all time)???

Yeah if you like one song played ten different ways.
Of those 16 million copies I'm sure 12 million were bought by adolescent girls.

I'll pick Jimi Hendrix's "Are you experienced"

You say Boston all sounds the same then you vote for Hendrix? I love Hendrix but I don't understand that...

Hendrix debut wasn't a bunch of teenybopper tunes like Boston's.

 

[edro]

Slipknot - Slipknot

 

[thebaroness]

N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton
The Ramones- The Ramones
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
The Clash- The Clash

 

[huxley0]

ummmm

Green Day-dookie

thats all i can think of

 

[Thump553]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Big Brother & The Holding Company's "Cheap Thrills." The debut of Janis Joplin. One of the best rock or blues albums ever made, and live to boot.

 

[otello]

Originally posted by: glen
Boston: Boston 1976 11th best selling album of all time, and highest début album for anyone.
16 million copies have been sold in the USA alone.

Zep 1
The Cars