Your Favourite Debut Albums

AlexC

Some acts take a while to truly get going. Mind you, if they haven’t nailed it by the infamous make or break third album then they probably never will. Some artists seem to arrive fully formed - their debut containing all the musical ingredients that makes you like them and go ‘this is great. I want more!’
Obviously this is a personal choice, off the top of my head -
Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972) The Roxy sound is here. Great songs. Doesn’t sound like anyone else that’s gone before. Brian ENO makes strange noises. I discovered it 25 yrs after the event and it still blew me away.
Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols (1977) Their only album. Brilliant from start to finish. 
The Pretenders - The Pretenders (1980) What a band. Pop rock at its best. Don’t think they ever bettered it.
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994) It was a revelation at the time. Laddish, shouty, British pop and roll. It was all downhill after this as far as I’m concerned.
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (2010) Like Siouxsie singing Scott Walker songs while playing Ennio Morricone guitar. An amazing debut.

Over to you guys. Any love for Pablo Honey? One Step Beyond? Take That And Party?

JAYJO

 Specials by The Specials. 
 
 
 

tone1

Pearl Jam - Ten

munckee

Is This It - The Strokes
Surfer/Rosa Come on Pilgrim - The Pixies
The Stone Roses/Made of Stone

Dopesick

Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Black Sabbath - s/t
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Rage Against The Machine - s/t
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

JezWynd

Wisdom for the Roxy Music LP. Still a startling work after all these years. How could you not love a band with lyrics like  "I would put roses round your door, sit the garden, growing potatos by the score"

scrumhalf

The Scream - Siouxsie & The Banshees. Just listening to it now, still remarkable. If you take the difference between now and when that album was made and subtract it from when it was made you end up before WWII. Scary.

Led Zeppelin. 36 hours, £1,750. Wow.

JezWynd

DarnWeight

Ramones - Ramones
The B-52s - The B-52s
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising

TheBigDipper

Television - Marquee Moon
Magazine - Real Life

fob

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

A perfect album as far as I'm concerned.

blobb

Jilted John - True Love Stories

...so good he didn't do any more.

ICBM

Spandau Ballet - Journeys To Glory.

lasermonkey

REM: Murmur
 The Chameleons: Script Of The Bridge
 Television: Marquee Moon
 Rain Parade: Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
 Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 1985-92
 Boards Of Canada: Twoism
 Black Sabbath: s/t
 SPC ECO: 3D
 

dtr

Psychocandy - JAMC
Roomsound - Califone
Yerself is Steam - Mercury Rev
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Bring it on - Gomez

Neill

Kate Bush - "The Kick Inside".

AlexC

Neill said:

Kate Bush - "The Kick Inside".

Good call. One of my all time favourite artists and albums.

skaguitar

big plus 1 for Pearl Jam - Ten
one of my all time favourite albums...

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

My top three would be...

Pearl Jam - Ten

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Chosen because they were all hugely influential, and also incredibly polished and accomplished for such young, inexperienced artists.

Reverend

Black Sabbath st
Trouble - Psalm 9
Iron Maiden st
16 Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes 
MC5  - Kick Out The Jams
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
Atheist - Piece Of Time
Bad Brains 
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers 

EricTheWeary

Agree on The Specials, Black Sabbath, The Pretenders ( they should have stopped after that really) and throw in:

The Police with Outlandos d’Amour

 Gillan with Mr Universe ( although not his debut recording obviously! Colin Towns on keys who you will see in the end credits of a lot of TV )

 The Strypes with Snapshot 

Carole King with Tapestry

Probably think of some others.