Your Favourite Debut Albums

axisus

Marillion
Montrose
Van halen

axisus

adampeter said:

Appetite for destruction
Van Halen
Definitely Maybe 

Make your mind up dammit

ICBM

ABC - The Lexicon Of Love

Like Spandau Ballet, an absolute classic for their first album, but then changed style and lost most of their original fans... and unlike Spandau Ballet they didn’t then gain many new ones. I honestly can’t remember anything they did after the first album, other than not liking it.

Hick81

The Strokes - Is this it?
Television - Marque Moon
Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
GnR- Appetite for Destruction

JezWynd

ICBM said:

ABC - The Lexicon Of Love

Like Spandau Ballet, an absolute classic for their first album, but then changed style and lost most of their original fans... and unlike Spandau Ballet they didn’t then gain many new ones. I honestly can’t remember anything they did after the first album, other than not liking it.

An incredible calling card. The songwriting on that album is so mature and polished. I caught them on their tour in support of that album and they were at sea on a big stage. Fry had zero audience skills - telling all the screaming teens to get on their feet and then playing a ballad etc.. I figured the lp must have been a fortunate collision of Fry's (?) lyrics, Dudley's orchestrations and Trevor Horn's production skills. Nothing after came close.

BloodEagle

Black Flag - Damaged
Dead Kennedys - Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables 
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Metallica - Kill Em All
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Danzig

pmbomb

I'm waiting for this to move to second albums so I can say Iron Maiden and Rainbow.

Under first albums can I throw in Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell, the first with Dio? Light and day from the Ozzy ploderama to my ears, a different band. 

matdotcodot

The La's......although also their only album.

prowla

EricTheWeary said:

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. 

I saw Gillan on that tour (Retford Porterhouse) - went expecting the jazz-funk IGB and got metal with John McCoy frothing at the mouth and Bernie Torme on guitar.

Led Zep I and Sabbath I, of course.

Heart's Dreamboat Annie (Magazine doesn't count!) - one of those ones where I saw them on the OGWT and bought the album next day. Same with Rush.

On the more obscure bands, 1994: were great; they were supposed to make it big, but never did.

Probably the biggest 1st album was Van Halen - they gave rock a kick up the backside, just when it needed it!

Winny_Pooh

Loads already mentioned 

Van Halen 1
Led Zepp 1

both set the template for the following decade of rock music, quite a feat.

Portishead - Dummy

defined a genre and never equalled. 

Tori Amos - little earthquakes 

Paved the way for many other great 90's female singer songwriters and some less than greats (Alanis Morrisette)

Dire Straits 

Perfect album, refreshing guitar playing and an awesome drummer. 

TonyR

Here’s my selection:

• The Clash - The Clash
• The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
• The Smiths - The Smiths
• The Jam - In The City
• Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
• The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge*
• Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• Billy Bragg - Life’s A Riot (With Spy vs. Spy)
• The Redskins - Neither Washington Nor Moscow
• The Lotus Eaters - No Sense Of Sin

* = still one of my favourite albums even now

richardhomer

fob said:

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

A perfect album as far as I'm concerned.

Wis’d. Great songs, great playing, great production. A masterclass in Fender guitar tones as well....

markv

A few of my favourites:

• Supergrass - I Should Coco. I was listening to it again the other day and it's superb. And they were all in their teens, I think.
• Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels. One of my favourites of all time.
• Jeff Buckley - Grace
• Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

equalsql

Here goes a few

• Robben Ford - Talk To Your Daughter (his first solo outing)
• Led Zeppelin 1
• Mountain - Climbing!
• Thin Lizzy (v2) - Fighting
• Andrew Gold
• Rickie Lee Jones
• The Yellowjackets
• The Police - Outlandos d'Amour

Paul_C

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo

Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army

Yazoo - Upstairs At Erics

Cocteau Twins - Garlands

U2 - Boy

The Cars - The Cars

The Undertones - The Undertones

. . . and many more.

JackieB33

22 20's. If you're not familiar with this album then i urge you to check it out. One of the most important of my youth. Filthy tele twang and grit. 

CHRISB50

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Goldie - Timeless
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
The XX - XX
Zero 7 - Simple Things

CHRISB50

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Winny_Pooh

CHRISB50 said:

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Goldie - Timeless
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
The XX - XX
Zero 7 - Simple Things

Aerial boundaries (2nd) and Seldom seen kid (3rd) are not debut's

Kebabkid

The Kick Inside -Kate Bush
Go West - Go West
Crowded House - Crowded House
Bellybutton - Jellyfish
Van Halen - Van Halen
Toto - Toto