Best First Track from a Band's First Album Thread

Philly_Q

King's X - "In the New Age"

Living Colour - "Cult of Personality"

breakstuff

Remember Your A Womble from the album of the same name.

randomhandclaps

Some crackers already mentioned.

Mysterons - Portishead

La Femme D'argent - Air

Is This It - Stokes

RocknRollDave

breakstuff said:

Remember Your A Womble from the album of the same name.

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Headphones

Speed King, by Deep Purple from In Rock.

Debut of the band (in any true sense), with a huge wall of noise and studio humping, followed by a morph into delicacy and decent as a tease into the song.

A true statement of intent and first in every way.

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ICBM

If we're including "breakthrough albums" that aren't technically debut albums - and also including solo artists! - I'd have to say...

David Bowie - Space Oddity

Don McLean - American Pie

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger

Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything

No Doubt - Spiderwebs

Evanescence - Going Under

I'd also have to include Cascada - Everytime We Touch . I know it's total cheese but I love that song and it's a great introduction to the band, if you like that kind of thing .

drwiddly

Philly_Q;413028" said:

King's X - "In the New Age"

Good choice - beat me to it :-)

holnrew

ICBM said:

No Doubt - Spiderwebs

Evanescence - Going Under

I'd also have to include Cascada - Everytime We Touch . I know it's total cheese but I love that song and it's a great introduction to the band, if you like that kind of thing .

Since when have you been a teenage girl?

ICBM

holnrew said:

Since when have you been a teenage girl?

Since about 1982 or 1983. I was probably the first boy in my school to like Duran Duran .

(Which coincidentally made me much more popular with girls .)

I almost mentioned Duran Duran in this thread, but the first track on their first album is Girls On Film, which - great though it is - is not as good as Planet Earth, which is the second track.

PolarityMan

It doesnt come out until Friday but the first track on our album is one of my favourites

stevenew

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson (In The Court Of The Crimson King)

PolarityMan

stevenew said:

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson (In The Court Of The Crimson King)

oh great call

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

I almost mentioned Duran Duran in this thread, but the first track on their first album is Girls On Film, which - great though it is - is not as good as Planet Earth, which is the second track.

"Planet Earth" is brilliant.

As is "To Cut a Long Story Short", which - a bit of research has just shown me -  was the first track on Spandau Ballet's first album.  Shame it was all downhill after that.

holnrew

The first couple of Spandau albums are great, but the pop stuff is still brilliant IMO.