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[Music] What do you consider to be the greatest debut album of all time ?
- Thread starter Uncle Spielberg
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They certainly had 3 or 4 albums before this one. Slightly over rated for me. Unforgettable Fire, Achtung Baby maybe a bit better IMO
Gabbafella
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- Aug 22, 2012
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Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The Prodigy - Experience
The Prodigy - Experience
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Great album, but not their first. There are two earlier. The first album features this corker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-SuGfLhqo4
Fred Oliver - Legend
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Shed Seven - Change Giver
Pogue Mahone
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Arcade Fire - Funeral
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever you say I am, that's what I'm not
Portishead - Dummy
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Jungle - Jungle
Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever you say I am, that's what I'm not
Portishead - Dummy
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Jungle - Jungle
Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone
Impossible to name just one when so many were and still are albums I regularly listened/listen to, so here's my list, in no particular order:
Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
The King is Half Undressed - Jellyfish
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
No Roses - Shirley Collins and the Albion Band
In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs
The Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexys
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (had to get Neil Young in there somehow)
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominoes
Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
The King is Half Undressed - Jellyfish
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
No Roses - Shirley Collins and the Albion Band
In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs
The Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexys
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (had to get Neil Young in there somehow)
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominoes
Whitechapel
Famous Last Words
Shrink and the virgin soldiers
Generation X
The Only Ones
Johnny Thunders
The Ruts (with Malcolm Owen)
Steel Pulse
The Soft Boys
X Ray Spex
The Yachts
The Human League
Magazine
The Lurkers
Wire
and from Brighton, the Molesters
(and . . . . . . breathe)
Spoke to Bowie (in the audience for the Human League)
Razzoo
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Monster Magnet - Spine of God (Stoner Rock)
I love this one.
I love this one.
kevo
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Good call - should have had it in my list.
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Can’t believe I forgot this one initially. It’s in my top 5 albums of all time, debut or not.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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8 pages in and no mention of this masterpiece? What gives?
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Pevenseagull
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- Jul 20, 2003
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I'm narrowing it down to acts that went on to release several more absolute corkers, not just one or two so, no Velvet Underground, Sugar, Pixies etc.
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Throwing Muses, Throwing Muses wins.
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Honourable mentions to
REM, Murmer
Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
Wire, Pink Flag
Wedding Present, George Best
Leonard Cohen, Songs Of Leonard Cohen
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Anyway
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Throwing Muses, Throwing Muses wins.
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Honourable mentions to
REM, Murmer
Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
Wire, Pink Flag
Wedding Present, George Best
Leonard Cohen, Songs Of Leonard Cohen
autopsyturvey
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I saw the thread title and came on to post 'Rattus Norvegicus'.
Great, great record, and I'm more of a jazz/world music collector
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In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
boik
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I'd go with George Best, followed by Unknown Pleasures and Turn on the Bright Lights and NEU!.
A couple that aren't obviously "The Greatest" but are worth a mention are Silent Alarm by Bloc Party (that gig at Concorde2 was one of my most favourites) and We Are Not The Infadels.
A couple that aren't obviously "The Greatest" but are worth a mention are Silent Alarm by Bloc Party (that gig at Concorde2 was one of my most favourites) and We Are Not The Infadels.
Worried Man Blues
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I'll add .........Barclay James Harvest and Edgar Broughton Wasa Wasa