not exactly my favorite band but Boston deserves to be on the list |
Smithereens debut album
joan armatrading
big star
thunderclap Newman
willis Alan Ramsey |
The Cars Boston The Dixie Dreggs - Freefall Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force Rush Yes SRV- Texas Flood Dire Straits Al Di Meola - Land of the Midnight Sun Emerson Lake and Palmer G n R - Appetite for Destruction |
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AUM
Isis, 1974 on Buddha (the all girl group)
Can I count Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere? It was Neil's first with Crazy Horse.
Cold Spring Harbor - Before Billy Joel turned into a franchise.
Bonnie Raitt
Relish - Joan Osborne
I'll include Ain't Who I Was by Bonnie Bishop, since she transformed herself from C&W to R&B
Duane & Greg
Greetings From Asbury Park
I Don't Want To Go Home - Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Meet The Beatles. No, it was Please Please Me.
Pretenders
Sister Sweetly - Big Head Todd
Bleeding Diamonds (EP) Nicole Atkins
Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats
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It’s A Beautiful Day Velvet Underground ~ The Velvet Underground and Nico R.E.M. ~ Murmur Little Feat Blind Faith Donald Fagen ~ The Nightfly
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Second Eno Here Come The Warm Jets
Robert Fripp's guitar work on Baby's On Fire
one of the best guitar solos ever. |
Are You Experienced? / JHE
Led Zeppilin / Led Zeppilin
My Aim is True / Elvis Costello
John Prine / John Prine
The Cars / The Cars
The Pretenders /The Pretenders
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Ditto on Experienced
Bridge of Sighs, Robin Trower
CTA, Chicago, still their best album in my opinion
Meet the Temptations ( nobody said it had to be rock)
13 Year Old Genius, Stevie Wonder
Santana. First time I heard I was 7000 miles away. Wore the vinyl off. |
Tracy Chapman
Amy Winehouse - Frank
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM |
Pretenders (eponymous, 1980) - that LP changed my life and musical taste permanently. |
I can't believe it took so long for someone to mention:
The Beatles - Please Please Me
Probably the most historically important of all the above mentioned - literally the fuse.
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Do you think most people think Meet The Beatles was their debut? |
Yes, of course, on the left side "of the pond".
Actually, I appreciated the way you listed it.
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Second Please Please Me and yes thousands if ask would say meet the Beatles was their first or worse couldn't answer at all.
Also The Go Go's Beauty and the Beast |
The Beatles- the only band that matters...
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I agree The Doors was a fantastic debut album, but all of their albums were great! |
Black Sabbath has to be in this.
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Carol King / Tapestry
B52's / B52's
Black Sabbath /Black Sabbath
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Carole King's debut LP was 'Writer', not 'Tapestry'. Great album, btw. |
I never heard of "Writer". Thanks. I'll look it up. |
� Laurie Anderson - Big Science
� Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
� Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
� Jewel - Pieces of You
� Nora Jones - Come Away With Me
� Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson (Me and Bobby McGee)
� John Prine - John Prine
� Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
� Patti Smith - Horses
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Great stuff here. Wow, Babe Ruth, "First Base", nice call, siddh.
Little Feat
Paul Simon's first solo album
Dan Fogelberg, "Home Free"
Sea Level
Mutual Admiration Society
Strength in Numbers, "The Telluride Sessions"
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U2/boy. Not sure it's comparable in the bigger sense to many of the other classic debuts mentioned above but as an 11/12 year old kid at that time(80-81)it was my first real and authentic sense of music speaking to me in the way music can powerfully move us.
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For me that authentic moment was The Four Seasons Sherry &11 others. Certainly as important a debut as any in American rock & Roll. |
The Who, My Generation.
Musically probably as a whole, more inspirational to change the landscape of music and bands to follow than what the Beatles were doing at the time , IMHO. |
I have always felt artists spend their entire life on the first album. Usually
about 6 months on the second one. Hence the sophomore jinx. The Doors,
Santana and SRV get my vote. When they still sound as good today as
when you first heard them. You are truly on to something. Steve
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True in all the arts steve, once you've said all you have to say that's about it . |
I can't tell you how many times I've loved someone's first album so much that I immediately bought one or two more from them only to have my expectations dashed. As Rod Stewart, who's first album was the only one I have any use for, said "The First Cut is The" bestest. |
Beatles "Please Please Me"
The Cars "The Cars"
Buffalo Springfield "Buffalo Springfield"
Crosby Stills & Nash "Crosby Stills & Nash"
King Crimson "In The Court Of The Crimson King"
Emerson Lake & Palmer "Emerson Lake & Palmer"
Counting Crows "August And Everything After"
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guppy-
the 50th edition of The Doors is excellent! Happy Listening! |
I just got Carly Simon's Anticipation from MoFi. The SACD layer pretty good, but I would still like the sound of my old LP better if it weren't for the surface noise. I didn't treat it well when I was in college. |
A big second to has2be's The Who's My Generation nomination. Another hugely influential (amongst musicians) debut album was The Yardbirds For Your Love. Guitar playing by both Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers s/t debut. Elvis Costello's my Aim Is True. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Gorilla. Jellyfish's Bellybutton (incredible!). Emitt Rhodes s/t. Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man. |
+1 for Sea Level. What an obscure entry! Here's another one: Ambrosia (self-titled).
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Joe Cocker With a Little Help From My Friends
Canned Heat Titled Canned Heat |
Herbie Hancock, "Takin' Off"
Saved a lot of Hancock recordings to favorites in Tidal & Spotify. His discography is massive. Have only listened to a small portion of it. Spending time with Takin' Off this evening. Very impressed with it's melodicism, balance, economy and overall elegance. Had to find this thread to post about it. As per Wikipedia citing "The Rough Guide to Jazz", "...one of the most accomplished and stunning debuts in the annals of jazz." Of course, he was no rookie in the studio when he made this recording. Great sidemen too. The compositions and soloing are first rate. The 2007 Van Gelder remaster sounds great.
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Tracy Chapman
eels
Shuggie Otis
Melissa Ethridge
Rush
CSN&Y
Chicago Transit Authority
VanHalen
Little Village
Leon Russell
AC DC
Beatles
Dire Straits
Jackson Browne
Velvet Underground
Black Sabbath
Jayhawks
Of Monsters @ Men
Taj Mahal
Fleetwood Mac
Love
to name a few.............
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David @ David
Tears For Fears
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Gary Wright
Shawn Colvin
America
Men At Work
Dianna Ross
Jackson 5
James Taylor
Free
Bad Finger
Cream
Bob Dylan
Garbage
Smashing Pumpkins
Hole
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