[Music] What do you consider to be the greatest debut album of all time ?

[Mellotron]

The correct answer is Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol. It’s perfection.

 

[dangull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PovQnvKXqgc

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]

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The Prodigy - Experience

 

[Stato]

Love - Forever Changes

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]

Shed Seven - Change Giver

 

[Pogue Mahone]

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

 

[Surf's Up]

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

 

[KVLT]

A few favourite debuts by genre.

Wintersun - Wintersun (Melodic Metal)



Monster Magnet - Spine of God (Stoner Rock)



Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles (Death Metal)



Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Black Metal)

 

[Whitechapel]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Slightly (only slightly!) before my time. Who else did you see there - Pistols, Clash, Joy Division?

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]

Monster Magnet - Spine of God (Stoner Rock)



I love this one.

 

[kevo]

The correct answer is Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol. It’s perfection.

Good call - should have had it in my list.

 

[big nuts]

The correct answer is Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol. It’s perfection.

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]

8 pages in and no mention of this masterpiece? What gives?

 

[Pevenseagull]

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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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]

What do you consider to be the greatest debut album of all time ?

This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOREJB5JqE

Followed by this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klwbz6aXY6U&index=1&list=PLPf69IGxwfBGe1KrczrDG4PBHdC-RigPg

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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[The Antikythera Mechanism]

In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

 

[Buzzer]

The Sugarcubes. 'Life's Too Good'. That album was a complete life-changer for me.


And then Saint Etienne 'Foxbase Alpha' came along. Possibly the most perfect pop album ever recorded.

 

[boik]

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.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I'll add .........Barclay James Harvest and Edgar Broughton Wasa Wasa