Best Debut Albums..

[Doug Gilmour]

So what do you think are the best debut albums ever?

Currently this is a short list of mine:

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Stone Roses - The Stones Roses
Van Halen - Van Halen

-Dan

 

[Hit'EmUp]

snoop doggy dogg- doggystyle
warren g- regulate...g funk era
50 cent- get rich or die tryin'
nas- illmatic

 

[raine]

Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand

Interpol's is OUTSTANDING. Holy cow. I mean, it's easily one of the best of the decade, but that title belongs to Radiohead's Kid A.

 

[Doug Gilmour]

but that title belongs to Radiohead's Kid A. [/B]

I'd personally give that honour to Brian Wilson's SMiLE.

-Dan

 

[Chewie]

I agree with your choice of

The Stone Roses - The Stones Roses

I also think in recent times Parachutes – Coldplay

More recently Hopes and Fears – Keene

And I also think Hot fuss – The Killers may well be considered up there in the future.

 

[raine]

I'd personally give that honour to Brian Wilson's SMiLE.

-Dan

Well, I just read two reviews of it. Pitchfork gave it a 9.0 an Tinymixtapes gave it a 5/5. So I guess it's pretty good. Considering how much I love the Shins, it'd probably match my tastes. Maybe I'll have to get it. I can see why you'd call it the best of the decade, but besides the fact that I think it's probably the best of the '60's, or whenever it's original release was supposed to be. Or really good. Well, I'd have to it. But Kid A... oh man. Speaking of the Shins, which I did, I'm seeing them in Salt Lake on the 11th of May. I'm excited. It's my first concert in nearly two years.

 

[narkerbyt]

Damien Rice - O
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales

 

[rogermexico]

Great topic!

Amen to Zep. I'll throw in (in iTunes alphabetical order)

Chris Whitley - Living With The Law
The Clash - The Clash
GZA - Liquid Swords
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Glider if anyone really wants to split hairs)
REM - Chronic Town (if EPs count)

 

[tampatrader]

great question

I'd concur with a bunch of these:

Coldplay-Parachutes
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights


Here's a few more:

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim (if you don't count the Purple Tape)
Pearl Jam - Ten

 

[PHiX]

Nas - Illmatic
Non Phixion - The Future is Now
System of a Down - System of a Down

 

[VousDew]

Garbage - Garbage
Pretenders - The Pretenders
Elastica - Elastica
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's

Heh. All but the last are self-titled.

 

[swy32x]

The College Dropout - Kanye West
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin.

I'll come back with more once I've had a think.

 

[Galley]

The biggest-selling debut album of all-time... Boston - Boston.

Evanescence - Fallen
Asia - Asia
The Corrs - Forgiven, Not Forgotten
Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
M2M - Shades Of Purple
Mecca - Mecca
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

 

[mrbranch]

Yeah I say Alanis' Jagged Little Pill is the greatest (IMHO)!

 

[neb]

Kanye West - College Dropout
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmusik
Coldplay - Parachutes

 

[swy32x]

Oh! How could I have forgot Illmatic!

A great debut album is Illmatic by Nas (1994)

 

[stickuto]

Keanes album, I think, that is dam good.

 

[rogermexico]

I'll make a bold prediction...

Chinese Democracy

 

[jim6874]

Best debut i've heared reasently is Mando diao's Bring Em' in

 

[jimmeh]

best ever....are.....

1. gn'r- appetite for destruction. one of the best albums ever, let alone debuts
2. metallica- kill 'em all. the birth of thrash metal...what more can i say?
3. muse- showbiz. just listen to unintended...says it all really
4. pantera- cowboys from hell- okay not strictly a debut album, but their first with phil, and thats good enough for me.
5. black sabbath- black sabbath- just so heavy.
6. manics- generation terrorists- one of the best albums of the early 90s.