Was listening to Pearl Jams-Ten yesterday and got thinking about this. Off the top of my head I thought of.
The Doors-The Doors
The Band-Music From The Big Pink
CSN- Crosby, Stills, Nash
Postal Service- Give Up
Wilco- A.M.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Mountain - Climbing!
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood
Foreigner - Foreigner
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
Santana - Santana
Van Halen
Gov't Mule
Arc Angels
Hendrix - AYE?
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Foreigner I
Bad Company
Queen I
Stephen Stills I
Allman Brothers
My wild cards will be The Cars and The Light by Spock's Beard
All that thinking hurt my head.
Blooby
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
So many great Debut albums that you forget alot of them. Another is Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator is probably the best debut album I have heard in a long time.
Hot Tuna
The Wailers/BM&W - Burnin'
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
Not sure which Credence album was first but I am sure that was plenty good. Not many CCR songs that aren't really good.
The Talking Heads 77
Dire Straits
JJ Cale - Naturally
Blind Faith
Marshall Tucker Band
Allman Brothers Band
Santana
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Zebra
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Sabbath
All great albums packed with legendary songs, maybe, except Zebra ????
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Cream - Fresh Cream
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Traffic - Mr Fantasy
Beatles - Please Please Me
The Who - My Generation
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
The Velvet Underground & Nico
J. Geils Band (self titled)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band (self titled)
Jackson Browne (self titled)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (self titled)
The Rolling Stones (self titled)
Little Feat (self titled)
Bob Dylan (self titled)
Rickie Lee Jones (self titled)
(and many of the others already listed 😉 )
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dave mason-alone together
roy buchanan
king crimson-court of the crimson king
grinderswitch-honest to goodness
adrien belew-lone rhino
elton john
paul mccartney-mccartney
dire straights
rockpile-seconds of pleasure
frank zappa-freakout
elton john
Eton John's first album was Empty Skies.
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1."I Ain't the One"
2."Tuesday's Gone"
3."Gimme Three Steps"
4. "Simple Man"
How's that for a very first Side One?
Slap some James Gang on there.
a few not listed that I love:
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies- The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
Gregg Allman - Laid Back
Jaimoe's Jasssz Band - Renaissance Man
While notmy favorite bands, the impact of these albums were pretty dramatic:
Counting Crows: August and Everything After
Whether you like them or not, Hootie and the Blow Fish's first album had hit after hit.
Matchbox 20 (can't really stand them, but a monster debut album)
these may have been mentioned, but the west coast debuts like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, Children of the Future, (by the Steve Miller Band) etc
Chicago Transit Authority
Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine
Black Crowes- Shake Your Money Maker
Norah Jones- Come Away With Me
Weezer- Weezer (Blue Album)
The Killers- Hot Fuss
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
Chris Robinson Brotherhood- Big Moon Ritual
King Crimson- In The Court of the Crimson King
David Crosby- If I Could Only Remember My Name
Dave Matthews Band- Under The Tables and Dreaming
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Patti Smith Horses
Velvet Underground Velvet Underground
Television Marquee moon
Ian Hunter Ian Hunter
Jaco pastorious Jaco Pastorious
Annette Peacock Revenge
Judee Sill Judee Sill
Los Lonely Boys - Los Lonely Boys
Marshall Tucker Band - Marshall Tucker Band
Jet - Get Born
Taj Mahal -- for my money, the best blues record ever. Period.
Boyz II Men -- Cooleyhighharmony
Jay-Z -- Reasonable Doubt
Sublime
Garth Brooks
Rage Against the Machine
Black Crowes -- Shake Your Moneymaker
Maroon 5 -- Songs About Jane
Dr. Dre -- The Chronic
Wu-Tang Clan -- 36 Chambers
Hootie -- Cracked Rear View
NaS -- Illmatic
Mayall -- Beano
OutKast -- SouthernPlayalistik...
Biggie -- Ready to Die
The Band -- Big Pink
Little Feat
DMB -- Under the Table
Game -- The Documentary
DMX -- It's Hot ...
Fleetwood Mac
Blind Faith
And of course Layla. Since that just happens to be the best record of all time.
Some will disagree with this one, how about Bachman Turner Overdrive. To me the first album was the best.
Some will disagree with this one, how about Bachman Turner Overdrive. To me the first album was the best.
I would agree with this one being a fine debut, but not necessarily their best.
Great choice though....:)
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You all already took a few of my favorites, so rather than repeat them, here are a few more of mine not yet mentioned:
Ramones- Ramones
R.E.M.- Murmur
Taste-Taste
Rory Gallagher- Rory Gallagher
Richard Betts- Highway Call
Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left
Jorma Kaukonen- Quah
George Thorogood & The Destroyers- George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Hydra- Hydra
Graham Nash- Songs For Beginners
Paul Kossoff- Back Street Crawler
Dr. Feelgood- Down By The Jetty
The Jam- In The City
Captain Beyond-Captain Beyond
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Kansas(self titled)
Far better than anything they did afterwards.
Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
Eagles - Eagles
Crosby Stills and Nash - Crosby Stills and Nash
Dave Matthews Band - Best of What's Around
Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
Another second album.
I still have yet to hear a more powerful first few bars - hell, the first four bars - of a debut album than "Don't Want You No More" from the Brothers' debut record. It still blows my mind how huge that sound was.
