I was listening to my iPod shuffle some music the other day and it seemed to hit on a few tracks from bands/artists' debut album. Got me thinking. What do you think are among the best debut albums? I've got a few:

The Doors - The Doors
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Led Zeppelin - I


Any other good ones?

keytohwy

maybe i am (reverse) aging myself, but what about Lenny Kravitz 'Let Love Rule' or Pearl Jam with '10'. both are arguably the best efforts that either have made and each have released many albums.

dale

Boston - Boston

Lots of great ones. A few of my favorite debuts that come to mind:

"August and Everything After" by the Counting Crows.

"Dry" PJ Harvey

"The Chronic" Dr. Dre

"The Goldberg Variations" Glenn Gould (first major recording)

"Tidal" Fiona Apple

Ok, this is obviously a quasi-cheat. But, to me, undeniably the correct answer...

Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs


I like all three on your list and other runners-up would be...

The Band - Music From Big Pink
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant

A little farther down on my list...

Leonard Cohen - Songs
Phil Ochs - All the News That's Fit to Sing

And, although I do not listen to this stuff much anymore, I still respect

Gun 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
and
Pearl Jam - Ten

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Best debut: Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield. It's a double debut, as it was also the first album released by Richard Branson's Virgin Records.

Some others that I'd nominate that quickly come to mind:
Black Sabbath
Kasabian
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around

Pearl Jam and The Doors definitely deserves to be up there.

No other album brings back high school memories more than “The Chronic”. One of the best rap albums ever.

Same goes for “Appetite for Destruction” for middle school. I wish I still had that much hair.

Some eponymous jazz debuts-

"Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers"
"The New Miles Davis Quintet"
"Weather Report"
"Return to Forever"

None are debuts by the individual artists, of course.

BTW- Arlo Guthrie? Should we also be listing initial recordings by Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin?

I may be dating myself but I thought The Cars first album was great.

The Cars? That's not dating yourself, just showing incredible poor taste.

U2-Boy
The Smiths-The Smiths
Jeff Buckley-Grace(kinda cheating 'cause it was his only and last one)

and many many others...

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Originally posted by VT2IT:
The Cars? That's not dating yourself, just showing incredible poor taste.

Couldn't have said it any better.

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Originally posted by GlennK:
No other album brings back high school memories more than “The Chronic”. One of the best rap albums ever.

Isn't that like saying Beets are one of the best red vegetables?

Same goes for “Appetite for Destruction” for middle school. I wish I still had that much hair.

For me..undoubtedly..Appetite of Destruction is the the debut album by which all must be compared

The Samples - The Samples....now people refer to it as "The Blue Album." -mJ

Weezer - blue album

I agree with Appetite and Black Sabbath, I'll throw in:

Ramones / Ramones
Bruce Springsteen / Greetings from Asbury Park
Sex Pistols / Never mind the Bollocks

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Originally posted by mgs:
Boston - Boston

Bingo. This album is timeless, and I'm really enjoying seeing by 14 year old son play it to death.

Agree on Chronic and Ten...if you liek Pearl Jam woulnnt you have to throw in Nirvanas first album Bleach?

Newer albums..

Jack Johnson's Brushfire Fairytales
Amos Lee- Amos Lee

And my personal favorite..a local band called Slap Shoe Fly "Decades in the Grain"

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Originally posted by Mimik:
U2-Boy (Digitally Remastered and available on July 21st)
The Smiths-The Smiths
Jeff Buckley-Grace(kinda cheating 'cause it was his only and last one)

and many many others...

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Originally posted by Dale451:
maybe i am (reverse) aging myself, but what about Lenny Kravitz 'Let Love Rule' or Pearl Jam with '10'. both are arguably the best efforts that either have made and each have released many albums.

dale

Agreed!

keytohwy

I need to spend more time with my iPod. You all mention a bunch that...I already own!!!!

keytohwy

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Originally posted by markjahnke:
The Samples - The Samples....now people refer to it as "The Blue Album." -mJ

I don't think "The Last Drag" their first album/CD, but even if it wasn't, it's a great one. Love the entire album, especially "Still Water"...

I can still remember you
Like a wish that won't come true
All the rumors do add up
Do they always?

Still water does run deep
Your currents pull me through my sleep
It goes away but then comes back
Will it always?

The other Samples CD I own is "Autopilot" and, as sappy as it sounds, the first song on the record/CD always tugs at the ol' heartstrings... I believe it was written for one of the members' mother who was slowly dying, then died, of a degenerative disease...

If you need water
I'm your rain
If you need fire
I'm your flame
If you're resisting to go or stay
Let all the angels take you away
I will carry you to the end
When life is broken all will mend
If where I'm walking isn't far enough
then I'll walk farther
if you need water
I'm your rain
If you need fire
I'm your flame
I hope our children remember this good
we threw those ashes
and there we stood
as tears fall off our faces
as tears fall off our faces
off our faces

I've always thought the first Crosby, Stills, and Nash album, "CSN," was pretty damn good.

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Originally posted by duckfaninmt:
I've always thought the first Crosby, Stills, and Nash album, "CSN," was pretty damn good.

Well, if we're gonna count that (and who says we shouldn't?) I'd say Deja Vu is an even better album. (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's first album )

GNR - Appetite for Destruction
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Rage Against the Machine - RATM