Best debut album

[Ladyskye]

Before looking at my collection, i have two which everyone will disagree with.

Inme - Overgrown Eden. 4 singles that did really well in the charts off their debut album and still nobody has heard of them.

Tenacious D - Tenacious D. An absolute classic and so is the film.

[JungleCat03]

Portishead's Dummy is a great shout. Sounded so different to everything around at the time.

I still get a tingle down my spine at the creepy atmosphere of Sour Times.

Linkin Park's hybrid theory is a wierd one. I really like Linkin Park and some of the tracks are great but there's a few too many misses on the album to put them up there for best debut imo. Still a very good album.

Appetite for destruction rocketed G n R into rock legendary status. Another brilliant debut.

I was suprised no one mentioned Nirvana's debut album, then i remembered Bleach wasn't that great. Nevermind.

[DAN DAN]

System of the Down - System of the Down

Madness - One Step Beyond

Unfortunately I was introduced to SOAD with Mezmerize first, then Hypnotize followed quickly by  self titled and Toxicity and I was a little disappointed with the last two (first two)  I think this is because Mez and Hyp are so phenominally brilliant.

Agree One Step Beyond is amazing, still brings back happy memories.  Night boat to Cairo, fab

[Lucky Sevens]

Before looking at my collection, i have two which everyone will disagree with.

Inme - Overgrown Eden. 4 singles that did really well in the charts off their debut album and still nobody has heard of them.

Top album. Crushed Like Fruit and Lava Twilight my personal favs.

For me, The Libertines - Up The Bracket.

[Eck]

Surprised no-ones mentioned "Never mind the bollocks"

[AdamM]

definitely Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction. biggest selling Debut album of all time?

Not worldwide.  Whitney - by Whitney Houston has that title.

oh, ok. that then  

[mr redimp]

For me it has to be The Stone Roses self titled debut. From the eerie opening baseline of  I Wanna Be Adored to the amazing outro of I am the Resurrection, it is pure class. Hints of The Beatles, The Byrds and Hendrix and the jazz guitar at the end of Bye Bye Badman made this album unforgettable.

More than that though, being in my late teens at the time of its release we were being fed a musical diet of U2, Simple Minds and Hair Rock. We expected a little more after being treated to TheJam, The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The vibe in the North of England at the time of this album's release was immense. It felt like we had a secret that no-one else knew about. The atmosphere in clubs was fantastic and the fashion that went with the movement was memorable( where are my twenty-one inch bell bottomed baggies Shell??)

People bang on about Oasis, and they have written some excellent tunes, but without The Stone Roses there would be no Oasis (by Noel's own admission).

I played the (vinyl) album constantly for years and never tired of it. I played it the other day, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood to attention.

This album continually makes top ten in best all time album polls . Timeless classic.

Pete

[Nakor]

For me it has to be The Stone Roses self titled debut. From the eerie opening baseline of  I Wanna Be Adored to the amazing outro of I am the Resurrection, it is pure class. Hints of The Beatles, The Byrds and Hendrix and the jazz guitar at the end of Bye Bye Badman made this album unforgettable.

More than that though, being in my late teens at the time of its release we were being fed a musical diet of U2, Simple Minds and Hair Rock. We expected a little more after being treated to TheJam, The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The vibe in the North of England at the time of this album's release was immense. It felt like we had a secret that no-one else knew about. The atmosphere in clubs was fantastic and the fashion that went with the movement was memorable( where are my twenty-one inch bell bottomed baggies Shell??)

People bang on about Oasis, and they have written some excellent tunes, but without The Stone Roses there would be no Oasis (by Noel's own admission).

I played the (vinyl) album constantly for years and never tired of it. I played it the other day, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood to attention.

This album continually makes top ten in best all time album polls . Timeless classic.

Pete

 

[redimp]

Tell you were your 21inch bell bottom jeans are pete!!

The kids made a tent out of them!!

[mr redimp]

I hope you emptied the pockets first,because they wern't smarties hunny 

[redimp]

 

[Delboy]

For me it has to be The Stone Roses self titled debut. From the eerie opening baseline of  I Wanna Be Adored to the amazing outro of I am the Resurrection, it is pure class. Hints of The Beatles, The Byrds and Hendrix and the jazz guitar at the end of Bye Bye Badman made this album unforgettable.

More than that though, being in my late teens at the time of its release we were being fed a musical diet of U2, Simple Minds and Hair Rock. We expected a little more after being treated to TheJam, The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The vibe in the North of England at the time of this album's release was immense. It felt like we had a secret that no-one else knew about. The atmosphere in clubs was fantastic and the fashion that went with the movement was memorable( where are my twenty-one inch bell bottomed baggies Shell??)

People bang on about Oasis, and they have written some excellent tunes, but without The Stone Roses there would be no Oasis (by Noel's own admission).

I played the (vinyl) album constantly for years and never tired of it. I played it the other day, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood to attention.

This album continually makes top ten in best all time album polls . Timeless classic.

Pete

Can't agree more


Great Post Pete

[action man]

arctic monkeys 'whatever .....


sterophonics 'word gets around'


coldplay 'parachutes'


oasis 'definately maybe'

david grey 'white ladder'

[action man]

Debut albums for some the easiest thing in the world for me;

Led Zep - Led Zep

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

Portishead - Dummy

Babyshambles - Down in Albion

System of the Down - System of the Down

Madness - One Step Beyond

Faithless - Reverence

Honarable mention for Prodigy, Outkast, G & R, Specials, Black Sabbeth

But Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Bravery come on pressure on for that difficult second album.

For me, for the tunes, the memories, the time, the greatest debut album has to be Roni Size and Represent - New Forms.
Simply stunning.

im a big doherty/libertines/barat fan, but i think the down in albion album is nothing short of garbage for my money.

i got the new bloc party album, not a shade on silent alarm, think you may be a bit disappointed

[Karabiner]

"Lynyrd Skynyrd" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, my favourite album to this day.