Best debut album

thesurfer
thesurfer Posts: 574
edited January 2011 in Music & Movies
What is the best debut album, you have ever heard, Mine, The Cars, 1978, elektra records
Not an Audiophile, just a dude who loves music, and decent gear to hear it with.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,960
    edited January 2011
    well, I cannot claim it is the best ever integrated over all time and space, but my knee-jerk reaction would be Crack the Sky's eponymous debut. A stunning album; won an award from Rolling Stone magazine at the time (1975).
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  • gfong
    gfong Posts: 1,079
    edited January 2011
    Boston self titled comes to mind and recently I would say Arcade Fire " Funeral"
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited January 2011
    Van Halen's is another.

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    Or maybe...

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    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    or...

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    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    or definitely...

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    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    possibly...

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    then there's...

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    or...

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    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    whoops, I forgot about...

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    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2011
    Actually...any one of the above 8 albums could be considered the best debut album I've ever heard. I own them all...they are all excellent...very hard to choose just 1.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,329
    edited January 2011
    BOSTON
    VAN HALEN
    LED ZEPPELIN
    BLACK SABBATH
    GUNS N ROSES

    Are a few off the top of my head..
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited January 2011
    Ah,, such good memories
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited January 2011
    I remember their first Atlanta show--such good times
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited January 2011
    and,, we were much younger then eh? :smile:
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited January 2011
    Keiko wrote: »
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    I remember the first time I heard this album. I was 18yo, in the Army, living in the barracks and one of my buds put this on his table. IIRC, he had a higher end Pioneer turntable, a Kenwood Super Eleven and some huge Sansui monolith speakers. I was blown away by all the catchy tunes. This and Candy-O are a pair of my all time faves, I have both on Nautilus, 1/2 speed master LPs. I spun this on my table yesterday, as a matter of fact. Not a bad song on this record.


    Yeah - very cool debut album.

    My memories of this are when I was 18 working at Wherehouse Records in Fashion Valley in San Diego. Disco was big and we always had to have the big sellers playing 'in store'. My manager hated disco as much as I did, so any chance we could - we'd play this record during our shifts. When I quit, I got the store (cut cover) copy....still got it...a bit beat up and abused - but it cleaned up ok. :biggrin:

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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited January 2011
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,329
    edited January 2011
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
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    Yep great album!!!!!
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited January 2011
    I'll add Rush and Triumph to the list.
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  • CTTE
    CTTE Posts: 183
    edited January 2011
    Great debut albums listed so far. Here's one of my favorites:

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  • wayne3burk
    wayne3burk Posts: 939
    edited January 2011
    1 2 3 4
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited January 2011
    shack wrote: »
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    Yep to Zep 1
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  • Huck344
    Huck344 Posts: 453
    edited January 2011
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    BOSTON
    VAN HALEN
    LED ZEPPELIN
    BLACK SABBATH
    GUNS N ROSES

    Are a few off the top of my head..

    +1 on GNR. One of my favorite albums of all time!
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited January 2011
    cannot believe that no one posted this one yet
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited January 2011
    Nazz/Nazz
    Safe as Milk/Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited January 2011
    remember this,, former Deep Purple and Butterfly members and others
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  • W WALDECKER
    W WALDECKER Posts: 900
    edited January 2011
    the DOORS
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,833
    edited January 2011
    Just going to sit here and be lazy ....... can afford to be because George Daniels is listing some great debut albums.

    Black Sabbath
    Led Zepplin
    Robin Trower
    King Crimson

    ....whew. If I had to pick one, it would be Black Sabbath; stands on it's own, but .... what a game changer, IMO.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited January 2011
    I've got that album GD. Mine doesn't have the 3D cover though. Excellent.

    I like all of the above answers and would like to add Peter Gabriel's first album. Maybe it was that I was high on acid at the time, but the first hearing totally changed my taste in music at the time. And it was sooooo different than his stuff with Genesis.

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