Author Topic: Best debut albums (Read 3602 times)

rhoelsch · « **on:** August 27, 2007, 08:10:57 am »

I realize everyone's musical tastes will differ, but what the heck, here's mine:

Pearl Jam - Ten
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

somunny · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2007, 08:19:58 am »

Appetite For Destruction

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2007, 08:34:26 am »

Van Halen - Van Halen

J_K_M_A_N

shardian · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2007, 08:56:51 am »

Disturbed - The Sickness

delta88 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2007, 09:33:36 am »

Going way back but..

Foo Fighters 1st

Chemical brothers 1st

um, theres prolly more

billf · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:10:31 am »

Violent Femmes

shardian · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:22:44 am »

Even though they ended up being bloated crap in the long run...

Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bills ya'll

I still love that cd.

shardian · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:23:32 am »

Oh, and of course, the greatest rock band of all time, and their masterpiece first album

Tenacious D - Tenacious D

ChadTower · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:42:06 am »

Hell yeah - no one rocks like the D. Too bad their movie was the worst thing ever.

Appetite for Destruction was my first thought but I see it's already listed.

shardian · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:54:32 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on August 27, 2007, 10:42:06 am

Hell yeah - no one rocks like the D. Too bad their movie was the worst thing ever.

I didn't think it was that bad. Of course, I didn't pay $16 to go see it at the theater with the wife - she put her foot down on that one and I guess I'm glad.

ChadTower · « **Reply #10 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:57:06 am »

Quote from: shardian on August 27, 2007, 10:54:32 am

I didn't think it was that bad. Of course, I didn't pay $16 to go see it at the theater with the wife - she put her foot down on that one and I guess I'm glad.

I paid $18 - and waited like a madman for years for the movie. As soon as I recognized that they weren't even using their own songs I was so pissed I almost walked out.

shardian · « **Reply #11 on:** August 27, 2007, 11:16:27 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on August 27, 2007, 10:57:06 am

Quote from: shardian on August 27, 2007, 10:54:32 am
I didn't think it was that bad. Of course, I didn't pay $16 to go see it at the theater with the wife - she put her foot down on that one and I guess I'm glad.

As soon as I recognized that they weren't even using their own songs I was so pissed I almost walked out.

Schwaa?? Did we even see the same movie. What do you mean they didn't use their own songs?? They made an entire new album of songs just for the movie.

ChadTower · « **Reply #12 on:** August 27, 2007, 11:24:44 am »

Yes, and none of them were anywhere near as good as their early stuff. That ending sequence with the Tribute-like song was terrible. The only thing I can think of is that they didn't have the rights to their own stuff so they couldn't use it. I mean WTF - what is the D without Wonderboy?

shardian · « **Reply #13 on:** August 27, 2007, 11:44:01 am »

So, you are saying you didn't like the movie because they didn't use their first cd for the soundtrack? I personally liked the new cd (even though it wasn't as good as the first). And yes, the final battle was gay in the movie. The audio only cd version was much better. I was just kind of shocked when I saw the movie that the final battle song was literally the audio track from the movie.

ChadTower · « **Reply #14 on:** August 27, 2007, 11:47:07 am »

Well, I thought the movie completely blew anyway, especially that stupid hallucination sequence. But I would have forgiven it if it used the first album - or if it even felt like the D. It didn't. So I felt like I waited two+ years for less than nothing and regretting paying to see the thing.

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #15 on:** August 27, 2007, 01:24:28 pm »

Soul Coughing - "Ruby Vroom"
The Stone Roses - "The Stone Roses"
Eric B & Rakim - "Paid in Full"

boykster · « **Reply #16 on:** August 27, 2007, 01:41:18 pm »

Harvey Danger - Where have all the merrymakers gone

shardian · « **Reply #17 on:** August 27, 2007, 01:48:39 pm »

Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five

DrumAnBass · « **Reply #18 on:** August 27, 2007, 02:45:41 pm »

Daft Punk: Homework (their debut)
Supreme Beings of Leisure (self titled)
Stray Cats (self titled)
Air - Premiers Symptomes (1st full length)
Joe Satriani - Not Of This Earth

one2three · « **Reply #19 on:** August 27, 2007, 07:16:27 pm »

Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Beastie Boys - License To Ill
Tool - Undertow (official debut was Opiate EP)
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #20 on:** August 27, 2007, 07:32:55 pm »

FYI - Seas of Cheese was the 3rd album from Primus. Suck on This, and Frizzle Fry were their prior releases. If you like Seas, definitely check out the others.

koolmoecraig · « **Reply #21 on:** August 27, 2007, 07:57:06 pm »

The Doors - The Doors (Light My Fire, Break On Through, Whiskey Bar, Crystal Ship, The End) You kidding me?

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

Elmore James - Blues After Blues

Run DMC - Run DMC

sez · « **Reply #22 on:** August 27, 2007, 09:15:37 pm »

Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on August 27, 2007, 08:34:26 am

Van Halen - Van Halen

J_K_M_A_N

Damn tootin!

shmokes · « **Reply #23 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:09:56 pm »

Green Day - Dookie
The Strokes - Is This It?
Hole - Live Through This
Rage Against the Machine
Jimmy Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Weezer (the blue album)
The Honorary Title - Anything But the Truth
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bloc Party - Silent alarm
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Jem - Finally Woken
Jewel - Pieces of You (she has steadily got shittier with each new album -- now her ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---'s just bad)
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Sir Auros · « **Reply #24 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:14:57 pm »

It's recent, but it's one of the few albums where there wasn't a single song I didn't love.

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #25 on:** August 27, 2007, 11:04:11 pm »

Sorry,
Can't help it...

Siamese Dream is Smashing Pumpkins 2nd release. Gish is their debut. Not as lyrically strong as SIamese Dream, but a much more "rocking" album.
Dookie is Green Day's 2nd Full length. Keprlunk is their first. (1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is a compilation of their first two EP's)
Live Through This is Hole's 3rd, not sure of the titles of the predecessors, because I freaking hate Courtney Love, and am trying to forget she was ever considered musically relevant.

/Annoying College Radio Guy

one2three · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2007, 12:32:14 am »

Quote from: Zero_Hour on August 27, 2007, 07:32:55 pm

FYI - Seas of Cheese was the 3rd album from Primus. Suck on This, and Frizzle Fry were their prior releases. If you like Seas, definitely check out the others.

Oops, you're right Zero, brain fart I guess. I've heard frizzle but don't think I've heard Suck On This. Thanks.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #27 on:** August 28, 2007, 02:55:57 am »

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded

rhoelsch · « **Reply #28 on:** August 28, 2007, 08:21:15 am »

Led Zep

shmokes · « **Reply #29 on:** August 28, 2007, 08:57:34 am »

Quote from: Zero_Hour on August 27, 2007, 11:04:11 pm

Sorry,
Can't help it...

Siamese Dream is Smashing Pumpkins 2nd release. Gish is their debut. Not as lyrically strong as SIamese Dream, but a much more "rocking" album.
Dookie is Green Day's 2nd Full length. Keprlunk is their first. (1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is a compilation of their first two EP's)
Live Through This is Hole's 3rd, not sure of the titles of the predecessors, because I freaking hate Courtney Love, and am trying to forget she was ever considered musically relevant.

/Annoying College Radio Guy

Really? I didn't know that. Heh . . . there are so many bands I left off the list too because their genius didn't show until the second or third album. And hey, how can you not hate Courtney Love? But that album is an all-time-great. She's a freak, and no longer making good music, but she was great, and had a huge influence on Nirvana's sound (probably a helluva lot more than the other way around).

billf · « **Reply #30 on:** August 28, 2007, 09:51:52 am »

Quote from: shmokes on August 28, 2007, 08:57:34 am

and had a huge influence on Nirvana's sound (probably a helluva lot more than the other way around).

Really??? I find this extremely hard to believe. By the time Cobain met Love in 1992, Nirvana had already released most of their songs. I have the Hole album, Live Through This, which is a great album. But as soon as I heard it, I instantly thought the sound was just like Nirvana.

lanman31337 · « **Reply #31 on:** August 28, 2007, 10:33:30 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on August 28, 2007, 02:55:57 am

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded

The title track is fantastic!

Generation X - Generation X
Germs - GI
Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse
Minor Threat - Minor Threat

I could go on and on with this

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #32 on:** August 28, 2007, 12:17:40 pm »

Quote from: shmokes on August 28, 2007, 08:57:34 am

And hey, how can you not hate Courtney Love? But that album is an all-time-great. She's a freak, and no longer making good music, but she was great, and had a huge influence on Nirvana's sound (probably a helluva lot more than the other way around).

I'm just gonna just say I completely disagree with you on both points and leave it at that.

boykster · « **Reply #33 on:** August 28, 2007, 02:17:13 pm »

Quote from: billf on August 28, 2007, 09:51:52 am

Quote from: shmokes on August 28, 2007, 08:57:34 am
and had a huge influence on Nirvana's sound (probably a helluva lot more than the other way around).

Really??? I find this extremely hard to believe. By the time Cobain met Love in 1992, Nirvana had already released most of their songs. I have the Hole album, Live Through This, which is a great album. But as soon as I heard it, I instantly thought the sound was just like Nirvana.

having grown up in the NW music scene, billf is more correct than shmokes. Cobain and nirvana had not only released most of their songs, but cobain had probably written of imagined any of the remaining ones. The main thing that Love brought to Cobain was an even MORE self destructive environment to spend his final days.

Guaranos · « **Reply #34 on:** August 28, 2007, 09:25:48 pm »

Quote from: boykster on August 28, 2007, 02:17:13 pm

Quote from: billf on August 28, 2007, 09:51:52 am
Quote from: shmokes on August 28, 2007, 08:57:34 am
and had a huge influence on Nirvana's sound (probably a helluva lot more than the other way around).

Really??? I find this extremely hard to believe. By the time Cobain met Love in 1992, Nirvana had already released most of their songs. I have the Hole album, Live Through This, which is a great album. But as soon as I heard it, I instantly thought the sound was just like Nirvana.

having grown up in the NW music scene, billf is more correct than shmokes. Cobain and nirvana had not only released most of their songs, but cobain had probably written of imagined any of the remaining ones. The main thing that Love brought to Cobain was an even MORE self destructive environment to spend his final days.

Agreed. Courtney Love had no influence on Cobain's music other than to make it stop a lot earlier than it should have. A lot of the songs on Nirvana's In Utero album (their last studio one) were actually written before Nevermind (the one with Smells Like Teen Spirit), including Heart-Shaped Box, Pennyroyal Tea, All Apologies, Very Ape, and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter. That means they were written before he met Courtney Love.

Cobain wrote or co-wrote a lot of Hole material, including Old Age, Drown Soda, and a bunch of others, but goes uncredited for just about all of it. He also did backing vocals on the original mix of the Live Through This album, but when he died, she had him lowered in the mix. For a while there was a bootleg copy of one of the songs floating around with his vocals still in it. He is thought to have written either all or most of the music on that album.

As for the best debut albums, I'd have to second Ruby Vroom by Soul Coughing and add in a vote for STP's Core.

arcadefever · « **Reply #35 on:** August 28, 2007, 09:57:12 pm »

ride the lighting

MetallicA

vizzinni · « **Reply #36 on:** August 28, 2007, 10:01:32 pm »

Boston

danny_galaga · « **Reply #37 on:** August 29, 2007, 03:08:21 am »

Quote from: lanman31337 on August 28, 2007, 10:33:30 am

Quote from: danny_galaga on August 28, 2007, 02:55:57 am

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded

The title track is fantastic!

Generation X - Generation X
Germs - GI
Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse
Minor Threat - Minor Threat

I could go on and on with this

so will you hate me when i say that i saw them at the 'pig city' festival here in brisbane this year?

they reformed just for that! the last time they performed together they somehow got overlooked. they performed on september 11, 2001. dunno how they could have been overlooked...

shmokes · « **Reply #38 on:** August 29, 2007, 04:30:38 am »

Hmm . . . it definitely sounds like I'm overruled about Courtney Love's influence on Nirvana. Don't remember how I got that idea, but it appears to be off-base. Now I'm a bit interested to hear Hole's earlier material, though. BTW, Wikipedia puts Hole's total number of albums at 3, which would make Live Through This her second, not her third album. (of course it's Wikipedia, so I reserve the right to be wrong). And regardless of who wrote it, Live Through This is a brilliant album

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #39 on:** August 29, 2007, 12:21:28 pm »

Yup. It's their 2nd. Told you I was trying to forget her. Guess I'm doing better than I thought.


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Author Topic: Best debut albums (Read 3602 times)

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