Name the 5 best debut albums of all time, in order (Please limit your list to 5)

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Bleach was Nirvana’s debut album.

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Pat Metheny: Bright size life
Al Di Meola: Land of the Midnight Sun
Jaco Pastorius: Jaco
Dave Holland: Conference of the Birds
BIlly Cobham: Spectrum

[ul]
[li]Jeff Buckley: Grace[/li][li]Dio: Holy Diver[/li][li]Ozzy Ozbourne: Blizzard of Ozz[/li][li]Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath[/li][li]Van Halen I[/li][/ul]

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1 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2 Ramones - Ramones
3 The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us*
4 Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
5 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

*Appropriately, the spine says “File Under Sacred Music”

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I’m not quite sure what “best debut album” means, but I’m taking it to mean that the album is all high quality, not just a few songs promising something more to come later, and a solid album all throughout. The band started out competent and either progressed on that same level or went downhill from there. Based on that, I got ten bands left (though I’ve realized that I haven’t heard the first album from several of my favorite bands - so, potentially this list could have been drastically different).

Here are the best 5:

  1. downy - Untitled
  2. Exuma - Exuma
  3. Mogwai - Young Team
  4. Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
  5. Nizlopi - Half These Songs Are About You

Missed it:

  1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  2. The Dead Weather - Horehound (sort of a cheat, since the band is a supergroup)
  3. Cry Baby - Wakarazuya
  4. Macy Gray - On How Life Is
  5. kiev - Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth
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  1. The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
  2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
  3. The Smiths - The Smiths
  4. Isn’t Anything - My Bloody Valentine
  5. Garlands - The Cocteau Twins

ETA: This assumes demos and EPs don’t count.

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A few I wish I’d thought of before posting my list:

Neil Young
Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
mmm

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Oh my, both very good.

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My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Portishead - Dummy
Suicide - Suicide

I could well have post MrDibble’s choices too though

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Without thinking:

  • Jeff Beck Group: Truth
  • Big Star: #1 Record
  • Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble: Texas Flood
  • The Pretenders: The Pretenders
  • Television: Marquee Moon.

If I could find the right James Brown, Prince, or Marvin Gaye record, I would.

Shit - didn’t fit in Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel :smack:

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Note: I only edited to add “& Double Trouble” to SRV; can’t forget Whipper and Slut!

Didn’t touch the list. Jeez no Beatles, no Chuck Berry. No English Beat: I Just Can’t Stop It, or Joe Jackson: Look Sharp. And of course Van Halen and The Ramones, but they are well repped here.

Carry on.

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  1. Your favorite weapon
  2. Tell all your friends
  3. Turn on the bright lights
  4. The blue album
  5. Cheshire cat

I swear I’m not 17.

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I assume those are albums. Can you list the artist, please?

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  1. Your favorite weapon - Brand New (who just came out with a new single btw)
  2. Tell all your friends - Taking Back Sunday
  3. Turn on the bright lights - Interpol
  4. The blue album - Weezer
  5. Cheshire cat - blink-182
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Go fix Wiki, then!
Okay, I’ll substitute Beck with:

  1. Gillian Welch - Revival
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  1. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

  2. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

  3. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico

  4. Van Morrison - It’s Too Late To Stop Now

  5. The Clash - London Calling

A restriction of five is real hard, I could easily list five or ten more albums that are equally good as those.

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:smack: Misread the OP, missed the word debut. So strike the post above.

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EinsteinsHund, the OP was asking for “debut” albums – the first full-length release by an artist.

Heck, Sticky Fingers isn’t even Mick Taylor’s Stones debut! :wink:

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So here’s my correct list:

  1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico
  2. The Clash - The Clash
  3. The Byrds- Mr. Tambourine Man
  4. Big Star - #1 Record
  5. Belle And Sebastian - Tigermilk
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I’m (pleasantly) surprised by how often the VU&Nico is coming up.

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Without deliberately choosing obscure albums just to be different:

Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
The Cars - The Cars
Boston - Boston
The Clash - The Clash
REM - Murmur

With honorable mention to:

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Weezer - Weezer
VU & Nico - VU & Nico
Van Halen - Van Halen
GNR - Appetite for Destruction
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks