Best debut albums

[citizenED]

Been listening to Bjork's "Debut" again recently - got to be one of my favourite first albums.

What's yours?

Venus Like a Boy

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I thought Stan Gibbons' Penny Black Blues was pretty impressive.

[mockney piers]

Ooh, been a while since we had one of these.

Had a similar rediscovery with Portishead's eponymous debut. Hadn't really been near it since This Life overkilled it, but it's still a pretty damn fine album.

btw, do music threads get godwinned when someone says The Beatles were overrated?

[Loz]

The Arctic Monkeys and Susanne Vega spring immediately to mind.

[Ridgley]

My favourite is Goldfrapp Supernature takes me back to the 70s glam rock area:)

[david_carnell]

The Strokes - Is This It?

In retrospect, not the best title given the answer was yes.

[BrandNewGuy]

Roy Harper - Sophisticated Beggar.

Am I too old for this thread... ;-)

[mockney piers]

Naaah, Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Sublime album and they only ever came close or bettered it with Dark Side...

[taper]

Strokes a good call for recent albums.

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath though is the clear winner. Or maybe Are You Experienced.

[mockney piers]

Arcade Fire's Funeral was an outstanding debut for recent bands.

[ratty]

The Stone Roses

[mockney piers]

I dunno, 22 years has allowed me a bit of objectivity on this one and in my world it has been demoted to the ranks of the merely good. All that heady scent of youth dipped in acid and mdma has definitely kept it in the upper echelons for far too long.

See also anything by the Happy Mondays (actually an even bigger drop to 'mostly irritating with a couple of passably catchy tunes').

[red devil]

Good call Ratty, but has to be Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

*puts on overcoat...*

[mockney piers]

My Generation, now there's one that has stood the test of time!!

[KidKruger]

UB40-Signing Off

Joe Jackson-Look Sharp

Bob Dylan-Bob Dylan

[mockney piers]

Dylan, good call.

Ooh ooh, Massive Attack's Blue Lines.

[red devil]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I dunno, 22 years has allowed me a bit of

> objectivity on this one and in my world it has

> been demoted to the ranks of the merely good. All

> that heady scent of youth dipped in acid and mdma

> has definitely kept it in the upper echelons for

> far too long.

You could apply that analogy to the Floyd* album too.

Both albums very much captured the zeitgeist.

*Floyd night on BBC4 the other night was very good.

[KidKruger]

Also Bert Jansch's first album, considering he was like 19 and all, and allegedly people starting reconsidering acoustic guitar as an instrument and how it could be played (so I read somewhere).

Shame our days with Bert are drawing to a close.

[Otta]

Appetite for destruction - GNR

August & everything after - Counting Crows

Hot Fuss - The Killers (this one fades after about track 6, but the first few tunes are good enough to keep it up there IMO).

Twelve Stops and Home - The Feeling (Great pop/rock album, but everything I've heard of them since has been rubbish)

[Chippy Minton]

The Clash by The Clash

[mockney piers]

>>"You could apply that analogy to the Floyd* album too.

>>Both albums very much captured the zeitgeist."

I could except I was born a couple of years afterwards.

I was specifically referring to my own relationship with Stone Roses, what I was up to and the hazy days of coming of age that are now steeped in nostalgia for me.

It doesn't undermine how critical that album was in terms of my development and relationship with music.

It's just it's now long enough away for me to also be more objective about the songs themselves and I don't think they live up to the pedestal on which they've been placed (in my head) for so long.

Weirdly enough I fell in love with Saucerful when I was only about 12 and too young to understand what it was all about, but just loved the music!

*and I too enjoyed Floyd night :)

[Chippy Minton]

And of course "Specials" by The Specials

[Otta]

*and I too enjoyed Floyd night

Waters is a cock though isn't he.

[mockney piers]

Ha a, yes he is.

The footage of that first reunion with Waters' rictus grin whilst fist pumping crazily and the rest of them looking a bit bemused and embarrassed, like he was a small child who'd just discovered that shouting 'tits' briefly amused adults but didn't know when to stop, was just priceless!!

[Alan Medic]

Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part - Horslips

Can Bob Dylan sing.........really?