Best debut album opening track.

[Otta]

It's the first impression you get of a band when you hear their debut album. It can grab you or you can go "meh".

What has grabbed you?

Being as it's the song that gave me the idea for the thread (think I've done this on facebook before, but don't THINK it's been done on here) I'll start with...

(best played loud)

Love the bass line.

[titch juicy]

The Libertines- Vertigo

[red devil]

Otta Wrote:

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> Love the bass line.

Killers influenced by JD...

 

[aquarius moon]

Time To Pretend.

The amazing first track from Oracular Spectacular by MGMT

[aquarius moon]

Great track Otta but preferred 'All these things that I've done' & 'Mr Brightside' on that particular album.

Agree about first impressions grabbing you though. I think I was hooked after hearing one of their tracks on the radio before I even heard any of their albums.

[BrandNewGuy]

[Otta]

May as well get it out the way now.

 

[Otta]

And this one, whilst not typical of the rest of the (very good) album, it certainly got my attention!

 

[KidKruger]

The Waltons title track.

[maxxi]

Named this track in previous longest/best intros thread but also one of the best 1st tracks on a debut album ever...

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[red devil]

[Jah Lush]

Never Mind The Bollocks

Here's The Sex Pistols

 

[El Pibe]

I stumbled upon this song via a label sampler before the album came out, but it turned out to be the opener, huzzah.

Great video incidentally.

although debut _and_ final album, clearly noone else liked them :)

[El Pibe]

Blitzen Trapper's marvellously spiky take on wilcoesque alt country/rock. Major Label Debut.

Does it count if their previous albums were self released and nobody could actually get hold of them until very recently?

[El Pibe]

THIS is how to kick off your debut album as a statement of intent.

 

[Jeremy]

Otta Wrote:

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> And this one, whilst not typical of the rest of the (very good) album, it certainly got my attention!

ahem... sixth album..

[*Bob*]

[El Pibe]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > And this one, whilst not typical of the rest of

> the (very good) album, it certainly got my

> attention!

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> ahem... sixth album..

Ha ha, now who's shifting the goal posts ots? ;-)

[Otta]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > And this one, whilst not typical of the rest of

> the (very good) album, it certainly got my

> attention!

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> ahem... sixth album..

Good point, well made. I was so desperate to get it in ther that I sort of forgot my own thread title.

And it was their debut for me. Own 2 or 3 others, but that's my favourite.

[El Pibe]

This is a fantastic version by a london youth choir.

 

[david_carnell]

I can't see vids a work but has anyone recommended Jenny Jones by the Clash?

[steveo]

When men were comfortable stripping off and clustering

 

[steveo]

And that Avalanches is great Pibe

[adonirum]

steveo....at last someone else who remembers/have heard of Montrose and not just the vocalist Sammy Hagar. Shame Ronnie Montrose died relatively young, but prostate cancer claims far to many.

Surely Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath has to be an all time candidate, setting the standard for most (all) that came after it in that genre

[Jeremy]

So many...

Buzzcocks - Fast Cars

Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There

Elvis Costello - Welcome to the Working Week

Weezer - My Name is Jonas

The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom

Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop