Top Five All-Time Greatest Debut Albums

[beedubyah]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe.....By Far.

[beedubyah]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe.....By Far.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  have you ever listened to ready to die? it's one of the most unbelievable debuts. period.

I have.  its cheap, tasteless, and only sort of musically talented.  I have friends who make better beats in thier basement than Puffy.

[tinygee]

weezer- blue
 david garza- this euphoria
 the mars volta- de-loused in the comatorium
 third eye blind- third eye blind
 the strokes- is this it

[kosmo vinyl]

Some additional ones, seeing as some of the ones I was thinking of have been taken...
 
 The Smithereens - Especially For You
 Marshall Crenshaw - Self Titled
 Love Nut - Bastards of Melody
 Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
 Mood Elevator - Listen Up!
 
 And I disagree about the statement regarding first albums sucking... often the first record is a group best with it being all downhill after that.  the whole being able to songs over a lifetime verses between releases phenomenon.

[ggw]

Perhaps you are right, because - judging by some of your selections - you are intimately familiar with what shit sounds like.
 
 

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  First off, Bob Dylan s/t blows! he doesn't write the majority of it and it sounds like shit.
 
 

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

ok, let me try:
 
 Robbie Fulks: Country Love Songs
 Gillian Welch: Revival
 Nellie McKay: Get Away From Me
 Jeff Buckley: Grace
 Steve Earle: Guitar Town
 
 
 

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Another thread where everyone has way overlapping tastes. Yawn.

made complete with rhett complaining instead of posting his own list [/b]

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  often the first record is a group best with it being all downhill after that.  the whole being able to songs over a lifetime verses between releases phenomenon.

yes, and also bands are seldom steered this way and that way during production of thier first album.   but then once the labels get a hold of them......

[ggw]

Dylan's first album is in the unenviable position of being immediately followed by Freewheelin', Another Side, The Times They Are A Changin', Highway 61, Bringing it All Back Home, and Blonde on Blonde.  So if it doesn't look so great, I would argue it is simply because it is outshone by it's successors; albums which seem to appear on nearly every "Greatest" list.
 
 But I don't think that detracts from S/T as a great debut album. Personally, I like the spare sound and the rough production.
 
   

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
 I wouldn't be that harsh, but I will agree it's not that great.  Probably my least favorite Dylan album.

[grotty]

Most of the best have already been posted.
 
 Here's a few others that I find notable & important to me though:
 
 Chris Whitley ~ Living With the Law
 
 Cure ~ 3 Imaginary Boys
 
 Afghan Whigs ~ Big Top Halloween (a portent of things to come)
 
 Catherine Wheel ~ Ferment
 
 White Stripes ~ The White Stripes (still their best)
 
 Son Volt ~ Trace

[brennser]

definitely would concure w/ Surfer Rosa, Soul Mining, and The Stone Roses
 
 to the list I would add
 
 Throwing Muses - S/T
 The Fat Lady Sings - Twist

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

You are correct. The self-titled album was their thrid album, after Mommy's Little Monster and Prison Bound. Believe it or not, I used to be a big Social Distortion fan.
 
 

Originally posted by chaz:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
 
 
 Social Distortion - Social Distortion

I'm pretty sure that Mommy's Little Monster was SD's first proper LP......didn't the self titled record come out sometime in the 90's? [/b]

[eltee]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  often the first record is a group best with it being all downhill after that.  the whole being able to songs over a lifetime verses between releases phenomenon.

yes, and also bands are seldom steered this way and that way during production of thier first album.   but then once the labels get a hold of them...... [/b]

I'm w/ you guys.

[joz]

neutral milk hotel/on avery island
 
 tom waits/closing time
 
 elvis costello/my aim is true
 
 the verve/a storm in heaven (better than SIH is voyager 1, which was technically the "debut" but doesn't count here cause it was a live ep)
 
 ...and i know it's already been mentioned but
 gnr's appetite for destruction is probably the all-time best debut album

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

All of those albums have predictable song structure, and lame choruses.    

Originally posted by joz:
  neutral milk hotel/on avery island
 
 tom waits/closing time
 
 elvis costello/my aim is true
 
 the verve/a storm in heaven (better than SIH is voyager 1, which was technically the "debut" but doesn't count here cause it was a live ep)
 
 ...and i know it's already been mentioned but
 gnr's appetite for destruction is probably the all-time best debut album