Best Debut Album

[Philip Meyer]

>What is your favorite first or debut album by a band.
>
A few come to mind:

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Portishead - Dummy
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Blackfield - Blackfield

[Philip Meyer]

>Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club. Great songs, great backing
>band, great production. Who knew that "Texas" rhymes with "suspected"?
That wasn't actually her debut album. There was an album produced before that, self-titled, that was so poor it was scrapped by the record label.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_...bum_.281992.29

[finnbrodersen]

Agnes Obel: Philharmonics

Danish singer-songwriter located in Berlin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Obel

[Craig]

Agree with all of the above. I'd throw in Counting Crows - August and Everything After and Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill.

Both great calls but on the subject of difficult second albums, wasn't Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie a stinker of the highest order? :-)

Craig

[Fahzz]

Both great calls but on the subject of difficult second albums, wasn't Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie a stinker of the highest order? :-)

Craig

That should be a new thread: Worst follow up to best debut album. Counting Crows might be in the running.

[Fahzz]

Uh oh-I just saw the avatar. Hope I didn't hit a nerve!

[Craig]

Uh oh-I just saw the avatar. Hope I didn't hit a nerve!

Well if you're comparing Recovering the Satellites to Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie then I'll see you behind the bike shed after School :-)

Craig

[emalvick]

My favorites:

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd (one of my favorites by that band period).

Boy - U2

Ten - Pearl Jam

It's a Jungle in Here - Medeski Martin & Wood

[ralphpnj]

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Guy Clark - Old No 1
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (OK, probably not fair as a "first" album")
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Steve Earle - Guitar Town
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Good choices. Here are a few that so far haven't made the list:

Lou Reed - Lou Reed (not really is his debut but the first under his own name)
The Velvet Underground and Nico - self titled
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind
The Move - The Move
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Love - Love
Nils Lofgren - Nils (as with Lou Reed, not really his debut but the first album recorded under his own name.)

And now for some jazz:

David Murray - Flowers For Albert
The Vandermark 5 - Single Piece Flow
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Weather Report - Weather Report
Return to Forever - Light as a Feather

[Recoveryone]

Earl Klugh, Solo Guitar