Best Debut Album

[Philip Meyer]

Best Debut Album

>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]

Best Debut Album

>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_Crow#Scrapped_debut_album_.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

[SlimChances]

Montrose by Montrose

excellent licks by the late Ronnie Montrose and singing on his first album Sammy Hagar

[apostle]

Chicago Transit Authority

Sticking to the single item 'Best' premise as by default every artist has only 1 debut album so that has to be the best.

[garym]

Guy Clark "Old No 1"

[pski]

Guy Clark "Old No 1"

+1

I would also mention Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett

[garym]

+1

I would also mention Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett

agree. I've seen Lyle many times over the years, in about every configuration (from sitting around with other singer/songwriters playing acoustic to full large band shows). And he always puts on a great show. I saw him last year with large band and the show just blew me away. He and the band members were obviously having the time of their life playing together. He obviously loves what he does and if he's burnt out or jaded from years of playing, he certainly hides it very well.