Members depdude19 Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Just curious. It never ceases to amaze me how many bands' first albums are by far their BEST... So, with that established...I'll go out on a limb and say that the best debut album (or at least my favorite)....is.... ............ .............keep going........ ............... DIRE STRAITS first album. My gosh. What killer songs on that album. Starts off with "Down To The Waterline." Awesome song. Then "Water of Love." By now you might be considering Mark Knopfler an amazing songwriter. It continues...ever song on this debut album is STRONG...highlighted, of course, by Sultans of Swing. I know I'm not the only one.
Members HuskerDude Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Somebody is going to say Pearl Jam. They will be wrong.
Members mamberg Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 best compared to the rest of their stuff?? Boston, Cars or best compared to all of Rock and Roll? Van Halen, Led Zepplin
Members Roy Brooks Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Hampton Grease Band- Music To Eat
Members Beachbum Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Boston Men at Work Just to name two.
Members karlw Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Van Halen, for sure. I don't agree with Zepplin, because I think #2 was their best album. But that's just me. Yeah, the Cars. Was "Parallel Lines" Blondie's first? That one was pretty good. -Karl
Members maxnew40 Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Third Eye Blind had a great first record, hardly a bad song on the disk. A lot of bands have great first records because they have had their entire life to write those songs. The next record they might get a few months to write those songs. Max
Members fastplant Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Rage Against the MachineLinkin Park (though I'm not a fan, that was a huge debut album)
Members Spynal Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Blessedbethyname - The Divine Blasphemy My favourite debut.
Members karlw Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Originally posted by fastplant Rage Against the Machine Yes!
Members flemtone Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Blood Sweat and Tears - "Child is Father to the Man" with Al Kooper Killer, even after all these years. peace,Tim from Jersey
Members unichord Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Meet the Beatles Van Halen Texas Flood Boston Are You Experienced
Members fastplant Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Originally posted by unichord Meet the Beatles
Members Roy Brooks Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Originally posted by karlw Van Halen, for sure. I don't agree with Zepplin, because I think #2 was their best album. But that's just me. Yeah, the Cars. Was "Parallel Lines" Blondie's first? That one was pretty good. -Karl I believe Blondie's first record was called Blondie, the one with "X Offender" on it.My favorite Led Zeppelin records are Presence and In Through The Out Door, maybe Physical Graffiti. I really enjoy Jimmy Page's playing on those, especially when he used a Telecaster with a B bender on it.
Members THBv2.0 Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Originally posted by THX1138 GnR - Appetite for Destruction Best example of a band that would never do any better. What a waste. Damn you Axl Rose!!! :mad:
Members THX1138 Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Originally posted by THBv2.0 Best example of a band that would never do any better. Yup, very sad. I used them as my example cause not only was it their first and best work (imo), but it was also one of those few very important releases in rock history that went all supernova.
Members fastplant Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Whatever, Chinese Democracy is going to be AMAZING......
Members THX1138 Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Originally posted by fastplant Whatever, Chinese Democracy is going to be AMAZING...... Oh absolutely! Its gonna be the bitchinest, just ask Axl. He should change the name from GnR to EgO.
Members elbow Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 These are some albums that when I heard them.. I said "Wow, what the hell was that?" "Let's play it again!" As mentioned before, Boston and Cars are excellent examples.... The Cars had some great songs after that of course, but album to album, the first was best.. IMHO. Bad Company - Bad Company ...was another one for me.. kind of a follow-on to Free, but it was a debut album. Good stuff. Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced ...) is a great album (yeah, whatever:rolleyes: ) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood... classic... and still has people trying to get THAT sound. Just play it if you want, fugget about duplicating the sound. I like to play it myself sometimes. Foreignor - Foreignor... another band that kept us sane in those disco years.... and maybe influenced a lot of kids that became hairband screamers later on. The Doors - The Doors.. another classic. nuff said Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced? I was after hearing this {censored}. B52's - B52's.... yeah baby Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater RevivalI think these guys shaped more young listeners in their day than we give them credit for. John Fogherty still rawks.
Members LPSlinger Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 The Allman Brothers Band had the best debut album in my opinion. But it wasn't their best album, that would be Fillmore East. If you are talking about bands whose first album was their best album, G'N'R seems to fit the bill. Nothing they did ever came close to Appetite for Destruction. Oasis' Definately Maybe is another good example as Mr. Bliss stated below me.
Members Mr Bliss Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Purely subjective but Oasis' Definitely Maybe did it for me. I was an R.E.M freak at the time, went to see the Monster tour when it hit Dublin where Oasis were supporting. . .both bands blew me away, but R.E.M had always seemed like such a far off place to me, they seemed so cultured and alien - which they of course were. Oasis, a band of 5 working class boys from my neck of the woods (sort of, geographically but culturally right on the button) knocked out an album full of brilliant tunes & it hit me that if they could do it, so could I. Of course I haven't succeded on their terms, but I went out, bought a bass, started a band & have been learning, enjoying, writing, gigging & immersing myself in music ever since. If music is it's own reward, we've all made it in a sense.
Members Z0S0 Posted March 23, 2006 Members Posted March 23, 2006 Originally posted by unichord Meet the Beatles Please Please Me was the Beatle's first album.
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