Favourite Debut Albums

So many...

Metallica - Kill Em All
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Candlemass - Epicus Doomus Metallicus

 

I was the same with Maiden. I got into them with Number of the Beast. My Dad used to take me into the Merrion Centre in Leeds where there was a really cheap record shop. Picked up Iron Maiden and Killers there.

Kill Em All is pretty rough in comparison to how they progressed, but the sheer energy is astounding. Great album.

 

This could be a long list...

Unknown Pleasures a given; then:

The Clash - The Clash
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Forgotten Rebels - In Love With the System
John Foxx - Metamatic
John Foxx/Ultravox! - Ultravox!
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Love Spit Love - Love Spit Love
Magazine - Real Life
Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Joe Strummer/Mescaleros - Rock Art & the X-Ray Style
Teenage Head - Teenage Head

A baker's dozen (plus one) that I continue to enjoy decade in, decade out...

RCB

 

Went to film about Conny Plank recently, produced and directed by his son. He was talking about Ultravox coming out to Germany, living with them for a few weeks while Vienna and the rest of that album was being produced. The Eurythmics came out the following year. As his son said, that was pretty cool as an 11 year old.

 

Saw Maiden at Leeds Uni in 79 or 80 with Paul Di Anno....just was blown away, shame his voice wasn't up to the live stuff. Preferred him to Dickenson although I liked him with Samson.
Stiff Little Fingers a good shout too.
Never Mind the Bollocks was a sledgehammer first given the time it came out.

 

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot - Sparklehorse
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Go! Team
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground

 

Endtroducing is magnificent.

 

Two thumbs up for those two.

A few more from me:

The Primitives - Lovely
Television - Marquee Moon
UK Subs - Another Kind of Blues

RCB

 

You nailed it with Definitely Maybe

 

Being an older chap

The Doors - The Doors
Fresh Cream - Cream
Then later
The Clash - The Clash

 

Adore the Clash (us version sounds better and has the white man/i fought the law singles)
and the Velvet Underground and Nico;
Here are a few others in no particular order-

Jeff Buckley- Grace
"bonkers" Bjork- Debut
Underworld- dubnobasswithmyheadman
the Chemical Brothers- Exit Plant Dust
Dexy's Midnight Runners- Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
Captain Beefheart- Safe As Milk
Roxy Music- Roxy Music
Galaxie 500- Today
Tom Waits- Closing Time

 

Much as I love Astral Weeks, it wasn't a debut album

 

Vienna the LP I like; it probably should also be on my list given how many times I've listened to it over the years -- and given the dramatic change in the band it really is another "debut" LP!. Vienna the song I'm less keen on; it just seems a bit too overblown/overwrought to me. I regret that I never saw the Foxx-led Ultravox, but did get the Ure-led version on the Vienna tour. They played a few of the old songs too, including the raucous version of Hiroshima Mon Amour.

RCB

 

Two more that should have been on my original list (it is indeed a long one!):

The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
Modern English - Mesh and Lace (much darker, edgier, and to me more interesting than their later phases)

RCB

 

The Prodigy - Experience

 

Forgot these two as well;

Buzzcocks- Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Aztec Camera- High Land Hard Rain