1. Van Halen – Van Halen
2. Patti Smith – Horses
3. Killing Joke – Killing Joke
4. The Stooges – The Stooges
5. Gun’s N Roses – Appetite for Destruction
6. Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
7. Sinead O’Connor – The Lion and the Cobra
8. Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
9. The Pretenders – The Pretenders
10. Nico – Chelsea Girls

Nice choices lilgish

I'm a sucker for these lists..

Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nico - Chelsea Girls
The Smiths - The Smiths
Bjork - Debut
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

My personal list (being an 80s kid and all ) :

1. Introducing the Hardline according to Terence Trent D'Arby
2. Faith (solo debut by G. Michael).
3. Mariah Carey by MC
4. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette.
5. Country Grammar - Nelly
6. Back to Bedlam- James Blunt
7. Kissing to Be Clever - Culture Club
8. Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow
9. Pieces of Me- Ashlee Simpson (I am so serious)
10. Southern Hummingbird - Tweet.

1) The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
2) The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
3) Wire - Pink Flags
4) Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
5) Television - Marquee Moon
6) Neu! - Neu!
7) Aztec Camera - High Lands, Hard Rain
8) Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
9) The dBs - Stands for Decibels
10) Undertones - Undertones

damosuzuki said:

good one, better than Chelsea Girls, I should put it in the ten spot.

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Coldplay - Parachutes
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
Bee Gees - First
Bjork - Debut
Seal - Seal
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters
Portishead - Dummy

I think.

1. Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
2. Maxwell: Urban Hang Suite
3. Nas: Illmatic
4. Erykah Badu: Baduizm
5. D'Angelo: Brown Sugar
6. Curtis Mayfield: Curtis
7. Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You
8. Mos Def & Talib Kweli: Black Star
9. Angie Stone: Black Diamond
10. 2Pac: 2Pacalypse Now
[Edited 5/29/06 10:37am]

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Damien Rice - O
Ben Folds Five - Self Titled
Coldplay - Parachutes
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful


many many more i cant think of

damosuzuki said:

Ah. Loving this list. Especially *Blue Nile and *Television are easily in my top10. gotta think of the rest for a while...

Maybe *Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn.
and *Wilco - AM
*Posies - Failure (not sure...)
*U2 - Boy
*Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

... more to follow soon
[Edited 5/29/06 13:51pm]

Hard to come up with debut albums. Many debut albums I like the most, are actually just the artists' first full-length on a more visible label, and they've come up with a number of EPs or self-financed albums before them. And of course a lot of names I like have recorded music under many other monikers for years, so technically speaking, calling them "debut albums" would be a bit unfair to some others who just release music under their main project.

prinssi said:

That's a great debut.

In no particular order:

1) Guy - Guy
2) Mary J Blige - What's the 411
3) Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite
4) Bilal - First Born 2nd
5) Rahsaan Patterson - Rahsaan Patterson
6) De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
7) X-Clan - To The East, Blackwards
8) Al B. Sure - In Effect Mode
9) D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
10) Musiq Soulchild - Aijuswnanseing

1)Matchbox Twenty - Yourself Or Someone Like You
2)Rob Thomas - Something To Be
3)Will Smith - Big Willie Style
4)George Michael - Faith
5)Justin Timberlake - Justified
6)Avril Lavigne - Let Go

And if I can count Off The Wall by Michael Jackson, then I know what my real first choice would be.

Cree Summer - Street Faerie
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott?
Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite
Seal - Seal
MeShell Ndegeocello - Plantation Lullabies
The Roots - Do You Want More?
Brand New Heavies - Brand New Heavies
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Lisa Stansfield - Affection

...

Jimi Hendrix...



...Are You Experienced?


The Nazz...



...Nazz


Chicago...



...Chicago Transit Authority


Jeff Beck...



...Truth


Spirit...



...Spirit


Curtis Mayfield...



...Curtis


Kool & The Gang...



...Kool and the Gang


Thomas Dolby...



...The Golden Age of Wireless


Mahavishnu Orchestra...



...The Inner Mounting Flame


Santana...



...Santana


...A few that come to mind.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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JasonStar said:

Of ALL TIME?

VoicesCarry said:

Honestly, I usually don't get into any artists off their "debut" albums and while lots of fans stick to the motto, "Debut albums are the artist at their artistic peek." I think that is a bunch of a garbage. The reason being, think of it like a child. Would you say a child who was amazing at Math at the age of 11, was at his "mathmatical" best at that age? NO WAY. You would probably say they were at their peek during their 20s/30s/40s/50s etc, when they had learned more, had a job, etc. Point being..just because it is a debut album and the does not make it the automatic "best" or most "real" album by any artist.

So yes, this list is all time. (Maybe my list isn't made up of the "orger" standard response artists.) However, personally I thought Seal's debut wasn't nearly as good as the follow up or IV. As for MJ, I know lots of orgers love Off The Wall. But technically, Got To Be There was his first solo disc.

prinssi said:

I love that another choice for ten spot.

JasonStar said:

That's his 5th album!

lilgish said:

Hence why I said "If"

theAudience said:

oof - good calls on those two. don't know what I was thinking overlooking them...
[Edited 5/29/06 19:41pm]

Bleach - Nirvana
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
The Back Room - Editors
Please - Pet Shop Boys
Feel - Human Drama
In The Garden - Eurythmics
Please Please Me - The Beatles
Led Zeppelin I
She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Suede - Suede
The Lion & The Cobra - Sinead O'Connor
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
The Hurting - Tears for Fears
The Golden Age of Wireless - Thomas Dolby
Three Imaginary Boys - The Cure
Songs for Me and My Baby - The Motorhomes
The Pretenders
Talking Heads '77

those are some of my faves off the top of my head
[Edited 5/29/06 19:47pm]

damosuzuki said:

Hell, there's a ton of great debuts out there.
Impossible to narrow them all down to a scant 10.

I didn't even include Moby Grape.


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Tribal Disorder

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Tori Amos/Little Earthquakes
Björk/Debut
David Bowie/Man of Words/Man Of Music aka Space Oddity
Kate Bush/The Kick Inside
Eurythmics/In The Garden
Franz Ferdinand/Franz Ferdinand
Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel 1 aka Car
Annie Lennox/Diva
Prince/For You
Tom Waits/Closing Time

Cheek said:

You're such a fan!

CinisterCee said:

Good memory!

U2 - Boy


Madonna - Madonna


The B-52's - The B-52's


Elvis Costello - My Aim is True


Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine


Arcade Fire - Funeral (I know they had an EP out first, but the topic said Albums, so...)


Pet Shop Boys - Please


Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (same goes for Arcade Fire)


Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles


Tears for Fears - The Hurting

theAudience said:

Was I drunk when I made my list or something? How could I forget Moby Grape!

JasonStar said: