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Best debut albums by any artist of any genre What artists made the best first impressions with their debut albums throughout the history of music?
S.O.S.- The S.O.S. Band Come Get It!- Rick James The College Dropout- Kanye West Camp- Childish Gambino Too Hot to Handle- Heatwave Van Halen- Van Halen Appetite for Destruction- Guns N' Roses Good High- Brick Face Value- Phil Collins [Edited 12/7/14 15:32pm] | |
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I still love this album to this day, and I think it´s the best album that Ice-T has ever released. None of his later albums come close to this masterpiece. The lyrics, the simple, almost primitive yet powerful beats by Afrika Islam, Evil E on the turntables, the storytelling...this album put the Westcoast on the HipHop map, and the cover artwork is so iconic and one of my favorite album sleeves of all time by any artist. Songs like Squeeze The Trigger are almost prophetic in hindsight. The storytelling in songs such as Pain, Six in the Morning Pt.1&2, and the fun lyrics in 409 .....what´s not to love? Ice-T is a smart, selfmade man. Glen E. Friedman´s cover picture is so beautiful. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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A must-have and timeless classic. Songs like Life´s A Bitch, New York State of Mind, The World Is Yours.....pure genius. Still one of my favorite rap albums of all time. I also liked Stillmatic, which was released years after this masterpiece. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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Rejoice is the Emotions 5th release. Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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Great debut albums:
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction Van Hunt - Van Hunt Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath The Smiths - The Smiths Morrissey - Viva Hate Van Halen - Van Halen Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Drowning Pool - Sinner
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getxxxx said: Rejoice is the Emotions 5th release. Whoops... | |
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Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
George Michael - Faith
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven On Earth
Wilson Phillips - Wilson Phillips
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Color Me Badd - C.M.B.
Annie Lennox - Diva
Brandy - Brandy
Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
Aaliyah - Age Ain't Nothing but a Number [Edited 12/7/14 15:21pm] | |
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Really loving Harts - Daydreamer, personally | |
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No such thing as best, but these are the ones I like: Johnnie Taylor ~ Wanted One Soul Singer Run DMC ~ Run DMC The Beatles ~ Introducing The Beatles Gap Band ~ Magicians Holiday Wham! ~ Fantastic George Michael ~ Faith C+C Music Factory ~ Gonna Make You Sweat Basia ~ Time And Tide En Vogue ~ Born To Sing Brand New Heavies ~ Brand New Heavies Digable Planets ~ Reachin' The Cover Girls ~ Show Me Morris Day ~ Color Of Success Minnie Riperton ~ Come To My Garden Sade ~ Diamond Life Steely Dan ~ Can't Buy A Thrill Deniece Williams ~ This Is Niecy Margie Joseph ~ Makes A New Impression Duran Duran ~ Duran Duran Brand X ~ Unorthodox Behaviour Al B. Sure! ~ In Effect Mode Jermaine Jackson ~ Jermaine Tears For Fears ~ The Hurting Teddy Pendergrass ~ Teddy Pendergrass Jackson 5 ~ Diana Ross Presents Chanté Moore ~ Precious Joss Stone ~ The Soul Sessions Color Me Badd ~ C.M.B. Mandrill ~ Mandrill Patrice Rushen ~ Prelusion Natalie Cole ~ Inseparable Janet Jackson ~ Janet Jackson Madonna ~ Madonna Suzanne Rhatigan ~ To Hell With Love The Pipettes ~ We Are The Pipettes (US version) Frankie Lee Sims ~ Lucy Mae Blues (technically he never released any albums, just a series of 45s in which some were compiled here) You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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^ Your lists are absolute life! ^.^
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Wu Tang Clan Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers) PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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Just some others that spring to mind: The Doors - The Doors The Cars - The Cars New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Branwashed Too Oasis - Definately Maybe U2 - Boy Suede - Suede The Veils - The Runaway Found Iggy Pop - The Idiot The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Crowded House - Crowded House Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band The Velvet Underground Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody Paul Weller - Paul Weller Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Doves - Lost Souls TAFKAP - Gold Experience [Edited 12/7/14 23:22pm] We're here, might as well get into it. | |
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Some of these more personal faves than what I'd call 'best': The B.B.&Q. Band - The B.B.&Q Band Change - The Glow Of Love Chic - Chic Lionel Richie - Lionel Richie Fonzi Thornton - The Leader | |
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GEORGE MICHAEL - "Faith"
TTDA - "introducing..." MAXWELL - "Urban Hang Suite" SADE - "Diamond Life" NAS - "It Was Written" KANYE WEST - "The College Dropout" ALEXANDER O'NEAL - "Alexander O'Neal" TONI BRAXTON - "Toni Braxton" BOYZ II MEN - "Cooleyhighharmony" THE S.O.S. BAND - "The SOS BAND" LED ZEPPELIN - "Led Zeppelin I" NINE INCH NAILS - "Pretty Hate Machine" BOBBY BROWN - "Don't Be Cruel" TRACY CHAPMAN - "Tracy Chapman" CHANGE - "Loveŕs Holiday" JAPAN - "Quiet Life" DURAN DURAN - "Duran Duran" ERYKAH BADU - "Baduizm" PHIL COLLINS - "Face Value" BON IVER - "For Emma... foRever Ago" TWIN SHADOW - "Forget" COLDPLAY - "Parachutes" DAFT PUNK - "Homework" JANELLE MONAE - "the Archandroid" THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - "the Velvet Underground & Nico" D'ANGELO - "Brown Sugar" AiR - "Moon Safari" SNOOP DOGG - "Doggystyle" THE TIME - "What Time is it?" [Edited 12/8/14 14:50pm] Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves. | |
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a-ha "Hunting High and Low" Coldplay "Parachutes" Crowded House - "Crowded House" Cover Girls "Show Me" Expose "Exposure" Bruce Springsteen "greetings for asbury park" John Lennon "Plastic Ono Band" Van Halen- "Van Halen" Paul McCartney - "McCartney" Queen - "Queen I" "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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I don't think that is a 1st LP You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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for some reason it is more Rap albums than other genres that come to mind.. however, here's a radnom selection from some of my all time fave debuts... Vanglorious... this is protected by the red, the black, and the green. With a key... sissy! | |
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Among some notables, in addition to some great ones listed: The Police - Outlandos D'Amour Van Hunt -- Van Hunt
[Edited 12/9/14 11:40am] Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder | |
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Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent d'Arby Lenny Kravitz: Let Love Rule | |
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A lot of rap careers started on the basis of a hit single or two, and then they started building albums around those hits (as soon as "the rap album" became a thing). There are a tonne of them. |
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Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1  | |
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Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual...one of the best albums of the 80s, hands down . All my others are already listed.... Make it so, Number One... | |
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Funkadelic- Funkadelic D'Angelo- Brown sugar N.E.R.D- In search of.. N.W.A- Straight Outta Compton Bad Brains- Bad Brains Gary Numan- Tubeway Army The Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to die Daft Punk- Homework | |
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SuperSoulFighter said:Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent d'Arby Lenny Kravitz: Let Love Rule Great choices. | |
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Dangelo Lauryn Hill The Fugees Snoop Dog Bilal Van Hunt Meshell Soul II Soul Prince John Legend Mint Condition The Dazz Band Roger Dr Dre Jill Scott Martin Luther MCCoy Living Colour The Time Run DMC Luther Vandross Bootsy Rochelle Ferelle Eryca Badu Maxwell Donnie Hathaway Jodeci Kraftwerk Thomas Dolby Jan Hammer TTD
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Graycap23 said:
Dangelo Lauryn Hill The Fugees Snoop Dog Bilal Van Hunt Meshell Soul II Soul Prince John Legend Mint Condition The Dazz Band Roger Dr Dre Jill Scott Martin Luther MCCoy Living Colour The Time Run DMC Luther Vandross Bootsy Rochelle Ferelle Eryca Badu Maxwell Donnie Hathaway Jodeci Kraftwerk Thomas Dolby Jan Hammer TTD
About nailed it. -R. Kelly -D'Angelo -Terrence Trent D'Arby -J5/Jacksons/MJ (all solid intros, even when dissected by labels) -Kanye [Edited 12/11/14 5:14am] | |
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Are you talking about Got To Be There or Off The Wall? Some people seem to ignore the Motown stuff and think his first album was on Epic. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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MickyDolenz said:
Are you talking about Got To Be There or Off The Wall? Some people seem to ignore the Motown stuff and think his first album was on Epic. I said 'even when dissected by labels' just for that reason, as Got To Be There and Off The Wall were both great releases. 😎 Same with Diana Ross Presents... and 'The Jacksons'. Debut albums on different labels (and a different name for the brothers), but both great albums. [Edited 12/16/14 22:23pm] | |
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Hands-down Toni Braxton...Babyface gave us a "Taste" of Toni when he Put her on the "Boomerang" soundtrack...Babyface Duet with her on "Give you my Heart" made us dance...Toni's 1st Solo hit "Love should've brought you home last night" made us stop and listen....When the "Toni Braxton Album" dropped it was the best surprise since slice bread....Pop & R&B radio ate it up and she became a STAR... | |
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