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Best Debut Records

The pollsters tell us how much we like polls. OK. Give us yer Top 5 Debut Records by a band/artist of all eternity:

Mine:
1. Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
2. Blur - Leisure
3. X - Los Angeles
4. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
5. Coldplay - Parachutes
oceanRain | 10 Sep '04, 17:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply



Re: Best Debut Records

Hmm, I would say (and this is in regards to my tastes, not world changing albums)...

Peace Burial At Sea, Jocasta, Placebo, Madness, Deftones
rubbafish | 10 Sep '04, 17:48 | Reply

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Babybird- Your Gorgeous......the rest was shite
balls_of_steel | 10 Sep '04, 21:28 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

PRINCE 'For You' (1978) The year this monkey was born!

More Recently, Debuts By:
Moke
Reuben
thisGIRL
NoComply
Biffy Clyro
Colour Of Fire
Polyphonic Spree
The Once Over Twice
FUNKY-MONKEY | 10 Sep '04, 22:42 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

1. Bleach- Nirvana
2. Queens of the Stone Age
3. Southernplayalisticadillacmusik (I probably spelled it wrong)- OutKast
4. The College Dropout- Kanye West
5. Rage Against the Machine
Againstthegrain | 10 Sep '04, 22:46 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

BUFFSEEDS 'The Picture Show'

Is one of the best debut albums by a British band in recent years!!! and one of my favourites of all-time!!!
FUNKY-MONKEY | 10 Sep '04, 22:48 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Green Day - 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
The Stone Roses - s/t
The Clash - s/t
The Shins - Oh Inverted World
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

The first Miss Black America record was pretty decent as well.
tom_damo_suzuki | 10 Sep '04, 23:29 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

Appetite for Destruction. Not only one of my favourite albums ever, but also THE rock album of the 1980s.
Jober | 11 Sep '04, 00:23 | Reply

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the first modern lovers lp is hard to beat for its cracked mixture of outsider geek chords and empowered vulnerabilty. and always that first dexys lp, never bettered. maybe tigermilk by b&s also. a tender tale of wimpboy machismo. oh yes it is.
roadrunner | 11 Sep '04, 15:08 | Reply

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Pavement - "Slanted and Enchanted"

My favourite debut album by quite some distance.
Smileadelic | 11 Sep '04, 09:41 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Verve - A Storm in Heaven
senses | 11 Sep '04, 10:30 | Reply

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Manics - Generation Terrorists

If only it were a few tracks shorter, could potentially be on of the greatest albums ever. Underrated, but given that they did Holy Bible a few years later, I spose it's greedy to have more than one classic album... ;-)
JonathanD | 11 Sep '04, 12:08 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

> PRINCE 'For You' (1978) The year this monkey was born!

> More Recently, Debuts By:
Moke
Reuben
thisGIRL
NoComply
Biffy Clyro
Colour Of Fire
Polyphonic Spree
The Once Over Twice

> BUFFSEEDS 'The Picture Show'
Is one of the best debut albums by a British band in recent years!!! and one of my favourites of all-time!!!

PLUS:
J5
MUSE
SENSER
CAVE IN
CORRIGAN
I AM KLOOT
OCEANSIZE
STONY SLEEP
STELLASTARR*
KINESIS
THE KILLS
MILLION DEAD
THE COPPERPOT JOURNALS
ADEQUATE SEVEN
JEHST
OUTKAST
THE ROOTS
THE STREETS
CARINA ROUND
MARK RONSON
CODY CHESNUTT
MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD
THE BELLRAYS
DIZZEE RASCAL
MISS BLACK AMERICA
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
CRAZY GODS OF ENDLESS NOISE

SORRY ABOUT THE ENDLESS LIST OF GREAT DEBUTS, BUT I'M HAVING A SHIT TIME AT THE MOMENT, SO LISTENING TO LOTS OF HEAVY MUSIC (+ DIZZEE RASCAL) AND SPENDING TIME ON DiS ARE MY CHOSEN DRUGS!!!
FUNKY-MONKEY | 11 Sep '04, 17:04 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

I remember another goodun now... Cooper Temple's "See This Through and Leave".
JonathanD | 11 Sep '04, 17:42 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

*nods* mmhmm
Manics - Generation Terrorists
Bjork - Debut
Placebo - Placebo
Air - Moon Safari


pretty_vacant | 11 Sep '04, 18:29 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

Black Eyes
British Sea Power
Part Chimp
HEy Collosus
crosbysleftear | 11 Sep '04, 20:04 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' by Pink Floyd
'Five Leaves Left' by Nick Drake
'Blue Lines' by Massive Attack
'F#A#oo' by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Raanraals | 11 Sep '04, 20:43 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

here goes:

surfer rosa

full stop.
Kid_A | 11 Sep '04, 21:02 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

How's about these 'uns...

MEXICAN PETS - Voice Of Trucker Youth
THE FUTUREHEADS - The Futureheads
THE WILDHEARTS - Earth Vs
SPY VERSUS SPY - Spy Versus Spy
WEEZER - Weezer

...plus honourable mentions go to Taking Back Sunday, Corrigan, Bear Vs Shark, Jetplane Landing, Throat, and probably a few more of that ilk :)

Cheerio,

Ian
ian_distort | 11 Sep '04, 21:09 | Reply

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see this through - the coopers
showbiz - muse
x
beautiful-freak | 11 Sep '04, 21:44 | Reply

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keane, the datsuns, reuben, Colour of fire, hundred reasons, million dead
InTheDark | 11 Sep '04, 22:37 | Reply

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HOW THE HELL CAN ANYONE HAVE IN THEIR TOP 5 JAMC and the BUNNYMEN ALONG WITH COLDPLAY - THIS IS MY SEPTEMBER 11TH JESUS HELP US ALL
KarlBarrett | 13 Sep '04, 08:46 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

Yeah, I like Parachutes but I got stuck at number five. I'm the village idiot that types before he thinks. I've since thought of a dozen better debuts. Sorry to put you at ground zero like that Karl. ;-)
oceanRain | 13 Sep '04, 16:50 | Reply

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this thread is rubbish.
why don't we just copy out a list of every single debut album ever and be done with it?
chris_undereducated | 13 Sep '04, 10:33 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

i agree
brian_international | 13 Sep '04, 11:07 | Reply

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There are some very sensible posts in this thread in my opinion. Especially mine.
Raanraals | 13 Sep '04, 11:20 | Reply

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i agree
brian_international | 13 Sep '04, 11:23 | Reply

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the futureheads - the futureheads
kasabian - L.S.F
dogs die in hot cars - please describe yourself
the ordinary boys
dookie | 13 Sep '04, 11:45 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

I love sarcasm.
Raanraals | 13 Sep '04, 11:48 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

Wildhearts - Earth vs....
The Clash - S/T
Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station.
Instruction - God doesn't care...
Adequate7 - Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Frankie goes to Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome.

A few to be going on with.
badger13 | 13 Sep '04, 12:09 | Reply

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kasabians L.S.F is their THIRD single. fool!
pretty_vacant | 13 Sep '04, 14:31 | Reply

Re: Best Debut Records

knob
dookie | 13 Sep '04, 18:07 | Reply

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New Rose - The Damned
creakyknees | 14 Sep '04, 11:12 | Reply

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I dont know if anyone have heard of them yet, but a band called Vox Merkoni released a debut cd in April called 'The real cost of fish is men's lives,' which everyone should listen to
RalphRalph | 14 Sep '04, 11:29 | Reply