Your Favorite Debut Album

So many great debut efforts already presented, so instead of repeating, I'll add a new one ....

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Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Dark Funeral - The Secrets Of The Black Arts
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Doom:VS - Aeternum Vale
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine
Havayoth - His Creation Reversed
Jingo De Lunch - Perpetuum Mobile
Loreena McKennitt - Elemental
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Opeth - Orchid
Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard
Vintersorg - Till Fjälls

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Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath.
Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin
Badlands. Badlands.
Marillion. Script For A Jester's Tear
Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden
Jeff Beck. Truth
Queen. Queen
Lynyrd Skynyrd. (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
 
A lot of great ones already listed. Most in the OP I'd pick.

Here are some personal favorites off the top of my head, but probably forgetting more.

Ian Moore - Ian Moore
London Grammar - If You Wait
Lucy Rose - Like I Used To
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
The Doors - The Doors
Eric Johnson - Tones
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Joe Satriani - Not of This Earth
Steve Vai - Flex-Able
Little Feat - Little Feat

edit: added ones I forgot :grin
 
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TSJMajesty said:
Some bands didn't, imho, find their "sound" so to speak, until later albums. I feel like Pink Floyd & Rush's best/better stuff was a few albums in.

Course, with both of those bands, they had a major early personnel change that greatly changed their overall sound. So, there's that.
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Yeah. A lot of bands hit at the second album. Megadeth, Black Sabbath are prime examples.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
Metal was what I listened to as an immature/ignorant/angry teenager, then I got into the beatles, chilled the fuck out and learned to appreciate music more generally
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:LOL:

I must be getting more immature and angrier (at least on some days) because I can't seem to abandon
the Heavies----even as I love and listen to other stuff. Sometimes as chill as Erik Satie.
 
TSJMajesty said:
Some bands didn't, imho, find their "sound" so to speak, until later albums. I feel like Pink Floyd & Rush's best/better stuff was a few albums in.

Course, with both of those bands, they had a major early personnel change that greatly changed their overall sound. So, there's that.
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It's interesting for sure. Some peak right out of the gate and others grow and develop. And some
seem to peak out of the gate and grow and develop (Zeppelin, Sabbath). :idk
 
TSJMajesty said:
The Cars?

LZ I?

Boston?

VH I?

Appetite?

Rage?

Pronounced?

Please Please Me?

Are You Experienced?

Black Sabbath?

Texas Flood?

License To Ill?

Kill 'em All?

Facelift?

Core?

Blizzard?

Maiden?

Showbiz?



Whatchya got?

I'd have to say VHI absolutely blew.me.away! That's gotta be my own #1. #2 would be a tie btw The Cars, LZ, Facelift, Core, and Boston.
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You mean a debut album you listen when was released or in general?

Either way that's a tough question
 
So many bands I missed their debuts..., Porcupine Tree & Muse are 2 big ones for me. Got into them later, then worked backwards. Same with Dream Theater.

And they're another one whose debut was weak, comparatively speaking. And had a personnel change right after.



You need your hearing checked if you can't hear the guitar solo in Sunburn! :rofl
 
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TSJMajesty said:
Some bands didn't, imho, find their "sound" so to speak, until later albums. I feel like Pink Floyd & Rush's best/better stuff was a few albums in.
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Agreed - but I am amazed to this day that Pink Floyd were allowed so many albums of meh before Dark Side.

I have also read the opposite - that the first album has taken years to develop and get just right - then the record company demands another in 6 months with 3 hits instead of 2.
 
unix-guy said:
I was about to say "you definitely have a style preference" until I saw that! 😀
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Well, that lady is just (in lack of a better word) awesome. Saw her live on the Book of Secrets tour (damn, that was roughly a quarter century ago) and almost cried during the whole set. What an outstanding musician!
 
Yeah, those first few Floyd albums don’t do it for me at all. I haven’t heard that stuff in decades and have no plans to do so anytime soon.

Facelift is definitely up there, EJ’s Tones is another good one. DT’s WDADU was pretty great despite the mix.

Oh, fuckin’ Ryche! Either the EP or The Warning, you can’t go wrong with either.
 
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