Favourite Debut Albums

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So I was looking through some old threads and couldn’t find a thread listing people’s favourite debut albums…so I thought I’d start one as there are never enough music threads on Blitz :wink:

The idea is to name your top ten debut albums…not the most popular, not the most critically acclaimed…but the ten that you like the most for whatever reason.

So have a bit of a think and show us what your ten favourite debut albums are.

It’s damn hard culling it down to just ten albums but here’s my effort:

The Cars - The Cars
The Church - Of Skins and Heart
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
The Doors - The Doors
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Tea Party - Splendor Solis
Skyhooks - Living In The 70s
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Tears For Fears - The Hurting

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Man, we must have some connection, coz I was thinking of this exact topic yesterday.

Will get back with mine. You’ve made my day a bit brighter.:love_you_gesture:

Now I have to remember what I was listening to…

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This came about as I was listening to Of Skins and Heart and that got me thinking about debut albums…and here we are.

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Something along the lines of (in no particular order):
Editors - The Back Room
The Kickback - Sorry All Over The Place
Weddings Parties Anything - Scorn Of The Women
Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric’s
Pretenders -Self-titled
Weezer - Blue Album
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Cheap Trick - Self-titled
The La’s - Self-titled
Stone Roses - Self-titled

HM:
Ups & Downs - Sleepless (technically it’s an 8-track EP but bugger it…)
The The - Soul Mining (technically it’s not MJ’s first album I suppose…)

And, to be honest, I’m not convinced any of these acts ever bettered these releases…

Liable to change on any given day though…

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Off the top of my head (will be missing lots)

RATM - untitled
Bjork - debut
PJ - Ten
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang
Trentmoller - last resort
Bon Ivor - For Emma forever ago
Strokes - is this it
Foals - Antidotes
Plump Djs - a plump night out
NWA - straight outa Compton
Grinspoon - guide to better living

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I’d struggle to be sure of many acts’ debut albums!

Add my votes to the Doors, the Church, and the Weddos per above posts.

Can I add an obvious and a couple of less obvious ones (correct me if any are not debuts!)

Crowded house -eponymous
Nick drake - Five Leaves Left
Adem - Homesongs
My Friend the Chocolate Cake - eponymous

Edit - I think Tom Waits first is Closing Time - a ripper (to me)

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Awesome idea with a thread. Will write my answers after some research when I get home.

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Weddings bettered that with The Big Don’t Argue (imo)

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Not sure Appetite For Destruction could be topped for a debut album.

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Agree but the debut still good. Actually I like the later more ballady ones like Riveresque, Donkey Serenade also but the early stuff is awesome too.

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And yet I didn’t even consider it in my top twenty.

That’s one of the things that make these lists fun (and interesting).

It’s all just based on personal opinion…no right or wrong.

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The first three are all pretty good, but the first is just superb. The storytelling in the lyrics (title track, Shotgun Wedding, She Works etc) is phenomenal.

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I reckon we’ll be able to give advice in a respectful way - unlike the majority of threads - the music ones are very egalitarian.
(Except the DJ Thread).

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I like all their stuff…The Big Don’t Argue is my sentimental favourite as it was the first album of theirs that I bought (after seeing them support U2).

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This and PJ Ten are the two that completely floored me, remember clearly the time hearing both Alive and Sweet child o mine. Farking great memories goin back.

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Classic Bakes quote.

We all know you’ve never (might be a slight exaggeration) liked any album from any artist post third album :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Plus’ The Big Don’t Argue’ would probably be the only album name inspired by advertising for a hot dog.

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Interesting… my recollection was that it came from a caption on a Tony Lockett photo in the sportspages of the paper (Mick Thomas being a renowned Sainter and all…)
Happy to be wrong though…

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I heard Mick Thomas somewhere (on radio?) say it was based on a description of a fight/scuffle being a big version of the familiar Huttons Footy Frank shove. Then it suddenly made sense.

I guess it’s possible the paper captioned a pic of Lockett that way - because of the Huttons line.

It’s also possible my recollection is messed up! Either way I’m sure it through whatever route comes ultimately from the Huttons ad.

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This came up in a Twitter debate recently.
She actually released a self-titled album in Iceland as a 13 year-old (which I wasn’t previously aware of).

She’s pretty much airbrushed it from her history though…