Okay I’m jumping into this! In no particular order…
There’s heaps more…I can’t do this again!! Lol!!
The Stone Roses s/t.
Wayyyy too difficult to settle on just a list of ten but here are about twenty or so of mine that I keep going back to time and again, so here goes.
The Clouds - Penny Century
WPA - Scorn of the Women
Motor Ace - Five Star Laundry
The Superjesus - Sumo
The Angels - Face to Face
GANGgajang - GANGgajang
Boom Crash Opera - Boom Crash Opera
George - Polyserena
Divinyls - Desperate
Rufus du Sol - Atlas
Flight Facilities - Down to Earth
Alex Lloyd - Black the Sun
The Badloves - Get On Board
Dan Sultan - Homemade Biscuits
The Verses - Seasons
Steel Panther - Feel The Steel
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Living Colour - Vivid
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Home
Birds Of Tokyo - Day One
Elizabeth Rose - INTRA
Apologies for the lack of self discipline and the long post but I just couldn’t rank these in any sort of order.
Oh yeah, that story is a ride.
The album is fantastic in its own right however.
It might have been associated with a big fend from plugger, but don’t think it can have been the Caven incident, because the album was 1989 or close to (I recall hearing mick Thomas going through it with Billy Pinell one night when I was in a particular house and I was only in that house for a year!). First time I’d heard of them and my mind was blown!
Pretty sure Caven being poleaxed was years AFTER the album…
You’re right! I’d heard Mick Thomas describe Caven/Lockett as the big don’t argue, but obviously that was post the album being out!
Led Zeppelin 1.
Great album but not their first…the self titled album was released the year prior to Face to Face
Cars,U2, Police, Dire Straits, Pretenders,Hoodoos, Models
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
My Aim is true - Elvis Costello
Crocodiles - Echo & The Bunnymen
Nils Lofgren - After Grin self titled FatMan Album
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Steve Earle - Guitar Town
Icehouse- Flowers
Business as Usual- Men at Work
Spirit of Place- Goanna
Short Note- Matt Finish
Appetite for Destruction GNR
Van Halen- Van Halen
Ten- Pearl Jam
Can’t Buy a Thrill- Steely Dan
Boston- Boston
And the unquestionable GOAT of my misspent youth
Bat out of Hell- Meatloaf
Probably not going to get to 10, but here’s #2. I’m excluding the Dogman EP
Nice
Yes of course. My mistake. Always for some reason thought it was this one. Thanks for the correction.
honorable mentions
She’s So Unusual- Cyndi Lauper
The Travelling Wilburys Vol 1
Noiseworks- Noiseworks
The Boys Light Up- Oz Crawl
Boom Crash Opera- Boom Crash Opera
And to create some controversy, artists that effectively re-debuted due to lineup changes/long periods of inactivity and became different/better than the original.
5150- Van Halen
Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden
High Voltage- ACDC, ( the international version)
Whispering Jack- John Farnham
Teskey Brothers - Half Mile Harvest
Pretty much every band listed upthread had band members from other bands who had released albums. G’n’R, Pearl Jam, etc. Audioslaves debut album was amazing, but maybe shouldn’t count. silverchair’s Frogstomp probably should could count even though they had an EP.
Just thought of another one I forgot which I’ve played heavily since the day it was released (and which the artist never topped…)
Just to be clear on this thread, the first album has to be your favourite album from that band? Or just a great first album?