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Deadeyes
07-14-2008, 01:46 PM
Don't recall seeing this one

1. Aereogramme - A Story In White
2. The Psychedelic Furs - S/T
3. Killing joke - S/T
4. The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
5. The Chameleons - Script Of The bridge
6. My Vitriol - Finelines
7. Mogwai - Young Team
8. Echo And The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
9. Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Scream
10. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

pale_princess
07-14-2008, 01:55 PM
1-10. your mom- greatest hits

Deadeyes
07-14-2008, 02:01 PM
6. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

meh

???
07-15-2008, 02:10 AM
good topic!

1. My Vitriol - Finelines
2. SP - Gish
3. Bjork - Debut
4. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
5. Jeff Buckley - Grace
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (counts- avery island was more of an ep)
7. TMV - Deloused in the Comatorium
8. Muse - Showbiz
9. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
10. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

yeah my taste in music is really one sided huh

My Blue Heaven
07-15-2008, 02:12 AM
Location: Mediocrity

redbull
07-15-2008, 02:14 AM
Dresden Dolls - Dresden Dolls
Suicide - Suicide
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Weezer - Blue Album
Daft Punk - Homework
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
Mogwai - Young Team
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

ryan patrick
07-15-2008, 02:48 AM
uh

Monster Movie
Unknown Pleasures
Isn't Anything
Velvet Underground & Nico
Entertainment
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Marquee Moon
Y
Weirdo Rippers
Beaches & Canyons

Nothing/everything
07-15-2008, 03:01 AM
Beaches & Canyons

this is a great album, i should listen to it more often

redbull
07-15-2008, 03:01 AM
i can't get into beach & canyons at all

celluloid_love
07-15-2008, 03:35 AM
try it again redbull

really good stuff

Sonic Johnny
07-15-2008, 05:01 AM
Black Sabbath - S/T
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
SP - Gish
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
Sigur Ros - Von
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
ISIS - The Red Sea

I'm Hardcore
07-15-2008, 05:09 AM
the feelies - 'crazy rhythms'

pretty much the best debut album ever

Rockin' Cherub
07-15-2008, 05:16 AM
beaches & canyons isn't the first black dice album i think

i'd agree with everything else on that list except for weirdo rippers though

ryan patrick
07-15-2008, 06:43 AM
there were a bunch of 7"s and the Cold Hands EP before it

well there were some cd-r's with Wolf Eyes before it too but I don't think it's unfair to say that a release like Beaches & Canyons is more official

ryan patrick
07-15-2008, 06:50 AM
when i have some money i should beef up my Black Dice collection

i have Peace in the Valley and Semen of the Sun but i could use the rest depending on how much they cost

yoshinobu's revenge
07-15-2008, 07:17 AM
SP - Gish
Weezer - Blue Album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Garbage s/t
RATM s/t

and 4 more well known albums

people really liked Young Team that much?

JHeibel
07-15-2008, 10:10 AM
SP - Gish
Toadies - Rubberneck
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Rage Against the Machine - S/T
The Ramones - Ramones
Weezer - Blue Album
Damien Rice - O
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Pearl Jam - Ten
Arcade Fire - The Funeral

Honorable Mentions:

The Doors - S/T
Bjork - Debut
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Wire - Pink Flag
Television - Marquee Moon
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
PJ Harvey - Dry
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Postal Service - Give Up

commando
07-15-2008, 10:17 AM
there's a lot of mentions on here that aren't debuts, but I don't feel like calling everybody out individually. clean up your act, folks.

McCollum
07-15-2008, 10:30 AM
Weezer
Rage Against the Machine
August and Everything After
Rubberneck
Ten
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Led Zeppelin
Apologies to the Queen Mary
Give Up
Queens of the Stone Age
Frizzle Fry

Deadeyes
07-15-2008, 01:11 PM
Location: Mediocrity

Quite fitting for an undividual, wouldn't you say?

Shapan
07-15-2008, 01:38 PM
the strokes - is this it
interpol - turn on the bright lights
the walkmen - everyone who pretended to like me is gone
yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
led zeppelin - led zeppelin
french kicks - one time bells
modest mouse - this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about
of montreal - cherry peel
fiery furnaces - gallowsbird's bark
clinic - internal wrangler

Shapan
07-15-2008, 02:21 PM
oh yeah, and funeral

celluloid_love
07-15-2008, 02:26 PM
tom waits - closing time

talk show host
07-15-2008, 07:11 PM
P.i.L - First Edition
Can - Monster Movie
VU - VU & Nico
NMH - On Avery Island (it's not an ep, fuck you)
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
Go4 - Entertainment
Wire - Pink Flag
Cluster - Cluster 71
Comets on Fire - s/t
Joy Divison - Unknown Pleasures

kiwi
07-15-2008, 10:33 PM
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
how could you say this and not 36 chambers itself what is wrong with you

+

please please me
tigermilk
music has the right to children
illmatic
here come the warm jets
endtroducing
vu & nico
birth of the cool
the smiths

TheMilstead
07-15-2008, 11:33 PM
6. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

meh

Not a debut album.

redbull
07-16-2008, 12:37 AM
how could you say this and not 36 chambers itself what is wrong with you

+

please please me
tigermilk
music has the right to children
illmatic
here come the warm jets
endtroducing
vu & nico
birth of the cool
the smiths

uhm becasue odb is on more songs on return

kiwi
07-16-2008, 01:14 AM
im just going to reiterate

what is wrong with you

ryan patrick
07-16-2008, 01:45 AM
Not a debut album.

you're right this guy threw me off

Nothing/everything
07-16-2008, 01:48 AM
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea


try again

Deadeyes
07-16-2008, 02:21 AM
Not a debut album.

Yeah I did check up on it, I guess the Isn't Anything is the official debut full-length album from My Bloody Valentine sold me. This is your bloody valentine is a 25 min mini-album, id rather say it was an ep but I guess it counts.

Deadeyes
07-16-2008, 02:33 AM
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials


Nice. I listened to this so many times the last few months, fucking classic.

pale blue eyes
07-16-2008, 06:09 AM
No specific order:

Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Weezer - Weezer
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Tom Waits - Closing Time

That's all coming to mind right now.

aztec litany service
07-16-2008, 11:12 AM
murmur
marquee moon
ten
tubeway army
boston
ben folds five
[err..since i'm stupid about hum..i'll put sth here no one here prolly knows] chronic future [96]. this was (is?) a band from scottsdale [greater phoenix az]. they recorded this album when they were like in jr. high, i'm not sure of their exact age. it's a hilarious, great album. kids trying to be ratm and nirvana and bitching about D.A.R.E. and cops hassling them about skateboarding and rich kids dressing like gang members, etc. i'm sure they sucked once they 'grew up'..i'll have to see if i can find any of their other stuff sometime.
my aim is true
slanted & enchanted
gish

a few that come to mind..
oh god i'm a moron, you'd prefer an astronaut is their like 3rd album lol...i didn't know that at the time though so

Rickpat12
07-16-2008, 11:17 AM
Definitely: Pixies-Surfer Rosa
Smashing Pumpkins-Gish
Bjork-Debut
Radiohead-Pablo Honey
Boxer Rebellion-Exits

Rockin' Cherub
07-16-2008, 11:40 AM
knife play
the creek drank the cradle
the songs of leonard cohen
silver apples
there is no-one what will take care of you
murmur
suburban light
paul simon
stooges
b-52s

and stuff

Rockin' Cherub
07-16-2008, 11:41 AM
shit i tried not to repeat stuff

the specials instead of murmur

Rockin' Cherub
07-16-2008, 11:43 AM
is kick out the jams a debut album

Deadeyes
07-16-2008, 11:48 AM
Kick out the jams is good stuff. It's a debut as far as I know, wiki.

JHeibel
07-16-2008, 12:45 PM
Definitely: Pixies-Surfer Rosa


FYI, not their debut.

Rickpat12
07-16-2008, 01:18 PM
Come on Pilgrim then? I thought that was an EP

dudehitscar
07-21-2009, 11:09 PM
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen

Rage Against The Machine - S/T

Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Led Zeppelin I

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Godspeed You Black Emperor - FA 00

Doves - Lost Souls

Bjork - Debut

Arcade Fire - Funeral


Most artists debut albums only show a glimmer of what they can offer and thus aren't worth listening to much.

redbull
07-21-2009, 11:24 PM
silver apples are kind of boring

Trotskilicious
07-22-2009, 12:43 AM
only one person said illmatic

you people are a bunch of morons

ryan patrick
07-22-2009, 01:44 AM
Reasonable Doubt is better though

redbull
07-22-2009, 01:48 AM
enter the wu tang is better too

ryan patrick
07-22-2009, 01:52 AM
i was just saying that to try to make him mad

fluxequalsrad
07-22-2009, 01:58 AM
no order.

the jesus and mary chain - psychocandy
velvet underground and nico
mogwai - young team
pavement - slanted and enchanted
pixies - surfer rosa
arcade fire - funeral
stereolab - peng!
my bloody valentine - isn't anything
neutral milk hotel - on avery island
grandaddy- under the western freeway

ryan patrick
07-22-2009, 02:01 AM
man we already went over in this thread that isn't anything isn't a debut album

redbull
07-22-2009, 02:07 AM
enter the wu tang > ready to die > reasonable doubt > illmatic

ryan patrick
07-22-2009, 02:12 AM
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fluxequalsrad
07-22-2009, 02:24 AM
sure it is.

none of my list is debut-anything. who cares.

cardiac
07-22-2009, 02:45 AM
Suede - S/T
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
Weezer - S/T
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Massive Attack - Blue lines
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Damien Rice - O
Portishead - Dummy
Nas - Illmatic

Enter 36 Chambers, Becoming X and Appetite for Destruction should've been here as well, but you asked for my top 10. Gotta make tough choices. I did have a soft spot for Placebo's debut back in the day as well. Probably left out a bunch of essential debuts here.

brutechinasky
07-22-2009, 02:45 AM
6. My Vitriol - Finelines


first and last album so far
sri lanka democracy
anyway i say ISN'T ANYTHING and SURFER ROSA.


oh yeah, and led zeppelin II

cardiac
07-22-2009, 02:52 AM
Radiohead-Pablo Honey

Out of curiosity, would you consider this to be their worst album to date as most fans do?

russian iha
07-22-2009, 02:55 AM
man we already went over in this thread that isn't anything isn't a debut album

You mean there here is not another single band mentioned that had an EP released before album, which EP some jerk counts as a debut album for single purpose of his 31337 prowess?

Mooney
07-22-2009, 10:49 AM
television - marquee moon
the velvet underground & nico
the cure - three imaginary boys
joy division - unknown pleasures
brian eno - here come the warm jets
the smiths
mogwai - young team
the wedding present - george best (?)
gang of four - entertainment!
the fall - live at the witch trials

Sylvia Woods
07-22-2009, 11:24 AM
DEVO............Q: Are We Not Men?
The B-52s.........The B-52s
CKY......................Volume 1

Trotskilicious
07-22-2009, 12:20 PM
enter the wu tang > ready to die > reasonable doubt > illmatic
you are dead to me

Trotskilicious
07-22-2009, 12:21 PM
oh yeah, and led zeppelin II

i'm not sure but i think there's one before that

smashingjj
07-22-2009, 12:36 PM
isn't anything

Mooney
07-22-2009, 03:18 PM
i think i need to listen to more albums produced after i was born. :erm:

TheDeuce
07-22-2009, 03:46 PM
i'm breaking the rules. i don't feel like picking my favorites. here's a big long list i made of kick ass debut LPs.


A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Apartment - The Dreamer Evasive
Beck - Stereopathetic Soulmanure
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Days Of The New - Days Of The New
Green Day - 39/Smooth
Harvey Danger - Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Liam Lynch - Eel
Low - I Could Live In Hope
Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
Marilyn Manson - Portrait Of An American Family
Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Placebo - Placebo
Propagandhi - How To Clean Everything
Say Anything - Baseball
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Slipknot - Slipknot
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Went Numb
System Of A Down - System Of A Down
Talking Heads - '77
The Apples In Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker
The Beatles - Please Please Me
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Dandy Warhols - Dandys Rule O.K.
The Dead 60's - The Dead 60's
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
The Postal Service - Give Up
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons?
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Tool - Undertow
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)

Trotskilicious
07-22-2009, 04:22 PM
marcy playground!? <b>F-</b>

Martyr
07-22-2009, 05:59 PM
SP - Gish

Tori Amos - Little Eartquakes

Cheap Trick - S/T

RATM - S/T

Pearl Jam - Ten

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

Led Zeppelin - I

Trotskilicious
07-22-2009, 06:12 PM
martyr: led zeppelin ii is their debut album

(hahahahahahaha)

Mooney
07-22-2009, 06:46 PM
days of the new and liam lynch? i looked at that list for two seconds and those two jumped out at me and made me chuckle to myself. :)

Trotskilicious
07-22-2009, 07:24 PM
seriously theduece's list is chock full of shite

Deadeyes
07-23-2009, 02:20 AM
Magazine - Real Life
Hammock - Kenotic
The Fall - Live from the witch trials
Pil - First Issue
Swell Maps - A trip to marineville
Wipers - Is this real?
The Psychedelic Furs - S/T
Killing Joke - S/T
Aereogramme - A story in white
Lovesliescrushing - Bloweyelashwish

Helios - Unomia

I guess a couple are interchangeable with old list.

TheDeuce
07-23-2009, 02:58 AM
days of the new and liam lynch? i looked at that list for two seconds and those two jumped out at me and made me chuckle to myself. :)

i've always really liked that first DOTN album. and Liam Lynch's more serious stuff is actually really good if you've never heard it. his "funny" stuff is lame though.

talk show host
07-23-2009, 05:52 PM
This thread always ends up with the same list of bands. Every time.

Trotskilicious
07-23-2009, 10:15 PM
shapan, you retard.

led zeppelin ii is not a debut album. i don't know who the <i>fuck</I> is saying this is but it's fucking not. It's their second album for god's sake. YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE IT'S GOT ROMAN NUMERAL 2 NEXT TO IT.

Dogfighter28
07-23-2009, 10:21 PM
Too bad Led Zeppelin I is a covers album

Oh wait that's most of their music

Catherine Wheel
07-23-2009, 10:29 PM
1. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
4. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
5. Glassjaw - Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence
6. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
7. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
9. Slowdive - Just For A Day
10. Ride - Nowhere

threetwooneZERO
07-24-2009, 12:30 AM
here we go

Dj Shadow - Entroducing...
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Cranberries - Everyone Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We?
Elvis Presley - S/T
The Doors - S/T
Nas - Illmatic
Coldplay - Parachutes
Led Zeppelin - I
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Portishead- S/T

dudehitscar
07-25-2009, 11:20 AM
here we go

Dave Matthews Band - Crash


:think::Skeptical

Under the table and dreaming is their debut studio album.

Their true debut was in 1993. A live album called Remember Two Things ( it even has Tripping Billies on it)

cardiac
07-25-2009, 12:21 PM
3. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

http://i41.tinypic.com/24nrb4x.jpg

He had a whole bunch as a Motown artist.

threetwooneZERO
07-25-2009, 12:48 PM
:think::Skeptical

Under the table and dreaming is their debut studio album.

Their true debut was in 1993. A live album called Remember Two Things ( it even has Tripping Billies on it)

yeah, I honestly just checked this out and was about to edit it when I realized I was wrong.

Thanks.

Trotskilicious
07-25-2009, 01:56 PM
Too bad Led Zeppelin I is a covers album

Oh wait that's most of their music

no it's not

dudehitscar
07-25-2009, 01:58 PM
yeah, I honestly just checked this out and was about to edit it when I realized I was wrong.

Thanks.

no worries fellow (metro) detroiter.

publius clodius
07-25-2009, 02:00 PM
no really stop arguing isn't anything is the best

threetwooneZERO
07-25-2009, 02:07 PM
no worries fellow (metro) detroiter.

I was at Comerica last night, can't be downtown Detroit in July.

Joe
07-25-2009, 03:30 PM
the shins, oh inverted world.
sp gish
the pixies come on pilgrim.
julliana hatfeild, become what you are.
tori amos y kant tori read.
hole, pretty on the inside.
nirvana bleach
nin pretty hate machinc
bluebird/bluebird.
feist let it die

Mooney
07-25-2009, 04:44 PM
speaking of debuts, i had a huge brain fart today. i was buying my first vinyl, and i was sorting through a bin of complete garbage hoping to find some cure under 'c'. i finally find 4:13 dream, and i guess i was thinking of 10:15 Saturday night or something, but i mistook this album for three imaginary boys and bought it. oops. oh well, i don't hate it or anything.. there just are about sixteen or so cure albums i would have rather have bought instead. :)

Shapan
07-25-2009, 04:45 PM
shapan, you retard.

zeppelin ii is not a debut album. i don't know who the <i>fuck</I> is saying this is but it's fucking not. It's their second album for god's sake. YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE IT'S GOT ROMAN NUMERAL 2 NEXT TO IT.

YouTube - Led Zeppelin's "Original" Songs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMDR0yrxMw)

i love zeppelin, they've always been one of my favorite bands, and if anyone mentions any of these songs then of course i think of zeppelin first. i also love zeppelin i. but im not gonna deny the fact that there was a lot of material that was borrowed on that first album and reworked.

Trotskilicious
07-25-2009, 05:00 PM
that doesn't magically make it not a debut album

Shapan
07-25-2009, 05:13 PM
wtf do you think im arguing that it wasnt i gave you pos rep because i thought you had a sense of humor about it

get out

Trotskilicious
07-25-2009, 05:15 PM
i will do no such thing

scouse_dave
10-10-2009, 04:39 AM
In no particular order:

Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
G N' R - Appetite For Destruction
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
John Legend - Get Lifted
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

barden
10-10-2009, 05:09 AM
You know I hate the band, but I think for what it was, Deftones first album was decent.

God I cant believe I just made that my answer.

But in context, it works.


Fuck myself.

House of Bread
10-13-2009, 01:15 AM
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Mogwai - Young Team
Air - Moon Safari
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Television - Marquee Moon
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Pelican - Australasia
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

davin
10-13-2009, 02:40 AM
SP - gish
nin - pretty hate machine
ween - god ween satan
apocalypse hoboken - superincdredibleheavydutydudes
local h - ham fisted
GnR - appetite for destruction
Beastie Boys - licensed to ill
rage against the machine - s/t
king crimson - court of the crimson king
triplefastaction - broadcaster