Lots of great debut albums mentioned here. These are also worth checking out:

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Butterfield Blues Band
Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
Jet - Get Born
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Disturbed - The Sickness is probably my 3rd favorite debut.

Clearly, you idiots know nothing about music.

The answer is obviously "Deloused in the Comatorium" by The Mars Volta.

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This is right in my wheelhouse.

ZZ Top First Album 1971

the follow with Tres Hombres 1973 hard to beat.

Allman Brothers Band is a great candidate.

I think Dane has something with Boston though. Even though the song was written before I was born and I have heard it countless times, "Peace of Mind" is still such a fantastic piece of musicmanship to me. It is such a rounded and complete guitar composition, you can tell that it was written by someone who is a total perfectionist.

I wouldn't call it the "greatest" song ever and not even on a short list of my favorites, but he really squared the circle as a composer on that one IMO.

also

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Still listen to this once a week on the headphones. Truely missed along with Warren Zevon.

Oh crap, totally forgot about that one! It would def be Top 3 for me. I still have a mint condition "Tremulant EP" that has never been opened somewhere.
On a side note in somewhat of a similar category; Coheed & Cambria's first was amazing, as well as Circa Survive's Juturna.

I love these kinds of threads...kudos to the OP. Lots of good ones here...not sure i can pick just one.

This is one of my fav's...

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Jay Z Reasonable Doubt

Thread

Elvis Costello is still alive.

Greatest is tough. Some great ones have already been mentioned. Boston was the first album I ever bought, and I played the shit out of it. Van Halen. The Cars ... that album was tits. I wore out a cassette tape of Matchbox 20's debut.

The Velvet Underground & Nico
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Yes sorry was thinking of Lou Reed.

I think he was probably thinking of Elvis Presley.

Not even

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd

So much better than the Boston debut but I do know its generational.

Rock critic Steve Simels called this album "The Greatest Record Ever Made."
1979 Tonio K "Life in the Foodchain."
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Foodchain.../dp/B00000200L

Nope had Lou Reed on my mind cuz was gonna post Velvet Underground.

Prince's debut album was an EP with him in his leopard print under roos. It was awesome.

Weird Al. Yes, he does a lot of covers but his best stuff is the original stuff he writes. I always got a kick out of the polka medleys of pop songs as well.

Say what you want, but I think Tori Amos's "Little Earthquakes" is amazing.

Another one I like is John Mayer's "Room for Squares." Haven't really cared for much John Mayer since that debut album.

The Band-Music from the Big Pink

The Clash

The pretenders

All I would put ahead of Boston but they do deserve to be somewhere in the top 50.

Drake- So Far Gone

Technically it was a mixtape but it's what put him on the national scene.

Tonio K has written some great songs. He is probably one of the best artists most people have never heard of.

Doh, love the Pretenders first album:

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As for the Clash, not sure if their first album was as good as some later ones:

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Go home snail.

You are drunk...

This was my first thought.

The Jerky Boys' self titled debut is still great to this day.

HE SAID UNCLE FREDDIE DIED!
UNCLE FREDDIE DIED?
MARTHA, UNCLE FREDDIE DIED!
*WAAAAAAAAAAAA*

This...

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Yes and all ahead of Boston IMHO

No dice!

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Playable to this day.

I guess who here has listened to Boston in the last year? I can say may posted already I have herd in the last month. I know I have the Boston Album in storage coll;ecting serious dust and cobwebs.

I'm a HUGE fan but their first album is....very.....meh.

Tom Petty is the Jerome Bettis of pop rock. While most will forget him easily he's a solid, dependable, consistent producer of quality music.

FOR DECADES.

Almost every Tom Petty song is one you like. No one has ever said "****, that's Petty, change that $3it..."

And?

In no order, and I don't know if its even possible to pick ONE...but

Black Sabbath (before my time but changed me..when I discovered it)
Led Zeppelin (see above)
Licensed to Ill
40 Oz. to Freedom
Kill Em All
RATM
The White Stripes (although I like De Stijl better , WS came a year earlier)
Appetite for Destruction

Those are some of the albums that I just played the HOLY LIVING shit out of when they 1st came out, and changed how I looked at music at that time

Crosby, Stills & Nash is an incredible first album too!

And what?

That's what I'm wondering. Your Boston record is in a closet. So what?

I dont know what your getting at. My point if you say its the greatest debut album ever but you no longer listen to it does it count as greatest to you then?

I'll pick one thats a little more obscure Just for fun, in case people haven't heard of these guys:

The Persuasions: We Came to Play

(Was their debut studio album, although 'Acapella' was released a year earlier, it was just them live somewhere I believe)

Here's a link to the album:


http://www.amazon.com/We-Came-Play-P...dp/B004SBX7MU/

Heres 3 of the songs off the CD , theyre all so ****ing good its hard to pick one

All of their voices are insanely good

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Do you still have sex with your best lay from high school?...

This is music its forever!

I was a year out of HS when this debuted and sounded so much like the Byrds wore that album out an d still listen to it this day. What was your favorite Full Moon Fever?

The Bettis comp is a big damn insult to Petty, IMO. Though I understand the point you're making.


Last summer I took the arduous task of listening to the Heartbreakers for like three weeks straight in order to determine my list of favorite Heartbreakers albums/Petty solo albums (which are essentially band records anyway). They are, in order:

1. Wildflowers
2. Damn the Torpedoes
3. Echo
4. Into the Great Wide Open
5. Full Moon Fever
6. Highway Companion
7. Hypnotic Eye
8. You're Gonna Get It!
9. Hard Promises
10. The Last DJ
11. Mojo
12. Long After Dark
13. She's the One
14. TPATH (self-titled)
15. Southern Accents
16. Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)

Steppenwolf

This is sentimental my older brother had just got his first car a 1968 corvair monza we put a 8 track tape player and bought two eight tracks. Steppenwolf and Led Zep Houses of the Holy good times driving the Northland rocking out.

Boston's debut is notable for about 100 reasons, so no, the fact that I don't pull it out and listen to it for the thousandth time has no bearing on it.

list me just 5 of the 100?

Let me google that for you.

The album was recorded in Tom Scholz's basement, with almost every instrument played himself and recorded himself on what would be considered junk equipment by professionals.

The record was recorded for a few thousand dollars, when bands were spending many times that on single tracks.

Those guys who posed for the photo on the back? The only one of them that had anything to do with making the album was Brad Delp. There wasn't a band when the record was being made.

Multiple record companies rejected it and it turned into the biggest seller of the 70s, besides maybe Rumours.

The techniques used to create the guitar sound on this record influenced pretty much everything that came after it.

This is an awesome one. This was the first album I ever purchased (along with Spin Doctors "Pocket Full of Kryptonite") when I was 11 years old in 1994. I'll never forget it. Both of those have sentimental value to me as well and they both hold up to this day...I can still jam out to them.

And the winner of the most stereotypically camerohead answer goes to the OP!

Damn can't believe I forgot Rage's debut, still listen to them regularly

Sixteen Stone-Bush?

License to Ill and Appetite for Destruction were the two that I most remember hitting like a ton of bricks. Both were like, "Oh wow."
I guess Illmatic was like that, too, but somehow I knew about Nas before it came out. Maybe from that song he did with MC Serch. But I'd never really heard the Beastie Boys or GNR until they burst on the scene, so it was more eye opening. To me, anyway.

Thank you for identifying yourself as a goober

Straight Outta Compton - NWA

Also agree with RATM and Weezer which has been mentioned.

Grew up in the grunge/alt rock era so I'm biased, I regret nothing

DMX It's Dark and Hell is Hot

not one of the best of all time, but the title is awesome, Ludacris' debut Back for the First Time

Oh shit I forgot Facelift-Alice in Chains

Rolling Stone lists "License to Ill" as it's #1 debut album.

Also.....

'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' - Wu Tang Clan
'College Dropout' - Kanye Douche

While a fun album at the time, it does not have longevity.

I concur, was big into them as a youngster, I'll probably catch some flack for this but I really liked Korn's debut album, not sure how successful it was though

The guitar center all stars.

the Creed of their day

I disagree, the Clash put out a lot of great albums, but to me the S/T debut is perfect.

Someone probably already said Dark side of the moon.

:spock:

Sad that it took this long to see Weezer, although Pinkerton might've been a better album.

Pinkerton is definitely the better album.

But the debut is no slouch.

Only In Dreams is still my favorite song of all time. Need to see them live one day..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp5I...yer_detailpage


Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Nickelback - Curb. :)

I missed the word Debut.. :D

Fine, Pearl Jam 10, probably already said.

Having grown up in the 90s, I have to second a lot of what was already said.

STP, Alice in Chains, Weezer, Pearl Jam, Tool

Looking back I guess a lot of bands just hit the mark with their first albums. Really hard to pick just one though.

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Best debut album to get your groove on

Agree