Top 5 Favorite 1st Albums

Which 5 bands' first albums are your favorite? They may not be your favorite of the band. They just have to be first albums that you love.

Mine (this is how I feel today, there could be 5 different ones tomorrow):

REM
Black Sabbath
B52s
Clash
Ramones

 

Boston
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bad Company
The Doors
The Corrs

 

Beatles-Introducing The Beatles
Big Country
Roxy Music
St. Vincent
The Soft Boys

 

The Who - My Generation
The Pretty Things - s/t
The James Gang - Yer Album
Steppenwolf - s/t
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against the Wall
Joe Walsh - Barnstorm
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Quatermass - s/t
The Faces - First Step

 

I will give this a try but let me get back to you...

 

My five favorite debuts are.....

Outlaws


Blackfoot


Mahavishnu Orchestra


U.K.



Black Sabbath

 

Big Star - #1 Record
Pearl Jam - Ten
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
R.E.M. - Murmur

… and a bonus one!

Houndmouth - From the Hills Below the City

 

Beatles
Doors
Beastie Boys
Pink Floyd
N.W.A

 

Three, maybe four of those would be in my second five.
I'm honestly not familiar with The Corrs.

 

The Runaways
The Sex Pistols
The Pretenders
Pink Floyd
Cheap Trick

 

doors
cars
james taylor

waiting to borrow 2 from later posts ha

 

Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan
The "Chirping" Crickets (Buddy Holly)
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - The Mamas & The Papas
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
The Ramones

 

The Gotobeds - Poor People Are Revolting
Elastica - s/t
Wire - Pink Flag
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
The Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things

 

Boston

The.Cars

Black Crowes

Bad Co

Pearl Jam

 

The Chicago Transit Authority (aka Chicago) - The Chicago Transit Authority (1969) - Columbia GP 8 STEREO
Double Album



The Beatles - Please Please Me (1963) - Parlophone PMC 1202 MONO


The Stylistics - The Stylistics (1971) - Avco AV-33023 STEREO



Bread - Bread (1969) - Elektra EKS-74044 STEREO


Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956) - RCA Victor LPM-1254 MONO

 

The Primitives - Lovely
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The Cars - The Cars
Laura Nyro - More Than A New Discovery
Arcade Fire - Funeral

 

Court Of The Crimson King
Led Zeppelin
Freak Out
Piper
Chicago Transit Authority

 

VU&N
Safe as Milk
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Marquee Moon
Ramones

 

Queen (1973)
Led Zeppelin (1969)
Journey (1975)
Van Halen (1978)
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (1975)

 

Boston
Chicago Transit Authority
Guns and Roses
Van Halen
The Cars

 

Cars
Doors
Violent Femmes
Patti Smith
REM

 

John Prine

There is no competition.

 

Probably forgetting some great ones, but here's my list for now:

Samiam- s/t
Green Day- 39/Smooth
Descendents- Milo Goes to College
Snuff- Snuff Said...
Pavement- Slanted and Enchanted

Honorable mention:
Fugazi- Repeater
Smudge- Manilow
Pixies- Surfer Rosa
Dead Milkmen- Big Lizard in My Backyard
Pink Lincolns- Back From the Pink Room
Black Flag- Damaged
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
7 Seconds- The Crew
Wire- Pink Flag
REM - Murmur
Circle Jerks- Group Sex

If "first and only" is ok, then the Sex Pistols' NMTB is on my list somewhere. Or does Great Rock and Roll Swindle count as a second album?

 

Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

 

Ben Folds Five - s/t
KISS - s/t
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Doors - s/t
Van Halen - s/t