Top 5 Favorite 1st Albums

Sticking to the top five
Elles Bailey - Wildfire
Television - Marquee Moon
Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

 

Pink Floyd
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Allman Brothers
Electric Light Orchestra

 

Divinyls
Cars
Outlaws
Cheap Trick
Ian Hunter

 

Great pick!

 

ABC - Lexicon of Love
America - America
The Smiths - The Smiths
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill

 

Devo - Q: Are Not Men A: We Are Devo
The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
The Smiths - The Smiths
Televsion - Marquee Moon
The Velvet Underground & Nico

 

Great Society Conspicuous Only By Its Absence

 

Funkadelic - Funkadelic
Kool & The Gang - Kool & The Gang
Curtis Myfield - Curtis
Commodores - Machine Gun
Slave - Slave

 

It was the first album on Island Records, so I guess the major label debut and in retrospect a fresh start in some ways (and the beginning of the end in others), but there are four Wailers albums released before it.

 

Pink Floyd
The Band
Duncan Browne
Randy Newman
John Lennon

 

01. The Doors - The Doors
02. Procol Harum - Procol Harum
03. Wild Turkey - Battle Hymn
04. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
05. Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation


Honorable Mention:

06. The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus

 

America
Doors
Firefall
Boston
CSN

 

Three of those are absolute stonkers and two them I don’t think I have ever heard!

 

R.E.M. - Murmur
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Monkees - The Monkees
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

 

1. The Black Angels - Passover
2. The Doors - The Doors
   
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
   
4. The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
5. Coldplay - Parachutes

 

Ask me tomorrow get a totally different answer.

Queen - S/T

Christian Death - Only Theater Of Pain

Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier

The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge

Danzig - S/T

 

Black Crowes - $hake Your Money Maker
Black Sabbath
GnR - Appetite For Destruction
Pearl Jam -Ten
Violent Femmes

Near-misses to Blind Melon and Skynyrd's debut...

 

1. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Please Please Me - The Beatles
4. My Generation - The Who
5. The Rolling Stones

 

I forgot one the other day:

D.O.A.'s classic Something Better Change album.

 

The Band - Music from the Big Pink
Derek & The Dominoes - Layla
Chris Stapleton - Traveller
Big James - Funkin' Blues
North Mississippi Allstars - Shake Hands with Shorty


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Nevermind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols
England's Newest Hit Makers - Stones
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Please Please Me - Beatles

Honourable mention to My Generation - The Who.

 

Other than The Cars debut, most of my favorites are kinda less well known, although not obscure at all.

Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
The Cars - S/T
The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
The Vapors - New Clear Days

+1 - Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeo

 

Emerson Lake and Palmer s/t
Patto s/t
Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly
Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull
Mothers of Invention - Freak Out

 

Changed my mind a number of times already but chronologically I think these five / six ...

Yes
The Clash
Poet and the Roots / LKJ - Dread Beat & Blood
The Pop Group - Y
Spiritualized- Laser Guided Melodies or possibly Fugazi - 13 Songs but leaning towards the former as it was conceived as an album and the Fugazi wsn't

 

Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
Camel - Camel
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Kaipa - Kaipa
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII