Your Top Ten Debut Albums?

Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Crosby, Stills & Nash"
The Byrds - "Mr Tambourine Man"
Bob Lind - "Don't Be Concerned"
Tim Hardin - "Tim Hardin 1"
David Crosby - "If I Could Only Remember My Name"
America - "America"
Nick Drake - "Five Leaves Left"
Klaatu - "Klaatu"
Crowded House - "Crowded House"
Richard Hawley - "Late Night Final"

 

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog (original Swedish version, with Maple Leaves)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - s/t
Air - Moon Safari
Talking Heads - ‘77
Devo - Q?A!
The Stone Roses - s/t
Suede - s/t
The Velvet Underground - VU & Nico

 

The Cars
Duran Duran
B-52's
Sinead O' Connor
Fish
Devo
Missing Persons
Tears For Fears
Laurie Anderson
Divinyls

 

Cheap Trick
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
The Clash
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Hot Tuna
The (English) Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Caravan
Sharks - First Water

 

The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
The Stooges
The Real Kids
Ramones
The Clash
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Jackson C. Frank
Here Are The Sonics!!!
The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!
Get The Knack
Van Halen

ehh, that's 11. Close enough.

 

Heart Dreamboat Annie
Pat Benatar In The Heat Of The Night
Sinead O’Connor The Lion and the Cobra
Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual
PJ Harvey Dry
Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
Divinyls Desperate
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega
Toni Childs Union

 

1) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
2) Oasis - Definitely Maybe
3) The Stone Roses - S/T
4) Camel - S/T
5) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
6) Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
7) Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
8) REM - Murmur
9) The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
10) Caravan - S/T or Jethro Tull This Was

 

........................ Top 30:

- Thelonious Monk - Genius & Modern Music Vol. 1 & 2
- Doors - same
- Mad River - same
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band - same
- Family - Music In A Doll's House
- Captain Beefheart & Magic Band - Safe As Milk
- Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
- The Band - Music From Big Pink
- Zappa & Mothers - Freak Out
- Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind & Body
- Velvet Underground & Nico
- Allman Brothers Band - same
- Gun Club - Fire of Love
- X - Los Angeles
- White Stripes - same
- Beacon Street Union - The Eyes Of....
- Quicksilver - same
- Free - Tons of Sobs
- Joy Divison - Unknown Pleasures
- Martin Carthy - same
- Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
- Little Feat - same
- Spirit - same
- Pentangle - same
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
- Wire - Pink Flag
- Steeleye Span - Hark! The Village Wait
- Mose Allison - Back Country Suite
- East of Eden - Mercator Projected
- Ford Theatre - Trilogy For The Masses

 

Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
The Band - Music From Big Pink
The Doors - The Doors
Crosby, Stills and Nash - Couch
Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost
Peter Gabriel - Car
The Police - Outlandos d’Amour
Chicago - CTA
Donald Fagen - Nightfly
Duran Duran - Duran Duran

 

The Beatles - Please Please Me
The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
Led Zeppelin - S/T
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - S/T
Neil Young - S/T
Queen - S/T
Talking Heads - '77
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Soft Machine - S/T
Joan Baez - S/T

Overall, you really can't go wrong with a debut...it should be at least good enough for a record company to take the chance and release it.

 

John Martyn - "London Conversation"
Sandy Denny - "The North Star Grassman And The Ravens"
Martha - "Courting Strong"
Dire Straits - "Dire Straits"
Lindisfarne - "Nicely Out Of Tune"
Kate Bush - "The Kick Inside"
Nic Jones - "Ballads And Songs"
June Tabor - "Airs And Graces"
Jethro Tull - "This Was"
Silly Wizard - "Silly Wizard"

 

1. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
2. Dire Straits - s/t
3. The Police - Outlandos d'Amor
4. Velvet Underground - ...and Nico
5. Tom Waits - Closing Time
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. The Beatles - Please Please Me
8. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - s/t
9. REM - Murmer
10. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

HM
Music From Big Pink
Never Mind the Bollocks
Bleach

 

Oops, nice catch, confused it with someone else, but definitely in my Top Ten.
Alright, fixed.

Black Sabbath-S/T
The Congos-Heart Of the Congos
Iron Maiden-S/T
Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures
King Crimson-In the Court Of the Crimson King
Pink Floyd-Piper At the Gates of Dawn
The Ramones- S/T
Television-Marquee Moon
Van Halen-S/T
Velvet Underground & Nico

 

Hmm...in no order...

The Residents - Meet The Residents
Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Jenny Hval - Viscera
PJ Harvey - Dry
The Art Of Noise - Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio

Several of these would go onto make better albums, for sure. And I chewed my teeth a bit over not including "Live At The Witch Trials" by The Fall but I don't listen to it often enough to squeeze it in.

 

The Who - My Generation
Johnny Cash - With his hot and blue Guitar
Simon and Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning...
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
ELP - ELP
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Phil Collins - Face Value (if solo albums count)
Sade - Diamond Life
Tears for Fears - The Hurting

 

1. Human's Lib - Howard Jones
2. A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile
3. The Lexicon Of Love - ABC
4. Born To Die - Lana del Rey
5. Hunting High & Low - a-ha
6. Inform. Educate. Entertain - Public Service Broadcasting
7. Hipsway - Hipsway
8. It's Better To Travel - Swing Out Sister
9. Hot Fuss - The Killers
10. Ancient Heart - Tanita Tikaram

 

Should totally have put "Suede" in my list. Doh.

 

01. 13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds Of...
02. Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight
03. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
04. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
05. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
06. Tricky - Maxinquaye
07. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
08. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
09. Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
10. United States Of America - United States Of America

 

Queen - Queen
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino
Comus - First Utterance
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Yes - Yes

Something like that...(not in an exact order)

 

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet:

 

Jeff Beck - Truth
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
The Beat Farmers - Tales of the New West
David Lindley - El Rayo-X
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Moby Grape
And as a bonus-
The Beatles - Meet the Beatles
(viewed as their debut by the vast majority of
Americans at the time)

 

Zep
VH
Police
GnR
Black Crowes
The Darkness
The Band
KISS
Weezer
Tragically Hip

 

Appetite For Destruction - Guns n' Roses
Never Mind The Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Burn My Eyes - Machine Head
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Ready To Die - Notorious B.I.G
The Clash - The Clash
Freak Out! - Zappa/Mothers

 

Are You Experienced
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Doors
The Allman Brothers Band
Led Zeppelin
Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd
Never Mind The Bollocks
Marquee moon
The Only Ones
Unknown Pleasures