Best Debut Album

[humanoid]

I'm gonna get bashed but "Appetite For Destruction" is one of the best of all time. Say what you want about that band now but that album is great

I voted for Velvet Underground, but also deserving votes in my mind....

Appetite For Destruction

The Doors

Tigermilk -Belle & Sebastian

Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd

The Smiths

Black Sabbath

& about 30 others that I can't recall at the moment

[woogie846]

No Pixies????
Boo Hoo

I know, seriously. That's what I was going to say.

[MrAmeche]

Patti Smith - Horses
Television - Marquee Moon
Modern Lovers - s/t
The Clash - s/t
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Ramones - s/t
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted (not counting the early EPs)
R.E.M. - Murmur
Jeff Buckley - Grace
JAMC - Psychocandy

[crazzz2007]

everyone who voted for the arcade fire is crazy!!!! god, this infatuation with them is so over the top. calm down people. they're good, but calm down.

[toggle]

...the first White Stripes album is phenomenal. it's amazing how much everyone has slept on their first two records.. I've heard so many people refer to White Blood Cells as if it is their first.....

[Slushmier]

Yeah, Marquee Moon by Television should be on there and is the best. Truly, having the audacity to put an 11 minute song on your debut and then make it the best song ever recorded, that takes gall for a debut.

...and then there's also Blue Lines by Massive Attack, Illmatic by Nas, Is This It by the Strokes, Moon Safari by Air, Franz Ferdinand self title, and at the risk of flaming, the first Foo Fighters album.

[amyzzz]

...the first White Stripes album is phenomenal. it's amazing how much everyone has slept on their first two records.. I've heard so many people refer to White Blood Cells as if it is their first.....

I LOVE the White Stripes first CD (and so do my kids). We listen to it in the car all the time.

[jorona79]

What about Gerardo?

Rico Suave.....

[Proadict]

wheres the debut album of Pink floyd and the mars volta?

[Lounge Fly]

there's definitely a bunch of albums missing from that list...

Yeah, Pearl Jam comes to mind first with 'TEN'. But hey I'm not giving you a hard time, this is actually an excellent topic to debate.

[RATMan]

Beatles - Please Please Me
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
Ramones - The Ramones
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Clash - The Clash
U2 - Boy
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
RATM - Rage Against The Machine

[grungysabbathemohater]

You forgot Led Zeppelin I. I would have voted for that.

Led Zeppelin I: Best Debut Album of All Time.
I like Hendrix's Are You Experienced best out of the poll choices given, although NIN's Pretty Hate Machine is a close second.

[grungysabbathemohater]

Yeah, Pearl Jam comes to mind first with 'TEN'. But hey I'm not giving you a hard time, this is actually an excellent topic to debate.

TEN came to mind for me as well. I would have voted for it over any of the poll choices.

[grungysabbathemohater]

I LOVE the White Stripes first CD (and so do my kids). We listen to it in the car all the time.

Ditto. I love their first album. The first song (Jimmy the Exploder) often wakes me up as soon as I get in my car to go to work, and is my official 'driving in shitty LA traffic' song.

[C DUB YA]

Sex Pistols are one of the worst things to happen to music and I love my punk rock.

then your definition of punk rock might be off.

[C DUB YA]

Ramones, Clash, and G n R (gulp) hard to argue against those.

[Somewhat Damaged]

Yeah, Pearl Jam comes to mind first with 'TEN'. But hey I'm not giving you a hard time, this is actually an excellent topic to debate.

Glad somebody thinks so. I was hoping it'd inspire more debate about the merits of particular albums against one another as opposed to the "Duh, you forgot such and such band" that I should have anticipated more. I didn't include Rage Against the Machine because even though I actually like that album, I was worried that it would garner an inordinate amount of posts from Rage fans who just wanted another excuse to declare their devotion to Rage. I didn't include Led Zeppelin knowing full well that would be a conspicuous omission because I don't own any of their CDs. (I know, I'm a heathen and should be caned.) And I didn't include Portishead's "Dummy," Jeff Buckley's "Grace," and Massive Attack's "Blue Lines" 'cause I'm an idiot who compiled the post in a rush before I headed off to work this morning.

[Benis23]

arcade fire is so damn good. i still think that they are underrated.

i like daft punk, but i dont think homework belongs on the list.

[betao]

RATM's self titled is definetely one of my favorites..

Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Crystal Method - Vegas

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

I voted Sigur ros (because I am biased) even though it wasn't their debut (that would be Von) or as earth shattering as The VU debut..So my true vote would have be Vu and nico.

[Boourns]

Honestly my vote would go to Pablo Honey...its so much more then "Creep"

Not really. Blow Out is amazing, Creep, You, and Lurgee are great, the rest is either average or horrible.

How Do You? is one of the worst songs in history.

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so....it occurred to me this morning when I woke up...that Portishead's Dummy should really rank with the best of them, such as LedZep I, Are You Experienced...particularly in that it was this sort of new ground being broken.

[algunz]

What about Michael Jackson's OFF THE WALL?

[sonofhal]

Stone Roses?

[All That I Am]

There are so many albums that could have been added to this poll, but it all would be for nothing because Nico and The Velvet Underground is on that list.

[iamsoindie]

u left out "curb" by nickelback

[omg wtf bbq]

Velvet Underground & Nico

[theaenimatool]

Honestly my vote would go to Pablo Honey...its so much more then "Creep"

radiohead: all time favorite band.
pablo honey: meh.

the bends started their ascent to greatness. the bends is A-FUCKING-MAZING.

[AEversW]

at first i didnt like pablo honey then i saw the live at astoria DVD and now its my favorite album by them.

[hangthedj112]

at first i didnt like pablo honey then i saw the live at astoria DVD and now its my favorite album by them.

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