from Chordstrike, a music blog, this isn't an ordered list, so no one album is better than another, it's simply their take on the best 100 debut albums
The 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time
by Jeff Reguilon on January 26, 2009
Music nerds, let's get ready to argue.
For the first in an ongoing series of the "100 Greatest *fillintheblank* of All Time" lists, we decided to use our collective knowledge to run down the best ever debut albums. Dig our picks below and let us know where we went horribly, horribly wrong in the comments.
1. U2 - Boy*
2. Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
3. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
5. Joy Division - Unkown Pleasures*
6. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn*
7. Nirvana - Bleach*
8. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
9. Metallica - Kill 'em all
10. Arcade Fire - Funeral*
11. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
12. The Smiths - The Smiths*
13. Jeff Buckley - Grace
14. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True*
15. Patti Smith - Horses
16. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
17. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
18. Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
19. The Who - The Who Sings My Generation
20. New Order - Movement
21. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted*
22. Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
23. Kanye West - The College Dropout
24. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.*
25. The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hitmakers
26. Radiohead - Pablo Honey*
27. R.E.M. - Murmur*
28. Talking Heads - 77*
29. John Coltrane - Coltrane
30. Pearl Jam - Ten
31. Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
32. the Doors - The Doors
33. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
34. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
35. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of…*
36. Van Halen - Van Halen
37. Buddy Holly - The Chirping Crickets
38. The Clash - The Clash*
39. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
40. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill*
41. Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks*
42. Madonna - Madonna
43. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
44. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
45. Vicente Fernandez - A Pesar De Todo
46. A Tribe Called Quest - Peoples' Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
47. Nas - Illmatic
48. Television - Marquee Moon
49. Wire - Pink Flag
50. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville*
51. Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
52. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left*
53. Coldplay - Parachutes
54. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
55. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
56. Portishead - Dummy
57. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
58. The Band - Music from Big Pink
59. The Stooges - The Stooges
60. The Pretenders - The Pretenders*
61. Santana - Santana
62. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival
63. Heart - Dreamboat Annie
64. The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
65. The Police - Outlandos d'Amour*
66. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers*
67. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
68. D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
69. Funkadelic - Funkadelic
70. Run-DMC - Run-DMC
71. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
72. Postal Service - Give Up*
73. Ludacris - Incognegro
74. Calle 13 - Calle 13
75. Alejandro Fernandez - Alejandro Fernanadez
76. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
77. Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc.*
78. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
79. Mana - Falta Amor
80. Lee Ann Womack - Lee Ann Womack
81. Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
82. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
83. The Strokes - Is This It?
84. Weezer - blue album*
85. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes*
86. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes*
87. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
88. B-52s - B-52s*
89. Can - Monster Movie
90. Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
91. Bjork - Debut
92. Randy Travis - Storms of Life
93. Morrissey - Viva Hate*
94. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced…
95. Shins - Oh, Inverted World*
96. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
97. Daft Punk - Homework
98. Sade - Diamond Life
99. Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony
100. Big Star - #1 Record
Excellent and eclectic list. Here's what RP & I have/had. Doesn't mean we don't want more of 'em:
djjd62 wrote:
14. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True*
19. The Who - The Who Sings My Generation
24. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.*
27. R.E.M. - Murmur*
61. Santana - Santana <-- I think we have this one; I could be wrong
63. Heart - Dreamboat Annie
65. The Police - Outlandos d'Amour*
88. B-52s - B-52s*
93. Morrissey - Viva Hate*
96. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
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Gargamel
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Wed 28 Jan, 2009 09:32 am
Pretty good list; I probably own half of it. But I have a HUGE bone to pick.
How the **** did the RAMONES debut not make the list? No way is the Pistols debut better. And The Strokes? Are you ******* kidding me? Without the Ramones there is no Strokes.
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Gargamel
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Wed 28 Jan, 2009 09:33 am
Stooges, Clash, Wire, Gang of Four, but no Ramones.
******* come on.
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kuvasz
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Wed 28 Jan, 2009 04:45 pm
@djjd62,
no boston? their debut album sold only 17 million, so A LOT OF people must have thought the music was pretty good, but nooooo, not to the teeth sucking guardians of "The Cool."
btw as a musician, one should not speak about the quality of other musicians' talents, but i will, because the ramones suck dog dick and so do the sex pistols. none of the band members of the aforementioned mass-media driven hype bands ought to be spoken about in the same sentence with the term "quality" or "musician." they simply plain suck as musicians. i know a couple of hundred session players who could flat out smoke joey ramone and steve jones (although his "mercy" still can be listened to), but that was recorded long after the sex pistols when he could actually play the guitar.
you can find musicians in every honky tonks in america on a saturday night better that those clowns. i cringe whenever some critic lists them as in any top list because these guys play music like mental retards who just got their hands on a guitar.
the list is merely the afterbirth of the musings of sallow east/west coast musician wannabees who think badly performed music is actually cool, just like how the french consider jerry lewis a genius.
btw where the hell is I Don't Want To Go Home (1976) by southside johnny and the asbury jukes? it contains the best cover of Springsteen's "The Fever and "I Don't Want To Go Home". the sound was a distinct dielect of rock 'n roll with a heavy dose of Stax-like brass, unheard of on the radio in '76.
btw what about "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
IT WAS A MONSTER; with "Relax," "The Power of Love" and the best cover eva' of Springsteen's "Born to Run."
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