Debut album, first tracks. What are your favourites ?

lordromford

Madness - One Step Beyond - One Step Beyond
Björk - Debut - Human Behaviour

Covered End

Asbury.

Henry Irving

Obilivous -High Land Hard Rain

Was going to say Waiting for my man but remembered Sunday Morning comes first on Velvet Underground and Nico

CafcWest

Patti Smith - Gloria

Henry Irving

cafc-west said:

Patti Smith - Gloria

Jesus died for somebody's sins...

Sillybilly

Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline

Stig

Aztec Camera - Oblivious (High Land Hard Rain)
Beck - Loser (Mellow Gold) & Devil's Haircut (Odelay)
Danielle Dax - Cathouse (Dark Adapted Eye)
Flight of the Conchords - Foux Du Fafa (eponymous)
Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Dare)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Autobahn)
New Order - Dreams Never End (Movement)
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind)
Pixies - Bone Machine (Surfa Rosa)
Simple Minds - Someone, Somewhere In Summertime (New Gold Dream)
The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain (eponymous) & The Queen Is Dead (TQID)

Shrew

Henry Irving said:

Blinded by the light
- Greetings from Asbury Park

What an incredible first track

bobmunro

CharltonMadrid said:

Astronomy Domine from Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Would have been my first choice and tough to beat.

But I'll give you 'Suzanne' - Leonard Cohen.

SuedeAdidas

Jenny was a Friend of Mine - Killers
Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough - MJ
Never Too Much - Luther Vandross 
Don’t Go - Yazoo

killerandflash

Goldfrapp - Lovely Head

Rock Spectacle

Disorder - Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division
Every Time a Church Bell Rings - 101 Damnations, CUSM

MillwallFan

SuedeAdidas said:

Jenny was a Friend of Mine - Killers
Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough - MJ
Never Too Much - Luther Vandross 
Don’t Go - Yazoo

Off the wall wasn’t MJ’s debut solo album

kafka

Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Dare)

How wrong is this

kafka

Jigsaw feeling. Siouxsie & the Banshees
Fast Cars. Buzzcocks

Chef_addick

I wanna be adored - Stone Roses

McBobbin

Foxey Lady - Hendrix
1000 trees - stereophonics

Hey Dude - Kula Shaker

SuedeAdidas

MillwallFan said:

SuedeAdidas said:

Jenny was a Friend of Mine - Killers
Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough - MJ
Never Too Much - Luther Vandross 
Don’t Go - Yazoo

Off the wall wasn’t MJ’s debut solo album

It was the first one that I knew about though 😄

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson 
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills and Nash

Stefco

Planet Earth - Duran Duran

McBobbin

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath. From the Album... Black Sabbath

Killarahales

Henry Irving said:

cafc-west said:

Patti Smith - Gloria

Jesus died for somebody's sins...but not mine

Anna_Kissed

Focus (Instrumental)  Written by flautist Thijs van Leer.
Track #1 on the debut LP by the Dutch prog/rock group Focus, Focus Plays Focus  (1970). 
(Re-released for the international market in 1971 as In And Out Of Focus ).

PopIcon

Vertigo - Up the Bracket - The Libertines
See No Evil - Marquee Moon - Television
Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend
Radio Free Europe- Murmur - REM

PemburyAddick

Holidays in the Sun, Never Mind the Bollocks, Pistols. Still blows yer socks off

paulbaconsarnie

@PopIcon beat me to it.
radio free europe- rem

Badger

Wire - Reuters

Leuth

Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson 

How on earth did it take until the 49th post for this??!

Leuth

Anyway, The Fall ended up with over 30 albums, full of brilliant music, but I'm not entirely convinced they ever truly bettered Frightened

superclive98

For me, a definite toss up between: -

The Stone Roses - I wanna be adored
Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star
Arctic Monkeys - The View from the Afternoon