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Debut album, first tracks. What are your favourites ?

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  • SX_Addick
    SX_Addick Posts: 667
    cafc-west said:
    Patti Smith - Gloria
    Jesus died for somebody's sins...
    ...But not mine. 
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    Boston - More than a feeling
    Living Colour- Cult of personality
    Meatloaf - Bat out of hell
    Motorhead - Motorhead


  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    Crucify- Tori Amos
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    Stig said:
    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)
    @Stig - some of these aren’t debut albums I’m afraid. Certainly not Nevermind and neither of the Beck albums. I don’t know about the others.
    😳
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,274
    Sometimes - Stranglers. Rattus Norvegicus. Dave Greenfield RIP.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,223
    I think My Generation from My Generation by the Who takes some beating.

    Anthem of an era
  • I think My Generation from My Generation by the Who takes some beating.

    Anthem of an era
    Great song Henners but I don't think it was the first track?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Stig said:
    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)
    @Stig - some of these aren’t debut albums I’m afraid. Certainly not Nevermind and neither of the Beck albums. I don’t know about the others.
    😳
    Oops, you are absolutly right. I go so carried away with thinking about first tracks that the debut bit passed me by.  No wonder I thought there were so many of them.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Romance in E minor for violin and piano - Elgar
  • blackheathaddick
    blackheathaddick Posts: 1,404
    Red Morning Light - Youth and Young Manhood - Kings of Leon
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Stig said:
    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)
    Amended to take account of the 'debut' part.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,083
    I feel free :Cream/US LP
    Foxey Lady: Jimi Hendrix
    Whats going on:Taste ( Rory Gallagher)
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I feel free is a good shout.
    Good Times Bad Times is my favourite, even have it as my ringtone.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    edited May 2020
    Badlands - Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Bruce Springsteen)

    In the fist 20 seconds he manages to get in drum, piano and guitar riffs each of which might ordinarily appear as an entity smack in the middle of a song
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,371
    Oasis - Rock n Roll Star

    A truly defining mission statement for what Oasis were all about back then
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,223
    I think My Generation from My Generation by the Who takes some beating.

    Anthem of an era
    Great song Henners but I don't think it was the first track?
    I think My Generation from My Generation by the Who takes some beating.

    Anthem of an era
    Great song Henners but I don't think it was the first track?
    Don't own a copy but checked track list on Wikipedia
  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,368
    remake / remodel. Roxy Music
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,054
    Art School - The Jam
    A Message to you Rudy - The Specials
    One Step Beyond - Madness
    Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
    A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile
    Dreams Never End - New Order
    Oblivious - Aztec Camera
    Long Hot Summer 12” - The Style Council
    I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
    Rock n Roll Star - Oasis
    I’ve Been Waitin’ For Tomorrow (All of my life) - The The
    Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions

    Just a few from my teens/20s...loads more over the years. Will do a bit of digging through collection.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    edited May 2020
    The Rakes - Strasbourg
    De La Soul - Intro, The Magic Number
    The Strokes - Is This It
    The Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin'
    The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

    F*** me how good were the 90's?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    1StevieG said:
    The Rakes - Strasbourg
    De La Soul - Intro, The Magic Number
    The Strokes - Is This It
    The Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin'
    The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

    F*** me how good were the 90's?
    Some might argue not as good as the '60s or even the '70s!
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  • I think My Generation from My Generation by the Who takes some beating.

    Anthem of an era
    Great song Henners but I don't think it was the first track?
    I think My Generation from My Generation by the Who takes some beating.

    Anthem of an era
    Great song Henners but I don't think it was the first track?
    Don't own a copy but checked track list on Wikipedia
    I don't have it either, but checked earlier cos I was going to use it  ;)
     
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,844
    1StevieG said:
    The Rakes - Strasbourg
    De La Soul - Intro, The Magic Number
    The Strokes - Is This It
    The Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin'
    The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

    F*** me how good were the 90's?
    Some might argue not as good as the '60s or even the '70s!

    I've been known to make that argument!
  • wightaddick
    wightaddick Posts: 211
    Stray - All in your mind 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    1StevieG said:
    The Rakes - Strasbourg
    De La Soul - Intro, The Magic Number
    The Strokes - Is This It
    The Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin'
    The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

    F*** me how good were the 90's?
    Strasbourg is a great shout.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,718
    Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning 
    Pavement - Summer Babe
    Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell 
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    Time has told me - Nick Drake
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,844
    Shrew said:
    Time has told me - Nick Drake

    Good shout.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Lucky - Lewis Taylor.
  • franksav63
    franksav63 Posts: 23
    Sex Master - Squeeze
    Don’t Sing - Prefab Sprout
    Listen to the Sirens - Tubeway Army
    Airplane - Gary Numan
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    The Beatles.
    Please Please Me Album.
    I Saw Her Standing There.