outstanding debut albums

Nutty people, but great record!!!!

Daniel Lanois's debut as artist instead of producer was also pretty amazing.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Many important albums mentioned but this seems still to be missing:

I think Graham Parker, the godfather of punk, and the great band The Rumour deserves to be included in this context

Well none of these albums were the first things they recorded.  Yes Zorn recorded many things before The Big Gundown.  First Recordings in 1973 would be Numero Uno by your logic.  And yes the game pieces were certainly earlier.  But I would consider this his first (and one of the very few) major label releases. 

The original releases of Locus Solus and Classic Guide to Strategy were probably released earlier.

Patrick,

They were not anY good though unless you are a completest collecter.

Just like a few of Franks and Alice Coopers first outings.

Stu

disagree.  Duck calls in buckets of water?? COME ON!!

Not a fan of anything they've done since Document, but Murmur was a heck of a debut record.

/I know, what a tired aging hipster thing to say.

I was hooked when i heard the first track..

Easily REM's best, and (as I prune my record collection) probably the only one that I'll feel the need to keep.

To be honest i was hooked when i heard the first Johns record.

After the one above this hit me like a tone of briks,A wonderful album.

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Depends what we consider to be Alice's (Vince's) first outings.

Of course we should ignore the dreadful recordings from the Toronto Revival - Vince discounts them and so I think should we. Then there are his recordings with the Spiders before he renamed the band the Nazz, which was a rather silly idea as Todd already had a band so named. 

Then, of course, they settled on the Alice Cooper Group and almost released a rather fine single called Nobody Likes Me, but it didn't surface. Alice's first two albums on Frank's straight label were quite good and I still like Pretties For You and Easy Action. My complaint about Alice's debut is why, why, why does it contain a dreadful live version of Levity Ball that sounds like the microphone was in Ma Cooper's handbag (or at least Mrs Furnier's satchel - didn't she know school was out): there is a perfectly superb studio version available, as can now be found on the Life and Crimes box set. Of course, these albums can't hold a candle to the magnificent Love It To Death: one of the greatest slices of rock music ever put in CD and that includes Alice's interpretation of Rolf Harris's Sun Arise. 

Of Frank's output, if we count Freak Out as his debut then I really love that album even if I never figured out Who Are The Brain Police? (Whi could imagine that  Katie Boyle would not like it on Juke Box Jury yet think Frank Sinatra's version of Old MacDonald Had A Farm was the most). But Frank's (the real Frank, Mr Z that is) debut contained the amazing Trouble Every Day - what a song. [No idea what Mr S's debut was]. 

By the way have we mentioned Elvis's debut: My Aim Is True. When I asked somebody what he thought of Elvis he said which one? Until then, I never realised there were two (still that was nearly two weeks ago). 

However the BBC were not impressed, but then again they thought Led Zep were a second rate Muddy Waters Band copy that were not worthy of airplay on the Tony Blackburn show.  

Fortunately Sir John Peel put 'em right. 

Steve with his original Cockney Rebel

A brilliant album.

I was at my desk on the Sony stand at Harrods in London in 1974 when Steve had made it big.

The lift doors were to the back of me on my left side.

People used to come in and out all the time.

This morning i looked down,Thought i know those shoes??Looked up it was Steve standing next to me with two of the biggest fook off dont mess with use people i had ever seen..

Because as most know by now he cant run.

I have seen him over the years a few times for a chat at gigs.

Same nice bloke.

Stu

 The Band - Music From Big Pink

An excellent album. AFAIK, it's their first album, as The Band?

(Not sure they released anything as The Hawks, did they?)

Masters of Reality  - S/T  ( or 'The Blue Garden')

Start of a whole 'new' genre in rock - Stoner/Desert rock

For me, there's one that stands head and shoulders above all the others I've enjoyed :-

...and it's got the best opening track ever...