Two come to mind,
Boston & Led Zep
Two come to mind,
Boston & Led Zep
Nazz
Chicago (Transit Authority)
Quicksilver
Steely Dan
That's enough for now.
Edit: Your 2 for sure as well.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
I thought King Crimson, PFM, Arti & Mestieri, and ELP had great debuts (though later albums were arguably better). Some bands had great debuts, like Et Cetera, but never followed up with anything else. But my favorite debut:
Hatfield & The North
I've excluded solo debuts by performers in long running bands (so Lita Ford Out For Blood and Joan Jett Bad Reputation I've not counted, as two examples)
Shades Of Deep Purple
Kiss (shut up!)
Blue Öyster Cult
Eric Johnson Tones
Hatfield And The North
National Health
Shades Of Deep
Henry Cow Legend (or Leg End or however it's supposed to be spelled)
Iron Maiden
(pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
The Outlaws
Nena (good catchy songs, if you ask me)
The Runaways
Can Monster Movie (only album I had by the for the first couple years I was into them)
Chuck Berry After School Session
My top 20, not in order of preference, excluding solo debuts by people from established bands
Freak Out - MOI
Are You Experienced - Hendrix
Music From Big Pink - The Band
Led Zeppelin
ITCOTCK - KC
The Gilded Palace of Sin - Flying Burrito Brothers
Faust
Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu
Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
The Ramones
National Health
Marquee Moon - Television
Talking Heads 77
The Pretenders
Murmur - REM
3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
Cypress Hill
The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb
Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu Tang Clan
King Crimson
Hatfield & The North
National Health
Mike Oldfield
Univers Zero
Present
Henry Cow
Yugen
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Pikapika Teart
Comus
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
The Future Kings Of England
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Under The Sun
Heliopolis - City Of The Sun
The Steve Morse Band - The Introduction
Spock's Beard - The Light
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
First one that came to mind was Boston for me. Spock's Beard, King Crimson, and Black Sabbath were the others that I would rank right up there.
Some great ones, but not "greatest"
Leo Kottke-6 & 12 String Guitars
John McLaughlin-Extrapolation
Jaco Pastorius
Tony Williams-Life Time, the Blue Note album
Michael Brecker s/t
Tribal Tech-Spears
Brand X-Unorthodox Behaviour
Dixie Dregs-Free Fall
Weather Report
Two questionable examples.
Boston had some utterly amazing commercial production and real highlights, but the amount of boogie rock 'n' roll dripping with saccharine lyrics dragged it way down.
The first Zeppelin album has since been established as mostly uncredited covers. While the production is impressive and the variety fascinating, it's also dragged down by oversinging and overdrumming quite a bit. But irrespective of this and more objectively, because the material was largely lifted and expanded upon, it's got no business in a discussion like this.
I like both of these albums, but these are your best examples to open your own thread?
I am surprised no one picked the first Asia & Van Halen albums.
Library Jon
PFM is probably my #1 here, but also (not counting one-shots):
Amon Düül II
Arti + Mestieri
Kate Bush (perhaps not her greatest, but I still get tons of mileage out of The Kick Inside)
ELP
Happy the Man
Faust
Finch
Hatfield & the North
Jane
Kayak
Magma
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Savage Rose
Rick Wakeman
Wallenstein
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Apes and Androids
Toy Matinee
Ours
The Receiving End of Sirens
Kevin Gilbert
Jerry Goodman and Jan Hammer
Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley
Menomena
The River Empires
Soundscape
The Stiletto Formal
Boston
Hendrix
KC
HC
Captain Beyond
Caravan
Soft Machine
Beefheart
Allman Bros.
The Band
Family
PF
Doors
Roxy Music
Jeff Beck
Spirit
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Can't agree. There just isn't enough original material nor discipline for me to ever consider it truly fair game for a "greatest debut." Though they continued to often lack restraint in a live setting, their albums began to show more and I think their music was better for it.
A lot of the debut has just been ruined for me. When I listen to something like Bert Jansch's arrangement of "Down by Blackwaterside," for example, I just can't take "Page's" "Black Mountain Side" seriously.
To me, aside from some of the mentions, a "greatest" debut is something like The Band's Music From Big Pink, Soft Machine's first or Henry Cow's first.
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