First Albums?

[hamerhead]

Who had the best debut album?

I have to go with Boston - great musicianship, not a note out of place, strong songs throughout  (well, 'Let Me Take You Home Tonight' wasn't as good as the rest IMHO, but not unlistenable. Everything else on there could have been released as singles). Even they were never able to match it.

And that it was all done without computer assistance makes it that much more impressive.

[veatch]

Soooo many options here. Boston was a good one. I'll likely vote multiple times here...

[Dave Scepter]

1 hour ago, hamerhead said:

Who had the best debut album?

VH-1 or Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz

Edited yesterday at 05:03 PM by Dave Scepter

[mathman]

3 hours ago, Dave Scepter said:

VH-1 or Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz

Both are great but it feels Ozzy should be in a different category.  Not his first band.

[veatch]

Same could be said for LZ...

I'll try another...

[cynic]

1 minute ago, veatch said:

Same could be said for LZ...

Yeah.  I thought that about Bad Company given they were a bit of a "supergroup".  Then I thought about Pearl Jam who also had members from other highly regarded bands (albeit more local than widespread success) coming together.  Then I thought that can't be a disqualifier because you'd be left with a pretty short list to choose from if no members could have previous band experience, but would that make 5150 a debut album?

In terms of the number of plays a debut album got from me, I'd be hard pressed to guess who came out on top between Boston, Ozzy, and Pearl Jam but I'll go with the latter.

[alantig]

So many people missing the obvious...

[DaveH]

She looks alone.

[DaveH]

[Dave Scepter]

1 hour ago, DaveH said:

This album affected me when I was a kid... It gave me nightmares... it still gives me heebie-jeebies 😬

[Saul Goodman]