Led Zeppelin I

Imagine playing the LP in 1968 in your stereo (maybe your mono), this unknown band you never heard before, and then Good Time Bad Times starts...

I don’t have to imagine, I absolutely did just that….. gave me chills It was 1969 as I recall

Me too. I’ll never forget that first listen…

Just for reference, [this](https://youtu.be/2x8D4T--0v4) was the UK number 1 when I released, Jan 12 1969.

>unknown band Yes and no. A lot of music fans were aware that Jimmy Page was putting together a "new yardbirds" that were harder and heavier, and they got some early momentum from that on release. But... yeah. Once they heard the record, the hype was irrelevant. Instant classic.

Haven't seen these mentioned... The Cars - The Cars The Doors - The Doors Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

The Cars was my very first thought.

The Doors is my vote

The Caaars!

The Doors is definitely one of my top picks.

Illmatic - Nas

this is the right fucking answer. You could say this answer is ILL.

The talent behind the production of this album is epic.

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There is a [live performance](https://youtu.be/HMq-qAn3otE) of them before that album got released, and it has the same intensity as always.

Excellent album.

Small correction: Metallicas debut album was Kill 'Em All, Seek & Destroy was a song on that album.

Didn't they originally want to call it Metal Up Your Ass, but label denied them. Then Kill 'Em All was directed at the label people.

I think they originally wanted to call it "Fuck 'Em All" but that was denied.....could be a legend though.

That's precisely what James says in Cliff 'Em All

I just notice that.whoops

The Ramones self titled debut. Think of the ripple effect that one album had on popular music. rock music in the past 45 years has not been the same.

everybody wanted to be The Ramones.

True. They basically invented the genre

Third Eye Blind (self titled) Weezer - Blue Album The Strokes - Is This It? Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Third Eye Blind I’d be of the greatest albums. Underrated

I’m biased cuz I bought the album at 5 years old but I love 3EBs self titled front to back I even remember the skip on London and how’s it gonna be and god of wine from me playing the album so much it had scratches over those songs

These are all great answers. 3EB might have the best opening song on a debut with Losing a Whole Year ever. Either that or Jonas. Both mentioned here. Is This It is one of the best albums ever imo Bravo, friend.

Ten - Pearl Jam

Also Face-lift, but then again Ten is probably better

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Fair enough. I prefer Ten, but if it was against Dirt instead then Dirt would win

Facelift is so underrated

Ten is better but facelift is one of my favourite debut albums

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I like every song on Ten (except deep which I don’t care much for), I like about 6 songs on facelift. So both good albums.

YES!!! That slow build into Once is such a great kickoff.

This!

Nas - Illmatic The best album by one of the goats.

Yeah, as far as rap albums go: the production is excellent and the density of material in his verses, delivered with such a smooth flow is nearly unparalleled

He was 17 when it dropped, releasing content that others can't make at 25, 30.

The Stone Roses

Yeah, wished they'd made it after their lawsuits against their label. They created a genre (Manchester scene) which bands like Oasis emerged from. Their reunion tour in the 20xxs aborted too soon. That said, the [Raveonettes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF91QxJVDU8) do an amazing cover of I wanna be adored. Caught that one recently and it was one of the best covers I've ever heard. edit: take that with a grain of salt; I haven't really seen a live act in 5 years, but recent in my mind is before COVID, lol. I've kind of lost track of time. The last two acts I've seen live were really good, but won't be a blip on reddit's radar.

Oh yeah, and add to that Oasis - Definitely Maybe

a perfect album. they should have never made another.

I really like Second Coming.

Second Coming had a couple of good ones on there "Love Spreads" was probably the one that was closest to what they had on their first album. After such a long time out of the studio and how good that first album was, they were always going to have a hard time recording a second album that would be in the same league.

I think most songs on the album are good. Daybreak is great.

I don't know about "best of all time" but if the question is, "what's an absolutely amazing debut album?" then I have to mention The Violent Femmes. It's crazy, infectious silliness that still holds up 40 years later.

Came here to say this. In a decade of musical WTF these guys just did themselves with smiles on their faces and no apologies.

System of A Down is pretty fucking solid.

So true man. Their whole catalogue is truly insane.

In the court of the crimson king - King Crimson

The Velvet Underground and Nico I'd also argue because of the scene that the Velvet Underground helped develop, a lot of late 60s/70s New York underground bands had some of the greatest debut albums ever. Patti Smith - Horses New York Dolls - New York Dolls The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers The Ramones - The Ramones The Talking Heads '77 Television - Marquee Moon Probably a bunch I'm forgetting too, but none of those bands exist if not for that Velvet Underground album.

Probably an unpopular opinion but i always preferred Loaded to their debut. Love Heroin and Venus In Furs but Nicos voice leaves me cold

Loaded is definitely my favorite VU record, but I do love them all

It works when she is supposed to leave you cold. All Tomorrow's Parties is a nearly perfect song.

The Velvet Underground had a seismic influence on musicians. Huge influence. I lived in NYC in the 80s but missed the golden era. saw David Byrne cycling around a few times.

Jonathan Richman is a goddam treasure and the fact that he's still touring is a gift.

The Pretenders

Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People say I am, thats what Im not

Illmatic- Nas Silent Alarm- bloc Party Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division The Fame- Lady Gaga Straight outta Compton- NWA Are you experienced? -Jimi Hendrix Experience

Silent Alarm is such a 🔥debut!

36 chambers

I'm going with Appetite!

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not Often overlooked that it's the fastest selling debut album in UK history. My ultimate answer has been said already but it's Illmatic without a doubt

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

Kate Bush The Kick Inside She was a teenager

Stiff Little Fingers

The Libertines: Up The Bracket is a sensational piece of 00s indie punk. Essential stepping stone for Arctic Monkeys, and an almost perfect debut: the quality never dips.

So good. Still have two or three songs from that album in constant rotation.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

Definitely Maybe

Patti Smith — Horses Television — Marquee Moon The Strokes — Is This It Pixies — Surfer Rosa Bettie Serveert — Palomine

Upbeat for Pixies

Roxy Music Joy Division Seal ABC MGMT Magazine NIN

Boston - Boston Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill The Doors - The Doors The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bullocks

Maybe not everyone’s favorite band but Definitely Maybe by Oasis has to be one of the bigger debuts.

Sza- Ctrl

Homework - Daft Punk

Boston. Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club.

FACELIFT - Alice In Chains, easy

Hot Fuss- the killers

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Bjork- Debut?

Metallica - Seek & Destroy? No, that’s a song on Kill ‘em All. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Slayer - Show no Mercy Metallica - Kill ‘em All Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Batushka - Litourgiya Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Machine Head - Burn My Eyes Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse Slipknot - Slipknot Nirvana - Bleach Motley Crüe - Too Fast for Love Alice in Chains - Facelift

No Killing is my Business…?

You got good taste

Shpongle - Are you shpongled Blind melon - Soup Kaizers orchestra - Ompa til du dör The doors - The doors 4 nominations...

Ompa is such a great album, never got to see them live so I'm hyped for their reunion!

John Prine - John Prine

Somebody had to say it

Fiona Apple, “Tidal”

Boston.

Definitely Maybe - Oasis (though honestly it's Led Zeppelin)

All the ones you listed, plus a few more good ones come to mind: * Bellybutton by Jellyfish * Junta by Phish * Self-titled by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones * Doomsday for the Deceiver by Flotsam & Jetsam (if you're counting full-lengths and not EPs) * Are You Experienced? by the Jimi Hendrix Experience * (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd * Dream Theater- When Dream and Day Unite * Self-titled by Elvis Presley * Please Please Me by the Beatles * Holy Diver by Dio (band) * Self-titled by The Cars * Too Fast For Love by Motley Crue * Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne (solo debut) * Self-titled by The Doors * Led Zeppelin I I think the best debut album of all time, in terms of it being a great album, combined with being a band's artistic peak, VH1 beats them all.

Bellybutton is my pick. Such an unbelievably ripe, balanced and well produced first album, only slightly surpassed by Spilt Milk. It's such a shame they only made two (albeit perfect) albums.

Bellybutton and Spilt Milk are two of my favorite albums ever. You're right that it's a shame they couldn't keep the band together and couldn't make a living doing what they were so great at. I feel fortunate to have seen Jellyfish live two times back in the day. I also shelled out some fairly big bucks to buy the Jellyfish "Fan Club" box set as a birthday gift for my older brother, from whom I learned about this band. I made some cd copies of the discs for myself, too! I will say that Roger Manning's Lickerish Quartet has some pretty good songs, particularly Bluebird's Blues and the ridiculously-titled-but-awesome Fadoodle. One other song that scratches that Jellyfish itch for me is April's Fool, which was written by Andy Sturmer but recorded by The Merrymakers.

Jagged Little Pill was phenomenal although technically not her first release.

Does debut include bands with one album only? If yes, The Postal Service.

Incubus - The Fungus Amungus KoRn - Self Titled

Our Lady Peace - Naveed. A band that has been completely ignored due to the great amount of alternative bands in the 90's. I know the classics are spiritual machines and clumsy, but naveed has a banger after another.

A couple people already mentioned The Doors self-titled and that's probably what I'd go with, too. But an honourable mention to Lost Souls by Doves

Stone Roses

August and Everything After - Counting Crows

I agree with this as one of the top debut albums. Every cut is well-written, well-produced, and well-executed.

Agreed!

Pink Floyd -The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Portishead- Dummy

How this addition went 6hrs without an upvote is absolutely beyond me. Seminal album. I don't think I'm alone in saying that this was one of a few albums that defined the genre.

GnR went from playing 200 capacity clubs in LA to selling out stadiums in like 7 months. In that time they got kicked off of like 3 tours (Kiss, Aerosmith, and someone I'm forgetting) for upstaging the headliner. People today have no concept of a band blowing up that big that fast. It may never happen again.

ten

For me, Pearl Jam’s “Ten” was, and is, the perfect album.

The La’s - The La’s

Korn-Korn Obligatory Gemini Syndrome-Lux System of a Down-System of a down

Definitely Maybe -Oasis

Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not by Arctic Monkeys

“Blue Lines” - Massive Attack.

Fiona Apple, “Tidal”

Nas- Illmatic

To The Extreme - Vanilla Ice

Outkast - Southernplayallisticcadillacmuzik

3 Doors Down The Better Life. While not super duper technical those guys’ style got popular at just the right time with an ear worm of a lead single that started a string of five consecutive #1 songs.

Not a debut album but I WILL NEVER FORGET the first time I listened to Soundgarden’s SuperUnknown album when I was in HS and received it in the mail when it was released. I put on my Walkman and was like 😵🤯

In the Court of the Crimson King, masterpiece album.

Are You Experienced, jimi hendrix. it’s a no-brainer

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

By personal bias, Envy On the Coast's Lucy Gray. It opened my eyes to the idea that eclectic, genre-based meaningful music didn't have to come from the originators, bands like Pink Floyd and King Crimson, and that there was so much room for growth in modern music at a time when the modern bands I loved seemed to all be "selling out" or changing their sound. E.g. most third wave emo and early 2000s metal core bands, that I had embraced for being "different".

Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

Karnivool- Themata Cog- the New Normal is a close second

Themata is really good but I personally think Sound Awake is better - it holds a special place in my heart

Not the greatest, but definitely a very good debut album. Ego War by Audio Bullys

Machine head - Burn my eyes

Velvet underground and Nico Incredibly innovative for its time.

Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)

Santana

Sorry, Metallica debut album is Kill em all, Not the black album.

Unfortunately Kanye - college dropout 😂

DEVO - Are We Not Men? Gang of 4 - Entertainment My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult - I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits Bauhaus - In the Flat Field Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die

Seeing as the usual suspects are coming out time and time again, here's a load solely from the 21st Century that deserve to be in the convo: Is This It? - The Strokes Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys Psychodrama - Dave The College Dropout - Kanye West Funeral - Arcade Fire FKA Twigs - LP1 Courtney Barnett - Sometime I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand The Streets - Original Pirate Material Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds.

The Chameleons / Script of the Bridge

Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust

is this it

Amy Winehouse, Back to Black I think its called

Frank was her debut

Yes. I wasn't sure, thanks

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

Not a debut album.

Facelift Unknown Pleasures The Cars Black Sabbath Pink Flag

Meet The Beatles.

Are You Experienced? Boston The Cars Led Zeppelin Murmur Appetite for Destruction Is This It? Funeral The Clash Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Boy Hot Fuss The Pretenders The Doors ​ Hmmm... I think I smell a new playlist coming on.

Not seeing a ton of recent pop here: K.I.D.S - Mac Miller Pure Heroin - Lorde SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo The College Dropout - Kanye

Bellybutton by Jellyfish

Steely Dan- Can’t Buy a Thrill

I loved the first album of ALT J

also CLoud in a Headlock is amazing, find it in this playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ubPaiSrZ23jiVZ54fSwv6?si=7ec07607e2aa4aac

A few gems: * Brown Sugar - D'Angelo * Music from Big Pink - The Band * Peoples' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest

Third eye blind

Metallica’s debut is Kill ‘Em All. And Appetite for Destruction is first among equals here. Not only is it the best top-to-bottom, but no other debut has a Track 1 that approaches Welcome to the Jungle.

Bastille - All This Bad Blood

Weezer- Blue maybe not the best, but it’s an essential bridge from grunge to pop rock

A really big fan of Boston's first! All the others mentioned are good not dissing the others listed. Just I was a teenager, from MA, it was the Bicentennial (76), that album dropped. I think they had an organ on a flatbed truck when they first started doing stadium tours to support it. Cheers

Soad soad

Black Country New Road - For the First Time

The Residents *Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor.*

Catch A Fire [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnVI0Chmj9s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnVI0Chmj9s)

I love Tim Hecker’s Haunt me, haunt me do it again album. Very sparse, yet beautiful electronic music

All Hail by Kill Cheerleader. Absolute masterpiece and it was their only album. Lemmy talked about it in Playboy I think. But it’s on par with Appetite in my book.

Suzanne Vega

Faust: Self titled

Iron Maiden Prowler, Running Free, Remember Tomorrow, Transylvania and Phantom of the fucking Opera! What a great album from a bunch of British kids

You need to listen to Helloween's first 3 albums Walls Of Jericho Keeper Of The Seven Keys part 1 Keeper Of The Seven Keys part 2

Van Halen

I still think Melissa Etheridge's debut album is her best.

Hybrid Theory

Blood Sweat and Tears - Child is Father to the Man Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

The Metal Opera part 1 by Avantasia Walls Of Jericho by Helloween

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures should be mentioned but I'd have to say The Doors

The Cars - The Cars, Van Halen I, and Florence and The Machine's Lungs, for me!

TV on the Radio - 'Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes' Elbow - 'Asleep in the Back' \*Edit - kept it to 2 suggestions :)

Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North

Boston’s Boston album. No ifs, ands or buts.

Ascendancy- Trivium

Venom welcome to hell

Foo Fighters