FabSwingers.com forum: What band has the best debut album

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wet wet wet

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

Mansun.

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By *uropean LatinoMan
over a year ago

Norwich

Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi (1984)

No, not my favorite band.

My favorite band's first album was shite.

Scorpions - Lonesome Crow (1972)

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By *lder budweiserMan
over a year ago

Stirlingshire

Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground, Stone Roses, DJ Shadow, The Strokes... Great debuts they couldn't top

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Portishead - Dummy

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By *esafinadOHolyNightMan
over a year ago

Belfast

The Strokes - Is This It

NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang

Beastie Boys - Licensed to I'll

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Da la soul- 3 feet high and rising

Cypress hill- Cypress hill

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

The Music (live)

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

"The Music (live)"

That should’ve been

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Van Halen - 1978.

Still sounds amazing to this day.

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Rage Against The Machine

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Out of the Blue by ELO is great

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By *ittall2020Man
over a year ago

Norwich

BFMV's The Poison is fantastic

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"Out of the Blue by ELO is great

Ah, I misread it as best album

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By *ocialWatchingMan
over a year ago

Alnwick / Newcastle

Oasis

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By *zeroMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

King crimson-in the court of the crimson king

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

The Clash - The Clash

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By *hromosexualsCouple
over a year ago

Near Abercynon

"Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction "

I'd go for this too.

Maybe The Streets - Original Pirate Material

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Word Gets Around - Stereophonics

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Agree with the shouts for the Strokes and Stone Roses. Would also add:

Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not - the Arctic Monkeys

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By *oppleWangerMan
over a year ago

Gods Country

Love it when it feels like this - The Twang

The state of things - Reverend & the makers

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

"Word Gets Around - Stereophonics"

God I adore this album too

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

3rd Rock from the sun

Pearl Jam Ten... absolutely awesome album

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By *ittle. BeaverWoman
over a year ago

Launceston

"Portishead - Dummy "

Damn that was such a good album!

My pick, lily Allen alright still. Hate me! I don't care! Lol

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Romford

Duffy - Rockferry.

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By *panksspankedMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Television - Marquee Moon

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Roxy Music by Roxy Music, still sounds amazing

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By *panksspankedMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Roxy Music by Roxy Music, still sounds amazing"

Good shout!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Joy Division - unknown pleasures

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

First full album Appetite for destruction is right up there.

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By *iddle ManMan
over a year ago

Walsall

"Word Gets Around - Stereophonics"

Beat me to it. By far and away their best album.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

"Portishead - Dummy "

Oh Yeeeeeesh!- shame about there only being another 2 releases in 30 years.

Will throw in an alternative curve ball,

The Family Cat- Tell em we're surfin (Also has one of the best ever opening tracks with Albert Hoffmans Bike)

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By *issolvedOrdersMan
over a year ago

Bristol

Alice in Chains

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By *ogk9Man
over a year ago

worksop

The jam

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By *ogk9Man
over a year ago

worksop

Tho all mod cons best. Setting sons too

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

The doors the doors

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

Leisure by Blur was pretty fantastic. As was The Las.

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

The cars

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By *amRod64Man
over a year ago

Gravesend

Really difficult to answer, Oasis and Van Halen are great shouts, here are a few of my fave first albums, all somewhat different genres

Led Zeppelin - 1

Pet Shop Boys - Please

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

The Smiths - The Smiths

REM - Murmur

Patti Smith - Horses

Madonna - Madonna

The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me

Pearl Jam - 10

The Band - Music from Big Pink

NWA - Straight outta Compton

You choose

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By *amRod64Man
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Roxy Music by Roxy Music, still sounds amazing

Good shout!"

Very good shout

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By *amRod64Man
over a year ago

Gravesend

"The doors the doors"

Good one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The charlatans

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By *ifesforliving84Man
over a year ago

Telford

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

"The charlatans "

Good call!

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By *nnandElleCouple
over a year ago

Brackley

Boy by U2 was a superb debut effort

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By *istalloverCouple
over a year ago

Pays de la Loire -Normandie -Brittany borderFrance

The undertones every track a belter

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By *agic johnsonMan
over a year ago

morden

Devo

The Ramones

Mf doom

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Beauty And The Beat - The GoGo's

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

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By *lackdogg222Man
over a year ago

Bristol

Excellent choices.

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By *lackdogg222Man
over a year ago

Bristol

The Fall

Sonic Youth

Phil Ochs

Sun Ra

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction "

100%. The kind of album a band can never repeat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Kick Inside - Kate Bush

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

The Blessing - Prince of the Deep Water

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Levellers - Levelling the Land

Choosing this as GnR's Appetite for Destruction has already been nominated. But the thing that stands out to me about these two albums is they are so "perfect" dare we say they are actually BETTER than either band's Greatest Hits collections.

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

Joy Crookes - Skin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The LA'S

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By *aulaxd2020TV/TS
over a year ago

Dudley

Couple of great debut albums for me are Thunders Back street symphony and The Quireboys A little bit of what ya fancy ,,,,, not forgetting the manic street preachers Generation terroists

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rush RUSH

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By *JandCMCouple
over a year ago

cardiff

Has to be the Sex Pistols n not just for the music, but for the reception it got n all the shit it caused in 1977

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By *uropean LatinoMan
over a year ago

Norwich

"Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Beauty And The Beat - The GoGo's

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper"

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Black Sabbath album was quite good actually.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dire Straits, Dire Straits

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By *nnandElleCouple
over a year ago

Brackley

"Levellers - Levelling the Land

Levelling the Land was their second album. "A weapon called the world" was their first album.

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