Favorite debut albums

[VolsSportsFan]

 

[kiddiedoc]

Basically, every awesome band's first album.

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[RDU VOL#14]

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

 

[RDU VOL#14]

I was listening to that yesterday. If The Score by The Fugees was their first album that would be at the top of my list. The Score and the Carnival are all -timers IMO

 

[n_huffhines]

I was listening to that yesterday. If The Score by The Fugees was their first album that would be at the top of my list. The Score and the Carnival are all -timers IMO

Carnival was a pretty formative album for me. I got it because of Gone Til November and because I liked Fugees and on the first listen I probably felt OK about 3 tracks but I kept on appreciating it more with each listen. It's a roller-coaster of sound and emotions and all of it works for me. It's one of the few hip hop albums I will listen to beginning to end (except you gotta skip the skits, jeeze, why is this such a thing in hip hop?).

 

[n_huffhines]

My wife pipes in to say Justified. She's not wrong. I was in college at the time. It's not really my favorite area of music but it was so good that among the fellas, Timberlake went from kind of a boy band joke to cool, which seemed like it would have been an impossible transformation. Your GF was always putting it on the stereo, and you low-key liked it.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Carnival was a pretty formative album for me. I got it because of Gone Til November and because I liked Fugees and on the first listen I probably felt OK about 3 tracks but I kept on appreciating it more with each listen. It's a roller-coaster of sound and emotions and all of it works for me. It's one of the few hip hop albums I will listen to beginning to end (except you gotta skip the skits, jeeze, why is this such a thing in hip hop?).

I love versatility with musicians and groups. I think that’s what’s always drawn me to Wyclef and The Fugees. He go from Gone Til November to Apocalypse or the Fugees can go from Ready or Not to their remake of No Woman No Cry.

 

[EricStratton]

There is no modern music without this

Little Richard - Here's Little Richard

 

[SlipKidVol]

 

[vols72]

Just a few

 

[peaygolf]

One of the classic heavy metal debuts, Holy Diver is a work of such bravura and bombast that Sounds magazine stated emphatically: “Ronnie James Dio has thundered back.”
This was a new beginning for Ronnie, but his past was in evidence both in his choice of two former bandmates (ex Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain, ex-Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice) and in the epic feel of the music. The little fella’s masterstroke was the acquisition of 19-year-old guitarist Vivian Campbell, the man who “put the fast in Belfast”, who gave the band a vital, contemporary edge.
With its electrifying opener Stand Up And Shout, its spooky title track and the majestic Rainbow In The Dark, Holy Diver was the album on which Dio, the man, was able to fully realise his own singular vision

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

Bad Company Debut Album 1974





Tracks:
Can’t Get Enough
Rock Steady
Bad Company-Single
Movin On
Ready for Love
Don’t Let me Down
The Way I Choose
Seagull

First 5 tracks are in heavy rotation on Classic Rock Radio stations 40 plus years after the release.

I read many years ago that AC/DC was influenced by this album cover when they created their cover for the “Back in Black” album in 1980.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

 

[EasternVol]

Just a few

The first two, Sabbath and VH, absolutely

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

 

[EricStratton]

One of the classic heavy metal debuts, Holy Diver is a work of such bravura and bombast that Sounds magazine stated emphatically: “Ronnie James Dio has thundered back.”
This was a new beginning for Ronnie, but his past was in evidence both in his choice of two former bandmates (ex Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain, ex-Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice) and in the epic feel of the music. The little fella’s masterstroke was the acquisition of 19-year-old guitarist Vivian Campbell, the man who “put the fast in Belfast”, who gave the band a vital, contemporary edge.
With its electrifying opener Stand Up And Shout, its spooky title track and the majestic Rainbow In The Dark, Holy Diver was the album on which Dio, the man, was able to fully realise his own singular vision

Not his debut. Not “their” debut, either. Debut of a new concept.

 

[peaygolf]

Not his debut. Not “their” debut, either. Debut of a new concept.

ooops.....I thought it was their first. My bad...

 

[EricStratton]

ooops.....I thought it was their first. My bad...

It is the first “Dio” album. I’m just being crusty because RDJ was a workhorse.

 

[JAL]

 

[give_him 6]

 

[kiddiedoc]

Definitely agree on Core and August... I have to go with Badmotorfinger for SG.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

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I have seen soulfly and hatebreed. SF played with slayer years ago in ATL. Their tribal drums at the end of the set were awesome.

 

[bignewt]