As a statement of intent:
'red cinders in the sand' by matt johnson subsequently rebadged as the the.
listening to it after buying it in the early 90s - sucked me into a world i dont think ive ever left.
Green Day "Burnout"
Foo Fighters "This is a call"
Royal Blood "Out of the Black"
Kings of Leon "Red morning light"
Lloyd Cole - Perfect Skin
Blue Nile - Walk Across the Rooftops
Stuck in the 80s - yes :_)
Skids - Into the Valley or, continuing the theme, Big Country - In a Big Country.
Was going to say Cherub Rock by Smashing Pumpkins, by then I realised Gish is the first album, d'oh
Angel Of Death - Reign in Blood - Slayer
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Oh debut album...
Black Label - New American Gospel - Lamb of god
Green Day "Burnout"
Sorry not a debut album!
My choice would be Extreme -Pornograffiti - first track is Decadant Dance. Again not a debut album but their first popular one, it's a track you simply can't have loud enough.
Straight Outta Compton - NWA, Straight Outta Compton
You're Gonna Get Yours - Public Enemy, Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Yes, I know, I had the long shorts and basketball boots n everything...
A few spring to my mind:
Disorder - Joy Division
Dreams Never End - New Order
Just Like Honey - Jesus and Mary Chain
Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
Love Burn - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Novocaine For The Soul - Eels
Novocaine For The Soul - Eels
+1
Xtal
Guns Blazing - UNKLE
Dry the rain - Beta Band.
Bone machine off surfer rosa-pixies
*fist bumps all round*
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe, from Murmur.
A lot of the people I listen to introduce themselves to the public with EPs, so it can be tricky.
Massive Attack "Safe From Harm"
Gang Starr "Step in the Arena"
De La Soul "The Magic Number" (and even the intro before that)
Björk - "Human Behavior" (I think strictly she had an obscure album out 15 years before - how old is she!)
Jacqueline by Franz Ferdinand
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits (1971)
Pet Shop Boys - Two divided by zero
New Order - Dreams Never End
Depeche Mode - New Life
Leftfield - Release The Pressure
Elbow - Any Day Now
The Specials - A Messge To You Rudy
Crystal Fighers - Solar System
Faithless: Reverence
The more you look, the more amazing ones there are:
Portishead - Mysterons
Roni Size & Reprazent - Railing
Kylie - I Should Be So Lucky
Ride. Seagull. Absolutely brilliant squall of noise (especially if you have the volume cranked up) from a band that were known for being generally more melodic from their early EPs.
Haven't read all of the thread so this might have been said.
One of the Radio 2 shows did a load of stuff like this a while back, got nominations and then voted. If I remember rightly, the one that won on that occasion was the Counting Crows "Round Here"
They also did 'Best opening line' at one point, which got scooped by Werewolves of London
Only songs that come to mind have already been mentioned:
GNR
RATM
NWA
Honourable mention to Mr Bungle. First CD I ever bought. Didn't even own a CD player to play it on!
First thing I thought of, pretty sure it was the first track on their first EP too, all gold 🙂
Timeless: Inner City Life/Pressure/Jah
Proper groundbreaking stuff from Goldie
eh-oh lets go
Autechre - [i]Kalpol Intro[/i].
Has anyone mentioned kick out the jams?
Not the best song nor the best album or best band but for a first album announcent... hard to beat
In the spirit of the thread, "Afraid To Shoot Strangers" by Iron Maiden.
For me, its pretty difficult to get past Orphan Girl by Gillian Welch (Revival being the album).
Or Oh My Lover on Dry (PJ Harvey)
Currently loving emotions and math (Margaret Glaspy)
Another vote for:
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on debut album Black Sabbath.
Some good mentions already, but I'm going for this... Justice - Genesis...
Good shout by Binners with The Streets too.
Fugazi, Waiting Room.
Ok, EP, but close enough to an album for me
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on debut album Black Sabbath.
You mean the very moment music itself was born.
Iron maiden - Prowler. The raw power and time changes just sum up what was to become of Maiden even before Dickinson
Two albums from 30 years ago pop pickers, back when I was a teenager! 😈 😯
Given he was finally laid to rest in recent days, George's "Faith"...
I think Transylvania is my highlight on their first album...but is it Maiden without Bruce?
You mean the very moment music itself was born.
Well I'm no expert in music, so can only speak personally, but I've always thought it must be the best debut, eponymous track. To have the confidence to start with bells, rain and thunder for the first half minute then exceed all expectations.
I hadn't realised that Motörhead's first track on the album Motörhead was called Motörhead - are there other eponymous track, album, bands ?
Great shout on Phil Collins - In the air tonight!
This one won't be to a lot of people's tastes, but you can't deny the genius of both Trousersnake and the raft of producers he had behind him...
Imagine the effect of putting this particular album on, and hearing this opening track, as a fifteen-year old, brought up on whatever was playing on the Light Programme in the 1969's...
Quite possibly one of the most extraordinary opening tracks ever.
Well I'm no expert in music, so can only speak personally, but I've always thought it must be the best debut, eponymous track. To have the confidence to start with bells, rain and thunder for the first half minute then exceed all expectations.
I only say it as I am at heart Metal.
I have a very early first press of the album it is almost pristine, mostly I keep that one hermetically sealed, listen to my other copies...I mostly open the first pressing and just smell it.
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Has to be "Smells like teen sprit" Nevermind.
Has to be "Smells like teen sprit" Nevermind.
You mean the moment itself that music died.
(Anyway wasn't it Floyd the Barber?)
Has to be "Smells like teen sprit" Nevermind.
😆
Nirvana's first album was "Bleach" and the first track was "Blew." 😉
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For?!?! 😕
Has anyone mentioned kick out the jams?
I very, very nearly did, and then I paused, and then I checked, and reminded myself that the album opens with "Rambling Rose"
Given he was finally laid to rest in recent days, George's "Faith"...
I think that's stretching the "debut" rule more than a little.
Although it has reminded me to nominate "Bad Boys" by Wham! as a very powerful statement of intent in its own way.
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This was their opening track from The White Stripes album. The slow shimmer at 1"20 still raises the hairs.
are there other eponymous track, album, bands ?
Outside the scope of this thread really as it's not the opener, but Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden appears on the "Iron Maiden" album..
Also not the album opener: Bad Company, by.. you get the idea.
...and Tin Machine.
EDIT: On a hunch, just found another that is also the album opener, on a debut album to boot, one of the better known 80s eponymous hit singles: Living In A Box...
For?!?!
Crimes against music
Sorry if this has been said before.
Blinded by the Light, first track on Greetings from Asbury Park, by Bruce Springsteen (but not officially, The E Street Band).
Can someone with time on their hands compile all the correct responses into a monster Google Play music playlist for me? 🙂
Some great suggestions so far...Keep em coming!
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Outside the scope of this thread really as it's not the opener, but Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden appears on the "Iron Maiden" album..Also not the album opener: Bad Company, by.. you get the idea.
...and Tin Machine.
EDIT: On a hunch, just found another that is also the album opener, on a debut album to boot, one of the better known 80s eponymous hit singles: Living In A Box...
Thanks for that. Not heard the Iron Maiden, nor the Bad Company before, but on a quick listen of those I'd chose 1. Sabbath 2. Motörhead
Club Foot by Kasabian.
Unbelievably good debut album.
Good call on the Interpol and **** Buttons tracks.
I have to agree with Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath.
I think Transylvania is my highlight on their first album...but is it Maiden without Bruce?
Of course they are -D'anno was an amazing vocalist and the first two albums have to be appreciated separately from all the Dickinson stuff (equally very good but subtly different).
Maybe not their debut album but their break through School from Crime of the Century, Supertramp
Mysterons on Portisheads Dummy. Absolutely stunning.
Imagine the effect of putting this particular album on, and hearing this opening track, as a fifteen-year old, brought up on whatever was playing on the Light Programme in the 1969's...www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-H6UkKJFI
Quite possibly one of the most extraordinary opening tracks ever.
I was just a young lad when I heard heard black sabbath and 21st century schizoid man, around the same time. I would have both on my list of best tracks, along with Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive, so I guess Floyd did a double.
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Has anyone mentioned kick out the jams?
I very, very nearly did, and then I paused, and then I checked, and reminded myself that the album opens with "Rambling Rose"
Bugger so it is.
I just always play it first!
My first thought was Black Sabbath and then Hurry on Sundown but they've been mentioned, so what about
Seems like a lot of cock-rockers ride mtbs 😀
The two that stand out for me (both already mentioned by men of excellent taste)...
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King: My best friends dad had a CD player in the early 80's and i still remember the day he sat us down and played this track in a darkened room. Blew my young mind!
Public Enemy - You're gonna get yours: Grew up listen to Hip Hop while my peers were into U2 Simple Minds, Duran Duran and all that shite. First listen was in my mates record shop and i'd never heard anything like it (the whole album). Changed hip hop forever.
And this track has been a fave of mine for years, I love the intro and first verse, T'Pau's "Heart and soul"...
Thanks for that. As a fanboi, you've saved me a job.
In a similar vein and because we were talking about WJ the other week, I'll posit Transvision Vamp's Trash City.
Frank Turner - from Sleep is for the Week
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King: My best friends dad had a CD player in the early 80's and i still remember the day he sat us down and played this track in a darkened room. Blew my young mind!
I borrowed a copy from a mate at school, it was the cover that grabbed my attention, I'd never seen anything like it, not that I had much to compare it to, there were never really many records at home, music wasn't any big deal, we never had the money for luxuries like records, all the music I knew was from whatever the Beeb played; Beatles, Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Searchers... you get the picture.
So when Bob pitched up with CotCK, I just had to borrow it.
21st Century SM is still a remarkable piece of music, nothing else sounds like it, and it hasn't dated, the words still have relevance today.
Roxy Music remake - remodel did it for me.
I was gonna use that one, great track.Jacqueline by Franz Ferdinand
The closest thing Talking Heads came to doing a conventional love song. They got it out of their system with the first song of 77. And it's cracking.
for 2017 definitely this.
The smiths - reel around the fountain
But joy division - disorder gets my vote
