Greatest Debut Album Ever

[DaneMcCloud]

My vote has to go to Boston. The production, songs and performances are still amazing nearly 40 years later.

Three weeks until the draft. What say you, Chiefsplanet?

[Brock]

Originally Posted by srvy

And what?

That's what I'm wondering. Your Boston record is in a closet. So what?

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Brock

And?

I dont know what your getting at. My point if you say its the greatest debut album ever but you no longer listen to it does it count as greatest to you then?

[Ming the Merciless]

I'll pick one thats a little more obscure Just for fun, in case people haven't heard of these guys:

The Persuasions: We Came to Play

(Was their debut studio album, although 'Acapella' was released a year earlier, it was just them live somewhere I believe)

Here's a link to the album:


http://www.amazon.com/We-Came-Play-P...dp/B004SBX7MU/

Heres 3 of the songs off the CD , theyre all so ****ing good its hard to pick one

All of their voices are insanely good

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by srvy

I dont know what your getting at. My point if you say its the greatest debut album ever but you no longer listen to it does it count as greatest to you then?

Do you still have sex with your best lay from high school?...

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Do you still have sex with your best lay from high school?...

This is music its forever!

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Rausch

I'm a HUGE fan but their first album is....very.....meh.

Tom Petty is the Jerome Bettis of pop rock. While most will forget him easily he's a solid, dependable, consistent producer of quality music.

FOR DECADES.

Almost every Tom Petty song is one you like. No one has ever said "****, that's Petty, change that $3it..."

I was a year out of HS when this debuted and sounded so much like the Byrds wore that album out an d still listen to it this day. What was your favorite Full Moon Fever?

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by Rausch

I'm a HUGE fan but their first album is....very.....meh.

Tom Petty is the Jerome Bettis of pop rock. While most will forget him easily he's a solid, dependable, consistent producer of quality music.

FOR DECADES.

Almost every Tom Petty song is one you like. No one has ever said "****, that's Petty, change that $3it..."

The Bettis comp is a big damn insult to Petty, IMO. Though I understand the point you're making.

Originally Posted by srvy

I was a year out of HS when this debuted and sounded so much like the Byrds wore that album out an d still listen to it this day. What was your favorite Full Moon Fever?

Last summer I took the arduous task of listening to the Heartbreakers for like three weeks straight in order to determine my list of favorite Heartbreakers albums/Petty solo albums (which are essentially band records anyway). They are, in order:

1. Wildflowers
2. Damn the Torpedoes
3. Echo
4. Into the Great Wide Open
5. Full Moon Fever
6. Highway Companion
7. Hypnotic Eye
8. You're Gonna Get It!
9. Hard Promises
10. The Last DJ
11. Mojo
12. Long After Dark
13. She's the One
14. TPATH (self-titled)
15. Southern Accents
16. Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)

[srvy]

Steppenwolf

This is sentimental my older brother had just got his first car a 1968 corvair monza we put a 8 track tape player and bought two eight tracks. Steppenwolf and Led Zep Houses of the Holy good times driving the Northland rocking out.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by srvy

I dont know what your getting at. My point if you say its the greatest debut album ever but you no longer listen to it does it count as greatest to you then?

Boston's debut is notable for about 100 reasons, so no, the fact that I don't pull it out and listen to it for the thousandth time has no bearing on it.

[srvy]

list me just 5 of the 100?

[Brock]

Originally Posted by srvy

list me just 5 of the 100?

Let me google that for you.

The album was recorded in Tom Scholz's basement, with almost every instrument played himself and recorded himself on what would be considered junk equipment by professionals.

The record was recorded for a few thousand dollars, when bands were spending many times that on single tracks.

Those guys who posed for the photo on the back? The only one of them that had anything to do with making the album was Brad Delp. There wasn't a band when the record was being made.

Multiple record companies rejected it and it turned into the biggest seller of the 70s, besides maybe Rumours.

The techniques used to create the guitar sound on this record influenced pretty much everything that came after it.

[rico]

Originally Posted by srvy

Steppenwolf

This is sentimental my older brother had just got his first car a 1968 corvair monza we put a 8 track tape player and bought two eight tracks. Steppenwolf and Led Zep Houses of the Holy good times driving the Northland rocking out.

This is an awesome one. This was the first album I ever purchased (along with Spin Doctors "Pocket Full of Kryptonite") when I was 11 years old in 1994. I'll never forget it. Both of those have sentimental value to me as well and they both hold up to this day...I can still jam out to them.

[DaveNull]

My vote has to go to Boston.

And the winner of the most stereotypically camerohead answer goes to the OP!

[DaNewGuy]

Damn can't believe I forgot Rage's debut, still listen to them regularly

[DaNewGuy]

Sixteen Stone-Bush?