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In the liner notes of PiL's Plastic Box compilation (1999), Lydon remarked that Album was "almost like a solo album" since he was working on his own with several musicians. He said that Miles Davis came into the studio while the album was being recorded and commented that Lydon sang like Davis played the trumpet. Lydon said it was "still the best thing anyone's ever said to me."[21] It was revealed in the liner notes to the super deluxe edition that it was actually Ornette Coleman, not Davis, who said that.
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The Doors, Hendrix, and Boston basically released Greatest Hits albums for their debuts.
@Shaun Minnier. Cheers and good call.
This!!!
The Wombles, Remember You're a Womble
Portishead dummy still sounds futuristic today . It’s amazing .
One of the diamonds in his list, I think - I had never heard this album through before
My college girlfriend put this album on and I (a metal head) cocked an ear. Great album that was unlike anything I’d ever heard before.
How can it not? I was released after the future happened.
Nothing much original about them.. If Billie Holiday was never born? Maybe.
It was my brothers favourite...back in the 90s.whenever we got wasted(a lot) together..he always wanted Dummy on.....rip sizzler
Television's Marquee Moon. Amazing progressive rock/garage punk with stunning guitar playing
great description
I don’t think it was their Debut
Yes! Marquee Moon is bristling and cracking with Otherworldly guitar work - always hearing new things when listening to it....utter sonic genius! Tom Verlaine!
@@jessem470It was their debut. The single ‚Little Johnny Jewel‘ was their first release but ‚Marquee Moon‘ definitely is their debut and I agree it‘s on the best-ever.
Yeah...this album is EPIC..no single can throw a shadow over that!
..not forget: The first 'Chicago' Debut Album 'Chicago Transit Authority' (1969) 😀
A fantastic debut!
@@toddwalker4301 Yeah, but elitist Andy is capable of criticizing Steely Dan, so we just can't depend on him to recognize 😠
@@stevenfunderburg1623 How very dare he..
The Cars’ first album is underrated. Every song is great.
78 was it?
Yes, both The Carsʻ debut and Van Halenʻs debut came out in 1978, and those two albums set the standard for the 1980s…think about it, nearly all 80s music seems derived from these two albums!
What are you talking about? Their first album is highly acclaimed and gets the recognition it should. I mean, they are in the RnR HoF (if that really means anything anymore ) with a lot of help from THIS album.
@@michaelsuder486 And yet, most of the Cars songs you still hear on classic rock stations are the ones from the MTV video era. People that know KNOW, but there are generations of folks that have never even seen that album cover or know that all those songs are on the same album. I mention the group The Cars to people under age 40 and they have no idea who I’m talking about. That’s all I meant. The people that grew up in the 70’s understand more, but even many of them have forgotten the significance of the Cars. I feel the same way about The Kinks.
@@michaelsuder486 But you are also commenting on a statement I made a year ago. I don’t even remember the full context or what albums were even discussed in the video.
“Are You Experienced” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Montrose is not only one of the 10 greatest debut albums but also one of the 10 greatest rock albums period.
The Doors, R.E.M. "Murmur" , The Stone Roses. Patti Smith "Horses", The Velvet Underground & Nico all worthy on a greatest debut albums of all time list.
No Are You Experienced? I can't imagine a better or more influential debut album.
Yeah, that seems like an obvious one to me, and I expected it to be mentioned at some point.
LZ 1
Are you Experienced was released the same year as the Doors’ debut . . . Both I think were highly influential
@@Vanguardsman My favorite first album!
It was a genuine WTF? is that?? 180 degrees from anything else
from 1969 . . . Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left". Stunning debut record.
Billy Cobham - Spectrum , Al DiMeola - Land of the Midnight Sun, Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
REM; Murmur, Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses (aka In a Doghouse), P J Harvey: Dry, Pixies: Surfer Rosa, Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
'Music From Big Pink'. In 1968 so big a splash that Eric Clapton wanted to join the group.
I think that is one of the groups Andy calls Americana somehow a dirty word. I would also suggest The Eagles first album but there is a whole vein of music that seems to get no love.
@JackSparrow-yb3lq
Agreed.
The ignorance of overlooking the landmarks of the Byrds ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ The Burrito Bros ‘Gilded Palace of Sin’ or Big Pink in favor of GNR or RATM is just staggering.
It’s one thing to assert your dislike of the genre - something everyone is entitled to do.
But to run one’s mouth about ‘game changers’ in an introduction and then pretend that Wilco, XTC, REM, U2, Petty, the Church etc would exist WITHOUT McGuinn?
It’s worse than disingenuous.
Boston, Supertramp, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, ABB, Chicago, Black Sabbath, King Crimson, Blue Oyster Cult, Heart, Ambrosia, had great debut albums
Good list. Also “Bad Co.”
Supertramp, Really? Their first two albums are totally forgettable.
@@DonaldMains So mediocre and unheard of, most people assume Crime Of The Century was their first outing. . . .
Supertramp's first album was the only Progressive one
SO did Night Ranger with Dawn Patrol and Cheap Trick 1977 self title debut.
Thank you for not being predictable. Always a breath of fresh air to hear your thought process.
I try my best...always think I'm upsetting people but they come here for that I think....
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer what stale, boring, lowest-common-denominator music world it would be if there was no spirited disagreement and everyone read Rolling Stone magazine.
@AndyEdwardsDrummer ..andy.. Your rant on racism was Pure Woke..( clueless))
I think Mountain's debut "Climbing" deserves a mention. Not a weak track on there. Leslie West's new heavier tone, lyricism and primal power turned the ears of a lot of his contemporaries.
Balance that out with Felix Pappalardi's sophisticated compositions and production savvy, and you had a truly magic debut!
I’m going to listen to that next. I remember that album. It’s a monster.
gr8 shout - hugely underrated
yes, sorry for Mountain, it was the time when LZ needed all the oxygen.
Officially its Mountain’s debut but Leslie West already did that album with Felix Pappalardi that was titled Mountain in 1969. That’s a Leslie West solo album but when it comes down to it, its the same people driving it really. So that was a warm up for Climbing at least.
@@jimmycampbell78 blood of the sun is one of the gr8 lost rock songs - proto metal maybe - i often hear echoes of that song in old pentagram tunes later on
For Punk debut's,I actually think Wire-Pink Flag is the best. They were certainly "artier" than the Pistols,but also more economical,with a lot of ideas packed in short songs. There's a reason they were referred to in the music press as "Punk Floyd"
love pink flag
Im sure the name helps
Wire came to mind for me as well.
Here are some more incredible debuts:
Björk - Debut
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Korn - Korn
Goldie - Timeless
Breakbeat Era - Ultra Obscene
Boymerang - Balance Of The Force
Ed Rush & Optical - Wormhole
Adam F - Colours
Noisia - Split The Atom
Periphery - Periphery
Joy Division's first album, Mr Bungle's first album are probably my two favorites debut albums.
All three Mt Bungle albums are equal but different. Disco Volante is incredible. So much further out than the debut.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Carry Stress in the Jaw is on another level ! Might be my favorite song by the band.
Bungle. Yes. So good. It's one of my all time favorites. Coming in fresh is mind blowing. But when you know where the twists and turns are, it's a new level of awesome
The debut album by MONTROSE is one of the greatest debuts of all time.
Montrose have been called America's answer to Led Zeppelin, mainly due to their debut album. That album is the blueprint for hard rock and how it should sound - perfect from front to back!🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘
I was a junior in high school when this came out. When I think back it's hard to believe all the great music that came out in the 70's.
@@treff9226 I'm gonna catch hell for this, but IMHO that Montrose album blows anything Zeppelin has done out of the water!
@@Nick-qf7vt As a Zep fanatic, I have HELL on line two for you, of course it's a collect call....Nick?.........Nick?.....where did Nick go?
@@treff9226 uh oh!
Inner Mounting Flame is a great mention! Nothing explodes out of the speakers like "noonward race"
And "Meeting Of The Spirits." THAT one hits like a speeding freight train right out of the gate!
@@glennhecker4422yup, you nailed it, Glenn.
Jaw hit the floor when I saw them I found my type music there Vital Transformation is a favourite check out Billy Cobham’s insane drumming
Stranglers 'Ratus' debut album strikes me as a perfect example, they sounded ready-formed on this, it was the formula that worked for for them for their next couple of albums.
One thing about growing up in the 1980's (instead of the 1960's) is that you're looking backwards at _"In the Court of the Crimson King",_ so you can look back over 10-15 years of the development of progressive rock and see where some of the songs on that album don't live up to being a AbsoluteClassic™ album. But at the time it was released it was definitely stunning. I'm pretty sure I've said this in some other comment on this channel, but the first time I heard the whole album I basically stared at the stereo speakers for the whole thing, and when it had finished my thought was _"There are million albums possible now which were not even _*_possible_*_ 45 minutes ago"._ I feel a little silly when I repeat that now because (1) there obviously weren't going to be a *MILLION* albums which lived up to that album, and (2) the album had been released a few months before I heard it, so "45 minutes ago" was an absurd thought.
Absolutely beautifully put!
I heard the title track on the radio for the first time, late at night, when the album was first released, and was so stunned I had to go down stairs and work out the riff on the piano before it was gone. I had to buy the album to hear the track again. I thought I'll quickly listen to the first track and then go to the magnificent title track. I ended up playing the first side over and over, before I played the title track. In my opinion, "The Dream and The Ilusion" spoil this album a little. It is the track you move the needle over. Greg Lake had already written "Lucky Man" at this point, In my opinion it would have fitted, to create the perfect album, but apparently it was rejected, or he wasn't happy with the Crimson treatment of it, (he had played it with Crimson) and it appeared a year later on ELP's debut.
When Van Halen's debut album came out I had the cassette in my car stereo and I listened to it over and over again for about a year and a half. It was amazing. Another artist I did the same thing with, a few years later was Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut, Texas Flood. That was another amazing debut.
I heard a Stevie Ray Vaughn show from a bar in Texas that was broadcast on the radio at midnight. It was 1984? Maybe King Biscuit? IDK. But then he released his first album and went on tour and was playing at the Providence Performing Arts Center. I begged everyone and anyone to go with me, because I knew my parents wouldn't let me go alone. Finally I found one kid just desperate for a friend who agreed to go. But I asked so many people to go to this show with me and no one had ever heard of him, that my nickname in high school became "Stevie Ray". His brothers band opened and they were terrible. But he was amazing!
@@stephenbellotti2036👍That's a funny entertaining story Stevie Ray! 😂
Couldn’t believe what I was hearing with Van Halen 1 , unlike anything else
Queen. Still their best album. Totally underrated.
I would say the Montrose debut was pretty stellar. They never recaptured the magic on the first album. Chicago Transit Authority debut is a two album stunner. No rock band did what they did. Todd Rundgren's live debut should be on a debut list as a prog/space rock masterpiece.
Yes yes and yes.
Roxy Music’s first album
LED ZEPPELIN
Joan Armatrading, Elvis Costello, Chicago, Kate Bush, Gordon Lightfoot, Santana, King Crimson, XTC, Patti Smith, Joe Jackson, Sex Pistols, The Psychedelic Furs, Rage Against the Machine, The Doors, Bad Company, Roy Buchanan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Howlin' Wolf, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, The Police, Nick Drake.
I know this is a lot more than 10, but I couldn't stop myself.
And my favourite Santana album is Abraxas, followed by Amigos and Moonflower.
My criteria was that their debut album was their best album, on your list that would apply to the Sex Pistols
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Oh, sorry ... I must have missed that part of your video, though I did listen to its entirety. The criteria I used was that the debut had to be astounding and culturally impactful, though not necessarily the artist's best work. For instance, I think Elvis Costello, Lightfoot, Santana, Bad Company, The Police, etc. all made albums that were better than (or that I preferred to) their debuts, but their debuts were still milestones in modern music and highly significant. That's what I thought you were getting at. Cheers!
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer And the problem with including My Aim is True is ... ? 🤔😅
The Crossing by Big Country is a very impressive debut, as well. In my own top ten, I guess you would say. At the time nothing sounded quite like it. Nothing since really has, either. An album only Big Country could have made, really. Very accomplished work.
Great list! I totally agree with Portishead. I was blown away by it back in 94 (or 95).
Nice one Andy. Appetite for Destruction is the greatest debut album of all time. This is a hill I will die on.
I remember when it came out. If you need a hill to die on, this is a pretty good one!
@@dogdays7120 Thanks mate! I’ve got a few more hills I like to die on, have a look at the videos I’ve done recently on my channel! 🤣
Sting's and Massive Attack's first albums was super too
Marquee Moon by Television is my favorite debut. Impossible album to categorize,no other album quite has that sound
That's a great one!
Please Please Me? Basically recorded in one day by THE most influential band ever. And a great album.
Nah, it's mainly filler, punctuated by an occasional original song
Santana , Amigo great album that stands the test of time !
Andy I have to say I've been burning through a few of your videos here and there over the last 2 months and I think they're brilliant.
Yes, you may have to reduce it to a digestible number, but it keeps it manageable so that we can move on to the next one when we're done.
I love that you have such an open mind to experiencing music and haven't allowed yourself to become stagnant in your interests or your playing ability!
Thank you for sharing your kernels of knowledge with us, and having a fun time doing it.
Rickie Lee Jones debut album is right up there with me.
Still a gorgeous album. Last Chance Texaco is as great as it was in the early '80s.
I was wondering whether Appetite for Destruction might get a mention. I was never really a fan of LA rock but I’m reading Slash’s autobiography at the moment and was inspired to listen to their debut - and you’re right, so many of their most well known songs are there. Use Your Illusions 1 & 2 is by all accounts a more ambitious body of work but I couldn’t tell you any of the song titles apart from November Rain maybe.
My list would definitely have Are You Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Loved your take on Jeff Buckley. Agreed, an astounding debut.
I'm enjoying your channel. Nice work.
The debut self-titled album Emerson Lake and Palmer😊
Did anything ever hit you over the head with the same iconoclastic violence as "The Barbarian"--side A, song 1 of the first ELP record?
@@johnwilliamson3981 golly gee guy I'm impressed that you knew that song was song One of side a. I mean that's really swell f e l l a. Especially from someone that looks like he's barely out of his teens. Growing up in the 1960s and 70s I was listening to all of this before you were soiling your diapers. And I'm really impressed you knew the word iconoclastic which is from their second album tarkus. You sure are neat haha. I'll bet your boyfriend is just so proud of you hahaha. Fun fact.... did you know take a pebble comes right afterwards LOL so that would be side a song two.
@@edljnehan2811 It must be so embarrassing to be you...
@@johnwilliamson3981 you're taking on the master of the insult and you're going to have to do better than that. I'm your trolls favorite troll. It's just not your day is it h o s s? I think I'm going to make you my new TH-cam Buddy and you're going to love every minute of it hahaha yeah he yeah he yeah he yeah he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he
@@johnwilliamson3981 I'm not the one with brown stains all over my lips and a banana sticking out of my mouth
Great video. Totally in the flow. One of the things we all like about music is sharing our passion and the twists of our personal journeys. Best way is over a few pints with friends and your videos embody that same improvisational conversational dynamic.
Really enjoyed this session, certainly some interesting and thought provoking choices. Especially loved the Mahavishna Orchestra choice. I'd like to suggest the MC5 debut receive a bit of consideration. It was a stunner when first released. Cheers!
That MC5 debut was hugely influential and doesn't get mentioned, with bands like The Stooges, New York Dolls and The Ramones getting the credit for moving rock n roll towards punk. MC5 are the missing piece. And they definitely should get a mention for being the only band I can think of with a great LIVE debut, which is arguably their greatest album. I should have put them on the list!!!
Velvet Underground & Nico obviously on my list… Not as influencial, but I highly praise Captain Beefheart’s « Safe as milk »… The Cure’s « fridge » LP deserves more than a mention : purest rookie trio ever, playing a great collection of tracks and sounding like no one else before - creating their own genre, just like Black Sabbath did 10 years before… My personal favorite might still be Roxy Music’s 1st LP…
'Chicago Transit Authority' - two discs ranging from the rip-roaring opener 'Introduction', to the majestically mature 'Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is', to the raging abstraction of 'Free Form Guitar'. Prior to the album being recorded, Hendrix saw CTA playing the Whiskey in Hollywood. He thought that, like King Crimson they too were the best band in the world. And Terry Kath was the best guitarist he'd ever heard. He liked them so much that he enlisted the band to open for him on tour. And used he 'Free Form Guitar' concept to play 'The Star Spangled Banner' at Woodstock. Al Kooper saw the same shows and dashed back to New York, put together a horn band of his own and recorded Blood Sweat & Tears' 'Child Is The Father To Man' album before CTA's debut was released.
Early Chicago was a phenomenally fine band with great writing and arranging, superb playing and singing, and a series of two-disc albums in those early days that have stood the test of time and remain testament to the reality that they, CTA, defined and introduced jazz-rock to the masses.
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@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Yes, several bands in the late 60s were tapping into the jazz(y)-rock idea, some with horns, some without, and many of them being more jazz & blues (Brian Auger Trinity, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers ('Bare Wires')) etc. But the likes of Don Ellis was WAY under the radar except for those boffins, probably including Chicago members, paying close attention (the same types in the UK who might have been following the likes of Keith Tippett). Chicago, however, with an early string of gold and platinum albums did register with the masses and thus - yes, arguably - became the defining voice of the genre. Indeed, the jazz-rock term pretty much originated/was popularised with them (a similar default occurred with Santana for latin-rock). One of my faves, Colosseum was like-minded, though Jon Hiseman and his lot (three were from Mayall's 'Bare Wires' lineup) were largely a boffin's band and never did connect with the masses like Chicago, which I considered rock-jazz (versus jazz-rock). (Hiseman often suggested that Chicago were conceptually influenced by Colosseum, noting that some players from DePaul University caught the original British quintet when it first played in Chicago. Timelines would suggest no to that idea, and Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine nixed the idea when I asked him.)
BTW, some nice - and surprising - choices in your selection. I have never agreed that King Crimson originated prog. though would agree that they largely defined it. I suggest you do a program on the roots of that genre, with consideration to Vanilla Fudge, 1-2-3 (later named Clouds), and the Beatles as part of that.
Cheers from Canada.
"The greatest rock band of all time" is not LZ. Musically, the greatest rock band of all time is Chicago (first version), a band that, for some reason I don't understand, is rarely mentioned in "greatest bands" contests. For example, Danny Seraphine, the drummer, beats Bonham and Baker by 10 miles. Their arrangements make LZ's songs sound like pigmies. Chicago could play heavy rock, jazz rock, ballads, you name it. All the members could sing, so the backing vocals were out of this world. There are almost no backing vocals in LZ.
@@Paul-fg6mk I agree 100%. I say that with no disrespect to Led Zep or anyone else. But Chicago had ALL the bases covered and were excellent in everyone one.
As for Danny Seraphione - hell yes. A killer drummer who blew away the likes of Bonham, Baker and all the rest. But those other players were in bands that became cultural icons. Chicago never attained that level or type of fandom, which is fine by me. Instead they are remembered and revered for their music, not how many hotel rooms they trashed.
sticking to just the 70s: Bad Company, Boston, Foreigner, Van Halen and The Cars.
Eagles
Love your channel,Andy. i had the same reaction to Portishead,s Dummy as you..I was absolutely mesmerized by it. My dad had the same reaction to the Beatles as your dad did to the Sex Pistols.
People forget how the musicians from the big band era reacted to The Beatles
I think a lot of the time debut albums are so good because it's basically their live set that they've been playing for years. The second album can be a problem ☺️
It's taken two years for my band to do their second album. But I think this album is better than the first
Agree. They have their entire 18 years in early years of the band to pick the best songs and then the software album is often the leftovers.
@@Rick-jg8vxVery often the Truth.
Totally, it is called second album syndrome, for stronger bands mostly there are 5 or 6 tracks that get cut from the first album so the second is still pretty good, but for weaker bands it signals their end.
I saw Tim Buckley in a West Hollywood club called the Starwood, consisting of the disco room, the bar and billiards room and the rock room for live performance. When he sang "I've been searching, for a dolphin, in the sea, ee ee..." I broke. 1975? Rush performed in this 200 person capacity club. X performed there, The Circle Jerks, the Go Gos, The Ventures, Link frikkin Ray,...you could put your elbows on the stage. The pretty people used to call the Starwood a dive. I became the house dancer and I invented a popular dance at the Starwood. Tim Buckley was an indescribable composer/performer - it was like the whole universe stopped to listen. One guy with an acoustic guitar. I looked up Starwood when I got my first computer in 2008 and there was a chilling photo of the marquee and parking lot and ticket window and I cried. I can't describe how cheap and amazing L.A. was in the early seventies. My dance got a name in 1990 from some chaps in Compton, California. From West Hollywood to Compton in 15 years and the people who named it have not a clue as to where it came from. I have been advised to enter my data in the Wiki entry for my dance but some folk in Compton, one bus ride away, might have a problem with a 109 pound 70-year-old claiming to have invented their fave dance. I won't fight for credit so I'll simply tell the story. I was drunk when I invented it. I got sober in 1982. I will prove to ANY bloke or lass, on the Boulevard, live, with i-pod and tiny amp, who invented krumping. Yes, Compton, it was me. I'll show you how I danced 15 years before you named it. Never fight for credit, Jesus knows and that's good enough. Boulevard is Hollywood Boulevard, you know, Chinese theater, the stars in the sidewalk. It took me a year to realize I was the house dancer, that's how naive I was. I didn't get paid but I got comped. L.A. gangsters, the old fashioned kind, owned the club and the owners and friends would watch everything in the rock room from the upper floor, where I was never invited! Not their type, I suppose, I was a comedian of dance, not a sexy performer. This channel is amazing. Huge chunks of my past are flooding my head. I walked out on Rush, yup, still would. Nothing personal.
Love early Santana. I am San Francisco native and they’re a local band. My favorites are Abraxas and Moonflower.
Santana “Lotus”. If I may, a short story. I’m 13 years old in 1955. We listened every Saturday afternoon to a top 10 radio show. One week in June, I think, #1 was Les Baxter Orchestra with “The Poor People of Paris”. The very next Saturday #1 was “Heartbreak Hotel”. Life was never quite the same from that day forward. However my first purchase was a 78 RPM called “Johnny B Goode”. Great memories.
Great Topic...Santana , Queen ,King Crimson and Chicago had great 1st albums for me.
Jaco Pastorius….
Bright size life … Pat Metheny
For me these albums changed everything AND are genius….. my top two debut albums
Also Led Zeppelin I
Very nice video again; I definitely need to check out the few albums I haven't listened to previously!
"DEFINITELY MAYBE" and "PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN" had to be there.
Andy, The Battle for LA, RATM's 3rd album is a gem!
Tim Buckley is phenomenal. A great songwriting innovator. In my top three with Nyro and Hendrix. Add Miles and thats all the music nutrition you will ever need.
No way to make a “10 best” compilation in this, or any, category in music, but I appreciate the courage it takes! I’m surprised you aren’t getting hate mail lmao. I get booed for attempting this kind of stuff with friends haha. Great list. And awesome that you mentioned Fishbone!
I'm getting kicked in the comments, but the views are goodwhich means I can do more videos where I can actually talk about music seriously.
Interesting list, in no particular order I would have gone for the following: Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd, Suede by Suede, The Smith's by The Smith's, Never Mind the Bollocks by The Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin 1, Debut by Bjork(if you don't include The Sugarcubes stuff and the album she made as a kid) , The Slim Shady LP by Eminem, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, Are you Experienced by Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones.
And Rattus by The Stranglers
Great video Andy. The debut album that really excited me the most when it came out was the first Iron Maiden album. The greatest debut album for me, is Led Zeppelin.
Great list! Most of your picks would be on my 10 greatest debut albums list as well. One omission though I would argue for: Roxy Music's first, which would be No 1 on my list . . .
That is about there best too isn't it? Good choice
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer yeah I like For Your Pleasure as well but after Bryan Eno left I lost interest in Roxy . . .
Great vid! Really enjoyed it, surprised to fine Plantation Lullabies there which is one of my favourite albums. Some stuff I didn't know. So agree with you on The Sex Pistols. I remember hearing so much about this album (talking 90s) and when I first heard it I was so surprised. Such well written and well played songs, amazing album. Not at all what I imagined punk should be like. If this list was longer I would include:
- Jimi Hendrix
- Dire Straits
- Kate Bush
- Jamiroquai
- System of a Down
- Gorillaz
- Sonic Youth
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Pink Floyd
- The Police
- De La Soul
When I heard Buckley sing Hallelujah, I could not believe it. A virtual a capella remake sung fearlessly ... on his debut album!
Yes...a man, an electric guitar and a voice...astonishing...
Hallelujah is the most boring song in the entire history of the universe. Every time Jeff Buckley broke into another verse, 6 minutes in, I felt more and more like going out and slashing somebody
1. The Smith's ... The Smith's,
2. Bjorks ... Debut,
3. The Sunday's ... Reading, Writing and Arithmatic,
are 3 magnificent debut albums.
Their best album. Better than TQID IMO.
I was working in an AV store in Charlotte, 1985, and a guy I worked with there introduced me to the Smiths. I was floored.
Laura Nyro's debut February, 1967 generated iconic songs and 4 Billboard hits at 1,2,6 and 21. she was just aged. The album was placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Dark themes embedded in beautiful melodies and great songwriting: mortality and death, suicide ideation, guilt, unrequited love, casual sex, betrayal of trust...
Aged 19.
I made a decision : All top 10 debuts are female : Laura, Sade, Kate Bush, Nina Hagen, Helen Reddy, Melanie Safka, Buffy Saint Marie, Janis Joplin 2 more?
@@narosgmbh5916 Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Janis Ian, Carly Simon Ellen McElwaine, Grace Jones, Chi Coltrane, Astrud Gilberto, Aretha Franklin, Betty Davis, Petula Clark, Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, Julie Felix...all and more in my vinyl collection.
Lupco and scoop just left the building
Nancy Sinatra, Miriam Makeba, Nina simone, Patti Labelle, Francoise Hardy, ....Maria Farantouri
@@narosgmbh5916 Yep, got all of those except the last. Never heard of her. But I do have Nana Mouskouri!
Thanks so much for your list with eloquence. I went through all of them, you broadened my mind and forced me into more curiosity about different eras and genres.
The debut from Univers Zero Has to be on the list!!! It's one of the best albums ever made and It's influence on RIO music is huge!!!
Have to say that Moonflower is probably my favourite Santana album. Can't imagine anyone not liking Secret Treaties. We have to squeeze Led Zep 1 in this list somewhere.
You dont need to imagine anyone...I'm sat right here
Secret Treaties is my favorite BOC album. The 2 tracks Flaming Telepaths > Astronomy are the best they ever did in the studio...though BOC studio albums pale compared to live in my opinion.
My music ranking:
1. Playing
2. Listening
3. Talking about
I'm 50 years old and love all types of music but have learned so much from these videos. This list I only knew about half of them and I don't wish to criticize but did you consider Bat out of Hell ?
1, King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
2, Led Zeppelin
3, Queen
4, Santana
5, ELP
6, Black Sabbath
7, Nektar - Journey to the Center of the Eye
8, Chicago - CTA
9, Grand Funk
10, Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
11, Mountain - Climbing (Yes Bob !!)
"Disraeli Gears" was not a debut album; "Fresh Cream" was Cream's debut album.
@@Hotsk Lol, yeah I know that DG is the one we all remember !! I'm 65' and I forgot FC Lol. I was going to change it the other day but you beat me to it 😆
But Fresh Cream is not a great debut album so my Cream pick is coming off. ✌🎶
Santana's debut album was not stellar. His attempt at jazz propped up by a jazz fusion great.
@@turntablesrockmyworld9315 It was 4th on the Billboard 200 !!! Your Nuts, please go away !!! 🙄
@@ronniefarnsworth6465 That doesn't mean much. Milli Vanilli was #1. Sure,, it is a "good" album but did not reach the heights it set out to reach.
I was ten years old in 1977 and got Never Mind The Bollocks in 1978 and I can’t argue with what you’re saying. I grew up loving music having two older sisters who grew up with the Beatles and Stones so I was listening to the best music ever in the cradle. But I will never ever forget the impact of Never Mind the Bollocks for the first time. It’s maybe my most vivid memory,period. It was transformational.
I get the Punk/Prog connection, Andy. Because in the end, both at their best represent a complete rejection of pre-existing rules and a desire to forge something apart from the norm. Look at Wire, whose first three albums were so good and so different. Elements of Punk, Prog, Psychedelia and electronic music are all in their sound, especially on 154. Pink Flag would be on my list of favorite debuts. Even Send, one of their later albums, blows away a lot of product by bands half their age. Appreciate your take on punk.
I knew one of the guys from Wire...huge prog fan....
Love the channel, the music, your individual take on stuff and sense of humor. That Nirvana rant was fabulous and so was the one I saw the other day about the critics and Neil Young.
Led Zep 1, REM Murmur, The Cars, The Ramones, The Pretenders.
Ooooh weee! ALL of your picks would be in my top 10! Others would be Boston, Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bullocks, The Stone Roses, Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced, Van Halen, The Doors....and about 50 others! Love that you selected Murmur, hugely significant and influential to so much alternative music!
Great list. I'd also include:
The Clash, Gang of Four, Wire and Talking Heads.
REM Murmur would be on my list as well . . .
@@treff9226 I dig the early R.E.M. Please check out The Allison's 1989 album, on Spindletop Records for some cool R.E.M.-esque tunes.
@@rich_t All four are genius level bands (which A LOT of my heavy metal brothers just don't, or won't, give a chance to!) I'm ancient (59 yrs mold) and have to admit I didn't know HOW to listen to these alternative trailblazers, especially Wire, but over time I wanted to hear everything, I had a great desire to really understand what these bands were doing...
and why! Plus, I didn't want to be close minded and left out! These artists deserve huge props for fresh ideas and not caring about how many units sold - Ramones, Talking Heads, Television, Dinosaur Jr, Gang Of Four are all making music for themselves, first, and if you wanna come along for the ride - all the better! Currently listening to My Bloody Valentine, Curve, Slodive and German thrash masters, Kreator. Free your minds, people! Take care, Treff
“Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses!”
Cool list. Here are some other excellent debut albums: Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972) / Spectrum - Billy Cobham (1973) / Utopia - Utopia (1974) / Unorthodox Behaviour - Brand X (1976) / UK - UK (1978).
Love, love, LOVE "UK!"
UK is a blinding album
Was a huge fan of Captain Beyond in my youth. Wore that album out.
Hi. My 10 favorite debut albums are the following:
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Crocodiles
R.E.M. - Murmur
SOFT CELL - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
TEARS FOR FEARS - The Hurting
THE BEATLES - Meet The Beatles!
THE POLICE - Outlandos d'Amour
THE ROMANTICS - The Romantics
THE SMITHS - The Smiths
THE TEARDROP EXPLODES - Kilimanjaro
U2 - Boy
I'd like to mention Living Colour - "Vivid", Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath", and the Santana debut.
Times Up is Living Colour's masterpiece, and Stain is better than the first album. Paranoid, Masters, Vol IV, etc all better than their debut and Abraxas, III Caravenserai, Amigos, Welcome etc all better than their debut...
I won't disagree with that.
I've never heard of Peter Hamill, I did listen to Van der Graaf Generator once when I was a teen and didn't like it, but now listening to his solo work, it's really good
Ther Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Smiths - The Smiths
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
Comus - First Utterance
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
PS: Caravanserai is the best Santana by a country mile!
Agree on Comus! Not really 'comparable' but related enough and a stunning debut: have you heard Spirogyra - St Radigunds? Agree on Caravanserai! Only Abraxas comes...close?
Thank you for The Smiths first album.
I understand this is a list about 10 consequential records in Western music and I would like to make a recommendation to you Andy. When you have a chance, listen to the debut record from a band called "Soda Estereo" and the record of the same name. released in 1984 and it is relevant today. Rock music look longer to develop in South America but once it did, it became a force and this debut record has songs such as "Sobredosis de TV" and "Tratame Suavemente" which for 1984 this record changed the Rock Scene in South America and the record became platinum in both Argentina, Chile and Peru in just a few months. In my opinion, this record created a new music genre called "Rock en Espanol" which took off like wild fire.
1 should be Hendrix, right?
I am blown away by your broad knowledge of the industry, as I am by your musical contributions (wish you'd done a "Neo II," just for the fun). We certainly differ in taste, though. Maybe because I'm American and used to ride motorcycles, but I consider Blue Oyster Cult to be one of the greatest of North America's prog rock bands. I would not have been surprised to see their debut covered here, and I might consider any of their first 3 albums my favorite on any given day. I recently complied a play list and wanted something from "Never Mind the Bollocks," but could not find one track on the album that did not offend my ears. They were a significant band to be sure, but the only band I ever heard make cacophony sound good was King Crimson. I have bought albums based on your videos - keep that spotlight shining!
Agree about PiL's "Album." Really great. Also: Devo's Are We Not Men, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys, The Specials, The Doors, Clash, Pretenders, Strokes Is this It and, of course, Please Please Me
Days of Future Passed- not a surprise that the Moody Blues don’t even get a thought. They never do.
Second album. It's not the debut.
Honestly, I would choose When Day and Dream Unite by Dream Theater as one of the best, simply because that was the album that changed Prog Metal forever. When most prog bands at the time would just do simple progressive changes at a slow pace, Dream Theater kicked thing up a few notches. Not to mention that album led to the greatest line up change in music history, when they fired Charlie Dominici and hired Kevin James LaBrie. The album itself wasn't amazing by their standards, but if any other band made that album, it would probably be the best in their discography.
Glad you were aware and appreciate the Montrose album. As a fellow boy from the W Midlands I was fortunate to see Gamma at the Birmingam Odeon many moons ago and a great gig it was. Never saw Montrose sadly, but saw many local bands do covers including a band called Sticky Fingers at the infamous Troubadour pub when it was going in Burntwood. They did a decent version of Space station number 5. I also am a fan of Danger Money and appreciate that Bozzio like Bruford is an incredible drummer.
Easy. The Doors. Living Eyes. Can't Buy A Thrill. Black Sabbath. Kill 'em All, Feel The Fire, The Kick Inside, Suede, Horses, Winged Assassins.
My choices would be:
Please Please Me - The Beatles (1963) sounds a little bit dated today and was surpassed by their later albums but this is still a great debut by the standards of the day.
The Doors - self-titled debut (1967) as good as any of their later albums.
The Velvet Underground and Nico, self-titled debut (1967), their greatest album by far.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd (1967), Syd Barrett at his short lived best.
Led Zeppelin- self-titled debut (1969), their most blues based album and so arguably their least original, but the sound is awesome and it contains some of their greatest classics.
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield (1973), totally unique and brilliant extended piece.
Can’t Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan (1972), an early classic.
Roxy Music - self-titled debut (1972), the next 4 albums would surpass this but it’s still a great album.
Grace - Jeff Buckley (1994), superb, what a pity his life was cut short.
Songs of Leonard Cohen - (1967), arguably his greatest album.
Agree with Inner Mounting Flame. Hendrix, Are You Experienced ought to be on the list. Revolutionary at the time and full of hits. Perhaps the very best first album. There's an argument for Fresh Cream too. Very influential for many, many bands. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, ELP, similarly in the prog rock field
ELP you are a very wise man sir😊
Boston , Stone Roses.
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Can't overlook how huge The Knack's debut was. Came out in the late 70s and was a huge influence on the sounds of the 80s.
Hmm, agree on Elvis, Van Halen and Guns and roses. Also think Black Sabbath would be on my list. Must confess I’ve got a soft spot for Kiss debut-album. A lot of good songs that still is on their setlist. But of course the best debut album ever must be Are you experienced by Jimi Hendrix.
My pick for an honourable mention Andy is the Stranglers debut Rattus Norvegicus. Superb all the way through and has aged well imo
Some more:
Jimi - Are You Experienced
Jeff Beck Group - Truth
The Doors
Black Sabbath
Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
Chicago Transit Authority.
My list:
Van Halen I
Boston - Boston
Queen - Queen
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Doors - The Doors
Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Lynyrd Skynyrd I
Montrose - Montrose
Truth - Jeff Beck
High Voltage - AC/DC
My favorite Santana album is Abraxas.
Great shout out to Tim Buckley, a genuine genius innovator. His debut is one of my favourite albums and he made it as a teenager!!!
My favorite is Happy Sad.
Really enjoyed that Andy but was Are You Experienced an oversight? Sonic boom in music history! Love the channel
How about "Outlandos D'Amour" by the Police?
Lord Edwards, if you haven't written a book (or series) on modern music history, you should. Your knowledge and ability to analyze cause/effect and the fluidity of influences is masterful. I am not familiar with many of the genres you speak on, but it is fascinating to learn about, and I've gained a measure of respect for artists I used to throw beer bottles at.
U2's 'Boy' is mind blowingly good. 'Rattlesnakes' by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions is amazing. 'Howling Wind' by Graham Parker is stellar. The Doors' debut is incredibly influential. The Pretenders' debut is perfection. These are all bands that, imo, never equalled what they did on their debuts, but the absolute perfection of the above albums cements them all as favorites of mine.
That's a really good call on "Rattlesnakes". I'd also have to give a shout out to (The) Associates' debut; "The Affectionate punch", along with Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Yellow magic orchestra", The Human League's "Reproduction" and Adam and the Ants' "Dirk wears white sox".
Boston’s debut album was extremely important because of their sound. No one ever had that sound before them. Then there is the fact that every song was played on the radio. The songs were very well written and very lyrical. Fantastic guitar playing. It was like a greatest hits album. It was the highest selling debut album for 3 1/2 decades at 17 million units sold in the U.S. It was believed to be untouchable in that respect; nothing was even close. Then “Appetite For Destruction” was released. The Guns & Roses debut album took roughly 25 years to pass Boston’s debut album and it has 18 million copies sold in the US. Still, no debut album is in the same “zip code” as those two.