O/T: Debut Albums That....

Simonized

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Are classics and came out of nowhere?

Having been a Slade fan(and still am) but the first two albums came as a pleasant shock to my system and the 3rd was another kickstart in rock music history for me.

Two of these came from the Punk/New Wave era.
1. Real Life by Magazine.
2. Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers.
The above two I still listen to often and don't recall ever skipping a track.

3. Bleach by Nirvana.
This album has probably influenced my music taste the most since its release.
 
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Searching For The Young Soul Rebels. Dexys Midnight Runners. 1980.

I've just listened to their new album whilst on a drive, bit ropey.

Gonna stick on the above debut album now for the rest of the drive. It's a banger.

Unknown Pleasures Joy Division is another obvious one, so is The Stone Roses.
 
Simonized said:
Are classics and came out of nowhere?

Having been a Slade fan(and still am) the first two albums came as a pleasant shock to my system and the 3rd was another kickstart in rock music history for me.

Two of these came from the Punk/New Wave era.
1. Real Life by Magazine.
2. Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers.
The above two I still listen to often and don't recall ever skipping a track.

3. Bleach by Nirvana.
This album has probably influenced my music taste the most since its release.
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1.I remember buying Real Life from Music Mania on Dickson Rd . They had a window display of the album and I just bought it on impulse . What an album it took me completely by surprise, totally different, marvellous stuff.
2.The Psychedelic Furs album of the same name.
3. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
4. Rattus Norvegicus - Stranglers
5. The Incredible Shrinking Dickies -Dickies
Could go on , Sex Pistols and Clash also deserve a mention for debut albums.
Btw loved Slade some happy memories of gigs at Norbreck Nite Spot .
 
Olliesoffhistrolley said:
1.I remember buying Real Life from Music Mania on Dickson Rd . They had a window display of the album and I just bought it on impulse . What an album it took me completely by surprise, totally different, marvellous stuff.
2.The Psychedelic Furs album of the same name.
3. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
4. Rattus Norvegicus - Stranglers
5. The Incredible Shrinking Dickies -Dickies
Could go on , Sex Pistols and Clash also deserve a mention for debut albums.
Btw loved Slade some happy memories of gigs at Norbreck Nite Spot .
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Surfer Rosa was like nothing before, a true original and ** brilliant
 
Olliesoffhistrolley said:
1.I remember buying Real Life from Music Mania on Dickson Rd . They had a window display of the album and I just bought it on impulse . What an album it took me completely by surprise, totally different, marvellous stuff.
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I liked Shot by both sides but not enough to buy an album then I saw this video of The Light Pours out of Me on OGWT I think and was out the next day to buy Real Life.

Olliesoffhistrolley said:
Btw loved Slade some happy memories of gigs at Norbreck Nite Spot .
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We probably stood next to each other if you went to the gig in the small one at the side of the Castle.
I sneaked in for the sound check at the gig in the bigger venue one year 😁
 
‘Pipers at the gates of dawn’ Pink Floyd.
’Roxy Music’ Roxy Music.
’Marquee Moon’ Television.
’Live at the witch trials’ The Fall.
’Dread beat an’ Blood’ Poet and the Roots(LKJ)
’Unknown Pleasures’ Joy Division.
‘Stone Roses’ Stone Roses.
’Unreasonable Doubt’ Jay Z.
and loads more obvs.
 
Levi501 said:
’Live at the witch trials’ The Fall.
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That was on the verge of my number three but I went left field and forward a little so my fav 3 were not all clumped together.
I have the Peel Sessions on quite often and as Peel once said "The Fall always the same but always different"
 
Is this it? The Strokes
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses . . . didn't come out of nowhere but certainly a classic
The Smiths - The Smiths
Oasis - Definately maybe
Aztec Camera - High land hard rain
The Chameleons - Script of the bridge
 
Television - Marquee Moon
Ramones
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced
Curtis Mayfleld - Curtis
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
Quasimoto - the Unseen

blimey all american..
so..
King Crimson - Court of..
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
ABC - Lexicon
Siouxsie and the banshees - The Scream
 
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1966_and_all_that said:
Elvis Presley - Rock and Roll 1956.

Everything else is gravy.
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Unfortunately, I wasn't even a sperm in my dad's sack to enjoy the release of that one.🤗

Even though I do get it, as an aside his fan club in Knobbersville used to meet in a pub my dad had in the late 70s as the jukebox was 70% Elvis and his album covers adorned a full wall.
 
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Not completely unique sonically as definitely influenced by Led Zepp and Cream, but the dark and brooding themes created what we know as Heavy Metal and in 1970, a love song to the devil with N.I.B must have turned some religious heads back then.

Crazy to think how quickly music evolved back then, in 7 years you went from The Beatles early stuff to Black Sabbath. You'd struggle to differentiate a song from 7 years ago on the radio to now.
 
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When it came out I was at Leeds University, sharing a room in halls with a chap who is still a friend. He breezed in with a copy of It's Alive!, put it on the turntable and po-go'd around the room with a huge grin on his face.
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Been watching it again since I posted about it......
 
Damien Rice......O
Ryan Adams.....Heartbreaker
Massive Attack....Blue Lines
Pearl Jam....Ten
The Civil Wars.....Barton Hollow
Grant Lee Buffalo....Fuzzy
Iron Maiden.....Iron Maiden
Disclosure.....Settle
 
The Killers - Hot Fuss

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am…….

David Gray - White Ladder ( not his first so a bit of a cheat, but first I’d heard of him)
 
Lala said:
The Killers - Hot Fuss

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am…….

David Gray - White Ladder ( not his first so a bit of a cheat, but first I’d heard of him)
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I got dragged kicking and screaming by a GF to a Killers gig when Hot Fuss was out and what a bloody good show it was.😎
 
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