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Eddie & the Hotrods - life on the line

Landscape - From the tea rooms of mars to the hell holes of uranus...........

Er Mike, Teenage Depression was the 1st album by Eddie & The Hotrods.

Despite going platinum in the UK (#3) in 2008, U.S. indie folk band Fleet Foxes' critically acclaimed debut album only made #36 in the U.S.--however, fueled by "the best thing" hype, their much less spectacular 2011 follow-up Helplessness Blues was a U.S. #4 chart hit, though it only sold 277,000 copies there.


Fleet Foxes in 2009.

The pressure of extensively touring behind the second album proved too much for their singer-songwriter drummer Joshua Tillman, who left the band in 2012 and now records under the moniker Father John Misty.









Sun Giant was first released on their second EP, which preceded their first album, but was included on disc 2 of the 2008 expanded limited edition of the debut album.





Drops in the River, also from the expanded edition of their first album.





The complete first album:

REM - Murmur
The Band - Music from Big Pink
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
Television - Marquee Moon
The Doors - The Doors
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
PJ Harvey - Dry
Nils Lofgren - Nils Lofgren
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
The Pretenders - The Pretenders

But there are tons more: Echo & the Bunnymen, Massive Attack, The Postal Service, 20/20, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Jimi Hendrix, Lisa Stansfield, The Kooks, The Charlatans, Cracker, The Bats, Garbage...

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Eddie & the Hotrods - life on the line

Landscape - From the tea rooms of mars to the hell holes of uranus...........

Er Mike, Teenage Depression was the 1st album by Eddie & The Hotrods.

You're right of course - I missed that, a 38 year miss...I'll check that out............ - I got it around the same hazy time as My aim is true, Never mind the bollocks, New boots & panties etc and have always just assumed Life on the line was also a debut .....

Joe jackson's Look sharp and the Undertones - Undertones a couple of years later were also pretty decent.......

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damn, how'd we ALL miss this!!!??

THE CLASH . Probably in the top ten albums of all time. Amazing

Probably because 'London calling'is a better album...

Wow did you miss the point!

Boston - Boston

Just a great masterpiece.

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BLUE OYSTER CULT

The amazing....

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damn, how'd we ALL miss this!!!??

THE CLASH . Probably in the top ten albums of all time. Amazing

Probably because 'London calling'is a better album...

Wow did you miss the point!

With The Clash , their debutalbum or London Calling? Don't know, but in my World The Clash were more than just their debutalbum..thought this thread was all about that...

2 1 2 0

Quite interesting albums followed, but best of all, in my opinion, probably was their first
Magazine: REAL LIFE.

Whereas I find it a little more complicated to state if the same applies to
Bauhaus: IN THE FLAT FIELD.

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damn, how'd we ALL miss this!!!??

THE CLASH . Probably in the top ten albums of all time. Amazing

Probably because 'London calling'is a better album...

Wow did you miss the point!

With The Clash , their debutalbum or London Calling? Don't know, but in my World The Clash were more than just their debutalbum..thought this thread was all about that...

Nope..you missed the point

Some great nominations so far, and lots of them I own and love. Great thread idea!

Here's another debut album I really love ...

How could I forget the White Stripes s/t? I love all their albums almost equally, but their first blew my mind.

Quite a few of these have already been mentioned, but...

Cracker
Foo Fighters
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Glasvegas
Big Star - #1 Record
Crosby, Stills, Nash
The Doors (though 4 times out of 10 I'll go with Strange Days)
Cheap Trick
Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
George Harrison - All Things...
Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
Ron Wood - I've Got My Own Album...
Blood, Sweat, & Tears
Manassas
Stephen Stills (if you count Manassas as its own band)
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Jeff Beck - Truth
B-52's
Go-Gos - Beauty and the Beat
Guns N' Roses - Appetite
The Clash (U.S. version)
The Cars
Boston
Danzig
Led Zeppelin
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
The Figgs - Lo-Fi At Society High
Pearl Jam - Ten
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace...

This debut is super as well ...



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Quite a few of these have already been mentioned, but...

Cracker
Foo Fighters
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Glasvegas
Big Star - #1 Record
Crosby, Stills, Nash
The Doors (though 4 times out of 10 I'll go with Strange Days)
Cheap Trick
Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
George Harrison - All Things...
Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
Ron Wood - I've Got My Own Album...
Blood, Sweat, & Tears
Manassas
Stephen Stills (if you count Manassas as its own band)
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Jeff Beck - Truth
B-52's
Go-Gos - Beauty and the Beat
Guns N' Roses - Appetite
The Clash (U.S. version)
The Cars
Boston
Danzig
Led Zeppelin
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
The Figgs - Lo-Fi At Society High
Pearl Jam - Ten
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace...

i agree that cheap tricks first album is the best

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OK, with Led Zeppelin, for me, what it was is that I have never been so affected by a first LP then I have with that one, It was blues on Steroids with guitar work that drove me nuts. So technically maybe not their best, but it was the one that afftected me the most.

That hard pounding sound and Robert Plants sex simulating vocals were completely new. I remember where I first heard their first record after having been aware of the buzz about it.

I am leaving off Derek and the Dominos as it was more of a 'super group'.

Pretenders - Pretenders 1. A fresh sounds that still sounds great and holds up. Chrissie Hynde had attitude.

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True. Though not backed by The Attractions, it started the sound that his eventual backing band would continue. I remember it being new and so different at the time. (the backing band on this album were members of Clover)

REM - Murmur. Just amazing. Muted vocals. From a band that at that time shunned MTV and music video when many bands were becoming hits aided by videos.

Talking Heads - 77. I remember my brother buying it after hearing Psycho Killer, and how weirdly wonderful the whole record was. One listen and you knew you had something original.

Billy Cobham's Spectrum 1973
Aztec Camera's High Land, Hard Rain 1983
Ted Gärdestad's Undringar 1972



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Ivan & The Parazol

I highly recommend you their fantastic debut album!!

Here:

Looks like this thread is turning from "their debut album is the best they ever made" into a "they had a great debut album" thread...

Television Personalities ...and don't the kids just love it !

The Stranglers, Rattus Norvegicus.
Gene Vincent, Bluejean Bop
Eddie Cochran, Singin' to My Baby.
By the way, Eddie is the first musician working with multitrack recording and overdubbing...

Eddie is also the guy who wrote Twenty Flight Rock when he was just 17 in early 1956, with Nelda ('Ned') Fairchild. Eddie died 21 years old on April 17, 1960 in a car crash, his fiancée Sharon Sheeley and passenger Gene Vincent survived.

When Paul McCartney auditioned for John Lennon on July 6 1957 to join the Quarrymen, his first song was Twenty Flight Rock.
McCartney: "I think what impressed him most was that I knew all the words."








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Speaking of Eddie Cochran, I saw Keith in concert in 93 in Vancouver. He opened the show with an Eddie Cochran song but I can't remember what it was.

Something Else .........



ROCKMAN

Something Else was the fifth album by The Kinks, whereas their debut was eponymous.

I like to start thread like this because I learn a lot and quickly from them. Thank you everybody to share our opinions, expertise and musical secrets. IORR is great!
Rock and roll,
Mops

<<Echo & the Bunnymen>>

Regarding Echo & The Bunnymen, it's their fourth album that is considered their high point, and their second and third albums show a progression to that apex.

The second album Heaven Up Here was their first top 10 album in the UK and featured the song A Promise.





The third album Porcupine made number 2 on the UK charts and brought them their first top 10 single with The Cutter.





The fourth album Ocean Rain contains several of their best known songs.













After the fourth album, their momentum began to slip, their drummer left, and they were unable to follow-up the chart success of their first four albums and run of singles. In addition to Doors covers (notably Soul Kitchen on their eponymous fifth album), they have also occasionally covered the Stones live.