My Top 10 Debut albums...

I just seen this over at UG and thought to myself... What would be my Top 10? I'm not going to go into detail about why I picked these but IMO these are the Top 10 best debut albums. Some of the albums aren't personal favorites of mine but had to be there because, they just had too...
Silverchair - Frogstomp....How I forgot this I have no idea...My fav album of all time...
#1 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd
#2 Boston - S/t
#3 Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
#4 Metallica - Kill em All
#5 Sabbath - S/t
#6 K0rn - S/t
#7 The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
#8 Van Halen - S/t
#9 Pearl Jam - Ten
#10 Led Zeppelin - S/t

Feel free to comment with your top 10... I will follow this by a list of my favorite albums of all time....

Led Zeppelin
Derek And The Dominos-Layla
Van Halen
Black Sabbath
The Allman Brothers Band
Aerosmith
Death Angel-The Ulra-Violence
KISS
Metallica-Kill Em All
Ted Nugent

1. Dio - Holy Diver
2. Helloween - Walls of Jericho
3. Van Halen - VH1
4. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
5. Skid Row
6. Cinderella - Night Songs
7. Chris Caffery - Faces
8. Hollow - Modern Cathedral
9. Axxis - Kingdom of the Night

T-10th: Maiden, Savatage, Testament, Annihilator... can't leave out so many good debut albums.

My personal favorites would have to be...

1. Queensrÿche - The Warning
2. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
3. Labyrinth - No Limits
4. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
5. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
6. Cynic - Focus
7. maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells..A Seed Combustible
8. The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
9. Dark At Dawn - Baneful Skies
10. Opeth - Orchid

This sums up a lot of my listening habits, coincidentally.  

Let's see if I get out of the 1970s with this list (doubtful)....

1. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (no other debut comes even remotely close in importance) (1967)
2. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
4. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)
5. Crosby, Stills & Nash - (1969)
6. The Doors - The Doors (1968)
7. Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill (1972)
8. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
9. Uriah Heep - Very 'eavy, Very 'umble (1970)
10. Bill Withers - Just As I Am (1971)

Nope...didn't make it past 1972...

1.Cheap Trick - S/T
2.Ted Nugent - S/T
3.AC/DC - High Voltage
4.Foreigner - S/T
5.Van Halen - S/T
6.Cinderella - Night Songs
7.Whitesnake - Trouble
8.Kingdom Come - S/T
9.Angel - S/t
10.Starz - S/T

Black Sabbath
Killing is My Business
Seven Churches
Scream Bloody Gore
Never Mind The Bollocks
Iron Maiden
The Distillers
Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Morbid Tales
The Circle & the Blue Door

The list would be different on another day but I've only included albums that I think showed the band at or near to the top of their game (I love Kill em All, but RTL & MOP are much better)

In no particular order and list is subject to change depending on my mood (LOL!)

Iron Maiden - S/T
Metallica - KEA
KISS - S/T
Jimi Hendrix - are you experienced?
Black Sabbath S/T
Van Halen S/T
Ozzy- Blizzard
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Queensryche - The Warning
Ratt - Out Of The Cellar

EDIT: Could easily throw in Dio, Exodus, and Rush

Van Halen. All ten spots.

Not really, but #1 for sure. Will do a top 10 later when more time.

I'm only counting full lengths...

1.) Napalm Death - Scum
2.) Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
3.) Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
4.) Slayer - Show No Mercy
5.) Mercyful Fate - Melissa
6.) Devourment - Molesting The Decapitated
7.) Samhain - Initium
8.) Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
9.) Asphyx - The Rack
10.) Mortician - Hacked Up for Barbecue

Led Zeppelin...1
Jimi Hendrix Experience...Are You Experienced
Queen...1
Ted Nugent...S/T
Van Halen...S/T
Motley Crue...Too Fast For Love
Manowar...Battle Hymns
Alcatrazz...No Parole From Rock N Roll
Keel...Lay Down The Law
Black N Blue...S/T

The ones that came to mind:
Scanner - Hypertrace
Rainbow - RB's Rainbow
Lizzy Borden - Love You to Pieces
Labyrinth - No Limits (good call OCI)
UDO - Animal House
Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend
Metal Church - Metal Church
Titan Force - Titan Force
Lethal - Programmed
Fifth Angel - FIfth Angel

Not necessarily my most beloved from bands' discographies, but still killer.

My list feels like a mix of OCI's and S.D's, with a bit of my own flair.

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells...
Sortilège - Metamorphose
Queensrÿche - The Warning
Protest the Hero - Kezia
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
Titan Force - Titan Force
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied

Those were just some of the first that came to mind, I'm sure there's tons more I'm leaving out.

This is a tough one.

10. Diamond Head
9. Iron Maiden
8. Angel Witch
7. Kiss
6. Death Angel
5. Metallica
4. The Doors
3. Johnny Cash
2. Black Sabbath
1. Van Halen

Runners-up include Annihilator, Slayer, Blue Murder, Exodus, Overkill, Metal Church, Ted Nugent, Hendrix, and a slew of NWOBHM bands.

Not in any particular order but here are my faves :

KISS - KISS
Van Halen - Van Halen
Metal Church - Metal Church
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
Annihilator - Alice In Hell
Overkill - Feel The Fire
Reverend - Reverend
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

My personal favorites would have to be...

1. Queensrÿche - The Warning

Yeah, I guess I didn't think of that as a debut album because of the EP. But obviously it should count, and thus it should've been in my top ten.

Deliverance - s/t
Believer -  Extraction From Mortality
Metallica - kill Em All
The Crucified - s/t
Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice
Tourniquet - Stop The Bleeding      
Black Sabbath - s/t
Haven - Your Dying Day
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Paramaecium - Exhumed Of The Earth

This is harder than I thought it would be... I had 47 that I wrote down

1. Metallica "Kill 'Em All" (Just a seminal record for that movement)
2. Death Angel "The Ultra-Violence" (Teenagers....)
3. RATT "Out of the Cellar" (Easy selection, due to the fact that their albums got appreciably worse...)
4. Motley Crue "Too Fast For Love" (Ditto with RATT)
5. Guns 'n Roses "Appetite For Destruction" (Really their only album I get into)
6. Aerosmith "Aerosmith" (Chock full of good songs)
7. The Outfield "Play Deep" (This album immediately transports me back to '85...ah nostalgia)
8. Keane "Hopes & Fears" (These guys are one of the few pop bands that get me excited these days)
9. KISS "KISS" (Seems to always be forgotten about)
10. John Waite "Ignition" (That perfect middle ground between The Baby's & what was to come)

God I have to think about this, OK here I go:

1-The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced?
2- The Doors- s/t
3- Black Sabbath- s/t
4- Van Halen- s/t
5- Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks
6- Queen- s/t
7- Pink Floyd- A Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8- Oasis- Definitely Maybe
9- Concrete Blonde-S/t
10- Morbid Angel- Altars of Madness

brokentulsa wrote:

Led Zeppelin...1
Jimi Hendrix Experience...Are You Experienced
Queen...1
Ted Nugent...S/T
Van Halen...S/T
Motley Crue...Too Fast For Love
Manowar...Battle Hymns
Alcatrazz...No Parole From Rock N Roll
Keel...Lay Down The Law
Black N Blue...S/T

Nice list

I might add Hendrix and Tesla to my list depending on the mood

MetalRob331 wrote:

I just seen this over at UG and thought to myself... What would be my Top 10?  I'm not going to go into detail about why I picked these but IMO these are the Top 10 best debut albums.  Some of the albums aren't personal favorites of mine but had to be there because, they just had too...
Silverchair - Frogstomp....How I forgot this I have no idea...My fav album of all time...
#1 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd
#2 Boston - S/t
#3 Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
#4 Metallica - Kill em All
#5 Sabbath - S/t
#6 K0rn - S/t
#7 The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
#8 Van Halen - S/t
#9 Pearl Jam - Ten
#10 Led Zeppelin - S/t

Feel free to comment with your top 10...  I will follow this by a list of my favorite albums of all time....

Actually very cool list, interesting you have K orn in there, I like K orn, not one of my favorites, but an excellent debut, and one cannot deny their impact

manny wrote:

MetalRob331 wrote:

I just seen this over at UG and thought to myself... What would be my Top 10?  I'm not going to go into detail about why I picked these but IMO these are the Top 10 best debut albums.  Some of the albums aren't personal favorites of mine but had to be there because, they just had too...
Silverchair - Frogstomp....How I forgot this I have no idea...My fav album of all time...
#1 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd
#2 Boston - S/t
#3 Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
#4 Metallica - Kill em All
#5 Sabbath - S/t
#6 K0rn - S/t
#7 The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
#8 Van Halen - S/t
#9 Pearl Jam - Ten
#10 Led Zeppelin - S/t

Feel free to comment with your top 10...  I will follow this by a list of my favorite albums of all time....

Actually very cool list, interesting you have K orn in there, I like K orn, not one of my favorites, but an excellent debut, and one cannot deny their impact

Ty   That album blew my mind when I first heard it.. I mean... The build up of Blind until he says "ARE YOU READY"     WOW!!! Then songs like Ball Tongue where he spits out those crazy verses and man are those lyrics SICK!!

The album is not only brutal but it was perfect and made a HUGE impact in the metal world...

Mr Davis still to this day has some of the most brutally honest lyrics ever and is one of the best frontmans Ive seen live...

Yeah I was taken for a loop for that first \"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\" single. I felt like I was listening in on someone's nightmare. But that was it. The only \"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\" I can take is the debut, and I really like it. Following albums didn't do it for me. Can't explain why, but then again I'm just not a fan of overly detuned gutter music anyway.

EDIT: sigh...

BTW Rob, good call on Pearl Jam. That was a force to be reckoned with when it came out. Sure was embarrassing to go around singing Alive with a smile on my face only to find out a year later what the song was really about.