Best debut album

The young shockey furnishes his home office, while The Bronx Is Burning!

 

Great story. I can sympathize with your critic. In my music mag days in 1987-88 we received boxes of albums (yes, vinyl) every month and almost everything was shit.

The Pretenders' debut was a remarkably tough, self-assured record. They never quite sounded like that again in large part due to the death of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott who, had he lived, might have garnered a mention or two on the Best Guitarist thread. As it is, his solo in "Tattooed Love Boys" is awesome, one of my all-time faves.

Shockey, not sure if you know that the debut has been rereleased with a second disc of demos and live stuff. Very cool.

 

appreciate the heads up!!

 

All this and no one brings up Greetings from Asbury Park? Perhaps not "the best ever," but damn good.
And I'm glad someone early threw out The Band's Big Pink.

 

I'll echo the comments for Elvis Costello's "My Aim Is True," Nick Lowe's "Jesus of Cool," "The Clash," and X's "Los Angeles."

And I'll add...

The English Beat, "I Just Can't Stop It"
Joe Jackson, "Look Sharp"
Echo & the Bunnymen, "Crocodiles"

Has anyone mentioned the first Van Halen album?

 

Spinal Tap's debut album.

 

1) The Pretenders
2) Lone Justice
3) Elvis Costello -- My Aim Is True

Honorable mention of sorts to Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1974 album. Yeah, they had a dozen or so albums before then, but this was the debut of Buckingham/Nicks. It wasn't as good as Rumors but, then again, what was?

 

Asbury Park. Springsteen. Still underappreciated.

 

Two very good calls, there. Those albums still sound great today.

I'll also add Rockpile's only album, Seconds Of Pleasure, and two from the country section: Guitar Town by Steve Earle and Guitars, Cadillacs Etc. Etc. by Dwight Yoakam.