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Best debut album in the last 20 years

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    #62
    mosstin
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    dots03 wrote: »
    Good call on Young Team...an amazing debut album by a band that continues to keep me listening almost 20 years after first hearing them.

    There were lots of amazing debuts around the early to mid 90s with many of them now cemented as classics in the history of music. For me personally Grace by Jeff Buckley stands out. It's a real tragedy he never got a chance to follow it up.

    Just outside the 20 year criteria but worth a mention anyway is Ten by Pearl Jam... I still listen to it from start to finish every couple of months.

    Grace is also just outside the 20 year period. Released in 1994.


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    #63
    Foreign Sports
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    dots03 wrote: »
    Good call on Young Team...an amazing debut album by a band that continues to keep me listening almost 20 years after first hearing them.

    There were lots of amazing debuts around the early to mid 90s with many of them now cemented as classics in the history of music. For me personally Grace by Jeff Buckley stands out. It's a real tragedy he never got a chance to follow it up.

    Just outside the 20 year criteria but worth a mention anyway is Ten by Pearl Jam... I still listen to it from start to finish every couple of months.

    He did have a second album, sketches for my sweetheart, the drunk. Although I think it was released posthumously.

    Edit: While i'm here, Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams is an amazing album. Think it qualifies as a debut album for him as it was solo.


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    #64
    sheesh
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    Everythin coming up Milhouse wrote: »
    Probably because Boxer is their fourth album!

    whoops!:o


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    #65
    Anesthetize
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    Foreign Sports wrote: »
    He did have a second album, sketches for my sweetheart, the drunk. Although I think it was released posthumously.
    It wasn't a proper album though it was a collection of demos for what could have been his second album My Sweetheart, The Drunk. Hence the name Sketches for My Sweetheart, The Drunk. Some good songs on it but it was still rough around the edges and far from being the finished article. And yes his mother controversially released it after he had died.


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    #66
    lewisdhead
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    John Murry-The Graceless Age.


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    #67
    D-FENS
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    White Lies – To Lose My Life

    Honourable mentions:
    Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
    Kasabian – Kasabian
    Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand


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    #68
    dots03
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    Anesthetize wrote: »
    It wasn't a proper album though it was a collection of demos for what could have been his second album My Sweetheart, The Drunk. Hence the name Sketches for My Sweetheart, The Drunk. Some good songs on it but it was still rough around the edges and far from being the finished article. And yes his mother controversially released it after he had died.

    It was inevitable that any demos etc. would be released at some stage, given the high regard everybody had for his talent. I personally don't view it at as an album either. Like you said, it's very rough, and he could have scrapped everything and started again from scratch (which is not an unheard of choice when recording an album).


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    #69
    IamNotNumber
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    the fischerpooner album #1 (2001) deserves a mention..is it a debut I think so some amazing and influential tracks like emerge,sweetness and natural disaster ..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxrq5spkU-E


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    #70
    ned rierson
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    IamNotNumber wrote: »
    Eagulls,Sleaford Mods? and ought all excellent debuts from last year.
    Bummed that eagulls gig didnt happen they were on fire at that time.

    i think last years album by sleaford mods was their 6th or 7th


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    #71
    IamNotNumber
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    ned rierson wrote: »
    i think last years album by sleaford mods was their 6th or 7th

    Could be, actually dunno why I mentioned them at all! Ought was the standout debut record from last year.


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    #72
    ahlookit
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    Couple that just about sneak in the 20 year rule:
    Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
    Sparklehorse - Vivadixie....

    Doves - Lost Souls
    Interpol - TOTBL
    Sigur Ros - Agaetis byrjun
    British Sea Power - The decline of BSP


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    #73
    Anesthetize
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    Von was the debut Sigur Ros album, not Agaetis byrjun.


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    #74
    Icaras
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    Travis - Good feeling
    Damien Rice - O


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    #75
    ahlookit
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    Anesthetize wrote: »
    Von was the debut Sigur Ros album, not Agaetis byrjun.

    Damn, yeah I forgot about Von.

    What band calls their second album "an alright start"???


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    #76
    Cosmicfox
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    Lungs-Florence and the machine (deluxe version)

    I've never heard an album as good and I don't know if she'll ever top it. Which is funny, because at first I regretted buying it. But it eventually grew on me and it's now the only album that I've never tired of. It's such a good mix of big, huge sounding anthems and more stripped back raw songs. Also helped me get an A in my leaving cert with a story inspired by Bird song.


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    #77
    Everythin coming up Milhouse
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭Everythin coming up Milhouse


    A few that haven't been mentioned that are possibly worth a mention...

    Crystal Castles - I
    The Postal Service - Give Up
    Sufjan Stevens - A Sun Came
    Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
    LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
    The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
    Queens of the Stoneage - Queens of the Stoneage
    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    At the Drive In - Acrobatic Tenement
    Purity Ring - Shrines
    Drenge - Drenge
    Diiv - Oshin
    WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
    The Microphones - Don't Wake Me Up
    Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose
    A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts...

    Overall if I had to pick one it would be Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (with Alt-J - An Awesome Wave being a close second).


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    #78
    threein99
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    theteal wrote: »
    Stereophonics - Word Gets Around

    The follow ups never got near it!
    ShaneU wrote: »
    I've listened to Vampire Weekend, The Killers, The Strokes and Arctic Monkey's debuts a ridiculous amount. Find it hard to pick just one.


    Would have to agree with the Strokes, Arctic Monkeys and Stereophonics.

    The Darkness debut album was pretty good too :D

    JJ72 had a brilliant one and The Libertines, i could go on for a while yet, I would probably go for the Arctic Monkeys debut as I'm still a huge fan of theirs


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