Music: Was their first album their best?

[Ben Grimm]

The Doors
Velvet Underground
King Crimson
MC5
Roxy Music
Lynyrd Skynyrd
NY Dolls
Patti Smith
Boston
Ramones
Meat Loaf
Television
The Cars
Devo
Van Halen
The Pretenders

The Band
Leonard Cohen
Stone Roses
The Charlatans
Mick Taylor
Evanescence
The Strokes
The Byrds
UK (Holdsworth, Wetton, Bruford, Jobson)

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[TheGreenTBer]

GNR definitely, their debut album is one of the best debut albums by any artist in any genre in history in my opinion. It crushes from beginning to end.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Not too well versed with the full catalogues of any of those groups, but it never surprises me when a band starts off strong and then there's a gradual decline

 

[I am not exposed]

GNR definitely, their debut album is one of the best debut albums by any artist in any genre in history in my opinion. It crushes from beginning to end.

One of the best albums of all time full stop.

 

[Stylizer1]

Appetite for Destruction is an all time great.

 

[TheAngryHank]

GNR definitely, their debut album is one of the best debut albums by any artist in any genre in history in my opinion. It crushes from beginning to end.

Wrong.....





Kidding ,yeah that was near perfect.

I'll add nevermind and STP core ... and VH

 

[Babe Ruth]

Appetite for Destruction is an all time great.

Best album of the 8os, my opinion.

I'll add Pearl Jam (Ten). Their debut was the best album they ever recorded, and they've recorded a lot..

 

[Stylizer1]

They used the force in this like it was X-Factor magic.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Wrong.....





Kidding ,yeah that was near perfect.

I'll add nevermind and STP core ... and VH

Nevermind was Nirvana's 2nd album. Bleach is the first.

 

[Hierso]

The doors debut was a great album but it isn't my favorite, however i think that Black Sabbath first album is their best one.

 

[justashadowof]

Third Eye Blind
Black Crowes

 

[Ben Grimm]

... Black Crowes

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I thought that until I heard their lesser known second album.

 

[justashadowof]

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I thought that until I heard their lesser known second album.

You have a good point. The 2nd album contains my 2 favourite Crowes' tracks, Hotel Illness and Remedy.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Autopsy’s “Severed Survival” says hello.

 

[Hippasus]

Beherit: The Oath of Black Blood
dISEMBOWLMENT: Transcendence into the Peripheral
Rippikoulu: Musta seremonia
Convulse: World Without God
Repulsion: Horrified
Thergothon: Stream from the Heavens
Celtic Frost: Morbid Tales
Incantation: Onward to Golgotha
Worship: Last Tape Before Doomsday
Skepticism: Stormcrowfleet
Autopsy: Severed Survival
Massacra: Final Holocaust
Von: Satanic Blood
Blasphemy: Fallen Angel of Doom....
Slaughter: Strappado
Merciless: The Awakening
Baphomet: The Dead Shall Inherit
Enslaved: Vikingligr Veldi
Sacramentum: Far Away from the Sun
Grave: Into the Grave
Discharge: Discharge
Bad Brains: Bad Brains
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico
New York Dolls: New York Dolls
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Ramones: Ramones
Suicide: Suicide
Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum
Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine
Big L: Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous

 

[DaaaaB's]

Big L: Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous

One of the best rap albums ever imo. It's just a shame he was murdered after his 2nd album. He could've been a legend, the only MC Nas was afraid to battle with.

Other rap albums I'd put on this list off the top of my head:
Nas - Illmatic
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance
AZ - Doe or Die
Capone'n'Noreaga - The War Report
Noreaga - N.O.R.E.

 

[Hippasus]

One of the best rap albums ever imo. It's just a shame he was murdered after his 2nd album. He could've been a legend, the only MC Nas was afraid to battle with.

That first album has such a dark and real vibe. The jazzy music is great and fits perfectly.

 

[DaaaaB's]

That first album has such a dark and real vibe. The jazzy music is great and fits perfectly.

Yeah, exactly. I've seen some critics knock the production on it but I think it fits perfectly too. There's not a bad track on the album.

 

[frisco]

The Cars, Boston, The Go-Go's, Meat Loaf, Jimi Hendrix for sure.

My Best-Carey

 

[kihei]

The Doors
Velvet Underground
King Crimson
Roxy Music
Ramones
Television
The Cars
Devo
The Pretenders

I would agree with these. Most of the omitted from the original list, I disliked, so no opinion with those.

I would add

The Band
Leonard Cohen
Stone Roses
Pretenders
The Charlatans
Mick Taylor
Evanescence
The Strokes
The Byrds
UK (Holdsworth, Wetton, Bruford, Jobson)

 

[I am not exposed]

The doors debut was a great album but it isn't my favorite, however i think that Black Sabbath first album is their best one.

Nah. I like the first Black Sabbath album but it ranks about 5th. Maybe 4th depending how I'm feeling about Masters of Reality.

Sabotage or Paranoid as the best Black Sabbath album. I also prefer Volume 4.

 

[Sentinel]

GNR
Hammerfall
Master
Masterplan

Sabbath's debut is not even in my top 5. Paranoid, Sabotage, HOH, TMR, and THC are squarely above it, possibly MOR and Tyr as well.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

It is also their only studio album.

 

[The Marquis]

My Takes:

The Doors - Yes
Velvet Underground - Yes
King Crimson - Yes
MC5 - Yes
Roxy Music - HARD NO. For Your Pleasure, Country Life, Siren and Avalon are all better.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - No
NY Dolls - Yes
Patti Smith - No, Radio Ethiopia is better
Boston - Yes
Ramones - Debatable between it Rocket to Russia
Television - Yes
The Cars - Debatable between it and Heartbeat City
Devo - Debatable between it and Freedom of Choice.
Van Halen - Debatable between it and 1984
The Pretenders - Yes
The Band - Yes
Leonard Cohen - Yes, I guess. I'd strongly disagree, but I guess it's hard to argue that it's his "best"
Stone Roses - Yes
The Strokes - Yes
Guns N Roses - Yes
The Go Go's - Yes
Jimi Hendrix - Yes
Sex Pistols - Yes
Suicide - Yes
Bad Brains - Yes
Nine Inch Nails - Debatable between it and The Downward Spiral, but I believe EVERYBODY slept on The Fragile and that it's their best.
Pearl Jam - Yes

 

[TheAngryHank]

High voltage ...however an argument could be made for powerage