re: Best debut albums

Easy.......... Van FREAKIN Halen.



I win!

Stone Roses
Led Zeppelin
Suede

BOSTON gets my vote!

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If we’re just talking debuts that are that band’s best album, then creed.

if we are talking best debut album overall, nevermind.

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My Own Prison is an underrated album, agreed. However, Nevermind wasn't a debut album.

there's a backstory behind it...

On a February day, Diltz arrived at Burden’s house. “They were sitting on the back stoop singing. What a sound they had! They would go to someone’s house and stand in the corner and sing a song and everybody would just faint, it was so ethereally beautiful, with Graham’s high voice. All three of them had amazing voices and David is one of the best descant singers, the low harmony parts.”


On Burden’s stoop, he says, “it was mind-blowing to hear them sing. They had one guitar and they were just harmonizing. They were in love with the sounds.” To help set the mood, the five of them smoked a couple of joints. “God’s herb kind of sets the mood. When I talk about Laurel Canyon, I say, ‘How do you think all those songs got written?'”

Soon, they piled into Burden’s car. “Gary was like the scout leader,” says Diltz. “He was such a cool guy. He was the guy that you would want to follow anywhere. He was a year or two older than us and had such great taste. He was a natural born leader.

“And we drove around. Graham had seen this little house at some point and we found it, on a little street… Palm Avenue, between Sunset Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. And there was this little funky wooden house, with an old couch sitting outside.


“We jumped out of the car, they piled onto the couch, and I started shooting photos. Framing was the big thing… I had a framing jones. It made me feel balanced to frame things. They’re horizontal, rectangles, and they fit the couch perfectly. There’s the three guys and the couch and, boy, that just framed up perfectly.

“I was snapping away and then Gary said one of the things he always said to me. This one was, ‘Back up! Back up! Get the whole house.’

“So I backed up and backed up and backed up, and I was across the street,” he recalls, laughing. “There were no cars and I got the whole house. I guess in Gary’s mind, he was thinking of an album cover.

“So I did all these shots and then we had to get it developed at Kodak because they were transparencies and you had to send them there. Got them back a day later, two days later and had a slide show.

“When you project these things, you’d get a 12-inch white cardboard square, which would be like an album cover, and you could hold it in the stream of light coming from the projector and you could move it around and see exactly what an album cover would look like.

“And we did that and said, ‘Wow, that would make a great album cover!’”

There was a hitch. “In the time between taking the picture and looking at the picture, which was a couple of days, three days, maybe, they had decided what to call themselves. It was almost gonna be Stills, Nash and Crosby. Because Stephen, famously, played [most of] the instruments on that record. He was really the key musician. The other guys were singers, you know?

“But somehow the idea prevailed that Crosby, Stills and Nash flowed like a nice poetic name. And unfortunately they were in the wrong order. And I do remember some discussion… ‘well, look, you could flop the picture over’. But then Stephen would be holding the guitar as a left-handed player, which he isn’t, which would have caused all sorts of problems,” he laughs.

“I remember in the middle of that discussion, saying, ‘Holy shite… let’s just go back. You guys jump on the couch… what will it take? Five minutes? Just jump up there… bang bang bang.’

“So we got in the car, drove down there, and immediately saw there was no house anymore. The house was gone. As Graham has said, ‘It was a pile of timbers pushed to the back of the lot!'”

When they first saw the album, plenty of new fans assumed Nash was Crosby and vice versa.

Its a shame you can't find that Buckingham Nicks album on anything but vinyl.

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Backinthe615

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That one.


I'll add,

Boston
Pearl Jam Ten
Kill em all
Appetite for Destruction