Led Zeppelin

That's a good choice. I want to think this over before I add my two cents, but the first thing to pop into my head was Fresh Cream by Cream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introducing..._The_Beatles

greatest band of all time, yes...but that first album was pure bubble gum...i loved it, dont get me wrong

pull out Zeppelin's and play it again, simply astounding

Two that come to mind immediately are Portishead Dummy and Pearl Jam Ten.

This is a great album, but it is hardly Madonna's first.

"Little Girl Blue" by Nina Simone

YES!!!!!!!!!!! Did you ever see Zeppelin? OMG!!!!!

I like Nina Simone. I need to buy some more of her stuff on Itunes.

twice, two days in a row on a day on the green oakland...cant say as I remember all that much, but I hear it was pretty good

I misread the name of this thread when I posted my first selection. Let's try this again.

Kill 'em all

Tubes or Boston!

I saw them at the old stadium in SF....and I went to a LOT of Day on the Greens in Oakland...for what, $6.50? Yeah...kinda hard to remember but I do remember it being BIG FUN!!!!

Yeah, I aw them open for BB King at Winterland on their first tour, but I was always a BIG Yardbirds AND BB King fan. Here's another good first album from just another band from LA:




Here's the first Yardbirds record I bought with my paper route money. Dogwoman and I burned a doob with Chris Dreja and Jim Mccarty backstage at the 98 Long Beach Blues festival. We also got Peter Green's autograph and had Cesar Rosas from Los Lobos standing behind us in the autograph line.



And another great First Record:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqqN0_WCS28

John Mayer
Jill Scott
Alicia Keyes
MusiqSoulchild
Fiona Apple
Prince

more to come....hopefully...

rifling thru record collection....

I'm a Slave 4 U - Britney

DEFINITELY! What a great debut album!

This was a hell of a good pick, too.

I was truck by horror at work today when i realized that I had forgotten The best first album I ever listened to. Freddy, forgive me.

Dude,

Might have to agree on this one - I played it on my phongraph until the grooves turned gray and went to total "popcorn." I went to almost every Pretenders concert in the LA area.

If yer a jazz fan, I went total tharn to Don Ellis' Tears of Joy when I was a kid.

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Later, I thought Weather Report's Heavy Weather was killer.

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My family (except me) was a bunch of amateur jazz musicians so I got exposed to all the cool jazz and soul stuff: Henry Franklin (12-tone), RTF, Stanley Turrentine, EWF, etc.

Here goes my favorites.

Birth of the Cool was on the phono at home all the time. So was anything with John Coltrane.

COLTRANE IS THE GREATEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't believe this wasn't here yet, lol...

That is Van Halen 2.

This is the first..

This would be my all time favorite first album.

Without Neil Peart? It's just not the same, but I guess Metallica isn't the same wthout Kirk Hammet either.

Lots of good ones.

I'm tied between Zep's first, which really was a beautifully done piece of work.
Could be one of the best Blues records of all time too....

...and...

Boston. They made it in the basement for crissakes.
It also happens to be flawless. Perfect music.


Of course, I do have the ultimate tie breaker. The REAL best debut album of all time.

I went to a lot of Days on the Green, too. I went to the very first one at Kezar with the Dead, Waylon Jennings and the New Riders. And I seem to remember one with Leon Russell headlining. I think the Beach Boys were at that one, too.

One man does not a band make.

Tell that to Billy Corgan.

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Yep.

He's way too full of himself to listen.

Chicago-Chicago Rapid Transit.

The Wilson girls could kick out the jams with the best of them, but their first is my favorite. More acoustic and light. Some delicious guitar work.

That's a toughie...I'm torn between Hendrix and Zeppelin....
Oh man, the Allman Bros. first record was great, too...

this aint easy...
xoxoxo

Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary

The first Blind Melon record was solid.

I think you mean, "Chicago Transit Authority"

Good choice!....No, GREAT CHOICE!!

Jefferson Starship, Blows Against The Empire:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpUPEYp-t58