most impressive debuts you've ever seen/heard?

[afgrijselijkheid]

this means performance by an actor, film by a 1st time director or album by an artist... but let's make a standard that it should be major label album or sizable role - so kevin costner in 'night shift' wouldn't count and for nirvana pick nevermind instead of bleach - cool?

i'm just getting the ball rolling off the top of my head here...

ACTING

parker posey - dazed & confused
matthew mcconaughey - ditto
ed norton - primal fear
reese witherspoon - man in the moon
robin wright penn - the princess bride
nicholas cage - valley girl
timothy hitton - ordinary people
natalie portman - the professional
matt dillon - over the edge
michael keaton - night shift

DIRECTING

bryan singer - the usual suspects
whit stillman - metropolitan
frank darabont - shawshank redemption
wes anderson - bottle rocket
doulg lyman - swingers
tony kaye - american history X
robert de niro - a bronx tale
sofia coppola - the virgin suicides
steven soderburgh - sex, lies and videotape
cameron crowe - say anything

ALBUM

guns & roses - apettite for destruction
joe jackson - look sharp
REM - murmur
jimi hendrix experience - are you experienced?
led zeppelin - led zeppelin
the pretenders - the pretenders
run DMC - run DMC
the beatles - please please me
john mayer - room for squares
ben folds five - be folds five
bob marley and the wailers - catch a fire
live - live
violent femmes - violent femmes

[afgrijselijkheid]

oh crap!

forgot

ACTING

larenz tate - menace II society

DIRECTING

john singleton - boyz in the hood

[blkbrnrvr]

Album-

Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory

[Frankfurt Blue]

Darkness - Permission to Land
Coldplay - Parachutes
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Jet (from Oz) - Get Born
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

[655321]

the Stone Roses - S/T
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Why don't we make a little rule that you had to have bought it when it was actually released?? I mean, we can all list "Are You Experienced"...lets make it something that affected you upon release.

[Frankfurt Blue]

Originally posted by 655321
the Stone Roses - S/T
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Why don't we make a little rule that you had to have bought it when it was actually released?? I mean, we can all list "Are You Experienced"...lets make it something that affected you upon release.

The Stone Roses album was the only real one - Second Coming failed to live upto the hype. The ep with Sally Cinnamon is the one to get.

I remember getting Frankie Goes to Hollywood 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' when I was obviously much younger, for Christmas. I thought it was brilliant. Shame the 2nd album wasn't really upto much (Liverpool). Plus add to that that it was really down to Trevor Horn, their producer (Buggles, Yes).

[peledre]

If you got Hendrix on there you need Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood.

[peledre]

There's a rumur that a John Mayer live EP w/ Buddy Guy and Double Trouble, could come out next fall from a 2-day set they did at Irving Plaza in NY, the set was amazing, SRV covers and Buddy Guy classics all night. Tommy Shannon said that Mayer reminded him so much of Vaughan it was scary. I wish that could be Mayer's debut album, then people could realize he's an actual guitar player vs. "Your Body is a Wonderland" boy-band wannabe.

[kotzunder]

Album

Omen - Battle Cry

absolutely one of the most impressive debuts

[skipshady]

Outkast - Southerplayalisticadillacmuzik

It's been downhill since then, really.

[afgrijselijkheid]

Originally posted by 655321
Why don't we make a little rule that you had to have bought it when it was actually released?? I mean, we can all list "Are You Experienced"...lets make it something that affected you upon release.


well... my mom bought it - there was always music on in my house when i was a toddler (usually motown, beatles, stones, doors, jolin or elvis) - most of my earliest memories are related to music

[afgrijselijkheid]

Originally posted by peledre
There's a rumur that a John Mayer live EP w/ Buddy Guy and Double Trouble, could come out next fall from a 2-day set they did at Irving Plaza in NY, the set was amazing, SRV covers and Buddy Guy classics all night. Tommy Shannon said that Mayer reminded him so much of Vaughan it was scary. I wish that could be Mayer's debut album, then people could realize he's an actual guitar player vs. "Your Body is a Wonderland" boy-band wannabe.


he's an amazing guitar player from where i'm sittin' - of course he's not a blow your mind wizard, but that's not his thing - frankly, i really struggle to play some of his songs and most artists i can handle

[peledre]

Originally posted by bluedaddy19
frankly, i really struggle to play some of his songs
Which ones?

[afgrijselijkheid]

Originally posted by peledre
Which ones?


most notably neon and 3 X 5

[GringoTex]

"Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles.

[bojendyk]

Originally posted by bluedaddy19
bryan singer - the usual suspects

This wasn't his debut, actually. He directed a smaller movie, Public Access, a few years earlier. It wasn't all that great. It might have been a student film, though, and it's possible that it didn't get distributed/released on video until the Usual Suspects had hit it big.

A couple to add:

Mudhoney "Touch Me, I'm Sick"

Nirvana Bleach

The Pixies Come On, Pilgrim

Jim Jarmusch "Stranger Than Paradise"

[peledre]

Originally posted by bluedaddy19
most notably neon and 3 X 5
I figured those would probably be the two, the Right hand rhythm is tough to get down on neon, I still haven't figured it out. 3x5 is played with a capo on the 8th fret (if you didn't already know), and if you work it enough you'll crack it.

[bmurphyfl]

PsychoCandy - Jesus & Mary Chain
On Avery Island - Neutral Milk Hotel
Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement (I know there were a few EPs before S&E but it was their first full album)
Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian

Murf

[bojendyk]

And I kind of hate to admit it, but the Darkness record is really, really brilliant. "Friday Night" is a perfect power pop song.

[BlueMeanie]

Too many to list, but here's a new one:

Mastodon "Remission" (from 2003) -- The best true metal debut album I've heard in eons. Heavy ******' metal from the ATL area. Great drumming, excellent songwriting, heavy sludge guitars and three of the four guys do vocals. I could see these guys easily winding up considered peers with MetallicaSlayerPanteraSepultura. March of the Fire Ants, Trainwreck, and Workhorse are killer songs. (Free concert DVD comes w/the CD, too!)

Even though their music is way glam-wussier than the above, I also agree with those who named The Darkness. Real fun listen and a considerable debut.

As for old stuff, the two debut records by bands that I bought around the time of their release, and affected me greatly, would be:

Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks"
Metallica "Kill 'Em All"

In both cases, when I heard those records, I hadn't heard anything like them before.