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
Darkness - Permission to Land Coldplay - Parachutes Oasis - Definitely Maybe Jet (from Oz) - Get Born Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
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).
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.
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
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
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"
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.
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
And I kind of hate to admit it, but the Darkness record is really, really brilliant. "Friday Night" is a perfect power pop song.
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.
Film: Henry V by Kenneth Branaugh Music: Never Mind the Bullocks - Sex Pistols Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys On - Off Broadway Boston - Boston A Tonic for the Troops - Boomtown Rats