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Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 18 2009, 12:27 AM BST

There's some great cover versions on that album...

i knew you were all lying about being big Oasis fans.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 18 2009, 12:27 AM BST

There's some great cover versions on that album...

Showing your age - especially in those plus fours.

Just stumbled across this and expect some more up to date debate.

I think Free's first album "Tons of Sobs" is their best.

20 off the top of my head.

More to follow.

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
The Redskins - Neither Washington Nor Moscow
Edwyn Collins (Solo) - Hope and Despair
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Soul II Soul - Club Classics Volume One
Mano Negra - Puta's Fever
Les Negresses Vertes - Mlah
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The La's - The La's
The Farm - Spartacus
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Gene - Olympian
The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Doves - Lost Souls
The Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike

Quote: bigfella @ 18th September 2009, 2:41 PM BST

Led Zepplin! With their self titled album

I love their debut but why for God's sake does it start with Good Times, Bad Times?...it should start with Communication Breakdown, dammit.

Some More:

Allman Brothers Band by ABB

Black Sabbath by BS

First Issue by PIL

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

Monster Movie by Can

Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix

Murmur by R.E.M.

Roy Orbison - Lonely and Blue

The first album I ever bought and which I still have.

I disagree with Horse. I think Aztec Camera's one with Somewhere in my Heart and Goldfrapp's Ooh la la were better. Can't think of the actual titles off hand. Also was Murmur REM's first?

Quote: Chappers @ 2nd April 2015, 7:41 PM BST

Also was Murmur REM's first?

First long player I think. The Chronic Town EP came first, that's true.

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 2nd April 2015, 7:50 PM BST

First long player I think. The Chronic Town EP came first, that's true.

Quote: Chappers @ 2nd April 2015, 7:41 PM BST

I disagree with Horse. I think Aztec Camera's one with Somewhere in my Heart and Goldfrapp's Ooh la la were better. Can't think of the actual titles off hand. Also was Murmur REM's first?

I agree with Gordon about "Murmur" by REM but disagree on Joy Division. I much prefer "Closer" not that either is easy on the ears. Chappers - Thanks for the comments. It's all viewpoint at the end of the day. Re Aztec Camera, "Somewhere In My Heart" is from "Love" which is a strong commercial album but I really think that "High Land Hard Rain" was the great classic - more acoustic, atmospheric, poetic and an extraordinary debut for a 16 year old. "Ooh La La" was on Goldfrapp's "Supernature". That album is just a bit too modern disco for me, not that I am against the best of the 1970s stuff.

Sex Pistols, the Damned, Crass

Quote: Nil Putters @ 19th September 2009, 1:40 AM BST

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Genesis to Revelation was a nice little pop album, and I was never keen on anything much else they did.

Ryan Adams has never matched his first solo album Heartbreaker.

The self-titled Trader Horne was a brilliant debut album, and they never recorded another one so I guess it is their best.

Thunder - Back Street Symphony

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