Best first albums.

[Muff_Diver]

The Allman Brothers Band

That first album is heavy as fuck.

[tremolo3]

Maps and Atlases - Trees Swallow Houses

This.

TTNG
Slowdive
Shikari
Autolux
True Widow
Sigur Ros
June of 44
The Stooges
Jesu
Placebo (I hate the fucking recording though)
The Clash
Codeine
Battles

I'm not sure if the self titled Slipknot's was the first one but I do like that more than the rest.

[space6oy]

oh yeah. duh.

[Eivind August]

Battles - Mirrored
Can - Monster Movie
King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King
Sajjanu - Pechiku and Quebec
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Soft Machine - Soft Machine
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

etc.

[UglyCasanova]

Mimicking Birds - Mimicking Birds

[popvulture]

The Allman Brothers Band

That first album is heavy as fuck.

Haaaaaa, yus. This is my upbringing, right here.

Also as a couple of people have chimed in, VU's and Stooges' firsts x5000. No idea why I didn't think older when I tossed off a few—those two records might be the most influential debuts ever.

Well, not might be. Gonna just go with are.

[Strange Tales]

Knapsack - Silver Sweepstakes
Toe - Songs, Ideas We Forget
The Vidablue - Our Miracle Point of Contact
Bâton Rouge - Fragments d'eux mêmes (which is one of my favorite albums of all time)
Gospel - The Moon is a Dead World
Giant's Chair - Red and Clear
miscorner/c+llooqtortion - There Was No Scenery
Seam - Headsparks

[lordgalvar]

I agree on:
Dead Kennedys (though Plastic Surgery Disasters might be one slight tick down...but still great)
The Clash

Maybe:
Daft Punk - Homework (though I kinda feel that the first 3 are kinda equal in a lot of respects)

More:
Misfits - Static Age even though it wasn't released until the 1990s
DEVO - Q: Are We Not Men?
UK SUBS - Another Kind of Blues
Vibrators - Pure Mania
Ramones - Ramones
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Nuclear Rabbit - Vicuna
The Jam - In the City (maybe?)
Gauze - Fuckheads (Eh, still kinda torn on that one, but I listen to it the most)
Tranquilizer - Tranquilizer I
The Comes - No Side
KMFDM - Opium
Lords of Acid - Rough Sex

maybe more but my brain ain't working

[casecandy]

Billy Talent are the worst fucking band I have ever seen live.
Hands down and without a shadow of a doubt.

Ah, come on. Nobody gets his foot up on the monitor like that Billy Talent dude



Anyway, I saw them live in 2005, and they were fucking awesome, nailed it, EXCEPT for the fact that he mocked the audience and heckled them.

New Brunswick is a very rural area with a lot of hicks and they listen to the music you'd expect them to.

We're pretty hill people. A lot of people just like to sit in the stands and watch the show with a hit dog or something... moshing never took off. We're more into hippie shuffling. I know a lot of NBers who move to Ontario and they're dancing to bands and people are like, "Why are you dancing?"

ANYWAY.

He was obviously not enthused with the whole idea, and kept calling people up to the front, presumably for circle pits or some shit, and the crowd was like, "Nah, bruh, I'm cool," and he launched into a tirade about it.

"Maybe if we played some Nickelback songs, we'd get you guys up here," he said, "Maybe if I played some fuckin', Pantera or something."

I was more than impressed with the set, but not with the 'tude.

After the show, I went up to him and I was like, "You know what dude, we listen to more than Nickelback and Pantera out here."

He was all like, "Yeah, I know, I was just joking."

I said, "No, no, man, but seriously, if you can't get the crowd moving, that's not the crowd's fault. It's your fault. Maybe you should have booked a 500 capacity instead of a 6,000 capacity. Or maybe if a crowd reacts in a way that's different than you anticipated, you roll with it. But I paid $35 to see you play tonight because I like your music, not because I'm a Hickelback."

He looked me in the eye and said, "You know what, you're right. Sorry about that."

Damn right you're sorry, foot-up-on-the-monitor fuckboy.

Who I really wanted to meet though was Eraserhead himself, Ian D'Sa, to this day someone whom I consider to be one of the most capable and original guitarists there are. He signed my ticket and my CD booklet, both of which are framed on my wall to this day. Some bitch took a photo of me with him and said she'd email it to me but of fucking course she never did.

He told me I had a cool shirt. My Jawbreaker shirt. George Pettit and Dallas Green and (if I remember correctly) Cody chesnuTT all told me that shirt was cool. Damn. Love that shirt.

Then I took a cab over to the pizza place where the rest of my family were already eating because they didn't want to wait in the Canadian-January cold to meet fucking Billy Talent.

[Muff_Diver]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c[/youtube]

[Inconuucl]

Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing

[More_Divebombs]

Quicksand - Slip

[the raytownian]

+1 Codeine. I almost said that, but got tired of making cute album art squares.

[Iommic Pope]

Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing

What?
City was their second album, so I couldn't mention that.

Also, I caught Billy Talent's set while I was having a drinks break at Soundwave one year. They were on the main stage and the caterwaul of awful was impossible to escape.
I'm talking like couldn't play in time, in tune or sing in pitch for the entire set levels of awful.
That sort of thing is not my preferred listening, granted, but I don't hold any grudges about that. If you can't even play your own songs, what the fuck are you doing on a main stage at a huge festival?
So I can't forgive them of that.
Same as I can't forgive Guitar Wolf for being fucking terrible live.
And I loved them before that.

[D.o.S.]

Sometimes bands are awful in a great way, but generally I agree.