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chreen from In Your Mind Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Jul 24th 2011 at 4:04:16 PM

What it says at the top.

It's metafiction about metafiction about metafiction. More serious message: Don't you wish you watch everything that happens in the wo
dxman Since: Oct, 2009
#2: Jul 24th 2011 at 4:14:14 PM

Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan

Eddie Money by Eddie Money

Weezer by Weezer

Loverboy by Loverboy

Spring Session M by Missing Persons

Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

And a host of others.

edited 24th Jul '11 4:14:31 PM by dxman

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wuggles (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#3: Jul 24th 2011 at 4:20:08 PM

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill

19 by Adele

sca_punk Not-Not-Not Your Academy from sca_punk's computer Since: Apr, 2010
Not-Not-Not Your Academy
#4: Jul 24th 2011 at 4:36:02 PM

  • Arcade Fire - Funeral
  • DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
  • Kanye West - The College Dropout
  • Oasis - Definitely Maybe
  • Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
  • Say Anything - ...is a Real Boy
  • Television - Marquee Moon

They're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail. http://www.last.fm/user/sca_punk
ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#5: Jul 24th 2011 at 4:56:56 PM

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

...I sense a trend.

no one will notice that I changed this
inane242 Anwalt der Verdammten from A B-Movie Bildungsroman Since: Nov, 2010
Anwalt der Verdammten
#6: Jul 24th 2011 at 4:58:57 PM

Freestylers - We Rock Hard

...They managed to get a guest appearance by Soulsonic Force on the title track.

The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.
MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#7: Jul 24th 2011 at 5:13:31 PM

  • Starflyer 59: Silver
  • Runforyerlife: Runforyerlife
  • Gileah: The Golden Planes
  • Five Iron Frenzy: Upbeats and Beatdowns
  • Hybrid: Wide Angle

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#8: Jul 24th 2011 at 8:01:14 PM

  • Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
  • Nas - Illmatic
  • The Protomen - The Protomen

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#9: Jul 24th 2011 at 8:39:57 PM

  • Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (it's no Paul's Boutique, but it's a great album)
  • Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
  • Metallica - Kill 'Em All
  • Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
  • Nirvana - Bleach (is there a such thing as a bad Nirvana album?)
  • Radiohead - Pablo Honey (This really isn't a bad album. At all.)
  • Weezer - Weezer

More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/
NEO from Qrrbrbirlbel Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#10: Jul 24th 2011 at 9:13:04 PM

  • Axenstar - Perpetual Twilight
  • Ill Niño - Revolution Revolucción
  • Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design
  • Disturbed - The Sickness

Avoiding bands with less than 3 albuns, though.

No regret shall pass over the threshold!
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Jul 24th 2011 at 9:22:07 PM

Weezer - The Blue Album
Portishead - Dummy
They Might Be Giants - self-titled
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
REM - Murmur
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (or Come On Pilgrim if you count that as an "album", both are pretty awesome)\\

edited 3rd Aug '11 9:38:13 AM by MikeK

ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#12: Jul 24th 2011 at 9:40:29 PM

Oh yes, Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Also

  • Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
  • Zappa - Freak Out!
  • King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

no one will notice that I changed this
thelittleman66 gobblygoop from Deep in Chris-Chan's ego Since: Mar, 2011
gobblygoop
#13: Jul 24th 2011 at 10:01:50 PM

The Jimi Hendrix Experience- "You are Experienced"

Metallica- "Kill 'Em All"

What do ya mean I ain't kind? Just not your kind...
Alichains Since: Aug, 2010
#14: Jul 25th 2011 at 3:19:23 AM

Wu-Tang Clan — 36 Chambers

Coheed and Cambria — Second Stage Turbine Blade

Rage Against The Machine — Rage Against the Machine

Sonata Arctica — Ecliptica - Yeah, it's rather cheesy, still like it though.

DarkDecapodian The Prodigal Returns from the fold Since: Apr, 2009
The Prodigal Returns
#15: Jul 25th 2011 at 3:49:48 AM

Tool - Undertow
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Pitchshifter - Industrial
Nas - Illmatic
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Khanate - Khanate
Gravediggaz - Niggamortis/6 Feet Deep

edited 25th Jul '11 3:50:05 AM by DarkDecapodian

Aww, did I hurt your widdle fee-fees?
KitsuneInferno Jackass Detector from East Tennessee Since: Apr, 2009
Jackass Detector
#16: Jul 25th 2011 at 3:59:53 AM

  • The Doors - The Doors
  • The Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea
  • Sadistik - The Balancing Act
  • DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
  • Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.
AsTheAnointed Since: Jan, 2010
#17: Jul 25th 2011 at 5:29:18 AM

Ahh, at last a 'best of' list in which I can leave Dream Theater out (their debut album is easily their worst due to weak vocals, production that is poor even by 80s standards and songwriting that generally focuses on sounding as much like a more widdly Rush as possible instead of actual songwriting). In fact, pretty much every pre-2000s band I like has a debut album that their later work eclipses by miles, so I'm going to stick with more recent bands:

  • Circus Maximus - The First Chapter
  • Fightstar - Grand Unification
  • Koi - In Tomorrow Hid Yesterday
  • Masterplan - Masterplan

And an exception to the rule, since it's a 90s extreme metal classic:

  • Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#18: Jul 25th 2011 at 7:52:27 AM

  • Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant
  • Five Pointe O - Untitled
  • Ghost Machine - Ghost Machine
  • Gorillaz - Gorillaz
  • King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
  • Lamb Of God - New American Gospel
  • Racer X - Street Lethal

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#19: Jul 26th 2011 at 12:55:03 PM

Big & Rich, Horse of a Different Color. If you hated "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" and/or hate country in general, give it a listen. It's kinda like Queen, the Everly Brothers, Barenaked Ladies and Kid Rock's good side all thrown in a blender and turned up to 12.

Also, an obscure band called The Tractors put out a killer debut in 1994. "Baby Likes to Rock It" is a major Ear Worm and all the other songs are gritty and fun jams. Loads and loads of guest musicians.

iamathousandapples The Collective from Northeast Ohio Megablob Since: Oct, 2009
The Collective
#20: Jul 28th 2011 at 1:35:13 AM

Tom Waits - Closing Time
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
The Sisters of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#(Infinity)
Riverside - Out Of Myself

edited 28th Jul '11 1:35:40 AM by iamathousandapples

"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl Pilkington
LolipodDistortion HIP HOP HIPSTER from Austin, Texas Since: Aug, 2010
HIP HOP HIPSTER
#21: Aug 2nd 2011 at 9:52:00 AM

  • Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
  • Nas - Illmatic
  • Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang: 36 Chambers
  • Nirvana - Bleach
  • Tool - Opiate (Technically an EP but SHUT UP)
  • Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
  • Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped have all become my pets
JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#22: Aug 2nd 2011 at 2:33:16 PM

Hmm... Here are a few, ranking less as favourites than as simply demonstrably strong debuts:

  • Wire, Pink Flag *
  • Jandek, Ready for the House
  • Talking Heads, Talking Heads '77
  • Skullflower, Form Destroyer
  • Ludus, The Seduction
  • Have a Nice Life, Deathconsciousness
  • Nurse With Wound, A Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
  • The United States of America, The United States of America
  • Kukl, The Eye
  • The Cure, Three Imaginary Boys
  • Harvey Milk, Harvey Milk *
  • Echo and the Bunnymen, Crocodiles
  • The Decemberists, Castaways and Cut-outs
  • The Pop Group, Y
  • Throbbing Gristle, The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle
  • Cabaret Voltaire, Extended Play
  • REM, Murmur
  • AMM, AMM Music 1966

I could go on...

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
LolipodDistortion HIP HOP HIPSTER from Austin, Texas Since: Aug, 2010
HIP HOP HIPSTER
#23: Aug 2nd 2011 at 2:54:33 PM

A couple more:

  • Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
  • Madvillain - Madvillainy
  • Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped have all become my pets
LordKhrima Lord Khrima Since: Jul, 2011
#24: Aug 2nd 2011 at 9:59:14 PM

Melissa by Mercyful Fate is one of my favorites.

edited 2nd Aug '11 10:08:32 PM by LordKhrima

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#25: Aug 18th 2011 at 7:33:59 PM

The Slim Shady LP isn't Eminem's first album. tongue

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!

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