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What is the best debut album of the 2000s?
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 19 November 2009 - 12:04am.
This may not be it, but as I play Employment by Kaiser Chiefs it will be in my top 5.
A great album that I will never tire of.
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Gosh..
What a good question.
I'll have to think about that for a minute.
Right. Two spring to mind.
Faded Seaside Glamour by The Delays
Twelve Stops And Home by The Feeling
Proper pop with all tunes and that. Both utterly brilliant. Both with startlingly mediocre follow-ups.
I've got both of them as well
Completely agree about The Delays follow-up, not sure about The Feeling though.
Yes Lenny
The Feeling were going to be my DA replacements, don't know quite what went wrong. I blame that Sophie Ellis Bextor woman, she married one of them. Apparently she walked into a pub and the barman said, "why the wide face?"
I can't make my mind up between Kasabian and Franz Ferdinand so I'll nominate both.
Yes both Lenny and Dave
I would vote for the Feeling "Twelve stops and home". Rarely out of the car and one that the whole family likes. Maybe the "difficult third album" will see a return to form.
<the distant future - the year 2000>
The album by 'Flight Of The Conchords'.
Hmm odd decade... and moving
Hmm odd decade... and moving soon, so doubly reflective at the moment.
What makes a good debut - stands on its own or indicative of something greater to come?
Anyway my top 4+1 (never can pick one "best"):
Electrelane: Rock it to the Moon
Black Mountain - Black Mountain
Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
... honourable mention: Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago ...I wouldn't have put this had I not seen those songs played live in the summer - they had a life of their own.
Didn't read
question properly. Let me get back to you. As you were. Must be off
I had Trials of Van
I had Trials of Van Occupanther as an excellent candidate but its not their debut. Not that I had heard of them before.
ok
it's Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams
That's easy
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Damn
You got there before me. That's the one though, no contest.
Haven't bought that many debuts in the noughties.
Certainly nothing big from the US/UK. Best by far of the ones I have would be The Badloves 'Get On Board', played more or less monthly at least. Not much known outside Oz though.
Klaxons
Klaxons 'Myths of the Near Future' for me
Still playing it and they were fantastic live when I saw them this year
Interpol
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
If you've never listened to it check out NYC , then Untitled then the whole thing. Love it.
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand a great album their best, Mercury winner and it deserved it
Obviously
the Duckworth-Lewis Method. Even if it's not exactly the first of their respective careers...
Bit leftfield
But I'd like to nominate Tom McRae's self-titled album.
He's never bettered it, imho
Funeral - Arcade Fire
followed by
Kasabian - Kasabian
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Two from the US
"Now Here is Nowhere" by the Secret Machines. Best Bonham-type drumming since, well, Bonham. Light and shade. Cryptic lyrics. LOUD!
and
"De-Loused in the Comatorium" by the Mars Volta. Surprising that a concept, proggy album could be a hit in 2004. Stunning, impassioned playing and singing. More cryptic lyrics. Incredible dynamics. Still TMV's best album.
The Strokes
Is this it - The Strokes. I can still put it on and go the whole way through. Not tottaly original I grant you but a great sound and particulary welcome at the time i rememeber.
For your consideration:
Asleep in the back - Elbow
Tom Mcrae's debut (as suggested by Robram)
or
(very small voice, furtive looking around to make sure no-one's coming at him with a frying pan)
Parachutes - Coldplay
(am I REALLY the odd one out here? does no one else think this is a wonderful debut?)
I still really like it
Had to check it was made this decade (as with Tom McRae).
I don't own all the Coldplay albums, but I do think that it's a far sparser, less overblown collection of songs than the later stuff I've got or have heard.
Spies is a particular favourite
They seem to attract a certain scepticism around here, but
it really is 'Funeral' by Arcade Fire
Neon Bible is more of an "album"
I like just about every track on that album and I would rate some of them as excellent but I find listening to them all in one go really hard work. I don't think that Neon Bible suffers in the same way despite the individual songs not being as strong.
Another vote
For the georgeous debut from Tom Mcrae but I've also got a soft spot for The Airborne Toxic Event disc.
Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
Mrs S. got me into them after we went to see them with about a hundred people in a sweaty dive bar in Houston. They were wonderful.
Here is a sample
The Streets
Burial
Dizzee Rascal
M.I.A.
The Decemberists
Endless Boogie
Wooden Shjips
Grinderman
were all pretty good
I think I'd go for M.I.A. as the pick of the bunch
Doves
Lost Souls.
And the next three were also triffic.