It's kind of a 7" AND 12". The grooves are like a 7", but the entire record is the size of a 12" EP, sort of. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bli...-the-coolest-and-most-creative-vi-t48309.html
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Thanks, I found it listed on Discogs, it is weird but funny! Mind you the Genre is listed as Electronic, Pop, Children's, but with its track listing I'm doubting the last genre!
Led Zeppelin
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina - Sittin In'
Jimmi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced ?
Boston
Al Kooper - I Stand Alone
America
Skyhooks - Living in the 70's
The Eagles
Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M
Billy Field - Bad Habits
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Eric Carmen (well maybe not so much with side 2 being a bit boring)
Ricky Lee Jones
Crosby Stills and Nash
Crosby,Stills Nash and Young (might be cheating here)
Crowded House...(the left over remnants of Split Enz revamped)
Daddy Cool - Daddy who? Daddy Cool
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners (the original not the Rhino remix obination)
Neil Young
The Numbers
Dire Straits
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (well i didn't see Walter Becker in the credits)
Emerson,Lake and Palmer
Eric Burdon And The Animals - Winds Of Change
Little River Band
Gordon Lightfoot - Lightfoot!
The Beatles - Please,Please,Me
Heatwave - Too Hot To Handle
Icehouse (or for those early adopters it came out originally titled as The Flowers - Icehouse)
Imelda May - No Turning Back
Iron Butterfly - Heavy
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Midnight Sugar
Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr Bojangles
Phoebe Snow
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
J.J. Cale - Naturally
Jacques Loussier Trio - Play Bach no 1
James Newton Howard & Friends
James Taylor
Jimmy Webb - Words and Music
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Creighton - Hollywell
Johnny Diesel - Hepfidelity
Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagull
Julie London - Julie Is Her Name
Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
Klaatu
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Leo Sayer - Just a Boy
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar
Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Manfred Mann - The Five Faces of Manfred Mann
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Mr Bungle
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Robbie Robertson
Ronnie Burns - Ronnie (the next best thing to putting in an early Bee Gees lp...but I cant put in bee gees 1st becuase it was actually their third lp...just like "Elton John" is his second lp)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club (her second lp attempt...the first one was cancelled)
Stevie Wright - Hard Road (virtually an easybeats album)
Suzanne Vega
The B-52's
thats enough for one day
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina - Sittin In'
Jimmi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced ?
Boston
Al Kooper - I Stand Alone
America
Skyhooks - Living in the 70's
The Eagles
Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M
Billy Field - Bad Habits
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Eric Carmen (well maybe not so much with side 2 being a bit boring)
Ricky Lee Jones
Crosby Stills and Nash
Crosby,Stills Nash and Young (might be cheating here)
Crowded House...(the left over remnants of Split Enz revamped)
Daddy Cool - Daddy who? Daddy Cool
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners (the original not the Rhino remix obination)
Neil Young
The Numbers
Dire Straits
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (well i didn't see Walter Becker in the credits)
Emerson,Lake and Palmer
Eric Burdon And The Animals - Winds Of Change
Little River Band
Gordon Lightfoot - Lightfoot!
The Beatles - Please,Please,Me
Heatwave - Too Hot To Handle
Icehouse (or for those early adopters it came out originally titled as The Flowers - Icehouse)
Imelda May - No Turning Back
Iron Butterfly - Heavy
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Midnight Sugar
Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr Bojangles
Phoebe Snow
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
J.J. Cale - Naturally
Jacques Loussier Trio - Play Bach no 1
James Newton Howard & Friends
James Taylor
Jimmy Webb - Words and Music
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Creighton - Hollywell
Johnny Diesel - Hepfidelity
Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagull
Julie London - Julie Is Her Name
Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
Klaatu
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Leo Sayer - Just a Boy
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar
Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Manfred Mann - The Five Faces of Manfred Mann
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Mr Bungle
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Robbie Robertson
Ronnie Burns - Ronnie (the next best thing to putting in an early Bee Gees lp...but I cant put in bee gees 1st becuase it was actually their third lp...just like "Elton John" is his second lp)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club (her second lp attempt...the first one was cancelled)
Stevie Wright - Hard Road (virtually an easybeats album)
Suzanne Vega
The B-52's
thats enough for one day
Oh man - I remember when I first had that one...to my ears, it was some of the most refreshing, interesting and jamming stuff I'd ever heard. Yes, a killer debut...that I forgot about.
ok here's part 2...... it took a while to put those others up...but since I've made it to the "t" section of my collection..it shouldn't take too long...i think.....
The Band - Music From Big Pink
(on reflection I prefer the follow up,self titled effort, but this lp has "the weight" on it)
The Big 3
( the american folk group with Mama Cass...not everyone's cup of tea but great recording quality and when you play "the banjo song" you instantly think of "Venus" by "Shocking blue" ....which came out about 7 years later)
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band - Wangaratta Wahine
(The australian EMI vinyl of this is fantastic..and the follow up "smoke dreams" was released in quad in the USA)
The Cars
The Dingoes
The Divinyls - Desperate
The Doobie Brothers
(and then years later they release their 1970 demo tape "Introducing The Doobie Brothers"...and it's just as good...and full of songs they didn't use anywhere else.)
The Doors
The Gipsy Kings - Allegria (best version of Djobi, Djoba)
The Hollies - Stay With The Hollies
(not as good as The Beatles but their version of "Mr Moonlight" on this lp is sure better than the beatles' version)
The Jam - In The City
The Kill Devil Hills - Heathen Songs
The Kinks - Kinks (You Really Got Me)
The Loved Ones - The Loved Ones' Magic Box
(ASTOR vinyl only DO NOT get the cd/LP re issues they all suck for different reasons)
The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
The Master's Apprentices (ok it's a rather patchy lp but it's got "undecided" on it)
The Monkees (well I was five years old at the time)
The Pretenders - Pretenders (it's sad half the original band died after the second lp)
The Rolling Stones
The Twilights
The Who - My Generation
(sounds better in the true stereo remix and best if you can find the vinyl of that as the true stereo cd has digital brick wall compression)
The Young Rascals
The Turtles - It Ain't Me Babe
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Alison Moyet - Alf
UB40 - Signing Off
(you may only know UB40 from their boring,smaltzy,please turn this crap off, middle of the road singles but this is as far removed from that as Stevie Wonder's "Talking book" is from the "Soundtrack to the Woman in Red"... a nice debut that turned out to be completely unsustainable for the group in any trace or form)
and last but not least my favourite lp of last year...
The Teskey Brothers - Half Mile Harvest
(available from their website.. they dont sound like a group from Warrandyte thats a few miles from my house in Melbourne...they sound like they're from Muscle Shoals !! check out the lead vocals on the first track "Crying Shame"...recorded in their Warrandyte house on a studer 24 track analogue)
The Band - Music From Big Pink
(on reflection I prefer the follow up,self titled effort, but this lp has "the weight" on it)
The Big 3
( the american folk group with Mama Cass...not everyone's cup of tea but great recording quality and when you play "the banjo song" you instantly think of "Venus" by "Shocking blue" ....which came out about 7 years later)
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band - Wangaratta Wahine
(The australian EMI vinyl of this is fantastic..and the follow up "smoke dreams" was released in quad in the USA)
The Cars
The Dingoes
The Divinyls - Desperate
The Doobie Brothers
(and then years later they release their 1970 demo tape "Introducing The Doobie Brothers"...and it's just as good...and full of songs they didn't use anywhere else.)
The Doors
The Gipsy Kings - Allegria (best version of Djobi, Djoba)
The Hollies - Stay With The Hollies
(not as good as The Beatles but their version of "Mr Moonlight" on this lp is sure better than the beatles' version)
The Jam - In The City
The Kill Devil Hills - Heathen Songs
The Kinks - Kinks (You Really Got Me)
The Loved Ones - The Loved Ones' Magic Box
(ASTOR vinyl only DO NOT get the cd/LP re issues they all suck for different reasons)
The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
The Master's Apprentices (ok it's a rather patchy lp but it's got "undecided" on it)
The Monkees (well I was five years old at the time)
The Pretenders - Pretenders (it's sad half the original band died after the second lp)
The Rolling Stones
The Twilights
The Who - My Generation
(sounds better in the true stereo remix and best if you can find the vinyl of that as the true stereo cd has digital brick wall compression)
The Young Rascals
The Turtles - It Ain't Me Babe
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Alison Moyet - Alf
UB40 - Signing Off
(you may only know UB40 from their boring,smaltzy,please turn this crap off, middle of the road singles but this is as far removed from that as Stevie Wonder's "Talking book" is from the "Soundtrack to the Woman in Red"... a nice debut that turned out to be completely unsustainable for the group in any trace or form)
and last but not least my favourite lp of last year...
The Teskey Brothers - Half Mile Harvest
(available from their website.. they dont sound like a group from Warrandyte thats a few miles from my house in Melbourne...they sound like they're from Muscle Shoals !! check out the lead vocals on the first track "Crying Shame"...recorded in their Warrandyte house on a studer 24 track analogue)
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Buckingham Nicks.... The only album in their catalog..... still never released on a digital medium as far as I know.
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My favorite debut albums:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced?
Santana-Santana
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation by King Crimson)
The Mars Volta-De-Loused In The Comatorium
Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Boston-Boston
The Cars-The Cars
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin
Chicago-The Chicago Transit Authority
U.K.-U.K.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced?
Santana-Santana
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation by King Crimson)
The Mars Volta-De-Loused In The Comatorium
Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Boston-Boston
The Cars-The Cars
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin
Chicago-The Chicago Transit Authority
U.K.-U.K.
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Three favourites which I haven’t seen mentioned (read fast so I might have missed out):
Bad Company - s/t (Give me in 5.1!)
What a great sounding record and there is only one Paul Rodgers.
Stone Roses - s/t (this would also be a treat in surround!)
Liam Gallagher can talk about how much Beatles and Sex Pistols inspired him, but the confident Ian Brown is definitely more visible in Liam than any other artist. These are great, colorful tunes.
ABC - Lexicon of Love (my most wanted 5.1-mix!)
Funk it up with Trevor Horn, fantastic arrangements, witty lyrics, great punchy sound and a very sophisticated sound considering their young age. They didn’t become better than this!
Bad Company - s/t (Give me in 5.1!)
What a great sounding record and there is only one Paul Rodgers.
Stone Roses - s/t (this would also be a treat in surround!)
Liam Gallagher can talk about how much Beatles and Sex Pistols inspired him, but the confident Ian Brown is definitely more visible in Liam than any other artist. These are great, colorful tunes.
ABC - Lexicon of Love (my most wanted 5.1-mix!)
Funk it up with Trevor Horn, fantastic arrangements, witty lyrics, great punchy sound and a very sophisticated sound considering their young age. They didn’t become better than this!
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Here's a (possibly) contentious one: Iron Maiden's eponymous debut. It captured the feel of the times perfectly; a fusion of heavy metal delivered with a visceral punk edge, thanks to Di'Anno's exceptional vocal performances. The contentious bit is that I still don't think they've bettered it! 
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Here's a (possibly) contentious one: Iron Maiden's eponymous debut. It captured the feel of the times perfectly; a fusion of heavy metal delivered with a visceral punk edge, thanks to Di'Anno's exceptional vocal performances. The contentious bit is that I still don't think they've bettered it!
I agree, and what a year 1980 was for rock albums - especially for me as an impressionable 13 year old! Debuts from Maiden, Def Leppard, Michael Schenker, Girlschool, Ozzy Osbourne....alongside albums from established acts - Sabbath’s Heaven And Hell, AC/DC’s Back in Black, Gillan with Glory Road, Motorhead’s Ace of Spades, Priest’s British Steel, Rush’s Permanent Waves, and many more... Great times!
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It is a wonderful debut, I bought the LP when it was first released and I thought I'd found gold. Yes, Di'Anno was a great vocalist on that album....I agree.Here's a (possibly) contentious one: Iron Maiden's eponymous debut. It captured the feel of the times perfectly; a fusion of heavy metal delivered with a visceral punk edge, thanks to Di'Anno's exceptional vocal performances. The contentious bit is that I still don't think they've bettered it!
I remember very well when I purchased Queensryche debut EP in 1983. I was simply astounded by the raw power and sound...and oh that voice.
OK, Moby Grape is my all-time favorite album, debut or otherwise.
So many albums you guys picked are deserving.
IMHO, these are all spectacular first albums:
+ denotes their best album in my opinion
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill +
Laura Nyro - More than a New Discovery (aka First Songs)
Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina - Sittin In'
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Steve Miller Band - Children of the Future
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Coke Escovedo - Coke +
Phoebe Snow +
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Phil Ochs - All the News That's Fit to Sing
James Taylor +
Tim Buckley
Art Garfunkel - Angel Clare
McCartney
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends +
Big Brother & the Holding Co.
Lani Hall - Sundown Lady +
Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagulll
Stardrive (Robert Mason) - Intergalactic Trot +
The Band - Music From Big Pink +
Joan Baez
Country Joe & the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind & Body +
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar +
Cryan' Shames - Sugar & Spice
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Quicksilver Messenger Service +
Rickie Lee Jones +
Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin' +
Crosby Stills and Nash (1st album)
Larry Coryell & the Eleventh House +
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced ?
Ballin'Jack +
Boston +
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly +
Eagles
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Al Kooper - I Stand Alone
America +
Kenny Loggins - Celebrate Me Home +
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Santana
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Doors
Dreams (feat. Brecker Brothers, Billy Cobham & John Abercrombie) +
The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
Azteca +
The Monkees
Taj Mahal +
The Who - My Generation
Spirit (listening to the mono version of this as I type)
Led Zeppelin
Traveling Wilburys +
Chicago Transit Authority
Billy Cobham - Spectrum +
Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show
Dire Straits
Paul Simon
Gordon Lightfoot - Lightfoot!
Rotary Connection +
The Beatles - Please Please Me
Likely I'll think of a few more
So many albums you guys picked are deserving.
IMHO, these are all spectacular first albums:
+ denotes their best album in my opinion
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill +
Laura Nyro - More than a New Discovery (aka First Songs)
Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina - Sittin In'
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Steve Miller Band - Children of the Future
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Coke Escovedo - Coke +
Phoebe Snow +
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Phil Ochs - All the News That's Fit to Sing
James Taylor +
Tim Buckley
Art Garfunkel - Angel Clare
McCartney
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends +
Big Brother & the Holding Co.
Lani Hall - Sundown Lady +
Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagulll
Stardrive (Robert Mason) - Intergalactic Trot +
The Band - Music From Big Pink +
Joan Baez
Country Joe & the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind & Body +
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar +
Cryan' Shames - Sugar & Spice
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Quicksilver Messenger Service +
Rickie Lee Jones +
Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin' +
Crosby Stills and Nash (1st album)
Larry Coryell & the Eleventh House +
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced ?
Ballin'Jack +
Boston +
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly +
Eagles
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Al Kooper - I Stand Alone
America +
Kenny Loggins - Celebrate Me Home +
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Santana
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Doors
Dreams (feat. Brecker Brothers, Billy Cobham & John Abercrombie) +
The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
Azteca +
The Monkees
Taj Mahal +
The Who - My Generation
Spirit (listening to the mono version of this as I type)
Led Zeppelin
Traveling Wilburys +
Chicago Transit Authority
Billy Cobham - Spectrum +
Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show
Dire Straits
Paul Simon
Gordon Lightfoot - Lightfoot!
Rotary Connection +
The Beatles - Please Please Me
Likely I'll think of a few more
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Like many here, I love hundreds of groups and as many solo artists but there are debut albums which I've played to death and which are now part of my DNA.
I agree with ChristopherLees and GOS about Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz.
Are are some of my faves, which I still listen to this day.
Counting Crows ‎– August And Everything After (1993)
W.A.S.P. ‎– W.A.S.P. (1984)
Pearl Jam ‎– Ten (1991)
Roberta Flack ‎– First Take (1969)
Delphic ‎– Acolyte (2010)
Tesla ‎– Mechanical Resonance (1986)
Platinum Blonde ‎– Standing In The Dark (1983)
Franz Ferdinand ‎– Franz Ferdinand (2004)
Asia ‎– Asia (1982)
Supergrass ‎– I Should Coco (1995)
The Killers ‎– Hot Fuss (2004)
Autograph ‎– Sign In Please (1984)
Pet Shop Boys ‎– Please (1986)
Amber Run ‎– 5AM (2015)
Mötley Crüe ‎– Too Fast For Love (1981)
The Kooks ‎– Inside In / Inside Out (2006)
Elastica ‎– Elastica (1995)
Keane ‎– Hopes And Fears (2004)
S O H N ‎– Tremors (2014)
And many, many more...
I agree with ChristopherLees and GOS about Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz.
Are are some of my faves, which I still listen to this day.
Counting Crows ‎– August And Everything After (1993)
W.A.S.P. ‎– W.A.S.P. (1984)
Pearl Jam ‎– Ten (1991)
Roberta Flack ‎– First Take (1969)
Delphic ‎– Acolyte (2010)
Tesla ‎– Mechanical Resonance (1986)
Platinum Blonde ‎– Standing In The Dark (1983)
Franz Ferdinand ‎– Franz Ferdinand (2004)
Asia ‎– Asia (1982)
Supergrass ‎– I Should Coco (1995)
The Killers ‎– Hot Fuss (2004)
Autograph ‎– Sign In Please (1984)
Pet Shop Boys ‎– Please (1986)
Amber Run ‎– 5AM (2015)
Mötley Crüe ‎– Too Fast For Love (1981)
The Kooks ‎– Inside In / Inside Out (2006)
Elastica ‎– Elastica (1995)
Keane ‎– Hopes And Fears (2004)
S O H N ‎– Tremors (2014)
And many, many more...
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Autograph! Yeah, I remember loving that one......
I also rather LOVED the debut from Zebra from 1983....I think I played that vinyl till it melted....
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Another wonderful album that's one of my favorite debuts.... MOLLY HATCHET from 1978! Man, I loved their sound when they came out.
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