"I Don't Think They Ever Topped Their First Album!"

[Rapid Fire]

agree with Boston (that's what I was gonna mention also) and the Cars.
I'll add:

Foreigner - The 2nd thru the 4th were great but, the debut just smokes

 

[Zombeels]

The debut from Chicago...although their second album is comparable.

 

[Fug]

King Crimson - In The Court of ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Byrds
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
George Harrison

 

[diezman]

The debut from Chicago...although their second album is comparable.

Great pick Zombeels! I love Chicago's debut album. Especially "Free Form Guitar" So raw!

 

[Spike]

In thinking about this thread, I discovered that more of my favorites are second albums:

Traffic - Traffic
The Band - The Band
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (though Volunteers is close)

I don't know what this means...

Spike

 

[Joey Self]

If ALL THINGS MUST PASS counts as Harrison's first album (there were two before it, but neither were in the rock idiom), then that's a great example of it all going downhill from there.

Marshall Crenshaw never reached the high point he touched on his debut self-titled album.

I won't go quite so far as saying Led Zeppelin's first is their BEST, but it is my FAVORITE.

Van Halen and Bad Company both had good albums after the debut, but none quite as good as that first blast.

Those come to mind readily, and I'm sure I could strain to think of others, but straining isn't on my agenda tonight.

JcS

 

[JethroZepFloyd]

The Doors.

 

[kath]

In thinking about this thread, I discovered that more of my favorites are second albums:...

I don't know what this means...

Spike

maybe it means you were a second child, born on the second of the second month...

ok. not really.

kath
who thinks the traffic award should go to john barleycorn must die... which order does that one fall in? cuz i *am* the fourth child of a fourth child of a fourth generation foreman.

(ok, not really. except the fourth child part.)

 

[Martha Washington]

I need to break Traffic clean in two.
I get a favorite Dave Mason album and a favorite "after Dave Mason" album.

I'm greedy that way.

 

[kath]

Van Halen and Bad Company both had good albums after the debut, but none quite as good as that first blast.

these days with bad co., i kinda prefer run with the pack...

kath
why elaborate why?