is Appetite for destruction the greatest debut album ever?

DiscoStu

Rage Against The Machine

BloodEagle

TheMarlin said:

  Nope, it’s not even close to the album it ripped off. Most of the rifs were stolen from ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ by The Sex Pistols. 

For example?

ICBM

The Velvet Underground & Nico

dindude

ICBM said:

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Just about to say this, a definite contender. 

adampeter

TBH i forgot about VH1
But for a complete debut album with no filler its gotta be AFD

Blueingreen

Not an album I even remotely like, so no.

tony99

The b52s well in with a shout I reckons!!

Rabs

According to the net (which means it must be true).. In the US it is Appetite with 18 Million sold followed by Boston:Boston which was 17 million.

And don't forget
(first-week sales): All-time highest sales by a solo female artist is Susan Boyle with I Dreamed a Dream , which sold 411,820 copies in November 2009

tony99

Rabs said:

According to the net (which means it must be true).. In the US it is Appetite with 18 Million sold followed by Boston:Boston which was 17 million.

And don't forget
(first-week sales): All-time highest sales by a solo female artist is Susan Boyle with I Dreamed a Dream , which sold 411,820 copies in November 2009

You're going on sales though Rabs

Rabs

tony99 said:

Rabs said:

According to the net (which means it must be true).. In the US it is Appetite with 18 Million sold followed by Boston:Boston which was 17 million.

And don't forget
(first-week sales): All-time highest sales by a solo female artist is Susan Boyle with I Dreamed a Dream , which sold 411,820 copies in November 2009

You're going on sales though Rabs

Everything else is just personal opinion..    

For me it must be Are You Experienced though I do love Appetite. The guitar play between Slash and Izzy is just incredible at times.

normula1

Bat out of hell sold one or two copies as well

skunkwerx

Depends what you like I guess. Are we talking best debut album or best debut album for the guitar work?

adampeter

TBH im pretty open minded re music
But surely any right minded adult in his/hers late 40s early 50s cannot see beyond AFD

lasermonkey

Way off.
The greatest debut album of all time is The Script Of The Bridge by The Chameleons.

adampeter

?lasermonkey said:

Way off.
The greatest debut album of all time is The Script Of The Bridge by The Chameleons.

who?

tony99

adampeter said:

?lasermonkey said:

Way off.
The greatest debut album of all time is The Script Of The Bridge by The Chameleons.

who?

My Generation I think.

TINMAN82

I’d say Appetite pushes hard for first place. First heard it at 11 years old (actually bought Use your illusion 1 first as it was released when I was “old enough”). Keep going back to AFD though. Every song a classic.

TheMarlin

BloodEagle said:

TheMarlin said:

  Nope, it’s not even close to the album it ripped off. Most of the rifs were stolen from ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ by The Sex Pistols. 

For example?

Just for starters, Slash ripped off a pistols riff on the intro to "it's so easy".

if you are very familiar with both albums, you can heavily hear the influences of NMTB in AFD. Pretty much every track has something taken from NMTB. 

adampeter

TheMarlin said:

BloodEagle said:

TheMarlin said:

  Nope, it’s not even close to the album it ripped off. Most of the rifs were stolen from ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ by The Sex Pistols. 

For example?

Just for starters, Slash ripped off a pistols riff on the intro to "it's so easy".

if you are very familiar with both albums, you can heavily hear the influences of NMTB in AFD. Pretty much every track has something taken from NMTB. 

I know both albums well, defo some influence but NMTB aint a patch on AFD 

Cols

It’s certainly a lot better than anything they subsequently came up with.