10 Perfect Debut Rock Albums Of The 90s

10. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

After Kurt Cobain's tragic passing, it felt like every music fan got the wind knocked out of them. Since the leader of this generation of music was suddenly gone, it would have been completely understandable if the rest of the band retired from music altogether. When Dave Grohl came out of his funk though, he managed to find his way back from the brink with a band of his own...kind of.

Going into recording the Foo Fighters debut record, Dave didn't intend for it to actually be a full band project, since most of the songs were just sketches that he made in his Nirvana days. Choosing to record at a studio a few blocks away from his house, most of this record is just Dave making some of his songs and seeing where things go...and what he ended up with was the foundation of his second act.

Once tracks like I'll Stick Around and Big Me began to pick up steam, Grohl assembled a band behind him and kept on carrying on as the frontman, with a sound that had the same aggression as Nirvana but with a much more optimistic attitude. Now that the post grunge movement was about to kick into high gear, it's only natural that the beating heart behind Nirvana showed us the way forward.