The Big Come Up is the debut studio album by the American rock duo the Black Keys, released on May 14, 2002, on Alive Records.

[7] As band members Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney began to grow up, they realized that rubber companies, such as Goodyear, were a dying industry.

Alive re-presses this album regularly, often several times a year on different colored vinyl or with altered sleeve artwork.

[12] They have released the album on vinyl on at least 14 separate occasions,[13] opening themselves up to criticism, particularly in regard to the marketing term "limited edition".

In 2005 music critic Chuck Klosterman singled out The Big Come Up as one of 21 "high-quality albums" from the previous three years.