Best Debut Albums

[SonicBoom]

Which bands debut albums do you think were some of the best debuts in new wave?


A few that come to mind...


The Police - Outlandos D'amour
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Visage - Visage
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love

[Frau_Blucher]

It's already been determined that The Cars s/t is the correct answer. I believe it's written into the by-laws of NWO.

[Ollie Stench]

B-52's
The Go-Go's - Beauty & The Beat
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Ultravox (w/Midge Ure) - Vienna

[firefall]

Joe Jackson''Look Sharp''
Wire''Pink Flag''
Dexy's Midnight Runners''Searching for the young soul rebels''
Advers''Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts''

[djtonyok]

Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Big Audio Dynamite - This is Big Audio Dynamite
A Flock Of Seagulls - A Flock of Seagulls

[q89747]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
<br>B-52's
[/quote]

Seconded. That first record is one of my faves. Such a shame it all started to go south after that.

[pinkyblue82]

Along with the already mentioned Heaven 17, Visage, Tears For Fears, and Pet Shop Boys (I'm looking at this as the debut LP has to be my favorite from the artist's catalog):

Altered Images-Happy Birthday
Divinyls-Desperate
Men Without Hats-Rhythm of Youth
Missing Persons-Spring Session M
Pseudo Echo-Autumnal Park
Pete Shelley-Homosapien
Alphaville-Forever Young
The Smiths
Soft Cell-Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Wall of Voodoo-Dark Continent
Howard Jones-Human's Lib
Depeche Mode-Speak and Spell
Classix Nouveaux-Night People
Ministry-With Sympathy
Sisters of Mercy-First Last and Always
Yazoo-Upstairs at Eric's
Erasure-Wonderland
The Pretenders
Gary Numan-The Pleasure Principle

[Sensoria]

Um... there's lots of them but:

Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up (1979)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
The Clash - s/t (1977)
The Stranglers - Stranglers IV: Rattus Norvegicus (1977)
The Smiths - s/t (1984)
The The - Burning Blue Soul (1981)
The Stone Roses - s/t (1989)
The Art Of Noise - (Who's Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise? (1984)
Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement (1981)
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love (1982)
Duran Duran - s/t (1981)
Blancmange - Happy Families (1982)
The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always (1985)
UB40 - Signing Off (1980)
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field (1980)
808 State - 808:90 (1989)
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)
Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's (1982)
...

I'll come up with some other ones later.

[gnj1958]

Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody
Toyah

[djcraig]

[quote][i]Originally posted by gnj1958[/i]
<br>Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody
Toyah
[/quote]
Ptoyah,

You're finally starting to make some sense!

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[oldnewwaver]

Wall of Voodoo's debut was not Dark Continent but a EP which had the Passenger, Cant Make Love, Long Arm, Ring of Fire and a couple of intrumentals in between

how about the Pretenders self titled debut?

[oldnewwaver]

Missing Person also had a self title EP that was released first before Spring Session M
like Oingo Boingo with their EP before Only A Lad otherwise I would consider that their debut

[pinkyblue82]

Well oldnewwaver, hence the thread topic, I was counting LP's, ok?

[oldnewwaver]

no disrespect intended!
so if we discount the EPs, then hey great!

[pinkyblue82]

Sorry, didn't mean to sound snippy. And yes, I love all three of the EP's you mentioned.