Best Debut Albums

[randy]

What Blir said. End discussion.

[roc51]

Here are some:

The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Sad Lovers & Giants - Epic Garden Music
Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle
The Sound - Jeopardy
For Against - Echelons
Gang Of Four - Entertainment
New Order - Movement
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Lucy Show - Undone
Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Love And Rockets - Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Teadrop Explodes - Killiminjaro
China Crisis - Difficult Shapes And Passive Rhythmns...
The Smiths - The Smiths
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
New Model Army - Vengeance
Abecedarians - Eureka
Modern Eon - Fiction Tales
Girls At Our Best! - Pleasure
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Josef K - The Only Fun In Town
Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches
Cowboys International - The Original Sin
The The - Soul Mining
Dali's Car - The Waking Hour
Peter Murphy - Should The World Fail To Fall Apart
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
Visage - Visage
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Modern English - Mesh & Lace
Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle
Icehouse - Flowers
Level 42 - Level 42
The Fixx - Shuttered Room
Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column
Magazine - Real Life
The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
Catherine Wheel - Ferment
Kitchens Of Distinction - Love Is Hell
Half String - Fascination With Heights
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Lush - Gala
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
McCarthy - I Am A Wallet
Springhouse - Land Falls
Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness
Moose - XYZ
Psychedelic Furs - Psychedelic Furs
Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
Morrissey - Viva Hate
R.E.M. - Murmur
U2 - Boy
The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls - Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
ABC - Lexicon Of Love
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Big Country - The Crossing
Armoury Show - Waiting For The Floods
Talk Talk - The Party's Over
Naked Eyes - Naked Eyes
World Party - Private Revolution
Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
Kajagoogoo - White Feathers
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell
House Of Love - House Of Love
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Blancmange - Happy Families
The Essence - Purity
Lotus Eaters - No Sense Of Sin
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Names - Swimming
Let's Active - Cypress/Afoot
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Pylon - Gyrate
The Slits - Cut
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
The Undertones - The Undertones
Wild Swans - Bringing Home The Ashes
Tones On Tail - Pop
TV21 - A Thin Red Line
Thomas Dolby - Golden Age Of Wireless
The Church - Of Skins And Hearts
Riverside - One
The Ocean Blue - The Ocean Blue
Howard Jones - Human's Lib
Haircut 100 - Pelican West
Missing Persons - Spring Session M
General Public - All The Rage
Icicle Works - Icicle Works
Talking Heads - 77
Television - Marquee Moon
The Railway Children - Recurrence
The Silencers - A Letter From St Paul
Opposition - Breaking The Silence
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks...
Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing
Antena - Camino Del Sol
Jane's Addiction - Nothings Shocking (proper studio debut)
Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
The Charlatans - Some Friendly
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Diagram Brothers - Some Marvels Of Modern Science
The Passions - Michael and Miranda
Dream Academy - Dream Academy
Music For Pleasure - Into The Rain
White Door - Windows
Kissing The Pink - Naked
Polyrock - Polyrock
Everything But The Girl - Eden
Cutting Crew - Broadcast
Go West - Go West
The Outfield - Play Deep
Wally Badarou - Echoes
Elastica - Elastica
Big Star - #1 Record
The Doors - The Doors
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction


To name a few...

And there are some bands I love whose debuts didn't make the cut - The Go-Betweens, Felt, The Police, XTC, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Jam, Orbital, The Wake, A Certain Ratio, Section 25, Tubeway Army, Simple Minds, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Snake Corps, The Human League, Ultravox, Husker Du, B-Movie, The Stranglers, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus...

[TerryMc]

Can't believe no one has mentioned it. It gets ragged on because it was so popular at the time, but "Get the Knack" is one of if not the best power pop album ever.

Also, have to agree with whoever mentioned the "Hawks" debut LP. Also, DB Cooper's "Buy American" and The Cars' first album.

[jetboy]

THE PRODUCERS-S/T.

It's staggering that this gem was not a major success.

[SallyLightfoot]

[quote][i]Originally posted by jetboy[/i]
<br>THE PRODUCERS-S/T.

It's staggering that this gem was not a major success.
[/quote]That is a really great one!

[basstone]

Here's one we missed

Violent Femmes- Violent Femmes