The Best Debut Albums of All Time - Text Only


Here's a text only version if you want to be able to use "CTRL + F" to search for albums. I made special notes of any Blues, Country, Electronic, Metal, & Rap albums - you can find them to the right of each album pick or search for them. This list is simply in alphabetical order:

50 Cent - "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" [Rap]
ABC - "The Lexicon of Love"
The Adverts - "Crossing the Red Sea"
Air - "Moon Safari" [Electronic]
Alanis Morissette - "Jagged Little Pill
Alkaline Trio - "Goddamnit"
Allman Brothers Band - "The Allman Brothers Band"
Andrew Bird - "Weather Systems"
Aphex Twin - "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" [Electronic]
The Apples in Stereo - "Fun Trick Noisemaker"
Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
Art Brut - "Bang Bang Rock & Roll"
Asphyx - "The Rack" [Metal]
Aztec Camera - "High Land, Hard Rain"
B12 - "Electro-Soma" [Electronic]
The B-52s - "The B-52s"
Badly Drawn Boy - "The Hour of the Bewilderbeast"
The Band - "Music from Big Pink"
Bark Psychosis - "Hex"
The Beatles - "Please Please Me"
Big Brother & Holding Company - "Cheap Thrills"
Big L - "Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous" [Rap]
Big Star - "#1 Record"
Bill Haley & His Comets - "Rock Around the Clock"
Billy Cobham - "Spectrum" [Jazz]
Biosphere - "Microgravity" [Electronic]
Bjork - "Debut"
Black Flag - "Damaged"
Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath"
Bloc Party - "Silent Alarm"
Blood Orange - "Coastal Grooves"
Boards of Canada - "Music Has the Right to Children" [Electronic]
BODEGA - "Endless Scroll"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded" [Rap]
Boston - "Boston"
Broadcast - "The Noise Made By People"
Buddy Holly - "Buddy Holly"
Bush - "Sixteen Stone"
The Byrds - "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Captain Beefheart - "Safe As Milk"
The Cars - "The Cars"
Champion Jack Dupree - "Blues from the Gutter" [Blues]
Charlie Musselwhite - "Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band"
Cheap Trick - "Cheap Trick 77"
The Crickets - "The Chirping Crickets"
The Clash - "The Clash"
Coldplay - "Parachutes"
The Cool Greenhouse - "The Cool Greenhouse"
Courtney Barnett - "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit"
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - "Lotta Sea Lice"
Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Crosby, Stills & Nash"
Cut Copy - "Bright Like Neon Love"
Curve - "Doppelganger"
The Damned - "Damned Damned Damned"
Dave Matthews Band - "Under the Table & Dreaming"
Dead Kennedys - "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"
Death - "Scream Bloody Gore" [Metal]
The Decemberists - "Castaways & Cutouts"
Deltron 3030 - "Deltron 3030" [Rap]
Derek and the Dominos - "Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs"
Devin Davis - "Lonely People of the World, Unite!"
Digable Planets - "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)" [Rap]
Dillard & Clark - "The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark"
Dire Straits - "Dire Straits"
Disclosure - "Settle"
Dismember - "Like An Ever Flowing Stream" [Metal]
DJ Shadow - "Endtroducing..." [Electronic]
The Doors - "The Doors"
Dr. Octagon - "Dr. Octagonecologyst" [Rap]
The Dream Syndicate - "The Days of Wine and Roses"
Dry Cleaning - "New Long Leg"
Ducks Ltd. - "Modern Fiction"
Dwight Yoakam - "Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc." [Country]
Echo & the Bunnymen - "Crocodiles"
Editors - "The Back Room"
Elliott Smith - "Roman Candle"
Elvis Costello - "My Aim Is True"
Emperor - "In the Nightside Eclipse" [Metal]
The English Beat - "I Just Can't Stop It"
Entombed - "Left Hand Path" [Metal]
The Exploding Hearts - "Guitar Romantic"
Ferron - "Testimony"
The Flatlanders - "More a Legend Than a Band"
Fleet Foxes - "Fleet Foxes"
A Flock of Seagulls - "A Flock of Seagulls"
The Flying Burrito Brothers - "The Gilded Palace of Sin"
Foster the People - "Torches"
Fountains of Wayne - "Fountains of Wayne"
Gang of Four - "Entertainment!"
Garbage - "Garbage"
Geese - "Projector"
The Go-Go's - "Beauty and the Beat"
Graham Parker & the Rumour - "Howlin Wind"
Grave - "Into the Grave" [Metal]
Gravediggaz - "6 Feet Deep" [Rap]
Guardian Singles - "Guardian Singles"
The Gun Club - "Fire of Love"
Guns N Roses - "Appetite for Destruction"
Hootie & the Blowfish - "Cracked Rear View"
Hot Water Music - "Finding the Rhythms"
Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers - "Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers" [Blues]
Iggy Pop - "The Idiot"
Interpol - "Turn On the Bright Lights"
The Irresistible Force - "Flying High" [Electronic]
Jackson Browne - "Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using)"
The Jam - "In the City"
Jane's Addiction - "Nothing's Shocking"
Jay Z - "Reasonable Doubt" [RAp]
Jeff Beck - "Truth"
Jeff Buckley - "Grace"
Jeru the Damaja - "The Sun Rises in the East" [RAp]
The Jesus & Mary Chain - "Psychocandy"
Jetstream Pony - "Jetstream Pony"
Jimi Hendrix - "Are You Experienced?"
Jimmy Dawkins - "Fast Fingers" [Blues]
Joe Jackson - "Look Sharp!"
John Prine - "John Prine"
Joy Division - "Unknown Pleasures"
The Killers - "Hot Fuss"
Killing Joke - "Killing Joke"
King Crimson - "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Klaus Johann Grobe - "Im Sinne Der Zeit"
Kris Kristofferson - "Kristofferson" [Country]
The La's - "The La's"
Led Zeppelin - "Led Zeppelin I"
The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs of Leonard Cohen"
The Libertines - "Up the Bracket"
Little Richard - "Here's Little Richard"
Liz Phair - "Exile in Guyville"
LL Cool J - "Radio" [Rap]
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - "Rattlesnakes"
Lord Finesse - "Funky Technician" [Rap]
Low - "I Could Live In Hope"
Luna - "Lunapark"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd"
Madonna - "Madonna"
Magic Sam - "West Side Soul" [Blues]
Mahavishnu Orchestra - "The Inner Mounting Flame"
Main Source - "Breaking Atoms" [Rap]
Margo Price - "Midwest Farmer's Daughter" [Country]
Marshall Crenshaw - "Marshall Crenshaw"
Martin Courtney - "Many Moons"
Massive Attack - "Blue Lines"
Maximo Park - "A Certain Trigger"
Men At Work - "Business As Usual"
Metallica - "Kill 'Em All" [Metal]
Moby Grape - "Moby Grape"
The Modern Lovers - "The Modern Lovers"
Napalm Death - "Scum" [Metal]
Nas - "Illmatic" [Rap]
Necrophagist - "Onset of Putrefaction" [Metal]
The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic"
The New York Dolls - "The New York Dolls"
Nick Drake - "Five Leaves Left"
Nick Lowe - "Jesus of Cool"
Nine Inch Nails - "Pretty Hate Machine"
The Notorious B.I.G. - "Ready to Die" [Rap]
Oasis - "Definitely Maybe"
The Ocean Blue - "The Ocean Blue"
The Orb - "The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" [Electronic]
Ought - "More Than Any Other Day"
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - "The Paul Butterfield Blues Band"
Paul Siebel - "Woodsmoke and Oranges"
Pavement - "Slanted & Enchanted"
Pearl Jam - "Ten"
Phil Collins - "Face Value"
Pixies - "Surfer Rosa"
The Plimsouls - "The Plimsouls"
Plug - "Drum 'n' Bass for Papa" [Electronic]
P.M. Dawn - "Of the Heart, Of the Soul, and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience" [Rap]
The Police - "Outlandos d'Amour"
Portishead - "Dummy"
The Postal Service - "Give Up"
Pretenders - "Pretenders"
Purple Mountains - "Purple Mountains"
Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Quicksilver Messenger Service"
Rage Against the Machine - "Rage Against the Machine"
Ramones - "Ramones"
Randy Travis - "Storms of Life" [Country]
Raw Power - "Screams from the Gutter"
Red House Painters - "Down Colorfil Hill"
R.E.M. - "Murmur"
Rockpile - "Seconds of Pleasure"
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - "Hope Downs"
The Saints - "I'm Stranded"
Santana - "Santana"
Savages - "Silence Yourself"
The Sex Pistols - "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols"
Ski Lodge - "Big Heart"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Gish"
The Smiths - "The Smiths"
The Soft Boys - "Underwater Moonlight"
Soft Cell - "Non Stop Erotic Cabaret"
The Soft Machine - "The Soft Machine"
Son Seals - "The Son Seals Blues Band" [Blues]
Son Volt - "Trace"
The Sound - "Jeopardy"
Special Request - "Soul Music" [Electronic]
Steely Dan - "Can't Buy a Thrill"
Stetsasonic - "In Full Gear" [Rap]
Steve Earle - "Guitar Town" [Country]
Stevie Ray Vaughn - "Texas Flood" [Blues]
The Stills - "Logic Will Break Your Heart"
The Stone Roses - "The Stone Roses"
The Stooges - "The Stooges"
The Streets - "Original Pirate Material" [Rap]
The Strokes - "Is This It?"
Suede - "Suede"
Sugar - "Copper Blue"
Suicidal Tendencies - "Suicidal Tendencies"
Sun Kil Moon - "Ghosts of the Great Highway"
Superdrag - "Regretfully Yours"
SZA - "CTRL"
Taj Mahal - "Taj Mahal" [Blues]
Talking Heads - "Talking Heads: 77"
The Tallest Man On Earth - "Shallow Grave"
Tame Impala - "InnerSpeaker"
The Teardrop Explodes - "Kilimanjaro"
Tears for Fears - "The Hurting"
Television - "Marquee Moon"
Third Eye Blind - "Third Eye Blind"
Tony Molina - "Dissed and Dismissed"
Tracy Chapman - "Tracy Chapman"
Ultramagnetic MC's - "Critical Beatdown" [Rap]
Urge Overkill - "Saturation"
Vampire Weekend - "Vampire Weekend"
Van Halen - "Van Halen"
The Vapors - "New Clear Days"
Vashti Bunyan - "Just Another Diamond Day"
Velocity Girl - "Copacetic"
The Velvet Underground - "The Velvet Underground & Nico"
Veronica Falls - "Veronica Falls"
Violent Femmes - "Violent Femmes"
Weezer - "Weezer (The Blue Album)"
The White Stripes - "The White Stripes"
The Who - "My Generation"
Wilco - "A.M."
Wild Flag - "Wild Flag"
Wipers - "Is This Real"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Wu-Tang Clan - "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" [Rap]
X - "Los Angeles"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fever to Tell"
Young MC - "Stone Cold Rhymin" [Rap]

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