A local public radio station (The Current) is wondering what are your 15 essential debut albums. What do you say all? Remember only debut albums…
VU - Banana
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The Stooges - The Stooges
Big Star - #1 Record
The Modern Lovers’ - The Modern Lovers
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Wire - Pink Flag
Talking Heads - '77
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Madonna - Madonna
The Smiths - The Smiths
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
NWA - Strait Outta Compton
and I didn’t even get to the '90’s 
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Kinda wish I started at NWA instead, there’s no wrong answers here
The Sundays: Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
Curve: Doppelgänger
Heart: Dreamboat Annie
Lush: Lush
Sting: Dream of the Blue Turtles
Dire Straits: Dire Straits
Catherine Wheel: Ferment
Missing Persons: Spring Session M
Propaganda: A Secret Wish
Mannheim Steamroller: Fresh Aire
The Cars: The Cars
October Project: October Project
The B-52’s: The B-52’s
Boston: Boston
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin
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I’m restricting this to full-length albums, excluding EP’s, that debuted during my music-loving lifetime. I’d love to include Metallica’s Kill Em All but I didn’t hear that record until after I’d already heard Puppets and Justice, so the debut didn’t really impact me.
Ten by Pearl Jam
Facelift by Alice in Chains
Undertow by TOOL
Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against The Machine
Nothing’s Shocking by Janes Addiction
Core by Stone Temple Pilots
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Adrenaline by Deftones
Sevendust by Sevendust
Godsmack by Godsmack
Pretty Hate Machine by nine inch nails
Burn It Black by Injected
Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons
Sixteen Stone by Bush
Remission by Mastodon
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Nirvana- Bleach
Pearl Jam- Ten
Violent Femmes- Violent Femmes
Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes
Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine
Five is good.
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Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver Messenger Service
Boston - Boston
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you Experienced?
Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Steve Vai - Flex-Able
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Released way back in 1989. This album was awesome from start to finish. It’s sorta weird he only released two albums but the second wasn’t as big as the first. Then he moved into acting and the rest they say is history.
Nas - Illmatic
Evanescence - Fallen
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Sirenia - At Sixes and Sevens
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Juno Reactor - Transmissions
Patsy Cline - Patsy Cline
Burzum - Filosofem
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
Above & Beyond - Tri-State
Jewel - Pieces of You
Opeth - Orchid
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Wintersun - Wintersun
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Goldfrapp!
Mine are:
The Birthday Massacre - Nothing & Nowhere
Daft Punk - Homework
Dethklok - Dethalbum
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Jakalope - It Dreams
Korn - Korn
Lady Gaga - The Fame
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Nas - Illmatic
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Rammstein - Herzeleid
Tool - Undertow
Van Halen - Van Halen
The xx - xx
3teeth - 3teeth
This was more difficult than I thought it would be.
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omg that XX album is amazing!
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I’m so glad to see this I was about to post it. So many hits that are still played today