What is the best debut album by any band?

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Others in the semifinals round:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood
Van Halen - Van Halen
Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

And in the preliminary round with number of votes (25 needed to make semifinals):

Stone Temple Pilots Core 21
The Beatles - Please Please Me 20
Counting Crows - August and Everything After 20
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine 19
Snoop Dogg Doggystyle 19
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival 19
Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View 18
Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table and Dreaming 18
Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You 14
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 14
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind 14
Alice In Chains Facelift 13
Adele 19 = 13
R.E.M. Murmur 13
The Clash - The Clash 13
The Doors - The Doors 12
Metallica - Kill 'Em All 12
The Who - My Generation 12
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 12
Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lh-'nrd 'Skin-'nrd) 11
The Cars - The Cars 11
The Killers - Hot Fuss 11
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley 11
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols 10
Arcade Fire Funeral 10
Madonna Madonna 9
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston 9
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me 9
Kanye West - The College Dropout 9
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die 8
The Ramones - Ramones 8
Jeff Buckley Grace 8
Oasis - Definitely Maybe 7
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog 7
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes 7
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 7
U2 Boy 7
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood 7
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker 6
Buddy Holly Buddy Holly 6
Nas Illmatic 6
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. 5
Pretenders Pretenders 5
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 5
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico 5
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 = 5
The Band - Music From Big Pink 5
The Police - Outlandos D'Amour 4
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 4
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 4
The Flying Burrito Bros - The Gilded Palace Of Sin 4
The Strokes - Is This It 3
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 3
Tool Opiate 3
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz 3
Collective Soul - Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid 3
Chicago -Chicago Transit Authority 3
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 3
50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 3
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville 3
The Refreshments - Fizzy fuzzy big & buzzy 3
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 3
Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C. 3
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt 3
Lady GaGa - The Fame 2
Korn Korn 2
Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's 2
Daft Punk Homework 2
Kendrick Lamar - Section.8 2
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True 2
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms 2
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule 2
The Postal Service - Give Up 2
The Smiths - The Smiths 2
The XX xx 2
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell 2
The Stooges - The Stooges 2
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 2
Mad Season Above 2
The Jesus And Mary Chain Psychocandy 2
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted 1
Patti Smith Horses 1
X - Los Angeles 1
New York Dolls - New York Dolls 1
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me 1
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising 1
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full 1
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... 1
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man 1
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 1
Portishead Dummy 1
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 1
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 1
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual 1
Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat 1
Big Star - #1 Record 1
Deftones Adrenaline 1
Suicide Suicide 1
David Gray - A Century Ends 1
The Darkness Permission to Land 1
Rose Tattoo Rose Tattoo 1


"O-Fers" that were nominated but got 0 votes:

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic 0
The B-52's - The B-52's 0
Television - Marquee Moon 0
The Libertines - Up The Bracket 0
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers 0
Gang Of Four - Entertainment! 0
P J Harvey Dry 0
Wire - Pink Flag 0
M.I.A. Arular 0
Missy Misdemeanor Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly 0
Drake - Thank Me Later 0
Moby Grape - Moby Grape 0
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! 0
Fiona Apple Tidal 0
Roxy Music - Roxy Music 0
Little Richard - Here's Little Richard 0
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It 0
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 0
Ghost - Opus Eponymous 0
Mastodon Remission 0
Pantera Metal Magic 0
Radiohead - Pablo Honey 0
Ministry With Sympathy 0
The Poor - Who Cares 0
Rhino Bucket Rhino Bucket 0
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AR_Ag95 said:



That was the only other one I thought about.
bam02
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Urban Ag said:

AR_Ag95 said:



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Yep this was what I immediately thought of
YouBet
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I don't see Creeds debut album in this list?
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I know this board doesn't put much stock in country music, but Brooks and Dunn's first, Brand New Man, needs to be on one of these lists.
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YouBet said:

I don't see Creeds debut album in this list?


Probably because Creed sucks
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Milwaukees Best Light said:

I know this board doesn't put much stock in country music, but Brooks and Dunn's first, Brand New Man, needs to be on one of these lists.


Good call. That was an incredible album.
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Blue Album- Weezer
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It's Boston.
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TXAG 05 said:

YouBet said:

I don't see Creeds debut album in this list?


Probably because Creed sucks


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Scotty Appleton said:

Some others:

joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks…
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Metallica - Kill Em All


All great albums and highly influential.




Awesome calls.
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Talk about announcing your presence with authority.








That's your first three tracks off Rage Against the Machine's self-titled 1992 debut. They did not pull any punches about who they were and what they were about.
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I remember 50 Cents debut album being a really big deal
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How has Third Eye Blinds debut album not been nominated???!
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MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
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What about Mase's "Harlem World" that debut album in 1997 sold almost 5 million copies with many guest appearances who would go on to have big careers such as DMX.
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A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
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