Your Top Ten Debut Albums?

Ten personal favorites that immediately come to mind:

Fugazi- Repeater
Pavement- Slanted & Enchanted
REM- Murmur
Green Day- 39/Smooth
Samiam- s/t
White Stripes- s/t
Dinosaur Jr- s/t
The Wedding Present- George Best
Pearl Jam- Ten
My Morning Jacket- The Tennessee Fire

 

Elton John - Empty Sky
The Turtles - It Ain't Me Babe
Queen - Queen
The Beatles - Please Please Me
Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim
Andy Gibb - Flowing Rivers
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Ringo Starr - Sentimental Journey

 

Blue Nile
Joy Division
Beastie Boys
Nick Drake
Tricky
Massive Attack
The The
Neu!
Durutti Column
Specials

All classics!

 

Top? Or favourite?

Let's stay with the latter.
In no particular order:

Tame Impala — Innerspeaker
The Drums - s/t
Neon Indian — Psychic Chasms
Nas — Illmatic
The Doors - s/t
The Thrills — So Much for the City
Crosby, Stills & Nash - s/t
Led Zeppelin - s/t
Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

 

Always showing my age. In reverse alphabetical order by performer just for the fun of it

Johnny Winter
Wet Willie
Tractors
Marshall Tucker Band
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Chicago Transit Authority
Boston
Amazing Rhythm Aces- Stacked Deck
Allman Brothers Band

 

Ozark Mountain Daredevils
The Doors
Dire Straits
Boston
The Pretenders (Kid is extra-special. That guitar bridge is one for the ages...)

Please Please Me (UK), Meet The Beatles (US)
Mr. Tambourine Man-The Byrds
Play Deep-The Outfield
Bright Size Life-Pat Metheny
Fresh Cream

 

Pearl Jam Ten
Led zeppelin I
Pink Floyd Piper
KISS s/t
Captain Beefheart Safe as Milk
The Beach Boys Surfin Safari
The White Stripes
Johnny Cash Hot and Blue Guitar
Iron Maiden s/t
Ramones s/t

 

Nice!

 

In no particular order:

The Doors - s/t
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Television - Marquee Moon
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Gang of Four - Entertainment
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Roxy Music - s/t
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Only Ones - s/t
Family - Music From A Doll's House
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Wire - Pink Flag
Black Sabbath - s/t
Spirit - s/t

 

Chicago Transit Authority
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Supertramp - Crime of the Century (Not technically their first, but for all intents and purposes, it was)
Led Zeppelin
Lorde - Pure Heroine
The Lonely Bull - Herb Alpert
Devo - are we not men
The Cars
Beatles - Please Please me
The B52's

 

(I'm not counting people who were in other well-known bands before forming a new group or going solo; likewise not counting those who had a bunch of hits for years before someone issued their first album):

Blossom Dearie (1957)

The Beatles -- Please Please Me (1963): My co-favorite Beatle album. The fresh energy is unsurpassable.

The Byrds -- Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

The Doors (1967)

R.E.M. -- Murmur (1983)

Sinead O'Connor -- The Lion & The Cobra (1987)

The Stone Roses (1989): One of the few perfectly realized albums, ever. Combines 60s' and punk aesthetics, with flawless and inspired songwriting.

The La's (1990): Lee Mavers hated it. He's an idiot.

Liz Phair -- Exile In Guyville (1993)

Counting Crows -- August & Everything After (1993)


Runner-Up:
The Bangles -- All Over The Place (1984)
Tracy Chapman (1988)

 

No order

Curtis Mayfield- Curtis
Eric Dolphy- Outward Bound
Funkadelic- S/T
Delfonics- La La Means I Love You
Meters - S/T
Saints - I’m Stranded
Television- Marquee Moon
Wipers- Is This Real
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full

 

Off the top of my head.

Van Halen I
Boston - S/T
Led Zeppelin I
Pearl Jam - Ten
Cheap Trick - S/T
Sex Pistols - Never Mind
The Wildhearts - Earth vs the Wildhearts
Black Sabbath - S/T
Metallica - Kill em All
Mötley Crüe - Too Fast for Love

Others of note
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Montrose - S/T
Bad Company - S/T
Badlands - S/T
Nirvana - Bleach
KISS - S/T
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Fastway - S/T
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations (White Album)
The Cars - S/T
Dio - Holy Diver

 

Black Sabbath
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you Experienced
The Cars
Jimmy Barnes - Bodyswerve
Dire Straits
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
Elvis Presley
Bjork - Debut

There are a lot. Had to leave a ton out and make some hard decisions

 

The Crossing - Big Country
Never Mind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Ten - Pearl Jam
Psychocandy - JAMC
The Eight Legged Groove Machine - The Wonder Stuff
BRMC - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Lost Souls - Doves
Crocodiles - Echo & the Bunnymen
Elastica - Elastica

 

not in any order

Iron Maiden - S/T
Van Halen - S/T
Journey - S/T
Led Zeppelin - I
KISS - S/T
Mike Keneally - hat
Boston - S/T
Captain Beyond - S/T
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

 

No order but:
1. Pearl Jam - Ten
2. Pink Floyd - The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
3. The Doors - The Doors
4. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
5. Velvet Underground- Vu & Nico
6. REM - Murmur
7. Talking Heads - ‘77
8. The Mamas & Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
9. Big Star - #1 Record
10. Sinead O’Connor - The Lion & the Cobra

 

The Stooges
The VU & Nico
Faust
L. Voag The Way Out
Meet the Residents
Pere Ubu Modern Dance
The Henry Cow Legend
The Soft Machine
Roxy Music
Swell Maps A Trip To Marineville

I'm not just listing all my fave acts, only those whose debuts are the tops.

 

Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Ramones
Captain Beyond
Pearl Jam - 10
Jimi Hendrix Expeience - Are You Experienced
Living Colour - Vivid
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Patti Smith - Horses
King Crimson - COTCK

. . . I realize there's nothing here past the 80s, but ten is really tough!

 

Please please me
Piper at the gates of dawn
The Doors
Proco Harum. (Sometimes also called a white shade of pale)
Month Grape
Days of Future past
Are You Experienced
The Pretenders
Led Zepplin
Patti Smith. Horses

 

In no particular order. All are self-titled unless otherwise indicated:

Stone Roses
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Mudhoney
The Smiths
REM - Murmur
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

With about 30 more bubbling under...

 

Trying to list ones not mentioned yet and still loved by me.In order of date
CTA
Santana 69
Eagles
Jackson Browne-saturate...
Bad Company
Robert Palmer-Sneakin...
Buckingham Nicks
Foreigner
Joe Jackson-Look Sharp
Lone Justice

 

Blue Oyster Cult - s/t
Queen - s/t
The Clash - s/t (UK)
King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet
Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
Wire - Pink Flag
Kiss - s/t
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced

 

No particular order...

Steely Dan: Can’t Buy a Thrill
Joni Hendrix: Are You Experienced
The Clash
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted
Television: Marquee Moon
Marshall Crenshaw
Graham Parker: Howlin’ Wind
Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People
Moby Grape
Derek and the Dominos: Layla

Followed by...

Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
The Velvet Underground and Nico
John Prine
Gang of Four: Entertainment!
Beastie Boys: Licensed to Ill
Patti Smith: Horses

Astral Weeks is Van’s second album.

 

Ah damn you’re right! Ok, I’m gonna edit.