Self-titled debuts by RATM and Garbage would be high on my list.
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Good selections there for Velvet Underground and Living End
Cog - new normal
Tool - undertow
Fu Manchu - No one rides for free
Down - Nola
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Was all hyped up to post and thought I had the perfect opener, namely Warren Zevon’s incredible eponymous album from 76, which I’d always thought was his debut, and for mine is one of the greatest singer song writer albums ever, and so much better than everything else he did, but so what because how do you top such a classic. As an afterthought I consulted the ultimate balloon popper in Wikipedia and it turns out he released a career killer called “Wanted Dead or Alive” seven years earlier in 69. Want to shout fake news etc. History is such a downer.
Then I thought, what about Little Feat. Turns out their eponymous release was their debut which gives me an excuse to post every real truckers’ theme song, “Willin”(no “g”), the wonderful “Snakes on Everything”, “Strawberry Flats” and I’ll add “Truck stop girl” cos I love country tragedy. Could play the whole album really, it’s that good.
PS Lowell George had checked out before his death confirmed his absence but he is one of Rock’s uncelebrated greats.
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Wiki and it’s damn reality sucks 
Great idea for a thread.
Without checking and in no particular orde and think these are all debuts.
- Pearl Jam - Ten
- The Panics - Cruel Guards
- Beth Orton - Trailer Park
- The Strokes - Is This It
- Ghost and Gale - Self Titled
- The Brother Brothers - Some People I Know
- Margaret Ulrich - Safety In Numbers
- Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
- U2 - Boy
- Crowded House - Self Titled
- Sparkle horse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
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I thought it was inspired by Plugger/Peter Caven?
Ha, I should have read the very next post before replying!
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RATM - RATM
Explosions in the sky - How strange, innocence
Flogging Molly - Swagger
ALt-J - An awesome wave
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Eddy Current Suppresion Ring - Primary Colours
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PJ Harvey - Dry
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And then there is “Never Mind the Bollocks”
Thought about posting the classics “God Save the Queen” and “Pretty Vacant” but only “Anarchy” rhymes “Council Tenancy” with “Anarchy”
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- Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
- The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry
- Devo - Are we not men?
- Models - ABCDEFG
- Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
- Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
- Pixies - Come on Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa
- The Police - Outlandos dÁmour
- Beasts of Bourbon - Axemans Jazz
- Brian Eno - Here come the warm jets
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Oh, Becoming X by the Sneakerpimps is another one. Though in a stunning exhibition of treading on ones own dangly bits, they dumped the (amazing) vocalist after the album came out and without her, never really released anything much memorable again.
Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World
Ani DiFranco - Ani DiFranco
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Aren’t most of the best albums debut albums?
Snap. Beat your Sex Pistols reference by a bee’s knee. Great minds etc etc.
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Great idea … I’ll pick records I was around for when they came out because I can remember how much I loved them and how much I looked forward to the next album.
Kanye - college dropout
Royal blood - self titled
Closure in Moscow - the penance and the patience
Ball park music - happiness and surrounding suburbs
Arctic monkeys - whatever people say I am that’s what I’m not
They jump out off the top of my head, smashed them all non stop when they came out
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Some nice selections there as bolded. You’re cheating with Pixies though 
You’d accept Come On Pilgrim on its own as a brilliant debut mini album.
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No…as you will discover