The latter… What you consider to be your favourite debut albums…
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It comes down to the concept of
Debut album of the entity
vs
Debut album of the artist
Sometimes the entity may be new, but the artist/artists can be older.
ie,
Fatboy slim- aka Norman Cook from the Housemartins
Damn Yankees-made up of members of Styx, Nightranger and the Ted Nugent band
LRB- from Axiom, The Twilights and Mississippi.
But all had great “debut” albums
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NAS - Illmatic
Beastie Boys - License to ill
Bad Company - Inside the machine
Daft Punk - Homework
Air - Moon Safari
DJ shadow- Endtroducing
Plump Dj’s - A Plump night out
Wu-tang - Enter the Wu (36 chambers)
N.W.A. - Straight outta Compton
Sonic Animation - Silence is deafening
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Most of mine have already been mentioned.
So apart from RATM, STP, PJ, Strokes, Weezer, Grinners etc, here are a couple more:
System of a Down - Self-titled.
The Fratellis - Costello music
The (international) noise conspiracy - Survival Sickness
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Empire of the sun - walking on a dream
The Vines - Highly evolved
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Foo Fighters - Self-titled
Franz Ferdinand - Self-titled
Future of the left - curses
Butterfingers - Breakfast at Fatboy’s
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Mgmt forgot that, loved it
I was gonna include this, then thought it’s primarily Falco continuing on his mclusky form and my list was too long as it was 
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It’s a technicality, sure. But you know, when you’ve been a fan as long as I have…
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Likewise, onto albums that I don’t think have been mentioned that I really like.
Big Science - Laurie Anderson
Blows Your Mind - Van Morrison
Suzanne Vega - st
Circle and the Square - Red Box
August and Everything After - Counting Crows
Eternal Nightcap - The Whitlams
Leisure Noise - Gay Dad
The Ghosts That Haunt Me - Crash Test Dummies
Whatever - Aimee Mann
Sad But True - Tex, Don and Charlie
Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting (still counts)
Baby Animals - st
…and I’m throwing in Whirled - Frente even thought it’s technically an EP.
Eight tracks counts, even if some are very short.
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Nice.
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REM - Murmer
KoL - Youth and Young Manhood
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Strokes - Is This It
ABC - Lexicon of Love
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
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As a sub-category of this, I remember a discussion in DJ King a while back about album 1, track 1.
I reckon there are a number these lists where that’s my favourite song from the band.
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REM - Murmer
KoL - Youth and Young Manhood
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Strokes - Is This It
ABC - Lexicon of Love
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
Could we add “Duran Duran”,self titled and “No Parlez” Paul Young to that nice little couplet
Wolfmother- Self titled
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Yeah, that’s where my mind went too. I wanna sit down and make a playlist for it.
As I went through my stuff I noticed quite a few bands had dropped a killer EP or two, or mini album, that had the punters already on board and primed for the great debut - Pixies, REM, Ride, Descendents, Stone Roses, Fugazi
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there’s been about 30 entries in this thread where i’ve gone “fk, that was their debut?”
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LRB, “ITs a long way there”
It’s one of the the more audacious ways of introducing a brand new band to the world . Helluva great track , superbly played and sung.
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imo it doesn’t get better than straight outta compton
“you are about to witness the strength of street knowledge”
-edit- welcome to the jungle and blitzkrieg bop to round out the podium
-edit2- get this playlist up ya. several dozen bangers
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LRB, “ITs a long way there”
It’s one of the the more audacious way of introducing a brand new band to the world . Helluva great track , superbly played and sung.
I’m sure there’s tons more like that example.
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Yep, nice, quite a few of mine in there.
Damn, I forgot Vampire Weekend - Self-titled for my list