[alelsupreme]

I was reading an issue of a british rock magazine about the 150 greatest debut albums of all time and it got me thinking, which bands have debuts that are better than the rest of the catalogue. Obviously i'm not counting the Sex Pistols as they never had another proper studio album.
So here's my list.
Gary Numan's debut (Pleasure Princible)
Jimi Hendrix Experience (Are You Experienced)
Joy Division (Uknown Pleasures)
Velvet Underground (Velvet Underground And Nico)
John Lennon (Plastic Ono Band/John Lennon if you don't count his avant garde stuff)
Meat Loaf (Bat Out Of Hell)
The Doors (The Doors)
Soft Cell (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret)
Guns N Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
Heaven 17 (Penthouse And Pavement)
Stone Roses (Stone Roses)
Ozzy Osbourne (Blizzard Of Ozz)
Lupe Fiasco (Lupe Fiascos Food And Liqour)
Television (Marquee Moon)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd)

[GARY]

Boston - Boston
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[40footwolf]

I think this thread has been done before, but

Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
Appetite For Destruction-Guns 'N Roses
Too Fast For Love-Motley Crue
Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
Music From the Big Pink-The Band
Damaged-Black Flag
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables-Dead Kennedys
Bonded by Blood-Exodus
Repeater-Fugazi
f#a#(infinity)-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Voyage of the Acolyte-Steve Hackett
Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)-Wu-Tang Clan
00Void-Sunn O)))
The Velvet Underground and Nico-The Velvet Underground
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[GARY]

[GARY]

Bad Company - Bad Company
The B52's - The B52's
DIO - Holy Diver
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[purple]

Agent Orange- Living in Darkness
Adolescents- s/t
Arcade Fire- Funeral
At the Drive In- Acrobatic Tenement (arguable)
B-52s- s/t
Black Flag- Damaged
The Breeders- Pod
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit...
De la Soul- 3 feet high and Rising
DJ Shadow- Entroducing...
The Doors- The Doors
Flipper- Generic Album
Gang of Four- Entertainment!
Gun Club- Fire of Love
Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
(I think JD's Closer is better than Unknown Pleasures)
Killing Joke- s/t
Madonna- s/t
MC5- Kick Out the Jams
Misfits- Static Age
Nas- Illmatic
N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton
New York Dolls- s/t
Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die
(I think Pavement's Crooked Rain is better than Slanted)
Patti Smith- Horses
Pearl Jam- Ten
Portishead- Dummy
R.E.M.- Murmur
RATM- s/t
Ramones- Ramones
Stone Roses- s/t
The Strokes- s/t
Suicide- s/t
Television- Marquee Moon
(I don't consider Nico to be VU's best)
Weezer- Blue Album
Wire- Pink Flag
X- Los Angeles
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever to Tell
Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth

there are a few; the bands who only have one album were left out

[mooseboy101]

[purple]

oh yeah, my bad.

Strokes-Is This It

also forgot:

Wu-Tang-36 Chambers

[40footwolf]

[Hayden]

Funeral - Arcade Fire

Considering, IMO, it's the best album ever, I'd say it was a pretty good debut