My Favorite Debuts
by RoundTheBend

Some of the artists with the best debuts almost never topped their debut effort, which I find interesting. I'm in NO WAY saying that they got lucky or whatever, but sometimes it is hard to top AMAZING!!!

Still not 100% complete (it's a larger undertaking than I originally realized if I wanted to truly represent all of my favorite debuts because I probably have forgotten them)... but anyway, here's what I have for now based on what I've either recently listened to or spent the time to remember an artists debut.

Also, I've included solo efforts like Eddie Vedder and John Lennon, even though the initial effort was to see what it was like for a budding musician to release their first record... in those instances, both artists were already well into their career.

• Chart updated: 09/09/2016 05:15
• (Created: 01/15/2013 23:04).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Funeral 

 Arcade Fire

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Honestly... I don't think any other artist had a better debut. This site's ranking of this album kind of speaks to it... but that's my opinion too. [First added to this chart: 09/09/2016]

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,890 charts

Rank Score:

34,247

Rank in 2004:

1

Rank in 2000s:

3

Overall Rank:

15

Average Rating:

 88 (3,662 votes)

Comments:

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Rage Against The Machine 

 Rage Against The Machine

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This used to be at my number one spot because I forgot about Funeral being a debut. This album is also a FANTASTIC debut. [First added to this chart: 01/16/2013]

Year of Release:

1992

Appears in:

1,297 charts

Rank Score:

11,487

Rank in 1992:

2

Rank in 1990s:

22

Overall Rank:

114

Average Rating:

 83 (1,658 votes)

Comments:

94

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Weezer (Blue Album) 

 Weezer

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[First added to this chart: 01/16/2013]

Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

1,483 charts

Rank Score:

14,756

Rank in 1994:

4

Rank in 1990s:

16

Overall Rank:

83

Average Rating:

 84 (1,953 votes)

Comments:

140

4. (3) 1

Are You Experienced 

 The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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[First added to this chart: 09/09/2016]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

2,218 charts

Rank Score:

21,549

Rank in 1967:

4

Rank in 1960s:

12

Overall Rank:

39

Average Rating:

 87 (2,493 votes)

Comments:

169

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The Doors 

 The Doors

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[First added to this chart: 09/09/2016]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

2,423 charts

Rank Score:

26,862

Rank in 1967:

3

Rank in 1960s:

9

Overall Rank:

28

Average Rating:

 87 (2,849 votes)

Comments:

208

6. (5) 1

Here's Little Richard 

 Little Richard

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[First added to this chart: 09/09/2016]

Year of Release:

1957

Appears in:

437 charts

Rank Score:

4,167

Rank in 1957:

1

Rank in 1950s:

7

Overall Rank:

402

Average Rating:

 79 (498 votes)

Comments:

40

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6- And 12-String Guitar 

 Leo Kottke

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[First added to this chart: 09/09/2016]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

215

Rank in 1969:

105

Rank in 1960s:

473

Overall Rank:

6,084

Average Rating:

 77 (45 votes)

Comments:

4

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Boy 

 U2

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[First added to this chart: 01/16/2013]

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

433 charts

Rank Score:

2,098

Rank in 1980:

16

Rank in 1980s:

126

Overall Rank:

823

Average Rating:

 75 (769 votes)

Comments:

39

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Welcome To The Beautiful South 

 The Beautiful South

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[First added to this chart: 09/09/2016]

Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

219

Rank in 1989:

83

Rank in 1980s:

885

Overall Rank:

5,999

Average Rating:

 74 (67 votes)

Comments:

5

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Parachutes 

 Coldplay

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[First added to this chart: 01/16/2013]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

992 charts

Rank Score:

7,264

Rank in 2000:

5

Rank in 2000s:

37

Overall Rank:

217

Average Rating:

 78 (1,722 votes)

Comments:

99

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My Favorite Debuts composition

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	63	63%
	27	27%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	1	1%
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From RoundTheBend 09/09/2016 04:50 | #174588

Showbiz and Blue didn't make my chart! Shit... I done messed up. No seriously, thanks for the catch! hahaha. I must have accidently not marked them as debuts or something on my spreadsheet I was trying to make this on.

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From Strangel 09/08/2016 12:14 | #174537

Great concept list. The Doors would get my vote in this list. To think that a band could write quite possibly the greatest ever rock-era track (The End) as a young band on their first album is quite astounding. Funeral is a bit over-hyped by millennialist for mine. It's a great album but a bit too over-over-inflated in its production. And whilst I think Pablo Honey is relatively weak for Radiohead, once again it is undervalued due to comparison with their other work. It should be higher. Piper at the Gates and An Awesome Wave are incredible debuts also. And where is Gorillaz? Showbiz by Muse? Weezer's Blue Album? Aphex Twin? Burial? It's a great list you've come up with though.

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From pantoffeljoscha 07/25/2015 00:14 | #146367

Go on, please. Good start for a very good theme

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From tgarritsen 12/09/2013 01:15 | #96897

Since you stated on your overall chart you liked late 60's music I expected to see at least The Doors, Are You Expierenced and/or Velvet Underground and Nico.

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From sheep21 03/31/2013 01:08 | #70706

Agree with guigs on this chart being expanded.

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From guigs13 01/16/2013 02:38 | #61631

Nice picks! You should expamd this chart, it's a nice theme, only the debuts.

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