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100 Best Debut Albums

Name the artist or band who released the best debut albums, as verified by Rolling Stone magazine.
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Album
Artist
1
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
2
The Ramones
The Ramones
3
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix Experience
4
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
5
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground
6
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
7
Never Mind the Bollocks
The Sex Pistols
8
Is This It
The Strokes
9
Music From Big Pink
The Band
10
Horses
Patti Smith
11
Illmatic
Nas
12
The Clash
The Clash
13
Pretenders
The Pretenders
14
Reasonable Doubt
Jay-Z
15
Funeral
Arcade Fire
16
The Cars
The Cars
17
Please Please Me
The Beatles
18
Murmur
R.E.M.
19
The College Dropout
Kanye West
20
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
21
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
22
Violet Femmes
Violet Femmes
23
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
24
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend
25
Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
26
Run-DMC
Run-D.M.C.
27
Van Halen
Van Halen
28
B-52's
The B-52's
29
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
30
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
31
Dummy
Portishead
32
Three Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
33
Hot Fuss
The Killers
34
The Doors
The Doors
35
Weezer (Teal Album)
Weezer
36
Give Up
Postal Service
37
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Bruce Springsteen
38
Outlandos d'Amour
The Police
39
Pronounced 'Leh-nerd Skin-nerd'
Lynyrd Skynyrd
40
Marquee Moon
Television
41
Boston
Boston
42
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
43
Grace
Jeff Buckley
44
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
45
Psychocandy
The Jesus & Mary Chain
46
Ten
Pearl Jam
47
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
48
Modern Lovers
Modern Lovers
49
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
50
Los Angeles
X
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Album
Artist
51
The Smiths
The Smiths
52
Boy
U2
53
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
54
Kill 'Em All
Metallica
55
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliot
56
For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver
57
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
58
Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails
59
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
60
Tidal
Fiona Apple
61
Up The Bracket
The Libertines
62
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
63
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
64
I Just Can't Stop it
The English Beat
65
Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
66
The Stooges
The Stooges
67
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
68
Talking Heads: 77
Talking Heads
69
Pink Flag
Wire
70
Dry
PJ Harvey
71
What's The 411
Mary J. Blige
72
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
73
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
74
xx
The xx
75
Beauty and the Beat
The Go-Go's
76
Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
Devo
77
Thank Me Later
Drake
78
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
79
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
80
Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds
81
Entertainment!
Gang of Four
82
Heart of the Congos
The Congos
83
Paid in Full
Erik B. and Rakim
84
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
85
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
86
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
87
Mass Romantic
The New Pornos
88
Homework
Daft Punk
89
Upstairs At Erik's
Yaz
90
#1 Record
Big Star
91
Arular
M.I.A.
92
Moby Grape
Moby Grape
93
Almost Killed Me
The Hold Steady
94
The Who Sings My Generation
The Who
95
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
96
Madonna
Madonna
97
Endtroducing....
DJ Shadow
98
Look Sharp
Joe Jackson
99
The Glided Palace of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
100
The Fame
Lady Gaga
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Level 67
Jan 17, 2021
It's Violent Femmes, not Violet Femms
+4
Level 54
Jul 21, 2021
It's New Pornographers, not New Pornos. Eric B., not Erik B.
+2
Level 54
Jan 30, 2024
As mentioned it is the Violent Femmes not ‘violet’. The English ska band, The Beat, were only called the English Beat in the USA and Canada ( and in Australia they were called the British Beat) so the answer, The Beat, should be accepted. Cheers