The Best Debut Album Ever

[Fiery Jack]

id agree with the gan of four and television nominations, and would also like to propose bjork-debut.

[Loon Rider]

The Gun Club - Fire Of Love

Smokin'

[Sandusky]

Another great one:

Psychocandy-The Jesus & Mary Chain

Sweet little pop gems drenched and covered in layers of screeching feedback and warm fuzz. This album influenced everything from Sonic Youth to My Bloody Valentine to Dinosaur Jr. It's surf music for the stoned and dethroned. It's surprising how well this album has held up, sounds as innovative and vital today as it did back in the 80s.

[Loon Rider]

Yup Shane, another great one. As is my wont I made a list of the ones that sprang most readily to mind - many of which have been mentioned already. Probably because I was more impressionable but perhaps also because a lot of good bands came out of the post punk era, I chose a lot from the 1978 - 1982 period. I remember particularly that what was good about it was that the music wasn't London-centric; the provinces were once again being taken seriously and were a hotbed of tremendous talent.

The Clash - The Clash
The Smiths - The Smiths
Television - Marquee Moon
Talking Heads - 77
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
Magazine - Still Life
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Patti Smith - Horses
The Specials - The Specials
ABC - Lexicon Of Love
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
REM - Murmur
Let’s Active - Cypress
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield
Gene Clark w/ The Gosdins
Poco - Pickin Up The Pieces
Richard Buckner - Bloomed
The Long Ryders - Native Sons
Butch Hancock - West Texas Waltzes…
Gillian Welch - Revival

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Free - Tons Of Sobs
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
Frank Zappa - Freak Out
Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallagher
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Rod Stewart - An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down
Rickie Lee Jones – Rickie Lee Jones
Crowded House - Crowded House

[THE_DEAN_001]

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Unknown Hinson - The Future Is Unknown (1999 Version)

[Tuxedo T-shirt]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction.

Also, I'll add

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Doves - Lost Souls
PJ Harvey - Dry
X - Los Angeles
Sparklehorse - vivadixie...
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
The Legends - Up Against the Legends

...and then everything else Loon Rider has said + everything Neil M said + everything Lambchop said (Good choices, dude).

I'd probably say that Funeral is the best one of all time, but I say that with a heavy heart because I really WISH the best of all time was GnR...but man, the Arcade Fire is just so great.