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

#	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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