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In no particular order..

 

1. R.E.M.- Murmur

2. The Cure-Boy's Don't Cry

3. Ben Folds Five-Ben Folds Five

4. The White Stripes- The White Stripes

5. Son Volt-Trace

6. Wilco-A.M.

7. Uncle Tupelo- No Depression

8. Oasis- Definatley Maybe

9. Bruce Springsteen- Greetings From Asbury Park

10. The Strokes-Is this It?

11. Toad The Wet Sprocket-Bread and Circus

12. Del Amitri-Del Amitri

13. The Charlatans-Some Friendly

14. Medeski Martin and Wood-Notes From The Underground

15. Eels-Beautiful Freak

16. Bjork-Debut

17. Cracker-Cracker

18. Radiohead-Pablo Honey

19. They Might Be Giants-They Might Be Giant

20. LCD Soundsystem-LCD Soundsystem

 

Honorable Mention..Killers-Hot Fuss and Blur-Leisure

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A few, in no particular order:

  • Wire - Pink Flag
  • Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone-Free Landslide Victory
  • Television - Marquee Moon
  • Ramones - Ramones
  • Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
  • Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
  • Stone Roses - Stone Roses
  • Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
  • Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
  • Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
  • Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
  • Operation Ivy - Energy
  • De La Soul - 3 Ft. High & Rising
  • Fear - The Record
  • Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
  • Pretenders - Pretenders
  • Roy Wood - Boulders
  • The La's - The La's
  • Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes
  • Big Star - #1 Record
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20 in no order whatsoever:

 

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

Pretenders - Pretenders

Big Star - #1 Record

Moby Grape - Moby Grape

Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind

R.E.M. - Murmur

The Clash - The Clash

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

Television - Marquee Moon

Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw

Nils Lofgren - Nils Lofgren

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico

Gillian Welch - Revival

Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon

Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

The Reivers (a.k.a. Zeitgeist) - Translate Slowly

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

The Specials - The Specials

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No order.

 

Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators

Dr. Dog - Easy Beat

Tom Waits - Closing Time

Dr. John - Gris, Gris

Wilco - A.M.

Loose Fur - Loose Fur

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

The Band - Music from Big Pink

DeVotchka- SuperMelodrama

Patti Smith - Horses

Hacienda - Loud Is the Night

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid

Monsters of Folk - Monsters Of Folk

Screamin Jay Hawkins- At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight

The Stooges - The Stooges

Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart

Karen Dalton - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

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Modern Lovers - S/T

REM - Murmur

Black Sabbath - S/T

Blue Oyster Cult - S/T

The Verlaines - Hallelujah All The Way Home

Sun City Girls - S/T

Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

The Chameleons - The Script of the Bridge

Sad Lovers and Giants - Feeding The Flame

Wipers - Is This Real?

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded

The Stooges - S/T

X - Los Angeles

Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

The Clash - S/T (US version w/ the 7"s)

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Soft Boys - Can of Bees

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Safe As Milk

Devo - Are We Not Men?

Espers - S/T

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Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

 

But now how to address debut EPs? I was going to include:

REM - Murmur (but Chronic Town came first)

Arcade Fire - Funeral (but the Us Kids Know EP came first)

Pixies - Surfer Rosa (But Come On Pilgrim came first)

Pavement - Slanted + Enchanted (but Slay Tracks and others came first)

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mmm more lists. I can only think of fifteen off the top of my head.

 

1) Sparklehorse: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

2) Micah P Hinson: And The Gospel of Progree

3) Bjork: Debut

4) Massive Attack: Blues Lines

5) Marillion: Script for a Jester's Tear

6) My Morning Jacket: The Tennessee Fire

7) Genesis: Trespass

8) Stina Nordenstam: Memories of a Colour

9) Archive: Londinum

10) The Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker

11) Tom Waits: Closing Time

12) Grant-Lee Buffalo: Fuzzy

13) Neil Young: Neil Young

14) Tricky: Maxinquaye and....

15) Guns n Roses: Appetite For Destruction

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1) Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
2) Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3) Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
4) Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
5) Warren Zevon - S/T
6) Bruce Cockburn – S/T
7) Phil Ochs - All The News That's Fit To Sing
8) Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
9) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
10) Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull
11) Missing Persons – Spring Session M
12) The Doors - S/T
13) Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
14) Wilco - A.M.
15) Neal Casal - Fade Away Diamond Time
16) Pretenders – S/T
17) Chris Whitley - Living With The Law
18) Big Brother & the Holding Company - S/T
19) Blue Mountain - Dog Days
20) Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

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Mr. Heartbreak's list seems to be closest to what I'd come up with.

 

1) Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!

2) Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

3) Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

4) Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets

5) Polvo - Cor Crane Secret

6) Television - Marquee Moon

7) Cream - Fresh Cream

8) fIREHOSE - Ragin' Full On

9) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico

10) Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk

11) XTC - White Music

13) Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77

14) Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

15) King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

16) Jeff Beck - Truth

17) Traffic - Mr. Fantasy

18) The Cars - S/T

19) Mary Timony - Mountains

20) The B-52s - S/T

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Beatles - Please Please me

LZ - 1

Boston - Self Titled

Hendrix - Are You Exp.?

Machael Jackson - Off the Wall

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks...well he did have another album so forget that

Allman Brothers - Self Titled

Police - Outlandos.....

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

VH - 1

VU - Banana

Pearl Jam - Ten

Madonna - Self Titled

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In no particular order...and I know I'm missing stuff.

 

  1. The Beatles - Please Please Me
  2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
  3. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
  4. Wilco - A.M.
  5. Son Volt - Trace
  6. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
  7. The Band - Music from Big Pink
  8. The Doors - The Doors
  9. My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire
  10. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
  11. Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
  12. Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using)
  13. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
  14. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
  15. Paul Simon - Paul Simon
  16. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
  17. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
  18. Tom Waits - Closing Time
  19. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
  20. Pearl Jam - Ten
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inpo...i know i am missing some classics but i am happy w/ this list:

 

 

Blue Oyster Cult - S/T

Mogwai - Young Team

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

REM - Murmur

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

The Verlaines - Hallelujah All The Way Home

Cheap Trick - S/T

Swervedriver - Raise

The Smiths - S/T

Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Black Sabbath - S/T

The Stooges - S/T

The Chameleons - The Script of the Bridge

The Soft Boys - A Can Of Bees

Sad Lovers And Giants - Epic Garden Music

PJ Harvey - Dry

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Safe As Milk

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Wire - Pink Flag

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A few that come quickly to mind, and having been reminded of in perusing some of the posts here:

 

Hot Tuna-Hot Tuna, we always called it "Acoustic"

Beatles-Meet the Beatles (not their first official release, but was the first U.S. release so I count it).  I still remember the day I first heard this at 6 years old

REM-Murmer

Elvis Costello/Attractions-My Aim is True

Wilco-AM

Allman Brothers-The Allman Brothers Band

Pretenders-Pretenders

New Riders-NRPS

The Clash-The Clash

English Beat-I Just Can't Stop It

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Top SECOND records might be interesting...(defeating the sophomore slump) Got WAY more than 20...just started thinking about it and off the races. (Some of these are cheating a bit...I don't consider EPS in the equation)

 

Doolittle --- The Pixies

Astral Weeks --- Van Morrison

The Bends --- Radiohead

What's the Story Morning Glory --- Oasis

With the Beatles ---- The Beatles

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle --- Bruce Springsteen

This Years Model --- Elvis Costello (and the Attractions)

A Quick One --- The Who

Being There --- Wilco

Thirteen Years --- Alejandro Escovedo

The Band --- The Band

Radio City --- Big Star

The Free Wheeling Bob Dylan --- Bob Dylan

Space Oddity --- David Bowie

Led Zeppelin II --- Led Zeppelin

Chicago II --- Chicago

At Dawn --- My Morning Jacket

Vs. --- Pearl Jam

Nevermind --- Nirvana

Rated R --- Queens of the Stone Age

Axis: Bold as Love --- Jimi Hendrix Experience

Bayou Country --- Creedence Clearwater Revival

Give 'Em Enough Rope --- The Clash

Transformer --- Lou Reed

Meat is Murder --- The Smiths

Reckoning --- REM

Paul's Boutique --- The Beastie Boys

Gold --- Ryan Adams

More Songs About Buildings and Food --- Talking Heads

Countdown to Ecstasy --- Steely Dan

Closer --- Joy Division

Funhouse --- The Stooges

In the Aeroplane over the Sea --- Neutral Milk Hotel

Return to Cookie Mountain --- TV on the Radio

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight --- Richard Thompson

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Man...do I know how to shut down a thread or what?

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