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[li]Jon B. - Bonafide[/li][li]Hikaru Utada - First Love[/li][li]Erykah Badu - Baduizm[/li][li]Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club[/li][li]Digital Underground - Sex Packets[/li][/ol]
Nice. Love Sheryl Crow and Erykah Badu.
Oh!! Sade - Diamond Life!!!
Without looking at the thread, these are the ones that immediately come to mind:
- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
- Led Zeppelin I - Led Zeppelin
- The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
- Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
- Pretenders - The Pretenders
And an honorable mention to The La’s, although their debut was their only album.
As much as Kevin Shields wants to re-write history and call This is Your Body Valentine a “mini album” (or whatever he is calling it now), it was marketed and released as an album.
Chicago - CTA
BS&T - Child is the Father of Man
Weezer - Weezer
Pearl Jam - Ten
Sublime - 40oz To Freedom
7 songs, 25 minutes long is a mini-album, surely?
No shorter than a lot of post-punk albums from that time/scene. Shields basically wants to act like it didn’t exist because it doesn’t fit with the rest of MBV’s stuff and because it sucks.
Well it’s not a hill I’m going to die on. Anyway, no Bilinda and no Deb…
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Devo - Are We Not Men?
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Wire - Pink Flag
The Smiths - The Smiths
Do debut solo albums by somebody who already has a substantial body of work as a member of a band count? If so, All Things Must Pass is a strong candidate.
For my own list I decided to rule such cases out, so I didn’t have to consider Richard Thompson or Peter Gabriel. However, *All Things Must Pass *was not George Harrison’s solo debut; that honor goes to Wonderwall Music.
Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual
This could also have been on my list.
I used to overthink lists like this, but it’s all subjective, and what I list now won’t be what I listed 20 years ago, and won’t be what I’d list 20 years from now.
**My personal favs as of this point in time: **
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[li]The Doors - The Doors - C’mon, great from start to finish![/li][li]Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf - Bombastic, operatic rock from the perfect combination of singer & songwriter.[/li][li]The Cars - The Cars - Loaded with Classic Rock staples.[/li][li]Boston - Boston - Stadium rock at it’s best.[/li][li]Van Halen 1 - Van Halen - If you love electric guitar, you know why this is here.[/li]
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Alterna-college list from my formative years :D. Best listened to when blitzed on a case of Schmidt lager lying prone on a dorm room floor.
- Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
- Concrete Blonde - Concrete Blonde
- Love and Rockets - 7th Dream of Teenage Heaven
- Bjork - Debut
- Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe
Good choices!
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Big Star - #1 Record
Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure*
Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
Los Lobos - Will The Wolf Survive
*-due to contractual obligations only
That’s an odd one, because their live record was released first, plus I like the live record better. 
I thought about Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, but decided that is was really just Bauhaus without Peter Murphy. I also considered Bauhaus’ first record.
Excellent call on Joe Jackson. Somehow didn’t think of him.
I listened to Look Sharp last week for the first time in years. It holds up very well.
mmm
Sex Pistols
Portishead
The Smiths
dunno