1970s

Anne Briggs' timeless, pitch-perfect folk LP disappeared in its day, but was rediscovered three decades later.

In the wake of The Beatles' demise, Yoko Ono's startling debut LP drags John and Ringo into a radical musical future.

The debut LP by post-punk originators Magazine influenced everyone from The Smiths to Radiohead.

In just 28 spare, elegant minutes the melancholy English folkie authors a masterpiece.

Joy Division's glowering, towering debut is one of the most enduring, influential, and mythical LPs ever made.

One of recorded music's most powerful voices screams a terrifying suite of horror-songs hoping for Peace.

All charismatic caterwauling and political sloganeering, X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene is the Godmother of riot-grrrl.

Eno's third album exploded rock'n'roll form into a series of half-glimpsed fragments. The result: a perfect album that barely sounds like an album.

At 21, Alex Chilton was a former teen pin-up washed-up, awash in nostalgia for rock'n'roll's simpler days.

The twitchy, chaotic, post-punk reactionism of the no-wave movement captured in one iconic compilation.

40 years ago, the New Weird American Folk Underground was essentially just one guy: Michael Hurley.

The continued celebration and canonization of the Sex Pistols has made one thing clear: history's picked the wrong band.

For many, Neu!'s debut 1972 LP served as the unofficial birthplace of the krautrock movement.

At once fiercely punk and shaggily psychedelic, Television’s magnum opus transcends the time-and-place in which it was made.

Lost in oblivion for nearly three decades, Bunyan's magical debut has been granted an almost holy status by smitten listeners.

Best known for diffusing punk's heaving machismo, the Raincoats' remarkable, ramshackle debut summons a peculiar musical magic.

Reviled in its day, beloved three decades on. Suicide's debut LP might be the most unexpectedly influential in rock history.

On their legendary double-LP, Can continued to push psychedelic, progressive rock into strange, new, uncharted terrain.

Widely imitated and eternally cool, 'Entertainment!' is one of the greatest debut LPs ever.

Though initially dismissed due to their age and gender, the music of The Slits has persisted, growing more important with each passing year.

Wire's second LP captured the shift from punk to post-punk, challenging notions of what 'punk' could be.

Initially lost in the dark years between the Velvets and punk, The Modern Lovers' debut LP has gone on to become legendary.

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Though it's no one's idea of alternative rock, Kate Bush's idiosyncratic debut has influence a generation of experimentally-minded indie-pop musicians.

The punk poetess presided over one of the greatest debuts in recorded music.