TOP 20 DEBUT ROCK ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

I just wanted everyone to know that I had to edit out number 21 which was King Crimson because they blocked the video. I used nine seconds of 21st Century Schizoid Man and their management company did a manual takedown of the entire video for those 9 seconds.

“Did it inspire a genre?....” = Black Sabbath / Black Sabbath

Another vote for 1978! Dire Straits debut in the midst of the punk era proved that the clean strat sound was alive and well! Every track on that album was fantastic.

Black Sabbath literally invented Metal. I think it should've deserved a spot in the top 5 personally.

I missed “Black Sabbath” by “Black Sabbath” from “Black Sabbath”, it's where heavy metal as we know started, I also missed “Facelift” as is the first mainstream grunge album.

I love Temple of the Dog, but I wouldn’t have put it on this list. It deserves to be on the list, but not top 22, and not before Sabbath.

0:57 #22: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 1:18 #21: King Crimson - 21st Schizoid Man (edited out) 1:33 #20: Heart - Dreamboat Annie 1:48 #19: The Band - Music from Big Pink 2:18 #18: Steely Dan - Can’t But A Thrill 2:46 #17: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 3:21 #16: Oasis - Definitely Maybe 3:53 #15: Smashing Pumpkins - Gish 4:14 #14: Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine 4:51 #13: Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog 5:12 #12: Nirvana - Bleach 5:37 #11: Pearl Jam - Ten 6:00 #10: The Police - Outlandos d’Amour 6:20 #9: The Cars - The Cars 6:50 #8: The Beatles - Please, Please Me 7:11 #7: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico 7:46 #6: The Doors - The Doors 8:08 #5: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced 8:25 #4: Guns N’ Roses - Appetite For Destruction 8:44 #3: Van Halen - Van Halen 9:06 #2: Boston - Boston 9:36 Honorable Mentions 9:46 The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker 9:50 Stone Temple Pilots - Core 9:52 The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols 9:55 Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz 9:57 #1: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

The Strokes “Is This it?” Is an unbelievably good debut album.

Toto: Toto (1978) Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority (1969) Pink Floyd: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden (1980) Marillion: Script For A Jester's Tear (1983)

HONORABLE MISSES: - MC5: Kick out the Jams - Television: Marquee Moon - Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath - Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd - Alice in Chains: Facelift

What about Foreigner's first album? "Feels Life the First TIme", "Cold as Ice", "Long, Long Way From Home" and "Headknocker".

Maybe more pop than rock but The Stone Roses 1989 debut record is quite a gem!

The first Dire Straits album. Also from 1978. Not just “Sultans of Swing”. Some amazing tracks on that record. Not sure what you bump off though. It’s a pretty strong list.

How is Lynyrd Skynyrd’s debut not on here!? So many of their most famous songs are on that album, including Simple Man, Gimme Three Steps, Tuesday’s Gone, and Freebird.

The Stone Roses tick all the boxes and should make any debut album list IMO

Chicago Transit Authority - by Chicago. It was pretty brave to come out with a double album for your first album. Three lead singers. One of the best lead guitarists in Rock history. Nobody sounded like them. They played psychedelic, hard rock, love ballads, jazz.

The Strokes debut "Is This It" influenced almost every rock band that emerged in the 2000s and is one of the tightest most perfect albums out there. The Ramones debut "Ramones", came out months before the Sex Pistols released their first record and released the first truly Punk Album. Both of these are grave omissions from this list.

Great list! Some others to consider... Bad Company - "Bad Company" Devo - "Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!" Tesla - "Mechanical Resonance" Toto - "Toto"

Interpol - turn in The bright lights The strokes - is this it Television - maquee moon And Many more, some of These are Really bad but i got The direction you were going with The video. Great one keep it up

I am so happy you included the cars self titled album. That whole album was just pure music gold. Especially moving in stero/all mixed up