# Debut Albums

A curated list by [piXelbreach](https://waxlog.com/user/pixelbreach) on Waxlog, submitted to the **Debut Albums** challenge.

> Debut albums are very exciting. Why? Often, a collection starts with a debut album because the music captivates you so much or it could be the exact opposite because the debut album (which is often “worse” in comparison) simply belongs in the collection. And - debut albums can also make me sad because it happens far too often that the first album was also the only album ever released by an artist.

112 releases · last updated 2025-08-28

## Releases

1. **Madonna** — Madonna
2. **Underworld** — Underneath The Radar
3. **Depeche Mode** — Speak & Spell
4. **Massive Attack** — Blue Lines
5. **Bomb The Bass** — Into The Dragon
6. **The Beautiful South** — Welcome To The Beautiful South
7. **ABC** — The Lexicon Of Love
8. **Adamski** — Liveandirect
9. **De La Soul** — 3 Feet High And Rising
10. **Alison Moyet** — Alf
11. **Andrew Ridgeley** — Son Of Albert
12. **Arcadia** — So Red The Rose
13. **The Art Of Noise** — Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?
14. **The Beatmasters** — Anywayawanna
15. **Beats International** — Let Them Eat Bingo
16. **Black** — Wonderful Life
17. **Blancmange** — Happy Families
18. **Book Of Love** — Book Of Love
19. **Dave Gahan** — Paper Monsters
20. **Den Harrow** — Overpower
21. **Breathe** — All That Jazz
22. **Bros** — Push
23. **Camouflage** — Voices & Images
24. **Don Johnson** — Heartbeat
25. **Coldcut** — What's That Noise?
26. **Colonel Abrams** — Colonel Abrams
27. **The Danse Society** — Seduction
28. **Don Henley** — I Can't Stand Still
29. **Banderas** — Ripe
30. **Double** — Blue
31. **Ellis, Beggs & Howard** — Homelands
32. **Erasure** — Wonderland
33. **Feargal Sharkey** — Feargal Sharkey
34. **Frankie Goes To Hollywood** — Welcome To The Pleasuredome
35. **Gabi Delgado** — Mistress
36. **Gazebo** — Gazebo
37. **Glass Tiger** — The Thin Red Line
38. **Grace Jones** — Portfolio
39. **Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five** — The Message
40. **Howard Jones** — Human's Lib
41. **James Wells** — My Claim To Fame
42. **Jennifer Rush** — Jennifer Rush
43. **Jimmy Somerville** — Read My Lips
44. **Johnny Hates Jazz** — Turn Back The Clock
45. **Kate Bush** — The Kick Inside
46. **Keimzeit** — Irrenhaus
47. **Kissing The Pink** — Naked
48. **Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam & Full Force** — Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam With Full Force
49. **Lisa Stansfield** — Affection
50. **M** — New York, London, Paris, Munich
51. **Martha And The Muffins** — Metro Music
52. **Mel & Kim** — F.L.M.
53. **Men At Work** — Business As Usual
54. **The Mission** — Gods Own Medicine
55. **Nena** — Nena
56. **Neneh Cherry** — Raw Like Sushi
57. **Numarx** — Our Time Has Come
58. **The Other Ones** — The Other Ones
59. **Paul Rutherford** — Oh World
60. **Paul Young** — No Parlez
61. **Pet Shop Boys** — Please
62. **Peter Schilling** — Fehler Im System
63. **Portishead** — Dummy
64. **Propaganda** — A Secret Wish
65. **Rheingold** — Rheingold
66. **Richard Marx** — Richard Marx
67. **Rick Astley** — Whenever You Need Somebody
68. **S'Express** — Original Soundtrack
69. **Sade** — Diamond Life
70. **Silicon Teens** — Music For Parties
71. **Simple Minds** — Life In A Day
72. **Simply Red** — Picture Book
73. **Soul II Soul** — Club Classics Vol. One
74. **Space Art** — Space Art
75. **Sugarhill Gang** — Sugarhill Gang
76. **Swing Out Sister** — It's Better To Travel
77. **Sydney Youngblood** — Feeling Free
78. **T'Pau** — Bridge Of Spies
79. **Talk Talk** — The Party's Over
80. **Tanita Tikaram** — Ancient Heart
81. **Tears For Fears** — The Hurting
82. **Ten City** — Foundation
83. **Texas** — Southside
84. **Tracy Chapman** — Tracy Chapman
85. **Two Of Us** — Twice As Nice
86. **Visage** — Visage
87. **The Weathermen** — Ten Deadly Kisses
88. **WestBam** — WestBam
89. **Whitney Houston** — Whitney Houston
90. **Will Downing** — Will Downing
91. **Wir** — The First Letter
92. **Wolfsheim** — No Happy View
93. **Young MC** — Stone Cold Rhymin'
94. **Bronski Beat** — The Age Of Consent
95. **Coldplay** — Parachutes
96. **Echo & The Bunnymen** — Crocodiles
97. **Editors** — The Back Room
98. **Eric B. & Rakim** — Paid In Full
99. **Grant Lee Buffalo** — Fuzzy
100. **Hurts** — Happiness
101. **Javelynn** — Chimaera At Heart
102. **Joy Division** — Unknown Pleasures
103. **Kon Kan** — Move To Move
104. **Mirrors** — Lights And Offerings
105. **Muse** — Showbiz
106. **The Parallel Project** — Fusion
107. **Richard Ashcroft** — Alone With Everybody
108. **Selig** — Selig
109. **Stiltskin** — The Mind's Eye
110. **Stone Temple Pilots** — Core
111. **Terry Hoax** — Life In Times Of...
112. **Tori Amos** — Little Earthquakes

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