Best Debut Albums

AUM
Isis, 1974 on Buddha (the all girl group)
Can I count Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere? It was Neil's first with Crazy Horse.
Cold Spring Harbor - Before Billy Joel turned into a franchise.
Bonnie Raitt
Relish - Joan Osborne
I'll include Ain't Who I Was by Bonnie Bishop, since she transformed herself from C&W to R&B
Duane & Greg
Greetings From Asbury Park
I Don't Want To Go Home - Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Meet The Beatles. No, it was Please Please Me.
Pretenders
Sister Sweetly - Big Head Todd
Bleeding Diamonds (EP) Nicole Atkins
Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats

Tracy Chapman
Amy Winehouse - Frank
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM

Do you think most people think Meet The Beatles was their debut?

I never heard of "Writer". Thanks. I'll look it up.

For me that authentic moment was The Four Seasons Sherry &11 others. Certainly as important a debut as any in American rock & Roll. 

I can't tell you how many times I've loved someone's first album so much that I immediately bought one or two more from them only to have my expectations dashed. As Rod Stewart, who's first album was the only one I have any use for, said "The First Cut is The" bestest.

I just got Carly Simon's Anticipation from MoFi. The SACD layer pretty good, but I would still like the sound of my old LP better if it weren't for the surface noise. I didn't treat it well when I was in college.