10 Best Debut Rock Albums Of The 1980s
1. Appetite For Destruction - Guns N’ Roses
Not only is this the best debut rock album of the 80s, not only is one of the best debut rock albums of all time, Appetite for Destruction from 1987 is one of the all-time great first releases from anyone ever.
Just take a dart and throw it at this album's track listing. Chances are you'll hit one of the band's biggest ever songs or a beloved fan favourite.
Don't like Welcome to the Jungle? How about Paradise City? Not to your tastes? Try Sweet Child O' Mine or It's So Easy instead.
Seriously, the back of this album reads like a greatest hits collection... which might be a bit of a slander of their future work, but still!
Guns N' Roses didn't explode onto the scene, they exploded the scene. The world wasn't ready for a debut release of this magnitude, as this new force ripped through the musical landscape like a neutron bomb.
There's a reason Appetite for Destruction has gone 18 times Platinum in the US; people bought it when it first came out and haven't stopped buying it since.
It's been keeping Slash in top hats for about 40 years now.