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So many great hip hop debuts. Wu-Tang feels safe, so gonna stump for these #5debutalbums9094

1. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
2. Digable Planets - Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Peoples Instinctive Travels…
4. Nas - Illmatic
5. KMD - Mr. Hood
January 25, 2026 at 10:54 AM
#5debutalbums7074

1. Big Star - #1 Record
2. Judee Sill - s/t
3. Bill Withers - Just As I Am
4. Cymande - s/t
5. Syreeta - s/t
December 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Was in Vegas this past weekend, and found out De La Soul were doing a free concert Friday night, so was very happy to see a number of 3 Ft. High cuts (and other classics) live. That said, Paul’s Boutique is my favorite album ever. But my bracket depends on De La winning, so, uh, vote your conscience
De La Soul performing at the Neon City Festival in Las Vegas.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Unless I’m misremembering the inclusion of more albums, so far we’ve only polled three (Jagged Little Pill, Be Here Now, Come On Over) of the top selling UK albums by year, and only one made it past Round 1.
Results from the Wikipedia page for the top selling UK albums by year from 1989-2000.
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
#5debutalbums8084
1. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
2. Pretenders - s/t
3. Sade - Diamond Life
4. Violent Femmes - s/t
5. Mission of Burma - Vs.
October 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Archie counters: vote New York!
A white maltipoo looks groggily annoyed at the camera for having to prop up the record sleeve for Lou Reed’s New York
October 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
#5debutalbums0004
1. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
2. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
3. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
4. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
5. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
October 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#5albums50s60sfinal
1. John Coltrane - Blue Train
2. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
3. Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
4. Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
5. Love - Forever Changes
September 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#5albums50s60s5
1. Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
3. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin’ Else
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
5. Roberta Flack - First Take
August 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
More Doolittle ephemera! An interview (I believe with a Boston-area college newspaper) with the Pixies around the time of Doolittle’s release.
Newspaper article with the headline "Rob Lowe Soiled Our Good Name!" & other little known facts about the Pixies by Julian Helms Unfortunately too long to fit in alt text.
August 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#5albums50s60s3

1. John Coltrane - Blue Train
2. Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
3. Etta James - At Last!
4. The Band - s/t
5. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
July 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
And here are two letters from Andy from DFH.
A note that reads: “Hoi Travis, here’s the L.P… tshirt is on its way once weve printed some more (3/4 weeks) Sorry to make you wait… its great to hear that the people you share your house with are into The Ex + DFH, cos the people I share my house with are The Ex... So youre all invited for a fine meal next time you’re in the neighborhood… Cheers. We’ll probably tour the US in Jan or March. Till then tatty ho !! Andy Dog Face” A note that reads: “Hey Travis here’s our tour sheet — but not your tee shirt which has become deleted expleted [sic]. Please come up + say hello at the gig in Portland + we’ll give you your money back or some other object—Cheers, Andy”
June 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Here’s their North American tour itinerary from 1993ish. Not familiar with everyone, but it’s fun to see that they toured with God Is My Co-Pilot, Alice Donut, Unsane, Mecca Normal and Fred Armisen’s band Trenchmouth.
Dog Faced Hermans tour itinerary that includes dates with the artists mentioned in the Skeet, as well as Tom Cora, Slug, Victims, Family, Ford, The Pseudonymphs, Rythem Activism and Brader.
June 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
#5albums50s60s2

1. Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
2. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
3. Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
4. Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
5. Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
June 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Here’s the original press copy for Doolittle (Elektra’s DC, if you will)…
ELEKTRA BIO PIXIES Black Francis vocals, guitars Kim Deal bass, vocals Joey Santiago lead guitar David Lovering drums In just two and a half years, the Pixies have already achieved more than most bands dream about in a lifetime. Yet nothing about this band is quite as it seems to be, save for the ferocious excellence of their 4AD/Elektra album, Doolittle. To begin with, the Pixies are not pixies but three men and a woman, all of whom live in Boston, Massachusetts and produce a sound powerful enough to wind Atlas. Lead singer Black Francis isn’t really called Black Francis, either: His name is Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV. His friends call him “Charles.” His father calls him “Son.” Charles was in his first year at University of Massachusetts in Amherst when one day a woman walked into his Spanish class and asked, “Does anyone want to go to Puerto Rico for a year?” He packed his bag the next day. Strangely, neither sun, sand, nor salsa could quench the lad’s appetite for rock and roll. Charles dropped out of college after six months and returned to Boston to form a band. He spent two weeks convincing his former college roommate, Joey Santiago, to likewise ditch higher education. Joey Santiago really is Joey Santiago, but it was who he (as a consequence of a less-than-All-American upbringing) thought up the group’s name. “Joey was in the Philippines until he was seven or something, explains Charles, “and with English not his first language, he has a fascination for new words. He’ll say, ‘Oh, I like that word,’ then look it up and see what it means. He actually wanted to call us ‘Pixies in Panoply,’ but we shortened it a little.” The person known as Mrs. John Murphy on previous Pixies releases (more on those later) is not Mrs. John Murphy anymore, having reverted to her maiden name of Kim Deal. She answered a musicians classified ad in a Boston paper seeking a bassist for a “Hüsker Du and Peter, Paul and Mary band” because she thought the ad was “cute.” Kim arrived without a bass, but was also the only person to answer the ad; not surprisingly, she got the job. Her drummer friend, David Lovering, was drafted in to complete the lineup in July, 1986. The Pixies then recorded a demo tape, hoping to secure a record deal and then recut the songs for an LP. But the proprietors of England’s adventurous 4AD label were so impressed with the results that they released the demo (in October, ‘87) as an eight-song mini-album entitled Come On Pilgrim. It was raw, it was roar, and it went to Number One on the U.K. indie charts. “In six months’ time,” swore the man from Sounds, “every right thinking rocker on the planet will have realized that the Pixies are a band made in heaven, taught groovin’ rock ‘n’ roll etiquette in hell, and brought to us via the expressways and scary wide open spaces of America… This is a band possessed of melodic dynamism, an intuitive grasp of the guitar, and an eerily compelling way with words.” Much attention was focused on the album’s subject matter, its overt references to incest (“Nimrod’s Son”) and religion. Hispanic titles like “Vamos” and Isla De Encanta” were influenced by Charles’ sojourn in Puerto Rico, and the urge to connect with some ancient, primal emotion can be traced to his experience on archeological digs in Arizona. But his preoccupation with God reflects his born-again Pentecostal background. “I was 12 and religion came over my entire family,” say Charles. “I grew up exposed to a lot of preaching and righteous rage, and although I’ve rejected the content of all that, the style has left an impression on me. It certainly left me fucked up…” CONT’D ON NEXT SLIDE The Pixies next feat was the full-length album Surfer Rosa, which shot to Number One on the U.K. indie charts upon its release in March, ‘88. By now, the group had learned to ride their scalding momentum through songs like “Bone Machine” and “Break My Body.” Surfer Rosa became “Album Of The Year” in both Sounds AND Melody Maker, described by the latter as “a scorching, surging blitzkrieg of warped rock, voluptuous vocals and guitars.” In the U.S., Spin named Pixies its “Musicians Of The Year.” In August, the “Gigantic” single paved the way for the Pixies’ first headline tour of the U.K. and Europe. Now comes Doolittle, the Pixies' second album but their first to be licensed to a major label, Elektra. The LP retains all the frenetic energy of their previous safaris, but now the songs have become even more disparate, spotlighting the rickety fence which separates barbarism and civility.From the arsenic-tinted harmony of "Here Comes Your Man" to “Dead" (heavily caffeinated and discordant) to the disjointed groin attack of "Debaser," the Pixies' sound is still terrifyingly simple and menacingly beautiful. “I want to command some faith from an audience," says Charles Black Francis. "I want them to be intrigued, absolutely curious about who I am. That's what makes music attractive to me, that hole you get sucked into when you really get into a song." DISCOGRAPHY Come On Pilgrim (Mini LP) 4AD/Rough Trade 1987 Surfer Rosa (LP) 4AD/Rough Trade 1988 "Gigantic" (12" EP) 4AD/ Import 1988 "Monkey Gone To Heaven" (12" EP) 4AD/Elektra 1989 Doolittle (LP) 4AD/Elektra 1989 4/89 4AD ELEKTRA
May 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#5albums50s60s1

1. Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
2. Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind
3. Townes Van Zandt - s/t
4. Wilson Pickett - The Exciting Wilson Pickett
5. Louis Prima - The Wildest!
May 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#5albums70sfinal
1. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
3. Big Star - #1 Record
4. Patti Smith - Horses
5. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
May 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#5albums70s5
1. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
2. Parliament - Mothership Connection
3. Big Star - #1 Record
4. Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black
5. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
April 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Me in 1989. I just won the bracket prediction contest, so looks like my pick will have to be Raffi in Concert with the Rise and Shine Band. (Note to Kent: This is not my actual pick.)
A cherubic looking blonde boy of about two in a denim jacket, standing among some rocks.
February 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#5albums70s2
1. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Zombie
2. Judee Sill - s/t
3. Sparks - Kimono My House
4. The Cars - s/t
5. Chic - C’est Chic
February 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#5albums70s1
1. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
3. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
4. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
5. Warren Zevon - s/t
January 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#5albums80sfinal
1. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
2. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
3. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
4. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
5. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
December 15, 2024 at 10:43 AM
#5albums80s5
1. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
2. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
3. Paul Simon - Graceland
4. Sade - Diamond Life
5. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
December 1, 2024 at 10:27 AM