Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Best Debut Albums of All Time" (2022 edition)

Back in 2013, Rolling Stone magazine released their picks for the 100 best debut albums (I posted about that list on October 28, 2013). I just noticed that they updated the list in 2022, so let's take a look at the new list as it concerns albums released 1976-85. It is quite a bit different and it should be - different people with different perspectives in a different place in time. 5 albums were dropped from the list; 4 albums were added to the list; 17 albums dropped in ranking; 10 albums moved up. The biggest movers were Violent Femmes (dropping 66 places from 22 to 88) and Madonna (moving up an incredible 80 spots for 96 to 16), while Steel Pulse is introduced to the list at 17.

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2022	2013	Artist	Title	Year
-	98	Joe Jackson	Look Sharp!	1979
-	68	Talking Heads	Talking Heads: 77	1977
-	52	U2	Boy	1980
-	41	Boston	Boston	1976
-	38	The Police	Outlandos d'Amour	1978

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2022	2013	Artist	Title	Year
66	-	Sade	Diamond Life	1984
58	-	The Slits	Cut	1979
36	-	X-Ray Spex	Germfree Adolescents	1978
17	-	Steel Pulse	Handsworth Revolution	1978

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2022	2013		Artist	Title	Year
98	76	-22	Devo	Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!	1978
92	89	-3	Yaz	Upstairs at Eric's	1982
89	84	-5	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston	1985
88	22	-66	Violent Femmes	Violent Femmes	1983
87	63	-24	Cyndi Lauper	She's So Unusual	1983
83	54	-29	Metallica	Kill 'Em All	1983
79	51	-28	The Smiths	The Smiths	1984
75	50	-25	X	Los Angeles	1980
74	48	-26	Modern Lovers	Modern Lovers	1976
70	45	-25	The Jesus & Mary Chain	Psychocandy	1985
64	21	-43	Elvis Costello	My Aim is True	1977
40	27	-13	Van Halen	Van Halen	1978
43	28	-15	The B-52's	The B-52's	1979
37	26	-11	Run-D.M.C.	Run-D.M.C.	1984
30	16	-14	The Cars	The Cars	1978
24	13	-11	Pretenders	Pretenders	1980
23	7	-16	The Sex Pistols	Never Mind the Bollocks	1977

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2022	2013		Artist	Title	Year
62	69	+7	Wire	Wire	1977
60	75	+15	The Go-Go's	Beauty and the Beat	1981
52	64	+12	The English Beat	I Just Can't Stop It	1980
49	81	+32	Gang of Four	Entertainment!	1979
38	40	+2	Television	Marquee Moon	1977
19	20	+1	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures	1979
16	96	+80	Madonna	Madonna	1983
11	18	+7	R.E.M.	Murmur	1983
9	12	+3	The Clash	The Clash	1979
1	2	+1	The Ramones	The Ramones	1976

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