Continuing my list of best debut albums (with quite a few caveats)…

Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (1983)

The debut album by the Milwaukee-based folk-punk trio Violent Femmes is one of the record industry’s greatest slow-burning success stories.

Released in 1983, the album failed to make a splash commercially, but it was a college radio success that picked up steam over the years. Buoyed by a compact disc release, it finally reached the Billboard 200 chart in 1991 and to date has sold more than 3 million copies.

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