Obviously, there are more than 25 great debut albums. (Y! Music's disclaimer department is getting testy with me for using up this year's allotment so soon.) There are tons more I could've thrown on here, but for some reason I didn't.

Do keep in mind, I'm saving some bands for my lists of Best Second Album, Best Third Album, Best 14th Album and other beating-a-dead-horse-even-deader blogs. Figure, I'm like the guy at the TV Networks who sees that a show with competing fashion designers is popular and so decides to run four of them at the same time until you're so sick of the idea that you almost prefer going back to those other programs where they still offer you the "most dramatic rose ceremony yet!"

Anyhow, here are 25 debut albums that were either a band's best work, something that changed the "game" in some way, or through time have become albums that an imaginary consensus sees as important. (Bands with stupid EPs or import-only albums make the counting of this kind of stuff more

The Rolling Stones made a career out of being controversial, the "anti-Beatles." Would you let your daughter date a Rolling Stone? You would now, considering how much they'd stand to inherit.

I'm sure there are plenty more that we could list. But these are my favorite controversies. (First poster to mention "Claudine" gets a star on my refrigerator.)

10) We P*** Anywhere, Man: Bill Wyman urinated on a gas station wall and you'd think the end of civilization was at hand. Then again, it's all a slippery slope. Next thing you know people are crapping on the sidewalks. What a mess. This town's in tatters!

9) Who Breaks A Butterfly Upon A Wheel?: Drug laws are always pretty suspect. Just look at how many non-violent drug offenders are in jail. Of course, the British authorities enjoyed it no end that they could lock up Mick Jagger and Keith Richards over anything. The British press in their oh-so-cryptic way came to the Stones' defense with this headline. These days the editorial header

The bands listed below chose names that are what we in the business technically call "terrible." It doesn't mean the band is terrible, although sometimes that is also true. Some of the names are so common to us now that we simply accept the awfulness. I'm not quite sure The Beatles is a great name. But at this point it sounds inevitable. This may, too, be a topic to which we return, since I had so many leftover it seems a shame to leave them without notice.

Be sure to jot down your personal favorite band names to hate in the space so generously supplied to you in the space below by your friends here at Y! Music. Extra points to those of you who say something nice about me and recommend me for a big, fat raise. Folks like graTTITUDE, DUDE and Karen are sure to say something nice (I think). Maybe you should, too.

25) Editors: What's wrong with this name you ask? Look at it. The guy who "reads" (censors and takes the good parts out of) this blog doesn't even actually read this thing. His

Like I said in part one: there are too many choices when it comes to 1980. It must've been a longer year than most. These days you can trek through the new releases in a few hours. Back then, it could take days. You need a vacation just to keep up.

The basic idea here is to take a sampling of the albums released in a given year and see what brilliant insights I can add to their existence. You, of course, should buy all the music listed below, if only to have a better "understanding" of the era. But don't come back yelling at me if that Linda Ronstadt record doesn't change your life. It barely changed hers.

25) Pearl Harbor And The Explosions--Pearl Harbor And The Explosions: What is that saying, Tragedy + Time = a new wave rock band that would get a ton of press and then sink into oblivion?

24) Kiss--Unmasked: Actually, this is still several albums before they would take off their make-up and ruin the illusion. But it contains a handful of handy co-writes from professional song