Best Debut Singles Evah!

Yes, yes and yes.

I haven't even HEARD of Catsuit City.

Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bang
Air - Sexy Boy
Darude - Sandstorm

oh god. you're right. silly me.

hee hee.

also whichever out of geno and dance stance/burn it down was first

(Not just The Damned's debut single of course but also the first UK punk single)

Is my memory playing tricks on me again or didn't "Lovers Of Today" come out before that one?

Mind you, their first single as BBAA wasn't "Ring Ring", it was "People Need Love", which to be honest, was utter tripe!!!

Wow, I was always convinced it was "Me, Myself and I" -- which also works.

Also:
Busta Rhymes - Woo Ha (Got You All in Check)
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. 2 (was this their debut? the title would seem to indicate otherwise)
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex-Type Thing
Tripping Daisy - My Umbrella
Linkin Park - One Step Closer

magnetic fields - 100,000 fireflies

Neeeeeeed! Help me out here..;-)

but Pulp weren't really known in the US, then. If anything, they were barely a blip. It did take a while for people to stop saying, "Who the hell are they"?
-- Nichole Graham

Oh sure, point taken, but are we talking about *actual official* debut single or just "the first single a band/artist released when people actually bothered to take notice and acknowledge their existence"? The former, surely, hence my exclamation. 'Snot my fault some people are so slow on the uptake...*ducks*

I think the fact that I've never hear of most of these must count against them to an extent.

Why sure. But first repeat to yourself, "Bloodflowers is a very good album. Ned and Dan have very accurate critical perceptions..."

That wasn't even on their debut album; I'm guessing that "Peer Pressure" was their first single, although I could be wrong.

Post-punk before punk. Bonus points for being indie.

Parliaments - I adore "Testify," but I don't know if it was their first. I think they recorded for other labels before Revilot.

Speaking of having more than one debut single out at once . . . Moby Grape. Out of five, only "Omaha" charted, but they're all pretty great.

Also:
(I'm sure someone already mentioned) "It's Like That"/"Sucker MCs"
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, "It Takes Two"
Dylan's first single - "Mixed Up Confusion" - is pretty cool, and a nicely odd bit of his history
Superchunk - "What Do I"/"My Noise"/"Train From Kansas City"
Zombies - "She's Not There"
Was (Not Was) - "Wheel Me Out"
The Move, "Night of Fear"/"Disturbance" (I still think Quasi should cover either or both sides)

plus maybe:
Plush - "found a little baby"
Quickspace - "friend" (well...they'd dropped the Supersport and half the band, so kind of a 2nd debut....?!)
Four Tet - thirtysix twentyfive
Neneh Cherry - buffalo stance
The Monsoon Bassoon - "wise guy"
Tindersticks - marbles (or was "patchwork" first?)
PJ Harvey - "dress"
Mudhoney - "touch me i'm sick"
"kill Your Televisio..." oh ok, maybe not that one..

and unless i missed them, Sugababes "overload"/Tweet "oops"/Tricky "aftermath" too..

Here's thirty.

Devo - "Mongoloid/Jocko Homo" changed my life.

Losing My Edge because it proves its own thesis by being the best thing LCD ever did.

seal - crazy

Good one!

I can't stand "Losing My Edge," as I mentioned on FB.

the field mice - emma's house
e-40 - captain save a hoe

Organised Konfusion - Fudge Pudge
Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go
Janelle Monae - Many Moons
Rhythm Formation - Ready for the Darkness (aka Kelli Hand and Claude Young - I think this was the debut single for both of them)
Rythim Is Rythim - Nude Photo