The Velvet Underground 'Best Debut Of All Time'

The Velvet Underground’s eponymous first album has been named the best debut LP of all time by Uncut magazine.

The ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ - fronted by Lou Reed - was released in 1967 to utter indifference, but has turned into one of music’s most enduringly influential releases (although their beautiful third eponymous album is arguably their finest effort).

The Velvets finished immediately ahead of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Television, with The Clash, Joy Division and Led Zeppelin also making the top ten.

The Arctic Monkeys reinforcing their darling status, with their debut, and so far only, album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ the most recent release to make the list at number 30.