Led Zeppelin's famed debut album might be the greatest first-off record in rock history. We'll leave that up to you.

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The tape of The Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.

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