This week on Teenage Kicks, we'll celebrate birthdays in our first hour for members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Suede, Haircut 100, and Ray Parker Junior! Then in the second hour, as we get ready for the 893 countdown of essential debut albums on The Current next week, Jim McGuinn Slusarek will share with you what he thinks were the most important debuts of the Kicks era — the mid 70s to the early 90s — the albums that weren't just great, but caused a change in music.

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Playlist, hour 1

Playlist, hour 2