Those rare albums that are great on first listen.

Going back in time again, I remember I felt that way about

Jimmy Buffet: Changes In Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes and Son Of A Sailor

Warren Zevon: Exciteable Boy

Dire Straits: the first side of Making Movies and all of Love Over Gold

and a bit more contemporary:

Bruce Springsteen: The Ghost Of Tom Joad

Josh Ritter Live At The Record Exchange EP

I also ignored posts with more than 5-6 suggestions

The playlist is supposed to be collaborative so feel free to add ONE song from the album you are recommending.

Oops! Sorry, @pinwa , I wasn’t paying attention to detail. I’ll come up with five songs from five of my many picks.

From Linda Ronstadt/Simple Dreams: Carmelita (tough to pick just one from that LP/CD)

From Jackson Browne/Running On Empty: Cocaine

From Cowboy Junkies/Black Eyed Man: Southern Rain

From Josh Ritter//Live At The Record Exchange EP: Girl In The War (however it is probably a cleaner sounding recording from the Josh Ritter/Girl In The War CD)

From Steve Earle/Guitar Town: Guitar Town

And since you said "5 or 6 picks" I will add Bob Dylan/Blood On The Tracks for my 6th pick, and the song I would choose from that is Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

I am leaving my Lucinda Williams picks out of it, because for me to pick five songs by Lu would kill me . . . I would not no where to start.

For he who wants no more than five, here are five more:

- Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure. A true super-group (Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner, Terry Williams).

- The Beat: s/t. Fantastic Power Pop!

- Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Survive?

- Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks: Striking It Rich.

- Mary Gauthier: Mercy Now (produced by Gurf Morlix).

@bdp24 ​​​​@immatthewj I'm not intending to maintain the playlist.  I made it collaborative so that you and anybody else here can add their choices.  I decided to ignore posts with more than 5-6 albums because it was too much work but if you want to add a dozen albums that meet the criteria of "great on first listen" feel free.  I've never tried a collaborative playlist but I assume you can just make changes in your Qobuz account and it will propagate to the playlist but maybe that isn't how it works.