Those rare albums that are great on first listen.


You know the ones. They blow your mind and make you glad you're an audiophile.

Share your favorites.

For me it’s usually some style or vibe I haven’t heard before. My list so far is around 20, but I’ll keep it to my top 5. Feel free to share as many as you like.

!. Poe ‘Haunted’
2. Spirit “Twelve dreams of Dr. Sardonicus’
3. Midlake ‘The Trials of Van Occupanther’
4.Tori Amos ‘Little Earthquakes’
5. Skindive  ‘Skindive’

 

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Amazing how musical tastes differ. No wonder few people on this forum can agree over audio components. Vive la difference!

If I don't enjoy an album the first time that I listen to it then it's unlikely to be given an opportunity to grow on me.  If there's a song or two that I like then I will listen to them selectively.  I don't like learning to like things :-)

When I first read this thread it make me think of the albums that I have that suck me in and it's almost like my enjoyment grows with each song.  Here are three of my favorites:

Legends by James Galway

Ceremonial Music for Trumpet & Symphonic Organ by Michael Murray

Tuba Carnival by Oystein Baadsvik (you may need to forgive the first song Fnugg)

 

Off the top of my head:

 

- The Band: s/t (the brown album).

- Dave Edmunds: Get It.

- The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely.

- Moon Martin: Shots From A Cold Nightmare.

- T Bone Burnett: Truth Decay.

- Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Harvest.

- The Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action.

- Weezer: s/t (the blue album).

- AC/DC: Back In Black.

- Iris DeMent: Infamous Angel, My Life, and all her others.

- Lucinda Williams: s/t (on Rough Trade).

- Lou Ann Barton: Old Enough.

- Carlene Carter: Musical Shapes.

- Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust.

- Buddy Miller: Your Love And Other Lies. Hell, ALL of his!

- Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid.

- The Johnny Staats Project: Wires & Wood.

- Van Morrison: Moondance.

- Maria Muldaur: s/t.

- Randy Newman: s/t, Good Old Boys.

- Elvis Costello: King Of America.

- Moby Grape: s/t.

- The Yardbirds: For Your Love.

- The Kinks: You Really Got Me, Kontroversy, Face To Face, Something Else By, The Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Muswell Hillbillies.

- Ry Cooder: Bop Till You Drop.

- David Lindley: El Rayo-X.

- Richard & Linda Thompson: Shoot Out The Lights.

- Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind.

- Bob Dylan: New Morning, Planet Waves, Before The Flood, "Love And Theft".

- Jackson Browne: s/t (aka Saturate Before Using).

 

Many more, but that’s enough outta me.