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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@pooreboy 

+1 on Petty. All his albums sound different but great. I was gonna list Wildflowers as maybe the best recording. Shadow People is one of my "Test" songs when evaluating changes. 

Muddy Waters-folk singer

Traffic-low spark of high heeled boys

Rodney Crowell-Aint living long like this

Little feat- Dixie Chicken & Sailin Shoes

Level 42-first & World Machine

Donald Fagen-the night fly

Allman Brothers-eat a peach

Chet Baker-Chet

Steve Earl-the mountain

Alison Krauss & Union Station -New Favorites

John Prine- john prine

I could go on...

 

 

 

David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars"

Echo and The Bunnymen - "Crocodiles"

Michael Franks - "The Art of Tea"

King Crimson - "In the Court of the Crimson King"

Loe Reed - "Transformer"

Renaissance - "Turn of the Cards"

The The - "Mind Bomb"

Paul Westerberg - "14 Songs"

Wishbone Ash - "Argus"

XTC - "English Settlement"

Yes - "Fragile"

 

Jethro Tull This was

Ten Years After a Space in Time

Santana (any of the first 3)

Led Zeppelin (any of the first 3)

Cream Disraeli Gears

So, so many mentioned that I already own. That makes me feel very good. Quite a few that I probably need to get.

Stanley Clark School Days

Jeff Beck Truth

Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin’ Simon

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall

By the way, for those who mentioned Spirit, Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus, it was reissued by Music On Vinyl, white vinyl and limited number of copies. It sounds really good and I highly recommend getting a copy, if they are still available.