Those rare albums that are great on first listen.

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.

About 45 years ago when I bought The Who//Who’s Next my impression was, "Wow! This is a great album from start to finish!"

Elton John:  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player

Fleetwood Mac/Rumors and The Eagles Hotel California struck me the same way

Jackson Browne: Running On Empty

Linda Ronstadt/Simple Dreams

Aliota, Haynes and Jeremiah: I believe was self titled. It had Lake Shore Drive, Uppers And Downers, Snow Queen, Long Time Gone on it. I wish I had a TT and still had that LP.

Quite some time later I’d say the same thing about Lucinda Williams/Happy Woman Blues and her selftitled and Sweet Old World and Car Wheels On A Gravel Road and Essence. (Yes, I used to be a Lucinda Lunatic.)

Steve Earle: Guitar Town and Exit Zero.

Cowboy Junkies: Black Eyed man

John Prine: The Missing Years

I am sure there are others, but those are just a few that struck me as great stuff the first time I listened to it, and I couldn’t wait to listen to it again.

On edit I’ll say that when Bruce Springsteen/Darkness On The Edge Of Town came out I was not getting Bruce, but now I do not know why and it should have been on that list.