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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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limomangus
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Cream/Fresh Cream ,Santana/First Album,Doors/First Album,Somewhere in Time /Soundtrack Lp, Queen/A Night at the Opera. 

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

Jethro Tull - "Thick as a Brick"

Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue"

Eberhard Weber - "The Colours of Chloë"

Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon"

There are many, many more but I also limited myself to five.  I was late to the party in discovering Miles Davis and picked up "Kind of Blue" in a record store due to the partial review on a sticker on the record.  Not having heard any Miles I took it home and played it having my mind blown.  I think I played it every day for at least a month!  "The Colours of Chloë" I heard on the radio.  I heard one amazing track and thought "I have to find out what that record is".  Then they played a different piece of music and I thought the same thing.  I wondered when they were going to tell me what they were playing.  Two more amazing pieces of music followed and then they finally gave out the play list - all four were from the same album!  You can be sure I went out and bought it immediately.

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mahgister
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Even me who is a bit picky concur with your choices...😊

 

 

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

Jethro Tull - "Thick as a Brick"

Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue"

Eberhard Weber - "The Colours of Chloë"

Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon"

johnto
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I could also add 

Faces Long Player

Rod Stewart Gasoline Alley

Pete Townsend Ronnie Lane Rough Mix

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knownothing
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A little late to the party. I concur with many of the records mentioned already. Here are a few more that did it for me. There are many albums that captured me the first time I heard them, but the following still grab my attention listening with much, much better gear.

Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman

Bruce Cockburn: Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws

Cassandra Wilson: Blue Light ‘til Dawn

Lorde: Te Ao Marama (a companion piece to Solar Power. The EP is sung entirely in Te Reo Maori - remarkable)

Beyonce: act ii - perhaps the best pop album in a decade

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