Those rare albums that are great on first listen.

Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, and others - "Like Minds"
John Coltrane and Rashied Ali - "Interstellar Space"
John Handy Quintet - "Live at the 1965 Monterey Hazz Festival"

Chet - Chet Baker

Marjorie Fair - Self Help Serenade

I was mesmerized during that first listen.  Each successive note and song seemed like it could not be more perfect...like the whole thing was unfolding according to some cosmic plan.  Yeah, well, whatever.  If you weren't right there you wouldn't know, would you.  

(Thanks to Pokey77 for turning me on to that one.  

 

 

The Shaggs. 😉

 

Some Albums I have always liked from the first time I heard them. There are a lot more if I took more time to think about it...

Surrealistic Pillow, The Jefferson Airplane

Truth, Jeff Beck

The Pretender, Jackson Browne

Rumours, Fleetwood Mac

Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones

Surfer Girl, The Beach Boys

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Allen Sherman

The Monster Mash, Bobby Boris Pickett

The Seeds, The Seeds

The Flying Purple People Eater, Sheb Wooley

Aftermath, The Rolling Stones

Rubber Soul, The Beatles

Heart Like a Wheel, Linda Ronstadt

Music for the Mind and Body, Country Joe and the Fish

High Tide and Green Grass, The Rolling Stones

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis

Santana, Santana

Unchained Melody: Very Best of the Righteous Brothers

The Best of the Animals, The Animals

CS&N, CS&N

Dire Straits, Dire Straits

Runaround Sue, Dion

The Best of Ray Charles, Ray Charles

The Doors, The Doors

East West, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel

Boston, Boston

Bitches Brew, Miles Davis

The Koln Concert, Keith Jarrett

Blue, Cassandra Wilson

Sarah Vaughn, Sarah Vaughn

Bright Size Life, Pat Methany

Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Bill Evans