albums you loved instantly
 

quick. name albums you've bought and/or heard that you loved instantly. from beginning to end.

for me, recently it's the new perfect circle album, thirteenth step.
*awesome* album. i love the drums and rhythm and guitar lines and everything. and i can totally hear the iha influence :-D

i also like:
glassjaw, worship + tribute
smashing pumpkins, siamese dream and mellon collie...
bjork, post and homogenic
tori amos, little earthquakes
radiohead, ok computer and the bends
soundgarden, superunknown
audioslave, s/t
alice in chains, dirt
nirvana, bleach
modest mouse, building nothing out of something
nofx, punk in drublic
saves the day, sorry i'm leaving e.p and stay what you are
alanis morissette, jagged little pill (don't laugh. it was my first cd and remorable to me :P )
beatles, sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band

just to name a few :-D

Tool: Opiate, Undertow, Ænima, Salival, Lateralus
Dream Theater: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Radiohead: OK Computer
A Perfect Circle: Mer de Noms, Thirteenth Step
Michael Jackson: Thriller (SHUT UP!)
Nine Inch Nails: Every album, too many "Halos" to list.

Not album, because I don't buy albums, but I have *ahem* obtained 15 of The Strokes' songs recently and I really like all of them. A first for me, I usually have to get used to a style of music and such. The Strokes kick ass, despite the poll I posted eariler, in this board.

:thumbsup:

There are just so many it would be a long list. But one that really stands out is: Dark Side Of The Moon. The album mesmerized me for weeks when I first "discoverd" it. I think it changed my taste in music. It still blows my mind every time I listen to it.

Tool - Lateralus, Ænima
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step, Mer De Noms

Cold - 13 ways to bleed on stage
Mudvayne - End of all things to come

beck - sea change

the clash - london calling

aerosmith - toys in the attic

NoFX-White Trash Two Heebs and a Bean
Rancid-And out come the wolves
Liberty-Disorderly Conduct

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rammstein - Mutter
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Typo O Negative - October Rust

tons, but most recently, between the buried and me-the silent circus....brilliant album

Recently: Thrice "The Artist in the Ambulance"

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Distruction
The Ramones - Road to Ruin
Tool - Lateralus
The Strokes - Room on Fire & Is This It?
Elefant - Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid

Tons more.

white - stripes elephant
son volt - trace
wilco - a.m.
Stones - sticky fingers
dylan - hwy 61

The Beatles - Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper
Third Eye Blind - Blue

Sage Francis - Personal Journalist
Nas - Illmatic
Biggie - Ready To Die
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Ice Cube - Deart Certificate, Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Pearl Jam - 10
Nirvana - Bleach, Nevermind
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Wu Tang - 36 Chambers
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Evanescence - Fallen
Mobb Deep - The Imfamous
Mash Out Posse - Warriors
Portishead - Glory Box

Probably a lot more

Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream" was my second CD I ever bought, I listened the hell out of it every chance I had.

Pearl Jam "Ten" is IMO the best debut album of anyone.

Cracker "Kerosene Hat" Every song on this album gives me a warm feeling that I can't get from anywhere else.

Massive Attack "Mezzanine" is an album that sounds better every time I listen to it. I am always finding new ways to listen to it, like an ever-evolving puzzle.

Pharcyde "Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde" is one of the few rap albums I have. It was given to me by a friend, I quickly had the whole entire album memorized.

Natural Born Killers soundtrack is one of the best soundtrack. Leonard Cohen, NIN, Lard, Bob Dylan, Dr. Dre, Barry Adamson, more Leonard Cohen, more NIN, Patsy Cline, oh and L7. I love it.

Grant Lee Buffalo "Fuzzy" and "Mighty Joe Moon" Anyone who likes acoustic-based rock with warm vocals and beautiful thought-provoking lyrics should check out the songs from their first 2 albums.

Any Concrete Blonde album. Whenever I post in a thread about music I like, I always post about Concrete Blonde. Very under-rated, but I think they like it that way. Not that their music is bright and sunny, but many of their songs have helped me get through some pretty tought spots in life, much more so than any other band I listen to.

That's only the beginning...

Matchbox 20's first album, I can't remember the name, and Blues Traveler's Strait on til Morning are the only 2 I can remember falling in love with instantly, because EVERY song was good, not just one or two selling singles, and mostly filler, like almost every other album I have bought recently...
~Crack

I have too many CDs to list that fall in this category. So I'll pick 5:

HUM - You'd Prefer An Astronaut
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Goldie - Timeless (1995, single CD)
Budd, Fraser, Gutherie, Raymonde - The Moon and the Melodies
Shiner - Starless

David Bowie - 1.Outside

Soulfly - Primitive
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley

most recent, Outkast

Aerosmith- Rocks

Cake - Comfort Eagle. After the first time I listened to this album, I was pretty sure it was one of the ones like Dark Side of the Moon or Aqualung that hang together perfectly.

I've bought albums before that were like that, but this one was the only one I've bought recently that really surprised me.

rhcp - blood sugar sex magik
janes addiction - ritual de lo habitual
radiohead - kid a
dead poetic - four wall blackmail
finch - what it is to burn
h2o - fttw
blink 182 - dude ranch
rancid - lets go
nofx - punk in drublic
the clash - london calling
jack johnson - on and on
jaco pastorious - birthday concert
dave matthews band - before these crowded streets
led zeppelin - house of the holy
the doors - s/t
from autumn to ashes - sin sorrow and sadness
deftones - white pony
tool - aenima
postal service - give in
stereo modus - ex tempore
ltj bukem - jouney inwards
incubus - make yourself
weather report - 8:30
2 pac - all eyez on me
bone thugs - E. 1999 eternal
deodato - deodato 2
thursday - full collapse

Mudvayne - LD50
Coal Chamber - Dark Days
Any Zeppelin album

For me to instantly love an album, I need an absolutely killer first track...

A few that stand out in my memory:

Smashing Pumpkins "Gish"
The Promise Ring "Nothing Feels Good"
NIN "Pretty Hate Machine"

hum - you'd prefer an astronaut .... awesome shit

Buck 65 - Talkin honkey blues
RJD2 - Deadringer
Har Mar Superstar - You can feel me
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Sepultura - Roots, Chaos AD
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
APC - Mer de noms

Mariah Carey - Daydream

Beatles- Revolver - Fun stuff to listen to!

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach

TOOL, All their albums.
Enigma, All their albums.
Warren G's first album.
LInkin Park, Reanimation.
Smashing Pumpkins, Gish and Siamese Dream.
Beastie Boys, Liecense to Ill.
Pennywise , Unknown Road.
Rage Agaisnt The Machine. All of them.

Just a few

- basically all (maybe NEARLY all) of the Mariah Carey and Toni Braxton albums
- Michael Jackson: Thriller, Bad, That album from '92 with Black or White
- Anything with the Sons of the Pioneers, Bing Crosby, The Andrew Sisters, or just that era in general.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside
All Hendrix albums
All Zeppelin albums
Bob Marley - Legend
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Pink Floyd -Darkside of the moon
All Tool albums

Actually, I find that a lot of my favourite albums of all time take a few listens for them to actually grab ahold of me.

These albums got better and better on repeted listens as well but something about them just appealed to me right away.

Electric Six "Fire"

I just got this, and cannot listen to it enough. I often listen to it 2 or 3 times in a row. This is not common for me to do! It is just so insanely catchy and fun to listen to.

"Fire in the disco!
Fire in the Taco Bell!
Fire in the disco!
Fire in the gates of hell!"

American Beauty ~ Grateful Dead
BIlly Breathes ~ Phish
Kill BIll Soundtrack
Stop Making Sense ~ Talking HEads
etc.

Ya Know it's kinda funny, but I usually try to listen only to music I like or not stray TOO FAR from what I expect, so most of the albums I've listened too, I've loved instantly; because I knew that I would love them if I listened to them. I think.

a few of the list:

nine inch nails - anything
poison the well - all
skycamefalling - all
boys night out - broken bones and bloody kisses
coheed and cambria - the second stage turbine blade
hooverphonic - a new stereophonic sound spectacular, blue wonder power milk
incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E., make yourself
nirvana - nevermind
tears for fears - shout (best of)
thursday - full collapse, war all the time
liz phair - liz phair
norah jones - come away with me
the crystal method - tweekend
armsbendback - the waiting room
chevelle - wonder what's next
element of surprise - upside down
in reverent fear - written in the a.m.
lostprophets - the fake sound of progress
rush - test for echo, different stages
no doubt - rock steady

The Who - Who's Next

Smashing Punpkins - Adore
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - The Wall
APC - Thirteenth Step
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Wu-Tang - enter the wu tang 36 chambers
a tribe called quest - beats rhymes and life
Radiohead - hail to the thief
Coldplay - Parachutes, Rush of Blood
Sublime - self titled

snoop dogg - doggystyle
sublime - sublime
outkast - speakerboxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / teh love below
between the buried and me - silent circus

more, but I keep getting distracted..

Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves
The Clash - London Calling
EverClear - So Much for the Afterglow
Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt
Sugar Ray - Floored
AFI - Sing the Sorrow

Probably a few more.