Albums which blew you away on first play.
Posted by: dave marshall on 16 August 2018
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced.
I've just mentioned this album over on the "University" topic, and I can still remember bringing it home from the record shop and
being absolutely gobsmacked, hearing it for the first time.
I'd never heard anything remotely like it before, and to say that the first listening was jaw dropping would be an understatement
indeed.
So, what album had a similar effect on you, the memory of which has stayed with you till this day?
After the first Beatles album, Led Zeppelin II, this album really blew my 1973 younger self's socks off...
Mike Sullivan posted:Rediscovering my collection, always a good sign from an upgrade. Remembered this beauty, pretty epic mix of hard rock and melody with huge rhythm and tempo changes.
Also superb lyrics on this one, also one of my favorite ones.
dave marshall posted:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced.
I've just mentioned this album over on the "University" topic, and I can still remember bringing it home from the record shop and
being absolutely gobsmacked, hearing it for the first time.
I'd never heard anything remotely like it before, and to say that the first listening was jaw dropping would be an understatement
indeed.
So, what album had a similar effect on you, the memory of which has stayed with you till this day?
THIS!! ^^ 
A stunning concept album.....saw these guys first as pre-act for Porcupine Tree I belief it was, they where more impressive than the main act that evening....
The Cult - Love.
I previously posted Jimi's first album, which seems to have had a similar "wow" effect on not a few forum members.
Well, maybe not quite to the same extent as that milestone, but this from The Cult was, for me, quite a "wow' moment too, as it
seemed to cut through much of the turgid music otherwise around at the time, and Astbury's voice and Billy Duffy's spectral guitar are
just made for each other ................... a classic album from the '80's
Saw them in Leeds 2/3 years ago, and the magic is still there.
Bert Schurink posted:A stunning concept album.....saw these guys first as pre-act for Porcupine Tree I belief it was, they where more impressive than the main act that evening....
The pick of the day. Going to find out...
One of the best albums of all time 
At that impressionable age and time when there was so much stuff available to blow minds both past, present and future. Looking back this still blows.
TOBYJUG posted:
At that impressionable age and time when there was so much stuff available to blow minds both past, present and future. Looking back this still blows.
Now this is an album I have never come across before, I’m intrigued
In 1975 Elton John and Fleetwood Mac were big stars, but my favourite album was this one by Steeleye Span. I was probably the only one in my school who had bought it. Little Sir Hugh and other olde folk songs just rocked. Great album from beginning to end and a refreshing change from mid 70s orthodoxy.
This. That opening loping guitar on the first track and I was completely in awe.
lutyens posted:
This. That opening loping guitar on the first track and I was completely in awe.
Another album I have not come across before.... will have to investigate
Happy Mondays - Pills’nThrills’n’Bellyaches
Not a duff note on this. Rhythm section tighter than a gnat’s rear end. Shaun Ryder a demented shaman, twisting the melons of the second summer of love. Played it. Practically fainted. Played it again and again. Just about perfect.
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
When this, their first album, came out, The Sundays felt very special. There was a fragility to Harriet’s voice which sent shivers through me. I saw them live at the time and the whole venue was completely silent in awestruck wonder. Oh, and John Peel played ‘Here’s Where The Story Ends’ as a farewell to John Walters on their last show together. That’s how damn good this music is.
Kings of Convenience - "Quiet is the new loud" - never heard anything like it since Nick Drake and possibly the best thing out of Norway since Aha:
Here's another in the same sort of vein: "The Optimist EP" by Turin Brakes. I loved it when it was released and I love it now:
Since this thread started I've been thinking about the question and wondering whether any album blew me away on first play. I'm sure some did, but I just can't remember now. Except this evening, while thumbing through some LPs, I came across my copy of The Sisters of Mercy's First And Last And Always, and it took me back to that evening at Uni when I first took the LP out of the sleeve, plonked it on the Rega Planar2 platter, cued it up and the sat transfixed listening to mesmerising tracks such as Marian and Logic. I'd never heard anything quite like it. Yes, even when playing through a Sansui amp and JR149 speakers, I can certainly recall that album blew me away on first play. I think I must have played it at least twice, maybe three times that evening.
Richard Dane posted:Since this thread started I've been thinking about the question and wondering whether any album blew me away on first play. I'm sure some did, but I just can't remember now. Except this evening, while thumbing through some LPs, I came across my copy of The Sisters of Mercy's First Last And Always, and it took me back to that evening at Uni when I first took the LP out of the sleeve, plonked it on the Rega Planar2 platter, cued it up and the sat transfixed listening to mesmerising tracks such as Marian and Logic. I'd never heard anything quite like it. Yes, even when playing through a Sansui amp and JR149 speakers, I can certainly recall that album blew me away on first play.
Floodland for me. Also Sgt Peppers and The Wall.