Commander PK Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 We all have our favorite albums. There are some that the first time you heard them, you were just blown away. Some you didn't "get" right away, but the more you listened the more you liked them. I was thinking about this tonight, and there are a few albums that I wish I could hear from the perspective of a listener that has never heard the album before. Be blown away again. There are some albums that I know so well, have listened to straight through so many times I know every lyric, every guitar lick, every snare hit....every nuance of the music. Here are 10 albums in no particular order, that I wish I could hear again for the "first time" 1.) Van Halen - 1984 2.) Metallica - Master of Puppets 3.) Pearl Jam - Ten 4.) Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction 5.) Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon 6.) Whitesnake - 1987 7.) Led Zeppelin - IV 8.) Boston - Boston 9.) Judas Priest - Painkiller 10.) Van Halen - Van Halen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullnelson9999 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 1. The Beatles - Abbey Road. 2. Green Day - Nimrod 3. Queen - A Night at the Opera An odd list I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_e_b Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Due to my age, a lot of great older albums didn't do much for a first viewing because I had already heard a majority of the songs in one way or another. This makes my list consist primarily of albums made in the past 10-15 years. Arcade Fire - Funeral Band of Horses - Everything All The Time Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme Courteeners, The - Falcon Decemberists, The - Castaways and Cutouts Fanfarlo - Reservoir Glasvegas - Glasvegas Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat Islands - Vapours Man Man - Rabbit Habits Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea of Montreal - Cherry Peel Ozma - Rock And Roll Part III Weezer - Pinkerton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I get to see one of my all time favorites tomorrow at the bar I work at and I'm so freaking stoked. HR from the Bad Brains. They are still one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aREDSKIN Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Rainbow-Rising Sabbath-Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules Montrose-Montrose Pat Traver- Go for what you Know, Making Magic Rush-2112, Moving Pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Green Day- American Idiot Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP Kanye West- Graduation Skillet- Comatose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Kaos Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood Metallica - Kill'em All Pink Floyd - The Wall Grateful Dead - American Beauty Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust,Inc (EP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homercles82 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 The Beatles - Revolver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 The album I was most blown away by when I first listened to it was Led Zeppelin 1. 15 years later I'm still drumming 'til I can't feel my arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC_RedskinsFan Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Derek and the Dominos - Layla and other Assorted Love Songs Eagles - Hotel California Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Fuagazi- Repeater blew me away circa 1990. NIN- Pretty Hate Machine... around the same time. What an amazing effort. For a 14/15 year old kid it was a revelation. I've said it before, I don't think that album gets the acclaim it should. But the album that got me into music, so to speak, was Mothers Milk by RHCP. 8th grade, iirc... so would have been 1989 I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABQCOWBOY Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Journey -Escape Not necessarily the album, thou it was a decent album, it was more of a situation of who I was with when I first heard it. I would give a lot to go back to that point in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassSkinsFan Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 The Who - Tommy Santana - Moonflower Rush - Moving Pictures Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires? Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun REM - Murmur Funkadelic - Maggot Brain They Might Be Giants - self-titled debut Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan Electric Six - Fire Say Hi - Oohs and Aahs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forehead Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I didn't really get into music until the early-mid 90's, and I was 13 or 14, so these aren't going to be inspired choices or anything, and they're mainstream, but what I really remember were a few of the first CD's I ever bought: Alice in Chains - Dirt Live - Throwing Copper Especially Throwing Copper, I was amazed that there isn't a single bad song on that C.D., no filler. Even the hidden song at the end is half decent. Dirt is similar, everything on there is fantastic and I don't think AIC has another album even close to it. When I was older, I remember buying Californication by RHCP and being surprised. I had heard a bunch of the songs on the radio, but I was shocked that pretty much everything on that CD was a solid effort. I appreciate it when there isn't any obvious filler and it sounds like the band actually tried on every song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 R.E.M. - Murmur The Who - Who's Next The Clash - London Calling The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders That's a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Talking Heads - Remain in Light Green Day - Dookie The Clash - London Calling Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Dr Dre - The Chronic The Ramones - Rocket to Russia Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East Devo - Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo The B-52s - The B-52s I remember hearing each one of these for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedr01 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rictus58 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 The sountrack albums for Degrassi and iCarly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedr01 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 The sountrack albums for Degrassi and iCarly. :chair::stick::hammer::doh1::laythehur:ack::ignore: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 The sountrack albums for Degrassi and iCarly. heheh you left off The Suite Life of Zach and Cody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rictus58 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I own it, it's just not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan since a Fetus Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Porcupine Tree - Signify, In Absentia, Fear of a Blank Planet Opeth - Blackwater Park, Still Life Devin Townsend - Terria, Synchestra Dream Theater - Octavarium The Gathering - If then else Tool - Aenima (the only album of theirs I like, but it is great) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Live - Throwing Copper That's widely regarded as the most disposable album of the entire 90s. Taste is personal and I'm glad you dug it, but I'm always sort of amazed when I find the people who made certain things hits. (Someday, I'm going to meet a die hard Nickelback fan and then probably just move to the country to live out my days). This is a somewhat populist choice but I think I played "Automatic For The People" 15 times in a row when I first got it. I'm not even that big an REM fan, but combining the time of my life (first year of college) with something that stark and out of key with the rest of radio and their ouvre was pretty amazing. "Fear of a Black Planet" was the first PE album I ever bought, and that pretty much sounded like the end of the world so that may be number 2 on the list. I usually ease my way into albums. It's rare that I hear something on first listen and say "Great Gosh Almighty." I didn't really even like The Replacements the first time I heard them, and they are probably my favorite band ever. Also, unless you were born in 1950, I'm not sure how any Dylan or Beatles or Stones record could really blow you away the first time. I would like to have been alive to 1965 to hear that snare strike at the beginning of LARS for the very first time, but by the time I actually bought Highgway 61 in, like, 1989 I had heard that song dozens of times on oldies stations. "Ballad of a Thin Man" was new to me, but that actually scared me a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Walton Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Police - Synchronicity Michael Jackson - Thiller Pearl Jam - Ten ACDC - Back in Black Bob Marley - Burnin' Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun The Who - Who's next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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