Those rare albums that are great on first listen.

About 45 years ago when I bought The Who//Who’s Next my impression was, "Wow! This is a great album from start to finish!"

Elton John:  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player

Fleetwood Mac/Rumors and The Eagles Hotel California struck me the same way

Jackson Browne: Running On Empty

Linda Ronstadt/Simple Dreams

Aliota, Haynes and Jeremiah: I believe was self titled. It had Lake Shore Drive, Uppers And Downers, Snow Queen, Long Time Gone on it. I wish I had a TT and still had that LP.

Quite some time later I’d say the same thing about Lucinda Williams/Happy Woman Blues and her selftitled and Sweet Old World and Car Wheels On A Gravel Road and Essence. (Yes, I used to be a Lucinda Lunatic.)

Steve Earle: Guitar Town and Exit Zero.

Cowboy Junkies: Black Eyed man

John Prine: The Missing Years

I am sure there are others, but those are just a few that struck me as great stuff the first time I listened to it, and I couldn’t wait to listen to it again.

On edit I’ll say that when Bruce Springsteen/Darkness On The Edge Of Town came out I was not getting Bruce, but now I do not know why and it should have been on that list.

Going back in time again, I remember I felt that way about

Jimmy Buffet: Changes In Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes and Son Of A Sailor

Warren Zevon: Exciteable Boy

Dire Straits: the first side of Making Movies and all of Love Over Gold

and a bit more contemporary:

Bruce Springsteen: The Ghost Of Tom Joad

Josh Ritter Live At The Record Exchange EP

I also ignored posts with more than 5-6 suggestions

The playlist is supposed to be collaborative so feel free to add ONE song from the album you are recommending.

Oops! Sorry, @pinwa , I wasn’t paying attention to detail. I’ll come up with five songs from five of my many picks.

From Linda Ronstadt/Simple Dreams: Carmelita (tough to pick just one from that LP/CD)

From Jackson Browne/Running On Empty: Cocaine

From Cowboy Junkies/Black Eyed Man: Southern Rain

From Josh Ritter//Live At The Record Exchange EP: Girl In The War (however it is probably a cleaner sounding recording from the Josh Ritter/Girl In The War CD)

From Steve Earle/Guitar Town: Guitar Town

And since you said "5 or 6 picks" I will add Bob Dylan/Blood On The Tracks for my 6th pick, and the song I would choose from that is Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

I am leaving my Lucinda Williams picks out of it, because for me to pick five songs by Lu would kill me . . . I would not no where to start.

Eric Clapton/Slowhand:  and the song I would choose from that would be Next Time You See Her.

Do these questions seem to generate answers that reply more to the question “what are your favorite LPs”, or is it me?

Yes they do.   But, since

"Those rare albums that are great on first listen." is a matter of personal opinion, that is what is going to happen.