Those rare albums that are great on first listen.

If I don't enjoy an album the first time that I listen to it then it's unlikely to be given an opportunity to grow on me.  If there's a song or two that I like then I will listen to them selectively.  I don't like learning to like things :-)

When I first read this thread it make me think of the albums that I have that suck me in and it's almost like my enjoyment grows with each song.  Here are three of my favorites:

Legends by James Galway

Ceremonial Music for Trumpet & Symphonic Organ by Michael Murray

Tuba Carnival by Oystein Baadsvik (you may need to forgive the first song Fnugg)

 

Off the top of my head:

 

- The Band: s/t (the brown album).

- Dave Edmunds: Get It.

- The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely.

- Moon Martin: Shots From A Cold Nightmare.

- T Bone Burnett: Truth Decay.

- Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Harvest.

- The Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action.

- Weezer: s/t (the blue album).

- AC/DC: Back In Black.

- Iris DeMent: Infamous Angel, My Life, and all her others.

- Lucinda Williams: s/t (on Rough Trade).

- Lou Ann Barton: Old Enough.

- Carlene Carter: Musical Shapes.

- Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust.

- Buddy Miller: Your Love And Other Lies. Hell, ALL of his!

- Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid.

- The Johnny Staats Project: Wires & Wood.

- Van Morrison: Moondance.

- Maria Muldaur: s/t.

- Randy Newman: s/t, Good Old Boys.

- Elvis Costello: King Of America.

- Moby Grape: s/t.

- The Yardbirds: For Your Love.

- The Kinks: You Really Got Me, Kontroversy, Face To Face, Something Else By, The Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Muswell Hillbillies.

- Ry Cooder: Bop Till You Drop.

- David Lindley: El Rayo-X.

- Richard & Linda Thompson: Shoot Out The Lights.

- Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind.

- Bob Dylan: New Morning, Planet Waves, Before The Flood, "Love And Theft".

- Jackson Browne: s/t (aka Saturate Before Using).

 

Many more, but that’s enough outta me.

 

Jazz at the Pawnshop

Moanin'  Art Blakely

Grace Jeff Buckley

Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce

Wagner: Das Rheingold  Wiener Philharmonic 

David Gilmour’s debut solo album from 1978. Incredible album. A "gilmourish nerd tidbit" -- a song that he wrote too late to be mixed for his debut album was included on "The Wall"...just a little tune called "Comfortably Numb". Had that song also been on his debut, it would have been a mind-blowing slab of vinyl.

Some of my favorites have already been listed.  I would add

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Guy Clark - Dublin Blues

John Prine - John Prine

Peter Tosh - Equal Rights

Run The Jewels - RTJ4