In Classical Music, the BIS label has recorded the Charioscuro String Quartet in Haydn and Beethoven that at least in DSD are the closest thing to having the ensemble appear to be in my listening room.
Those rare albums that are great on first listen.
You know the ones. They blow your mind and make you glad you're an audiophile.
Share your favorites.
For me it’s usually some style or vibe I haven’t heard before. My list so far is around 20, but I’ll keep it to my top 5. Feel free to share as many as you like.
!. Poe ‘Haunted’
2. Spirit “Twelve dreams of Dr. Sardonicus’
3. Midlake ‘The Trials of Van Occupanther’
4.Tori Amos ‘Little Earthquakes’
5. Skindive ‘Skindive’
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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. |
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.
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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) |
Four Seasons of Vivaldi, (no doubts!). But only this audiophile version (tubes recording only version) on Tacet with Daniel Gaede (violin) Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski The sound quality is incredible! and the music is sublime, it is for me the best version because of some balance between the old "romantic" interpretation and those influenced by the authentic instrument interpretation with a more Baroque sense of improvisation .
Bob Dylan albums in the sixties... almost any...( nevermind the sound!) Dylan is a poet as Leonard Cohen or Leo Ferré... Other possible choices...
Spem in Alium by Tallis interpreted by Cambridge choir. ( an ocean of voices on a sea were the soul is at the same time at home and lost ) The Cambridge choir version is the most hypnotic but not the cleanest one...
Shahram Nazeri - Mystified album... The best sufi album i ever heard completely stunning and ectatic) If you dont pray God here you dont have a soul!
I could have put in its place Hildegard of Bingen music with feminine voice choir... Ex aequo...
Or Josquin Des Prez masses, or Liszt Christus by Antal Dorati.... or a raga by the master of Sitar Nikhil Banerjee who is on par with Ravi Shankar but less well known ...😊
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@1111art - good list! Fyi, if you weren't aware, Poe's brother is Mark Z Danielewski, author of 'House of Leaves' and a number of other unique, groundbreaking, novelistic works. |