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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Anything by Bill Evans

David Crosby- If I Could Only Remember My Name

Talk Talk- Laughing Stock

Fleetwood Mack- Tusk

Beck- Morning Phase

Arthur Russell- World of Echo

Leonard Cohen- You Want it Darker

Phillip Glass- The Photographer

Henry Cow- II

Can- Future Days

Serge Gainsbourg- Melody Nelson

Miles Davis- Jack Johnson

Sun Ra- Languidity

Etta James- At Last

& so much more . . .

@pooreboy 

+1 on Petty. All his albums sound different but great. I was gonna list Wildflowers as maybe the best recording. Shadow People is one of my "Test" songs when evaluating changes. 

Muddy Waters-folk singer

Traffic-low spark of high heeled boys

Rodney Crowell-Aint living long like this

Little feat- Dixie Chicken & Sailin Shoes

Level 42-first & World Machine

Donald Fagen-the night fly

Allman Brothers-eat a peach

Chet Baker-Chet

Steve Earl-the mountain

Alison Krauss & Union Station -New Favorites

John Prine- john prine

I could go on...