Albums that blew you away the first time you heard them

LZ IV
Rush - ATWAS
Dixie Dregs - Dregs of the Earth
DF - The Nightfly
Phish - Junta

 

Love it. That's like a scene from a movie!

 

Floyd Dark Side
Genesis The Lamb

 

1'st Santana LP
1'st Chicago LP
Who's Next
Crime Of The Century

 

I can think of quite a few, but the NUMBER ONE album that blew me away was Aqualung! I had never heard anything like it.

 

Love - Forever Changes
Todd Rundgren - Todd; A Wizard A True Star
Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Zappa - Freak Out; Joe's Garage; Hot Rats
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Beatles - White Album; Abbey Road; Revolver; many others.

 

The first Captain Beyond album. It was MUCH better--and more rocking--than I was expecting it to be.

 

The first one that totally blew me away from beginning to end, all killer-no filler was Rubber Soul(US version).

 

My buddy Doug put it on (this was back when it came out), played it loud and I was never the same ...

 

Um...this one?....

Amazon.com: August And Everything After: Counting Crows: MP3 Downloads

 

It was a compilation album - Queen Greatest Hits (the 2 LP edition). I was about 11 or 12 YO, and for about 6 months I was not able to listen to anything else, was so obsessed.

 

Delia derbyshire - port eu feu

 

How about today? I spun Katy Lied by Steely Dan for the first time today, and it left me in awe...

 

Too many to mention, but the one that clearly stands out is:

Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul

My friends and I listened to it seven times in a row one deliciously snowy afternoon in Vermont....thought that it was the greatest thing ever captured on tape.

 

nick drake - 'pink moon'

 

My Morning Jacket, Circuital
Ray LaMontagne, Til The Sun Turns Black
Wilco, Being There
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels....
Nick Lowe, Labour Of Lust
Hendrix, Are You Experienced
Beatles, Rubber Soul
Dire Straits, Making Movies
Joan Armatrading, S/T
Eagles, Desperado
Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger
Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Session

So many, many, more but these lept out at me and in no way shape or form required a second listen to "get it". SOme were my first exposure to the artist (Hendrix, Nick Lowe, Lucinda, My Morning Jacket, Joan Armatrading, Cowboy Junkies)

 

Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds. Both were literally mind-blowing experiences!

 

Many fit this category but I was just thinking about the Psychedelic Furs self-titled. Back when I had money to blow I would occasionally buy an album simply because it looked cool. Thus the Furs s/t. Got home, put it on for a spin and was blown away!

 

'caravansarai' - santana

'laughing stock' and 'spirit of eden' - talk talk

 

Ambrosia - Ambrosia
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Led Zeppelin - IV
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - UFO TOFU
Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit - Mirrors Of Embarrassment
Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Rush - All The World's A Stage
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare

 

Frank Zappa - the Grand Wazoo
Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1980s one)
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Jimmy Cauty (the guy from the Orb) - Space
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
King Crimson - In the Court of the Krimson King
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

 

Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
Weakling - Dead As Dreams
Eloy - Ocean
Dismal Euphony - Soria Moria Slott
Rush - Moving Pictures
Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Pink Floyd - Meddle
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

 

More than I can recall, but Abbey Road is one. And the Stones' Some Girls.

 

Marshall Crenshaw's debut album.

Blew me right out of the water and onto the freaking dock.

 

Appetite For Destruction, all I heard was the music video Welcome To The Jungle on MTV and took a chance by buying the CD.