List some of your *instant* faves!

Starting that Tull thread a few minutes ago gave me this idea: list some of those albums that, from your FIRST or SECOND listens, you knew right away were going to become one of your all-time favorites. I don't just mean albums that caught your ear when you heard them, but those that just gave you that gut feeling inside: "How in the WORLD did I not listen to this album before now!!!"

some of mine:

Deep Purple - Machine Head
The first Purple album I got, and even after getting most of the other albums over time, I'm still absolutely in love with the one that got me started on this classic band.

The Allman Brothers Band - Beginnings
I've got the old version, the crappy one with no liner notes and the original master. And I've listened to it on a VERY regular basis for years! One of those musical gems that truly illustrates my belief that solid musicianship is nothing but a means to an end. In particular, Duane's dazzling slide guitar got me hooked on the band's sound, but the passion and soul felt throughout is what made me love this album from the moment I heard it.

and a number of others:

Vinnie Moore - The Maze
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (duh!)
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late/Thirsty & Miserable

more will come to me as time passes. What are some of yours?

Oh and also:

Pink Floyd - Animals
Blind Faith - S/T
Sunn 0)))/Boris - Altar
Sunn 0))) - Black One
Earth - Earth2
Ahab - Call of the Wretched Sea
Tyranny - Bleak Vistae

Again, thanks for the Blind Faith reccomend, Trog. This is another one I haven't been able to put down. Brilliant album.

Wow there are many

U2- Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, War, How To Dismantle

The Cult- Love, Electric

King's X- Gretchen and most records that followed

Seventh Angel- Torment

Vengeance- Human Sacrifice

Trouble- THe Skull/S/t 1990, Manic Frustration

Martyr- Death IS Dead

Sometime Sunday- Stone, Drain

Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks

The Crucified- S/t, Pillars

Applehead- Meaning

Alice In Chains- We Die Young

Megadeth- Peace Sells, Symphony

Metallica- Master, Lightening, Kill Em All

Barren Cross- Rock For the King

Messiah Prophet- Master of the Metal

Saint- Warriors of the Son

16 Horsepower- Low Estate

Kaiser/Mansfield- Trimmed and Burning

Def Lepard- Pyromania

Undercover- Branded, Balance of Power

Mike Knott/LSU- Grace Shaker, Rocket and a bomb, Auntbettys, pretty much everything

The Choir- Wide Eyed WOnder

Steve Taylor- On The Fritz, and everything that followed

Blindside- S/t

Pearl Jam- Ten

Soundgarden- Louder Than Love

The Sword- Age of Winters

Living Sacrifice- S/t, Reborn

Beleiver- Extractoin, et al

Circle of Dust-

Thresher- Totally Possessed

Deliverance- S/T

Priestess- Hello Master

Blenderhead- Prime Candidate for Burnout, Muchacho Viva

Focused- Bow

My Silent Wake- Shadow of SOrrow, Anatomy

Zion- Thunder Form The Moutnain

Neon Cross- S/t

I Mother Earth- Dig

Tea Party- FIre In The Head

Sloan- debut

Tragically Hip- Up To Here

Kim Mitchell- Shakin Like A Human Bean

The Clash- S/T

Everdown- Sicken, Straining

Sacrament- testimony of Apocalypse

Testament- Pracetice What You Preach, Souls of Black

Giant_ Last of the Runaways

The Cars- al of em

Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever

The Violet Burning- Demonstrates Plastic and Elastic

Deliverance- Learn

Deliverance- Stay of Execution

Deliverance- What a joke

Scott Weiland- 12 Bar Blues

Stone Temple Pilots- Tiny Music Gifts from the Vatican Gift Shop

Velvet Revolver- Contraband

The Violet Burning- Drop Dead

David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust

David Bowie- Low

David Bowie- Diamond Dogs

Phil Keaggy - Play Thru Me

And the list could go on and on

My latest 'instant' fave is the latest My Silent Wake, The Anatomy of Melencholy. Whereas the first took a few months to win me over (and now just slays me everytime I play it), this new one had me hooked right from the start. And it has become some sort of obsession with me, as I seem to play it to the exclusion of a lot of other discs I own.

Off the top of my head, instant faves for me include:
Van Halen - VH
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - NOTB
Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed
Riot - Fire Down Under
Led Zeppelin - III
Def Leppard - High & Dry
Diamond Head - LTTN
Hmmm, oddly these that I've pulled off the top of my head are all from my 13 to 16 range of years.

metalken wrote:

And it has become some sort of obsession with me, as
I seem to play it to the exclusion of a lot of other discs I
own.

I know THAT feeling

Usually, the albums that have the most longevity in my heart were not "instantly" a hit with me, but rather grew on and took hold over several listens. But, there are a few that I hit it off with immediately that are still favorites:

ALICE IN CHAINS - Dirt
BLACK SABBATH - Sabotage
DIAMOND HEAD - Borrowed Time
JUDAS PRIEST - Screaming for Vengeance

And I just went blank. There may be more, but it's late and I can't think...

True dat Trog.
Place of Skulls though has blown my world up though. I play them constantly.

Megadeth-Rust in Peace

Mortification-Scrolls of the Megilloth

Holy sons- decline of the west
16 horsepower- Sackcloth and ashes
Priestess- Hello Master
My Dying bride- Like gods of the sun/Angel and the dark river
Abdullah- Graveyard poetry
Thine- In therapy

misfits - walk among us, american psycho
danzig - how the gods kill
samhain - november coming fire
megadeth - rust in peace
metallica - and justice for all
sabbat - history of a time to come
ozzy - bark at the moon
vengeance rising - once dead
deliverance - stay of execution
crimson thorn - unearthed
impaler - undead things
joe satriani - the extermist
coroner - punishment for decadence
Zappa - overnight sensation

and too many more to list

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List some of your *instant* faves!

Popergeist's avatar!

good call on 16 hp and priestess!

i forgot
Judas Priest - Turbo

I'm probably one of very few folks who actually really like that album.

TrogDawn wrote:

Usually, the albums that have the most longevity in
my heart were not "instantly" a hit with me, but rather grew on and
took hold over several listens. But, there are a few that I hit it off
with immediately that are still favorites:

ALICE IN CHAINS - Dirt
BLACK SABBATH - Sabotage
DIAMOND HEAD - Borrowed Time
JUDAS PRIEST - Screaming for Vengeance

And I just went blank. There may be more, but it's late and I can't think...

I'm the same way. MOST of my faves took weeks, months, some YEARS to catch on with me ...

TrogDawn wrote:

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List some of your *instant* faves!

Popergeist's avatar!

That one was a real when I saw it. Truly classic.

now should I change my dang avatar I'm gonna have to go with something a little mroe disturbing LOL

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :please:

I didn't say I was going to change it, I said "If I decide to change it"......

I don't think I'll be able to top this avatar anytime soon.....if ever.

another album I absolutely loved from the first listen

The Accused - Martha Splatterhead's Maddest Stories Ever Told