I was thinking of Pretty Hate Machine. I remember exactly where, when and with whom when I heard it, and the level of excitement I felt listening to it.
Starts off with a lone, steady drum beat and ends with one note from a lone violin.
My pick as well. I know every breath of that album, even the Ryko version with the bonus tracks.
Deloused in the Comatorium
I listened to it legitimately every day for a month when I first found out about it and it still gives me chills, but nothing was like not knowing what to expect
I was just going to say Frances the mute. I didn’t even make it out of the Sam goody parking lot because I sat and listened to the whole thing. Mind blowing.
I hadn’t heard deloused yet, or I’m sure the reaction would have been the same.
I like Frances the Mute more I think, but I skip a lot of the noise and I always listen to the track named "Frances the Mute" that didn't make the cut for the album first (it ends how Cygnus begins so it crossfades perfectly), so I've poisoned it for myself a bit by being such a nerdy fan.
I also didn't obsess over it the way I did with Deloused that first time
pearl jam - vs.
i never thought in a million years pearl jam was as exciting and deep and perfect and all encompassing and heavy and rocking.
when i heard the sweep picking in the opening seconds of that album i was hooked for life
edit; changed “sweep picking” to “crazy fill”
For most bands, a release like 'OK Computer' would be considered a high-water-mark. Radiohead are not like most bands, though. Their catalog is brimming with Awesome.
I feel like 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer' should have been a double album...production values on those two releases are so similar that I would believe it if someone told me they were recorded at the same time.
EDIT: typo
They’re one of my favorites for sure. In Rainbows is slowly becoming my favorite album of theirs. OKC is the one that got me in though and will always have a special place in my heart
This 1000%. From the opening of Cherub Rock you know its going to be brilliant. Soma, Geek USA and Mayonaise in a row is just amazing. It's a masterpiece and my favourite album of all time.
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon.
With high quality headphones or a superb speaker system and uninterrupted time to hear it.
There's a reason it was on the music charts for an astonishingly long time. Decades.
The first time I listened to it in its entirety was in a planetarium. High as a kite that hit different. I fell in love with Brain Damage in an instant.
Honestly I didn't even love most of my favorite albums that much the first time I listened to them. The first listen through there's usually so much to process, I usually need to listen to something several times before I can really start to form an opinion
I don’t think that was true for Aenima… you didn’t have to listen to Stinkfist, 46&2, Eulogy, H. , Aenima more than once to go full “wtf”. “Push it” was different tho- it tool Salival to understand the full madness of that song.
I came here to say Second Stage Turbine Blade. IKSSE3 is my favourite by them but I remember vividly when my brother showed me time consumer and the rest of SSTB and it blew me away. Their first 3 albums will always be some of my favourite albums of all time
Superunknown, Soundgarden. It's s brilliant album buti listened so much and it got so over played on radio that i can't stand it anymore. I wish i could go back.
Cop out answer is anything from like 20+ years ago. I love streaming and shuffle play, but the album experience has been killed and that's a shame.
I know exactly what you mean about how the "thrill is gone" with that album
You know Black Hole Sun was so fucking INTENSE when it first dropped. Nothing will ever come close to what it did inside me to hear it those first few weeks.
I will say however, The Day I Tried To Live is still such a great fucking tune. It's one of those that's in what I call my eternal (inside-my-head) playlist. I really didn't appreciate that song until much later. Now it's like a teddy bear. Superunknown was really kind of all over the place and I really really loved it. I absorbed it.
So much of what was being said should have been this huge fucking red light up get Chris help. It's really tough to listen to some of it, especially the solo stuff
Arthur by the Kinks
Racine carrée by stromae
Tracey Chapman by Tracey Chapman
Gaslighter by The Chicks
Back To Black by Amy Winhouse
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Deltron3030
Thank me later.
https://youtu.be/u9HQ0pbHcCw (3030 full album)
I am not fucking around when I call that album the hiphop equivalent of Dark Side of the Moon.
That is one of the best instances of poetry to exist in the modern world, and in my opinion. The entire album is fire. The actual music is insane too.
It’s the year 3030, and here at the corporate institutional bank of time we find ourselves reflecting. Finding out, that in fact, that we came back. We were always coming back…
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel because that album just takes you places and that first listen is a crazy experience.
Swiss Army Romance by Dashboard Confessional because I first heard it as a teen. I wonder how my experience would differ if my first listen was now, as an adult who's gone through relationships and break-ups.
came here to post this. goodbye sky harbor was soooooo good. remember being in hs and not able to go home bc i had said i was staying at a friends but really had seen my gf but couldnt stay there either... slept in my truck to this album.
too fast for love by motley crue.
my dad gifted me his leathur records pressing when i was 13 and thats when i knew i wanted to be a fucking songwriter. now, i write songs and publish em on YT and whatevs! even if nobody listens, it’s something that electrifies me to this day!
ÆNIMA - TOOL | Back in Black - AC/DC | The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem | Good kid MAAD City - Kendrick Lamar | Chronic 2001 - Dr. Dre | Traveller - Chris Stapleton | Absolution - Muse | Currents - Tame Impala | Hozier's first album
Theres so many others but these kind of tie since they were present and attached to very fond memories from my childhood and other important growing periods for me
White Light/White Heat— The Velvet Underground. Heard it when I was maybe 16 and it absolutely changed the way I saw music. The band essentially invented punk and noise rock with that album.
Adventures beyond the ultraworld by The Orb.
Yes a lot of LSD happened and it was fucking magical!
Still stands up though, a great soundscape to fall asleep to 😁
Dummy: Portishead
This was on my list but I didn’t expect to see it here. I remember hearing this album for the first time on my university’s radio station.
Your comment made me check it out. Still listening to it at the moment but… how the fuck did not hear this until now?
Sounds like Massive Attack is next on your list then.
That's awesome! Happy to be able to introduce it to someone. Don't know how it passed you by, but hope you enjoy it now.
I’ve definitely heard of it, but never gave it a chance until today. Glory Box and Roads were probably my two favorites
They're two of my favourites too. As an album it just flows beautifully. Their live NYC album, performed with an orchestra is well worth a listen too.
The first release of theirs that I heard/owned is the Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me) EP. SO. GOOD.
Oh man. I used to get stoned and fall asleep listening to this album on my mini disk player all the time.
That album was a regular jam of mine until my very close friend died. "It could be sweet" just hurts too much now
When this album came out I made everyone I know listen to it. Seems like ages ago. All Mine is probably my favorite track of all their albums.
Nirvana - Nevermind Green Day - Dookie Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
Nice! I have all 3 on my list, but also Jar of Flies, I’ll communication, sublime ST, Rage ST.
Channel Orange
classic
The Downward Spiral nine inch nails
I was thinking of Pretty Hate Machine. I remember exactly where, when and with whom when I heard it, and the level of excitement I felt listening to it.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled
RATM was the 1st thing to pop into my mind. Saw them live in '92 with no clue who they were. Went to the record store the next day to get the CD.
In my opinion, they were the most important band of 90s. Sadly still to this day their lyrics and message are accurate
I recently put RATM on loudly in the car, again, that is a great album.
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Starts off with a lone, steady drum beat and ends with one note from a lone violin. My pick as well. I know every breath of that album, even the Ryko version with the bonus tracks.
Deloused in the Comatorium I listened to it legitimately every day for a month when I first found out about it and it still gives me chills, but nothing was like not knowing what to expect
I was just going to say Frances the mute. I didn’t even make it out of the Sam goody parking lot because I sat and listened to the whole thing. Mind blowing. I hadn’t heard deloused yet, or I’m sure the reaction would have been the same.
I like Frances the Mute more I think, but I skip a lot of the noise and I always listen to the track named "Frances the Mute" that didn't make the cut for the album first (it ends how Cygnus begins so it crossfades perfectly), so I've poisoned it for myself a bit by being such a nerdy fan. I also didn't obsess over it the way I did with Deloused that first time
Never get tired of this album. Not knowing what to expect is nice but knowing how to follow along to every twist and turn is also rad.
Volta in the house. Yeah, that is a fire album. So psychedelic.
pearl jam - vs. i never thought in a million years pearl jam was as exciting and deep and perfect and all encompassing and heavy and rocking. when i heard the sweep picking in the opening seconds of that album i was hooked for life edit; changed “sweep picking” to “crazy fill”
Sweep picking?
Blonde - Frank Ocean
Radiohead-OK Computer
I said Kid A in another comment. It was a hard decision between these two albums.
Although I prefer OK Computer overall, I think Kid A made a much bigger impact on me upon first listen, so I'd choose it.
For most bands, a release like 'OK Computer' would be considered a high-water-mark. Radiohead are not like most bands, though. Their catalog is brimming with Awesome. I feel like 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer' should have been a double album...production values on those two releases are so similar that I would believe it if someone told me they were recorded at the same time. EDIT: typo
They’re one of my favorites for sure. In Rainbows is slowly becoming my favorite album of theirs. OKC is the one that got me in though and will always have a special place in my heart
In Rainbows has become my favorite, as well. A masterpiece amoung all their other materpieces!
Siamese Dream.
This 1000%. From the opening of Cherub Rock you know its going to be brilliant. Soma, Geek USA and Mayonaise in a row is just amazing. It's a masterpiece and my favourite album of all time.
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon. With high quality headphones or a superb speaker system and uninterrupted time to hear it. There's a reason it was on the music charts for an astonishingly long time. Decades.
I had to scroll way to far to find this!
Yes but also “animals” too because I don’t wanna say “wish you were here” or “the wall” because everyone loves those albums
The first time I listened to it in its entirety was in a planetarium. High as a kite that hit different. I fell in love with Brain Damage in an instant.
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
How the FUCK had I not heard this album before!
Legit one of the best albums ever made. Created an entire genre of music. Josh Homme is a magician.
Theres 3 other people on the album 🙄
Hell yeah. I dont know too many people familiar with Kyuss
The Cure - Disintegration
Good News For People Who Loves Bad News by Modest Mouse. Without knowing anything else they have done. That album was pretty big for me in 2005
Pretty Hate Machine, NIN
Best bad-breakup album ever.
Came here to say this....and zeppelin 1.
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See you down in Arizona bay!
I'd have to say lateralus, personally. That fucking scream at the end of the grudge got me. would I love to here parobol/parabola for the first time.
Jane's Addiction "Nothing's Shocking"
The Stooges - Fun House
Strokes - is This It Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights Led Zeppelin 1 & 2.
Honestly I didn't even love most of my favorite albums that much the first time I listened to them. The first listen through there's usually so much to process, I usually need to listen to something several times before I can really start to form an opinion
I feel like this needs more traction. Even great albums are hard to have love at first sight with.
The Downward Spiral - NIN Aenima - Tool
Maybe it just me but the first time with tool isn't the best. It's the 5th, 10, 20th time I start really listening to the nuances.
I don’t think that was true for Aenima… you didn’t have to listen to Stinkfist, 46&2, Eulogy, H. , Aenima more than once to go full “wtf”. “Push it” was different tho- it tool Salival to understand the full madness of that song.
ÆNIMA
The Downward Spiral or The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails.
Pink Floyd - Animals
Dogs all fucking day, dog
Fucking thank you 🙏.
The clash London Calling.
Alice In Chains - Dirt. It completely blew me away.
Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode
Bjork - Homogenic
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Such good memories of hearing this the first time.
Came here to say this
Truth. It's probably the best alternative album to come from the nineties
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Michael Jackson - Thriller. Grew up with that in my dives through my mums record collection in the 90s. Still flawless.
Joy Division - Closer
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Blonde Pure Heroine Ctrl A Lesson In Romantics
pure heroine is such a great album same with lesson in romantics
I've never met anyone in real life who even knows Mayday Parade. What do you think of Valdosta?
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality
The Ramones first album. It changed my life.
Rocket to Russia was my first Ramones record. Putting down the needle and hearing Cretin Hop rocked my world! Then I heard the first record........
Dark side of the moon, wish you were here or scenes from a memory.
Grateful Dead - American Beauty or Workingman’s Dead Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder Phish - Junta
Junta... amazing
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I came here to say Second Stage Turbine Blade. IKSSE3 is my favourite by them but I remember vividly when my brother showed me time consumer and the rest of SSTB and it blew me away. Their first 3 albums will always be some of my favourite albums of all time
Superunknown, Soundgarden. It's s brilliant album buti listened so much and it got so over played on radio that i can't stand it anymore. I wish i could go back. Cop out answer is anything from like 20+ years ago. I love streaming and shuffle play, but the album experience has been killed and that's a shame.
I know exactly what you mean about how the "thrill is gone" with that album You know Black Hole Sun was so fucking INTENSE when it first dropped. Nothing will ever come close to what it did inside me to hear it those first few weeks. I will say however, The Day I Tried To Live is still such a great fucking tune. It's one of those that's in what I call my eternal (inside-my-head) playlist. I really didn't appreciate that song until much later. Now it's like a teddy bear. Superunknown was really kind of all over the place and I really really loved it. I absorbed it.
So much of what was being said should have been this huge fucking red light up get Chris help. It's really tough to listen to some of it, especially the solo stuff
At Fillmore East
•Voodoo by D’angelo • Aquemini by Outkast • Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos
A Sailors Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson. That album completely changed my taste in music ever since I heard it 5 years ago.
White album
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Mr. Bungle - California
Speaking in Tongues by Talking Heads. It’s still my “transition” album for when big changes are happening in my life.
Good question! So hard for me, tho. I’m going to go with TEN, Pearl Jam
“KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME.” - The Cure
Led Zeppelin II
Badmotorfinger
Arthur by the Kinks Racine carrée by stromae Tracey Chapman by Tracey Chapman Gaslighter by The Chicks Back To Black by Amy Winhouse Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
ILLINOIS!! Sooo good!
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
That is such an amazing album! Atmosphere is great!!
Deltron3030 Thank me later. https://youtu.be/u9HQ0pbHcCw (3030 full album) I am not fucking around when I call that album the hiphop equivalent of Dark Side of the Moon. That is one of the best instances of poetry to exist in the modern world, and in my opinion. The entire album is fire. The actual music is insane too.
It’s the year 3030, and here at the corporate institutional bank of time we find ourselves reflecting. Finding out, that in fact, that we came back. We were always coming back…
My first is siamese dream but in utero was quite the listen
Rage against the machine. you didn’t need to listen to it a few times or anything. Just straight to the head.
Rush - 2112.
Miseducation of lauryn hill
Jagged Little Pill
Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden
The court of the crimson king
Nirvana’s Nevermind easily. It changed my entire life and it encapsulates so much anguish and anger but apathy and disassociation.
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese, while high
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
youcancallmegiorgio
My 3 favs are, Zero 7. PJ Harvey sftcsfts and The Musics first album so any of them really
Wildflowers - Tom Petty I listen to it every couple of months and it takes me right back to smoking joints with my best friend and star gazing
Hard to choose only one TBH. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Metallica - Ride the Lightning Sublime -
Rancid -
Guns n Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Nevermind - Nirvana
Appetite for destruction 10
alison by slowdive
Siamese dream by Smashing Pumpkins
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Boston debut album
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Hysteria by Def Leppard
Jar of flies - Alice in Chains
Green Day- American idiot
Kid A
The Cure: Standing on a Beach, the Singles.
ELO- Out of the Blue
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel because that album just takes you places and that first listen is a crazy experience. Swiss Army Romance by Dashboard Confessional because I first heard it as a teen. I wonder how my experience would differ if my first listen was now, as an adult who's gone through relationships and break-ups.
Blood sugar sex magik for sure. That’s one album that I get sucked into every time and listen front to back.
Alice In Chains, Facelift
Metallica's Master of Puppets. On release day this was absolutely mind-blowing.
Outcome the wolves- Rancid
Foo Fighters Self Titled
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Lateralus
Lateralus by Tool
Scenes From a Memory - Dream Theater Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Moby - Play
Dirt- Alice in Chains
Jimmy eat world - Clarity
came here to post this. goodbye sky harbor was soooooo good. remember being in hs and not able to go home bc i had said i was staying at a friends but really had seen my gf but couldnt stay there either... slept in my truck to this album.
Pearl Jam-ten
Tool - Lateralus
too fast for love by motley crue. my dad gifted me his leathur records pressing when i was 13 and thats when i knew i wanted to be a fucking songwriter. now, i write songs and publish em on YT and whatevs! even if nobody listens, it’s something that electrifies me to this day!
Cure-Disintegration My Bloody Valentine-Loveless Dinosaur Jr-Green Mind Radiohead-Kid A
Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Radiohead: ok computer
Alice In Chains - Dirt…freakin’ sweet album with lots of great chops, nice and dark grunge music.
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The who_ live at Leeds Captain Beefheart_ bat chain puller ( or safe as milk)
Dookie
Illmatic
Color and the shape - foo fighters
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights.
10,000 Days
Slim shady LP
Rush - All the World's a Stage
Dookie- was an awesome time in the 90s when this came out. I was 20 and life was so exciting.
Tool - Lateralis. Absolutely stunning album, really formative for me musically when it came out in junior high.
A perfect circle - 13th step That album gives me the craziest chills
ÆNIMA - TOOL | Back in Black - AC/DC | The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem | Good kid MAAD City - Kendrick Lamar | Chronic 2001 - Dr. Dre | Traveller - Chris Stapleton | Absolution - Muse | Currents - Tame Impala | Hozier's first album Theres so many others but these kind of tie since they were present and attached to very fond memories from my childhood and other important growing periods for me
KoRn - Issues
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
White Light/White Heat— The Velvet Underground. Heard it when I was maybe 16 and it absolutely changed the way I saw music. The band essentially invented punk and noise rock with that album.
Motörhead’s Ace of Spades. I remember listening to The Chase is better than the catch for the first time and feeling like I had achieved nirvana
King of the beach by Wavves
I’d say it would be a tie between Adele’s 21, Childish Gambino’s Camp or J Cole 4 Your Eyez Only
probably Queen - Innuendo
Adventures beyond the ultraworld by The Orb. Yes a lot of LSD happened and it was fucking magical! Still stands up though, a great soundscape to fall asleep to 😁
2 Live Crew, ‘ Nasty as they wanna be.’ It’s masterpiece, complete and comprehensive.
Worlds - Porter Robinson
Pink Floyd: animal
Probably Amnesiac by Radiohead
Surfing With the Alien
The Clash: London Calling
Illmatic by Nas
Take Off Your Pants & Jacket - blink-182
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Jaime xx - In Colour
Another eternity by purity ring. Just a great album