Best First Time Listen Albums

Liveage! is one of my favorite albums ever and it was definitely my first exposure to Descendents. I fell in love with it instantly. All of the subsequent studio albums failed to compare. I got to see them live about 13 years ago and it was such an amazing show.

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Ok I know that I'm good catch a ton of flak for these but here we go

The Sleeping - What it Takes
Metallica - Metallica
Nirvana - Nevermind
Green Day - Dookie
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
The Beatles - Abbey Road
 
Illmatic by Nas was the only album that ever really blew me away. At the time I'd never even listened to rap aside from current radio and popular stuff that I didn't like. First time I heard Illmatic it just opened my eyes to a whole other style of rap I'd never heard before.
 
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Really? On the first time? I'm impressed...even I didn't think too much of it when I first heard it and shoegaze is my favorite kind of music. It definitely gets classified as an all time grower for me.
 
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i love all the songs but lime tree took some getting used to

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Silversun Pickups - Carnavas.

His voice was just so.. potent. I genuinely thought the singer was a woman at first, I went in listening without knowing a single thing about the band, and there are so, so many catchy hooks in each of the tracks. Absolutely marvellous, instantly fell in love with this band after this fifty minute-ish album.

Others:

Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Isbells - Isbells
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
The Thermals - Fuckin' A
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
The Cure - Disintegration
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
 
I agree with all of these...good choices. I heard Modest Mouse's Good News For People Who Love Bad News first and I thought it was great. Once I heard the Lonesome Crowded West, I was blown away.

Btw...I'm going to keep plugging the Bethany Curve album I mentioned. If anyone who reaRAB this enjoys shoegaze it is an absolute must. Since it is so easy for me to get new music these days, very rarely will I only want to listen to one album over and over. You Brought Us Here is the first album in a long time to do that for me.
 
While a lot of my fav banRAB/artists required repeated listening, here are some of the albums that I was able to instantly slip into and enjoy.

Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine
Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Elliott Smith - XO
Windir - Arntor
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
King Crimson - Red
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
 
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Even with a title like Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1 I was unprepared for the scope of what the Olivia Tremor Control were doing on this record. I was absolutely floored, about 15 and a friend and I were listening to it on a drive to LA to see some lame "psych" band at the Troubadour (it might have been the Warlocks). After "Train Collector" we remained mostly quiet for the next hour. This belongs at the top of the heap in any discussion of psychedelia right next to Sgt. Pepper's and Smile.
 
Eh, I thought it was lukewarm on my first listen. Then again, maybe if I'd been listening to it in ear-threatening decibels, my opinion might have been different. It was only when I played Loveless loud that I saw anything worth keeping in it.
 
Man, this is why I posted it. I always see people say it was a grower - I listened to this straight through and it was like transcendental man.
 
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^ Both of these get right into your head from the word go and pretty much never leave. Not in the nasty tapeworm kinda way though :p:
 
wow that was thirteen years ago?!....i saw them twice that year....once at the Warped Tour and once in a club....and they were both amazing

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Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?

i ordered this album straight from the Revelation RecorRAB website....mainly because i liked the name....so a band whose name comes from a Misfits song and consist of ex New York hardcore kiRAB (108, Shelter)....i was expect by the nurabers hardcore music....and have to say was really blown away....those elements are there by much better than i expected....and i had never really heard anything like it
 
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