Albums that were instantly perfect for you

[pilotjones]

I was thinking about this, and I'm guessing that other people have had similar experiences.

There have been a small handful of albums that, from the very first time I heard them, instantly struck a chord with me. These are albums that I had to listen all the way through, and over again, that hit me at the right time and place in my life so that they just resonated, like they were created for me. Where nearly every song was incredible, completely new but yet like I already knew them. Just chewed 'em up and internalized them.

For me the list is:

David Sancious & Tone- True Stories
Yes- Close To The Edge
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Derek & The Dominoes- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
The Offspring- Smash
Pat Metheny Group- Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Group- American Garage
Pink Floyd- Animals
Tool- Aenima
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
(EDIT: forgot two)Allman Brothers Band- Live at Filmore East
Yes- Relayer

Also, a few single songs that were like that:

Hot Tuna- Sea Child, and Water Song
Herbie Hancock- Maiden Voyage
Emerson, Lake & Palmer- Tarkus

Similarly, there have been a few albums that I didn't get initially, but which I had the same kind of experience with, years later:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced?
George Gershwin- Rhapsody In Blue



So, anybody else have this experience? What would be on your lists?



P.S. Mods, if this belongs somewhere else please move it!

[cheezewiz]

King's X.....Faith Hope and Love, and Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

FHL was the first King's X I heard, and I was just dumbfounded. I went out and got Gretchen right away, and was even more blown away. They're still my favorite band to this day.

[Toasted]

Thursday - Full Collapse.

[Matt Till]

King Crimson - Red, The first whole album I heard from them. Other than that it was just "Happy with What you have to be happy with" EP. I was so shocked that a band could be that diverse.

Monster Magnet - "Dopes to Infinity", alright, it wasn't perfect the first 5 listens. But when it hit me, it hit me like a ton of bricks and I listened to it for a month straight.

[John Deppel]

Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks...
AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
Pennywise - Full Circle
Offspring - Splinter
Bad Religion - Process of Belief

[Captain Scarlet]

King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Peter Gabriel - So
U2 - Achtung Baby
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

[MJ5150]

Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Duran Duran - Rio
Whodini - Open Sesame
Sky Cries Mary - This Timeless Turning
Scorpions - World Wide Live
Hole - Live Through This
The Four Horsemen - Nobody Said It Was Easy

-Mike

[Toasted]

also

Very Emergency by The Promise Ring

[mikewho]

mushroomhead-xX
fear factory-obsolete
meshuggah-nothing
opeth-damnation
enslaved-below the lights

[Mark Latimour]

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Hellacopters - High Visibility
Dark Tranquility - Character
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Metallica - Master of Puppets

[erik II]

Led Zeppelin II

Giant Sand - Ballad of a Thin Line Man (...early grunge... )

[Coutts_is_god]

Our Lady Peace - Naveed
Mudvayne - end of all things to come
Pride and Glory - Pride and glory
Breaking Point - Coming of age
U2 - War

[khay0s]

Tool - Opiate
Mudvayne - LD50
Sevendust - Self Titled, Home
Ill Nino - Confessions, Revolution Revolucion
Flaw - Through the Eyes, Endangered Species
Rammstein - Mutter
Eagles - On the Border
Slipknot - Self Titled.
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

Leigh

[malthumb]

Here's a dozen the struck a chord with me over the years.....

Wild & Peaceful - Teena Marie
The Dude - Quincy Jones
Water Sign - Jeff Lorber Fusion
Gratitude - Earth Wind & Fire
Spirit - Earth Wind & Fire
Back On The Block - Quincy Jones
Controversy - Prince
Better Than Ever - Curtis Ohlson
Showbiz Kids - Steely Dan
Pages of Life (chapters 1 & 2) - Fred Hammond & RFC
Purpose By Design - Fred Hammond & RFC
Faith In The House - Straight Gate Mass Choir

All of these still get a workout on my iPod.


Peace,

James

[Timbo]

Eric Clapton - Unplugged
RHCP - Californication
Long Beach Dub All Stars - Wonders of the World

[Don't_Fret]

The Flecktones - Outbound
Ron Carter - Stardust
The Electric Mingus Project
Dave Weckyl Band - Perpetual Motion
The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin

Maybe more later

[Tyler Hole]

AC/DC - Back In Black
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Mudvayne - L.D. 50
Dropkick Murphys - Do Or Die & Sing Loud, Sing Proud
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Boston - Boston
Green Day - Dookie
Offspring - SMASH
Cream - Disraeli Gears

[Guss]

Greenday-dookie
Bad religion-Against the grain, suffer, no control
Rage Against the Machine-debut album

[burk48237]

Charlie Peacock: The Secret of Time
Pat Metheny Group: Self titled
Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life
Miles Davis: Someday My Prince will Come
Larry Coryell: Tricycles
Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority
Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow
John Scofield: Blue Matter
Robben Ford: Talk to your Daughter
Joni Mitchell : Shadows and Light
Allman Brothers: Live at the Filmore East
Steely Dan: Aja

[SuperDuck]

It's funny, but most of the albums that hit me as "awesome" right away are the ones I don't listen to. It's the ones that needed to grow on me that turn out to be my favorites.

But, more along the lines of what I think this thread is referring, these are the albums that hit me at certain parts of my life and will be forever identified in my mind with those times:

The Postal Service - Give up
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Jimmy Eat World - JEW/Jebediah Split single
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy