Those rare albums that are great on first listen.

So, so many mentioned that I already own. That makes me feel very good. Quite a few that I probably need to get.

Stanley Clark School Days

Jeff Beck Truth

Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin’ Simon

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall

By the way, for those who mentioned Spirit, Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus, it was reissued by Music On Vinyl, white vinyl and limited number of copies. It sounds really good and I highly recommend getting a copy, if they are still available.

About 45 years ago when I bought The Who//Who’s Next my impression was, "Wow! This is a great album from start to finish!"

Elton John:  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player

Fleetwood Mac/Rumors and The Eagles Hotel California struck me the same way

Jackson Browne: Running On Empty

Linda Ronstadt/Simple Dreams

Aliota, Haynes and Jeremiah: I believe was self titled. It had Lake Shore Drive, Uppers And Downers, Snow Queen, Long Time Gone on it. I wish I had a TT and still had that LP.

Quite some time later I’d say the same thing about Lucinda Williams/Happy Woman Blues and her selftitled and Sweet Old World and Car Wheels On A Gravel Road and Essence. (Yes, I used to be a Lucinda Lunatic.)

Steve Earle: Guitar Town and Exit Zero.

Cowboy Junkies: Black Eyed man

John Prine: The Missing Years

I am sure there are others, but those are just a few that struck me as great stuff the first time I listened to it, and I couldn’t wait to listen to it again.

On edit I’ll say that when Bruce Springsteen/Darkness On The Edge Of Town came out I was not getting Bruce, but now I do not know why and it should have been on that list.

I made a playlist of some of the suggestions.  I got a little bored so stopped after the first page.  I also ignored posts with more than 5-6 suggestions and I did exercise a tiny bit of editorial discretion.  Also, if the album didn't come up immediately in Qobuz I didn't research it further.  The playlist is supposed to be collaborative so feel free to add ONE song from the album you are recommending.  Please don't delete anything.  

https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/21601335

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, Moondance

Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles

Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark

R.E.M. - Murmur 

Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come 

David Bowie - Low, Blackstar

Roxy Music - Avalon

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

Here are a few:

Every US Beatles album as it was released in the 1960s

Linda Ronstadt: Hasten down the Wind, Simple Dreams, Prisoner in Disguise, Heart like a Wheel, Mad Love

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Forever Changes - Love

It's a Beautiful Day - s/t

Warren Zevon - s/t

Mahler Symphonies 6 & 8 - Leonard Bernstein (first CBS CD release)

Mahler Symphony No. 2 - Simon Rattle CBSO; Bernstein DG; Abbado/Chicago

Mahler Symphony No. 3 - Bernstein, first CBS CD; Abbado/Vienna

The 35-minute sequence on disc 2 of the Beach Boys’ 1993 Good Vibrations box set that comprised what might have been released as SMiLe, had that LP been released in 1967. All I had known previously was the single "Heroes & Villains," which I dearly loved, even as the rock press of the day was referring to the Boys as "Doris Days on surfboards." Oh, what we had missed.