on the mouth
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)
"Appetite for Destruction"
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 10 November 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)
Moon Safari
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)
Three Feet High and Rising
― 2for25, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)
Bee ThousandBorn to Run
― Kevin Keller, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)
i feel in love with Technique immediately. later came to hate Fine Time and more recently fell in love with it again. so, uh, Technique!
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)
Slanted and Enchanted
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)
Dragnet
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)
Nation of MillionsStands for Decibels
― WE ARE ALL GEETIKA (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 10 November 2008 17:43 (seventeen years ago)
Sung Tongs
― slagterm, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)
Kill Em AllEnter the Wu Tang
― national oracle BIG HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 November 2008 17:59 (seventeen years ago)
Avalon
― at once ultrahip and painfully earnest (Euler), Monday, 10 November 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)
Watery, Domestic
― Mr. Que, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)
Las VegasFrom Here We Go SublimeUntrueNo Way Down
― Treblekicker, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)
sung tongs!
― poortheatre, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)
The Queen Is Dead, give or take a few seconds
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/N.W.A.StraightOuttaComptonalbumcover.jpg
"you are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge."
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)
I wonder what the quickest one is, subjectivity granting.
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)
That would surely be Nevermind
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:29 (seventeen years ago)
nah it takes almost 10 seconds for the drum entry! sure we can do better than that
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 18:31 (seventeen years ago)
I knew I was going to love Vitruvian Pan by Thee Majesty ~0.2 seconds into the first track
― Funky Buddha Lounge (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 10 November 2008 18:35 (seventeen years ago)
Sticky Fingers
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)
Exile On Main Street
― henry s, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)
I wonder what the quickest one is, subjectivity granting.― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, November 10, 2008 1:28 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, November 10, 2008 1:28 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Opening snare crack and on Highway 61 Revisited
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)
Led Zeppelin III: well under a second
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)
october rust
― the sir weeze, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
OK maybe longer than 20 sec but: Paul's Boutique
― sexyDancer, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)
oh shit there's a rly obvious one that nobody's said yet probably because it is too obvious
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)
Out of the Blue?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)
nono it is mbvious than that
hang on where did i put my oreo
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:07 (seventeen years ago)
Vanilla Ice? No wait, that's reverse oreo...
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)
no wait, he's a reverse oreo with white cream on the inside too
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)
a custard cream
― ledge, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)
I'd actually argue that In Utero is a better choice for this than Nevermind.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:11 (seventeen years ago)
I was going to say that the obvious one is Kick Out The Jams - but that's track two
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)
2112
― Have Your Sega (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)
SIAMESE DREAM?
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.metrolyrics.com/images/albums/8900thesundays_reading.jpg
― DavidM, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)
Reign In Blood
― Hiram, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)
that Sundays album is faceless except for one track though
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:19 (seventeen years ago)
and that track is not the opener!
Whoever said Dragnet upthread is totally OTM.
Is there anybody there???? Yeeeeeesssssssss!!!!!!
Absolutely joyful.
― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)
I'd say Definitely Maybe fits the bill.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:21 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.merryswankster.com/images/Blur_Parklife_large.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)
of albums that you know will be awful without having to listen to them, sure. xp.
― ledge, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)
richard d. jamessilent alarm
― rent, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:24 (seventeen years ago)
Definitely Maybe is a good album! But, alas, Oasis is a band whose legacy has been sullied by every subsequent album they put out. If everyone had died in a fiery plane crash right after that album, it would be held up as the classic that it is. It doesn't even sound like the same band that put out that "Wonderwall" crap.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)
No.
― gabbneb, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)
joy division - closer
I started listening from side 2, but 20 seconds into Haert & Soul I knew it was everything I was searching for.
― Marco Damiani, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)
wtf at the oreo shit
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)
weezer blue album btw
― rip van wanko, Friday, 12 October 2018 14:33 (seven years ago)
Master of Reality.
Blues for the Red Sun.
In A Silent Way.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Friday, 12 October 2018 14:37 (seven years ago)
Copper Blue.
― campreverb, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:05 (seven years ago)
I think this factor is what sealed Source Tags and Codes as the breakthrough Trail of Dead album, honestly
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 12 October 2018 15:36 (seven years ago)
Snakes for the Divine
― Duke, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:44 (seven years ago)
I have a recollection of the 3 big trip hop albums (maxinquaye, dummy, mezzanine) being mindblowing for me when I played them for the first time. Mezzanine in particular but they all tell you what you need to know about what’s ahead in 20 seconds.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:19 (seven years ago)
30 seconds: Leftism
― StanM, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:26 (seven years ago)
Agreed, Moka. Hearing those albums for the first time was transfixing and transformative from the get-go.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:29 (seven years ago)
Dinosaur jr - You're Living All Over Me
― Herb Achelors (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:30 (seven years ago)
monster magnet god says no
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:45 (seven years ago)
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:32 (seven years ago)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 12 October 2018 15:36 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
isn't there a silly intro before 'it was there that i saw you' blows the house up
― imago, Friday, 12 October 2018 18:36 (seven years ago)
Straight Outta Compton
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:20 (seven years ago)
Heh, that one's a classic instance of 'Albums that you know you're never going to get within the opening 20 seconds of the first track' for me.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:35 (seven years ago)
first one to mind is from the choirgirl hotel
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 12 October 2018 19:36 (seven years ago)
Breeders' "Last Splash"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:40 (seven years ago)
aye
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:04 (seven years ago)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:05 (seven years ago)
crikey, Hancock's Crossings rather tears out of the gate doesn't it
― imago, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:11 (two years ago)
Low.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:30 (two years ago)
Ok, how about the "Hard Days Night" referencing "Serve the servants" of Nirvana's "In Utero"
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:34 (two years ago)
Haha, never noticed that before
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:44 (two years ago)
Faust, s/t
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:56 (two years ago)
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the UltraworldRosalía - El Mal QuererBjork - Homogenic
― octobeard, Thursday, 24 August 2023 08:01 (two years ago)
Steely Dan - Aja
there is so much going on in just the first bar of Black Cow. first heard it in my parents' car when i was 17 - about 9 years ago - and i don't think anything has hit me as hard as that first bar
― tremolo, Thursday, 24 August 2023 08:11 (two years ago)
master of reality
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 August 2023 12:35 (two years ago)
Ritual De Lo Habitual
― beard papa, Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:53 (two years ago)
Bauhaus, The Sky's Gone Out
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:56 (two years ago)
American Music Club, Mercury
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:58 (two years ago)
T.I. - King
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 August 2023 19:06 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58IDj9a6szM
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 24 August 2023 19:08 (two years ago)
was about to answer this, when i checked, and yeah, my answer is the same as 4 years ago.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 August 2023 19:23 (two years ago)
R.E.M. - ReckoningAphex Twin - RDJ Album (...prob others too)
― Clientless (Scooter's Version) (morrisp), Thursday, 24 August 2023 19:30 (two years ago)
Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen
― Clientless (Scooter's Version) (morrisp), Thursday, 24 August 2023 19:32 (two years ago)
Opening 20 seconds: Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend - swirling guitar effects resolve to a confident psychedelic blues. It had my number.
Opening 2 seconds: Tom Waits, Rain Dogs - (Squawk!)
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:50 (two years ago)
the Pussy Galore is better :D ;)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:51 (two years ago)
Opening 5 seconds: Destroyer - Streethawk
Opening 90 seconds: Can - Future days
― H.P, Friday, 25 August 2023 01:00 (two years ago)
Rain Dogs yes. I can remember the moment! My friend slapping it on the turntable, me vaguely aware of Waits as a seventies singer songwriter of some kind, maybe like Randy Newman. The squawk like a closet door opening, all these strange tools stuffed inside clattering to the floor
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Friday, 25 August 2023 12:52 (two years ago)