Albums that you know are going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track

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!

Slanted and Enchanted

Dragnet

Nation of Millions
Stands for Decibels

Sung Tongs

Kill Em All
Enter the Wu Tang

Avalon

Watery, Domestic

Las Vegas
From Here We Go Sublime
Untrue
No Way Down

sung tongs!

The Queen Is Dead, give or take a few seconds

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/N.W.A.StraightOuttaComptonalbumcover.jpg

"you are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge."

I wonder what the quickest one is, subjectivity granting.

That would surely be Nevermind

nah it takes almost 10 seconds for the drum entry! sure we can do better than that

I knew I was going to love Vitruvian Pan by Thee Majesty ~0.2 seconds into the first track

Sticky Fingers

Exile On Main Street

I wonder what the quickest one is, subjectivity granting.

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Opening snare crack and on Highway 61 Revisited

Led Zeppelin III: well under a second

october rust

OK maybe longer than 20 sec but: Paul's Boutique

oh shit there's a rly obvious one that nobody's said yet probably because it is too obvious

Out of the Blue?

nono it is mbvious than that

hang on where did i put my oreo

Vanilla Ice? No wait, that's reverse oreo...

no wait, he's a reverse oreo with white cream on the inside too

a custard cream

I'd actually argue that In Utero is a better choice for this than Nevermind.

I was going to say that the obvious one is Kick Out The Jams - but that's track two

2112

SIAMESE DREAM?

http://www.metrolyrics.com/images/albums/8900thesundays_reading.jpg

Reign In Blood

that Sundays album is faceless except for one track though

and that track is not the opener!

Whoever said Dragnet upthread is totally OTM.

Is there anybody there???? Yeeeeeesssssssss!!!!!!

Absolutely joyful.

I'd say Definitely Maybe fits the bill.

http://www.merryswankster.com/images/Blur_Parklife_large.jpg

of albums that you know will be awful without having to listen to them, sure. xp.

richard d. james
silent alarm

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.

No.

joy division - closer

I started listening from side 2, but 20 seconds into Haert & Soul I knew it was everything I was searching for.

wtf at the oreo shit

fastest I ever figured this out was with Loveless

No.

how familiar are you with this album. Be honest.

The oreo shit was a bit of stupid wordplay on my part, basically referring to Matos' suggestion.

Yeah, corny indie fuxor whatever, but Arcade Fire's Funeral did this to me, immediately. Also, Pulp's Different Class and The Smiths' Hatful Of Hollow.

Disintegration was the first thing that came to mind. Also, AMC's "mercury"

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.

30 seconds: Leftism

Agreed, Moka. Hearing those albums for the first time was transfixing and transformative from the get-go.

Dinosaur jr - You're Living All Over Me

monster magnet god says no

Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

I think this factor is what sealed Source Tags and Codes as the breakthrough Trail of Dead album, honestly

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isn't there a silly intro before 'it was there that i saw you' blows the house up

Straight Outta Compton

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.

first one to mind is from the choirgirl hotel

Breeders' "Last Splash"

Copper Blue.

aye

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"

crikey, Hancock's Crossings rather tears out of the gate doesn't it

Low.

Ok, how about the "Hard Days Night" referencing "Serve the servants" of Nirvana's "In Utero"

Haha, never noticed that before

Faust, s/t

The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Rosalía - El Mal Querer
Bjork - Homogenic

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

master of reality

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Bauhaus, The Sky's Gone Out

American Music Club, Mercury

T.I. - King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58IDj9a6szM

was about to answer this, when i checked, and yeah, my answer is the same as 4 years ago.

R.E.M. - Reckoning
Aphex Twin - RDJ Album (...prob others too)

Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen

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!)

Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen

the Pussy Galore is better :D ;)

Opening 5 seconds: Destroyer - Streethawk

Opening 90 seconds: Can - Future days

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