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

Where’s the thread for albums that give you anticipatory goosebumps in the first two minutes and then turn into a total slog

HELLO LATE NINETIES TECHNO

How about albums whose opening track initially sounded limp/underwhelming -- especially given the hype around the album -- but you quickly came around after a few spins:

SLANTED & ENCHANTED

IS THIS IT

Where’s the thread for albums that give you anticipatory goosebumps in the first two minutes and then turn into a total slog

HELLO LATE NINETIES TECHNO

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:44 (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Plaid - Double Figure being a lovely example

d'angelo - black messiah

Miles Davis - Nefertiti
(probably other Miles albums too)

Electro-Pura by Yo La Tengo was the quintessential example of this fer me.

Phil niblock - touch food

phill

State Of Grace - Taylor Swift (the Edge-style guitar comes in just under the 20 sec line)

Most recently, Hannah Peel's Awake but Always Dreaming did this to me.

The moment the beat and subsequently Hannah's glorious vocals kick in within the first 15 seconds of All That Matters I was hooked. And the record only got much much better after every track.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Dave Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds

Oh and Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda.

More recently whilst on an ECM jag, Rainer Bruninghaus - Continuum

Genesis' Duke begins with the powerful, fanfare-like intro of 'Behind the Lines', which has such ferocious drumming from Phil Collins. I know there's people out there that prefer Collins' solo version, but the Genesis original is the one.

Also: Suede - The Blue Hour.

Alice Cooper, "Killer".

This Year's Model

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:39 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was my first instinct too

Alice Cooper, "Killer".

― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, October 11, 2018 6:24 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I 110% agree with this. Billion Dollar Babies has 'Hello Hooray' too, which also fits the bill.

Electro-Pura by Yo La Tengo was the quintessential example of this fer me.

good call

Xp "The Blue Hour"? Really? I never understood the appeal of Suede. Brett Anderson's theatrical mannered way of singing, his lard locke, the grandiose pompous music. Brett, wake up and make some real music like a punk album!

Kimono My House feels like an obvious example

^^^ yeah, that's a great intro: the slow fade in and then Russell's bizarre voice.

Has no one said Remain in Light yet? That big "AH!" followed by the bubbling polyrhythms and the layers of noises...

Liar

Going for some more recent picks here. . .

King Krule — '6 Feet Beneath the Moon'
William Tyler — 'Impossible Truth'
Radiohead — "In Rainbows'

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meat puppets ii

Ege Bamyasi's another one, talk about just getting down to business

I Get Wet, maybe another obvious example, but yeah you pretty much know right away what you're in store for

Nirvana - Unplugged

Eldorado/Out of the Blue/Face the Music/Third Day/Discovery by ELO.
All the classic era Moody Blues albums.
Every Girls Aloud album.
One Step Beyond/Absolutely/Seven/Rise and Fall by Madness.
1000 Years of Trouble by Age of Chance.

I just knew within seconds each album would be perfect for me.
And they have been.
There is something about a consistent production crew and a band that I love.

New Pornographers, Electric Version

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

any solex album

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

exactly my point.
within seconds you know this is an album that's going to hit the spot.

Ovalprocess
Radian - tg11
Aerial M - s/t

Pixies - Doolitle

Debaser

bob drake's arx pilosa. "Many years ago - billions actually..." - sold.

Kraftwerk - Computer World

Took this out from the library c 1986; nodding gladly along to the initial electro perc and bass, then utterly sold when THAT little synth riff came in at 0:15. Still works.

John Martyn / Solid Air

I've heard less than a minute of Current 93's Sleep Has His House and I know this is going to be the best album of all time

― imago, Wednesday, October 10, 2018 3:40 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

about halfway through this album and loving it

weezer blue album btw

Master of Reality.

Blues for the Red Sun.

In A Silent Way.

Copper Blue.

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

Snakes for the Divine

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