Alice Cooper, "Killer".
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
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
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Alice Cooper, "Killer".― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, October 11, 2018 6:24 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
Electro-Pura by Yo La Tengo was the quintessential example of this fer me.
good call
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
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!
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Kimono My House feels like an obvious example
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
^^^ 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...
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Liar
― I Occasionally Post on ILX (2x5), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Going for some more recent picks here. . .
King Krule — '6 Feet Beneath the Moon'William Tyler — 'Impossible Truth'Radiohead — "In Rainbows'
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 11 October 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
post
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 October 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
meat puppets ii
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 October 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 October 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
Nirvana - Unplugged
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 11 October 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 October 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
New Pornographers, Electric Version
― alpine static, Thursday, 11 October 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
― daavid, Thursday, 11 October 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
any solex album
― Ross, Thursday, 11 October 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
exactly my point.within seconds you know this is an album that's going to hit the spot.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 October 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
OvalprocessRadian - tg11Aerial M - s/t
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
Pixies - Doolitle
Debaser
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
bob drake's arx pilosa. "Many years ago - billions actually..." - sold.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 October 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
John Martyn / Solid Air
― fetter, Friday, 12 October 2018 09:59 (five years ago) link
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
― rip van wanko, Friday, 12 October 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
weezer blue album btw
― rip van wanko, Friday, 12 October 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Copper Blue.
― campreverb, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Snakes for the Divine
― Duke, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
30 seconds: Leftism
― StanM, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
Agreed, Moka. Hearing those albums for the first time was transfixing and transformative from the get-go.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
Dinosaur jr - You're Living All Over Me
― Herb Achelors (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
monster magnet god says no
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
― 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 (five years ago) link
Straight Outta Compton
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
first one to mind is from the choirgirl hotel
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 12 October 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
Breeders' "Last Splash"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
aye
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
crikey, Hancock's Crossings rather tears out of the gate doesn't it
― imago, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:11 (eight months ago) link
Low.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:30 (eight months ago) link
Ok, how about the "Hard Days Night" referencing "Serve the servants" of Nirvana's "In Utero"
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:34 (eight months ago) link
Haha, never noticed that before
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:44 (eight months ago) link
Faust, s/t
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:56 (eight months ago) link
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the UltraworldRosalía - El Mal QuererBjork - Homogenic
― octobeard, Thursday, 24 August 2023 08:01 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
master of reality
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 August 2023 12:35 (eight months ago) link