that Sundays album is faceless except for one track though
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd say Definitely Maybe fits the bill.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.merryswankster.com/images/Blur_Parklife_large.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
of albums that you know will be awful without having to listen to them, sure. xp.
― ledge, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
richard d. jamessilent alarm
― rent, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
No.
― gabbneb, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf at the oreo shit
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
fastest I ever figured this out was with Loveless
― Matos W.K., Monday, 10 November 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
how familiar are you with this album. Be honest.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
The oreo shit was a bit of stupid wordplay on my part, basically referring to Matos' suggestion.
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Disintegration was the first thing that came to mind. Also, AMC's "mercury"
― akm, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i think my first 20 seconds with loveless was spent trying to figure out what was wrong with my headphones
― rent, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Wasn't talking about you, LJ, more res and his unnecessary Vanilla Ice comment.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry Black Seinfeld. My bad.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 10 November 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha okay, apology accepted
I never knew the words "Sorry Black Seinfeld" could bring so much joy into my life
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
:D
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
^ slightly compressed
Most of my favorite albums are like this...
Priest = AuraA Storm In HeavenThe Perfect Prescriptionetc...
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Priest = Aura is always like 20 quid when I find it in record shops ;_;
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The Low End Theory
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 10 November 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Brian Eno - "Here Come The Warm Jets"Kraftwerk - "Trans Europe Express"
― snoball, Monday, 10 November 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"
― snoball, Monday, 10 November 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Can's "Ege Bamyasi" was like this for me. I first heard it when I was about sixteen, ten seconds into Pinch I had already decided that this was my favourite album ever. (Which it isn't, but I still love it.)
Marquee Moon fits the bill too.
― dryga, Monday, 10 November 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Nation of Millions
I would argue against that, at least from the perspective of a US listener. "Huh? Hammersmith Odeon? What the fuck? What is this, a live album? What the hell's going on?"
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 10 November 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
The Who Sell Out (horn blasts alternating with computer-voiced days of the week)
And while we're at it, Live At Leeds.
And The John Coltrane Quartet Plays, McCoy Tyner's forbodingly dissonant voicings of the "Chim Chim Cheree" chords.
And any and all Dumitrescu.
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 10 November 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
good lord, there were dozens of these laying around for .99 cents last year in the bay area
― akm, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Hoople" - Mott The Hoople
― snoball, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
In fact, there are four tracks on that album that would make cracking openers, apart from the actually opening number.
― snoball, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I need not be familiar with the album to know that it is not great, however, I say No not to your album in particular but the conceit of the thread in general.
― gabbneb, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it works with Mott, too. I love that piano riff on "All the Way from Memphis." And its just so nice when the rest of the band kicks in.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
PretendersIn Color
― ellaguru, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"
― snoball, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
AC/DC-If You Want Blood You Got It
Amps buzzing leading into Riff Raff, crowd out of control
― Bill Magill, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure I could easier think of albums that couldn't (and didn't) follow through after an initially exhilarating opening. Most of my long-term favourites required at least 3-5 playings to announce themselves as stunners. And as for albums that I rightly recognized as stunners on first playing, the realization generally takes 2 1/2 songs to kick in. I'm sure there's some kind of semi-conscious "rule-of-three"-awareness instinct involved.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
― a hoy hoy, Monday, November 10, 2008 8:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
oh fuck how did i not think of this
i have been known to just rewind to hear the bass and opening lines multiple times
― BIG HOOS' macaroni is off the motherfucking chain (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 November 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.student.uib.no/~ane041/1%20-%20Fotoprosjekt/homegrown-dodgy.jpg
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"Have mercy on me, sir/ allow me to impose on you"
among others
― Vision, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Tears for Fears, The Seeds of Love, is in this category for me, though I know I'm very much in the minority on that.
― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Stretchheads, Five Fingers, Four Thingers, A Thumb, A Facelift and a New IdentityPere Ubu, The Modern Dance
Other stuff
― Ivan, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis (the bass groove, the double-tracked vocals)Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come and Science Fiction (Charlie Haden bass / launching right into discordant theme)Fuck the Facts, Disgorge Mexico (wow wow wow)Gilberto Gil, Expresso 2222 (flute insanity with afro-brazilian percussion)Nina Simone, Forbidden Fruit (proto-industrial cymbal clank in 3/4 time, then she howls out "Rags! Old iron!")Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 ("Humph"!)Funkadelic, Maggot Brain (wins this category outright)
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
dazzle shipsso
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
A Love Supreme
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
^ yes, for sure
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Along the lines of Maggot Brain, Locust Abortion Technician, though it might take a little more than 20 seconds to get to "yes son"
A Frames S/T: so jagged and precise and atonal, then it breaks into that big chorus with the amazing hostage crisis metaphor.
The US Version of the Clash debut was like this for me too: Clash City Rockers was everything I was looking for at 14, having just worn out the early Who.
― bendy, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link