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Offline Zyzzyva17

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Best First Impression of an Album
« on: January 29, 2016, 03:53:24 PM »
Of all the albums you're discovered, which one gave the best first impression? Where does that album rank for you now? List multiple albums if you can't pick just one.

For me, my best first impressions, in order of when I first listened to them, are:

Ayreon - The Human Equation
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Haken - The Mountain
Spock's Beard - Snow
Dream Theater - The Astonishing

Of these, the Human Equation has aged the worst, probably top 50 but not top 20. As for the other three (not counting The Astonishing because it hasn't aged yet), they are all somewhere in my top 10, and I suspect The Astonishing will be too, though it's too early to say.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2016, 09:17:36 AM »
Kansas - Leftoverture

I was floored the first time I heard that whole album, and to this day, it is still a borderline top 5 all-time album for me.  So amazing.  :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2016, 10:03:58 AM »
Therapy? Troublegum

Oasis - Whats The Story Morning Glory.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2016, 01:06:16 PM »
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

Still one of my favourites, although I don't listen to it that often.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2016, 01:10:39 PM »
LTE - LTE

My mind was (and still is) blown away by the ridiculous chemistry of these musicians - the world needs another of these  :hefdaddy
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2016, 01:33:56 PM »
Distorted Harmony - Natural Selection
The Dear Hunter - Act 4
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (surprisingly, I'd have thought this would take ages to 'get')
Protest the Hero - Volition
Machine Head - Unto the Locust

Apart from Dear Hunter, these are all in my top 50 albums, but at this point that one would easily make the list. I'd also say there's a clear difference between the all-time favorite albums, which I really rarely listen to anymore, but still like and have great memories of, and the albums I currently have on regular rotations, the newer stuff tends to beat the 'classics' as time goes on.


And the most recent one:

Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places, one of the best first impressions on an album, only heard it once in full and I'm already completely sold.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2016, 02:20:40 PM »
I've had a few great first impressions, but none have been like the first time I heard Haken's Aquarius. I was just head in hands, not fully being able to properly process the awesome.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2016, 02:27:44 PM »
No order:

Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Gorillaz - S/T
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum: Indigo
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Mastodon - The Hunter

That's all I can think of right now. No surprise that the list comprises mostly of my absolute favorite bands and the album that got me into them.

The one that is still constantly played and tip top of my favorites is Townsend's Ocean Machine and I suspect there it will remain for either a very, very long time or till I die simply because I'm that emotionally connected with it and it also happens to be musically orgasmic to me. The one that has aged the most but is also towards the bottom is DT's SDOIT. It's very close to my heart and funny enough has become even close in recent years with some personal developments but I still listen to DT very rarely these days and the only song that I still really even play is The Glass Prison.

The newest one and still the one that is now currently getting played the most is Periphery's Periphery II. These guys are one of the very few bands that each album I listened to, I immediately loved and that love stayed (and in some cases magnified). I love the music, I love the lyrics, the singing, everything about them really meshes well with my personality and preferences at this point in my life as well as my musical life.

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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2016, 02:46:54 PM »
Hand. Cannot. Erase. made a huge first impression on me. I listened to it every day for two weeks after it came out. Never done that with any other album.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2016, 03:53:37 PM »
Usually I have to listen to an album like 10 times for it to really resonate with me. It's rare when it does that on a first listen, but it's so awesome when it happens. I think ones that did that for me are:

Lightbulb Sun - Porcupine Tree
Weather Systems - Anathema
Act I - The Dear Hunter

Maybe some more.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2016, 05:06:06 PM »
PT - Lightbulb Sun
Haken - The Mountain

These two above are top ten for me

DT The Astonishing is going to take a while.  First listen, did not really like, but on the third listen and much better.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2016, 05:56:58 PM »
The Ocean - Pelagial. I thought it was the most incredible thing I'd ever heard the first time through, and that impression has remained.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2016, 06:00:54 PM »
Pelagial was a grower for me, actually, thought it was alright the first few times I listened to it but I love it now, one of my better purchases this year  :heart
i'll definitely second whoever said The Mountain, that was brilliance from the first listen
nothing else really comes to mind right away though, so many of my favorite albums have been growers  :lol
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2016, 12:55:47 AM »
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
The Dear Hunter - Act IV
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2016, 02:16:18 AM »
As much as albums can grow on me to the point that they become favourites, a good chunk of my favourite albums were instant loves. The ones that come straight to mind are

Scenes from a Memory
Frances the Mute
To Be Kind
Takk...
Helplessness Blues
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2016, 02:23:41 AM »
Not counting classics like Wish You Were Here or Rainbow Rising (I don't remember my exact first impressions on those to be honest), the album that left the strongest first impression for me was Beyond the Bridge - The Old Man and The Spirit. Love at the first spin. Still among my Top 10 albums of all time.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2016, 10:35:48 AM »
Easy!

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Frost* - Milliontown

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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2016, 10:32:48 PM »
off the top of my head:

brand new - deja entendu
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium
portugal. the man - in the mountain in the cloud
queens of the stone age - ...like clockwork
frank ocean - channel orange
sleep - dopesmoker
a great big pile of leaves - have you seen my prefrontal cortex?
bon iver - for emma, forever ago

all of these albums have stuck w/ me. some don't i don't quite like as much, some i like more, but there all still here getting a few listens here and there.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2016, 01:43:02 AM »
Interestingly enough, a lot of the times, the albums that blow me away the most on the first listen are also the albums that tend to fade away. Because usually, if something is that good on the first listen, it doesn't really reveal more layers with more listens, and it just kinda stays the same.

But these are albums that as soon as I had heard the first one-two songs, I was a fan of the band:

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Swans - The Seer
Amplifier - Amplifier
Kimbra - Vows
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2016, 12:34:25 PM »
Quote from: E.S. on February 02, 2016, 10:35:48 AM
Easy!

SFAM
Frost* - Milliontown

Two revolutionary moments for my eardrums.

Agreed on both counts. SW's Raven also had an incredible first impression on me.
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Re: Best First Impression of an Album
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2016, 12:39:35 PM »
Scenes from a Memory
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night

These are probably the two albums that blew me away the most at the very first listening... and during every other listening ever since  :metal
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