Albums That Blew You Away

[Guest137]

What albums blew you away the first time you heard them? Moving Pictures by Rush is the first album that comes to my mind.

 

[thomo57]

40 years or more ago
Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Wish you were here
Dark side of the moon
Cold fact - Rodriguez
House on the hill-Audience
To name a few

 

[Slick Willie]

Zep II
Fragile
Paranoid
DSOTM
COTC
I Robot
Killer
Let It Bleed
Second Helping
Crimson & Clover

 

[crazy-in-az]

Sad Wings of Destiny- Judas Priest
Love Over Gold- Dire Straits
Machine Head- Deep Purple
Pretzel Logic- Steely Dan
Too Tough to Die- Ramones
London Calling- The Clash

 

[Bill Ashton]

If I go to "back in the day," I bought Colisseum's "Those About To Die Salute You" right off the turntable behind the counter in the music store playing it!

Damn, wonder whatever became of that...

 

[Space Ritual]

I'll have to go with a few that I bought as they first came out and in most cases had only heard one song

Who's Next - The Who
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin IV
In Rock - Deep Purple
Space Ritual Live - Hawkwind
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
Toys In The attic - Aerosmith
The Cars - The Cars
Van Halen - Van Halen
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Dirt - Alice In Chains

There are quite a few others most notably for me
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
that I bought and took at least 2 weeks to warm up to but are my favourite albums

 

[pmsummer]

After Bathing at Baxter's - Jefferson Airplane
UmmaGumma - Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Liege and Leaf - Fairport Convention
The New Quartet - Gary Burton
Henry the Human Fly - Richard Thompson
Below the Salt - Steeleye Span
Forest Flower - Charles Lloyd

 

[BLAH BLAH]

Albatross...

 

[cabby]

Pearl Jam, Ten

 

[KevinJS]

What albums blew you away the first time you heard them? Moving Pictures by Rush is the first album that comes to my mind.

Everything by Rush, but particularly 2112. OK, so that was obvious

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
PF- DSotM, Division Bell
Rainbow - (Can't remember the title, but the one with Stargazer on it)
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Rick Wakeman - Arthur
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell (Yes, really. At the time it was new and totally different)
Yes - Going For The One
Transatlantic - SMPT:e

 

[OnTheBlitz]

Many, many of the albums listed above. ^^

Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy

 

[Te-Te]

Jeff Beck- Blow by Blow.
Ten Years After- A Space in Time.
Rush- A Farewell to Kings.
Black Sabbath- Paranoid.

There are many more........

 

[Auto Analog]

Nirvana-Nevermind
Sly and Robbie-A Dub Experience
Stick Figure-Burial Ground
SOJA-Strength to Survive
Talk Talk-Colour of Spring
Blackalicious-Blazing Arrow
The Doors-An American Prayer

 

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[JRhoBurton]

A few that come to mind...

Scheherezade (Rimsky)
The Doors
Santana
Iron Butterfly, In-a-gadda-da-vida
Tim Weisberg 4
Ambrosia
Boston
Deep Purple, Fireball
Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland
The Planets (Holst)
Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg)
Quarterflash

 

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[UncleCharlie]

U2 The Joshua Tree

 

[qdrone]

Machine Head/Deep Purple
In the Court of the Crimson King / King Crimson
Three Friends / Gentle Giant
In Search of the Lost Chord / Moody Blues
Never Turn Your Back on a Friend / Budgie
Black Sabbath / Black Sabbath
Led Zep 2

off the top of my head

 

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