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re: What Band/Album Blew You Away at First Listen?

Posted on 4/23/25 at 4:29 pm to
Posted by Galactic Inquisitor
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 4:29 pm to
El Cielo by dredg
Posted by shutterspeed
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Posted by IAmNERD
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 5:30 pm to
quote:

Undertow was a slow burn for me, but first listen of Aenima was a wtf moment

It was Lateralus for me. I was just hitting high school when A Perfect Circle dropped an album in 2000, Lateralus came out in 2001, and APC again in 2003.

So good.
Posted by A12 Oxcart
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 6:03 pm to
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Yngwie - Rising Force
SRV - Texas Flood

And yes, Guns-n-Roses was a hair band
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 6:34 pm to
Hybrid Theory-Linkin Park
Dirt-Alice in Chains
Fear Inoculum-Tool (that was their 1st album I listened to when I was blown away)
Ten-Pearl Jam
Californication-RHCP
Posted by Zappas Stache
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 7:00 pm to
Recently....Fontaine DC "Dogrel"

Black Country New Roads ""For the First Time" and then I listened to Ants Up There and was even more blown away.

Courtney Barnett "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit"

Posted by Robin Masters
Birmingham
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 7:10 pm to
Too many to list all of them but off the top of my head:
Beastie Boys - No Sleep til Brooklyn
Rush - Moving Pictures
Appetite for Destruction
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Tool - Undertow
RATM - Bombtrack
Pennywise - About Time
Radiohead - the Bends
Led zepplin - IV
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Metallica - kill em all

Posted by Bayou
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 7:41 pm to
Might be a little different but I recall being so impressed when I first listened to

Posted by 1tufftiger
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 7:54 pm to
King’s X : Faith, Hope and Love
Posted by midnight1961
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Posted by Crow Pie
Neuro ICU - Tulane Med Center
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 8:45 pm to
Led Zeppelin II..specifically the "quadraphonic aspect" of Whole Lotta Love blew our adolescence minds in 69!
Posted by Kashmir
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 9:03 pm to
Sgt Peppers
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 9:11 pm to
Roxy Music- Avalon
Mink Deville- Coup de Grace
Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Posted by RocknRollAZ
Arizona
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 9:49 pm to
Posted by AlwysATgr
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 9:59 pm to
quote:

First VH


For my era, this is way out in front.
Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 10:06 pm to
Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 10:08 pm to
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 4/23/25 at 10:45 pm to
Track 1
Ween
Chocolate and Cheese (album)
Take me Away (song title)


This post was edited on 4/23/25 at 10:49 pm
Posted by GeauxtigersMs36
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Posted on 4/24/25 at 8:15 am to
Widespread panic Space wrangler
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
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Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:06 am to
Meet The Beatles

The most important album ever released.
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