Albums That The First Track Sucked You Right In

[CBHScott]

Starts with rain.
Then comes thunder.
Then a little tinkling of the ivories…which turns into a storm of ivories.
Then ominous (synth?) strings.

A jackhammer fades in.

Amongst the din comes a chainsaw of an A chord, followed by a chainsaw of a G, then eventually back to an A



Then the opening fucking monster riff kicks in:



It was before this song was over that I found out what all the hype about this Nuno guy was all about (having not heard the first Extreme album to that point).

 

[MTB1973]

 

[MTB1973]

 

[MTB1973]

 

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[Stone]

Hit them lights !!!

 

[MTB1973]

 

[TSJMajesty]

First rock album of the 80's:

Permanent Waves

 

[Stone]

look we might as well Spam almost 88% of all rock and metal albums lol

 

[duzie]

Randy in my opinion brought hard rock to a totally new level when the Blizzard of OZZ album was released.

 

[MTB1973]

More 80s…

 

[TSJMajesty]

This was THE ONE for me, that got me into Dream Theater!

The opening notes..., I was like, "Who is this?"



Weirdly enough, my cousin had tried turning me onto DT with I&W and Awake, but at the time, I wasn't interested.

 

[MTB1973]

 

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[duzie]

The riff master delivers
Right from the first track

 

[norminal]

This was THE ONE for me, that got me into Dream Theater!

The opening notes..., I was like, "Who is this?"



Weirdly enough, my cousin had tried turning me onto DT with I&W and Awake, but at the time, I wasn't interested.

The first low E note on the first track of this album was my first experience with Dream Theater:

 

[Sleezy E]

I bought this album after hearing the first song at a borders book store (remember those!?)
A week later i bought the first album

 

[FuzzyAce]

Every Hendrix album. Every Pink Floyd album. Bunch of Led Zeppelin. Lots of Satriani. Extreme - III Sides to Every Story.
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic. Lots of Steely Dan. AIC - Dirt. Many more, and a lot of great ones posted already.

 

[kartikg3]

Flying in a Blue Dream - Joe Satriani; Black Magic Woman - Santana