Which ONE album do you wish you could hear again for the first time?

[MFJ]

For me: Vintersorg - Cosmic Genesis. I burned myself out with this one in ways that many of you cannot even begin to fathom. This album, although not Vintersorg's best, is a prime example of his genius compositional skills. It's hard to listen to the whole album now, simply because I know every single note in it by heart.

So... how about you guys?

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Metallica - ...And Justice for All

I've listened to this album so many times, I find it tedious now. But the first fifty times... Fuckin' hell, how deep it affected me! I got chills every time Hetfield screamed "Now the world is gone, I'm just ONEEE! Oh God, help meeeeEEE!"

Still magnificent, but not as much as it once was...

 

[Hell Mike]

Ride the Lightning
Could it actually have been BETTER once??

 

[Profanity]

Such a hard question to answer. I'll need a few days to think about it.

 

[spikes77]

Morningrise, I remember i was playing diablo II first time i heard it. That was quite the afternoon. In a close 2nd would be heart of the ages.

 

[J.]

Opeth - Orchid

Surprise, I know. But from the get go this album impressed me. And it continued to do so for quite some time. It still does impress me, but I cannot listen to it anymore without wanting to listen to something else. The other three albums from them that I have never even get looked at anymore. Orchid is vintage Opeth.

 

[lurch70]

Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth

and maybe Master of Puppets

 

[SonOfNun]

For me: Vintersorg - Cosmic Genesis. I burned myself out with this one in ways that many of you cannot even begin to fathom. This album, although not Vintersorg's best, is a prime example of his genius compositional skills. It's hard to listen to the whole album now, simply because I know every single note in it by heart.

Amen.

Opeth - Deliverance I would want to hear again for the first time simply because of the impact it had on my life and opening up this whole musical world for me.

 

[matt99_crew]

In about 1983 my buddy and I were away at a summer camp. This fat kid in our cabin had Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind. Up until then our metal diet consisted of some Sabbath and Judas Priest and hard rock stuff like old AC/DC, Van Halen, and KISS. I remember how our fucking jaws dropped in amazement at The Trooper. That was unquestionably a defining musical moment for me. We fucking commandeered that kid's tape for the week and when we got home we bought all their shit right away.
I had a similar experience when I picked up Master of Puppets. I'd heard about them a little from RtL, but MoP was my first exposure. It blew my mind--I was about 16.

 

[MFJ]

Amen.

Opeth - Deliverance I would want to hear again for the first time simply because of the impact it had on my life and opening up this whole musical world for me.

That's a good point. I suppose I'd like to hear Blackwater Park for the first time again- it was my FIRST real metal album, way before I even knew about bands like In Flames or Emperor. I didn't know what to think of it, all I knew was that it was totally foreign to anything I had ever heard.

 

[SonOfNun]

We have these all-audio music channels on our satellite and I put on the metal channel because my interest in heavy music was growing at the time. A band named Opeth was on, and since I'd never heard of them, I changed the channel. I flipped back and forth between it and something else for what seemed like fifteen minutes, never paying attention to the music, but intrigued that this song went on so long. So, I took down the name and title of the song/album and went to amazon.com. Listened to the samples and thought, well, this is pretty cool. Then "Master's Apprentices" came on and I heard the vocals for the first time and the bad ass intro riff and my jaw dropped. From there I knew I had something amazing and I bought Deliverance along with Blackwater Park and Damnation (which had just been released on that day or so.)

I'll never forget getting that package and just being transformed. I listened to Deliverance 24/7 for months before I even paid much attention to the other two, but I also went out and bought their other work shortly thereafter.

Last month was my two-year anniversary in metal and I would love to experience that time over again. Though, musical evolution is a never ending process and I am constantly discovering new bands and styles of music and getting to re-live that feeling anyway. That was the first of many phases that transformed the way I thought about music, and with it, life. I'll also never forget the winter of 2003, a milestone for me in every way, but that's another story.

 

[MFJ]

Winter 2003 for me = my first experience with Vintersorg (Till Fjalls). Thrusted me into all sorts of weird things, but yes, that is another story.

 

[SonOfNun]

Winter 2003 for me = my first experience with Vintersorg (Till Fjalls). Thrusted me into all sorts of weird things, but yes, that is another story.

Are you a long lost twin or something? Seriously.

 

[MFJ]

Hahahahaha- it might be so! Till Fjalls is also important to me because it kept me sane after some skank tore my heart out of my rectum.

 

[HarmonyDies....]

Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer

This album was really me listening to those growls the first time ever, I was never really a fan of the vocals on this album, but those lyrics and songs are some of the most beautiful ever. Oh and...

Weezer - Pinkerton

This album is just damn damn catchy and clever, and it's about as real as it gets.

 

[MFJ]

Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
This album was really me listening to those growls the first time ever, I was never really a fan of the vocals on this album, but those lyrics and songs are some of the most beautiful ever. Oh and...

yessssssssssssssss

 

[NAD]

I have never felt a stronger emotion, musical or otherwise, then I did the first time I heard Tool - Lateralus. I was so overcome I literally went blind for about 5 seconds during the last part of The Grudge. It could be my all time favorite album, just for that. UNRULY.

 

[Will Bozarth]

Anathema - Judgement <3

 

[circus_brimstone]

Opeth - Blackwater Park

I bought this album on a whim just because of the cover art, and was completely blown away by "The Leper Affinity" and everything that followed it.

 

[Nico]

Last month was my two-year anniversary in metal and I would love to experience that time over again.

Aye. I haven't really kept count, but it's something like 2 years since I heard Morningrise and might as well have shit my pants then and there. I'd been a fan of Deicide and Cannibal Corpse and shit like that a few years earlier, but nothing had ever struck me as profoundly as Opeth. From there... what Opeth17 said.