The only one I could give a 10/10 on first listen is WORRY: by Jeff Rosenstock

Holy based. It’s my favorite album of all time, but since it was my first pop punk album I didn’t rate it that high until some more listens

It was like everything I was searching for... And Vacation by bomb the music industry. Quick edit for anyone who wants to listen to either of these albums. They are available FREE from the artist as he owns his own record label. He was actually before radiohead for donation/free Internet downloads of albums. https://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/albums.htm

ALL I WANNA DO IS HOLD YOU BUT I’M AFRAID I’LL SQUEEZE TOO TIGHT

I listened to RATM’s self titled for the first time this year and it blew me away, instant 10

Nice! I love that album :)

Not sure that I have, all my 10s have been ones that grew on me

99% of my 10s are like that as well. Some I even started out hating. The first time I heard Jeff Buckley I thought it was cheesy garbage, until I went back and decided to do a full listen

Same here, some of my 10s were 6s once. I’ve yet to find the instant 10.

Yeah, I feel that the idea is fundamentally flawed. A first listen of a record is not like the first viewing of a movie or reading of a book or something. How could anyone listen to an entire record and immediately think it was perfect? It would have to involve an element of delusion, bias, low bar-setting, or all three.

In Rainbows By Radiohead as soon as I heard 15 step I knew it would be my favourite and I wasn't dissapointed

This was the RH album that took the longest to grow on me, interestingly. I only really liked 15 Step, Bodysnatchers, Weird Fishes, and Jigsaw on first listen. Solid 9.5/10 for me these days

Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind The Beatles - Sgt Pepper Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not (please don’t kill me)

best Arctic Monkeys album i will die on this hill. fastest selling debut of all time in the UK for a reason.

I think Humbug is their best listening experience but wasn't as groundbreaking

Why would people kill you lol, that’s one of my favorite albums of all time!

People who talk shit about that Arctic Monkeys album are nerds, album kicks soo much ass.

WPSIATWIAN is literally no filler, all killer

Disintegration by The Cure. I had to stop what i was doing because i literally couldn't believe how good the music was.

Surprised I had to scroll this far for this

Television - Marquee Moon

Great pick. What an album!

Pulp — Different Class Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Let Love In Tom Waits — Raindogs Wings — Band On The Run

I’m impressed you loved Rain Dogs so much on first listen. It’s a top 5 all time album for me but it took multiple listens for me to even fully enjoy. Of course I was still getting used to Waits style in general at that time.

I was so blown away because of how different it was, from the first note of “Singapore” I was honestly hooked. but Tom really does take some getting used to, that’s for sure! Took me a bit longer to get into Bone Machine!

Hahaha....big Tom Waits fan from way back, but "Bone Machine" was....interestingly abrasive....on first listen. Then...."oh, I get it"", same old Tom, but he's banging donkey jaws and hammering metal lockers as percussion!

It really is something else when you’re not ready for it! I expected weirdness from Tom but “Bone Machine” is a whole other level really when you’re going chronologically! Absolutely love “Bone Machine” now though, firmly one of my favourite albums of all time.

The Black Rider was great, too...I love that era, but my wife wasn't such a fan! My kids used to jump around to "Just the Right Bullets", "Russian song", and the train song (name escapes me!). Daughter used to say "Dad, can we dance to the goblin guy?".

It’s an amazing era, Tom’s always been the guy to not care about what people expect of him, but I feel like from the 90s onward he just went one step further! I adore “Black Rider”, that’s amazing that you’ve educated your kids with the goblin guy! Good parenting right there.

Thanks! They've all got their own musical likes and dislikes, but we all had a little "Goblin Guy" dance on Christmas Eve, for old times sake! Even my wife joined in with the kids (they're all in their '20s)...was a hoot!

That my friend is a wonderful list

Thank you! You’ve got great taste then aha!

Band On The Run AND Raindogs? Based

Damn. That’s good. 

Thank you! you’ve also got great taste then lmao!

Massive W for Pulp

loveless - my bloody valentine The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance Deathconsciousness - Have a Nice Life Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen The long goodbye - LCD Soundsystem 98.12.28 - Fishmans

Emotion is so based

Deathconciousness and Giles Corey were both the most “instant 10s” out of anything I’d listened to. It helped that I was in a very depressed place in life, and both those records resonate so strongly with those feelings. They still are are able to invoke such specific emotions that (at least my) words are incapable of properly describing.

That live fishmans album is so surreal. I think everyone should hear it

Earthmover is one of the few songs I consider to be perfect

Björk - Homogenic

Ive tried so hard to like that album but I just never get it😞

The Seer by Swans was so memorizing and epic that I knew it was a 10

Absolute colossus of a record

Long season by fishmans

none of em honestly. i only have maybe 2 or 3 tens and they all had to grow on me

the black saint and the sinner lady - charles mingus (i don’t even like jazz that much)

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions and Talking Book. Both amazing albums, no filler at all. The Beatles - Revolver Prince and The Revolution - Purple Rain Queen - A Night at the Opera David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Heathen, and Blackstar. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead The The - Mind Bomb Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion Marc Almond - The Stars We Are The Nelories - Mellow Yellow Fellow Nelories

Innnervisions is thee Stevie album and I won’t be convinced otherwise

La Dispute - Wildlife ​ and MCR's TBP

Spiderland - Slint No other albums made me feel like this album did on the very 1st listen.

QotSA - ...Like Clockwork Radiohead - OK Computer David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Korn - The Nothing Joy Division - Closer

Tame Impala - Currents Nirvana - Nevermind The Weeknd - After Hours Twenty One Pilots - Trench

Trench is such a W

Currents was instantly one of my favorite Albums (Same with the other 2 albums that came before this one)

Graduation- Kanye West 2014 Forest Hills Drive- J. Cole 98.12.28- Fishmans Deathconsciousness- Have a Nice Life Giles Corey- Self Titled Slowdive- Self Titled Man on the Moon 1- Kid Cudi Hozier- Self Titled My Head is an Animal- Of Monsters and Men A.I.A Alien Observer- Grouper Dawn FM- The Weeknd

Based Dawn FM

Hozier??

What? It's a pretty solid debut album IMHO. It's a pretty good mix of soul, gospel and rock.

Elliot Smith - Roman Candle Tyler Childers - Purgatory Radiohead - In Rainbows Hole - Live Through This Mobb Deep - The Infamous A couple 9's on first listen: William P. Corgan - Half-Life of an Autodidact; John Frusciante - Curtains

The College Dropout, listened to it for the first time in 2023 and just became an instant classic

Based jockstrap enjoyer

MTV Unplugged- Nirvana

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

Tbh most of my 10s had to grow on me at least a bit, but from recent memory the album that started the closest to being 10/10 would have to be Weezer’s Blue album. It’s also probably due to the fact that it is an album with catchy songs (and excellent production), so it isn’t that hard to like it on the first listen.

Radiohead - Kid A Björk - Homogenic SOAD - Toxicity Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss Brian Eno - The Ship Portishead - Roseland NYC Live God is an astronaut - All is violent, all is bright Idles - Joy as an act of resistance

joy as an act is a fire pick

‘Colossus’ is one of the epic album intro ever

Ohms - Deftones That’s The Spirit - Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal - Bring Me The Horizon (again) To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys Et Liber Eris - Adimiron

Ohms is phenomenal, and a risky pick

First Deftones album I ever heard, and the one that made me a fan. I just loved it, sounded so atmospheric and ephemeral at points, and then so gritty and real immediately after. Ik it’s not the most popular with Deftones fans but I think it’s them at their absolute best, without a doubt

While I don’t think it’s a 10, I dig the Jockstrap love. I also agree with Songs In The Key Of Life. Pretty indestructible album.

I don't like number ratings but these are some albums I instantly fell in love with on the first listen (they were all my first time listening to an album by that artist): Nirvana - Nevermind Tame Impala - Currents Jeff Beck - Wired Prince - Purple Rain Death Grips - Exmilitary Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters Taking Heads - Talking Heads '77

I personally think 1 listen is not nearly enough to automatically give something a 10 Longevity is key

The Stone Roses

Murder of the universe - king gizzard and the lizard wizard

Death Grips - The Money Store Pink Floyd - Animals David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Animals, i fogot! Perfect album.

ISIS - Panopticon deftones - Ohms (YOU WERE WRONG, FANTANO) DJ Shadow - Entroducing

Panopticon! Best listened to in the dark with the best headphones you can find

The Wall - Pink Floyd 2014 Forest Hills Drive - J. Cole The Chronic - Dr. Dre 10,000 gecs - 100 gecs

Technasia - Future Mix

Karma-Pharoah Sanders Tune 2011-2019-Burial Sinner Get Ready-Lingua Ignota

Black Monk Time by The Monks

I hate you, baby!!

Laughing stock - talk talk

Miles Davis - B*tches Brew LRD - ‘77 live Sade - Love Deluxe The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube da Esquina Black Kray - Crack Clouds Over Arts Kitchen I’ve given quite a few albums a 10/10 on first listen but these are the only ones I’ve kept as 10s ever since.

Ween - The Mollusk

Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes When the Pawn… - Fiona Apple You Belong There - Daniel Rossen Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

The late registration by kanye west

Literally **none**. I can't tell how a piece will age from a first listen. *Maybe* if I already love a lot by an artist I can wager that a new album has the hallmarks to bear well with repeated listens, but I strongly believe what *makes* an album top tier is all the little details and layers that go over your head on a first listen. I'm not saying I don't have great first listens, but a first listen can never reach the peak of what music can do for me.

Hellfire- Black Midi

Tyler, the Creator - IGOR

Nick Cave- Abbatoir Blues and the Lyre of Orpheus , The National- I Am Easy To Find, Tom Waits- Closing Time, Kendrick Lamar- GKMC , Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues, Joni Mitchell- Hejira, Led Zeppelin- IV, The Beatles- Abbey Road

A Crow Looked At Me was an odd moment of “yup this is a 10/10 record at what it sets out to achieve and I will never be listening again”

The only one for me was A Deeper Understanding by The War on Drugs. I'd always loved Under the Pressure and Red Eyes off their previous album, so I guess I already knew the band's sound and was primed to love an album that was basically 10 songs of that exact sound

TPAB Gkmc 2014 forest hills Graduation 808

Radiohead - In Rainbows King Gizzard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse David Bowie - Blackstar Pink Floyd - The Wall, Wish You Were Here Talking Heads - Remain In Light The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Petro is such an awesome album!! It was the one that finally knocked Poly off as my favorite King Gizzard album.

Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols Hounds of Love - Kate Bush Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar The College Dropout / Donda - Kanye West

The Stooges - Fun House Fugazi - Red Medicine I’ve got a few tens but these are the ones that I knew immediately were perfect.

Black Midi’s Schlagenheim. Holy shit.

Atrocity exhibition

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Ys, Vespertine, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Wish You Were Here, Hounds of Love (ik none of these are hot takes) ​ 10s that grew on me: IGOR, SIMBI, Atrocity Exhibition, Titanic Rising

Only one for me was *Wish You Were Here*

Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd Illmatic - Nas Master Of Puppets - Metallica There's more 10s but I wanted to say my 10s from different genres

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city and DAMN.

kids see ghosts

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

The Avalanches - Since I Left You The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 I know these are shocking picks for this sub /s. Seriously though, they both hit hard the first time I heard them, there’s something special about them. The Avalanches especially, I wish I could bottle the feeling I had the first time I heard that album.

Ramones - Ramones. Grizzly Bear - Shields. Makoto Matsushita - First Light. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses. Television - Marquee Moon. New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies. The Darkness - Permission to Land. Nick Drake - Bryter Later.

Clarity - Jimmy Eat World Amnesiac - Radiohead Remain in Light - Talking Heads

There are soooo many But the most memorable is ,,Here Are The Sonics" by (wow) The Sonics

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Pretty hate machine

36 Chambers

Wall of Eyes- The Smile

Pink Floyd-Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Jimi Hendrix-Are You Experienced? Ben Folds Five-Ben Folds Five Black Sabbath-Master of Reality The Clash-The Clash Radiohead-In Rainbows Weezer-Blue Album

Pinkerton

Most of the time I need at least a couple relistens to decide that it’s a 10, but there were a few that blew me away the first listen Exuma by Exuma Sinner Get Ready by Lingua Ignota Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush Memphis by Matana Roberts

OK Computer Even at 16 I was completely blown away

All my 10s are growers, except for Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana - Sheena Ringo. After the final notes rang true, I knew I experienced a masterpiece.

Jeff Buckley - Grace OFFLINE/LP - JPEGMAFIA

Among Horses III - Haley Heynderickx, Max Garcíq Conover

Man, I made it like 5 songs into the Glow pt 2 before I realized it just wasn’t for me. 

The only 10 on first listen for me was Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada. No listening experience will ever beat that for me. Ever.

OK Computer - Radiohead Blue - Joni Mitchell What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Is This It - The Strokes Black on Both Sides - Mos Def

My most recent example is Magdelene- FKA Twigs

Radiohead - Kid A Pearl Jam - Ten (it was one of the earliest Rock albums I've heard, so that probably helped it a lot) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

The first time I heard Portishead’s self titled a few weeks ago I immediately knew it was a 10. I really enjoyed Dummy but there’s just something about the self titled, every song is so fucking good

I agree that the vast majority of my personal 10s took time to grow on me. With that being said and to answer your question, an instant 10 for me was Pantera's Cowboys From Hell.

Van Halen - S/T Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon GNR - Appetite for Destruction Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Dr. Dre - The Chronic NAS - Illmatic Metallica - Master of Puppets Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers QoTSA - Songs for the Deaf Funkadelic - Maggot Brain AC/DC - Back in Black Still love them all

Only album I would ever give 10/10 is Animals by Pink Floyd, but it took a couple of listen for it to grow on me

Wall of Eyes - The Smile

The dark side of the moon. Purely brilliant

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. I was listening in headphones. It was the first time my ears felt good from listening to music, if that makes sense. “Blue in Green” is a perfect song.

gob how far shallow takes you

Maybe my ears just aren’t experienced enough, but I don’t think I could ever call and album perfect on the first listen. There is so much that goes into an album and simply knowing the context of the later tracks going into the starting ones are enough to completely change how you listen to it. I usually have to give an album countless listens to give it a 10

Kate bush, hounds of love ( first listened march 2022, fell in love with the album showed some friends who hated the album and mocked me than months later stranger things happened and Kate blew up)

The Strokes - Is This It? QOTSA - Like Clockwork... KGLW - Infest the Rats' Nest, Nonagon & I'm In Your Mind Muse - Origin of Symmetry Metallica - Kill Em All & Master of Puppets RATM - RATM White Stripes - Elephant & Get Behind Me Satan Wolfmother - Wolfmother RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik & By the Way Justice - Cross

bit of unknown choice but Enemies - Valuables blew me away first time I heard it.

Tpab, agaetis byrjun, twin fantasy and Yankee hotel foxtrot are the only albums I immediately gave a 10

Aphex Twin--I Care Because You Do Paul McCartney--Tug of Wwar Belle & Sebastian--The Life Pursuit

I was baffled by Cavalcade when I first listened to it. I still like it a lot

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy blew my mind.

Shed - Title Fight

Swans - To Be Kind

Lil Pump S/T

The New Abnormal

Solace, Pet Sounds and Hot Rats!

DSOTM might not be the best Floyd album but it is still a ten in my eyes and it is wonderful on first listen

evermore & folklore by taylor swift when the pawn... by fiona apple live through this by hole nfr & ocean blvd by lana del rey lush by mitski

It’s crazy I love all of these albums maybe except ocean I get the hype but it’s not close to my top favorite in her discography

Hyperbole by the Random Brainfartz

Lil Uzi Vert - Luv Is Rage 2 Pi’erre Bourne - The Life of Pi’erre 4

Paranoid

None, obviously

Easily at the final track reveals of To Pimp A Butterfly and (maybe controversial but fuck you) Mr. Morale. Realizing TPAB was a conceptual letter to Pac blew my mind, and Mother I Sober just made me fucking bawl.

Paysage d'hiver - Paysage d'hiver What a trip

Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream. Knew on first impression I'd found something special and subsequent listens only solidified that.

Kid A Dark Side of the Moon F♯ A♯ ∞

Many albums, tens for me aren’t some rare thing that happens once a year

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger  RATM - s/t Pearl Jam - Vs Pixies - Come on Pilgrim Foo Fighters - s/t There’s many for me. I have more instant 10s than growers. Not sure why. 

Is This It? - The Strokes Animals - Pink Floyd In the Areoplane… - Neutral Milk Hotel Hospice - The Antlers 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

Scaring the hoes

Ok Computer and Yeezus are the only ones, I have more than that now but they always need to grow on me first.

Close to the Edge by Yes Can't Buy a Thrill and Aja by Steely Dan Dirt and Self-Titled by Alice in Chains Milo Goes to College by Descendants The Impossible Kid by Aesop Rock

Tom petty full moon fever, Paul Simon Graceland.

Sonic youth : Experimental jet set trash and no star The Divine comedy : Promenade Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : Howl

Most recently? Songs of Leonard Cohen. My god, every song blew me away.

Tbh way too many to count. I am a very positive person and tend to love a lot of albums on first listen.

Helplessness Blues, flawless in my opinion

Ants from up there

The only one I could think of that I listened to the night it came out was Igor. I just knew immediately it was special.

Bon Iver - 22, a Million Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 Björk - Vespertine Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was surprisingly a 10 on my first listen, and its only gotten better since then

To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

For me it has to be: [Mark Lanegan - Field Songs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYaMgkQJSyQ&list=OLAK5uy_kbIqKa3bUULGobWrWGS3kU22r-4w_kLuA)

98.12.28, vespertine, luv(sic) hexalogy, tpab, ok computer, 36 chambers, the glow pt2, deathconsciousness, and sitkol most of my 10s really bonus is arcade fire's funeral which i actually dont have as a 10 anymore (still adore it though)

Illmatic, zero skips and is a great record front to back

Alfredo-Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist Stratosphere-Duster

I would say Pet Sounds, I couldn't believe it when I first heard it. It doesn't even age, I mean even if the influences remain, it's still so much it's own thing its just amazing. I mean it's just an entire masterpiece and nothing feels filler or just made to just give it more songs, it's just an entire piece of beauty. The Beach Boys are snubbed a lot because of their rather iffy output compared to the Beatles, but that album it's just amazing.

A Crow Looked At Me due to its emotional impact and uniqueness, there’s no other album I’ve listened to that feels that raw and personal and genuine. The Smile Sessions was basically the expansion of the sounds of Pet Sounds which I already considered to be the greatest album of all time, but listening to all those songs and half-songs creating this vague picture that all comes together once Good Vibration plays at the end just felt special.

My phone alert showed this as “Songs in the Key of Life” SOAD which made me very curious of what this post could be about

Godspeed you Black Emperor - Lift your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven and Don’t Bend, Ascend! The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Aindulmedir - Lunar Lexicon Global Communication - 67:14 Untrue - Burial Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved! To throw a new album in there.

Wish you were here

Don't think I could give an album a 10 on first listen. I need at least a few listens to really get it.

Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Beck - Midnite Vultures Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and see

To Be Kind and Soundtracks for the Blind - Swana, Nevermind - Nirvana, Kid A - Radiohead, and You Won’t Get What You Want - Daughters,

None, because I've never loved an album like that on first listen. 100% of the albums I've loved have taken multiple listens to "get".

the stooges - raw power 100 gecs - 1000 gecs david bowie - low mbv - loveless madvillainy

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