First Album That Got You Into Your Favourite Band(s)
 

We all had to start somewhere, so spill!

Genesis: Seconds Out (live album)
Rory Gallagher: Against the Grain
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
ELO: Out of the Blue
Nanci Griffith: Lone Star State of Mind
Marillion: Script For a Jester's Tear
Ten: Far Beyond the World
Kamelot: The Black Halo
Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA
Asia: Asia
a-ha: Hunting High and Low
Eagles: Hotel California
Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast
Saxon: Wheels of Steel
Rush: Caress of Steel
Judie Tzuke: Welcome to the Cruise
Tom Waits: Small Change
Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet
Mostly Autumn: The Last Bright Light
Pendragon: Believe
Bob Seger: Nine Tonight (live album)

That's easy for me. I got into the Beatles then everything went from there. Naturally I started getting into the Stones and the Who after that. All this was going on when new wave hit and I got into Costello. And then I discovered the Pebbles collection, and so on...

First actual album: I'll go with the Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970

Judas Priest - British Steel
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Pixies - Doolittle
Prince - Prince/Around the World in a Day
ELO - Eldorado
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

None of the above are my favourite albums from these guys except for the Pixies and Bob Dylan ones.

Yeah that's often the case. You might start off with an album you like, that encourages you to get more of the artist's material, but discover later there's one far better. Like my Rory Gallagher: I didn't particularly like Against the Grain; it wasn't till I got Photo Finish and Top Priority that I realised this would be more than a one-album deal.

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Metallica - Master of Puppets/Load/Reload (all were my first records)
Ke$ha - Animal
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Saxon - Wheels of Steel
Bathory - Bathory
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

Slayer- South of Heaven (when it came out)
Sabbath - Paranoid (from radio) - probably around 1980

Beefheart - Safe Ass Milk
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (even though the song Inca Roads is what got me into him)
Marc Ribot - Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume Seven
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Ulcerate - Vermis
Zu - Carboniferous
John Coltrane - Ascension
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Billy Woods - History Will Absolve Me
The Residents - Freak Show
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
John Zorn - Torture Garden
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King but I didn't get into them heavily until I checked out Discipline years later
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
The Fall - Live At the Witch Trials
Swans - Filth

Beefheart- friend’s mixtape Frownland and Blue Eyed Beans from Venus

Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Ornette - friend’s mixtape -lonely woman-

Hendrix- Smash Hits.

Fall - Totally Wired single

Swans- Children if God but I think I knew who they were before it came out

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David Bowie - David Bowie (AKA Space Oddity)

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle

The Decemberists - Picaresque

Green Day - American Idiot