Tarantino

For myself, a lot of albums have to be absorbed through multiple listens before they become favorites. However, some became personal classics after just one listen.

Some for me...

Weezer - The Blue Album
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

What are some of your favorites that only took one listen to know it was a personal classic?

islandclaws

Type O Negative - October Rust

Instantly became one of my top 5 of all-time, and it's still there 16 years later.

Obey The D

Some for me would be the following:

Metallica - MOP
Slayer - Rein in Blood
Nirvana- Nevermind
Foo Fighter -TCATS
Yes - Close to the Edge
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Neil Young - Harvest
A Tribe Callled Quest - Low End Theory

wendersfan

Highway 61 Revisited
The Clash
Murmur
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Who's Next
Let it Be (The Replacements album, not the one by The Beatles)

Noonan

Pearl Jam - Ten was the first that came to mind. By the time I got through Black and Jeremy, I was hooked.

Trout

Mine would be Bloody Kisses. It was a blind buy after it was released, and it just blew me away.

Others would include:
Spleen and Ideal- Dead Can Dance
Left Hand Path- Entombed
Mutter- Rammstein

Maxflier

Sleigh Bells - Treats

Ringmaster

The Misfits- "Static Age"
The Strokes- "Is This It?"
The Flaming Lips- "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots"
RHCP- "Californiacation"

Just to name a few albums

reverie

I always say I like too much stuff to pick favorites, but to me the best albums are the ones that I love from start to finish the first time through. So with that, my favorite albums (which also fall under the topic here) are:
The Brian Setzer Orchestra: "Guitar Slinger"
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Time Further Out"
Oingo Boingo: "Farewell"
James Darren: "This One's From The Heart"

jmu878

Velvet Underground - Loaded
Stones - Exile on Main St
Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Toddarino

Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
the Who - Who's Next
Stooges - Raw Power

RagingBull80

Best Coast - "Crazy for You"
David Bowie - "Low"
Dinosaur Jr. - "You're Living all over me"
Dum Dum Girls - "I Will Be"
Kurt Vile - "God is Saying this to you..."
Meat Puppets - "Meat Puppets II"
The People's Temple - "Sons of Stone"
Prince - "Dirty Mind"
The Replacements - "Let it Be"
The Velvet Underground - "The Velvet Underground & Nico"

BobO'Link

Off the top of my head in no particular order:

Led Zeppelin - "III", "Houses of the Holy", "Physical Graffiti"
Joe Walsh - "The Smoker You Drink the Player You Get", "Barnstorm", "So What"
Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon", "The Wall", "Animals", "Wish You Were Here", "Meddle"
Trapeze - "Medusa"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Pronounced", "2nd Helping"
Todd Rundgren - "Something, Anything"
Santana - "Santana"
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - "Ledbetter Heights"
Phoebe Snow - "Second Childhood"
Jill Sobule - "Things Here are Different", "Jill Sobule"
T. Rex - "Electric Warrior"
Aerosmith - "Rocks"
Alice in Chains - "Jar of Flies", "Facelift", "Dirt", "Sap"
Allman Bros. Band - "Idlewild South", "The Allman Brothers Band", "Live at Fillmore East"
The Beatles - "Revolver", "The White Album", "Let it Be"
U.K. - "Danger Money"
King Crimson - "Lark's Tongue in Aspic"
Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue"
Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Time Out"
David Bowie - "Hunky Dory", "Ziggy Stardust"
Z.Z. Top - "Tres Hombres"
Neil Young - "Harvest"
Yes - "Close to the Edge"
Stanley Clark - "Journey to Love"
Chicago - "Chicago Transit Authority", "VII"
Jimi Hendrix - "Are You Experienced?"
Johnny Winter - "Still Alive and Well"
Jethro Tull - "Aqualung"
John Lennon - "Plastic Ono Band"
Paul McCartney & Wings - "Band on the Run"
Little Feat - "Waiting for Columbus"
Pearl Jam - "Ten"
Harry Nilsson - "Son of Schmilsson"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Core"
Storyville - "A Piece of Your Soul"
Blind Faith - "Blind Faith"
Traffic - "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
Derek and the Dominos - "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs"
AC/DC - "Back in Black"

If I think about it more I could come up with another couple of dozen or so...

Daytripper

Albums that immediately came to mind:

Curve - Doppelgänger
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - O.K. Computer
The Pretenders - First album
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Muse - Absolution
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The B-52's - Wild Planet

EEz28

Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
South - With the Tides
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

PopcornTreeCt

first one that came to mind

The Bus

Most recently, the eponymous debut from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Although, I had heard two of the songs previously and had just attended a live show.

Apple Gooncha

Kraftwerk- The Man Machine
Steven Wilson- Insurgentes
Blackfield- s/t
dredg- Catch Without Arms
Genesis- Foxtrot
Yes- Close to the Edge
Peter Gabriel- III
Gravediggaz- The Pick, The Sickel, and the Shovel
Minus the Bear- Menos el Oso
Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane
Orphaned Land- The Never ending Way of ORwarriOR
Opeth- Still Life
Reel Big Fish- Turn the Radio Off
Refused- The Shape of Punk to Come
Satyricon- Nemesis Divina
Transatlantic- Bridge Across Forever
Venetian Snares- Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
Warpaint- Exquisite Corpse
Woods of Ypres- Against the Seasons

asianxcore

First one that comes to mind is The Civil Wars: 'Barton Hollow'

Tarantino

Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001 is also one for me.

Matty-O

Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret

dom56

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Siouxie and the Banshees - Juju
Judas Priest - British Steel
Mott the Hopple - Mott
The Clash - London Calling
Deep Purple - Fireball
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Beatles - Abbey Road
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Radiohead - The Bends

Mordred

Metallica - Master of Puppets - literally changed my life on very first listen.
Led Zeppelin - IV - I'd heard a couple songs on the radio so maybe it doesn't count, but somehow never Stairway or When the Levee breaks so that day in 1993 was a revelation.
AC/DC - Back in Black
Opeth - Blackwater Park

Hiro11

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Big Star - Radio City
Love - Forever Changes
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
...etc

Quake1028

I fucking love you.