Still my favourite artist of all time.

with Clinic - which makes sense for a love-at-first-listen, because part of what's great about them is the sound, and that's obvious on first hearing. I still think they're great, btw.

Cadence Weapon, Why? and Holy Shit are the most recent ones I think.

Stay Where You are by Ambulance Ltd would be one of mine too.

I had this yesterday actually. I listened to Wake by Rosetta and it completely blew me away. Periods of absolute crushing heaviness mixed with moments of clarity. Class. Have both their albums on order now!

And pretty much ten thousand Tamla Motown groups.

Belle & Sebastian - Century of Fakers (still love)
Suede - Beautiful Ones (still love)
Nick Cave - The Ship song (still love)
Divine Comedy - Something for a Weekend (still love the early stuff)
REM - Everybody Hurts (still love)
Smiths - Queen is Dead (still love)
Arcade Fire (Neighbourhood #3) (still love that album)

Not quite with Elliott Smith. Quite liked at Ballad of Big Nothing but it was second song I heard of his (XO) - I fell in love with.

Hefner took a while longer.

There's probably countless bands I've loved a first song by but quickly got bored (Broken Records for example) but on the whole virtually all my favourite music is an immediate and instinctive thing.

by bloc partyy

From the first few seconds of listening to this album I was hooked. It also has one of my favourite opening tracks ever. I can't see myself getting bored of this album.

The Paper Chase - Now You're Gonna Get It
Why? - The Hollows

Still love all of them.

Re first listen of YFIIP. It starts off and I'm like "hmm this is interesting"... then Stars&Sons comes on and it's "ohh, really good" then Almost Crimes= "OMfuckingGod" and by the time Cause =Time comes on I'm completely and forever sold on BSS.

NMH

Beirut, specifically Postcards From Italy

Sonic Youth - I remember seeing the video for Teenage Riot (first time I'd heard the song)on TV and the name of the band didn't come up, I could've cried.

yep, I love 'em. It shall be an album I play all thru the summer!

still love them

weezer
jeff buckley
underworld
nick drake
deerhunter

and they never let me down probably still my favourite band ever

I heard one song of theirs, a cover of 'That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate' by Mission Of Burma, and ordered their entire back cat from their record label five minutes later.

The CDs are still in the mail, so I still don't know if it was a hasty decision.

a long old time ago (8 years?) I was walking through Ardwick (a rather rough part of Manchester) in the middle of the night from the train station to my girlfriend's house. I had a tape on my walkman a friend had made for me (thank you Tim wherever you are).

It was the usual kind of fare I was used to Sebadoh, Stereolab etc until this monolith of a song song crept out of nowhere - a simple eerie refrain on guitars and violins that built and built and built and dear God, I swear I had no idea that music like this existed.

That moment; being blown away in the middle of the night has had a profound effect on my music taste. I still love Godspeed, ASMZ etc etc and I've never looked back

Zombie-Zombie - Driving this road until death sets you free

Sol Seppy - 1 2

Wolf Parade - Dinner Bells

Serge Gainsbourg - Le poinçonneur des Lilas

There's just loads really so i'll stop.

Mogwai, when I heard We're No Here for the first time, and then bought up everything they've ever released in a week or something stupid like that.

Pavement, when I first heard Here, or maybe it was Stereo, or maybe Kennel District. Either way I did the same with them.

Oh and Arcade Fire with Neighbourhood #1. Or Frightened Rabbit with The Greys. There are loads actually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtnIg98xxA remembering watching this video thanks to a link to it off someone on here possibly Lyle and being like shit this band is amazing!

was the opening track on a mixtape made for me. A stunning track from an almost flawless album.

when i first heard "'About today". may now be my favourite song ever, and that is saying something. got their albums and i love them even more.

Noah & The Whale - Shape Of My Heart
Regina Spektor - Fidelity
The Horrors - Sheena Is A Parasite
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Hot Chip - Over And Over
Alexisonfire - This City Could Be Anywhere In The World
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
Broken Records - Nearly Home

and countless more I can't remember.

this happens much more with solo artists rather then bands. Elliot Smith, Regina Spektor and (in a massive way) Joanna Newsom spring to mind instantly but I'm sure there are a load others.

With bands it tends to be a slower falling in love process.

At The Drive-In
Refused.
Jeff Buckley
Pure Reason Revolution

for me its happened a long time ago with jonah matranga (onelinedrawing/newendoriginal) and more recently jacob golden and no age

the fall - can't remember, cocteau twins - hitherto, television - venus, my bloody valentine - lose my breath, love - the castle... i think i loved them all immeditiately and still do.

arcade fire were never as good as the first listen to Funeral.
animal collective did not fulfil expectations set by Feels.

but he's solo, does that count? oh, and sleeper. the tracks being half of two times two and nice guy eddie, respectively. and yes they did, and i love them both lots still.

for Leopard Leg/Liars at a gig in Brum, early '06 played almost all of Deerhoof's Apple O' before the set. My friend and I were absolutely in love with what we were hearing, excited! awed! (the sound quality helped too)

But we felt too awkward to find some and ask what it was. We danced with Leopard Leg in the crowd, Liars were hypnotic, and in the fuzzy haze of running for the last train it was with regret that we let the identity of that catchy noise slip.

Some months later I split with a girl and went on a hunt to find new music to cheer my sullen self up, soulseek stumbled upon it, unaware, downloaded on a whim... put it on one Friday night, "AHHHHHHH!", a grin invaded my face, my body animated. It was beautiful and I fell in love with Deerhoof from there onwards...

is the birthday party. think the first song i heard was 'mutiny in heaven'. utterly insane, i had to hear more. and of course i loved everything else i heard, and still do.

It has happened many, many times. I have had to work to love much of my favorite music, but LAFL has happened a bunch.