what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked out by?

also Nick Drake - Bryter Later - but I already knew most of the songs on that, so it wasn't quite such a revelation.

:-) :-) I'm most happy to hear that!

pre-1990: Poison, Open Up And Say Ahh....

Also that Joe Cuba Sextette Diggin' the Most I just got is pretty great, except for the English language tunes. But the tracks that Cheo Feliciano sings on are uniformly very good.

i more or less have all of his records and i have the feeling otb is his best studio album. it's the most intense of his folky/soft songwriter albums. there are no real standouts except the first song which i knew from decade. it's all pretty much made of one stone. by the way neil did many shit and average albums. most of his 90s (except ragged glory, dead man was ok) and a lot of his 80s releases (trans, reactor, landing on water etc., hawks + doves was ace) should be mentioned here.

oh and Kinda Kinks

Before that, probably Galaxie 500 - On Fire.

and

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

...although What's Going On is still in its shrink-wrap, so that may surprise me yet.

Dylan's Planet Waves too.

ELO's Greatest Hits (is that classic?)

Another Green World too, though it wasn't immediate, and I'm still not into all of it.

Also John Prine's first, Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners, and a bunch of Eno

Me neither... On the other hand there are definitely some classics which still knock me out on the rare occasions where I dig them out and put them on again. I think the last ones I did that with were Marquee Moon and Van Halen's first record, in the wake of this thread.

talking heads

Seconded (from the last coupla years): Odessey & Oracle, Village Green Preservation Society, Forever Changes.

i am quite ashamed that it took me 29 years to add this to my collection. surely one of punk's finest moments. brilliant.

I can't believe I never heard the thing before. Probably heard tracks here and there on JP Chill's radio show throughout the 90s, but never the whole album. I'm blown away. Best 90s New York rap record? I like it as much or more than Wu-Tang or Gang Starr or Nas or whoever.

Another good thread would be classic albums that you've never heard yet. I still haven't listened to all of Dusty in Memphis, Trout Mask Replica, or Avalon yet.

Don't worry, I will.

hendrix - electric ladyland when i was about 15. still sounds like nothing else evah!

david bowie - low! wow, those sounds and drum sounds!

whos next! wont get fooled again might be my favourite song ever. well top 10 anyway.

theres more but im at work now and have to actually do some work.

one of the best piano records i know. moody, impressionistic stuff that touches something deep inside me. has nothing to do with ambient (which i don't like as it is empty). i really don't understand how this could be released in the ambient series. it's more similar to satie or durutti column than to music for airports or discreet music. both of those albums annoy me when i try to listen to them.

Oh.

Man.

what an amazing album... it deserves a thread of its own on ILM..

yet no-one has heard it..

"As" and "Pastime Paradise" knock me flat on my ass.

There are big gaps in my knowledge of soul. I know "Living For The City" and "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" (which also gets a big "Oh. Man." from me), but have never heard all of "Innervisions". Is it worth picking up in its own right?

the classic 3 really are that good. people usually forget 'fullfillingness...' mainly cause it has no hits on it.

heck there's a whole thread somewhere.

I don't know if this is the kind of thing this thread is really about, but I got Cecil Taylor's One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye today. It's been reissued by Hatology. I've been getting outbid for old copies on eBay for years, and now I know why. This is absolutely one of the most skull-crushing discs I've ever heard - the whole band is like six men driving a steamroller right over you, and it's unbelievably well recorded. I have it turned up medium-loud, and it's like being onstage with them. Can't recommend this one highly enough.

This is my favorite Stevie Wonder album.

I'm currently being pwned by Linda Perhacs Parallelograms. Her voice, especially on the second half of the album, reminds me of Joni Mitchell, which is a plus, and the multitracked vocals sound amazing on the title track, and are used to still good but less spectacular effect on parts of the rest of the album. The occasional "rocking" track is nice also.

The Clash - London Calling
So I'm a little late on this one ;) I never expected it to be so incredibly fun! Every other song makes me want to dance (and as long is nobody is around, I do), and the others just make me smile. Awesome.

Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Sounds incredible, and it blows my mind utterly that this was released in 1980. What a unique aesthetic.

David Bowie - Low
Affects me in a way similar to the Talking Heads album. I think Brian Eno is an alien. Especially love the drums.

You sound so bored by the idea. Do you like the other Stevie Wonder albums a lot? I think it's worth hearing and I put it on occasionally. For some reason, the religious (spiritual?) lyrics on a couple songs (Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away, They Won't Go When I Go) on this one get on my nerves more than the same themes do on some of his other albums; but still, there some great music here. I've got the disc in front of me and for a lesser Stevie Wonder album, it sure has some good songs on it, notably: Smile Please, Heaven is 10 Zillion. . . (which I like despite some of the lyrics), Boogie on Reggae Woman, You Haven't Done Nothin', Bird of Beauty.

Second, around August I got 'In The Jungle Groove.' I always assumed that since I had the Star Time boxed set and a few other albums, that I had all of the essential James Brown. Boy was I wrong! It's really one of the best albums I've ever heard. Fellas things done got too far gone!

They both make it sound easy, too.

That's a bold claim. I must get that.

This is a classic.

I just got Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) from my grandmother for Christmas which also is equally exciting to me - I listened to it while walking around the National Gallery one afternoon in Washington DC and it was the best possible choice for that situation at that time.

Also recently heard a coupla tracks off 'Rumours', which have blown me away. Genuinely affecting MOR can be so deliciously satisfying.

Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia - Fridy Night in San Francisco, and
John Mayall - The Turning Point

...blew me away

it's that time again.

Associates - first three & Radio Sessions
Ultravox - first three
John Foxx - Metamatic / The Garden
Wah - Nah = Poo: The Art Of Bluff
Simple Minds - best-of their first 4 albums

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

(hmm, I don't think I've listened to that English Beat album since I posted it on here a year and a half ago - I wonder if I'd still think it's a classic)

coltrane - a love supreme

anything pre 1990 im talking here people.

!!!!

luther vandross' 'never too much'

Propaganda - A secret wish

these three albums blew me away recently:

anita baker - rapture [I knew "Sweet Love" and "Caught Up in the Rapture" of course, but the entire album is just amazing tune after amazing tune.]

Isley Brothers - Go for your Guns

The New Birth - It's Been A Long Time

Nick Drake "Five Leaves Left". Beautiful.

JUDEE SILL HEARTFOOD YOU GUYS

also

Lazy Farmer

Satwa

Leonard Cohen Songs of Love & Hate

Flower Travellin' Band Satori

and Nick Garrie - Nightmare of JB Stan

Loop - Fade Out

I have this and "Gilded Eternity" and I realise now I havent played either in fnyears. I should give them a spin. Them and Head of David.

oh and this:

http://hanhongwei.blogsome.com/images/B000002J0L.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Cluster & Eno
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME

I first heard it maybe 10-11 years ago and loved it, but finally got my own copy a few months ago. (Now that I think of it I remember posting this on a similar thread, "old stuff you're getting into" or something like that.)

Not a whole album, but the song "Christine" by House of Love has ruled my world for the last couple weeks.

Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Return of the Super Ape (remastered)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin
Ride - Nowhere
Culture - Harder Than The Rest

Michael Franks -- Art of Tea

also, Love -- "Da Capo" (especially for the side-long tune on the B-side).
I might even like it better than "Forever Changes."

these two come immediately to mind:

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Brian Eno and Harold Budd - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror

harold budd & brian eno - plateaux of mirror

one of the best piano records i know. moody, impressionistic stuff that touches something deep inside me. has nothing to do with ambient (which i don't like as it is empty). i really don't understand how this could be released in the ambient series. it's more similar to satie or durutti column than to music for airports or discreet music. both of those albums annoy me when i try to listen to them.

-- alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, September 1, 2004 7:12 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

oh look at that, upthread!! right on! :)

How similar is "Plateaux" to "the Pearl"?

Suicide's debut.

How similar is "Plateaux" to "the Pearl"?

-- Trayce, Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:59 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I couldn't tell you as I'm unfamiliar with The Pearl -- in a collection of about 20-25 Eno CDs thus far, it's one of the last ones I'm still looking to buy, I've just never seen it turn up used :(

ebay, here i come?

ditto for Fripp/Eno - No Pussyfooting, I have never ever ever seen it used, though I will attest that Evening Star (the second album by those doods?) is overflowing with goodness

That's funny--I used to always see No Pussyfooting used and think "That record must suck since everyone sells it. And who is Robert Fripp anyway?" Now of course I know he's either Hall or Oates.

al 1st post: not knocked out

oh alright then pre-2000 rather than 1990 i guess. i dunno what i was thinking of there.

I gave my new copy of Talking Heads "77" this morning - it's the no extras, no shite version, and it rocks. I've never heard it before, and it's interesting to hear the proto-afrobeat Talking Heads knocking around in there.

speak no evil - wayne shorter

Speaking of Fripp: The idea of Robert Fripp's ambient music always appealed to me more than the actual music.

I downloaded Paul Mccartney's Ram the a few months ago, and finally found a used copy of it yesterday. I love the entire first side The second has a few growly-voice-Mccartney songs, but ends strongly with the second Ram On interlude and The Backseat of my Car. Good stuff.

I didn't realize my girlfriend had a copy of the Congos' Heart of the Congos. I've listened to it exactly twice, but there are some true gems on there. I especially like "Can't Come In" right now.

I heard Radio Birdman's Radios Appear and Burn My Eyes for the first time yesterday. I was expecting more rip-roarin' feedback 'n' fuzz guitar assault, but wasn't at all disappointed with the complex and melodic rawk action I wound up getting. Didn't like the bonus-track version of "TV Eye" (too fast), but everything else was killer.

Innervisions

Thriller

todd rundgren, 'something/anything'
van morrison, 'astral weeks'
john martyn, 'solid air' and 'bless the weather'
townes van zandt, self-titled

the kinks 'village green preservation society'

despite loving the singles (the production, the song-writing EVERYTHING) from aged 16, i waited another 17 years to hear this album.
this is despite all the re-release hoo-ha and fuss/hype-o-rama 3 years or so back. am i stupid? it now appears so.

listened to the entire village green alb for the fist time myself not so long ago. thought to myself, "wot the heck took me so long?" then remembered - i had tried to order it, as it happened, some time before the re-relese came out, and didn't get it then... song-writing goodness in abundance, yeh.

Fairport Convention - Liege And Lief

Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert

tangerine dream - phaedra

well spooky.

Warren Zevon – The Envoy

Whoever said Tusk. yes yes and yes.

randy newman - sail awway

I discovered that one a few months ago, chaki, and Land of Dreams last week; I still don't know what to make of Newman yet.

Gun Club, Fire of Love

what u thinkin, alfred?

amon duul 2 - yeti

His albums are uneven, and uneven in the same way! Some of those long songs are well-served by his ingratiating drawl, others just drift; then he does something like "Political Science" or "I Want You To Hurt Like I Do" and he just slays.

(xpost)

i've been half-heartedly pushing randy newman and warren zevon to all the fleetwood mac and steely dan heads on ilm for a while now!

both too self-consciously 'clever' or writerly or something, though. i mean i acknowledge their flaws but i love them both.

alfred do you have 'stand in the fire"?

oh, what I own by Zevon I love. I'd love to hear Stand in the Fire.

zevon kind of sucks.

oh and i agree with you alfred bout rn

chaki don't you even like sentimental hygiene?

fave randy newman is prob good old boys, maybe his only album where there aren't really any of his trademark gratuitous cheap shots at easy targets (though many would argue that point) (also i totally love many of his trademark gratuitous cheap shots at easy targets)

Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water

The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses

Alfred you might love Newman's Faust as much as I do, it's got some of his best & darkest work though a lot of people can't tolerate the star-studded cast (Bonnie Raitt, Don Henley as Faust, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor as God)

james taylor is god.

Emmylou Harris: Pieces Of The Sky

Alain Bashung 'Play Blessures'

J0hn D. OTM, re: Faust! Alfred, if you don't have it run out and get yourself a copy of 12 Songs immediately--it's his best by far, I'd say; Xgau was absolutely right in this case: "A perfect album."

james taylor is god.
-- chaki, teisipäev, 9. Oktoober 2007 21:15

o-oh, so it's him who started teh god-thread on ile, then?

Go Betweens - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express

Radiohead - In Rainbows

The Who Sell Out.
Until tonight, hadn't heard this album in full for nearly, um ...since mofunkin' Brezhnev was still alive, or thereabouts.
Wot's more, this Polydor reissue has a handful of bonus stuff - most of which, o wonder, is good. ..."Hall of the Mountain King" is crapturous, tho.

well it's been 6 months.

yes - fragile

Chris Bell - i am the cosmos
never had heard before and it's pretty damn terrific

i never really cared for it too much but i love the cover!

Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. Yes, I know but hey, I just never got around to it. Now I can't get enough of it.

Bee Gees 1st

Cerrone Supernature. It's as good as I hoped it would be. Only with more drum solos.

Robyn Hitchcock: "I Often Dream Of Trains"

Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water

Hmm?!
I got this also, sometime last year, almost the same time I bought Jon Anderson's Olias, too.
Listened to theem just recently again. And again. And to my moderate surprise - I keep enjoying Olias quite a bit more...

On the truly knocked-out front, though - most recently the two Judee Sill alb's have done the sweet punchin-to-teh-pulp o'me.

Terry Reiley 'Poppy Nogood / All-night flight'

"Colossal youth" - Young Marble Giants. Bought it before Xmas, should have bought it about 20 years ago by the sound of it.

most of the Fela oeuvre.

The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers

I just got around to Blood on the Tracks, having felt half-hearted about "Tangled Up In Blue", the only song I knew from it. Actually, it's just that I liked the Jerry Garcia version better. The rest of the album is amazingly good, but everybody else knows that except me.

Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends was kind of a wallflower album for me, unassertively lurking in the collection for years until I started giving it some serious spins this past winter. So polished and consciously classy. I may even hang the poster.

Finally checked out Kevin Ayers "Joy of A Toy" and we were all like whoah.

Daniel - have you heard Ayers's new one?

No. I came at the thing via digging Soft Machine but I don't really know anything about Kevin Ayers solo.

He gets less and less "Soft Machine" as he goes on

Lately I can't stop playing that debut Raincoats album, which I only just got 6 months ago, after 20+ years of having heard only a single track. (Fell in love with "In Love" back in '86, so "Why did it take you so long to check out the rest of the album, foole?" Well, because I'm a fool; plus it was OOP for a long time. Thank you Kurt Cobain!) Anytime I find myself straining to listen to the words and cursing the lack of a lyric sheet - that's pretty much a guarantee that an album is something special.

pretty much all of gram parsons' stuff for me

most of the Fela oeuvre.

Yeah, I've been a bit slow on coming around to that stuff too. I just downloaded "Zombie" recently - it did not disappoint.

No. I came at the thing via digging Soft Machine but I don't really know anything about Kevin Ayers solo.

I'm a big fan of his more straightforward (relatively speaking) mid-70s pop albums, like Bananamour and Yes, We Have No Mananas.

Artful Dodger – Honor Among Thieves

and

Legs Diamond – Legs Diamond

Steve Miller - 74-78.

Little Feat - <I>Dixie Chicken</i> and <I?Sailin' Shoes</i>

xp Been really getting into Firefall and Eddie Rabbitt this year too, but those are old best-of CDs, and probably don't count as "classic albums".

70s Bowie, mainly Hunky Dory, Station To Station & Low, all of which I picked up used after recently getting reacquainted w/Ziggy + Aladdin Sane
The Best of Spirit-I got the expanded version for x-mas and have since picked up their first three albums plus the not bad at all Feedback. Will get Sardonicus soon.
T.Rex-Electric Warrior Finally broke down and bought the expanded edition. "Raw Ramp" you mothers!
Aerosmith-Gems
Nancy & Lee

Neu '75

also: the Sparks catalog!!

Most of Talk Talk's albums. Midly frustrated I hadn't picked them up at an earlier point in my life.

fleetwood mac - tusk

After all the praise on this thread I gave Tusk a listen at work today. Three times. My word that's a good album.

Pink Floyd - Relics

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House (took a long time to really get this one, but now I love the whole damn thing including Spencer's stuff)
Styx - Greatest Hits (not new to me, but recently rediscovered)

you get a *poster* with BOOKENDS??

I had "The Stooges" and "Raw Power" for ages, but I never got around to "Funhouse" until the reissue. Ho. Lee. Crap.

It's just stunningly great.

Joanna Newsom - Ys

(didn't care for the first album, waited 2+ years to check out this one, and whaddya know? turns out i *love* this one... is this a classic album yet? should be!)

sun city girls torch of the mystics
nektar journey to the center of the eye

Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere

Ys is certainly a classic album - in the pantheon sitting next to Astral Weeks for me.

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Self titled Bill Fay album. A bit of a quiet classic.

Chris Bell - i am the cosmos
never had heard before and it's pretty damn terrific

-- outdoor_miner, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:26 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

I have to dig this out again.

Lets see, the last one for me was....

Howlin Wolf: the two Chess albums on one disc.
I can't believe how long it took me to get this.

Get a copy of it, that is.

i've owned Kraftwerk's Radioactivity for a few years, but only last week did it hit me how great it is.

also, Morricone's Fistful of Dollars soundtrack.

last 'classic album' i was disappointed by: Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

Captain Beyond

Late with this, but here's kind of a crappy shot of the Bookends poster.

http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/simon/images/bookends_lpposter.jpg

Some friends of mine who are Kinks nuts are giving me the urge to see what the fuss is about.

Want that poster

"Captain Beyond"

Awesome

the first captain beyond album is awesome

Is Face to Face considered a "classic" album?
Can't believe I stumbled upon it only about a year ago.

A lot of the albums on this thread aren't considered "classics", but, hey ho, just make it a thread for good albums you've only just heard

Thanks thread. Been listening to Kinks Village Green for a month now, it's blown my socks off.

Oh, and Superfly.

'pretzel logic'

Rumours (yeah I'm slow) - mostly blown away at how fresh it sounded, despite being familiar with most of the tracks on it already.

Davey Graham, After Hours.

'pills thrills and bellyaches' was a nice rediscovery this year as well.

I've always liked Ellington's Far East Suite, but in the past couple of months I've realized that it's one of the records.

John Cale - Paris 1919
Had no idea that the supposedly more avant-garde member of the VU would turn out to be a writer of such lovely pop songs. I've since checked out most of the rest of his 70's stuff but nothing has had quite the same impact.

Illmatic by Nas, Taking Tiger Mountain... by Brian Eno.

World Shut Your Mouth from Julian Cope, but I don't know, whether it is considered as a classic.

I probably listened to Low 20 times last month.

Happened to be listening to the radio one night last week as I drifted off to sleep and heard "You Don't Know What Love Is" from Coltrane's Ballads LP. Nothing really "difficult" or technically over the top but--that tone. A master in complete command of his instrument.

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

TELEVISION - marquee moon!

Elis & Tom

John Cale - Paris 1919
Had no idea that the supposedly more avant-garde member of the VU would turn out to be a writer of such lovely pop songs. I've since checked out most of the rest of his 70's stuff but nothing has had quite the same impact.

ditto

although I did enjoy parts of Slow Dazzle and the tune "The Man Who Couldn't Afford to Orgy"

Slow Dazzle has "Guts" and "Ski Patrol," which are awesome and luverly.

slow dazzle is kinda bonkers i love that record

I just recently started listening closely to Aja and it's knocked me out, esp. the title song, good heavens it's beautiful.

this calls for a cover connection!

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000006XD0.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://img.crocmusic.com/l/albums/31/lou_reed_street_hassle.jpg

I know they're years apart but I've wondered if one was a response to the other.

Reed responds to a near-great record with a decent-to-leaden one?

Lou's album is better. Somehow can't see Lou admitting to copying Johnny.

Reed responds to a near-great record with a decent-to-leaden one?

hey come on this is a vintage Reed maneuver!

x-post

god i hate street hassle so much.

Is OK Computer old enough to be a "classic album"? Most of the "classic albums" I've listened to for the first time over the last couple of years were okay, but they didn't knock me out. (Sorry, Sweetheart of the Rodeo.)

'I Want You' (is it 'cassic' or are Let's Get it On and WGO Marvin's quota?)

lolz when I first heard Sweetheart of the Rodeo my response was a serious WTF. Do not get the love for that album. I love lots of 60s country - particularly Buck Owens, Flatt & Scruggs "Songs of the Famous Carter Family", Waylon Jennings, etc. - and the Byrds doing it just seems kinda pointless. Traded it to a friend shortly thereafter, don't regret it a bit.

Do people really consider it a classic album though?

Fleetwood Mac - "Then Play On". I never listened to Fleetwood Mac until I was introduced to Tusk a couple years ago and was floored. Not a big fan of "Rumours", but someone played "Then Play On" recently and I think I may love it as much as Tusk. Incredible record.

"Dirk Wears White Sox" recently went on endless repeat...

blondie - parallel lines

God Bless Tiny Tim! Who knew people were writing such weird & wonderful songs 90 years ago? Or that Tim doesn't rely on the falsetto exclusively? Or that fucking Nico fills in for Tuesday Weld?! (The answer: Everyone who contributed to the "Tiny Tim, C or D?" thread that I should've read sooner; that's who)

pet sounds, strangely enough. and a smile bootleg. i hated the beach boys when i was a kid because their voices annoyed me. but i'm listening to them right now and holy FUCK do these two albums have some amazing songs on them.

hey dlp9001,

have u ever heard the ADAM AND THE ANTS peel sessions? its not my thing but people into his '...sox' era go MENTAL about it.

Led Zeppelin I

still bill withers live at carnegie hall. completely absolutely fucking amazing record.

1976/ J.J. Cale - Troubadour (Shelter Records)

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fail

dolly parton - jolene

'I Want You' (is it 'cassic' or are Let's Get it On and WGO Marvin's quota?)

He's got at least four other classics on top of those two; I Want You isn't even the one, although obviously people disagree. But yeah, he's got a deep catalog.

Rush Subdivisions

I never realized how great they were in the early 80s. Holy shit.

dusty in memphis

Xpost re: Adam and his Ants

I've mail ordered a copy of the Peel Sessions, though it hasn't shown up yet. I get the impression that you could spend a lot of time and money tracking down Adam's punk and post-punky stuff...

For some reason the thing that's freaked me out the most was the youtube video of him with NIN doing Physical. Since his old career is new to me, that seems like such a bizarre pairing.

World Shut Your Mouth from Julian Cope, but I don't know, whether it is considered as a classic

can't speak for it's "Classic" status, but I recently found it cheap and it's been glued to my turntable ever since. I didn't really know much outside the Teardrop Explodes stuff.

I bought that Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music box set w/some gift cards i got...

Like everything has already been said about it I guess, so I won't attempt to butt in on Greil Marcus's turf, but it's really amazing and i don't think i'm going to listen to anything else for awhile

i don't think i'm going to listen to anything else for awhile

I don't think you're going to, either. :)

That well's pretty fucking deep.

i really like the 2nd double CD, the social music ones, the fiddle rave ups are weird and really cyclical, almost remind me of krautrock </ talkingoutofmyass>

Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies Man (I always imagined that I'd dislike this, and several years ago that might have been true)

World Shut Your Mouth my fave Cope album (of all I've heard incl Explodes) by some distance actually.

Architectury & Morality and Dazzle Ships by OMD were rly wo when I got & listened to them a couple of weeks ago!

Just tried a couple Cale records m'self, including "Dazzle".. no thanks.

But, thanks to the "Murmur" thread, "Murmur."

well, hex by bark psychosis is pretty classic and i can't believe how fantastic this album is. i love dustsucker, but hey, this is brilliant.

John Hartford - Aereo-Plain

So I finally listened to Tusk last night. Sweet Jesus, it is BRILLIANT.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WMR8ZXZJL._SS500_.jpg

hmm actually tusk is probably my answer to this too

'this nation's saving grace' knocked me out. but certainly not on the first listen. i had to really listen closely to uncover the magic of the songs. its just effortlessly tuneful in an unconscious kind of way. almost like its going down the abstract route, and intercepting melody and hook along the way

yes - 'close to the edge'

i've owned that for about 9 years. i still don't think i've given it its full due yet

Bought a pretty sweet copy of Curtis/Live! on LP and it's just ridiculously great. Ditto Tyrone Davis' Can I Change My Mind, Johnny Bristol's Hang On In There Baby...a good day for soul records.

The first four Roxy Music albums. Why I haven't got into these before I don't know, totally stupendous.

I'm trying to think of the last 'classic album' I've bought.

Or was knocked up by

Faust IV. Picked it up about a month ago and it just kills me. Was just listening to it this morning - it's still in that phase where every time I listen to it I realize it's even better than I thought the last time I listened to it.

there's not been a revival of this thread in the SPOTIFY era so how's about we have one now?

Spotify + Jazz thread = Me being currently knocked out by

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/3/albumcoverJohnColtrane-Ascension.jpg

Bowie's Low.

I was listening to it, BTW, to see how P2K's top album of the decade from the 70s -- 00s compare to each other. So it's Low v. Daydream Nation v. OK Computer v. Kid A.

Might be a good poll, actually. But I'm not sure just being the No. 1 disc of a decade (according to Pitchfork) creates an especially meaningful comparison.

what a horrible set of choices!

(i know it's a predictable response. i was tempted to add FIRST)

lol. IT IS WHAT IT IS.

answer to the thread question - EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE. one of those records that reminds you why teenagers spend so much time in their parents' garages, why that ever became a thing. i bought it for £3 because the reissue was coming out and you know what, i don't even care if i can't hear the rhythm section.

oh and U F ORB, which i listened to fully for the first time on the bus to work, and had such a great set of coincidences - speeding up and slowing down in time, catching sight of horses running across a field as a beat came in, getting stuck in traffic for the exact duration of the victor lewis smith bit - that i'm sort of scared to listen to it again

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

http://www.magisystem.net/~akiu/images/cd/milesdavis_onthecorner.jpg
Why did I wait so long? Its 18 years since I first heard Kind of Blue.

"In a silent way" for me

Skip Spence - Oar. I know it has some haters, but I listened to it for the first time last night and thought it was fantastic

Songs For Drella - Lou Reed & Jon Cale. Discovered it while cleaning out/realphabetizing our CDs yesterday. Love it, can't believe I never heard it before. Praise the lord for my husband's eclectic buying habits.

Since my last post, it would have to be "Discipline" by Crimson.

Dazzle Ships

I've known and liked Gainsbourg for years, but heard Histoire de Melody Nelson for the first time this week. Wow. I love how dryly rocking it is, while going against the (rockist) convention of what makes rock work- middle aged rich guy working with an arranger and session musicians. Being a horny old goat trumps all that artifice. Does this reissue contain significant remastering? It seems louderized in a good way.

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

now this i would pay good money for.

Speaking of Ringo, I recently finally got around to picking up Lennon's Plastic Ono Band - for some reason I've never got around to buying his solo works - and am loving it.

is 'musik von harmonia' too obscure to be deemed a 'classic album'? i've been listening to 'aja' a lot too.

MVH is classic as hell. i just replaced my lost copy recently and was re-knocked out by it, it's amazing.

Got Coltrane's Giant Steps earlier this year, and wow. Amazing album. Not sure why it took me so long to try listening to any jazz other than Steely Dan. I think it stems back to not liking jazz (or classical music, to a lesser extent) as a kid, and never challenging that assumption.

steely dan is jazz?

As jazz as anything I was listening to prior to this year. Perhaps it's better phrased as I wasn't listening to anything more jazz than Steely Dan. :)

I love this thread. For me it's the unsophisticated choice of Sex Pistols - 'Never Mind the Bollocks'.

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

now this i would pay good money for.
― a single man owns you (Ioannis)

mister Ioannis, sir - yer clearly a better man than i, for i'd rather download that for frees.

Think I'll have to wait a long time for Live '77 to be canonized.

BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D

Go-Betweens-16 Lovers Lane

Daft Punk: Discovery. Good lord. I'd been utterly floored like this maybe four times in my life, until now always by something new, and never by a whole album. It happens maybe once a decade - this morning the 2010s got theirs in early. It was an overwhelming, bewildering emotional experience; shivers, tears, euphoria, the lot.

what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked up by?

describe the chemical circumstances of yr morning, IK

Naturally unbalanced - I was driving, actually, real fast in beautiful cold sunshine, so can't really explain my very curious response. There must be something in those first five tracks in particular that pushes all my vulnerable triggers. It was an odd but magnificent experience.

abbey road.

I mean, I've had a crappy, taped from the library C90 copy for years, but only very recently got around to picking up the vinyl. just magnificent. even the track I voted for as the worst (maxwell) works in context.

previously, I had little more than a passing, casual, almost ambivalent affinity for the beatles overall (though I've always loved the white album), but I can't stop listening to this.

xpost: For me, that usually happens with individual songs rather than albums, but yeah, I know how music can just overwhelm you, in spite of yr best defenses. Last time I can remember that happening was in response to Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" cover. First time I heard it, it ripped right through me and made me bawl like a baby. Something euphoric about the experience, but also frustrating, cuz I didn't want to be manipulated by the song, didn't even want to like it. But I couldn't help myself...

Then again, that's a little different, cuz the Buckley cover is trying to make you cry. Or get married. Or make horrible movies about Watchmans. Something like that.

http://991.com/newGallery/Little-Feat-Sailin-Shoes-473470.jpg

my dad had this and i always liked "willin'," but i never paid too much attention to the rest of it. but when somebody polled it here recently i went and got it and predictably love it. (see, polls do some good after all.)

Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

Charlie Parker with Strings

Lo Borges - Lo Borges (ok so this may not be be considered a classic in the US but its reputation is much bigger in Brazil)

Slowdive - Souvlaki.

yay Sailin' Shoes love! I had that album on in the car when I drove my baby home from the hospital last week :)

Sailin' Shoes is so awesome. Congrats on your new arrival, dude!

Congratulations!

Charlie Parker with Strings is SO good

I know! more people need to hear it. the song "Laura" makes me sad though. (long story)

if you can believe your eyes and ears - mamas and the papas
harmonies!

Riot - Fire Down Under
Love - Forever Changes

Oh, me too with Love, due to that alternate mix that came out last year. It's not better or worse, but definitely sent me back to that album after years of neglect.

yeah, Beatles, 'Abbey Road'
and Patti Smith, 'Horses'
Jefferson Airplane, 'Surrealistic Pillow'

Highway 61 Revisited

Vegemitegrrrl = you might like this. I think it wipes the floor with the album version =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzzgFOLa63A

There's also a fantastic full film version that STILL isn't out on dvd but pieces are also scattered around You Tube.
Features Cale and Reed looking at each other at various points in a real eerie cool way.

feelies - crazy rhythms. so good!

Just heard "phaedra" by Tagerine Dream couple of weekends ago and it was pretty damn awesome.

feelies - crazy rhythms. so good!

I also just heard this for the first time - and though I liked it, I didn't love it. Maybe it will grow on me a bit though. First impression is that the gaps between songs are too long.

not sure of their 'classic album' status, but i'm loving the Bee Gees Horizontal and Trafalgar.

Neil Young - Time Fades Away

Badfinger - Magic Christian Music (had no idea this was produced by Visconti)

Also been getting into the Band's early "classic" stuff

^ MCMusic is on my 'investigate' list... how's it compare w/Straight Up?

Straight Down

dunno, its the only Badfinger I've gotten so far - meant to check them out for the longest time, just took me awhile to get around to it. It has its dud moments, but in general shit these guys wrote great songs. Reminds me a lot of the Bee Gees early 70s stuff (Mr. Natural, To Whom It May Concern, etc.), tons of hooks, great vocals, lots of stylistic diversity (ooh here's a heavy rocker followed by a music hall number followed by a blue-eyed soul song etc)

x-post

i thought i was knocked out by Emitt Rhodes st record, now i'm not so sure.
i think i prefer todd rundgred/roy wood variation on the subject.

Shakey Mo, you need Straight Up asap.

and Wish You Were Here

feelies - crazy rhythms. so good!

seriously, why the hell did it take me almost thirty years to hear this?

ELO - Out of the Blue

Thanks to all those who voted for this in the alternative '70s poll for turning me onto this. I have vague memories of hearing and liking some of the hits on classic rock radio, movie soundtracks, etc. but I never connected them all as the work of one band who I should pick up an album by. This is weird and wondrous stuff -besides the obvious Beatles/Beach Boys influences, it sounds a bit Euro-pop to me: the disco influenced rhythms, the synthesizers, the goofy voices.

Caetano Veloso-JÓIA
Jon Phillips-JOHN, THE WOL FKING OF L.A.
Antônio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina-ELIS & TOM
Lee Hazlewood-COWBOY IN SWEDEN
Roberto Cacciapaglia-SEI NOTE IN LOGICA
Fleetwood Mac-TUSK
Frank Sinatra-WATERTOWN
Van Dyke Parks-DISCOVER AMERICA

I dunno, some other stuff too I'm fried.

Nico - Chelsea Girl

also Nick Drake - Bryter Later - but I already knew most of the songs on that, so it wasn't quite such a revelation.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:23 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

im guessin dude saw royal tenebaums like a week earlier

*tenenbaums

probably more of a 'lost treasure' than a classic album but the music machine's 'turn on' from 1966 is amazing. touched by the hand of goth but with a charming goofiness ('dont play hopscotch with your life, you silly fool! you know you cant win first place prize that way!')

also after the eno/roxy music documentary on BBC4 a couple of weeks ago, i dug out m copy of 'for your pleasure' for the first time in about 8 years. much much better than i remembered. <3 Beauty Queen

Yeah after that Eno Documentary I dug out for your pleasure and bought Roxy Music today. giving it it's first listen now.

I think it might take a weekend till I get knocked out by it.

Finally got Double Nickels on the Dime, after knowing individual tracks for a while like Political Song for MJ and History Lesson #2. You sort of need those songs coming at you one after the other, surprising you with a wildly different style or a knockout line.

The Velvet Underground's VU. I only acquired this late last year. Where has this album been all my life?

Miles Davis "Birth Of The Cool" - first heard some 12 years ago; revisited in last 6 months and getting frequent and more intent listens each.

alice coltrane - journey to satchidananda (thx ilx alternative 70s poll!)

is "the roches - the roches" considered a classic? it's old, but it's not exactly famous so i'm not sure. but i gotta say - considering i don't usually like folk music, i don't usually like chick singer songwriter types, and a really really don't like music that's jokey and not serious, i sure like the hell out of this record. i've played it like 6 times already this week. what great harmonies! what cool lyrics! what a great, kinda hip new yorker, kinda not hip at all jersey girl, refreshingly upbeat, unassuming-and-self-depreciating-considering-how-crazy-talented-they-are kinda vibe this album has!

the only other time i'd even heard them i think was when i was like 11 and they were guest artists on a very very early saturday night live. i was impressed then too, but hadn't really looked into them at all since then...

I remember when VU came out in the mid 80s. A classic 'lost' album by one of the great bands, still casting a shadow over 80s music. How often does that happen? I mean, you get a few stoned beatles outtakes every few years, but never a complete album in the class of the rest of their output.

Yeah, it went top twenty over here.

That certainly doesn't happen with re-issues anymore (Trav Wilbs excepted)

nilsson, pandemonium shadow show

Recently and for the *life* of me i can't think why i'd not heard them before; Lust For Life and The Idiot by Iggy Pop. Specificaly Fall In Love With Me and Tiny Girls.
Mindblowing isn't too strong a word.

Slick Rick, "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"

It's only been less than a year since I got Kris Kristofferson's first album, but I listen to it routinely now and I'd place it squarely in my ALL TIME TOP 10 fo sho.

'dirty mind'

prince?

if so that shiz is a stone cold classic

J, I envy you discovering that album.

SOOT was really my wtf-Prince moment though

A Walk Across The Rooftops

"Automobile Noise" is beautiful in a way that makes me feel a little queasy, like the way you feel when you are in love.

Slick Rick, "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"

heard this for the first time a few months back. great fun and it holds up better than most rap albums from that era.

btw what I said sounds corny but you can give it to me, only bravado etc

Black Sabbath - Paranoid. I've heard all the classic Sabbath records, but just recently really clicked bug time with this one.

bug time? big time is what i meant.

with Prince I started with 1999, which I really loved, then Purple Rain, then Dirty Mind. that sequence led me to pretty much get his entire 80's catalog in less than a month.

For me it's Merle Haggard's Big City.

hell Around the World in a Day is also underappreciated as hell, wtf with some people actually going as far to say he let down the black community by recording "white" music (i'm not making this up)

C/D: Prince's "Around the World in a Day"

thanx dude

Maybe not the biggest of classics, but Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man. All that apocalyptic sleaze.

great fun and it holds up better than most rap albums from that era.

1988 wasn't exactly a bad year for hip-hop iirc

Maybe not the biggest of classics, but Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man. All that apocalyptic sleaze.

Total classic.

xpost think he's talking about how well some of teh albums have aged.

my bad thought slick rick was '86

Poco - Pickin' up the pieces (flying burrito brotehrs alt-country style) + crazy eyes (country prog!)

the only problem is the band's name.

For me it's Merle Haggard's Big City.

? this is not an album I would have expected you to know of, much less be knocked out by. but it's pretty well respected as far as his 80s output's concerned. good stuff.

Hag's been one of my discoveries of the last 18 months.

greetings from asbury park!

Laura Nyro - Eli & The Thirteenth Confession

The Monkees - Head

Maybe not the biggest of classics, but Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man. All that apocalyptic sleaze.

Total classic.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
LC's update of "first we take manhattan" alone is worth the price of the instant classic called live in london.

for me its the Zombies - Odessey & Oracle and Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight. Heard them both before, but they never really clicked until now. And that 10 min live version of "Cavalry Cross" amazing.

The Belle Album - Al Green.

Most recently: The Blue Mask - Lou Reed

Got this earlier this year or maybe last year, but listening to it a lot lately: Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

(Why did it take me so long to get a hold of both of these?)

Hag's been one of my discoveries of the last 18 months.

I love the early Bakersfield stuff - Last Night the Bottle Let Me Down, Swinging Doors, etc. Big City's good tho

Captain Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station. Wow.

never thought I would say it, but "Blood and Chocolate"

two recent discoveries

last Christmas I finally discovered The Pogues. I'd owned "Rum, Sodomy..." for a long time and had heard quite a bit of their stuff out and about (friends' houses, pubs etc), but somehow never really paid attention. Anyway, last Christmas it clicked. I spent about a month listening to them every day and still play them reasonably regularly.

another is Blue Cheer's 'Vincebus Eruptum', which I finally picked up a couple of months ago. Classic.

Does Sinead's "The Lion and The Cobra" count? Because it should. And I'm floored.

Agreed - that's a total jam.

The KLF - Chill Out, absolutely perfect for sitting in Roundhay Park in the sun following a really stressful week at work.

I still haven't heard Chill Out, my local record stores have and constantly get in about a million copies of The White Room, but I haven't seen Chill Out hit the used shelves once.

It's a really great record. Wish I had it with me now.

My answer to this question is The White Album remaster.
I know, I know, we told the Beatles to fuck off in every way imaginable, but that remaster really did make it sound a million times better.

"Shazam!" - The Move

See, I always put Sparks down as Town-Ain't-Big-Enough 1-hit wonders. I heard No. 1 song in heaven and got the album, and holy fuck, that's some good electropop proto-house, it's proper kicking my ass at the moment. Are all Sparks albums this awesome?

kinda, actually - people who get into Sparks are really into Sparks. it's all worth looking into.

who was the last classical bum you were knocked out by and why?

Born in the USA for some reason passed me by for ages even as a confirmed Springsteen nut. I knew the singles of course but had never heard most of the rest of it, at least not knowingly. I was knocked out by stuff like "Bobby Jean" and "Downbound Train" which are as good as anything he's ever done.

I got No. 1 In Heaven recently & really fell for it---maybe that's a good answer for me for this thread too!--- & then got Kimono My House (cos that was the other one that gets rated super highly) & didn't like it nearly as much. I'm not sure I'm gonna keep digging for the time being, gonna ride this one out first.

I had the same problem w/ Sparks, loved a couple albums, didn't fall for a few others... stalled as a result.

Having rejected Rod Stewart since "Tonight's the Night," I can't believe I'm playing Every Picture Tells a Story so much.

Jack Bruce--"Songs For a Tailor"

And I was dropping the needle on a couple of copies of Beatles For Sale" in advance of selling them and came to realize "No Reply" is just overwhelmingly great.

Past few weeks have been all about the first Planxty album.

that's strange Euler - Kimono is really the one album that everyone can agree on. Sparks are really kind of spotty and you could do well just by skipping their entire 80s and 90s work. But their debut s/t album, Kimono, Propaganda, No.1, Big Beat, and the three they released this decade are all quite good.

I've had these for a little while but have been re-listening to them recently and they have become very much some of my favorite albums:

Amon Duul II, Tanz der Lemminge
Captain Beefheart, Safe as Milk
The Byrds, Fifth Dimension

I have little patience for what I call "Cats Rock"---I hate musicals for the most part---& Kimono My House sounded like that to me. I'll give it another shot, but I'm going to have fight through my instinctive aversion to that kind of thing (hate Queen for the same reason).

Superfly--absolutely.

I also had that experience with Planxty as well. they had insane chemistry and were all phenomenal musicians.

the first two la dusseldorf albums (s/t and 'viva')

Euler if you liked No. 1 Song in Heaven get Terminal Jive, the second one they did with Moroder. it's not as icy-cold but it is very good

Scott Walker, Tilt
Elvis Costello, Armed Forces
Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town
Kris Kristofferson, Kristofferson
La Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf

Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club Hamburg

La Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf

I picked this up recently as well -- can't say I was knocked out, but it's certainly a strong album and a solid addition to anyone's collection if you're eager for more krauty stuff.

The four Grace Jones Albums (Warm Leathrette - Slave to the Rhythm) were pretty mindblowing and classic. "Walking in the Rain" is just great in its dated 80s synthesizers and Grace's menacing voice, and "I've Done It Again" proves she can actually sing.

David Bowie's Station to Station - I'm still trying to figure this album out, but it always leaves me intrigued after a full spin. I love "Golden Years." Very funky. I also liked that David was apparently so baked he can't remember what he was thinking while recording.

Lou Reed's Transfomer I didn't know "Walk on the Wilde Side" exited until two weeks ago. It's a great song. I was a little put off by the colored girl's line but then realized that in the lyrics he is talking about the Andy Warhol's superstars who are really screwed up so I got off my PC horse quickly.

That is existed until two weeks ago. Yeesh.

Heaps of Joni Mitchell like Court & Spark and Ladies Of The Canyon. Don't know if it's considered classic, but I checked out Bad Religion's album Suffer, based on it being ILMs favourite and it's pretty great.

odessey and oracle

Not sure about knocked out, but I recently enjoyed hearing Marquee Moon for the first time a great deal.

Every time I put on some old Eno or Cale I get knocked out.

last one was talk talk's laughing stock

Ride - Nowhere

traffic - low spark of high heeled boys

Deluxe by Harmonia. Awesome.

'supa dupa fly'

traffic - low spark of high heeled boys

man shit yeah that's an album

The Pebbles series

Mine was Screamadelica. I thought Primal Scream was like, a grunge band.

Also the Stone Roses debut. Heard a lot about it, it seemed like one of those overhyped critic's faves that's good but obnoxious and overwrought (see also: Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel).

http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/90/ZZ_Top_-_El_Loco.jpg

yeahhh i have only recently realized the classic-ness of zz top.

traffic - low spark of high heeled boys

man shit yeah that's an album

^thirded. What a great record that is.

Finally, after many years reading about them, I listened to the NY Dolls debut. Wow. There was a Stones-vibe I about the Dolls that I wasn't expecting. I love the Stones, so yeah.

are the boys being busted for smuggling weed on that album cover? it doesn't look like weed but still...

anyway yeah they are awesome, altho that's the one pre-Eliminator album of theirs I don't own

i love zz top but i guess i don't consider el loco "classic" compared to the earlier ones....i think they start to fade a bit starting with deguello, and then obv with eliminator they become something different.

Mingus - The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady

Selected Ambient Works

i think they start to fade a bit starting with deguello

hatin on Deguello?! you mad

CHEAP SUNGLASSES

Stevie Wonder's Talking Book... I knew the singles but recently had my mind completely blown by "Maybe Your Baby"

When was the last time you heard Pearl Necklace? That song smokes.

i like deguello! it's still zz top (actually manic mechanic is a nice album cut)...but anyway i'm just saying IN COMPARISON to like tres hombres or rio grande mud...they still rule in comparison other ppl

ZZ top is like Rush for me: the early guitar stuff is the best, the 80's shiny, synth stuff does nothing for me. Give me Rio Grande Mud, 3 Hombres or Fandango any day. THe middle period stuff is ok.

Ride - Nowhere

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Monday, 11 October 2010 04:56 (3 days ago) Bookmark

U should check this out if you haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAT-5MTRrPo

that's not a track off Nowhere obvs but that's the first song on a good live video, all of which is up on that guy's You Tube account.

also we saw the new upcoming Creation movie 'Upside Down' last night and that does a fantastic job of at last giving Ride the credit they deserve. Mark G saying that essentialy Ride paid for Loveless but he was happy about that!

Roxy music-for your pleasure

Ride paid for Loveless? I thought Oasis did.

Loveless recorded: 1989-1991

Oasis' first record sales: 1994

Oh well, I meant post-Loveless spend rescuing the label, I guess if we're talking pre-Loveless financing... of course.

10cc - Sheet Music
Tom Verlaine - Words From The Front

The first Suicide album

ZZ top is like Rush for me: the early guitar stuff is the best, the 80's shiny, synth stuff does nothing for me[ is fucking all time classic forever dog.

― Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:39 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

Ride paid for Loveless? I thought Oasis did.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:58 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

everybody paid for oasis

Violator.

my beautiful dark twisted fantasy!!!

lol

liar

Mobb Deep "Hell on Earth"

herbie hancock - sextant

this actually happened a while back but i'm re-discovering it now and its blowing me away more this time

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

Cat Stevens. Never heard the dude before, checked out Teaser and the Firecat because I've been singing "Morning Has Broken" a lot to my baby daughter and wanted to check out the original (yeah I know it's not the original original, but whatever). And Tea for the Tillerman because "Father and Son" has been going round my head on repeat while I wonder if and when my son and I will ever get to that point. Anyway both albums are stellar. He's playing here soon and I'm wondering whether to go. Does he still do the old stuff?

Mark G saying that essentialy Ride paid for Loveless but he was happy about that!

This is actually a really fascinating story. If the extensive David Cavanagh account is to be believed, Ride didn't so much "pay for Loveless," tho the success of Nowhere was probably the only thing that kept the label afloat, while McGee scrambled to borrow enough to cover the recording cost. Still, Loveless was never a big seller, esp. off the bat, so it was mostly Screamadelica & Bandwagonesque that recouped the debt iirc. I sincerely hope Gardner etc. have recouped whatever royalties they didn't see at the time. Oasis, at least, should have more than made up for any old Creation debt.

I don't how I've managed to avoid And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out for so long before this week. Its a tiny beautiful thing.

i found a tape of "Hunky Dory" a few months ago, and tho i had it on CD when i was 13 or so, had completely forgotten what a brilliant, brilliant album it is.

xp to anagram
yeah he still does the old stuff and loads of it but there's a catch. when we saw him (late '09) he was promoting bizzarely enough, an upcoming Cat Stevens *musical* and was doing this via a 20 minute mid section that was essentially a kind of sample of scenes from the musical itself. it was one of the most unusual things i've ever seen at a gig! anyway the crowd didn't seem to mind (it was Liverpool; always a friendly upbeat gig crowd) but in Dublin folk were um.. less appreciative:
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/catcalls-and-boos-greet-folk-hero-of-the-70s-1945341.html

that was more than a year ago, maybe he's dropped that part by now!

hey thanks for that, sounds like a car crash moment par excellence. I think I will go.

Mark G saying that essentialy Ride paid for Loveless but he was happy about that!

Confused. Clarified. Now, not confused. Carry on.

lol

mickey newbury - looks like rain
thinking this might be the best album ever

Monks-Black Monk Time
Grateful Dead-Ammerican Beauty
Little Feat-Feats Don't Fail Me Now
X-Under The Big Black Sun & More Fun In The New World

Blue Nile, Hats (thank u Destroyer & Wild Beasts for resurrecting this album)
Terry Riley, Lisbon Concert (16 years old now so it counts IMO)
Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
Al Stewart, Year of the Cat (got the 3 that came after it too but haven't gotten into them nearly as much)
Talking Heads, 77 (never really cared for this album until I stumbled over an immaculately clean first pressing and HOLY SHIT)
Spiritualized, Lazer Guided Melodies (aka the only Spiritualized album I actually need any more)
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir, Like A Ship Without A Sail
Roxy Music, Avalon (my interest in this album was initially minimal since I figured I was fine with just having "More Than This" and the title track on their greatest hits, but I picked it up for cheap and the whole thing flows so gorgeously)

"play Peacetrain, ya bollocks!" hahaha

Grateful Dead, Live/Dead. "Feedback" blew my mind; the Dead DID stuff like that?! The rest of it was far better than I expected, not at all the aimless, listless noodling I always associated with the Dead.

Maybe not well-known enough to be a bonafide "classic", but Terry Allen's Juarez and Lubbock (On Everything) renewed my thirst for digging-up new treasures.

some of FRESH by Sly sounding very hot right now.

The Gilded Palace of Sin by the Flying Burrtio Brothers has not been off my turntable for more than 48 hours since I bought it several months ago... Unbelievably amazing.

Poco's Crazy Eyes

Link Wray - s/t 1971 comeback record
Captain Beyond - s/t
several Groundhogs records - Thank Christ For The Bomb - Split - Hogwash
Aerosmith - Rocks
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

All good stuff - I remember hearing many from family members in the 70s - now I know why they had smiles on their faces ...

Michael Gibbs - Tanglewood 63

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead and American Beauty
REM - Reckoning
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

recently bought a stack of dollar Stevie Wonder and pulled them out of the pile thanks to thread so

Talking Book
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Journey through the Secret Life of Plants

I need Innervisions

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

― o. nate

Seconded - had to dip in and out of it for about 10 years before it finally made sense. The fact that it was a daunting double cd didn't help. Now I can play it all the way through with my eyes closed.

Ut - In Gut's House

(is this a classic? i hope so, it's slaying me right now..)

Sign 'O' The Times

I just finished the Matos' 33 1/3 book.

over the past year or so, i've been enjoying softly psychedelic mood music from the late 60s and early 70s, with an emphasis on orchestration, light funk and ambient sound. suppose this sort of thing was a hip crush 15 or 20 years back, but i didn't pay much attention at the time and am now catching up. of these, only contact and vampyros lesbos (kind of a joke, but lots of fun) were previously familiar to me:

danger: diabolik - ennio morricone (1968)
an electrical storm - white noise (1968)
songs of innocence - david axelrod (1968)
contact - the silver apples (1968)
music to moog by - gershon kingsley (1969)
the electric lucifer - bruce haack (1970)
valerie and her week of wonders - lubos fiser (1970)
"vampyros lesbos" sountracks compilation - manfred hübler and siegfried schwab (1971)
sonic seasonings - wendy carlos (1972)
le planète sauvage - alain goraguer (1973)

...had to dip in and out of it for about 10 years before it finally made sense.

― sam500, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

sam's talking about bitches brew, but i recently had just this experience with captain beefheart's trout mask replica. between 1987 and 2010, i tried several times to get into it, but never made much headway. i enjoyed several songs, lyrics and interludes, but the whole thing remained more maddening than enjoyable. finally, a month or so back, it just clicked! kick ass album, sounds kind of like the minutemen. can't now imagine what made it seem so "difficult" in the past.

Have you heard United States of America and the American Metaphysical Circus?
xpost to contenderizer

I had that same experience with Trout Mask but it was only about a year after I bought it that it clicked.

and finally, yeah, electric miles from the late 60s and early 70s. tons of it. in a silent way and bitches brew up through the compilations and live stuff released in the mid 70s. get up with it (so great!), dark magus, that kind of thing. especially on the corner. especially jack johnson.

Have you heard United States of America and the American Metaphysical Circus?

no! will check them out. have always meant to get around that USA album...

oh, and the wicker man soundtrack from '73 belongs on that first list.

Yeah, I would say it fits right in with that stuff.

I was fortunate that TroutMaskReplica clicked with me immediately.

I did get the 2CD version of "Sketches of Spain", and mmmmmm it's nice. but that's it.

I see Bitches Brew around, it's like 'cheap' for the 1CD version, and 'pricey' for the deluxe edition.

Should I? Which?

4-disc "complete sessions" version of bitches brew is wonderful, well worth owning. is that the deluxe version you mean?

"Recollections" may be my very favorite Miles Davis song, it's on the four disc "complete sessions."

oh man contenderizer lots of the stuff on yer list is awes but electric lucifer is so mind blowing good

there was a pretty decent 3 disc (one was remixes iirc but whatever) perrey/kingsley comp out several years ago which is also essential, although goofier, if you dont have it

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Sound-Way-Perrey-Kingsley/dp/B000055ZE1

4-disc "complete sessions" version of bitches brew is wonderful, well worth owning. is that the deluxe version you mean?

― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:21 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, that one. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

My Brother persuaded me to listen to the first album by The Left Banke the other day which blew me away. Perfect timing as there's a new reissue out in a few weeks.

Check your local library! Thats pretty much the only way I've gotten to hear a lot of those super pricey Miles box sets.

Cream--Disraeli Gears
Howlin' Wolf--Moanin' in the Moonlight/Howlin' Wolf

Check your local library! Thats pretty much the only way I've gotten to hear a lot of those super pricey Miles box sets.

Word. However, sometimes the album itself is all you need as umpteen takes on each track really fries my interest.

contenderizer, search "Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos", electronic tribute that is faithful to the original but fresh and contemporary!

Fingers Inc - Another Side

So classic why is it out of print?

A mist sensual album

most

contenderizer, search "Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos", electronic tribute that is faithful to the original but fresh and contemporary!

― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel)

thx for the heads up, looks cool. expected more pop-leaning trip hop for some reason, as this sort of music was an influence on that style. thievery corp, early portishead, that kind of thing.

hey trip: thanks for the USofA recommendation! "all you see of yesterday are shadows in your mind / shadows on the pavement but no bodies do you find" goddam.

Hell yeah!
I found an original pressing of it in the (rare!) brown paper bag and got it for a good price, too (12 bucks, maybe?) right after I started collecting vinyl when I was 18.

The Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies record (The American Metaphysical Circus) really does feel like a sequel (different female lead singer and other personnel changes iirc) but it's not up to the same standard. Still very much worth hearing, tho

coo

van morrison - 'veedon fleece'

Velvet Underground - Loaded

Actually I got this several months back, but I've been listening to it a lot lately. The first song is so bad and atypical that it kind of throws you for a loop, but the rest of the album holds up with their other work just fine.

Boo! "Who Loves the Sun" is awesome.

It's like a bad joke - I guess if you like bad jokes it's okay.

I picked up 'Veedon Fleece' a good few months back and was blown away. Until then I entirely disregarded Van Morrison aside of 'Astral Weeks' and 'Moondance'. On the back of enjoying 'Veedon Fleece' I picked up 'Tupelo Honey' which was ok, the early live record which I half liked and 'Common One' which was suprisingly good, especially the longer tracks. Still, I find myself drawn to Van's hypnotic stuff the most, 'Astral Weeks' has always floored me. The big suprise on 'Veedon Fleece' was "You Don't Pull No Punches' which is up there with the best on 'Astral Weeks'. I did hear good things about 'Saint Dominic's Preview' but the last I checked it was still to be reissued.

I'm a big fan of Moondance, Tupelo Honey, and St. Dominic's Preview, but I haven't been able to get into Astral Weeks that much. I guess I prefer the country/R&B Van to the folk/jazz Van. My impression of Veedon Fleece is that it's more like Astral Weeks, so I haven't checked that one out yet.

Yup, that's the two divides illustrated right there so far as Van Morrison fans go.

st dominic's is great -- it's maybe the best mix of van styles. poppy stuff, jazzy stuff, country stuff, long hypnotic tracks like listen to the lion and independence day...

Yeah, I agree. I would say St. Dominic's kind of straddles the border between the two Vans.

That's what I've heard about it. Ominously missing from Van's reissue series.

It's not that hard to find on vinyl at reasonable prices, if you do vinyl. I got it at a record fair for about $10, IIRC.