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.

ha I listened to that twice in the last week! it rules.

The first Joan Baez LP sounds amazing for 1960, if I didn't know I would assume it was from the other end of the decade.

Way better than everything else by Tull.

Strangely this is exactly how I feel about Stand Up. Nothing else has ever clicked.

When I was 14, every Tull album clicked. Stand Up is the only one I maintain unqualified affection for, but it's more a Pentangle record than a prog artifact.

I found a used LP copy of Rhythm of the Saints the other week and, not having heard it since around the time it was initially released, I was pretty blown away. Really beautiful music, occasionally tipping over into some cousin of fourth world sounds.

Stand Up is the only one I maintain unqualified affection for, but it's more a Pentangle record than a prog artifact.

I've never been able to develop a taste for prog, so that checks out. I can dig prog bands when they go pop or metal bands that dabble in prog, but straight prog is not my jam.

I’m more into the idea of being into prog than I am actually into prog, if that makes sense.

corrosion of conformity - deliverance

just.. wow. haven't been this stunned by a hard rock / metal album in a while.

hell yeah NC represent

funny, Stand Up was the only Tull album I really liked for years. not until recently did I really start to get into the other ones...Aqualung I find overrated but Thick as a Brick rules and some of those late 70s ones like Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses are excellent

yeah Songs From The Wood is my other keeper along with Aqualung and TAIB

also

When I was 14, every Tull album clicked.

this was me, with the notable exception of "Too Old To Rock'n'Roll" which I still don't rate

Deliverance rules so hard.

When I was 14, every Tull album clicked.

24, but yes!

Having casually encountered a range of Elvis music and performances across my life I had a kind of distant respect for his abilities and gifts as a singer. In a thrift store today I found a triple dvd of the 68 comeback special and bought it on a whim. I hit play on disc 1 and reader, I was not ready for the hurricane of charisma, musicality and THAT VOICE unleashed on the classics and standards. The special is mighty cringe in places but the gospel section is a barn-burner. And the deluxe DVD has all the studio performances they taped to choose from, so it rolled straight into an hour of Elvis: Unplugged with Scotty Moore, D J Fontana et al, which was mesmerising. I am now a fan.

If I Can Dream is just the greatest distillation of late ELvis, what a tune. But is there a song as good as that leather suit? I'm not sure.

Album for me: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite. Maybe the bass on my stereo wasn't good enough when it first came out. It's so fucking good, I might have to put Embrya down a notch.

Xpost, Get on of the Memphis compilations! Elvis Country is good too. The track list on "Memphis Record" is the best ordering IMO

"incredible" is correct

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The Wes Montgomery Trio LP from the same year on Riverside is also top shelf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA___-b3Fn4

The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight, desert island new wave

Oh yeah, totally classic.

i do this whole weird years listening thing and Tonight is 1980 / 2015

The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven (2015)

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Chris Spedding Songs Without Words
instrumental lp by well known guitar sideman who later produced the Sex Pistols.
He had been trying to shed the labeling as jazz musician when talked into recording this, so this can't have helped.
Pretty sublime instrumental work outs. Very atmospheric in places.
This is on Cherry Red at reduced price right now.

wikipedia page for him is wild; played on such a ridiculous number of varied albums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Spedding

Here Come The Warm Jets AND Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds AND Rain Dogs ? that rules.

also in Roxy Music for their 2001 tour

I saw him play with Robert Gordon sometime in the 90s.

I saw him with John Cale in a small Halifax school auditorium in the late 80s. A great show!

[Michael Franks -- Art of Tea

― Romeo Jones, Saturday, 18 August 2007 12:29 PM (eighteen years ago) ]

I dunno if its a classic but i've played it at dinnertime a lot recently.

I'm just rediscovering Odyshape by The Raincoats and wondering why I need to rediscover it since I think I picked it up in Dublin which would be 30 years ago. Very other and idiosynceatic. Creating its own sound world.
Now reading the Audrey Golden biography of the band which is leading me to listen to it more and hopefully finally get around to picking up more of their work.

But Odyshape is deeply resonant . So not sure why I don't remember it being a constant on my player at any time.

Meat Puppets II ! That's what has kickstarted my whole Puppets bender now. It's a record I would venture curiously back to every few years, but not until 2025 did my soul get loose enough to not *tolerate* but *love* its ramshackality.

Yeah, II is great. I don't think the Puppets ever equaled it.

Not an album, but this week I learned that the early Lennon-McCartney originals are AWESOME.

Way back in the long ago, it was Abbey Road that made me fall back in love, and I worked <forwards> & <backwards> at the same time, and <became a McCartney fanatic> / <ran out of interest in the Revolver / Rubber Soul / Help! stretch>. It's been fourteen years and all this while, I had zero clue that the *pre-Help!* stuff is so good. The ridiculous vocal harmonies alone... but also the guitar frenzy... and Ringo powering through it all... but really it's mostly the harmonies, good god the harmonies!

I have Ian Leslie's book John & Paul to thank for this discovery.

Shit, typo. It was Abbey Road that MADE ME FALL IN LOVE (for the first time ever! And it was true love at first listen! Good ole summer of 2010!) (Which means it's been 15.5 years... hooray for my math)

I exited my big Beatles phase before the CD era standardized the early albums, and the American versions didn't really interest me. I didn't even realize what a mish-mash the Capitol albums were, despite the butcher album and all. I thought they just trimmed a few tracks like Revolver. Then mid-90s, was gifted a CD of Please Please Me and it's the Beatles album I've listened to the most, by far, since then. Such a tight band, hungry to show off their skills, and guileless in a way the world would never let them be again.

Osmosis
Boston based rock with horns that doesn't seem much like horn-rock cos done differently,.
But apparently production was not to band's liking so would love to hear that version.
Some gnarly noisy guitar . 1970 release. Think I discovered it through Cherry Red monthly reduced sales then was listening to individual tracks.
Now have it as a disc so, blooming great. Letting it slowly seep into me.

Side A of Beatles For Sale (UK version) is stupendous
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yes. that's one where i don't care for the Old Time Rock N Roll covers so much but the originals really sparkle

John's singing and writing at his best.

yeah, i think No Reply > I'm a Loser > Baby's in Black might be my favorite three-track opening on any Beatles record. perfect combination of sweet sweet harmony and utter despair

beatles for sale was done dirty by only having “eight days a week” on the red album

The weekend before Christmas I caught a Beatles covers band who just did pre-'65 stuff, loads of the album tracks, it was awesome.

beatles for sale was done dirty by only having “eight days a week” on the red album

One of the reasons why I prefer the US Capitol Beatles VI over Beatles For Sale

i made a quick "best of '63/'64" playlist that i've been rocking all day. basically i wouldn't fuck with PPM or AHDN but combining my fav originals from With and For Sale, plus singles and B-sides you get the following. i do like more songs on both those records that aren't here, but it makes for a fun listen

It Won't Be Long
All I've Got to Do
All My Loving
Not a Second Time
No Reply
I'm a Loser
Baby's in Black

Eight Days a Week
Every Little Thing
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
What You're Doing
This Boy
I Feel Fine
Yes It Is

I was always a blue-album Beatles guy, never listened to anything pre-Rubber Soul barring a few songs. But lately I have come around on the early stuff. My son is 12 and a big Beatles fan and it’s due to his influence that I have come around - listening to him learning those songs on the guitar and watching documentaries on those early years, the years when they were still a touring band. Those are some great little songs.

Like a lot of other albums in this thread I'm not sure it's considered a classic - although it topped their best album poll on ILX - but, anyway, "Penis Envy" by Crass is knocking me out right now. I'd never heard until a couple of days ago.

all time favorite!

fantastic record, prob my favourite by Crass

Jeru, your best of '63/'64 playlist is phenomenal! Been playing it a ton these past two days!