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.

lol

Picked up an old John Lee Hooker cd comp called 'Graveyard Blues'. It was a pretty nondescript looking release but it is an interesting comp of singles that he did in 48-52 many other other names.

Hooker has these many different takes of tunes, it is fun to hear which way he took it. And one would figure, it was always that way when played in the clubs.

I liked the one line about how he had money but then they ended the war.

@brimstead The smooth jazz guitar solo is in The Murder Of Love.

yes, that's it!

I was a witness of your crime
Now I'm the judge

so cool

John Martyn, Live at Leeds. I'd only heard a few random live tracks from him before, this is absolutely sublime. Danny Thompson on double bass and John Stevens (from Spontaneous Music Ensemble) on drums and a near-20 minute version of Outside In.

Have not heard this though:

A 2CD Deluxe Edition compiled and researched by John Hillarby was released in 2010 by Universal Music. It contains the 1975 concert in its entirety, complete with hold ups, chatter and profane drunken insults between Martyn and Thompson, with Disc 2 including 35 minutes of the afternoon rehearsal as bonus material.

yeah, that opening "outside in" is incredible! it sounds like a huge tidal wave when everything is swelling up.

Metallica - Master of Puppets : Disposable Heroes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtNrx1c3Xh8

Back To The Front

speed metal guitar theory

I had never heard the Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads. The only song I knew was Satisfaction. Never cared for that song, maybe just due to total overexposure. My Stones knowledge started roughly with Brian Jones' departure. But I was listening to the podcast Lost Notes: Groupies, and Pamela Des Barres had something very nice to say about the song I'm Alright, so I decided to check it out. Really good album!

I've definitely encountered mid-60s blues-based rock along the same lines, but mostly it hasn't grabbed me, and its an overall blind spot. The Kinks, Yardbirds, early Who, etc.

yeah I'm Alright is great, it's a Bo Diddley song. I love the Spectrum version (re-titled It's Alright)

I am listening to Bark Psychosis' "Hex" for the first time as I type. Why didn't I do this before? Maybe I thought from the name it would be cold industrial music?

I am in my mid 40s and just discovering that Coltrane live at the VV is the best music ever recorded

oh yeah

Two absolute bangers, obviously.

But to doglatin - you picked the right time. More than two bars of *Hex* and I'm right in the soft grey autumn twilight.

How weird. After spending a bit of time with and enjoying the algorithmically suggested Codename: Dustsucker, the algorithm tried to get me to listen to Hex and I noped out on it after about 3 songs

I'm sure it's blasphemy in some circles but I much prefer Codename to Hex

Codename is great, but Hex is where the real magic is.

Etherwave, fwiw, the back half of Hex is where it opens out; the first side makes much more sense when you can hold the whole thing as one suite.

kurt otm! that box set! ahmed abdul-malik! two bassists! omg!

Much prefer Hex to Codename, which I find hard to remember. We are definitely reaching the right time of year for Hex

still haven’t gotten into codename after being slightly disappointed after hex! maybe if i give it another decade or two…

one of the ultimate “bands you keep trying to get into” for me

Thanks, Chinaski! Due to your encouragement I went back and gave it a second listen (and a third, and a fourth, and annoying my friends by making them listen to it)

If I’d only hung on until the end of Absent Friend I would have been hooked by the slow metamorphosis into Music For 18 Musicians

And then the way Pendulum Man dissipates into hazy clouds of Victorialands sublimity? I’m sorry for doubting you, Hex!

maybe different thought for different thread, but the bark psychosis discussion here made me remember something that i thought when theur second proper full length was recent: it very much feels like a different project, with a different mission statement by the time dustsucker gets made. i don't mean this as a knock on anything the band has done, but the disparity between hex and dustsucker really does feel like two separate bands to me. and, to be clear, i find enough dissimilarity between them that i can't really say i prefer one over the other.

old news: hey, bark psychosis rules!

ether you check any of the non-album material yet? now some of that stuff is what tries my patience.

Can recommend the blue ep by bark psychosis.

speaking of "a whole different project", I went to see BP after the Blue EP came out and they were transitioning into Boymerang but hadn't changed the name yet - cue a very confused crowd who came for Hex type chill and got drum n bass with live trumpet playing!

Haha was the response good?
I never connected with the boymerang album. I think it has fans here though.

And looking now at the credits the river is a collab with rudy tambala. And maggie tamblala who sings on the lovely sufi disc life's rising sings on it.

I will revisit i guess i find d'n'b needs me to be in a specific mood/space

I am in my mid 40s and just discovering that Coltrane live at the VV is the best music ever recorded

― kurt schwitterz, Monday, October 13, 2025 10:48 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

kurt otm! that box set! ahmed abdul-malik! two bassists! omg!

― austinato (Austin), Monday, October 13, 2025 4:50 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

coming off 2-3 weeks of not wanting to do anything except listen to john coltrane play the saxophone
i kinda want to talk about it here at some point
Coltrane (1962) and the complete vv recordings box had always been my favorites but i am having a moment with interstellar space

xxp
the response was ... muted (like the trumpet sometimes hoho).
I saw them around about Scum time, then about a year later for Hex, and then a year later for this. three very different gigs, like three different bands looking back on it.

I listened to interstellar space 3 times in a row the other day, and then again first thing the next day when i got up.
Partly because where can you go from interstellar space? In coltrane’s discography? You can’t really throw on impressions or whatever after that. Even one up one down at the half note feels wrong. Maybe transitions? Idk. Not a lot of options except play it again. That’s part of it. The bigger thing is i can’t get enough of this fucking record though. I’ve probably played it more than a dozen times this week alone. So answer to thread question is interstellar space.

Zappi share more about gigs pls.
Deflator lol such bait for me atm.

Humble Pie s/t 3rd lp. The one with the Aubrey Beardsly sleeve.
Creamy stoner heavy rock has some utterly sublime tracks. I need to dig out my 2fer of the Immediate lps which I think were pretty good but didn't reach the same heights. I think the earlier material was more obviously blues/r'n'b derived but this is pretty archetypally becoming its own sensual thing.
Really not sure why it's taken me so long to get this. I hope Rock On is as good. & I think I may well neeed the 4cd Live at Fillmore.

"Underwater Moonlight" get most of the plaudits but Ive been getting into the previous album by The Soft Boys "A Can of Bees". A bit more ragged and raw. They were a great band.

Oh, I got a cheap copy of "Only The Stones Remain" / "Lope at the Hive" and it's a wonderful thing.

I think I may well neeed the 4cd Live at Fillmore.

It's the exact same set four times in a row. Stick with the originally released version. (See also: the Ramones' It's Alive, original vs 4CD deluxe edition.)

Oh, I got a cheap copy of "Only The Stones Remain" / "Lope at the Hive" and it's a wonderful thing.

Some of that has never been reissued.

I go a few years between Soft Boys immersions and am still thrilled every time I do so.

yeah that Stones/Lope record is great, the last thing I tracked down aside from those bootleg 7" EPs

Deflator lol such bait for me atm.

― bert newtown, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 10:06 (yesterday)

uh. rage away!!!

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Poorly expressed sorry. I mean i was knocked out by ascension a couple of weeks ago . Later period Coltrane had always seemed a chore ( my fave jc is usually crescent) but something clicked. So your post looked like an invitation to a new, enticing listen...

Later period Coltrane had always seemed a chore ( my fave jc is usually crescent) but something clicked.

Oh, we’re fording the river together!

What “clicked” with Interstellar Space: I’m approaching it more as a continuous sound environment (in relation to really minimal, monotonous, drone-y music I guess), than as a performance across linear time.

I’m not saying that’s the “right” approach. I have no idea what I’m “doing”.

It’s so different to anything else tho! A hard, mirrorlike sound-crust suspended atop a bottomless void of neg space, a "top heavy" architecture that is singular in his work or maybe anyone's. The starkness of it allows me to take it in as like a seductive, kinetic surface-texture, pristine and bone dry, absent obvious reference to the clock. (Saturn has a head, I guess. That’s more striking as a disruption of the continuity than as a structural reinforcement, or as a sign of decay in a landscape otherwise devoid of past or future?) Fuck this one might be my favorite now.

That’s saying a lot! The very small music collection on my phone includes both Coltrane and the Complete VV Recordings, the former is the thing i instantly cue up in my headphones whenever I’m overwhelmed and need to soothe my frazzled nerves. I put on ‘Out of This World’ and it’s such a balm, right away. People talk about the “turbulence” of Coltrane, and I get it but the thing is he is *so centered* as a player that I feel stabilized just listening to him.

Nice! Terrific description.

for me today this was Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely

had no idea he was this good, i typed up a longer thing but deleted it

but this thread is making me want to listen to Coltrane (in my new Coltrane shirt that Austin sent me, lol)

"out of this world" is so great

HELL YEAH BJ THAT’S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT LOL

...also how very serious i am in the band shirt topic(s)! #onethread

i swear i want nothing in return!

okay maybe a shoutout in the liner notes. but not my real name; one of those esoteric ones iykyk

I'm going to pick Remain in Light. I grew up in the 1980s, so as a kid I associated Talking Heads with "Road to Nowhere", which got to #6 and was all over the radio when I was ten years old. Many years later I borrowed Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads from the library, which had "Once in a Lifetime", but nothing else from Remain in Light. "Lifetime" is a top song, but trying to extrapolate the rest of the album from it is like trying to imagine Future Days based entirely on listening to "Moonshake".

So it wasn't until the MP3 era that I heard Remain all the way through. I remember thinking "yes" and "this is good" and "yes". I don't like the kind of precise, fussy funk music the band majored in at the time - I have a mental vision of Adrian Belew smiling at Bernie Worrell, who smiles back, and they high-five each other, and everybody is happy, and it's sickening - but I do like Remain because it's a full-on sensory assault, a wall of sound. Like having your face thrust into the guts of a grandfather clock, but in a nice way. Or like being buried in sand at a beach by a girl who then rides on top of you, and you feel funny. Or staring at the back of your pet cat and wondering why it doesn't like to be touched there. All of those things went through my mind the first time I heard Remain in Light.

Also, several years later I downloaded Deep Purple's Made in Japan. I have no idea why. I despise organ-led early-70s rock music and deep Purple haven't aged well. They were the biggest band in the world at one point, but nowadays they're totally overshadowed by Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. But I can see why they were such a top live act. I grew up in the wake of punk so I should be physically allergic to ten-minute organ solos, but Made in Japan won me over. For a fleeting moment I could feel the power of early-70s organ led progressive first-generation heavy metal.