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.

Thin Lizzy has never clicked for me. Maybe I should try again.

There's a new deluxe box set version of Hendrix's Axis: Bold As Love out that includes the mono mix, and that has really made that album hit so much harder for me. I have always liked the album, but the mono version rules.

I'm finally listening to Coroner's Mental Vortex, and completely infatuated.

dunno why I never listened to "you're never alone with a schizophrenic" by Ian Hunter until yesterday but I really enjoyed it

There's a new deluxe box set version of Hendrix's Axis: Bold As Love out that includes the mono mix, and that has really made that album hit so much harder for me. I have always liked the album, but the mono version rules.

Yeah, first heard the mono via a reissue LP (not even a fancy pants audiophile thing) and it knocked me the F out. I mean obviously an incredible album but yeah sounds great.

I will say the new version has what might be the worst updated (?) cover art of all time.

Yeah, the cover suuuuucks.

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-rdecee92oy/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/58266/6409240/leglp39361__13005.1757471267.jpg

What the fuck am I looking at? A rainbow-dragon-terrier?

BARF

(I fucking love this album)

Apparently the cover is a drawing Hendrix made when he was five.

That looks like a limited edition bag of coffee. our new bold as love dark roast, in tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

IDGI, the original cover is iconic and awesome

Analogue Productions put out an SACD back in 2018 that had both the mono and stereo mixes on one single disc. I think it's still in-print and awaiting a re-press, but it's great and pretty definitive if anyone's looking for a cheaper, digital (but high-resolution) alternative that also uses the original artwork. List price is $35.

Analogue Productions also released a 33 1/3 rpm vinyl edition a few months later, again with the original mono and stereo mixes, but that's been OOP for a while and goes for a ton of money. They have a 45 rpm edition that's coming out soon for those who swear by that format - still pricey at $150 list.

I don’t know why they historically have done this to Hendrix reissues

https://www.discogs.com/release/523677-The-Jimi-Hendrix-Experience-Axis-Bold-As-Love

I really love the original cover too but wasn't it based off a misunderstanding that Jimi was part "Indian" which really meant Native American? and that Jimi himself wasn't a fan?

Yeah, those 1993 reissues were very 1993...

https://i.discogs.com/gtcX413ztXeIgqFWL7fCI4r0uQqwUpqwEc5xtYX_0WY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ5ODgx/MS0xNjYyNzM1ODEz/LTUwMTIuanBlZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/jDFw4QqKiPlVQveencPWiNcG1nYmUbL1xXjfc_-Mmk8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyMzY3/Ny0xMzE2OTExOTcy/LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/bYDoWKmDYHy69jqDFT9YJkankyqUJJJd3wVJWgpQw_A/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyMzY4/MC0xNjUxNTg2MTcw/LTI0MTEuanBlZw.jpeg

Whatever cover they put on Electric Ladyland will be better than the original so no complaint there.

i don't care for the original w/ boobs but the orange/red halo pic cover is iconic

interesting japanese and french "axis" variations:

https://i.discogs.com/4Iu-ZYwzOlB1wkAPH8g8u8SLLM3HK3iOTW1vLuYL3wE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3MjAx/NzQxLTE2ODc5Njg5/OTMtMTAyNC5qcGVn.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/-HVsgU-IQCBn703RB5OA1Pn7695RST_GqS5Ymq3BNRE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMDA4/NjM5LTE1NDYzNzA1/NzktNzI2My5qcGVn.jpeg

I find the boobs cover very unpleasant

It's not a recent acquisition - it was one of the first Judas Priest albums I heard, so I've been listening to it for about 40 years - but fuck, Unleashed In The East just destroys. One of the greatest live albums (and yes, I know Halford re-recorded his vocals) ever.

https://i.discogs.com/K66CLSIkC2sE_RDZlGbYO7eGcT9FqRDk45bG6NK8QwY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxNDQy/MC0xMjY3NjQ5NTA1/LmpwZWc.jpeg

I had this compilation, from the early 90s reissues. Would have been happier in the long run if I had bought the actual albums.

Wikipedia suggests Jimi didn't really like much about any of the album covers his labels came up with, but the alternatives have all been so pedestrian. This French jacket for Electric Ladyland is well designed, and feels of its time in a good way.

https://recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_5376.jpg

wow Clube Da Esquina really is THAT good

https://www.discogs.com/master/167258-Milton-Nascimento-L%C3%B4-Borges-Clube-Da-Esquina

Thick as a Brick.

I'm in a huge prog phase and that album is stunning. Way better than everything else by Tull.

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

https://i.postimg.cc/1RKTzR3J/R-1340330-1574587319-7287.jpg

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.