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

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.