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.
― bendy, Monday, 5 October 2009 11:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook
now this i would pay good money for.
― a single man owns you (Ioannis), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 5 October 2009 12:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
is 'musik von harmonia' too obscure to be deemed a 'classic album'? i've been listening to 'aja' a lot too.
― Michael B, Monday, 5 October 2009 13:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
MVH is classic as hell. i just replaced my lost copy recently and was re-knocked out by it, it's amazing.
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 5 October 2009 13:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Vinnie, Monday, 5 October 2009 14:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
steely dan is jazz?
― I'M LEGALLY A MIDGET (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
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. :)
― Vinnie, Monday, 5 October 2009 14:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love this thread. For me it's the unsophisticated choice of Sex Pistols - 'Never Mind the Bollocks'.
― David Katz (davek_00), Monday, 5 October 2009 19:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― t**t, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Think I'll have to wait a long time for Live '77 to be canonized.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D
― Brad C., Monday, 5 October 2009 20:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Go-Betweens-16 Lovers Lane
― The Boxing Kangaroo, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked up by?
― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 16:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
describe the chemical circumstances of yr morning, IK
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 16:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― m the g, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
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...
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.)
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 18:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
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)
― lukevalentine, Friday, 9 October 2009 09:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Slowdive - Souvlaki.
― that's not my post, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
yay Sailin' Shoes love! I had that album on in the car when I drove my baby home from the hospital last week :)
― some dude, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sailin' Shoes is so awesome. Congrats on your new arrival, dude!
― Bill Magill, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Congratulations!
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 October 2009 14:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
Charlie Parker with Strings is SO good
― iago g., Friday, 9 October 2009 15:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I know! more people need to hear it. the song "Laura" makes me sad though. (long story)
― lukevalentine, Friday, 9 October 2009 15:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
if you can believe your eyes and ears - mamas and the papasharmonies!
― outdoor_miner, Friday, 9 October 2009 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Riot - Fire Down UnderLove - Forever Changes
― Nate Carson, Friday, 9 October 2009 23:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 10 October 2009 01:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, Beatles, 'Abbey Road'and Patti Smith, 'Horses'Jefferson Airplane, 'Surrealistic Pillow'
― derrrick, Saturday, 10 October 2009 07:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Highway 61 Revisited
― ok star grumbles (lukas), Saturday, 10 October 2009 09:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Vegemitegrrrl = you might like this. I think it wipes the floor with the album version =
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.
― piscesx, Sunday, 1 November 2009 21:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
feelies - crazy rhythms. so good!
― 6335, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just heard "phaedra" by Tagerine Dream couple of weekends ago and it was pretty damn awesome.
― i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Monday, 2 November 2009 05:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― o. nate, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
not sure of their 'classic album' status, but i'm loving the Bee Gees Horizontal and Trafalgar.
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
― Brad C., Monday, 2 November 2009 21:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Badfinger - Magic Christian Music (had no idea this was produced by Visconti)
Also been getting into the Band's early "classic" stuff
― because I used to be a nuclear physicist (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
^ MCMusic is on my 'investigate' list... how's it compare w/Straight Up?
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Straight Down
― Zeno, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
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
― because I used to be a nuclear physicist (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Zeno, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Shakey Mo, you need Straight Up asap.
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
and Wish You Were Here
― Zeno, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
seriously, why the hell did it take me almost thirty years to hear this?
― a 40-foot-long electrified pickle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 02:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― o. nate, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Caetano Veloso-JÓIAJon Phillips-JOHN, THE WOL FKING OF L.A.Antônio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina-ELIS & TOMLee Hazlewood-COWBOY IN SWEDENRoberto Cacciapaglia-SEI NOTE IN LOGICAFleetwood Mac-TUSKFrank Sinatra-WATERTOWNVan Dyke Parks-DISCOVER AMERICA
I dunno, some other stuff too I'm fried.
― ian zamboni, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
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
― 69, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink