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)
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― 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
*tenenbaums
probably more of a 'lost treasure' than a classic album but the music machine's 'turn on' from 1966 is amazing. touched by the hand of goth but with a charming goofiness ('dont play hopscotch with your life, you silly fool! you know you cant win first place prize that way!')
― Michael B, Friday, 5 February 2010 18:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
also after the eno/roxy music documentary on BBC4 a couple of weeks ago, i dug out m copy of 'for your pleasure' for the first time in about 8 years. much much better than i remembered. <3 Beauty Queen
― Michael B, Friday, 5 February 2010 18:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah after that Eno Documentary I dug out for your pleasure and bought Roxy Music today. giving it it's first listen now.
I think it might take a weekend till I get knocked out by it.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 5 February 2010 19:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Finally got Double Nickels on the Dime, after knowing individual tracks for a while like Political Song for MJ and History Lesson #2. You sort of need those songs coming at you one after the other, surprising you with a wildly different style or a knockout line.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 5 February 2010 21:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Velvet Underground's VU. I only acquired this late last year. Where has this album been all my life?
― HerbertFifteen, Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Miles Davis "Birth Of The Cool" - first heard some 12 years ago; revisited in last 6 months and getting frequent and more intent listens each.
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
alice coltrane - journey to satchidananda (thx ilx alternative 70s poll!)
― guammls (QE II), Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
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...
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 8 February 2010 10:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 8 February 2010 14:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it went top twenty over here.
That certainly doesn't happen with re-issues anymore (Trav Wilbs excepted)
― Mark G, Monday, 8 February 2010 15:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
nilsson, pandemonium shadow show
― akm, Monday, 8 February 2010 17:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
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.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Slick Rick, "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
'dirty mind'
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
prince?
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
if so that shiz is a stone cold classic
J, I envy you discovering that album.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
SOOT was really my wtf-Prince moment though