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

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Comus - First Utterance

Would Xenakis' La Légende d'Eer be considered a classic? If so, that one (especially with headphones on).

― Ivan, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Substance

Had liked New Order, but never got around to the orginal band. What a fool I was.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece. Bought it in the 90s when i first got into Van but never really got into it. I prefer it to Tupelo Honey (which I like) and at times almost has the transcendent qualities of Astral Weeks.

― dan selzer, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - I was really blown away by how good it was, I always had thought Neil Young was kind of overrated, now I've reconsidered.
One Nation Under a Groove - found it cheap at Tower
[i]Big Fun

― ablaeser, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

new order - brotherhood - never heard it back when, and it's killer
the complete stax volt singles collection (discs 1-9) - a non-stop party

― outdoor_miner, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Marquee Moon for me as well, actually. I like it more every year.
And Talk Talk's Laughing Stock managed to sneak it's way back into steady rotation. Holy hell.

― ryborg3k, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

Harold Budd/Daniel Lanois/Brian Eno, The Pearl/i] (please kick my ass if I ever sell this)
Television, [i]Marquee Moon (I gave it chance after chance five or so years ago when the OMG TELEVISION was at its apex, but I'm taking to it exponentially better now, possibly because I'm playing it in the car for the first time)

― jamescobo, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

John Cale: The Island Years.

Absoltely stunning.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Substance

oh wow. i remember when i did the same thing in, what, 1990. my mind really didn't have a clue what had hit it. funny: "atmosphere" came on today while i was listening to that "right time, wrong speed" john peel compilation and even now it stops me dead in my tracks.

get "still", and get the preston and paris live albums. then get the bootlegs. you jammy sod :)

for me, it's probably still "pacific ocean blue" by dennis wilson, which i spent a lot of time raving about on ILM last year. oh, and "your majesty ... we are here", of course. can an album be truly classic when it's so tragically unknown by the greater music-listening public? hell yeah. that one can.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bowie's Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes, Lodger)--I always thought the Changes comp was the only Bowie I'd ever need. I was wrong.

― MC, Monday, 5 March 2007 19:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

Not sure how classic it is, but 'Surf's up' really hit a sweet spot.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

finally got GP/Greivous Angel last fall...always thought it couldn't live up to the hype...it does, and then some...unimpeachable...

― henry s, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

Slugfuckers for sure.

― Drooone, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece

Yeah, same here! That one slipped through the cracks somehow until recently and it is right up there with the other great ones of the era.

Don't know if this counts, but I am really into Hall & Oates War Babies now. Never listened to it before...

― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club. That was in November. I need more awesome music.

― abanana, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

finally got GP/Greivous Angel last fall...always thought it couldn't live up to the hype...it does, and then some...unimpeachable...

that one was a letdown for me... the burrito bros. twofer is so much better

― abanana, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Heron Anthology is pretty special.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Is Secondhand Daylight classic? If not, Innervisions.

― Beep, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

Buffalo Springfield Again

I knew about half the record, but this album is really good front to back.

I don't know if they are classic as they are not real popular, but these two early Buddy Miles albums (Expressway to Your Skull & Them Changes) I recently picked up are pretty good and quite consistent. Both of Mountain's first two albums were also better than I expected front to back.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Songs of Leonard Cohen. Wow, I'd previously heard Suzanne and So Long, Marianne, and bought the album figuring those would be the two standouts. They're all that good!

― Z S, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

Loop - Fade Out

totally forgot about this one, and when I found it on vinyl recently I took it home and just lost my shit.

― Cameron Octigan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

'Hunky Dory' for me, too.

― zeus, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Nico - The Marble Index

― braveclub, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

Yeah, I've been digesting the 'Heads for at least a year now but it's only in the last few months where I've actually been able to discern between albums and get a feel for some of the more nuanced tracks. Remain In Light is incredible all the way through - maybe lacking a bit of the jolliness of earlier albums but it's been replaced by this dark ethereal sound. David Byrne may not have been the worlds best singer but boy did he have control over his voice. Just watching the "Stop Making Sense" video where he takes off around the stage during a synth solo and starts running faster and faster then manages to catch the mic and sing the chorus of "Life During Wartime" has me rubbing my eyes in disbelief.
And on this album he's at his best. So many different yelps and murmurs. Born Under Punches is a weird way to start a record. Brooding, with a bassline that summons all sorts of jungle wildlife to mind and a spooky chorus, cryptic vocals. Cross Eyed And Painless ramps up the speed a little (a lot more on the live versions) and again features a killer bassline. I was sad that Byrne doesn't sing "She is moving through the spirit world" on the Great Curve, but it's still one of my favourites. Hell, there isn't a bad song on here. Even that one about people changing their faces to suit their personalities and vice versa is good.

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

it's that time again.

― pisces, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

Associates - first three & Radio Sessions
Ultravox - first three
John Foxx - Metamatic / The Garden
Wah - Nah = Poo: The Art Of Bluff
Simple Minds - best-of their first 4 albums

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

(hmm, I don't think I've listened to that English Beat album since I posted it on here a year and a half ago - I wonder if I'd still think it's a classic)

― o. nate, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

coltrane - a love supreme

― bstep, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

anything pre 1990 im talking here people.

!!!!

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

luther vandross' 'never too much'

― deej, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

Propaganda - A secret wish

― daavid, Friday, 17 August 2007 03:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

these three albums blew me away recently:

anita baker - rapture [I knew "Sweet Love" and "Caught Up in the Rapture" of course, but the entire album is just amazing tune after amazing tune.]

Isley Brothers - Go for your Guns

The New Birth - It's Been A Long Time

― The Brainwasher, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

Nick Drake "Five Leaves Left". Beautiful.

― Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

JUDEE SILL HEARTFOOD YOU GUYS

also

Lazy Farmer

Satwa

Leonard Cohen Songs of Love & Hate

Flower Travellin' Band Satori

― W4LTER, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

and Nick Garrie - Nightmare of JB Stan

― W4LTER, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

Loop - Fade Out

I have this and "Gilded Eternity" and I realise now I havent played either in fnyears. I should give them a spin. Them and Head of David.

― Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

oh and this:

― W4LTER, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

Cluster & Eno
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

― rockapads, Friday, 17 August 2007 17:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME

I first heard it maybe 10-11 years ago and loved it, but finally got my own copy a few months ago. (Now that I think of it I remember posting this on a similar thread, "old stuff you're getting into" or something like that.)

― Mark Clemente, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

Not a whole album, but the song "Christine" by House of Love has ruled my world for the last couple weeks.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Return of the Super Ape (remastered)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin
Ride - Nowhere
Culture - Harder Than The Rest

― kijiji, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

Michael Franks -- Art of Tea

― Romeo Jones, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

also, Love -- "Da Capo" (especially for the side-long tune on the B-side).
I might even like it better than "Forever Changes."

― Romeo Jones, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

these two come immediately to mind:

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Brian Eno and Harold Budd - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror

― stephen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

harold budd & brian eno - plateaux of mirror

one of the best piano records i know. moody, impressionistic stuff that touches something deep inside me. has nothing to do with ambient (which i don't like as it is empty). i really don't understand how this could be released in the ambient series. it's more similar to satie or durutti column than to music for airports or discreet music. both of those albums annoy me when i try to listen to them.

-- alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, September 1, 2004 7:12 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

oh look at that, upthread!! right on! :)

― stephen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

How similar is "Plateaux" to "the Pearl"?

― Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

Suicide's debut.

― mulla atari, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

How similar is "Plateaux" to "the Pearl"?

-- Trayce, Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:59 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I couldn't tell you as I'm unfamiliar with The Pearl -- in a collection of about 20-25 Eno CDs thus far, it's one of the last ones I'm still looking to buy, I've just never seen it turn up used :(

ebay, here i come?

― stephen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

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