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
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.
― Euler, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Michael B, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
For me it's Merle Haggard's Big City.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
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)
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
C/D: Prince's "Around the World in a Day"
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
thanx dude
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maybe not the biggest of classics, but Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man. All that apocalyptic sleaze.
― Blau, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― Sun Tea (Pillbox), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Total classic.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost think he's talking about how well some of teh albums have aged.
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
my bad thought slick rick was '86
― Michael B, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Poco - Pickin' up the pieces (flying burrito brotehrs alt-country style) + crazy eyes (country prog!)
the only problem is the band's name.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
? 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.
― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hag's been one of my discoveries of the last 18 months.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
greetings from asbury park!
― balls, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Laura Nyro - Eli & The Thirteenth Confession
― chromecassettes, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Monkees - Head
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord SotosynLC's update of "first we take manhattan" alone is worth the price of the instant classic called live in london.
― ....some kind of psychedelic wallflower (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Belle Album - Al Green.
― Popture, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
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?)
― her lover who appeared to come from her behind on a car (KMS), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love the early Bakersfield stuff - Last Night the Bottle Let Me Down, Swinging Doors, etc. Big City's good tho
― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Captain Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station. Wow.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
never thought I would say it, but "Blood and Chocolate"
― the tune is space, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Duke, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Does Sinead's "The Lion and The Cobra" count? Because it should. And I'm floored.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Agreed - that's a total jam.
― lavender hotel kumquat (kkvgz), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
The KLF - Chill Out, absolutely perfect for sitting in Roundhay Park in the sun following a really stressful week at work.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's a really great record. Wish I had it with me now.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Shazam!" - The Move
― Darin, Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
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?
― I'm being a smartass here, but in a fun way (NotEnough), Friday, 8 October 2010 12:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
kinda, actually - people who get into Sparks are really into Sparks. it's all worth looking into.
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 8 October 2010 12:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
who was the last classical bum you were knocked out by and why?
― avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Friday, 8 October 2010 13:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Born in the USA for some reason passed me by for ages even as a confirmed Springsteen nut. I knew the singles of course but had never heard most of the rest of it, at least not knowingly. I was knocked out by stuff like "Bobby Jean" and "Downbound Train" which are as good as anything he's ever done.
― margana (anagram), Friday, 8 October 2010 13:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I got No. 1 In Heaven recently & really fell for it---maybe that's a good answer for me for this thread too!--- & then got Kimono My House (cos that was the other one that gets rated super highly) & didn't like it nearly as much. I'm not sure I'm gonna keep digging for the time being, gonna ride this one out first.
― Euler, Friday, 8 October 2010 13:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
I had the same problem w/ Sparks, loved a couple albums, didn't fall for a few others... stalled as a result.
― yeah ilxor stop throwing dog shit on a MAGICAL moment. (ilxor), Friday, 8 October 2010 13:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Having rejected Rod Stewart since "Tonight's the Night," I can't believe I'm playing Every Picture Tells a Story so much.
― Brad C., Friday, 8 October 2010 13:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jack Bruce--"Songs For a Tailor"
And I was dropping the needle on a couple of copies of Beatles For Sale" in advance of selling them and came to realize "No Reply" is just overwhelmingly great.
― ellaguru, Friday, 8 October 2010 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink