Chris Bell - i am the cosmos never had heard before and it's pretty damn terrific
― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
i never really cared for it too much but i love the cover!
― winston, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. Yes, I know but hey, I just never got around to it. Now I can't get enough of it.
― oscar, Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
Bee Gees 1st
― sonofstan, Thursday, 3 April 2008 07:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
Cerrone Supernature. It's as good as I hoped it would be. Only with more drum solos.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 3 April 2008 07:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
Robyn Hitchcock: "I Often Dream Of Trains"
― zeus, Thursday, 3 April 2008 09:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water
Hmm?! I got this also, sometime last year, almost the same time I bought Jon Anderson's Olias, too. Listened to theem just recently again. And again. And to my moderate surprise - I keep enjoying Olias quite a bit more...
On the truly knocked-out front, though - most recently the two Judee Sill alb's have done the sweet punchin-to-teh-pulp o'me.
― t**t, Thursday, 3 April 2008 09:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Terry Reiley 'Poppy Nogood / All-night flight'
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 3 April 2008 10:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Colossal youth" - Young Marble Giants. Bought it before Xmas, should have bought it about 20 years ago by the sound of it.
― Rob M v2, Thursday, 3 April 2008 10:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
most of the Fela oeuvre.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 3 April 2008 11:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
― MC, Thursday, 3 April 2008 11:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just got around to Blood on the Tracks, having felt half-hearted about "Tangled Up In Blue", the only song I knew from it. Actually, it's just that I liked the Jerry Garcia version better. The rest of the album is amazingly good, but everybody else knows that except me.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends was kind of a wallflower album for me, unassertively lurking in the collection for years until I started giving it some serious spins this past winter. So polished and consciously classy. I may even hang the poster.
― briania, Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
Finally checked out Kevin Ayers "Joy of A Toy" and we were all like whoah.
― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 3 April 2008 13:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
Daniel - have you heard Ayers's new one?
― t**t, Thursday, 3 April 2008 13:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
No. I came at the thing via digging Soft Machine but I don't really know anything about Kevin Ayers solo.
― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
He gets less and less "Soft Machine" as he goes on
― Tom D., Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
Lately I can't stop playing that debut Raincoats album, which I only just got 6 months ago, after 20+ years of having heard only a single track. (Fell in love with "In Love" back in '86, so "Why did it take you so long to check out the rest of the album, foole?" Well, because I'm a fool; plus it was OOP for a long time. Thank you Kurt Cobain!) Anytime I find myself straining to listen to the words and cursing the lack of a lyric sheet - that's pretty much a guarantee that an album is something special.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
pretty much all of gram parsons' stuff for me
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've been a bit slow on coming around to that stuff too. I just downloaded "Zombie" recently - it did not disappoint.
― o. nate, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm a big fan of his more straightforward (relatively speaking) mid-70s pop albums, like Bananamour and Yes, We Have No Mananas.
― o. nate, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
Artful Dodger – Honor Among Thieves
and Legs Diamond – Legs Diamond
― xhuxk, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Steve Miller - 74-78.
― caek, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Little Feat - <I>Dixie Chicken</i> and <I?Sailin' Shoes</i>
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
xp Been really getting into Firefall and Eddie Rabbitt this year too, but those are old best-of CDs, and probably don't count as "classic albums".
― xhuxk, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
70s Bowie, mainly Hunky Dory, Station To Station & Low, all of which I picked up used after recently getting reacquainted w/Ziggy + Aladdin Sane The Best of Spirit-I got the expanded version for x-mas and have since picked up their first three albums plus the not bad at all Feedback. Will get Sardonicus soon. T.Rex-Electric Warrior Finally broke down and bought the expanded edition. "Raw Ramp" you mothers! Aerosmith-Gems Nancy & Lee
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 3 April 2008 16:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
Neu '75
― stephen, Thursday, 3 April 2008 17:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
also: the Sparks catalog!!
Most of Talk Talk's albums. Midly frustrated I hadn't picked them up at an earlier point in my life.
― Peteski, Thursday, 3 April 2008 17:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
fleetwood mac - tusk
― 6335, Thursday, 3 April 2008 18:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
After all the praise on this thread I gave Tusk a listen at work today. Three times. My word that's a good album.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 3 April 2008 18:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
Pink Floyd - Relics
― nate woolls, Thursday, 3 April 2008 19:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fleetwood Mac - Future Games Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House (took a long time to really get this one, but now I love the whole damn thing including Spencer's stuff) Styx - Greatest Hits (not new to me, but recently rediscovered)
― dlp9001, Friday, 4 April 2008 00:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
you get a *poster* with BOOKENDS??
― pisces, Friday, 4 April 2008 00:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
I had "The Stooges" and "Raw Power" for ages, but I never got around to "Funhouse" until the reissue. Ho. Lee. Crap.
It's just stunningly great.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 4 April 2008 02:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Joanna Newsom - Ys
(didn't care for the first album, waited 2+ years to check out this one, and whaddya know? turns out i *love* this one... is this a classic album yet? should be!)
― stephen, Thursday, 10 April 2008 03:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
sun city girls torch of the mystics nektar journey to the center of the eye
― kamerad, Thursday, 10 April 2008 03:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
― ablaeser, Thursday, 10 April 2008 05:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ys is certainly a classic album - in the pantheon sitting next to Astral Weeks for me.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 10 April 2008 07:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
― sam500, Thursday, 10 April 2008 08:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
Self titled Bill Fay album. A bit of a quiet classic.
― Rob M v2, Thursday, 10 April 2008 08:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
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I have to dig this out again.
Lets see, the last one for me was....
Howlin Wolf: the two Chess albums on one disc. I can't believe how long it took me to get this.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 10 April 2008 08:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Get a copy of it, that is.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 10 April 2008 08:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
i've owned Kraftwerk's Radioactivity for a few years, but only last week did it hit me how great it is.
also, Morricone's Fistful of Dollars soundtrack.
― poortheatre, Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
last 'classic album' i was disappointed by: Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
― poortheatre, Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
Captain Beyond
― our work is never over, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
Late with this, but here's kind of a crappy shot of the Bookends poster.
― briania, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Some friends of mine who are Kinks nuts are giving me the urge to see what the fuss is about.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
Want that poster
― Tom D., Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Captain Beyond"
Awesome
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:59 (5 years ago) Permalink