John Hartford - Aereo-Plain
― A Jetpack! Operation! (Cliftonb), Thursday, 1 January 2009 07:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
So I finally listened to Tusk last night. Sweet Jesus, it is BRILLIANT.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 9 January 2009 11:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 9 January 2009 13:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
hmm actually tusk is probably my answer to this too
― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Friday, 9 January 2009 13:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
'this nation's saving grace' knocked me out. but certainly not on the first listen. i had to really listen closely to uncover the magic of the songs. its just effortlessly tuneful in an unconscious kind of way. almost like its going down the abstract route, and intercepting melody and hook along the way
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 9 January 2009 14:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
yes - 'close to the edge'
― Michael B, Friday, 9 January 2009 15:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
i've owned that for about 9 years. i still don't think i've given it its full due yet
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 9 January 2009 15:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Bought a pretty sweet copy of Curtis/Live! on LP and it's just ridiculously great. Ditto Tyrone Davis' Can I Change My Mind, Johnny Bristol's Hang On In There Baby...a good day for soul records.
― ellaguru, Friday, 9 January 2009 15:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
The first four Roxy Music albums. Why I haven't got into these before I don't know, totally stupendous.
― bidfurd, Friday, 9 January 2009 19:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm trying to think of the last 'classic album' I've bought.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 9 January 2009 19:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Or was knocked up by
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 9 January 2009 19:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Faust IV. Picked it up about a month ago and it just kills me. Was just listening to it this morning - it's still in that phase where every time I listen to it I realize it's even better than I thought the last time I listened to it.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 9 January 2009 19:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
there's not been a revival of this thread in the SPOTIFY era so how's about we have one now?
― piscesx, Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
Spotify + Jazz thread = Me being currently knocked out by
― I'M LEGALLY A MIDGET (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Bowie's Low.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was listening to it, BTW, to see how P2K's top album of the decade from the 70s -- 00s compare to each other. So it's Low v. Daydream Nation v. OK Computer v. Kid A.
Might be a good poll, actually. But I'm not sure just being the No. 1 disc of a decade (according to Pitchfork) creates an especially meaningful comparison.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
what a horrible set of choices!
(i know it's a predictable response. i was tempted to add FIRST)
― thomp, Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol. IT IS WHAT IT IS.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
answer to the thread question - EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE. one of those records that reminds you why teenagers spend so much time in their parents' garages, why that ever became a thing. i bought it for £3 because the reissue was coming out and you know what, i don't even care if i can't hear the rhythm section.
― thomp, Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh and U F ORB, which i listened to fully for the first time on the bus to work, and had such a great set of coincidences - speeding up and slowing down in time, catching sight of horses running across a field as a beat came in, getting stuck in traffic for the exact duration of the victor lewis smith bit - that i'm sort of scared to listen to it again
― thomp, Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook
― iago g., Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
Why did I wait so long? Its 18 years since I first heard Kind of Blue.
― Dérive (Derelict), Sunday, 4 October 2009 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
"In a silent way" for me
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
Skip Spence - Oar. I know it has some haters, but I listened to it for the first time last night and thought it was fantastic
― een, Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Songs For Drella - Lou Reed & Jon Cale. Discovered it while cleaning out/realphabetizing our CDs yesterday. Love it, can't believe I never heard it before. Praise the lord for my husband's eclectic buying habits.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 5 October 2009 05:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Since my last post, it would have to be "Discipline" by Crimson.
― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Monday, 5 October 2009 05:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Dazzle Ships
― Euler, Monday, 5 October 2009 07:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
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
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