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

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (851 of them)

I'm with Michael Daddino on Exile On Mainstreet. I listened to it a few times after I bought it and it never grabbed me, but I found myself listening to it over and over again when I was driving to Pasture.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 30 July 2004 04:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

I got drunk and managed to lose my justbought copy of "Heart of the Congos" once, Ray Charles's "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" too but I bought that again

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 30 July 2004 07:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Eno-Here come the Warm Jets. Bought it yesterday. wow.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

Big Star - No. 1 Record and Radio City (on the same CD).

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

"feel" is one of the best album openers ever!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

Scott Walker - Scott 4

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

'MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD'

talking heads

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 11:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not mentioned yet (and also my current last one): Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited.

Seconded (from the last coupla years): Odessey & Oracle, Village Green Preservation Society, Forever Changes.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 12:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 13:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
I bought two copies in the dollar record bin. I am still trying to make out the inserts.

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 13:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

dead boys -- young loud & snotty

i am quite ashamed that it took me 29 years to add this to my collection. surely one of punk's finest moments. brilliant.

― cw28 (cw28), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Cure -- Disintegration

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

Happy to discover that Nick Lowe's Jesus Of Cool deserves its classic status.
And equally happy that my newly acquired Bad Girls CD still sounds great 20 years after last playing my old 8-track tape copy!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

kaleidoscope "tangerine dream"

― purple patch (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

I just picked up the second New York Dolls album, which is way better than I expected.

― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

**Absolutely** knocked out by = The Byrds' "Sweethearts of the Rodeo"

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

On the Beach seconded, Alex. When I first heard it last year, I was less than knocked out. Lately, I can't get "Ambulance Blues" out of my head. "Revolution Blues", "For the Turnstiles" and the title song are also great. "Vampire Blues" I'm not so sure about. But I love the transition from "Walk On"'s cheery fuck-off to "See the Sky About to Rain".

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

Mobb Deep's The Infamous for me.

I can't believe I never heard the thing before. Probably heard tracks here and there on JP Chill's radio show throughout the 90s, but never the whole album. I'm blown away. Best 90s New York rap record? I like it as much or more than Wu-Tang or Gang Starr or Nas or whoever.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

Steely Dan, Aja
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory
Lynard Skynard, Second Helping

Another good thread would be classic albums that you've never heard yet. I still haven't listened to all of Dusty in Memphis, Trout Mask Replica, or Avalon yet.

Don't worry, I will.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

Another Side of Bob Dylan. Soooooo much better than that stupid 1965 "acid poetry" crap.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 04:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa. I'd always loved "Lights Out" from one of the old school punk compilations I had. I never had the album so I went and got it a few months ago. It was more than worth it, god that album kicks so much ass.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 08:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

pleasant go get 'dusty in memphis' *right now*!!

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

marquee moon a few years back when i first heard it was a-bloody-mazing!

hendrix - electric ladyland when i was about 15. still sounds like nothing else evah!

david bowie - low! wow, those sounds and drum sounds!

whos next! wont get fooled again might be my favourite song ever. well top 10 anyway.

theres more but im at work now and have to actually do some work.

― Mr Monket (apn99), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

I really want to get Ummagumma. I only lately identified something I remember hearing and liking as being from Disc 2 of that album. I think I was a little turned off because my most intense music-sharing friendship was with someone who insisted on laughing every time he would say the title. I always hated that business of "Oh, Ummagumma, ha ha" *Nudge, nudge, wink, wink* You know, toking up to it back it high school (which neither of us had done anyway). I hate to see good music turned into that kind of stupid Beavis & Butthead routine.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's like you can't even talk about what's good about it because it's this big knowing laughter joke thing.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's not that I haven't heard it, but it's been a long while and I had forgotten how good the instrumental part was.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

Getz and Gilberto, Einstein on a beach, music for 18 musicians, village green preservation society.
aslo, pandit pran nath's midnight ragas, if that counts

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

OH!, and Sketches of Spain. goddamn that shit's good

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

the sad thing is that it's so hard to share the joy of discovering 'classic' albums with other people. you're all "man, '#1 Record/Radio City' is the SHIT" and they're all "duuuuh".

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

That's Einstein on the Beach. For some reason that matters to me.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 17:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

If Philip Glass were from my city, he would have called it: Einstein Down the Shore.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 17:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

haha

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 17:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, isn't Glass from Baltimore? I thought "beach" was a West coast locution and the East coast equivalent was "shore".

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 17:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

pentagram - first daze

― brock (brock), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 18:24 (8 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, 1 September 2004 19:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

in utero. oddly enough.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 20 November 2004 09:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

In Utero is incredible. I'm listening to it right now, I swear to god.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Their Satanic Majesties Request

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

the latest: getz and gilberto's mellow bossa nova album from 1963. i wrote about it recently.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Stevie Wonder, "Songs In The Key Of Life".

Oh.

Man.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

The greatest classic album for me was last february someone turned me on to Gene Clarks No other.....

what an amazing album... it deserves a thread of its own on ILM..

yet no-one has heard it..

― danny boy (danny boy), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

Spooky Tooth, Spooky Two

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah that was exactly my reaction when i was about 23 tantrum.
waayyyy better than 'innervisions' despite what anyone says, but so help me i'm not getting that one started again.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah that was exactly my reaction when i was about 23 tantrum.
waayyyy better than 'innervisions' despite what anyone says, but so help me i'm not getting that one started again.

"As" and "Pastime Paradise" knock me flat on my ass.

There are big gaps in my knowledge of soul. I know "Living For The City" and "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" (which also gets a big "Oh. Man." from me), but have never heard all of "Innervisions". Is it worth picking up in its own right?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

John Martyn's Solid Air. At times it sounded like Nick Drake (duh!), Joni M but also an acoustic Fleetwood Mac. I ab-so-lu-te-ly love it.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah u gots ta gots ta get the run that goes innervsions/fullfillingness../songs...
and yr pretty much done. there are those that'll tell you he still had good stuff left in him, but not *especially* good stuff.
also 'music of my mind' and 'talking book' and a 60's hits comp.
he was very nearly dropped by motown in the early 70's just before the golden era dontchaknow?

the classic 3 really are that good. people usually forget 'fullfillingness...' mainly cause it has no hits on it.

heck there's a whole thread somewhere.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

This year I heard a lot of 70s hard rock for the first time. Lots of great stuff, eg, Budgie, but the self-titled Captain Beyond album blew my mind.

― todd (todd), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have Innervisions, Talking Book and Songs..., but have never heard Fulfillingness'... Do I need to bother, really?

I don't know if this is the kind of thing this thread is really about, but I got Cecil Taylor's One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye today. It's been reissued by Hatology. I've been getting outbid for old copies on eBay for years, and now I know why. This is absolutely one of the most skull-crushing discs I've ever heard - the whole band is like six men driving a steamroller right over you, and it's unbelievably well recorded. I have it turned up medium-loud, and it's like being onstage with them. Can't recommend this one highly enough.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 751 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.