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

there's not been a revival of this thread in the SPOTIFY era so how's about we have one now?

Spotify + Jazz thread = Me being currently knocked out by

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/3/albumcoverJohnColtrane-Ascension.jpg

Bowie's Low.

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.

what a horrible set of choices!

(i know it's a predictable response. i was tempted to add FIRST)

lol. IT IS WHAT IT IS.

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.

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

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

http://www.magisystem.net/~akiu/images/cd/milesdavis_onthecorner.jpg
Why did I wait so long? Its 18 years since I first heard Kind of Blue.

"In a silent way" for me

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

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.

Since my last post, it would have to be "Discipline" by Crimson.

Dazzle Ships

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.

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

now this i would pay good money for.

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.

is 'musik von harmonia' too obscure to be deemed a 'classic album'? i've been listening to 'aja' a lot too.

MVH is classic as hell. i just replaced my lost copy recently and was re-knocked out by it, it's amazing.

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.

steely dan is jazz?

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. :)

I love this thread. For me it's the unsophisticated choice of Sex Pistols - 'Never Mind the Bollocks'.

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

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.

Think I'll have to wait a long time for Live '77 to be canonized.

BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D

Go-Betweens-16 Lovers Lane

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.

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

describe the chemical circumstances of yr morning, IK

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.

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.

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...

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.

http://991.com/newGallery/Little-Feat-Sailin-Shoes-473470.jpg

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.)

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)

Slowdive - Souvlaki.

yay Sailin' Shoes love! I had that album on in the car when I drove my baby home from the hospital last week :)

Sailin' Shoes is so awesome. Congrats on your new arrival, dude!

Congratulations!

Charlie Parker with Strings is SO good

I know! more people need to hear it. the song "Laura" makes me sad though. (long story)

if you can believe your eyes and ears - mamas and the papas
harmonies!

Riot - Fire Down Under
Love - Forever Changes

Oh, me too with Love, due to that alternate mix that came out last year. It's not better or worse, but definitely sent me back to that album after years of neglect.

yeah, Beatles, 'Abbey Road'
and Patti Smith, 'Horses'
Jefferson Airplane, 'Surrealistic Pillow'

Highway 61 Revisited

Vegemitegrrrl = you might like this. I think it wipes the floor with the album version =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzzgFOLa63A

There's also a fantastic full film version that STILL isn't out on dvd but pieces are also scattered around You Tube.
Features Cale and Reed looking at each other at various points in a real eerie cool way.

feelies - crazy rhythms. so good!