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

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!

Just heard "phaedra" by Tagerine Dream couple of weekends ago and it was pretty damn awesome.

feelies - crazy rhythms. so good!

I also just heard this for the first time - and though I liked it, I didn't love it. Maybe it will grow on me a bit though. First impression is that the gaps between songs are too long.

not sure of their 'classic album' status, but i'm loving the Bee Gees Horizontal and Trafalgar.

Neil Young - Time Fades Away

Badfinger - Magic Christian Music (had no idea this was produced by Visconti)

Also been getting into the Band's early "classic" stuff

^ MCMusic is on my 'investigate' list... how's it compare w/Straight Up?

Straight Down

dunno, its the only Badfinger I've gotten so far - meant to check them out for the longest time, just took me awhile to get around to it. It has its dud moments, but in general shit these guys wrote great songs. Reminds me a lot of the Bee Gees early 70s stuff (Mr. Natural, To Whom It May Concern, etc.), tons of hooks, great vocals, lots of stylistic diversity (ooh here's a heavy rocker followed by a music hall number followed by a blue-eyed soul song etc)

x-post

i thought i was knocked out by Emitt Rhodes st record, now i'm not so sure.
i think i prefer todd rundgred/roy wood variation on the subject.

Shakey Mo, you need Straight Up asap.

and Wish You Were Here

feelies - crazy rhythms. so good!

seriously, why the hell did it take me almost thirty years to hear this?

ELO - Out of the Blue

Thanks to all those who voted for this in the alternative '70s poll for turning me onto this. I have vague memories of hearing and liking some of the hits on classic rock radio, movie soundtracks, etc. but I never connected them all as the work of one band who I should pick up an album by. This is weird and wondrous stuff -besides the obvious Beatles/Beach Boys influences, it sounds a bit Euro-pop to me: the disco influenced rhythms, the synthesizers, the goofy voices.

Caetano Veloso-JÓIA
Jon Phillips-JOHN, THE WOL FKING OF L.A.
Antônio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina-ELIS & TOM
Lee Hazlewood-COWBOY IN SWEDEN
Roberto Cacciapaglia-SEI NOTE IN LOGICA
Fleetwood Mac-TUSK
Frank Sinatra-WATERTOWN
Van Dyke Parks-DISCOVER AMERICA

I dunno, some other stuff too I'm fried.

Nico - Chelsea Girl

also Nick Drake - Bryter Later - but I already knew most of the songs on that, so it wasn't quite such a revelation.

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im guessin dude saw royal tenebaums like a week earlier

*tenenbaums

probably more of a 'lost treasure' than a classic album but the music machine's 'turn on' from 1966 is amazing. touched by the hand of goth but with a charming goofiness ('dont play hopscotch with your life, you silly fool! you know you cant win first place prize that way!')

also after the eno/roxy music documentary on BBC4 a couple of weeks ago, i dug out m copy of 'for your pleasure' for the first time in about 8 years. much much better than i remembered. <3 Beauty Queen

Yeah after that Eno Documentary I dug out for your pleasure and bought Roxy Music today. giving it it's first listen now.

I think it might take a weekend till I get knocked out by it.

Finally got Double Nickels on the Dime, after knowing individual tracks for a while like Political Song for MJ and History Lesson #2. You sort of need those songs coming at you one after the other, surprising you with a wildly different style or a knockout line.

The Velvet Underground's VU. I only acquired this late last year. Where has this album been all my life?

Miles Davis "Birth Of The Cool" - first heard some 12 years ago; revisited in last 6 months and getting frequent and more intent listens each.

alice coltrane - journey to satchidananda (thx ilx alternative 70s poll!)

is "the roches - the roches" considered a classic? it's old, but it's not exactly famous so i'm not sure. but i gotta say - considering i don't usually like folk music, i don't usually like chick singer songwriter types, and a really really don't like music that's jokey and not serious, i sure like the hell out of this record. i've played it like 6 times already this week. what great harmonies! what cool lyrics! what a great, kinda hip new yorker, kinda not hip at all jersey girl, refreshingly upbeat, unassuming-and-self-depreciating-considering-how-crazy-talented-they-are kinda vibe this album has!

the only other time i'd even heard them i think was when i was like 11 and they were guest artists on a very very early saturday night live. i was impressed then too, but hadn't really looked into them at all since then...

I remember when VU came out in the mid 80s. A classic 'lost' album by one of the great bands, still casting a shadow over 80s music. How often does that happen? I mean, you get a few stoned beatles outtakes every few years, but never a complete album in the class of the rest of their output.