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

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.

Yeah, it went top twenty over here.

That certainly doesn't happen with re-issues anymore (Trav Wilbs excepted)

nilsson, pandemonium shadow show

Recently and for the *life* of me i can't think why i'd not heard them before; Lust For Life and The Idiot by Iggy Pop. Specificaly Fall In Love With Me and Tiny Girls.
Mindblowing isn't too strong a word.

Slick Rick, "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"

It's only been less than a year since I got Kris Kristofferson's first album, but I listen to it routinely now and I'd place it squarely in my ALL TIME TOP 10 fo sho.

'dirty mind'

prince?

if so that shiz is a stone cold classic

J, I envy you discovering that album.

SOOT was really my wtf-Prince moment though

A Walk Across The Rooftops

"Automobile Noise" is beautiful in a way that makes me feel a little queasy, like the way you feel when you are in love.

Slick Rick, "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"

heard this for the first time a few months back. great fun and it holds up better than most rap albums from that era.

btw what I said sounds corny but you can give it to me, only bravado etc

Black Sabbath - Paranoid. I've heard all the classic Sabbath records, but just recently really clicked bug time with this one.

bug time? big time is what i meant.

with Prince I started with 1999, which I really loved, then Purple Rain, then Dirty Mind. that sequence led me to pretty much get his entire 80's catalog in less than a month.

For me it's Merle Haggard's Big City.

hell Around the World in a Day is also underappreciated as hell, wtf with some people actually going as far to say he let down the black community by recording "white" music (i'm not making this up)

C/D: Prince's "Around the World in a Day"

thanx dude

Maybe not the biggest of classics, but Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man. All that apocalyptic sleaze.

great fun and it holds up better than most rap albums from that era.

1988 wasn't exactly a bad year for hip-hop iirc

Maybe not the biggest of classics, but Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man. All that apocalyptic sleaze.

Total classic.

xpost think he's talking about how well some of teh albums have aged.

my bad thought slick rick was '86