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

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oh man.. i took that from my mom's basement a few weeks ago, also expecting not to like it at all.. but I haven't listened yet. I guess I ought to now... will report back.

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, most recently would be Super A(r?)e, but that's clearly not old enough. Blew me away just last night though, so I had to mention it.

The Clash - London Calling
So I'm a little late on this one ;) I never expected it to be so incredibly fun! Every other song makes me want to dance (and as long is nobody is around, I do), and the others just make me smile. Awesome.

Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Sounds incredible, and it blows my mind utterly that this was released in 1980. What a unique aesthetic.

David Bowie - Low
Affects me in a way similar to the Talking Heads album. I think Brian Eno is an alien. Especially love the drums.

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been getting into Low lately soo.. First half hasn't struck me yet, but starting with "Be My Wife" it's absolutely, mindblowingly great.

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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

You sound so bored by the idea. Do you like the other Stevie Wonder albums a lot? I think it's worth hearing and I put it on occasionally. For some reason, the religious (spiritual?) lyrics on a couple songs (Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away, They Won't Go When I Go) on this one get on my nerves more than the same themes do on some of his other albums; but still, there some great music here. I've got the disc in front of me and for a lesser Stevie Wonder album, it sure has some good songs on it, notably: Smile Please, Heaven is 10 Zillion. . . (which I like despite some of the lyrics), Boogie on Reggae Woman, You Haven't Done Nothin', Bird of Beauty.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 20 November 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

now here's a thing.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

nico, "chelsea girl"

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Sticky Fingers

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

There was a 'Tusk' thread on here recently and that got me listening to it, really for the first time. I listened to it like I would a Beach Boys album and that helped. (Not that I can really explain what I mean by that.) Also, Fleetwood Mac's status as annoying classic rock radio staple has long since faded for me since it's been almost ten years since I've listened to the radio. So I gave it a fair hearing.

Second, around August I got 'In The Jungle Groove.' I always assumed that since I had the Star Time boxed set and a few other albums, that I had all of the essential James Brown. Boy was I wrong! It's really one of the best albums I've ever heard. Fellas things done got too far gone!

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

The Blue Nile 'Walking on Rooftops'

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

They both make it sound easy, too.

― Mestema (davidcorp), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
They Won't Go When I Go
these were covered by matt goss and george michael.
george also did love's in need of today" and "as".

― retrogurl, Friday, 9 December 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

the secret life of plants - stevie wonder
fave song - "black orchid".
http://steviewonder.free.fr/html/album24.html
back to "songs in the key of life"
love's in need of today - george michael
sir duke - will smith sample.
pastime paradise - coolio sample
as - george michael.

― retroboy, Friday, 9 December 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

just realised will smith used "i wish" for a sample.

― retrogurl, Friday, 9 December 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Forever Changes indeed. Breathtaking.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm listening to PiL's Metal Box for the first time right now, which is doing pretty well so far.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I'm feeling a lot of love for Arcadia's So Red the Rose at the moment. I do know why I didn't notice it at the time, but I'm still kicking my 14-year-old self.

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

After the Gold Rush, which I'd never heard till this past weekend (though I recognized probably half the songs).

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon--I wasn't expecting to even like it, but it's fabulous.
-- andrew s (soupguil...), November 20th, 2004.

That's a bold claim. I must get that.

― piscesboy, Monday, 16 January 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Finally got Pink Moon this weekend and it's awesome! Can't believe it took me this long to get into Nick Drake.

― darin (darin), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Marquee Moon again.

― Cracks (Crackity), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Television Personalities - ... And Don't The Kids Just Love It

This is a classic.

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I bought Brian Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets last summer because it was one of those canonical records that I felt like I needed to hear but never had, and I'm quite glad I did.

I just got Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) from my grandmother for Christmas which also is equally exciting to me - I listened to it while walking around the National Gallery one afternoon in Washington DC and it was the best possible choice for that situation at that time.

― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X
This is the first time I've found myself enjoying a Metheny record, which added a little extra knock to that knockout.

― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

lately i have been quite impressed with
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
and how damn good it is

― J. Lamphere (WatchMeJumpStart), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Rust Never Sleeps

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Probably Bowie's Hunky Dory. How did I manage to miss "Queen Bitch" for this long?

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Kate Bush - 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love'. Quite how I survived all these years without hearing 'Cloudbusting', I don't know.

Also recently heard a coupla tracks off 'Rumours', which have blown me away. Genuinely affecting MOR can be so deliciously satisfying.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

This was about 12 years back but within one week i got both:

Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia - Fridy Night in San Francisco, and
John Mayall - The Turning Point

...blew me away

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

The English Beat - Special Beat Service

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

10cc HOW DARE YOU ( 'don't hang up' especially)

― pisces, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

critical beatdown - ultramagnetic mcs

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Comus - First Utterance

Would Xenakis' La Légende d'Eer be considered a classic? If so, that one (especially with headphones on).

― Ivan, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Substance

Had liked New Order, but never got around to the orginal band. What a fool I was.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece. Bought it in the 90s when i first got into Van but never really got into it. I prefer it to Tupelo Honey (which I like) and at times almost has the transcendent qualities of Astral Weeks.

― dan selzer, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - I was really blown away by how good it was, I always had thought Neil Young was kind of overrated, now I've reconsidered.
One Nation Under a Groove - found it cheap at Tower
[i]Big Fun

― ablaeser, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

new order - brotherhood - never heard it back when, and it's killer
the complete stax volt singles collection (discs 1-9) - a non-stop party

― outdoor_miner, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Marquee Moon for me as well, actually. I like it more every year.
And Talk Talk's Laughing Stock managed to sneak it's way back into steady rotation. Holy hell.

― ryborg3k, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Harold Budd/Daniel Lanois/Brian Eno, The Pearl/i] (please kick my ass if I ever sell this)
Television, [i]Marquee Moon (I gave it chance after chance five or so years ago when the OMG TELEVISION was at its apex, but I'm taking to it exponentially better now, possibly because I'm playing it in the car for the first time)

― jamescobo, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

John Cale: The Island Years.

Absoltely stunning.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Substance

oh wow. i remember when i did the same thing in, what, 1990. my mind really didn't have a clue what had hit it. funny: "atmosphere" came on today while i was listening to that "right time, wrong speed" john peel compilation and even now it stops me dead in my tracks.

get "still", and get the preston and paris live albums. then get the bootlegs. you jammy sod :)

for me, it's probably still "pacific ocean blue" by dennis wilson, which i spent a lot of time raving about on ILM last year. oh, and "your majesty ... we are here", of course. can an album be truly classic when it's so tragically unknown by the greater music-listening public? hell yeah. that one can.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Bowie's Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes, Lodger)--I always thought the Changes comp was the only Bowie I'd ever need. I was wrong.

― MC, Monday, 5 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure how classic it is, but 'Surf's up' really hit a sweet spot.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

finally got GP/Greivous Angel last fall...always thought it couldn't live up to the hype...it does, and then some...unimpeachable...

― henry s, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Slugfuckers for sure.

― Drooone, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece

Yeah, same here! That one slipped through the cracks somehow until recently and it is right up there with the other great ones of the era.

Don't know if this counts, but I am really into Hall & Oates War Babies now. Never listened to it before...

― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club. That was in November. I need more awesome music.

― abanana, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

finally got GP/Greivous Angel last fall...always thought it couldn't live up to the hype...it does, and then some...unimpeachable...

that one was a letdown for me... the burrito bros. twofer is so much better

― abanana, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Heron Anthology is pretty special.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

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