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

it's that time again.

Associates - first three & Radio Sessions
Ultravox - first three
John Foxx - Metamatic / The Garden
Wah - Nah = Poo: The Art Of Bluff
Simple Minds - best-of their first 4 albums

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

(hmm, I don't think I've listened to that English Beat album since I posted it on here a year and a half ago - I wonder if I'd still think it's a classic)

coltrane - a love supreme

anything pre 1990 im talking here people.

!!!!

luther vandross' 'never too much'

Propaganda - A secret wish

these three albums blew me away recently:

anita baker - rapture [I knew "Sweet Love" and "Caught Up in the Rapture" of course, but the entire album is just amazing tune after amazing tune.]

Isley Brothers - Go for your Guns

The New Birth - It's Been A Long Time

Nick Drake "Five Leaves Left". Beautiful.

JUDEE SILL HEARTFOOD YOU GUYS

also

Lazy Farmer

Satwa

Leonard Cohen Songs of Love & Hate

Flower Travellin' Band Satori

and Nick Garrie - Nightmare of JB Stan

Loop - Fade Out

I have this and "Gilded Eternity" and I realise now I havent played either in fnyears. I should give them a spin. Them and Head of David.

oh and this:

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Cluster & Eno
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME

I first heard it maybe 10-11 years ago and loved it, but finally got my own copy a few months ago. (Now that I think of it I remember posting this on a similar thread, "old stuff you're getting into" or something like that.)

Not a whole album, but the song "Christine" by House of Love has ruled my world for the last couple weeks.

Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Return of the Super Ape (remastered)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin
Ride - Nowhere
Culture - Harder Than The Rest

Michael Franks -- Art of Tea

also, Love -- "Da Capo" (especially for the side-long tune on the B-side).
I might even like it better than "Forever Changes."

these two come immediately to mind:

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Brian Eno and Harold Budd - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror

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, September 1, 2004 7:12 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

oh look at that, upthread!! right on! :)

How similar is "Plateaux" to "the Pearl"?

Suicide's debut.

How similar is "Plateaux" to "the Pearl"?

-- Trayce, Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:59 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I couldn't tell you as I'm unfamiliar with The Pearl -- in a collection of about 20-25 Eno CDs thus far, it's one of the last ones I'm still looking to buy, I've just never seen it turn up used :(

ebay, here i come?

ditto for Fripp/Eno - No Pussyfooting, I have never ever ever seen it used, though I will attest that Evening Star (the second album by those doods?) is overflowing with goodness

That's funny--I used to always see No Pussyfooting used and think "That record must suck since everyone sells it. And who is Robert Fripp anyway?" Now of course I know he's either Hall or Oates.

al 1st post: not knocked out

oh alright then pre-2000 rather than 1990 i guess. i dunno what i was thinking of there.

I gave my new copy of Talking Heads "77" this morning - it's the no extras, no shite version, and it rocks. I've never heard it before, and it's interesting to hear the proto-afrobeat Talking Heads knocking around in there.

speak no evil - wayne shorter

Speaking of Fripp: The idea of Robert Fripp's ambient music always appealed to me more than the actual music.

I downloaded Paul Mccartney's Ram the a few months ago, and finally found a used copy of it yesterday. I love the entire first side The second has a few growly-voice-Mccartney songs, but ends strongly with the second Ram On interlude and The Backseat of my Car. Good stuff.

I didn't realize my girlfriend had a copy of the Congos' Heart of the Congos. I've listened to it exactly twice, but there are some true gems on there. I especially like "Can't Come In" right now.

I heard Radio Birdman's Radios Appear and Burn My Eyes for the first time yesterday. I was expecting more rip-roarin' feedback 'n' fuzz guitar assault, but wasn't at all disappointed with the complex and melodic rawk action I wound up getting. Didn't like the bonus-track version of "TV Eye" (too fast), but everything else was killer.

Innervisions

Thriller

todd rundgren, 'something/anything'
van morrison, 'astral weeks'
john martyn, 'solid air' and 'bless the weather'
townes van zandt, self-titled

the kinks 'village green preservation society'

despite loving the singles (the production, the song-writing EVERYTHING) from aged 16, i waited another 17 years to hear this album.
this is despite all the re-release hoo-ha and fuss/hype-o-rama 3 years or so back. am i stupid? it now appears so.

listened to the entire village green alb for the fist time myself not so long ago. thought to myself, "wot the heck took me so long?" then remembered - i had tried to order it, as it happened, some time before the re-relese came out, and didn't get it then... song-writing goodness in abundance, yeh.

Fairport Convention - Liege And Lief

Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert

tangerine dream - phaedra

well spooky.

Warren Zevon – The Envoy

Whoever said Tusk. yes yes and yes.

randy newman - sail awway

I discovered that one a few months ago, chaki, and Land of Dreams last week; I still don't know what to make of Newman yet.

Gun Club, Fire of Love

what u thinkin, alfred?

amon duul 2 - yeti

His albums are uneven, and uneven in the same way! Some of those long songs are well-served by his ingratiating drawl, others just drift; then he does something like "Political Science" or "I Want You To Hurt Like I Do" and he just slays.

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