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

Every time I put on some old Eno or Cale I get knocked out.

last one was talk talk's laughing stock

Ride - Nowhere

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Deluxe by Harmonia. Awesome.

'supa dupa fly'

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man shit yeah that's an album

The Pebbles series

Mine was Screamadelica. I thought Primal Scream was like, a grunge band.

Also the Stone Roses debut. Heard a lot about it, it seemed like one of those overhyped critic's faves that's good but obnoxious and overwrought (see also: Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel).

http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/90/ZZ_Top_-_El_Loco.jpg

yeahhh i have only recently realized the classic-ness of zz top.

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man shit yeah that's an album

^thirded. What a great record that is.

Finally, after many years reading about them, I listened to the NY Dolls debut. Wow. There was a Stones-vibe I about the Dolls that I wasn't expecting. I love the Stones, so yeah.

are the boys being busted for smuggling weed on that album cover? it doesn't look like weed but still...

anyway yeah they are awesome, altho that's the one pre-Eliminator album of theirs I don't own

i love zz top but i guess i don't consider el loco "classic" compared to the earlier ones....i think they start to fade a bit starting with deguello, and then obv with eliminator they become something different.

Mingus - The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady

Selected Ambient Works

i think they start to fade a bit starting with deguello

hatin on Deguello?! you mad

CHEAP SUNGLASSES

Stevie Wonder's Talking Book... I knew the singles but recently had my mind completely blown by "Maybe Your Baby"

When was the last time you heard Pearl Necklace? That song smokes.

i like deguello! it's still zz top (actually manic mechanic is a nice album cut)...but anyway i'm just saying IN COMPARISON to like tres hombres or rio grande mud...they still rule in comparison other ppl

ZZ top is like Rush for me: the early guitar stuff is the best, the 80's shiny, synth stuff does nothing for me. Give me Rio Grande Mud, 3 Hombres or Fandango any day. THe middle period stuff is ok.

Ride - Nowhere

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Monday, 11 October 2010 04:56 (3 days ago) Bookmark

U should check this out if you haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAT-5MTRrPo

that's not a track off Nowhere obvs but that's the first song on a good live video, all of which is up on that guy's You Tube account.

also we saw the new upcoming Creation movie 'Upside Down' last night and that does a fantastic job of at last giving Ride the credit they deserve. Mark G saying that essentialy Ride paid for Loveless but he was happy about that!

Roxy music-for your pleasure

Ride paid for Loveless? I thought Oasis did.

Loveless recorded: 1989-1991

Oasis' first record sales: 1994

Oh well, I meant post-Loveless spend rescuing the label, I guess if we're talking pre-Loveless financing... of course.

10cc - Sheet Music
Tom Verlaine - Words From The Front

The first Suicide album

ZZ top is like Rush for me: the early guitar stuff is the best, the 80's shiny, synth stuff does nothing for me[ is fucking all time classic forever dog.

― Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:39 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

Ride paid for Loveless? I thought Oasis did.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:58 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

everybody paid for oasis

Violator.

my beautiful dark twisted fantasy!!!

lol

liar

Mobb Deep "Hell on Earth"

herbie hancock - sextant

this actually happened a while back but i'm re-discovering it now and its blowing me away more this time

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

Cat Stevens. Never heard the dude before, checked out Teaser and the Firecat because I've been singing "Morning Has Broken" a lot to my baby daughter and wanted to check out the original (yeah I know it's not the original original, but whatever). And Tea for the Tillerman because "Father and Son" has been going round my head on repeat while I wonder if and when my son and I will ever get to that point. Anyway both albums are stellar. He's playing here soon and I'm wondering whether to go. Does he still do the old stuff?

Mark G saying that essentialy Ride paid for Loveless but he was happy about that!

This is actually a really fascinating story. If the extensive David Cavanagh account is to be believed, Ride didn't so much "pay for Loveless," tho the success of Nowhere was probably the only thing that kept the label afloat, while McGee scrambled to borrow enough to cover the recording cost. Still, Loveless was never a big seller, esp. off the bat, so it was mostly Screamadelica & Bandwagonesque that recouped the debt iirc. I sincerely hope Gardner etc. have recouped whatever royalties they didn't see at the time. Oasis, at least, should have more than made up for any old Creation debt.

I don't how I've managed to avoid And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out for so long before this week. Its a tiny beautiful thing.

i found a tape of "Hunky Dory" a few months ago, and tho i had it on CD when i was 13 or so, had completely forgotten what a brilliant, brilliant album it is.

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yeah he still does the old stuff and loads of it but there's a catch. when we saw him (late '09) he was promoting bizzarely enough, an upcoming Cat Stevens *musical* and was doing this via a 20 minute mid section that was essentially a kind of sample of scenes from the musical itself. it was one of the most unusual things i've ever seen at a gig! anyway the crowd didn't seem to mind (it was Liverpool; always a friendly upbeat gig crowd) but in Dublin folk were um.. less appreciative:
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/catcalls-and-boos-greet-folk-hero-of-the-70s-1945341.html

that was more than a year ago, maybe he's dropped that part by now!

hey thanks for that, sounds like a car crash moment par excellence. I think I will go.

Mark G saying that essentialy Ride paid for Loveless but he was happy about that!

Confused. Clarified. Now, not confused. Carry on.

lol

mickey newbury - looks like rain
thinking this might be the best album ever

Monks-Black Monk Time
Grateful Dead-Ammerican Beauty
Little Feat-Feats Don't Fail Me Now
X-Under The Big Black Sun & More Fun In The New World