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

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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i've been half-heartedly pushing randy newman and warren zevon to all the fleetwood mac and steely dan heads on ilm for a while now!

both too self-consciously 'clever' or writerly or something, though. i mean i acknowledge their flaws but i love them both.

alfred do you have 'stand in the fire"?

oh, what I own by Zevon I love. I'd love to hear Stand in the Fire.

zevon kind of sucks.

oh and i agree with you alfred bout rn

chaki don't you even like sentimental hygiene?

fave randy newman is prob good old boys, maybe his only album where there aren't really any of his trademark gratuitous cheap shots at easy targets (though many would argue that point) (also i totally love many of his trademark gratuitous cheap shots at easy targets)

Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water

The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses

Alfred you might love Newman's Faust as much as I do, it's got some of his best & darkest work though a lot of people can't tolerate the star-studded cast (Bonnie Raitt, Don Henley as Faust, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor as God)

james taylor is god.

Emmylou Harris: Pieces Of The Sky

Alain Bashung 'Play Blessures'

J0hn D. OTM, re: Faust! Alfred, if you don't have it run out and get yourself a copy of 12 Songs immediately--it's his best by far, I'd say; Xgau was absolutely right in this case: "A perfect album."

james taylor is god.
-- chaki, teisipäev, 9. Oktoober 2007 21:15

o-oh, so it's him who started teh god-thread on ile, then?

Go Betweens - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express

Radiohead - In Rainbows

The Who Sell Out.
Until tonight, hadn't heard this album in full for nearly, um ...since mofunkin' Brezhnev was still alive, or thereabouts.
Wot's more, this Polydor reissue has a handful of bonus stuff - most of which, o wonder, is good. ..."Hall of the Mountain King" is crapturous, tho.

well it's been 6 months.

yes - fragile

Chris Bell - i am the cosmos
never had heard before and it's pretty damn terrific

i never really cared for it too much but i love the cover!

Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. Yes, I know but hey, I just never got around to it. Now I can't get enough of it.

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