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

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.

Bee Gees 1st

Cerrone Supernature. It's as good as I hoped it would be. Only with more drum solos.

Robyn Hitchcock: "I Often Dream Of Trains"

Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water

Hmm?!
I got this also, sometime last year, almost the same time I bought Jon Anderson's Olias, too.
Listened to theem just recently again. And again. And to my moderate surprise - I keep enjoying Olias quite a bit more...

On the truly knocked-out front, though - most recently the two Judee Sill alb's have done the sweet punchin-to-teh-pulp o'me.

Terry Reiley 'Poppy Nogood / All-night flight'

"Colossal youth" - Young Marble Giants. Bought it before Xmas, should have bought it about 20 years ago by the sound of it.

most of the Fela oeuvre.

The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers

I just got around to Blood on the Tracks, having felt half-hearted about "Tangled Up In Blue", the only song I knew from it. Actually, it's just that I liked the Jerry Garcia version better. The rest of the album is amazingly good, but everybody else knows that except me.

Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends was kind of a wallflower album for me, unassertively lurking in the collection for years until I started giving it some serious spins this past winter. So polished and consciously classy. I may even hang the poster.

Finally checked out Kevin Ayers "Joy of A Toy" and we were all like whoah.

Daniel - have you heard Ayers's new one?

No. I came at the thing via digging Soft Machine but I don't really know anything about Kevin Ayers solo.

He gets less and less "Soft Machine" as he goes on

Lately I can't stop playing that debut Raincoats album, which I only just got 6 months ago, after 20+ years of having heard only a single track. (Fell in love with "In Love" back in '86, so "Why did it take you so long to check out the rest of the album, foole?" Well, because I'm a fool; plus it was OOP for a long time. Thank you Kurt Cobain!) Anytime I find myself straining to listen to the words and cursing the lack of a lyric sheet - that's pretty much a guarantee that an album is something special.

pretty much all of gram parsons' stuff for me

most of the Fela oeuvre.

Yeah, I've been a bit slow on coming around to that stuff too. I just downloaded "Zombie" recently - it did not disappoint.