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

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

TELEVISION - marquee moon!

Elis & Tom

John Cale - Paris 1919
Had no idea that the supposedly more avant-garde member of the VU would turn out to be a writer of such lovely pop songs. I've since checked out most of the rest of his 70's stuff but nothing has had quite the same impact.

ditto

although I did enjoy parts of Slow Dazzle and the tune "The Man Who Couldn't Afford to Orgy"

Slow Dazzle has "Guts" and "Ski Patrol," which are awesome and luverly.

slow dazzle is kinda bonkers i love that record

I just recently started listening closely to Aja and it's knocked me out, esp. the title song, good heavens it's beautiful.

this calls for a cover connection!

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I know they're years apart but I've wondered if one was a response to the other.

Reed responds to a near-great record with a decent-to-leaden one?

Lou's album is better. Somehow can't see Lou admitting to copying Johnny.

Reed responds to a near-great record with a decent-to-leaden one?

hey come on this is a vintage Reed maneuver!

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god i hate street hassle so much.

Is OK Computer old enough to be a "classic album"? Most of the "classic albums" I've listened to for the first time over the last couple of years were okay, but they didn't knock me out. (Sorry, Sweetheart of the Rodeo.)

'I Want You' (is it 'cassic' or are Let's Get it On and WGO Marvin's quota?)

lolz when I first heard Sweetheart of the Rodeo my response was a serious WTF. Do not get the love for that album. I love lots of 60s country - particularly Buck Owens, Flatt & Scruggs "Songs of the Famous Carter Family", Waylon Jennings, etc. - and the Byrds doing it just seems kinda pointless. Traded it to a friend shortly thereafter, don't regret it a bit.

Do people really consider it a classic album though?

Fleetwood Mac - "Then Play On". I never listened to Fleetwood Mac until I was introduced to Tusk a couple years ago and was floored. Not a big fan of "Rumours", but someone played "Then Play On" recently and I think I may love it as much as Tusk. Incredible record.

"Dirk Wears White Sox" recently went on endless repeat...

blondie - parallel lines

God Bless Tiny Tim! Who knew people were writing such weird & wonderful songs 90 years ago? Or that Tim doesn't rely on the falsetto exclusively? Or that fucking Nico fills in for Tuesday Weld?! (The answer: Everyone who contributed to the "Tiny Tim, C or D?" thread that I should've read sooner; that's who)

pet sounds, strangely enough. and a smile bootleg. i hated the beach boys when i was a kid because their voices annoyed me. but i'm listening to them right now and holy FUCK do these two albums have some amazing songs on them.

hey dlp9001,

have u ever heard the ADAM AND THE ANTS peel sessions? its not my thing but people into his '...sox' era go MENTAL about it.

Led Zeppelin I

still bill withers live at carnegie hall. completely absolutely fucking amazing record.

1976/ J.J. Cale - Troubadour (Shelter Records)

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dolly parton - jolene

'I Want You' (is it 'cassic' or are Let's Get it On and WGO Marvin's quota?)

He's got at least four other classics on top of those two; I Want You isn't even the one, although obviously people disagree. But yeah, he's got a deep catalog.

Rush Subdivisions

I never realized how great they were in the early 80s. Holy shit.

dusty in memphis

Xpost re: Adam and his Ants

I've mail ordered a copy of the Peel Sessions, though it hasn't shown up yet. I get the impression that you could spend a lot of time and money tracking down Adam's punk and post-punky stuff...

For some reason the thing that's freaked me out the most was the youtube video of him with NIN doing Physical. Since his old career is new to me, that seems like such a bizarre pairing.

World Shut Your Mouth from Julian Cope, but I don't know, whether it is considered as a classic

can't speak for it's "Classic" status, but I recently found it cheap and it's been glued to my turntable ever since. I didn't really know much outside the Teardrop Explodes stuff.

I bought that Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music box set w/some gift cards i got...

Like everything has already been said about it I guess, so I won't attempt to butt in on Greil Marcus's turf, but it's really amazing and i don't think i'm going to listen to anything else for awhile

i don't think i'm going to listen to anything else for awhile

I don't think you're going to, either. :)

That well's pretty fucking deep.

i really like the 2nd double CD, the social music ones, the fiddle rave ups are weird and really cyclical, almost remind me of krautrock </ talkingoutofmyass>

Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies Man (I always imagined that I'd dislike this, and several years ago that might have been true)

World Shut Your Mouth my fave Cope album (of all I've heard incl Explodes) by some distance actually.

Architectury & Morality and Dazzle Ships by OMD were rly wo when I got & listened to them a couple of weeks ago!

Just tried a couple Cale records m'self, including "Dazzle".. no thanks.

But, thanks to the "Murmur" thread, "Murmur."

well, hex by bark psychosis is pretty classic and i can't believe how fantastic this album is. i love dustsucker, but hey, this is brilliant.

John Hartford - Aereo-Plain

So I finally listened to Tusk last night. Sweet Jesus, it is BRILLIANT.

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hmm actually tusk is probably my answer to this too

'this nation's saving grace' knocked me out. but certainly not on the first listen. i had to really listen closely to uncover the magic of the songs. its just effortlessly tuneful in an unconscious kind of way. almost like its going down the abstract route, and intercepting melody and hook along the way

yes - 'close to the edge'

i've owned that for about 9 years. i still don't think i've given it its full due yet

Bought a pretty sweet copy of Curtis/Live! on LP and it's just ridiculously great. Ditto Tyrone Davis' Can I Change My Mind, Johnny Bristol's Hang On In There Baby...a good day for soul records.

The first four Roxy Music albums. Why I haven't got into these before I don't know, totally stupendous.

I'm trying to think of the last 'classic album' I've bought.

Or was knocked up by