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

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.

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

I'm a big fan of his more straightforward (relatively speaking) mid-70s pop albums, like Bananamour and Yes, We Have No Mananas.

Artful Dodger – Honor Among Thieves

and

Legs Diamond – Legs Diamond

Steve Miller - 74-78.

Little Feat - <I>Dixie Chicken</i> and <I?Sailin' Shoes</i>

xp Been really getting into Firefall and Eddie Rabbitt this year too, but those are old best-of CDs, and probably don't count as "classic albums".

70s Bowie, mainly Hunky Dory, Station To Station & Low, all of which I picked up used after recently getting reacquainted w/Ziggy + Aladdin Sane
The Best of Spirit-I got the expanded version for x-mas and have since picked up their first three albums plus the not bad at all Feedback. Will get Sardonicus soon.
T.Rex-Electric Warrior Finally broke down and bought the expanded edition. "Raw Ramp" you mothers!
Aerosmith-Gems
Nancy & Lee

Neu '75

also: the Sparks catalog!!

Most of Talk Talk's albums. Midly frustrated I hadn't picked them up at an earlier point in my life.

fleetwood mac - tusk

After all the praise on this thread I gave Tusk a listen at work today. Three times. My word that's a good album.

Pink Floyd - Relics

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House (took a long time to really get this one, but now I love the whole damn thing including Spencer's stuff)
Styx - Greatest Hits (not new to me, but recently rediscovered)

you get a *poster* with BOOKENDS??

I had "The Stooges" and "Raw Power" for ages, but I never got around to "Funhouse" until the reissue. Ho. Lee. Crap.

It's just stunningly great.

Joanna Newsom - Ys

(didn't care for the first album, waited 2+ years to check out this one, and whaddya know? turns out i *love* this one... is this a classic album yet? should be!)

sun city girls torch of the mystics
nektar journey to the center of the eye

Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere

Ys is certainly a classic album - in the pantheon sitting next to Astral Weeks for me.

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Self titled Bill Fay album. A bit of a quiet classic.

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

-- outdoor_miner, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:26 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

I have to dig this out again.

Lets see, the last one for me was....

Howlin Wolf: the two Chess albums on one disc.
I can't believe how long it took me to get this.

Get a copy of it, that is.

i've owned Kraftwerk's Radioactivity for a few years, but only last week did it hit me how great it is.

also, Morricone's Fistful of Dollars soundtrack.