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

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

Blue Nile, Hats (thank u Destroyer & Wild Beasts for resurrecting this album)
Terry Riley, Lisbon Concert (16 years old now so it counts IMO)
Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
Al Stewart, Year of the Cat (got the 3 that came after it too but haven't gotten into them nearly as much)
Talking Heads, 77 (never really cared for this album until I stumbled over an immaculately clean first pressing and HOLY SHIT)
Spiritualized, Lazer Guided Melodies (aka the only Spiritualized album I actually need any more)
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir, Like A Ship Without A Sail
Roxy Music, Avalon (my interest in this album was initially minimal since I figured I was fine with just having "More Than This" and the title track on their greatest hits, but I picked it up for cheap and the whole thing flows so gorgeously)

"play Peacetrain, ya bollocks!" hahaha

Grateful Dead, Live/Dead. "Feedback" blew my mind; the Dead DID stuff like that?! The rest of it was far better than I expected, not at all the aimless, listless noodling I always associated with the Dead.

Maybe not well-known enough to be a bonafide "classic", but Terry Allen's Juarez and Lubbock (On Everything) renewed my thirst for digging-up new treasures.

some of FRESH by Sly sounding very hot right now.

The Gilded Palace of Sin by the Flying Burrtio Brothers has not been off my turntable for more than 48 hours since I bought it several months ago... Unbelievably amazing.

Poco's Crazy Eyes

Link Wray - s/t 1971 comeback record
Captain Beyond - s/t
several Groundhogs records - Thank Christ For The Bomb - Split - Hogwash
Aerosmith - Rocks
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

All good stuff - I remember hearing many from family members in the 70s - now I know why they had smiles on their faces ...

Michael Gibbs - Tanglewood 63

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead and American Beauty
REM - Reckoning
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

recently bought a stack of dollar Stevie Wonder and pulled them out of the pile thanks to thread so

Talking Book
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Journey through the Secret Life of Plants

I need Innervisions

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

― o. nate

Seconded - had to dip in and out of it for about 10 years before it finally made sense. The fact that it was a daunting double cd didn't help. Now I can play it all the way through with my eyes closed.

Ut - In Gut's House

(is this a classic? i hope so, it's slaying me right now..)

Sign 'O' The Times

I just finished the Matos' 33 1/3 book.

over the past year or so, i've been enjoying softly psychedelic mood music from the late 60s and early 70s, with an emphasis on orchestration, light funk and ambient sound. suppose this sort of thing was a hip crush 15 or 20 years back, but i didn't pay much attention at the time and am now catching up. of these, only contact and vampyros lesbos (kind of a joke, but lots of fun) were previously familiar to me:

danger: diabolik - ennio morricone (1968)
an electrical storm - white noise (1968)
songs of innocence - david axelrod (1968)
contact - the silver apples (1968)
music to moog by - gershon kingsley (1969)
the electric lucifer - bruce haack (1970)
valerie and her week of wonders - lubos fiser (1970)
"vampyros lesbos" sountracks compilation - manfred hübler and siegfried schwab (1971)
sonic seasonings - wendy carlos (1972)
le planète sauvage - alain goraguer (1973)

...had to dip in and out of it for about 10 years before it finally made sense.

― sam500, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

sam's talking about bitches brew, but i recently had just this experience with captain beefheart's trout mask replica. between 1987 and 2010, i tried several times to get into it, but never made much headway. i enjoyed several songs, lyrics and interludes, but the whole thing remained more maddening than enjoyable. finally, a month or so back, it just clicked! kick ass album, sounds kind of like the minutemen. can't now imagine what made it seem so "difficult" in the past.

Have you heard United States of America and the American Metaphysical Circus?
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I had that same experience with Trout Mask but it was only about a year after I bought it that it clicked.

and finally, yeah, electric miles from the late 60s and early 70s. tons of it. in a silent way and bitches brew up through the compilations and live stuff released in the mid 70s. get up with it (so great!), dark magus, that kind of thing. especially on the corner. especially jack johnson.

Have you heard United States of America and the American Metaphysical Circus?

no! will check them out. have always meant to get around that USA album...

oh, and the wicker man soundtrack from '73 belongs on that first list.

Yeah, I would say it fits right in with that stuff.

I was fortunate that TroutMaskReplica clicked with me immediately.

I did get the 2CD version of "Sketches of Spain", and mmmmmm it's nice. but that's it.

I see Bitches Brew around, it's like 'cheap' for the 1CD version, and 'pricey' for the deluxe edition.

Should I? Which?

4-disc "complete sessions" version of bitches brew is wonderful, well worth owning. is that the deluxe version you mean?

"Recollections" may be my very favorite Miles Davis song, it's on the four disc "complete sessions."

oh man contenderizer lots of the stuff on yer list is awes but electric lucifer is so mind blowing good

there was a pretty decent 3 disc (one was remixes iirc but whatever) perrey/kingsley comp out several years ago which is also essential, although goofier, if you dont have it

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Sound-Way-Perrey-Kingsley/dp/B000055ZE1

4-disc "complete sessions" version of bitches brew is wonderful, well worth owning. is that the deluxe version you mean?

― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:21 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, that one. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

My Brother persuaded me to listen to the first album by The Left Banke the other day which blew me away. Perfect timing as there's a new reissue out in a few weeks.

Check your local library! Thats pretty much the only way I've gotten to hear a lot of those super pricey Miles box sets.

Cream--Disraeli Gears
Howlin' Wolf--Moanin' in the Moonlight/Howlin' Wolf

Check your local library! Thats pretty much the only way I've gotten to hear a lot of those super pricey Miles box sets.

Word. However, sometimes the album itself is all you need as umpteen takes on each track really fries my interest.

contenderizer, search "Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos", electronic tribute that is faithful to the original but fresh and contemporary!

Fingers Inc - Another Side

So classic why is it out of print?

A mist sensual album

most

contenderizer, search "Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos", electronic tribute that is faithful to the original but fresh and contemporary!

― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel)

thx for the heads up, looks cool. expected more pop-leaning trip hop for some reason, as this sort of music was an influence on that style. thievery corp, early portishead, that kind of thing.

hey trip: thanks for the USofA recommendation! "all you see of yesterday are shadows in your mind / shadows on the pavement but no bodies do you find" goddam.

Hell yeah!
I found an original pressing of it in the (rare!) brown paper bag and got it for a good price, too (12 bucks, maybe?) right after I started collecting vinyl when I was 18.

The Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies record (The American Metaphysical Circus) really does feel like a sequel (different female lead singer and other personnel changes iirc) but it's not up to the same standard. Still very much worth hearing, tho

coo