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

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

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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.

last 'classic album' i was disappointed by: Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

Captain Beyond

Late with this, but here's kind of a crappy shot of the Bookends poster.

http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/simon/images/bookends_lpposter.jpg

Some friends of mine who are Kinks nuts are giving me the urge to see what the fuss is about.

Want that poster

"Captain Beyond"

Awesome

the first captain beyond album is awesome

Is Face to Face considered a "classic" album?
Can't believe I stumbled upon it only about a year ago.

A lot of the albums on this thread aren't considered "classics", but, hey ho, just make it a thread for good albums you've only just heard

Thanks thread. Been listening to Kinks Village Green for a month now, it's blown my socks off.

Oh, and Superfly.

'pretzel logic'

Rumours (yeah I'm slow) - mostly blown away at how fresh it sounded, despite being familiar with most of the tracks on it already.

Davey Graham, After Hours.

'pills thrills and bellyaches' was a nice rediscovery this year as well.

I've always liked Ellington's Far East Suite, but in the past couple of months I've realized that it's one of the records.

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.

Illmatic by Nas, Taking Tiger Mountain... by Brian Eno.

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

I probably listened to Low 20 times last month.

Happened to be listening to the radio one night last week as I drifted off to sleep and heard "You Don't Know What Love Is" from Coltrane's Ballads LP. Nothing really "difficult" or technically over the top but--that tone. A master in complete command of his instrument.