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

'something/ anything?' by Todd is also a winner so i'm told by the Todd massive.

Yeah, that's probably his real "opus" album. A lot of people complain that it's too long or whatever and has a lot of juvinile stuff like "Slut" or "You Left Me Sore", but at least it is pretty entertaining. How exactly do you hate on a song called "Piss Aaron"

A Wizard, A True Star is his best. I cant imagine him ever making a better album than that.

when I used "lackadaisical" in my last post it didn't mean what I thought it meant

I think you are over-thinking/over-caring about the lyrics

FWIW, I'm also not too crazy about the music - it sounds like cod-psychedelia that was already dated by 1970.

"who loves the sun" isn't the best vu song by any stretch but still it has something about it. a naiveté, a carelessness. like a song for children. it's straight to the heart and i find that charming. i don't care for the lyrics and dated is an epithet which in this context definitely is a red herring. if i think about it dated is an adjective which does not make sense in an objective way. when something sounds dated it sounds dated for you but not in general. the datedness factor arrives only when you have listened too often to the same kind of music in the past. but really good music like the beatles for example never sounds dated. what is the antagonism of dated? fresh? the beatles always sound fresh to my ears. and vu too.

Beach Boys - Sunflower
Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes Et Caetera
Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction
Southern Journeys Volume 8: Velvet Voices

"Who loves the sun" is the only VU song I would ever put on a mix cd. I like some of the other songs on Loaded but I don't really like VU at all. As for whether the psych-pop sound was literally dated or not doesn't make a difference to me. I wasn't alive in 1970. Either way WLtS never sounds dated in my ears. Though it will get bored of it just like any other pop song

Pop will get bored of itself.

'something/ anything?' by Todd is also a winner so i'm told by the Todd massive.

I have a feeling I may know the 'Todd Massive'.

I have only just recently heard Luomo's Present Lover, and my gosh it sounds incredibly fresh for a six-and-a-half year old album.

^^ Yes. I remember how big a deal that album was when it came out, and how it totally lived up to the hype imho. Deserves canonical classic status.

Led Zeppelin I, II, III and Houses of the Holy

Kind of pissed off the Luomo hype passed me by. I must have heard some stuff around the time and just not been grabbed. I know I had an electro version of Tessio on a DJ mix at the time, but didn't know what it was.

Actually that mix was brilliant - really fast electro like they did in the early-mid '00s that I'd kind of forgotten existed as the style became more mid-tempo throughout the decade. It was an ilxor who called himself dj xii who made it.

Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh

I thought Greatest Hits was the last great Sly Stone record, but I was wrong.

Dog Latin, excited for you to have just gotten into Present Lover! I think Sasu Ripatti is one of the best, period. I recently picked up Anima (which he did as Vladislav Delay) and that's a total jaw-dropper. Vocalcity changed my music life when it came out, and I'll always hold it up as one of my favorite and most formative records.

As far as recent classics I've just gotten/loved:

Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
Holy Mountain - Sleep (classic only amongst stoner metal enthusiasts, I suppose, but this is amazing)

I dipped my toes into Vocalcity after reading all the crazy hype around here, but I never managed to get into it - and still can't to this day - I guess it was just too house-y for me.
'Present Lover' otoh just blew my mind when it came out - so rich, so emotional for a record drenched with a cold glamour sheen (perfect cover art). So human for a record based on allegedly de-humanizing cut-ups and mechanical sounds.

Like Baaderonixx, I think I must have checked out Vocalcity and just not been taken by it, hence why I didn't bother investigating further. In fact, despite having been heavily into IDM/post-rock in the early 2000s Vladislav Delay passed me by completely. I intend to rectify this. Can anyone suggest a POX cuts, or a couple of essential albums - I know he has a lot of pseudonyms.

Cut by The Slits.

The present lover the album and vocalcity are both essential imo. The present lover song is one if my all time favourites.

despite a couple of duff tracks (inc. "pride"), "the unforgettable fire" is a great record.

I enjoy most albums posted in the rolling Krautrock thread, but I was knocked out by You's "Electric Day"

kind of an uh elastic approach being taken to the definition of "classic album" itt at the mo

the fuck is luomo?

Yeah, maybe. I don't like Luomo.

kind of an uh elastic approach being taken to the definition of "classic album" itt at the mo

more like an elastic approach being taken to the phrase "anything pre 1990"

vladislav delay's multila is pretty essential. "huone" is a stunner off of that one.

I didn't notice the pre-1990 stipulation in the original post, whoops (I think that Sleep record is from '92 or '93)... But that's kind of an early cut-off point, isn't it? Especially given that there've been--at least in rock--almost as many post-'90 years as pre-'90 years at this point.

Re: Vocalcity and Luomo in general, yeah, I mean if you've got a general aversion to house, this stuff isn't so radically different that it'll convert you or anything (it's really pretty reverent in its way). At the time, for me, Vocalcity managed to both beat most all other "IDM" I was aware of in terms of sound design, texture, detail, and compositional chops, while also being groovy as hell (I wasn't so aware of house proper at the time).

Vladislav Delay's Anima to me is essential... Very abstract, but with the same pulsing, teeming-with-microscopic-life organic sensuousness of the Luomo stuff, and a vibe of detached, cerebral dread rather than more obvious "dark" dread. The sound design is just astonishing (but listen to it loud in a room, not on headphones, for maximum effect).

there've been--at least in rock--almost as many post-'90 years as pre-'90 years at this point.

:-O

Of course, I meant album-oriented rock... It's kinda true, no?

i guess... That's frightening though.

Very true... Continuing the Luomo love, here's Philip Sherburne's really outstanding review of the '05 reissue:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4929-vocalcity/

Sam Cooke - Night Beat. Damn.

It's not a proper album but The Kinks - Ultimate Collection really knocked my socks off.

xp to the stuff about pre and post 1990; i've honestly no idea why i said that in the first post! since then we've taken it to mean any vaguely canonical album from any era.

original Luomo hype here btw:
Luomo: The Present Lover

My thought was that 1990 is a year likely to catch most ilxors in their teenage years and therefore formative years of musical taste. Obviously there are some older and younger, but most ilxors are early 30s I think. And, I don't know how old you are, piscesx.

mm i'm 37 so yeah i was thinking 'classic' as in 'old' meaning i guess 'before i was a teen' so you're right. but yeah this thread eventually became 'what was the last album you got that people generally think of as classic, that you were knocked out by'.

Out To Lunch, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Free Jazz, Ascension, Saxophone Colossus

and I'm just getting warm

Alan Lomax Southern Journey Volumes 7 (Velvet Voices) and 8 (George Sea Islands) are amazing.

picked up a couple of the Kinks Deluxe thingies recently; the mono version of Face to Face(my fave Kinks, period) especially kicked my arse in a good way.

It's not a proper album but The Kinks - Ultimate Collection really knocked my socks off.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing
xxpost: i like that that one is a double disc set with some underrated singles/b-sides (i.e. "i need you" and "who'll be the next in line")

Yeah, it really seems to hit all their high points with only a handful of key tracks missing (I added "The Village Green Preservation Society", "Picture Book", "Destroyer" and "Picture Book" to my digital version.)

Bruce Langhorne Hired Hand OST

Dr John - Babylon, which I heaerd for the 1st time 2 weeks ago. It was made WHEN????~?

got reacquainted with The Contortions "Buy"

Todd Rundgren mentioned above, I will nominate Something/Anything? SO good.

Also James Carr's A Man Needs A Woman

The My Bloody Valentine one. I've listened to a lot of those 90's/00's 'canon' albums, stuff like Funeral, Aeroplane, etc., but this is the only one where I can totally understand why it's regarded as a classic

this is happening to me atm with If You're Feeling Sinister

Rush, "Moving Pictures" which I haven't enjoyed since I was a freshman!

Also XTC Skylarking which I thought I'd hate.

most of the early Popul Vuh catalog

^ Popol