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

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

Faust IV. Picked it up about a month ago and it just kills me. Was just listening to it this morning - it's still in that phase where every time I listen to it I realize it's even better than I thought the last time I listened to it.

there's not been a revival of this thread in the SPOTIFY era so how's about we have one now?

Spotify + Jazz thread = Me being currently knocked out by

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Bowie's Low.

I was listening to it, BTW, to see how P2K's top album of the decade from the 70s -- 00s compare to each other. So it's Low v. Daydream Nation v. OK Computer v. Kid A.

Might be a good poll, actually. But I'm not sure just being the No. 1 disc of a decade (according to Pitchfork) creates an especially meaningful comparison.

what a horrible set of choices!

(i know it's a predictable response. i was tempted to add FIRST)

lol. IT IS WHAT IT IS.

answer to the thread question - EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE. one of those records that reminds you why teenagers spend so much time in their parents' garages, why that ever became a thing. i bought it for £3 because the reissue was coming out and you know what, i don't even care if i can't hear the rhythm section.

oh and U F ORB, which i listened to fully for the first time on the bus to work, and had such a great set of coincidences - speeding up and slowing down in time, catching sight of horses running across a field as a beat came in, getting stuck in traffic for the exact duration of the victor lewis smith bit - that i'm sort of scared to listen to it again

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

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Why did I wait so long? Its 18 years since I first heard Kind of Blue.

"In a silent way" for me

Skip Spence - Oar. I know it has some haters, but I listened to it for the first time last night and thought it was fantastic

Songs For Drella - Lou Reed & Jon Cale. Discovered it while cleaning out/realphabetizing our CDs yesterday. Love it, can't believe I never heard it before. Praise the lord for my husband's eclectic buying habits.

Since my last post, it would have to be "Discipline" by Crimson.

Dazzle Ships

I've known and liked Gainsbourg for years, but heard Histoire de Melody Nelson for the first time this week. Wow. I love how dryly rocking it is, while going against the (rockist) convention of what makes rock work- middle aged rich guy working with an arranger and session musicians. Being a horny old goat trumps all that artifice. Does this reissue contain significant remastering? It seems louderized in a good way.

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

now this i would pay good money for.

Speaking of Ringo, I recently finally got around to picking up Lennon's Plastic Ono Band - for some reason I've never got around to buying his solo works - and am loving it.

is 'musik von harmonia' too obscure to be deemed a 'classic album'? i've been listening to 'aja' a lot too.

MVH is classic as hell. i just replaced my lost copy recently and was re-knocked out by it, it's amazing.

Got Coltrane's Giant Steps earlier this year, and wow. Amazing album. Not sure why it took me so long to try listening to any jazz other than Steely Dan. I think it stems back to not liking jazz (or classical music, to a lesser extent) as a kid, and never challenging that assumption.

steely dan is jazz?

As jazz as anything I was listening to prior to this year. Perhaps it's better phrased as I wasn't listening to anything more jazz than Steely Dan. :)

I love this thread. For me it's the unsophisticated choice of Sex Pistols - 'Never Mind the Bollocks'.

Geir Hongro Sings the Ringo Starr Songbook

now this i would pay good money for.
― a single man owns you (Ioannis)

mister Ioannis, sir - yer clearly a better man than i, for i'd rather download that for frees.

Think I'll have to wait a long time for Live '77 to be canonized.

BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D

Go-Betweens-16 Lovers Lane

Daft Punk: Discovery. Good lord. I'd been utterly floored like this maybe four times in my life, until now always by something new, and never by a whole album. It happens maybe once a decade - this morning the 2010s got theirs in early. It was an overwhelming, bewildering emotional experience; shivers, tears, euphoria, the lot.

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

describe the chemical circumstances of yr morning, IK

Naturally unbalanced - I was driving, actually, real fast in beautiful cold sunshine, so can't really explain my very curious response. There must be something in those first five tracks in particular that pushes all my vulnerable triggers. It was an odd but magnificent experience.

abbey road.

I mean, I've had a crappy, taped from the library C90 copy for years, but only very recently got around to picking up the vinyl. just magnificent. even the track I voted for as the worst (maxwell) works in context.

previously, I had little more than a passing, casual, almost ambivalent affinity for the beatles overall (though I've always loved the white album), but I can't stop listening to this.

xpost: For me, that usually happens with individual songs rather than albums, but yeah, I know how music can just overwhelm you, in spite of yr best defenses. Last time I can remember that happening was in response to Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" cover. First time I heard it, it ripped right through me and made me bawl like a baby. Something euphoric about the experience, but also frustrating, cuz I didn't want to be manipulated by the song, didn't even want to like it. But I couldn't help myself...

Then again, that's a little different, cuz the Buckley cover is trying to make you cry. Or get married. Or make horrible movies about Watchmans. Something like that.