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

The Hall of the Mountain Grill is up there with those ones.

Quark Strangeness and Charm has always been a fave
Hawklords is pretty great
Levitation is def. worth checking
i'm partial to the Calvert years sorta

Mountain Grill + Quark Strangeness IMO, plus the one with Elric on the cover.

oh, is that Warrior on the Edge of Time? not sure, but that's a great orkwind, too

yeah yeah that one. Those three are my faves. Space Ritual doesn't habe the prescribed effect on me for some reason.

yeah, i've gone back to space ritual since it's so highly regarded by the hawk fans in general. it's a great live landmark recording but just doesn't get me off like the studio stuff mentioned.

We are lucky j0n w1ll1ams isn't on ILX anymore, he would FP us both for that opinion.

Not exactly on topic, but I've just gotta report that I'm finally really starting to love Bitches Brew, 25 years (!) after I first heard it. (Headphones are key to enjoyment.)

I've been hearing a bunch of NWOBHM albums for the first time. Not sure of classic status, but in addition to compilations, these:

Witchfynde - Give 'Em Hell
Witchfynde - Stagefright
Shiva - Firedance 82
Satan - Court In The Act 83

Even though I knew most of the songs from decades of airplay on AOR and classic-rock radio, I only recently listened to Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs from start to finish for the first time. Wow, what a powerful record....

two by Novos Baianos really impress me, like two of the best records ever i'd never heard before - Abacou Chorare and F.C. - classic bossa sounds meet folk/psych and they're kinda stunningly brilliant

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been listening to both of these a loooooooooot in the past month and yeah

Re: Hawkwind: Definitely check out Robert Calvert's "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters."

^even better, "Lucky Leif And The Longships".

Really? I never got into that one.

i've been aware of michael hurley for a while, but a recent listen to armchair boogie made me think that the dude might be the best ever.

xxxpost: i think i listened F.C. about 10 times in two days which is a helluva lot for me and one record.
i know eno had somethin' to do w/Lucky Leif, but i only ever got into a coupla tunes on that one.
got to see Calvert about six months before he passed @ 100 club and i remember the smoking version of "ejection"

FC is def my fav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUyBkJfU6OI

the whole doc is up in one youtube as well

I love F.C. too, not sure why it's not quite as well regarded as Abacou Chorare.

I've been listening to Little Feat's "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" non-stop for the past week. I think they hit the perfect balance of jazz fusion and southern rock here.

moodymann - silentintroduction

i've been aware of michael hurley for a while, but a recent listen to armchair boogie made me think that the dude might be the best ever.

yeah, that's a goddam great album, probably my favorite MH

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

Lee Morgan and Joe Henderson kick ass on this thing. It's like a breezy day along the lakeshore in mid april.
Cool, maybe a bit harsh at times, but exhilarating.
I can't play this loud enough.

Been meaning to ask if this thread meant heard for the first time or reheard but it still had that special whatever you got the first time.
Cos I think there are a number of things i haven't listed that I could do with the latter, keep getting hit by tracks on my walkman for one thing.

walkman is more of a 'classic belt attachment' tho

Listening to Galaxie 500 Today up close for the first time right now.
I've heard it in passing in a bar a few times before, but this merits closer inspection.
It fits my mood really well today.

I have like 350 hours of music on my walkman and normally play at random so tracks are hitting me unexpectedly, probably in different colourings thanks to context of surrounding tracks. A lot of that would count as classics I think, but not if you' re only counting first time hearings.

I also tend to rediscover cds I have had for a while but not listened to in ages. Pretty constantly. Again a lot of things that would probably count as classic though I'm not sure what definition of canon you're using for classic. There are quite a few.

Oh and the last pretty much standardly recognised classic lp I've just been knocked out by is CCR's Green River. But I've had it for a while, soon after the most recent reissue and have been aware of the lp since it turned up on vinyl in a jumble sale in the early to mid 80s. Just not heard it in ages so not as familiar with it as I maybe should be.

Wonder if the first Sylvester Anfang II counts as a classic yet cos that knocked me out immediately before the CCR.

& Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music is the 3rd cd on my 3-changer. Another knock out that I've been neglecting.

Well, according to the original post, we're talking pre-1990 albums here.
But shit, I'm no judge of what's classic and what isn't.

Easter Everywhere - owned & loved the 1st 13th Floor Elevators album for 15+ years but somehow never got around to hearing this album until a couple of weeks ago - what a mistake, nearly every track is a killer. Particularly fond of I Had To Tell You.

Bought time you slipped inside this house

bout time

yeah i meant heard *for the first time* in the original post. 'classic' just meant anything 'from kinda way back' and 'pre 1990' seemed a generation ago at the time
(in 2004) so it sorta worked for me. but pre or post 1990 it makes no odds 800+ posts on, as folk have thrown all sorts of stuff in.

man i mean i guess now albums *from* 2004 are classics.

Fingers Inc - Another Side

So classic why is it out of print?

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Yeah, I've got it as FLACs, wish I hadn't lost my copy of the lp. Heard it's worth quite a bit.
Did hope somebody would finally get it together to release it. Souljazz would be a likely candidate.
Or did I hear that the original release wasn't altogether Kosher? Which might mean its a copyright issue.

Last one? Aphrodite's Child and 666

Those double disc reissues of 13th Floor Elevators that came out last year are nice. I've heard Easter Everywhere, but it was like hearing it for the first time again.

I got "Pink flag", "154" and "A bell is a cup" on vinyl some ten years ago, wore them out, declared Wire a 'favourite band'. Bought "Send" and "Object 47" when they came out. Then I realized last week I'd never heard "Chairs Missing". Whoops.

Oh, there's a happy ending to that story of course

tonights treat that totally hits the all important spot : carpenters 74-78

gold shiny cover and all ..

best 50p i ever spent ?

quite possibly.

Death Of A Ladies Man by Leonard Cohen/Phil Spector
think I really like this lp, especially in the recent remaster. It styil gets dismissed though. thought it had a critical reevaluation around the time The Bad Seeds were becoming popular. Though I think it might sound a bit more like the Tindersticks.

Gordon Lightfoot - Sit Down, Young Stranger, oh yes, it's a knockout

Last one? Aphrodite's Child and 666

So fuckin' great

oh yeah, that one too. I expected it to be a hell of a lot more difficult than it actually was (outside of some of the stuff in the end)

Just got the Esoteric versions of Matching Mole's Little Red Record and High Tide Sea Shanties. not got anything on my feet cos my socks have been knocked off.
Esoteric remastering is done so well Pretty much every time. Really great to hear Little Red Record sound clear so you can hear each instrument defined instead of the mushy field of sound on the earlier version of the cd.

guess i interpreted "classic" as "canonical" ... almost everything mentioned here could be argued to be a classic by.....someone i guess. but canonical they are not.

I am glad I was not the only person thinking this

yeah, there's a bunch of stuff in here that are albums hardly anyone has heard of

canonical depends on the canon, though, right? it's not like there's only one...

then again, matching mole seems a stretch by any definition

Bowie's Lodger

of course there's more than one canon. there's an infinite number of canons. but the term implies a bit more recognition/cultural significance than "classic", which is a word the bro in my office used to describe the fact that i brought a banana to work with me in my bag this morning

the only problem w your banana is that it's not pre 1990

otherwise bro otm

what was the last 'classic banana' you ate and were knocked out by?