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

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Yes was my favorite band in high school, but because I started with Yessongs I didn't bother getting Fragile or Close to the Edge (or any earlier ones). I got Tales and Relayer when they came out, but didn't like subsequent ones and kinda lost interest. I never did buy those pre-Yessongs LPs, though I have aquired a couple early collection type things.

I got Relayer earlier this Summer. Also very cool. It's taken me a long time to appreciate anything besides The Yes Album.

to the thread question,

Gang of Four - Solid Gold

classic, right? if not, it should be. entertainment! has been one of my very favorites since i first heard it, but for some reason i never felt compelled to track down their other material until i saw solid gold in the record store for $8 recently.

totally classic.

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Is it too early to answer the Swans Seer?

not my thread, but yes, too early! don't get me wrong, i love it too. but if you include stuff like that this thread just turns into "what new albums do you love?".

/obviopolice

Fine. Uh then my awesome is the diSEMBOWELMENT's Transcendence into the Peripheral (thanks Judge John Hodgman's podcast!)

lol that podcast is what finally got me around to checking those dudes out too!

The Sundays - READING, WRITING & ARITHMETIC

Ok, so it came out in 1990...

Bought the complete Zep catalogue the other day off iTunes. That's pretty impressive stuff.

The Sundays - READING, WRITING & ARITHMETIC

Ok, so it came out in 1990...

This album IS stone classic. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

During childhood my sister threw my Grease LP at me in a fit of rage. I was merely winded though.

White Noise - Electrical Storm

That first track alone sounds so unique it's amazing it came out in 1969.

electric

big ups to ashra - 'blackouts' too. a must for ambient (and krautrock) heads.

husker du - 'new day rising' as well. the 80s poll made me check out some du records i missed out the first time around. all old stuff lately for me right now.

ah yes, electric storm, sorry

The Modern Lovers a few months ago, after it was played at Devon Record Club.

Oh I love the Modern Lovers.

I don't about 'knocked out," but I had a really good time with Can's Ege Bamyasi this past weekend.

The Sundays - READING, WRITING & ARITHMETIC

Good on ya. Still one of my favorite albums by one of my favorite bands.

Bought the complete Zep catalogue the other day off iTunes. That's pretty impressive stuff.

Also this. One of the best purchases you'll ever make, my friend.

My most recent was probably Dusty...Definitely!. I'm girding my loins for Dusty In Memphis.

Tyler have you heard this? A 1989 Peel session version of My Finest Hour that flattens the album version IMO. even the You Tube comments seem to agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwm0p0Ziw04

Reading, Writing and Arithmetic was my fave album of 1990 and i'm not ashamed to say i burst into tears after hearing this version for the first time on Stuart Maconie's old BBC6 show in 2004.

The Special AKA - In The Studio

Maybe not a classic album, but definitely a classic band. Had never bothered with it before, but it's great!

That's an amazing version of My Finest Hour.

Bowie's Lodger is a bit good. Been a ChangesOne kinda guy, so this and station to station are big revelations for me.

Groundhogs - Split (Thanks to the ILM '70s rawk poll!)

rumours

blue lines

Stayed away from Elton John forever, but jeesh, Madman Across the Water is awfully impressive. Obv knew Tiny Dancer, but the whole album has the same triumphant/melancholic/epic feel. Is all his early 70s stuff this good?

have been debating getting the recent elton john boxset of his early albums myself actually.
something i would never have imagined a few years back.

Aja

Yeah, early Elton is the shit.

My answer is Suicide - Suicide (77)

Two pretty different records, but:

L' Enfant Assassin des Mouches - Jean Claude Vannier
Yank Crime - Drive Like Jehu

L' Enfant Assassin des Mouches - Jean Claude Vannier

given my love of axelrod i had been told many times to pick this one up ..
eventually i saw a copy and got it.
not what i expected at all, and to be honest, its rarely dropped in the playlist due to all the random noise excerpts that spoil the flow for me.
however, when its good, its very good.

it's pretty "experimental" I guess. He arranged a lot of Histoire Du Melodie Nelson, and you can certainly hear that in Les Enfants... Some friends of mine went to a concert he did at the Royal Festival Hall a few years ago, said it was both far out and groovy.

bruce springsteen - the river
max romeo - war ina babylon
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life

bowie -- hunky dory

Can - Tago Mago.

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I just "got" syd barrett its p great to "get" something

Isn't it, though?! Man, I live in hope that different stuff clicks for me, it's what makes me periodically revisit certain artists and albums. I just spun "Psychocandy" and while it sounded better than ever, the vocals still don't work for me.

I tried and failed with Syd long ago. What helped you get him?

Also Suicide and Tago Mago. And Neu! as well

Tago Mago clicked in with me a few months ago after leaving them for ages, I guess I learned to ignore the bad bits. Yes to german funk, no to screetchy noise shit.

Notorious BIG - Ready To Die
EPMD - Strictly Business / Unfinished Business
Robert Palmer - Sneaking Sally Through The Alley
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

These all have the added sweetness of being by artists I'd never have imagined would become favourites of mine. Love it when that happens.

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

i should have already know this album but didn't. knew it was going to be great but wasn't prepared for this. i think "Kooks" might be my favorite song on this album. it comes so natural to David Bowie that it almost scary. how is it possible to be this good?

known

Kooks is amazing. I like Bowie's advice to young Zowie that he should stay out of trouble with bullies because he's "not too good at punching other peoples' dads" or something. i also like the bold (i think it's bold) decision to put this easy, casual, personal song right after the transcendent Life on Mars?

in that song i always heard the lyric in the chorus as "sailors fighting in the dancehall/ oh man, look at those gay men go" and was upset to learn that the real lyric is "cavemen." it's one of my favorites ever. the only shitty song is Quicksand which is tedious and also sort of fascist, i think.