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

dunno if anyone will rep for its "classic album" status, but after a decade-plus of not getting the fuss about Will Oldham, it was a revelation hearing Palace Bros - Days in the Wake for the first time over the summer

anything pre 1990 im talking here people.

whoops! ... still, that record came out 18 years ago—I could have sex with it today if I wanted to (which I don't, because I'm afraid I might catch something)

I only really dug into Only Built 4 Cuban Linx last year, so that.

finally got into Neu! last week. all three albums rocked my lil' booties right off

'someday man' / paul williams.

― piscesx, Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:44 AM (Yesterday)

excellent album !

goes well with his other album of the same era when he was in the holy mackerel

Northern Lights – Southern Cross by The Band. I've been in love with their first two albums for years but had never ventured beyond them for some reason. But this is a wonderful album with one of their best ever songs in "Acadian Driftwood".

Agreed--and "Makes No Difference" might be Danko's finest moment as a singer.

That's two great songs but nothing else on the album is remotely as good tbh

Prefer the version of Makes No Difference on The Last Waltz tbh, find the production on NLSC a bit...flaccid

Eddie Kendricks - People... Hold On

Cluster & Eno

nilsson schmilsson. baffled that i'd avoided this one for so long.

heard ornette coleman's "the shape of jazz to come" for the first time today, made a 2 hour bus journey in the lashing rain much more tolerable.

brotherlovesdub have you heard the second Cluster & Eno album, After the Fire? IMO it's a lot better, up there with the classics from both

Judee Sill - Heart Food

for me it's gotta be the first Van Halen album. I understand now what the big deal was.

The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark

one of those records where you're astonished that you somehow missed it

Cheating a bit with the 1990 cut off but I d/led Divine Styler's Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light based on reading stuff on ILM about him recently and holy shit this is fucking amazing.

Al Stewart - Past Present and Future

John Martyn - Bless The weather
Joni Mitchell - court and spark
King Sunny Ade - Synchro System

this was never lost, but it turns out Blood on The Tracks is pretty good. hehe. I've always had a bit of a bias against Dylan's voice, but I wanted to hear his 70s work.

On the flip side, Time of the Last Persecution by Bill Fay isn't doing much for me at all. justifiably lost at this point.

Wire - Pink Flag

Sun Ra - Atlantis
U2 - Boy
Neil Young - Harvest
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Ornette Coleman - Dancing in your Head

I'd been well familiar with Ornette's 60s Atlantic records for decades, but for some reason never caught up with his electric work until recently, apart from James Blood's Tales of Captain Black, which led me to this. Holy hell, is this good.

Cheating a bit with the 1990 cut off but I d/led Divine Styler's Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light based on reading stuff on ILM about him recently and holy shit this is fucking amazing.

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, January 30, 2015 3:35 PM (2 days ago)

Oh shit, yeah, there was a bit on him in the Wire and this sounds like it'd be awesome, must track it down.

Lol, in my opinion Spiral Walls is the worst album by Divine Styler, including the one that came out last month... But I guess it's a different if you're a rap fan or a rock fan, because in my opinion DS is a genuinely unique and interesting rapper and hip-hop producer, who just happened to make a silly and indulgent rock album as his sophomore effort, before he returned to making unique and interesting rap music.

I mean, who would want to listen to some pointless guitar noodlings by him, when you could listen to genuinely freaky and innovative stuff like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Uzpw7TcT8

And this one rocks much harder than any of his attempts to do proper rock music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALnKSghc8Yc

re:divine styler, Always been on the fence about this track, but I'm feeling it today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQQmnnJ9KFc

Al Stewart - Past Present and Future

Yes a stone cold classic. If you haven't heard the follow-up, Modern Times, do yourself a favour – it's very nearly as good.

McCartney II

Nona Hendryx, Nona

(side A particularly)

houses of the holy & physical graffiti

Joni Mitchell - Hejira

I guess the Leatherface lps are just outside of the pre-90 dateline. Pretty classic though
Was listening to meditations by John Coltrane's expanded Quartet a couple of days back and that is great.
As was the Incredible String Band's 500 Spirits wwhcih I had on the 3 changer with it throughout last week.
& stuck on Nebraska a couple of nights back but took it off the 3 changer to make way for Leatherface.

The thread's ten years old. Should knock the date up to pre-00?

aerosmith - rocks

Yeah that whole 'pre 1990' thing. That was just where my head was at back then.
No idea why I said pre 1990. New thread needed maybe.

Think it's good to have the perspective of time to evaluate an album as classic. Still a good thread.

stereolab - "emperor tomato ketchup"....i dont know why this passed me by when it came out. amazing. the second best stereolab album

1,2 and 4 are the groop at their very best but most of the rest doesn't move me. It's interesting that it's widely considered their best album when it's totally a transitional record I to their tortoise/high llamas jazzy ish phase

Maybe MAQ is the more transition-y album actually... That's where they started to use more "exotic" chords + presence of "fiery yellow"

Good Kid MAAD City

I didn't like Section 80 when it came out and for some reason I skipped GKMC, came back around to it after being impressed with TPAB and oh now I get it

Louis Armstrong - The Big Band Recordings 1930-1932 (JSP 2-disc set)

Technically not an album, but amazingly great. I like this better than the Hot 5s and 7s.

Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

Blood on the tracks

a best of Rotary Connection has really grown on me.

& the Dusty Springfield Where Am I going? set has some extremely tasty stuff oon it.
BUt mainly I think its that Leatherface 3cd Razorblades and Aspirin that is really taking me back to around the time they came out.
I spent a lot of the summer of '90 hitching the UK following bands and it seemed that every time i went to see them I'd wind up at some free festival afterwards. BUt their own gigs were something else. I've really got to dig out the more recent cds I have by them and see if they are as good.

Have you heard Horsebox? I absolutely love that album. I go back to it more often than Mush, even.

I need more Leatherface in my life. punk that sounds like motorhead is my favorite kind of punk

aerosmith - rocks

― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:23 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's good to see this album mentioned. Hearing Aerosmith's '70s work is an absolute revelation to those who are only really familiar with what they did from the late '80s onwards. Here in the UK, Aerosmith weren't really visible until their best days were long behind them.