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

Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

I also heard this for the first time recently and yeah it was great

^^yess, in line with my motorhead comment as well

One of the Sanctuary sets seemed to have most of the essential Discharge material on. Not sure if it's still in print. I noticed the label's Venom set seemed to have a climbing price recently.

The most recent Discharge reissues, on the Captain Oi label, are the ones to get. They come in nice digipaks, and between Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing and Why, you get all their singles and EPs from 1980-84 as bonus tracks.

I downloaded Horsebox after seeing it mentioned upthread, never even having heard of Leatherface, and holy fukk mind blown. Thx.

"Meet The Residents"

I downloaded Horsebox after seeing it mentioned upthread, never even having heard of Leatherface, and holy fukk mind blown. Thx.
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Glad to hear it! I really think that album is something special. Even the guitar tones, the snare drum sound, the way the vocals are mixed in, etc. all sound pretty idiosyncratic to me, just subtly different enough to give the whole thing a distinctive feeling. That combined with the lyrics, which often have a kind of impressionistic, free-associative aspect to them, take what might otherwise be a (very very good) meat-and-potatoes sentimental punk rock record and give it this blurry, dreamlike quality that I find really wonderful.

And yeah now that brimstead mentions it, "sentimental Motorhead" might be as good a capsule summary of the Leatherface sound as any.

Pancho and Lefty by Townes Van Zandt. Holy mackerel I cannot believe it took me 43 years to get into this guy. This is one of the great songs of all time, and now there is plenty more to uh, enjoy. (He's kinda grim, but whoah what a talent)

I had my own belated discovery of Townes a couple of years back. I found The Late Great Townes van Zandt, the album that "Pancho and Lefty" is from, a little hit and miss, but I highly recommend his *other* album from 1972, High Low and In Between.

I'd recommend the Texas Troubadour set which is most of TVZ's early stuff. Pretty good throughout.
I don't know him beyond that though.
I know that there is a documentary on him that's considered classic too.

Live at the Old Quarter is a fantastic TVZ set

the whole run from our mother the mountain through late great townes van zandt is incredible

live at the old quarter is fantastic too

The Texas Troubadour box set goes up to Flyin' Shoes and Live Songs from 1973 and is consistently good as far as I can remember.
Not sure of anything after that. But that might be the most economic way of getting taht early material. THink it was going reasonably cheaply online.

Trying to think when I actually picked up my copy, and can only think that I bought it at the same time as another box set with the same title. That other one was the Proper Ernest Tubb set. I think that was just concidence.

As reported at the time, I got my (unplayed) copy for £1.50 in a charity shop... uh as reported by me on ILX, that is, not as reported on the national news or anything.

somehow missed this until today but Ulver's "Nattens Madrigal" is truly a masterpiece. i'm embarrassed now to think of all the black metal that i've loved for years that is so derivative of this.

Bitches Brew

the AE_LIVE 'official' 2014 soundboard recordings.. i think they achieved something special here

on a cartrip we listened to

The Kinks "Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire"
Joni Mitchell "Court and Spark"

and

Donovan "Barabajagal"

and it was really interesting to talk in the car together about what it meant to feel that in each case these artists were "at the peak of their powers" or whatever, because of course there's not one measurable thing called intensity that we can just track, and the clichéd narratives of rise n fall that the kinks are making fun of sneak in the side door when we want to believe that people develop, peak, and fade in some predictable way when art/life isn't like that, and then there's the question of artists as part of a team w producers, engineers, audiences/scenes etc. versus the Lone Genius Songwriter idea (fits Joni well, Donovan poorly, Ray Davies kinda). I dunno. Classic albums, man.

court and spark

womack & womack - love wars

interesting - will give this a go. "baby i'm scared of you" is an all-time classic for sure.

Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives. I had heard Automatic Writing before and it didn't do it for me, but this is great. I love its sense of humour.

Several over Xmas including Kinks, Coltrane, Zappa, Buzzcocks but I think I'll plunk for Ten Years After's s/t.
The jazz elements are just so creamy and right. Sound incredibly hip.
Don't know why it's taken me so long to get that 1st lp since I've loved the Spoonful since my early teens. Had it on the MFP World of Blues Power or at least my family did.

I had heard it several times before but finally bought a reissue of THE SONICS - HERE ARE THE SONICS. This album merits more love, I'm not sure anyone rocked as hard as them in 1965 and it seems like a very influential album for the subsequent 10+ years of punk and garage insurgence.

old stuff: been listening to bluesy stuff and finally checked out "liege and lief" and it didnt disappoint

John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer
junior wells chicago blues band - hoodoo man blues
johnny cash - with his hot and blue guitar
fairport convention - liege and lief
megadeth - rust in peace
kid creole and the coconuts - tropical gangsters
the woodentops - giants (is this a 'classic album'? I feel it should be)

Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins - Duets

It is supposedly just some leftovers from the Sonny Side Up sessions but I have much love for it.

I gave the Go-Betweens another chance after seeing them on that Spin Top 300 list last year, and apparently the Amanda Brown albums were what I needed to jump on the bandwagon.
(Though truthfully I still haven't warmed to the early stuff).

LaBelle - Chameleon

Vanity 6

Cluster & Eno - s/t, Eno/Moebius/Roedelius - After The Fire and Hassell/Eno - Possible Musics.

Robbie Basho - some old Robbie Basho record that isn't considered a classic but it's old so

Al Caiola - Deep in a Dream

Byrds - Fifth Dimension

Amy Winehouse- Back to Black.

Stevie Wonder's Innvervisions

ah, funny that someone just mentioned Eno as I was thinking about this thread yesterday after being floored by Eno's "Another green world".
I'm rarely impressed by an album on first listen but this is fantastic !

Not an album, but...I just realized that I've somehow never heard 'River Deep, Mountain High' until today. I don't know how that happened. But holy cow am I glad I've rectified that situation.

Kraftwerk's neon lights just came on walkman. Pretty great.

Mayo Thompson Corky's Debt To His Father last new thing I think. Don't know if I'd actually heard before.
Several things in week before including Fingers Inc's Another Side.

Grace Jones - warm leatherette
Riuichi sakamoto - b-2 unit

washing machine by sonic youth is a lot better than i remember. a friend of mine gave me a brand new copy of the vinyl reissue. lee's songs are especially great. i honestly didn't remember any of it besides little trouble girl and the diamond sea

Tim Buckley, "Greetings from LA"

I used to consider myself a Tim Buckley fan, despite the fact that I'd never heard anything later than "Starsailor", I'd never heard this album till this week. I could use the excuse that I was into him pre-internet, except that doesn't work because this album wasn't that rare. Anyway, this album is very good.

A lot 'this albums' there. Too many. Far too many. ;_;

Ngozi Family Day of Judgment.
76 Zamrock lp with destructive guitar. Quite stunning in places.
Got the Now Again cd which presumably sounds better than the original lp release. Still sounds really crude. Very satisfying.

i've been listening the fuck outta cheap trick's first two albums since the weather turned warmed. i knew a song or two from each but never devoted much time to either.

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Always stuck to Tommy and Quadrophenia, but these early albums are really outstanding.

iron maiden's _powerslave_ is really a very good album.

it's about a powerful slave

Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Dio - The Last in Line

Alice Coltrane - Journey to Satchidananda

I guess if Judee Sill - Heart Food is a classic album, definitely that one.