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

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.

xxp
Arthur Blythe is amazing, I have been playing that one myself a lot recently.

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Not sure fi I've heard this before or not. KInd of surprised if I never have. I think it turned up on blogs etc.
But really really beautiful lp from early 70s UK, presumably Bristol type area considering the cover image.
Folk with a really pure voiced vocalist and I think all acoustic and traditional but very fresh sounding and crystal clear productin which is almost like a psychedelic sheen or something.

Then went onto
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which I only remember hearing once about 30 years ago. I'm far more familiar with them a couple of lps later cos I got the remastered cds in a sale about 10 years back or something.
Think I thought this was too poppy when I heard it, surprised cos it sounds fine now.

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Great band Family. But even amongst their lps that lp is unique. They get a bit straighter musically after that and don't have backward instruments etc all over the place.

That folkal point album is worth a fortune, I believe

Yeah think the original is on a very minor local label.But that's a set of Flacs so not worth what the original vinyl would be.

Not a new album to me, but one that finally clicked, is The Band's Music from Big Pink. Somewhere on here there's a thread floating around where I disparage them and compare them adversely to CCR. Between then and now I fell hard for "Workingman's Dead"-era Grateful Dead, which I think kind of prepared the soil so that the Band could finally take root.

Scott 4 and Black Coffee With Peggy Lee.

like flies on sherbert

The Cars

King Crimson - Red

Kicking myself for not really getting into this years ago, I love Larks and Starless.

when i discovered king crimson ~22 years ago, the only reviews i could find of red had it sitting at around above-average; the strongest reviews for the wetton-cross kc era went to starless and bible black. that baffled me at the time, because red always seemed stronger, tighter and more sure of itself, so it's really great to see red coming through as a critical favourite in the last few years.

I've read that Fripp was busy with some kind of nervous/spiritual breakdown circa Red, and more or less handed over the reigns to Wetton and Bruford during recording, and I think it definitely shows. Barring the first record, Red seems to be the only instance of a democratic King Crimson, may be why it sounds so special