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

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united states of america ... i think that probably only qualifies as a lost classic though

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

and

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

all singer/songwriter up in this shit:
silk degrees, boz scaggs
late for the sky, jackson browne
exile in guyville, liz phair

― drew, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the other On The Beach, by The Paragons, which obviously is leagues better than that more well-known one.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark

...although What's Going On is still in its shrink-wrap, so that may surprise me yet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread reminds me I had a dream last night that I was playing some music for David Gedge as he was walking around my house. It was only after some minutes had passed that I realized I was actually playing him the Wedding Present, his own band. I was left with a strange feeling of embarassment.

― Bimble (bimble), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Can "Tago Mago"
Faust/Faust So Far
Dusty Springfield "Dusty in Memphis"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The re-release of Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam & the Ants.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Echo & the Bunnymen, Crocodiles

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, recently the re-release of the first OMD album. a couple years ago i played it a couple times and thought it sucked, now i realize it is great.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i second Stevie Wonder - Talking Book - knocked me right out.

Dylan's Planet Waves too.

― piers, Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Randy Newman - Sail Away

ELO's Greatest Hits (is that classic?)

Another Green World too, though it wasn't immediate, and I'm still not into all of it.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

KISS -- love gun

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Negativland's 'Escape From Noise'

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Funkadelic - Maggot brain

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

SMiLE

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably Harvest by Neil Young. But I prefer After the Goldrush which I only got a couple of months before and blew me right away.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heart of the Congoes" -- possibly now my favorite recording ever.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto Forever Changes and Dusty In Memphis.

― Mog, Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh! ooh! Heart of the Congos and Smile! Love those two more than anything ever!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i third smile. also, jerry lee lewis's live at the star club.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 29 July 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't think of a 'classic' record that I've even bought in the last 6 months, let alone one that's knocked me out.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 July 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i'm really gonna check that donna summer 'bad girls' one i reckon. that and some nico stuff.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Def. The Congos, gotta cop to Pfork being my gateway into them, honestly Heart of the Congos sounds better than just about any Marley I've ever heard.

Also John Prine's first, Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners, and a bunch of Eno

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't think of a 'classic' record that I've even bought in the last 6 months, let alone one that's knocked me out.

Me neither... On the other hand there are definitely some classics which still knock me out on the rare occasions where I dig them out and put them on again. I think the last ones I did that with were Marquee Moon and Van Halen's first record, in the wake of this thread.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Make three for "Dusty In Memphis" & I'll add "A Brand New Me" too.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I first heard Songs for Beginners recently and my jaw dropped like ten feet when I heard "Chicago" and realized that that is where that ominous organ sample from Beanie Sigel's "The Truth" came from. Such an unlikely origin! The album has some great tunes- I like the first song a lot- but on the whole, it's just too PC in that oh-so-'71 way.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 30 July 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Willis Allen Ramsey - Willis Allen Ramsey

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Michael Daddino on Exile On Mainstreet. I listened to it a few times after I bought it and it never grabbed me, but I found myself listening to it over and over again when I was driving to Pasture.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 30 July 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I got drunk and managed to lose my justbought copy of "Heart of the Congos" once, Ray Charles's "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" too but I bought that again

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 30 July 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Eno-Here come the Warm Jets. Bought it yesterday. wow.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Star - No. 1 Record and Radio City (on the same CD).

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"feel" is one of the best album openers ever!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott Walker - Scott 4

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

'MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD'

talking heads

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Not mentioned yet (and also my current last one): Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited.

Seconded (from the last coupla years): Odessey & Oracle, Village Green Preservation Society, Forever Changes.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
I bought two copies in the dollar record bin. I am still trying to make out the inserts.

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

dead boys -- young loud & snotty

i am quite ashamed that it took me 29 years to add this to my collection. surely one of punk's finest moments. brilliant.

― cw28 (cw28), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cure -- Disintegration

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy to discover that Nick Lowe's Jesus Of Cool deserves its classic status.
And equally happy that my newly acquired Bad Girls CD still sounds great 20 years after last playing my old 8-track tape copy!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

kaleidoscope "tangerine dream"

― purple patch (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I just picked up the second New York Dolls album, which is way better than I expected.

― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

**Absolutely** knocked out by = The Byrds' "Sweethearts of the Rodeo"

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

On the Beach seconded, Alex. When I first heard it last year, I was less than knocked out. Lately, I can't get "Ambulance Blues" out of my head. "Revolution Blues", "For the Turnstiles" and the title song are also great. "Vampire Blues" I'm not so sure about. But I love the transition from "Walk On"'s cheery fuck-off to "See the Sky About to Rain".

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Mobb Deep's The Infamous for me.

I can't believe I never heard the thing before. Probably heard tracks here and there on JP Chill's radio show throughout the 90s, but never the whole album. I'm blown away. Best 90s New York rap record? I like it as much or more than Wu-Tang or Gang Starr or Nas or whoever.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Steely Dan, Aja
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory
Lynard Skynard, Second Helping

Another good thread would be classic albums that you've never heard yet. I still haven't listened to all of Dusty in Memphis, Trout Mask Replica, or Avalon yet.

Don't worry, I will.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Another Side of Bob Dylan. Soooooo much better than that stupid 1965 "acid poetry" crap.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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