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

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.

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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

Still wish Cross had been around to play on it, and I dunno why they didn't dust off "Dr. Diamond" and/or "Guts on my Side", which I think would have been great additions

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

so perhaps it was free to become the result of the experimentation in the previous two albums, rather than feeling pressure to be yet another experiment. if king crimson can be defined by its half-century-long drive to always try new things, perhaps red is our best glimpse into what happens when it slows down and takes stock.

Still wish Cross had been around to play on it

can't believe i forgot this, despite the lack of violin and his face not being on the cover

if you dig David Cross (or King Crimson) and haven't heard "Guts on my Side", it's on the youtubes, only played once live I think? Never recorded otherwise, but it's great. And a real showcase for rock and roll violin

I think Red is an improvement for the lack of Cross, I've never really enjoyed his contributions to LTiA and S&BB.

could be, but I feel like he was underused across the board, seems like half the time he was just holding down a couple keys on a mellotron. but who's to say? presumably Fripp had a good reason to bring him into the fold, maybe he just never got a chance to shine.

New Day Rising

of course for Red they brought back McDonald and Collins AND Charig to cover for Cross, and they did a fine job, probably a better job than Cross alone might have done, but who knows.

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Red is such a heavy album. For it to go through all of the super technical distorted dissonance and then end on 'Starless' —which I would vote for as Krim's most beautiful song— is just totally brilliant. Great album.

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Had it on tape as a kid and liked the title track, but listening to it now and holy hell is this well-crafted music.

Miles Davis - On The Corner

xp love the production of rhythm nation. it reminds me of this:

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Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties. Pop-metal with lyrics by Donald Fagen, basically my dream
The Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night. If this isn't a classic, it should be

"Train Running Low on Soul Coal" is a great song but it sure annoys people when I play it

AIYEEEEEEEE! AIYEEEEEEE!!

I discovered Caetano Veloso recently. His self-titled 1971 album might be my favorite.

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Most of the Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil from the early 70s and late 60s are worth looking out for. Not sure which of the 3 s/t the '71 is offhand but they're all good. As are transa, Aruca Azul etc.

Tom Ze is great too
as is Gal Costa

& later brazilian stuff like Paebiru is also worth seeking out. A bit weirder but utterly great.

JUst been thinking of getting Os Brazoes lp which is out on Mr Bongo.
Hoping that label is working its way through the Tom Zé catalogue since it has the 1st 2 out and the next few are OOP

I discovered Caetano Veloso recently. His self-titled 1971 album might be my favorite.

Right the white s/t with CV's name across the cover in black ink is from '69 and the photo cover is the one from his London exile.
Had teh '69 one on my 3 spinner for a week a few weeks back.

When I hear Insect Trust now, I feel like they were the 1970 harbingers of 00s new weird America. Didn't know what to make of them for a long time.

Ah, so not the White Album.

ha, kind of true, bendy xp

Disintegration

Looks like the only version of teh Insect trust lp around may be on Phoenix which means it probably isn't the greatest reproduction. I have the old Ascension version which was pretty good but iI think has been OOP for years. Not sure fi that label is stillaround at all, same people did several of the Master's Apprentices lps around the same time.

Great lp.

Hoboken Saturday Night is also good. & has Elvin Jones guesting