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

Tacking - The Embassy

I realize this is stretching the definition of "classic" to now include just any album that you didn't hear when it was new, but holy heck, this album has crept up on me and is now one of my favorite LPs of all time. I'm a sucker for Foxbase Alpha/So Tough era St Etienne (Embassy actually sample Girl VII on this and sound like Duke Duvet in other places) and Technique / Electronic era New Order, so Tacking feels like the perfect lovechild of the two reference points.

Metallica - Kill 'em All
Heard it through my friend owning it as a kid, but back then we had our silly adolescent loyalties; he was a Maiden and Metallica guy, I was a Slayer and Judas Priest guy. So I've only owned this and sat down and paid attention to it as of late. And good god. The honest live sound, the Four Horsemen solo section, the way he rigidity and lack of speed (compared to later stuff) just makes it feel heavier, the fact the vocals are just bunch of tuneful pubescent voice-cracks. And that beautiful slasher movie poster+pop art cover. There's no question, this is _the_ Metallica album.

'Live at the Waldorf' is on Spotify

Would recommend most of the live sets from '78 I think. They could get quite mesmerising at the time. Probably could for teh previous couple of years too but I notice it more in '78.

Richard hell & the voiodids are also worth checking out if you like Television.
& I also find some similarities with Thin White Rope who seem to be about the best twin duelling guitar band after them abnd can also get quite mesmeric. But are more rooted in something that sounds like Black Sabbath playing country.

Richard Hell and the Voidoids

You're OTM RE: Adventure Stevo. I go back to that one way more often than Marquee Moon.

This record p much turned my world upside down when I discovered it maybe a year or so ago

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oh shit, a little ilx digging reminds me that it was actually over three years ago

I also find some similarities with Thin White Rope who seem to be about the best twin duelling guitar band after them abnd can also get quite mesmeric. But are more rooted in something that sounds like Black Sabbath playing country

OTM. Thin White Rope were incredible.

Silver Apples

The Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night

Whoa- this is great. The s/t album is very nice too. Puts me in mind of Incredible String Band more than anything else, maybe a bit of Fairport Convention too (esp. with the vocals) - that kind of British psych-folk.

Third in thread (at least) to say:

Nico: Chelsea Girl.

It is a kind of no-brainer to me that I love this stuff. What I don't quite get, is why it took me decades to actually listen to it!

abba - the visitors

Co-sign on Chelsea Girl. Picked it up at Barnes and Noble in the $4.99 bin and was very pleasantly surprised.

She's great up to at least The End in '74. Though I don't think I'm overly taken with the title track of that set too close a cover or something. But the rest of the lp is very tasty.

& Frozen Borderline the compilation which is Marble Index and Desert Shore plus outtakes was a great release. Think I'd been hoping for a remaster of Marble Index for a while. Do love that lp. While Throbbing Gristle apparently love the next one Desert Shore enough for it to be the last project they worked together as a band to cover.

There was a remaster of Chelsea Girl for the & Nico VU box set, not sure when the previous mastering was done. Not sure fi they've released the box set version separately, don't think so.

This record p much turned my world upside down when I discovered it maybe a year or so ago

Checking this out now and it's sounding awesome. Thanks.

There was a '91 Milton nascimento gig upped to Dime either yesterday or this morning. I was wondering why I'd heard the name recently.
Haven't heard it yet

Shakatak - Night Birds. I know it's about as cheesy as cheese gets but it's definitely top quality cheese. A friend put it on for me after an all night bender at a house party and it made so much sense in that context.

apparently i'd never gotten around to listening to underwater moonlight before?

I'm late to the party with 808s & Heartbreak. Such a solid winter jam.

Farewell Alderbaran just arrived.

Before that picked up the 89 Bear Family Johnny Burnette Trio compi. Raw rockbilly. Yum

Also somebody shared Amalgam's Innovation lp which I listened to this morning and though pretty great. Surprising space funk type elements for a band that's mainly UK free crowd.
I then picked up The Wire and there's a primer on the Spontaneous Music Collective including a section on Amalgam. So wonder if that prompted the sharing of the lp or if it was just coincidence. Good to hear it anyway.

Sparks - No. 1 In Heaven

Heard 'Beat the clock' once about 20 years ago, didn't know who it was but somehow remembered the song all these years. At the time, I remember thinking that I need to try and figure what this is. This week 'Tryouts for the Human Race' showed up in my discover weekly playlist, decided to check out the album. Have listened to it about 3 or 4 times already.

I remember "Tryouts" playing as warm-up music at some show and being totally blown away by it. Thought it was something recent, was floored to see it was from three decades back

Got the remaster of teh Associates Sulk last week and it still knocks my socks off. Love that stuff.

Also Os Brazoes s/t.

Sulk and No. 1 In Heaven are two of my favourite albums of all time. Nice to see them popping up on here.

I was thinking last week that when i bought it the first time on Brick Lane in the early 80s I think I got the Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks in the same purchase.
& I probably love Sulk more.

Fat's Hit lp from 1988. Finally got a vinyl copy of it after years of only having a couple of tracks in places.

Really is as good as I remember it being.

But would still love a cd remaster of it.

Not sure if it is regarded as classic but the "Rain Tree Crow" album caught me by surprise last night. Somehow I had this idea that this would be how I would like Talk Talk to sound if they'd make a new album. Even David Sylvian's voice did not turn me off immediately, at the end though I could not bear it anymore. Mick Karn's bass alone is so amazingly warm and soothing. And all those tribal rhythms are totally mesmerising. If you like Peter Gabriel's Passion soundtrack and Eno's and Byrne's "My Life in he Bush of Ghosts" this is for you.

Yeah, I like that record a lot, even though it's quite different from what they did as Japan.

Thirded. "Rain Tree Crow" is among Sylvian and Karn's finest.

My classic album pick today is Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. "Sing Sing Sing" is such joyous racket and Gene Krupa is an absolute monster.

Quadrophenia. Something about its seeming massiveness had kept me away (and I'm a Who fan! Saw them at Shea in 1982) but didn't realize it's their best album! (tied with Sell Out imho)

xxxxp likers of the common ground between Rain Tree Crow and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts might like Sylvian's solo instrumental album Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities too.

not so much knocked out, but i remember when the hepcats and mojo types were going on about bill fay and i think i listened to the s/t way back when and thought: yeah, this is good i can see why people like it. but i didn't buy it or listen to it again. got a cd copy this year for a buck and played it at the store and had the same reaction. but then i played it again and the hooks started hooking me. then i played it again and fell hard for the single-only "some good advice" and now...i play it a lot. definitely grew on me in a big way. (the single tacked on to the end of the CD is almost my fave thing about it, but every song is really strong.)

Don't know how indisputably 'classic' it is but I just heard Irma Thomas' In Between Tears and goddamn! I'm not usually much of a 'soul' guy but holy moley this album

Not an lp but a collection of classic tracks. Just getting into Willie Nelson's Essential and wondering which bits of him Miles davis was particularly listening to. Would it be contemporary to when he was naming tracks after him?
I've had red Headed Stranger for a few years but this covers a wider length of time.
Might just go and pick up a few of the individual lps after this.

The Kris Kristofferson and Dolly Parton Essentials are also pretty great

I've been indifferent to Young Marble Giants the 3-4 times I heard it - and then loved it this evening.

Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw and Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse and Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black. Exactly the kind of thing I need in my life right now.

Tacking - The Embassy
I realize this is stretching the definition of "classic" to now include just any album that you didn't hear when it was new, but holy heck, this album has crept up on me and is now one of my favorite LPs of all time. I'm a sucker for Foxbase Alpha/So Tough era St Etienne (Embassy actually sample Girl VII on this and sound like Duke Duvet in other places) and Technique / Electronic era New Order, so Tacking feels like the perfect lovechild of the two reference points.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 9:26 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow, thanks for this. Been listening all day to Tacking. Never heard of Embassy until now.

You sold me initially on the St Etienne/New Order references. Pretty spot on.

Glad you are enjoying it. I'm still listening to it even though the seasons have changed.

Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell or Power of Pussy by Bongwater

Rodan - Rusty

I wasn't optimistic after a couple listens, but once it got me, it really got me.

You sold me initially on the St Etienne/New Order references. Pretty spot on.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic)

Yeah, these references are describing my dream group (two of my three favourite bands ever). Going to give it a listen now.

xpost I still can only half get into the Rodan album, but I like or love or LOVE pretty much every subsequent project its members have done subsequently (especially Tara Jane O'Neill, who is a mystic and a genius).

subsequently subsequent

Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle. Can't believe I've never heard this before today, I wish I had gotten into it when I still smoked w33d. It's going to take another 50+ listens to really sink in, but I can already tell this is going to become an alltime favorite.

E2-E4 by Manuel Gottsching

Do you know the "sequel", D7-D5 by Blanck Mass?