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.
― 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?

Dolly Mixture - Demonstration Tapes

pete rock and cl smooth - mecca and the soul brother

xxp I do now. It's good!

the roches - s/t

don't know why i'd never listened to it before, i think something about just screamed 'not for me', really thought it would be pretty npr seven sisters type thing. it's actually pretty weird and witty.

I was listening to some songs from their first three albums that I hadn't heard for a while. I was struck by just how dark and cryptic some them are. I think I tend to like them better when they are being dark than when they are at the more exclusively whimsical end of the range they cover.

have listened to Roy Harper's Stormcock maybe 100+ time since hearing it for the first time earlier this year

does the first uncle wiggly album count here?

These Betty Davis albums...holy shit, where have they been all my life?

Stevie Wonder live bootlegs from the 70s -- the rainbow, brighton, nyc. I was wary based on his TV performances in the 90s, but in the 70s he actually changed up his songs. not sure about the n-word in "living for the city".

Born to Run.

Watched the 'in his own words' doc over xmas, having pretty much never engaged with him on any level, and went "now is the time to buy a Springsteen album" and whaddaya know, it's really amazing. Also only cost me £3.

:D

I like how Bruce is going about getting old. His Desert Island Discs was magic. (And surprisingly conservative, albeit I'm now wondering if he's just made a career out of being magically conservative [small c, obvs].)

ooh i didnt know he was on Desert Island, will give it a listen now

He was on the Maron podcast recently, too.

New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon

Never actually listened to a Minnie Riperton album before this morning. Man oh man.

(Starting from Come To My Garden, but I think I'm gonna just keep going through her discography for the rest of the day if it's anything like this.)

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

I first heard it 15 years ago and didn't much care for it, though I barely paid attention to metal at the time anyway. For (subconscious?) reasons that I'll probably never entirely grasp, In the Nightside Eclipse bowled me over a few months ago, to such an extent that I am now on a steady diet of mostly black metal, trying to make up for lost time.

My Indole Ring
Vancouver psychedelic band from the 60s. Have some really out there textures that get me right there every time i hear them.
Had known about the band for ages but only recently got hold of the actual cd.

Orchestra baobab A Night At club Baobab.
compilation of the 70s recordings by band who are probably better known for material a decade or so later. I think the focus is a bit different. Contains some of the latin influence but does something a bit more trippy or something with it.

After Bathing at Baxter's

Never actually listened to a Minnie Riperton album before this morning. Man oh man.

― Sir Isaac Gluten (Old Lunch),

Perfect Angel and Adventures In Paradise are just as good. Three of my favourite albums of all time.

I mean this completely genuinely when I say that Come to my Garden is such a beautiful album. Charles Stepney is surely one of the best to ever do it.

t rex electric warrior

THird power Believe arrived today
Three piece from Detroit playing a heavy rock/psych thingy from around '70.
Just got the nearly double length remaster have loved the track Persecution since i got it on Michigan rocks in the late 80s/early 90s. Reminded me a lot of Thee Hypnotics back then.
Remaster has really great sound.

while fooling around with the Pitchfork 1960s top-200 list today: Max Roach's We Insist! -- woah

the one country album on that list I didn't know - Mickey Newbury's "Looks Like Rain" - is p great

Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward

There's a lot of good shit on that Pitchfork 60s list.

ErstLive 005 - Keith Rowe / Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide
Patterns in a Chromatic Field by Morton Feldman, played by Charles Curtis + Aleck Karis

yeah i am definitely going to explore some stuff on that Pitchfork list. and a good reminder to go back and relove some of my faves like the Zombies

With Max Roach Freedom Now there's a great 1/2 hour tv special from I think French TV from the time where it's played live. I think I have it somewhere but not watched it in ages.
Abbie Lincoln is great in it.

There's this thing from Belgian TV but I haven't seen the stage sets that i remember from the thing i got about 10 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFKJsbl_sXw

I remember Abbey Lincoln singing something from a prison cell and i think there were another couple of sets.

ErstLive 005 - Keith Rowe / Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide

i'm curious, what lead you to finding this one? not on any streaming service or digital store that i checked. i did find it uploaded by some dude to youtube.

if you like that Newbury album, then 71's Frisco Mabel Joy is the obvous place to go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw_v83e8L3E

There wasa Mickey Newbury box set a couple of years back that collects his early lps. It's out under teh name An American Trilogy as in the song of his Elvis had a hit with.

Is the Lou Bond album well-known enough to be considered 'classic'? Because holy hell.

a compilation of Jody Reynolds singles with teh originals of Endless Sleep and Fire of Love on it plus a load of other stuff.

INspiration Information by Shuggie otis which I haven't listened to in ages before this week. Pretty sublime

wow, that max roach album is great!