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

Scorpions - 'Tokyo Tapes' has been the autobahn choice of late.

magic sam, holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Q9eWf2ul8

Isn't that amazing? No one could get that sound. He never used a pick!

That video is fucking amazing.

^^ this

Mo - no mythologies to follow

I love that he's not even using his own guitar in that clip. He forgot his guitar and had to borrow Earl Hooker's. Young guitarists take note: the guitar doesn't matter if you can make your fingers play like that!

Fans of West Side Soul, don't skip the 1968 live recording Live at the Avant Garde. Incredible stuff and surprisingly decent sound.

Insane this guy died at 32. A monster / master.

Spinning 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) today thanks to this thread, Apparently they are still gigging around Akron.

How’s an album going to knock you out? Did it fall down from a high shelf?

happened to me yesterday

something oh so groovy

i've been really getting into the chic mix of "diana" this week, soooo good

also checking out first wave vanguarda paulista, Magamaquiavérica em canturbano is great, man having an actual singer instead of somebody just shouting in a fake captain beefheart voice over the music makes things sound so much better

I'm not normally someone that listens to blues records, but West Side Soul by Magic Sam totally blew me away.

― purrington, Friday, May 11, 2018 9:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's a Magic Sam disc with his 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival performance and early '60s Chicago live recordings that absolutely burns. You'll love it.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, May 12, 2018 10:41 AM (one week ago)

the only magic sam i have is vol. 3 of the Blues Master comp series, but it's really good as well

obviously I've heard it many times before but I heard Check Your Head for the first time in years the other day and it totally blew my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtKcvoeO2vA

it must be admitted that the beastie boys kinda pwn

indeed

Kate Bush - The Dreaming. Overlooked it when I first listened to her. What a classic! Such a creative fountainhead of ideas and ambition.

That could be my favourite album.

Jerry Lee Lewis: The Knox Phillips Sessions

Can't Stand The Rezillos as part of the new Cherry Red set Flying Saucer Attack.
I was semi aware of them. Not sure what I'd heard. maybe saw TOTP on TOTP at the time.
But the sound is a lot more multidimensional and 3D than I expected. Really love this set. Well first disc anyway, 2nd is the live set.

was odd to hear about this being reissued - i'd bought a copy in fopp a month before where they had a pile of them. it says sire / warner and also "plundering the vaults".

(although it makes sense that they'd be selling them off ahead of the reissue, i guess)

"Dream Police" rules so much!

The Police - Synchronicity

I barely listen to music from that era, but Blonde on Blonde is an incredible album

:)

This is a shocking admission to make on ILM, but until very recently I had never heard any Fleetwood Mac, except for a few well-known tracks. So I've been listening a lot to their classic 70s Buckingham-era albums lately. All three are great, but I have to say I prefer s/t to both Rumours and Tusk.

Does that mean you still have the Peter Green stuff to discover? If so, could we swap ears for a bit?

Yeah I've never heard the Green or Welch-era stuff.

Then play On is the one, especially if you can still get the expanded version from a few years ago.
1st lp is too straight Chicago electric blues.

the live set from Boston in '69 has them stretching out heavily and has its moments.

Bare Trees!

Roxy Music - "Stranded"
Tim Buckley - "Greetings from L.A."

Basically all of R.E.M.'s 80s albums. I only owned Eponymous before and never got into it as much as the two other REM albums I owned (Automatic for the People and New Adventures in Hi-Fi) so mostly didn't bother exploring 80s REM until this year. I'm not sure what changed, but all of this stuff sounds amazing to me now and REM is very quickly moving up on my best bands of all time list.

Yesss.

I have a theory that the broad millennial dismissal of REM will begin to fade soon. They're ripe for rediscovery.

Millennials are old enough to remember R.E.M. 2.0 hanging around, like uncool uncles — but I can see Gen Z discovering the band, with fresh eyes/ears.

I Was A Millennial R.E.M. Fanatic

but i guess it’s true that no one else my age cared

When is the 10,000 Maniacs revival?

They were never cool to begin with, so there’s no baggage to cast off!

Someone should stick Human Conflict Number Five up on Bandcamp, pretend it’s a new album, and start the whole cycle over again.

THere seem to be 10,000 Maniacs torrent wars every couple of years on various torrent sites so maybe they'll catch on.
First couple of lps are ok.

Still love the Maniacs (Merchant era only, mind you).

Their catalogue is a mess though. I was hoping Elektra would do a 30th anniversary reissue of In My Tribe last year w/extras, outtakes and live stuff (of which there is plenty) but of course it never happened.

I've always said there's an alternate timeline where they break up after the first few albums flop and become a record geek us post punk icon like the feelies

(rem not 10k maniacs)

I think the fact that REM's most well known song today probably being 'Everybody Hurts' which is almost a novelty song at this point doesn't really help to get younger music fans interested in them

Over the last few weeks I downloaded all the songs off John Peel's Festive Fifty that I didn't know and finished listening to them last week, and was surprised to find I quite liked a couple of 10,000 Maniacs songs, I think from around '83 or so. Don't think I'd ever knowingly heard them before though.

although looking it up on spotify it looks like 'Losing My Religion' is way more popular than 'Everybody Hurts' (which is second) so maybe my theory doesn't hold up.

Very surprised to see 'Shiny Happy People' as the third most listened to track

xp to myself

There’s a terrific moment in Parks and Recreation, where Adam Scott’s character (who is being teased for his uncool taste in music) plays “Pop Song ‘89” at a high school dance, and the kids go nuts — “It’s classic rock!”

Also, his character's claymation video prominently features "Stand" (for its 7 second duration)

Adam Scott has an REM podcast now

and people found him in the "Drive" video