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

The last "Classic" album I was etc, was probably "Blood on the Tracks". A few years ago, when the "test pressing" came out, but

mccoy tyner, “expansions”

(a whole host of classic jazz records really.)

all those Tyner records are great including the ones on Milestone

xps Rarewaves are also decent in the UK. They have TTMBS for £5.64: https://www.rarewaves.com/products/5099968453626-taking-tiger-mountain-by-strategy

Expansions is really great. I got it and listened to it a bunch before realizing how good it is. Second side especially.

wowwww

https://i.discogs.com/h0rFNKCrAlVdWI_I_kr8KW0L4dkNYUfACLGisvtvezw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3ODEz/MC0xNTYwNzI1OTkw/LTQ4NDQuanBlZw.jpeg

https://www.discogs.com/release/178130-Roger-The-Many-Facets-Of-Roger

I'm into discovering 60s boomer records, like I really like the first Procul Harum album, as boring as Whiter Shade of Pale seems, it works in the context of the album.

― Fuck You Know About a Tralee (I M Losted)

it's not on the album!

i guess probably _in the dark_ by toots and the maytals is my most recent.

It's on the US version, not the UK.

_in the dark_ by toots and the maytals

yeah I finally heard this in its original form a few years back, so good

well i got the maria toledo album. it's so good. nothing unexpected or surprising, just very beautiful music. i put it on youtube since it's not on spotify.

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, July 17, 2021 2:12 PM

my yt upload of this earned me a copyright strike, but the assholes finally got their shit together and it's on spotify now. highly recommended.

not an album but spotify's This is the Gap Band playlist has really been doing it for me recently as the weather turns warmer

Charlie Christian The Daddy of Them All.
great cheap 2cd of work by jazz guitar pioneer with various bands.
I might like thsi even more if there was room for him to stretch out instead of it all being 2 1/2 or 3 minute tracks. What is here is pretty atmospheric, melodic, groove bound but would be good to hear him truly jam. I assume this is partially down to recording ability at the time. He's surrounded by other instruments including a vibraphone or whatever specific variation taht is.
Also looking forward to hearing this play clearly throughout.

Youssou N'dour Egypt
possibly even better discovery since this was a Euro from a charity shop and I had to go back to get it.
Stupid should have grabbed it immediately since i love his earlier work with Etoile De Dakar.
Here he is trying to tell his audience about his relationship with his brand of islam.
Beautiful set with very rhythmic usage of strings. & his voice being great as per usual.

Re: eno according to his discreet music sleeve notes it was an album of 18th c. harp music that was playing too quietly, not miles, although I am pretty sure he called “he loved him madly” “proto-ambient” or something

When I was a kid, I went from 3 Feet High and Rising as a 5th-grade kid to Buhloone Mindstate as a stoned teenager. Totally missed De La Soul is Dead and I've been remedying that problem. I think it's my favorite.

This week I listened to both of Alice Cooper (band)'s 1971 LPs: Love It To Death & Killer, borrowed from an old head in the hood. Huge blindspot for me.

Compared to my "canonical analogues" of this era (Sticky Fingers, Hunky Dory, Meddle, IV/Zoso, #1 Record, Every Picture..., et. al.), I was genuinely surprised at how catchy and genre-less both these records are. Definitely some Detroit (Stooges/MC5) microflora seeping through at times, some southern-fried boogie/glam, some post-Altamont proggy psych, but honestly a lot more proto-punk than the proto-metal I expected.

4 bags of popcorn and maybe a little spidery eyeliner to add some drama.

Love it To Death is definitely great. I picked up a 5 classic Los set to get a decent CD version so should have Killer.
Think I got a Billion Dollar Babies expanded set in FOPP too.
Mainly been Love It To Death I loved though.
I think Shotgun Wedding did a decent Black Juju. Lydia lunch & Rowland S Howard et al.

There's a decent Detroit Tubeworka and a Midsummer Rock set by the original band worth checking out too.
Birthday cake like

This week I listened to both of Alice Cooper (band)'s 1971 LPs: Love It To Death & Killer, borrowed from an old head in the hood. Huge blindspot for me.

Compared to my "canonical analogues" of this era (Sticky Fingers, Hunky Dory, Meddle, IV/Zoso, #1 Record, Every Picture..., et. al.), I was genuinely surprised at how catchy and genre-less both these records are. Definitely some Detroit (Stooges/MC5) microflora seeping through at times, some southern-fried boogie/glam, some post-Altamont proggy psych, but honestly a lot more proto-punk than the proto-metal I expected.

4 bags of popcorn and maybe a little spidery eyeliner to add some drama.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, May 12, 2023 2:26 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this happened for me some years ago, obv i knew the classic rock radio staples, his image, wayne's world, etc but yeah they were truly one of a kind, a weird thuggish damaged art rock band both proto-punk and broadway, i think the original band is one of the greatest bands of all time.

when people compare kiss to alice cooper i see red, not even in the same universe.

Check out Billion Dollar Babies too, Steve. "I Love The Dead" is the only weak spot, and is a harbinger of the horror movie shtick he would do later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i87emyiiicg

Wow, crazy. Does a beer hit him at 9:18?

A piece of cake?

Wiki says cream pie!

I was just reading the Lester Bangs piece last night where he writes about this show, and for a recollection from a single viewing, it’s surprisingly accurate (moreso considering Bangs’ drug/alcohol intake at the time). The pocketwatch, “Bodies…need…rest…”, someone shouting, “So what?”, and then the cake/pie.

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

I’ve had the record for probably 10 years but for most of that time my turntable was broken. I finally got a new turntable and so I’ve been playing it again. I don’t like Rumors as much as many people do, so I was skeptical, despite the reputation of Tusk as being their difficult album. Certainly some songs are weird: Buckingham’s trebly twitchy tracks especially. Nicks’s tracks on the other hand seem so mellow as to almost evaporate. In contemporary parlance, the vibes are off, the mood is tense and glum, and yet it’s never a dull listen. Much to the contrary. It’s strangely riveting.

Electric Light Orchestra - Balance of Power

This may be sacrilege, but I think this is as good as Out of the Blue.

lol i went through the exact same alice cooper journey described above several years ago. i believe it was la lechera posting this incredible live video of them playing "is it my body" that lead to me taking them more seriously. all of the albums with the original lineup are definitely worth checking out.

John Prine's self titled debut. Had never heard this dude or this album before for some reason. Pretty dope record! Illegal Smile is a hell of an opener.

i think that's still and always the best one, but Octobeard you have a wealth of Prine ahead of you if you like that style of songwriting. Seek Sweet Revenge, Bruised Orange, Jesus The Missing Years for starters

I had friends in college who loved john prine but he never clicked with me.

When he died a whole lot of other people I know who normally didn't talk much about music posted about how much they loved him which kind of surprised me, and when I saw wilco in chicago last year I was shocked at how many john prine t-shirts I saw, by far the most common "band" shirt I saw that.

that night

Heh I just realised it was listening to Elton that kicked this thread off 19 years ago and here I am watching what might be his last ever British gig. On telly like, I’m not there sadly.

My favorite John Prine album has always been Common Sense; it doesn't get mentioned that much for some reason, but for me it's the Prine album that coheres the most, that I can play all the way through with no skips, and it's got a dark surreal moodiness that I love.

Prine's weakness is cuteness, and Common Sense avoids that without getting so dark it's no longer him.

Nazareth - Hair of the Dog

I always liked the title track and of course Love Hurts but this whole album is just a righteous platter of '70s rock.

Not so much album since this was a standout track on a compilation surrounded by decent music but nothing that stood out as much to me. I heard the guitar on Skinhead Moonstomp by Symarip which is really surprising. I must have heard it before so surprised i is hitting me as a surprise but it isn't what I would have expected, though not sure what that is.
It's noisy , quasi psychedelic possibly and more about creating distortion with a clean guitar without pedals though possibly with a slide. I think it may sound like guitar of its time in 1970 when I think I might be expecting something more linear or rhythm oriented. I haven't listened to the lp in a while so not sure if there is more of this style elsewhere. Also not checked if this is the standard version or not. But really struck me as a bit other for the song it was a part of.

Had me thinking of Syd Barret or Blixa Bargeld or something . Though more compressed timewise and fitting within the music played but still like totally abstract.

Let's start a rumour Syd Barrett played on it.

After listening to Chicken Merry where the guitarist is making clucking sounds I wonder if it is a literal take on the idea of moonstomp so he's making spacey sounds. But he is doing it in a coherent way that I would like to hear more of.
I think his playing elsewhere is more linear. Surprised to hear psychedelic guitar coming from this group though. I did just read that they moved to Germany and started playing Afro Rock which could tie in more with that since I think that's one title for the genre cropping up across Sub Saharan Africa combining traditional sounds with more psychedelic contemporary western ones. Really not sure what specific guitar style I would be expecting from a West Indian band playing mostly ska in the late 60s, probably would be picking up on some contemporary stylings. Sounds like he is an interesting guitarist anyway. So would like to hear this later incarnation of the band. Think I was expecting something more blues based or soemthing. but this was surprising.

better than making trite smug comments really,

He's making spacey sounds.

Also Symarip were a British band.

whaaaat?!? things I was shockingly old when I learned

British West Indian band, which I thought was pretty well known.
I found the guitar part on that track notable.
I don't really give a fuck about Tom's opinion he seems to have a lot of them that I find a bit misguided,

What opinion have I given on this track that is misguided?

THe band that had been Symarip turned up in a 1973 Sidney Poitier film>
Sound of teh band had changed abit , they were more groove oriented and guitar more prominent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx_ZkLUyjjU

From what I have read about the late 60s/early 70s the 2 factions that had split from mod had pretty much polarised. It took John Peel to popularise reggae with hippies because it had previously been so associated with skinheads. So I am finding it odd that psychedelic guitar is turning up on a skinhead anthem. I thought the focus of the music was elsewhere, more short sharp rhythic stuff (ska partially derived from the sound of a cat scratch like guitar) but it does seem like the individual players were more versatile. I was thinking of when I found out how good Ernest Ranglin was as a guitarist when I heard the track this morning. I did find that an interesting listen as I may have already said.
Think I may pickup the cd if I get a chance had the vinyl for a short while when I was in my midteens and thought it pretty great but somebody broke it at a party thing.
Looks like this later band only put out 2 singles and were successful enough to get into a film but didn't get great success at least with records.

not sure if universally considered a "classic album," but

propaganda - a secret wish

Oh hell yes.

Thirded.

idk if it's canonically "classic" but I had never heard Malcolm McLaren's Duck Rock album before, what a wild ride

(like sure I knew a single or two, but the record is a journey man)