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

led zep are actually pretty easy to avoid in the uk i think? except 'whole lotta love' i guess which was used as the TOTP theme, but it wasn't even the original so hey

Feels like Led Zeppelin are maybe the easiest of the classic rock bands to have somehow avoided hearing (not much in the way of actual singles, they don't often license their music out to commercials or movies, etc.). But good on you. I often think they're my favorite band.

Album-orientated FM rock radio didn't really exist in Britain when Led Zed were active, and as they didn't release singles you didn't see them on TOTP, or hear them on the Top 40 chart rundown. So yeah, you might hear Stairway to Heaven on the radio every now and then, but that would be about it. Their own self-image as an 'underground' band (despite being on Atlantic and having huge album and concert sales) wasn't entirely delusional, in the UK at least.

a friend loaned a Zep boxset to me like 15 years ago, the only thing I knew was "Kashmir" because Puff Daddy sampled it

dunno if I was knocked out by it but I definitely got why people liked them dudes so much

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Sorry Old Lunch, I realise I essentially repeated what you just posted.

This is an interesting revelation. I guess I had figured they would have been at least as big in the U.K. as over here.

My son and I found a Swan Song t-shirt (along with like Slayer, Nirvana, and every other well-littered rock logo etc) in Kohl's the other day and for the rest of the weekend I would catch him singing Stairway. I don't really listen to a ton of Zeppelin these days - having heard about as much of it as I possible could - but I should probably make sure he is familiar with some of their other stuff. He and I don't usually agree on a lot of music.

right on, anagram! i am so grateful for my own personal zep revelation, about 15 years ago when "whole lotta love" lifted me off the ground and made me wonder why i had been so blase about this band. when i was a teenager i owned I, II, the fourth one, and physical graffiti but found them really heavy going. i know this is shameful, but that's just how it went down. sometimes all it takes is a nice sound system on a saturday night

This is a shocking admission to make on ILM, but apart from "Stairway to Heaven" I until recently hadn't heard any Led Zeppelin at all. Now I'm rectifying that. They were pretty good, weren't they?

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I live in Texas and this is literally more shocking than hearing someone say they'd never heard any Beatles outside "Love Me Do" or something

"stairway to heaven" is pretty unique in their catalogue though, i think. not that the rest of the band's catalogue isn't the greatest thing ever. it sounds lame but once i got a hold of some original vinyl i really got a better sense of how advanced their production was. the first album is like a maximum inflection point of 60s british white r&b rock. it has such a sugary luster and juicy limber rhythms (sorry)

we've gone over before how zep was never on the radio in the uk, whats-his-name algerian goalkeeper knows

that's weird af. i'm not a superfan by any means but they were simply awesome, essential. not to mention english ffs

I don't know about 'great' but I have found a bunch of good old records that were new to me over the past few months. I've been working through a lot of old 70s-80s rock dregs and find cool tunes from Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Hawkwind, Foghat, etc. among others. I also have went through a big old reggae listen list checking out albums by Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer (Blackheart Man!), Linton Kwesi Johnson, Steel Pulse, Augustus Pablo and others. There was also a couple of Screaming Trees early records I got and a couple of Tad Cds too that I never heard.

Yeah anagram, start with Zeppelin III

sorry for "we've been over before" for godsake

Led Zeppelin is funny for me. i hated them for most of my life but when BMG Music was going under i knew that this was probably my only chance to get all their albums. so i got all of them for like $4 each or something when you figure it all out. then i went mad for them, couldn't believe how good they actually are. i was foolish to think differently.

Another LZ know-nothing here. Really love Kasmir and Immigrant Song, could happily never hear Stairway to Heaven ever again, and that's all I know. Where to start?

Yeah anagram, start with Zeppelin III

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III, IV (Zoso), Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti are four of my all-time favorite albums. I probably listen to the latter all the way through an average of once a month.

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i picked up the first two Cheap Trick albums late last year, wish i had gotten these when i was 16 <3<3<3<3

I've been still on a deep dive into various 70s rock getting into LPs that are new to me and still exploring the Canadian hard rock permafrost.

Santana- Moonflower
One thing of the fusion period is bands with a bunch of jazz ringers playing contemporary pop music. It's interesting to hear and this is an example.

Canned Heat- Future Blues, Cook Book
These things are grimy goodness. Better than expected although the introduce the band track is pretty old hat stuff. They had a cool sound. Music by people on drugs for people on drugs.

April Wine- First Glance
These guys are kinda the Canadian Golden Earring, no? April Wine has been around forever and like other vet musicians like say Ronnie James Dio got popular like a decade after being in the minor leagues. From what I understand, this one is their first US released LP.

Mahogany Rush- Child of the Novelty
Frank Marino was like 17-18 years old when he did the record, that I found pretty impressive. I dug the sound of the record which was 70s hard rock with kind of a late 60s garage production.

Don't know if any of them are classics, but they were all worth hearing and interesting.

I know next to nothing much of Liz Phair but Exile In Guyville has turned my head. I take it that was her best album, and that people are sniffy about the rest? Glory is one of the best less-than-a-minute-and-a-half songs i've ever heard.

"Whitechocolatespaceegg" is actually my favorite -- it's a "mature" album with great songs, and produced for radio play but not *too* "1998 VH1"-sounding. Check it out! (It's really different from "Glory," tho...)

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I think Whip Smart is also excellent, and even whitechocolatespaceegg grew on me.

"Whip Smart" has some great songs (and a few iffy ones); it is a must-hear for anyone who likes "Guyville."

And her initial claim to fame, the Girlysound Tapes, is available on youtube (~3 cassettes worth of material), and is worth checking out.

They're also coming out soon in a big 'ol box - http://matablog.matadorrecords.com/2018/03/15/liz-phair-girly-sound-to-guyville-the-25th-anniversary-box-set-out-may-4-divorce-song-premiere-new-u-s-tour-dates/

recently had a serious moment with Songs From the Big Chair and finally got a deep appreciation for the non=singles.

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Several years ago, I tried to turn a skeptical younger friend of mine on to that album by insisting that he just try out "The Working Hour." It was a success.

xpost to myself - OK, I'm listening to "Whitechocolatespacegg," and it actually IS pretty "1998 VH1"-sounding, ha ha. But if you can deal with that...

(They cut out the pre-chorus of "Polyester Bride" for its actual airplay on VH1; I thought at the time that this was a perfect and depressing illustration of, well, something.)

April Wine- First Glance
These guys are kinda the Canadian Golden Earring, no? April Wine has been around forever and like other vet musicians like say Ronnie James Dio got popular like a decade after being in the minor leagues. From what I understand, this one is their first US released LP.

Interesting. The only April Wine song I can call to mind offhand is "Oowatanite", which apparently came out three years before this. That one was (and probably is) in heavy rotation on Ottawa classic rock radio. Are their albums worth a listen?

Oh, Youtube went to "I Like to Rock" straight after that and I know this one like the back of my hand too.

Oh, OK, it went to "Roller" now, which is from First Glance and this is super-familiar too.

i was in my brother's bar and they played a mahogany rush cover of a hendrix song or something. i was really confused. his bar is in kentucky, not canada. same thing for april wine. i'll only ever know them for their shitty cover of "21st century schizoid man".

my library has been really light on pre-1990 additions lately. last one i added was don everly's s/t a month ago. it's some good country music though!

Ha, this cover isn't great, yeah.

Early 80s prom soft rock tune "Just Between You and Me" is probably April Wine's most popular tune I'd figure.

I remember "Flight of the Gypsy Queen" as a kid and that along with getting into other off Canadian hard rock nuggets like Pat Travers and Max Webster got me curious.

April Wine's not great but their harmony singing with the arena rock crunch is a bit theirs' sound wise.

Rushomancy, where in KY is your brother's bar.

So jealous of anyone just hearing Guyville for the first time.

such a rip-off of Soccer Mommy

Realizing I had never heard so many famous singles in their contexts and wanting to do so, I listened to all of Too-Rye-Ay by Dexy's for the first time just yesterday. What a great record! It walks a real careful line, when it comes to the more soul-influenced songs, between simple pastiche and an actual example of the idiom and pulls it off perfectly.

"Just Between You and Me" doesn't sound familiar at all, actually, but those other three are burned into my brain. (I see Toronto's Q107 played "Roller" this morning.)

15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) - basically all their 70s and 80s work has been hitting the spot lately. Their blend of blues, jazz and rock melded with Robert Kidney's vocals is the best.

hey thanks gang, Liz Phair has more fans than i realized!

I love that first 15-60-75 album

Not an album per se or at least not until it was cover mounted on the latest Mojo but the collection of early mod r'n'b that came with e Roger Daltrey edition of taht mag. Classic singles from the early 60s some of which may be better known in cover versions from mod/beat bands.

Rushomancy, where in KY is your brother's bar.

― earlnash

covington, just south of cincy

judee sill - heart food (how is it that i'm 50 and just hearing her for the first time!?)
the byrds - ballad of easy rider

joni mitchell - hejira

^^^ Hejira is pretty much the greatest album by anyone ever

This week I discovered Delroy Wilson via a greatest hits comp. He's great!

Is Poison's Open Up and Say... Ah! a Classic album? Because it sounds fantastic right now.

No idea if it's a classic, but I wish it sounded more like its album cover.

It's hard to imagine that a long tongue and that title were enough to get that album cover censored.