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

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.

Not an album, but Barbara Lewis' 'Hello Stranger' randomly popped up on the in-store radio at work and it completely floored me. I knew Julia Holter's version from Loud City Song, but never realized it was a cover.

Barbara Lewis is awesome!

Baby, I'm Yours
Make Me Your Baby
Don't Forget About Me
Make Me Belong To You
Think a Little Sugar

Bookends

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

the harder they come soundtrack

Court and Spark

missed the wave last year but am now on the pirates boat

Was planning on posting about Pirates here. I discovered it with last year’s thread/discussions and it has been slowly growing into a fave of mine ever since.

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

More Songs About Buildings And Food - knew the later albums but somehow missed out on this one until now

Cem Karaca/Karpaslar which I had to compile from tracks on Spotify and I hope i used the right versions for. Just reading the Daniel Spicer book on Anadolu Psych which had a chapter on Karaca which has me looking into the music written about.
There are Guerssen reissues of this and the other Cem Karaca compilation from around the same time which was also really great.
Need to get hold of copies.

Anyway Turkish mid 70s psych meets traditional Turkish folk melodies. Great stuff.

inta omri by oum kulthum

More Songs About Buildings And Food - knew the later albums but somehow missed out on this one until now

Get the first album next (if you don’t have it)!

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.

james blood ulmer - black rock
lou reed - new sensations

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!