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

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!

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