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

It’s comp but James Brown Motherlode is killer

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Must have tee. Thanks for the heads up. Looks great!

Yeah just turned up as an FB ad.
LOOks like they do quite a few designs and range of colours. Haven't heard what end result is or how it washes but yeah, saw it and thought about the lp having just been talked about.

John Cale - Paris 1919 / Fear / Slow Dazzle / Helen Of Troy

What an amazing run of skewed 70s rock with unhinged vocals. Except when he lays down classics like "I Keep A Close Watch".

I really like the last 3 of those as the Island years compilation. Probably find that there's more updated versions of them though.
I picked up a lot of the 70s live stuff by various bands he had backing him which are pretty great.
Especially like him late in the decade. A great biting rock sound.

& Paris 1919 with some variation on Little feat as the backing band. Do love the title track at least.

Bought one of those OTC shirts. Thanks!

slightly off-thread point but. Re: John Cale i got a cd/dvd of an 80s show in Germany where he goes fucking apeshit, crawling around under the piano, screaming! Knocking things over. I'm guessing he was still doing lots of drugs still. Awesome set list, as well. Dont let anyone tell you 80s Cale sucks. He was on 🔥 man!!!

I ride with Cale almost entirely from 1970-1984, after which I cherry pick. I commend his recent efforts for keeping up with modern styles and techniques but it's not my jam.

I thought he was getting late extreme by about 84 when I really should have gone and seen him. I thought all the heavy drunken crawling around teh stage etc was late 70s and he had cut down his drinking in th e80s. Though just occuring to me that the South Bank Show has him looking a bit bloated and overweight and he was thinner by the edn of teh decade at the time of Dreams For drella so might coincide with him cleaning up.

But that late 70s twin guitar stuff is great. & Sabotage is just one of several similarly intense recordings.
Even Cowgirls get The Blues is pretty great too though not sure fi they ever remastered it. I have the Danceteria cd version, is there a later one?

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does the Broadcast discography count?

i have a boot of his from '85 with ollie halsall on board, it kills, i don't know when he cleaned up

actually, listening to it again i'm gonna go out on a limb and say he's not clean here

Swamp Dogg - "Have you heard the story?" from '74 is rocking my world right now

i didn't realize willie nelson's '78 standards record would be so fucking good. i don't know if it's just that i'm old or if it really is that great.

It's a lovely album

All timer.

Bright Phoebus / Lal & Mike Waterson.

I'd rather given up on the idea of the great lost folk album years ago, having invested in a few that were lost for good reason, but this is something else.

White Noise - An Electric Storm

A friend just recently forwarded this record my way - not sure how I had never heard it before, but fuck me is it incredible.

Not sure if it fits the "classic record" billing though

A lot more so than most of the albums in this thread.

If you like the White Noise I found the United States of America lp sounded pretty similar. To the extent that I thought tracks from one were the other when they came on my Walkman.

The vocals are a lot better on the United States of American album, the weedy male vocals on the White Noise LP are easily the worst thing about it.

Weedy and very English.

Until I got one (at the Quayside market on the Tyne) about 20 years ago or so, I'd not heard anything about it.

Then I played it, and recognised various bits from Kenny Everett's radio show, and John Craven's News Round. (oh, and I also have/had that "Johnny One-Note" from the Phase-4 album that was JCNR's intro)

I think it must have sold well though because I've seen it in a lot of bargain bins over the years - back when I used to look in bargain bins.

was always a fixture on those island inner sleeves alongside john cale, fairport, war ina babylon etc

Another one of those "never been out-of-print' records, check the label variations/versions on Discogs.

huh I just kinda assumed it would be expensive and never tried to buy a copy, but now you mention it there's copies in OK condition starting around £13

tbh I also think the USA LP does similar thing better, but they are both good

THere's a 2nd White Noise lp from 1975 that's more electronic and less folky and weird. It's up on Spotify.
Sounds like it's more serious in intent.

There was a good remaster of the 1st lp on cd about 10 years ago I think it was an improvement on the previous version I had anyway.

Jefferson Airplane, After Bathing At Baxter’s .

Never dug into their work before, and I’ve listened to this thing 20 times in the last few days. Crown and Volunteers are no slouches, either.

Jaki Byard's Out Front

xp There's some great live JA stuff from late 67 and throughout 68 that's worth looking out for too.
I think all the Spencer Dryden stuff is worthwhile but especially the 2nd 3 lps.
& the solo stuff on Grunt is worth hearing too.

I mean, check out the rest of the “main” albums first. The debut is an underappreciated classic!

I mean, check out the rest of the “main” albums first. The debut is an underappreciated classic!

It's not just you.

xp Yeah, “Takes Off”... it’s my favorite, next to “Volunteers.”

jefferson airplane are a ridiculously underrated live band as far as i'm concerned.

Jack fucking Casady

I think they got a lot better when they started improvising which seems to be some time in early 67 from what I can remember from the loves You box set notes. & that seems to be the big thing with the sound on Baxters, not really hearing it on Pillow. THough Garcia is music director so would have thought he'd bring it with him

Grace Slick's previous band the Great Society were pretty great with improvising too. I love Darby Slick her Brother-in Law on their material, a deeply undersung, under-recorded raga influenced guitarist who took off for India to study the music further when grace decamped to JA.

& the comparison of early fairport Convention to them is nothing new. I think FA were referred to as the English JA quite a bit. Wish there was more live material around by them from their early years when the 2 female singers were onboard . Would like to hear how far Richard Thompson stretched out live, you get to hear some of it on the Bouton Rouge appearance from French TV when Judy Dyble was in the band, but I remember reading about him improvising a lot more.
They were doing a lot of US singer/songwriter material before Ashley Hutchings discovered the Cecil Sharpe archives and they became the more traditional orientated band they've remained ever since.

Coincidentally I've been listening to Jefferson Airplane quite a bit lately, I had a Best Of for years but only really knew Surrealistic Pillow outside that. Takes Off is really good, yeah. Baxters is pretty good too.

I also like their cover of High Flyin' Bird a lot, I downloaded what I thought was the original by Billy Edd Wheeler but it looks like he actually recorded that after the JA version (he wrote the song but wiki says Judy Henske did the first recording of it in 1963)

Judy Henske was a pretty strident folk singer who went onto recording Farewell Alderbaraan with then husband Jerry Yester in 1969.
I think that's a must hear lp, glad it finally got an official cd version a couple of years ago

Jefferson Airplane is a major blind spot of mine, as I think I've mentioned at length before on ILM.

Amon Duul II tap into some of the same feeling though the sound is a bit more avant and teutonic.
Their first 5 or 6 lps are well worth checking out too.

Yes, I prefer Amon Duul II and Fairport to JA.

a couple things that strike me about JA:

* it wasn't just the core band, they had some really talented people in their periphery - there's this rolling band going out playing JA songs now and I believe both Darby Slick and Peter Kaukonen are involved, and I feel like, man, they're both great and should be recognized for more than just hanging out with the Airplane

* there are basically a ton of bands who copied the Jefferson Airplane male/female vocal/electric folk model, most of whom are now forgotten - you know, bands like HP Lovecraft. definitely a really influential band back in the day

* when it comes to them as a live outfit, they might pale next to people from europe, but, i will be controversial here - i think as a live band they were the best san francisco psychedelia had to offer. except for the dead, that scene is a little bit out of vogue right now because rolling stone pushes it so hard, but i gotta say, in '69 i truly believe that the airplane were a better live band than the dead (see: "sweeping up the spotlight")

Link Wray's S/T 1971, mentioned up thread and covered extensively in Oxford American. Like Exile on Main St, and unlike a lot of other early 70s soul-rock, it brings the riffs, not just the depleted gaze and world-weary hooks.

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