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

Thin Lizzy - Nightlife. I don't know what I was expecting exactly, maybe an album full of rockers like "Boys Are Back," and I knew about Lynott's Van Morrison-isms, but I guess I wasn't prepared for how subtle and how folk and soul inspired much of it is. Beautiful record.

― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, April 7, 2021 7:36 AM

+1
nightlife rules!

also ole` would be the greatest jazz album ever made if he never recorded anything after it.

Olé RULES

i haven't heard the pharoah sanders version before, though, so i've got that cued up

Olé is monumental. The title track makes me want to run up a mountain with a bull across my shoulders.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:14 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i will now be checking out Olé

I’ve been getting really into thrash and technical death metal lately and have totally fallen in love with mighty Death. I’ve been totally “rinsing” their first 5 albums and it’s like... I feel like a teenager again, just loving this music so much. I’m a total Death fanatic now... it’s so hard to pick just one. My gut says human but my heart says scream bloody gore but leprosy is so fucking sweet but the guitar solos on it aren’t as great... also fucking INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT PATTERNS!! Chuck is god, I swear.

I’ll just say Scream Bloody Gore since I had an enormous blast singing along and air drumming to it while driving last week.

nice! yeah i heard leprosy for the first time a few months ago and that thing rips so hard. incredible lyrics too!

I went to the record store with my Mom a while ago. didn't find anything I liked but she saw a copy of Cat Stevens' Tea for the Tillerman. I know nothing of Cat and her taste is kind of suspect but I didn't want to leave empty handed so I got it. anyway I finally decided to listen to it now. it's fucking great!!! thanks Mom!!

Sparklehorse, «It’s A Wonderful Life» (ymmv re «classic», of course)

Nevermind, didn’t catch the pre 1990-criteria until after I posted. Carry on.

check out in utero too
(nobody cares about that criterion)

lol

Speaking of Coltrane, I just discovered Blue Train <3

JUst had teh 13th Floor Elevators' Bull Of The Woods reappear in my consciousness after not really listeningto it for a few years.
& finding it pretty magical while still far fro perfect soundwise.
Really muffled in places.
BUt wow shows how good Stacy's guitar is and if it wasn't preceded by 2 lps taht are considered genre classicsit might be much better sung.

Also just had the Misunderstood's london era recordings represented to me in a different way.
Guitars are really something else. Corrosive.
Don't think I've listened to my other versions of this material in a while though do still love it from my early teens.
PLus it has some bits taht haven't really appeared before. Some masterful guitar stuff at teh end of teh version of I'm nOt Talking might have been a structural guide for a number of people if it had been known before now.
Really is some very 'other' stuff and now there's a full disc of this stuff of somewhat similar quality together. previous collections of their work may have had teh Riverside recordings too close to this otherworldly stuff. While the Riverside is still pretty fanbtastic it's not as trepanningly great as this.

Abbey lincoln
Various solo recordings I think most notably Abbey is Blue and People In Me.
Jazz vocalist who may be best known in work with her onetime husband Max Roach. Abbey Is Blue is her in a band with Roach and several other great jazz players who may be better known fro slightly later work.
People in Me is recorded in Japan in 1973 with a pick up band with a Japanese bassist and pianist and 3 members of Miles Davis' band and possibly Miles himself. THey happened to be playing Japan at the same time as the recording.
IT's a little looser than the early recording.

Solomo Burke
now onto the 3rd disc of the recent Atlantic set. Guitar is still pretty strong and vocals are sublime.
Disc 2 has the guitar doing things i think were very innovative at the time and may have been credited to white players as innovations. But are really effective here which is probably more of a source.
3 just has really fluid guitar which probably would have been a great example for rock players of the time

xpost nicely done

Sparklehorse, «It’s A Wonderful Life» (ymmv re «classic», of course)

― Mule, Sunday, April 11, 2021 5:24 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's a classic

Thin Lizzy - Nightlife. I don't know what I was expecting exactly, maybe an album full of rockers like "Boys Are Back," and I knew about Lynott's Van Morrison-isms, but I guess I wasn't prepared for how subtle and how folk and soul inspired much of it is. Beautiful record.

― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, April 7, 2021 7:36 AM

I need to revisit this one. I remember it being the only album of the band's classic period that I thought was underwhelming. It also features one of their worst songs ("Frankie Carroll") and a tossed off instrumental. But I'll admit it's been many years since I listened to it and I remember really loving "Showdown" and the last song, so I think I'll pull it out tonight

Nina Simone - Pastel Blues ~ played this 3x in a row and was just floored. The marriage of old and new; it is both super traditional, easy listening and also very progressive. Need to dig deeper into her catalog if anyone has any suggestions.

Her whole mid-60s Philips catalogue is good-to-amazing but if you enjoyed Pastel Blues I'd really recommend In Concert, released a year earlier, and Wild Is the Wind, released a year later.

The compilation Sugar in my Bowl was my introduction to that eraof Simone's work. it used to be around teh local chain record shops in the cheap multibuy offer for ages.
Odd how much white singer songwriter she covered for somebody so heavily involved in the black power movement. Or so it struck me at the time I was listening to it heavily. Has some really good stuff on anyway.

Thanks!

somehow i'd never listened to "the idiot" by iggy pop??!?!? even though i've listened to "lust for life" a million times? anyways, the idiot is amazing while also making me feel seasick

omfg

"The Idiot" >>>>>>>> "Lust For Life"

I don't think they can really be compared. The Idiot is a Bowie album with Iggy on vocals; Lust for Life is Iggy and his road band, with Bowie as keyboardist but not dominating the sessions the way he did the first time. If you like Bowie more than Iggy, The Idiot is always gonna be your pick, but for me it's the exact opposite. I like almost every Iggy album to one degree or another (and Fun House is the greatest rock album ever made), and don't really listen to Bowie at all anymore except for Low, "Heroes" and Blackstar.

Also they are both thought of as Berlin albums but The Idiot was only mixed there, it was recorded in Switzerland and Munich. Lust for Life is a total Berlin album made in the same room as "Heroes."

i've always thought of iggy as having at least two distinct musical personas: proto-punk rocker dude and art school dropout. it was always a little blurred in the early and mid-70s, but with the idiot and lust for life —to me anyway— it feels like he was distinguishing them for the first time.

i also revived the penguin cafe topic to say this, but it's relevant here too: that first penguin cafe orchestra record is all kinds of awesome.

Jim Hall did a couple of records on the CTI label with Chet Baker called 'Concierto' (75) and 'Studio Trieste' (82) that are excellent records. Bands are great on both records as Steve Gadd is drummer on both but the first one has Paul Desmond and Ron Carter and the later one also features Hubert Laws. Beyond the music, the production on those records is immaculate. I wish you could hear Ron Carter on those old Miles Davis records like you can on 'Concierto'.

'Concierto' features "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Rodrigo, which was also one of the main parts of Miles Davis/Gil Evans 'Sketches of Spain'. The version by Hall/Desmond and Baker is very beautiful.

Yeah I had an epiphany with The Idiot some years back too. I wish someone had played me peak Iggy at 17. I knew nothing by him at all except the 80s pap; first time I heard Lust For Life was in the Trainspotting trailer.

Same deal, Pisces, though I had his "Nude Rude" best of since the mid-90s. I didn't get around to hearing all of "The Idiot" until I was almost 50! It's clear who the idiot was. Still, it's never too late!

maybe the wrong place for this, but

does iggy have any undisputed classics in his solo catalogue, outside of those two albums?

because i'm in the mood to get knocked out again today.

imo New Values is prime Iggy

Yeah, New Values is killer, but be prepared for the last two tracks, which are prime "you could never get away with that today" stuff.

Don't get any of the old versions, but the late mix of 'Kill City' puts it up pretty close with Ig's other 70s records. I did not check that out for a long time as I had one of the old Bomp versions and it kinda makes Charlie Patton sound like Dark Side of the Moon.

"The Endless Sea" off 'New Values' is a track fans of 'The Idiot' should search out if they don't know it. That one reminds me of the Doors quite a bit.

hey this *is* really good. any idea where i might have heard "i'm bored" before? definitely recognize it.

also "don't look down" holy shit iggy goes stax!!??!

xp I like Kill City a lot… I have that Bomp! version you mentioned, lol (on a single disc w/the “I Got a Right” single). New Values is also good.

Agree about Kill City. It's Iggy in 70s Stones mode, and it really works a lot of the time.

"Bang Bang," from Party, is an incredible single, but there's nothing else on the album that's remotely its equal. This TV performance is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcUa65cgX9c

Kill City has been my go-to Iggy record for a few years.

I like it a lot too, probably better than any of the proper solo records, but it's a real case of stretching the material (which was only supposed to be a demo) to fill out the record: ending both sides with an instrumental (plus Iggy mumbling), the first of which is reprised at the beginning of the second side. I mean, it's all listenable and it adds to the sense of utter dissolution.

Austin you're in Oz or an expat, right? "I'm Bored" is the jumped-up gyrating Countdown performance which follows The Ig's legendary amphetamine interview with Molly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtH58M3HXA

Hum Dono by Joe Harriott and Amancio da Silva

yeah picked that up a few years ago when it was reissued. I think I'd already meant to get some Harriott and saw some great reviews of that. It is pretty lovely.

Yonin Bayashi
Great japanese prog lp from the early 70s. I think i'd heard bits of this some years ago but just found a cd copy so listening to that on my 3 changer this week. great guitar which is pretty US psychy. & the rest of teh band is pretty decent too.

which one, stevo? I'm listening to Ishoku Sokuhatsu right now and it's hitting the spot.

that one.
yeah forgot it wasn't s/t cos it was in another room.
BUt yeah saw that Dodax had some copies so picked it up and yeah its really something .
Not sure if the later ones are as good.

I have a 1978 UK issue of Kill City on Radar and I think it's great, no idea if there's any different to the Bomp! versions but I don't think so?

New Values obv good but I also like Zombie Birdhouse a lot.

"Bang Bang," from Party, is an incredible single, but there's nothing else on the album that's remotely its equal. This TV performance is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

just watching this video now and yeah its amazing. when those ping pong balls fall, waht is happening lol

Not to overly de-Iggify the thread, but

The Clientele - The Violet Hour

https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/digify.jpg?w=1200&strip=all

The net's forgotten site

baby detonate for me

Hum Dono by Joe Harriott and Amancio da Silva

another in a long line of good jazz albums ruined by vocals