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

"My Father's House" is much better in the Christic performance. I think he just hadn't gotten it quite right when he recorded it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v9tzRSSPPM

I agree about "I'm on Fire" being a middle ground. It has such a sense of atmosphere, a sense of being more than what it is, which is everywhere in Nebraska and very hard to find in Bruce's work with the band. I hate to be all "x song is a vibe," but one of the distinctive things about Bruce + E. Street imo is that their songs are never vibes - except for "I'm on Fire," where he managed to get a sense of raw and nuanced and indefinable feeling out of the band and make it look easy.

Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954)

^^^ That's an amazing album. Check out Satch Plays Fats if you haven't already heard it.

Thanks, I'll check that one too. For a second I thought that "Fats" meant Fats Domino.

Aerial Ballet. Such a brilliant record that i somehiw ignored because i mistakingly thought it sounds outdated

http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/352/0000352704.jpg

On white vinyl. Amazing.

'the lexicon of love'.
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Finally caught up to this one.

Grupo Irakere and a bunch of other Salsa related stuff from the 70s. PLus several mande related things.

Rediscovering my Club Baobab set by Orchestra baobab which si pretty stunning. Guitar especially great.

listened to it a few times in the past, but yeah, violator has the goods

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

Finally got a copy of the Andy Irvine & Paul Brady lp cos it finally got a decent remaster.
Lovely mid 70s traditional Irish based lp.
Quite beautiful. It is something that I have meant to get hold of for years, I had ome money come my way for something unexpected so got i.
So nice way to commemorate an event I nearly boycotted. But turned out nice.
& it is a sublime record.

Technically not an album, but I remember ignoring Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense (the film) for ages, because I assumed it was one of those concert shows where the band smiles at each other and everybody jams and it's slick and it's all precisely-recorded etc. And I'm not keen on Talking Heads.

But! Well, actually it is all of those things, but it's better than I expected and I found myself warming to the songs. Even the versions of the groove songs from Remain in Light are good. Perhaps I'm getting old. I mean, it didn't knock me out, but I remember wondering how a man could sweat so much without getting dehydrated, and how many calories they all burned, and how it was possible for people to do shows like that night after night - it's because they were young, and professional musicians with many years' experience - and those thoughts didn't go through my mind when I first heard Dark Side of the Moon (for example).

Conversely I remember being slightly disappointed with Propaganda's A Secret Wish. It's like a really good 10". The decision to have two versions of "Duel" next to each other wasn't a good one.

Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", because somebody hit me with a baseball bat with the cassette glued to the end of it

really?

i mean i hope it's just a goof, but hey: free copy of kind of blue!

"hey man, you gotta hear these wire demos. they're gonna..."

*stares intensely*

"knock you out."

damaged, but the reels will probably be intact. also a free baseball bat, since it was glued to the tape, presume they must have left that behind too.

Not an album, but I just got the DVD of the Who live in Houston, 1975. It's been a while since I've seen Keith Moon in anything, and after staring at his drumming for about two or three numbers, it really sank in like "holy shit, how can someone play like that?" On first glance it's complete anarchy the way his arms are flailing about, and somehow it not only works but lands in all the right spots.

Ashley Pomeroy, pretty sure the answer to most of the things you were wondering is cocaine

1) What's Going On. head in the clouds the whole time. it's great in such an effortless sounding way. very much a world you wanna live inside.

2) Revolver!! decided to give it my first full listen (of course, I knew more than half the songs already) while very high and in that state I was able to imagine what it might have been like to discover this in 1966. fucking astounding, of course.

some things I've been enjoying from 1952

Stan Kenton - New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm - I know Kenton is considered pretty square but in the slightly drab context of 1952 this is wildly exciting and just rammed with BIG ideas.

Dinu Lippati - Chopin: Waltzes Apparently from '49, just astonishingly inventive riffing off these waltzes, sounds like 20th century compositions then you keep picking out the familiar tunes. (I know this wasn't recorded in '52 as Dinu was already dead by then, but anyway)

Singin' In The Rain OST a four-disc remaster with original 20s / 30s versions of the songs, outtakes, etc. but the stereo remastering is the thing here, I cannot for the life of me work out if this was originally stereo mixed, but in any case it sounds just fantastic.

1952 is a weirdly fallow year for both be bop and r&b, so no really decent LPs, if you have a counterexample then please share.

I'd add Monk's final recordings with Blue Note and Gerry Mulligan's first great recordings with Chet Baker. LP's were an emerging format so anything I listen to from 1952 is usually on a compilation.

Also in country music, Hank Williams was making his final (great) records in 1952.

Yeah agreed on both, just listing LPs, which were still a novelty at this point.

I've been enjoying He Touched Me by Elvis Presley, which was mentioned on the Elvis thread. I wouldn't have guessed a post-1970 Elvis Gospel album could be this good.

The Song Remains The Same was leaving Criterion Channel and I haven't seen it since I was a kid on a crappy VHS transfer. Goddamn it knocked me out!

I was wondering the other day if there are any equivalents to Stop Making Sense in terms of combining a high quality theatrical concept, spectacular band show, and very cool music. The first time I saw it, my father who is not very curious musically and probably never listened to Talking Heads after that, sat next to me and watched the entire show with me.

I'm listening to my first Steely Dan album, their first too. It's ok, I'm still standing.

Finally got a copy of the Andy Irvine & Paul Brady lp cos it finally got a decent remaster.

great album^^^ didn't know about about the new remaster

also very worth hearing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Lines_(Dick_Gaughan_%26_Andy_Irvine_album)

The reissue of The Bridge by Robert Rental and Thomas Leer. Lovely stuff

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady new version is pretty new. I was seeing reviews of the vinyl version 3 or 4 months ago and hoping that it was going to come out on cd too. So it appeared on cd and I couldn't afford to buy it then I got a little windfall last weekend so got it.

The pair are touring in November, apparently rescheduled from January.

JUst seen this too so thought I'd add it. Then read it
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40782783.html

I was wondering the other day if there are any equivalents to Stop Making Sense in terms of combining a high quality theatrical concept, spectacular band show, and very cool music. The first time I saw it, my father who is not very curious musically and probably never listened to Talking Heads after that, sat next to me and watched the entire show with me.

It's really the gold standard. You rarely have a concert film that manages to have a great artist and be a truly great film and feature truly great music. The only other one that comes to mind is Monterey Pop, and that's not even one artist or one setlist.

I'd check out Prince's Sign 'O' the Times which may be on the Criterion Channel. It's more of a serviceable film than a great film (the scripted dramatic elements alone are a bit clunky) but musically it's pretty f-ing great, every bit the equal if not better than Stop Making Sense in that department.

I should add The Last Waltz. Plenty of people like myself have reservations about it, but there are people who have argued that it's better than Stop Making Sense. (FWIW, if Stop Making Sense is an A+ film, I'd call The Last Waltz an A- at best, more likely a B+.)

On a more modest level, perhaps Laurie Anderson's 'Home of the Brave'?

I still haven't seen it, but since so much of her work was conceived with a visual or theatrical component in mind, it's probably essential viewing.

United States Live is my holy grail - I know Christgau loves the soundtrack, but I would love to see a complete film of her legendary BAM production.

me too! fgti has mentioned it before - i think the original full recordings/ films are gone?

massive :(

is it heretical to say Strange Angels is her best? Some of my favorite synth sounds on a Poppy Bush Interzone album.

I would sell a lung for a blu ray of the United States Live footage.

My favourite thing about the Sign O The Times film is that Prince has preciseley two lines of dialogue "Hey Cat why don't you let me take you out tonight?" to which she replies "Fuck off!" and one other where he points at a ring in a mocked-up jewellery shop window and says "Come closer... isn't that nice?". I mean.. the humour of this man! God damn!

"unhalfbricking". Amazing record.

Operation Doomsday

Love - Forever Changes

Wisdom, Mr. Soto.

I can't characterize it yet! Spooky folk? I keep imagining the Walker Brothers at the mike.

I'm finding Herbie Hancock's nventions and Dimensions pretty fascinating. Have had it as part of a box set for a couple of years and not payed much attention to it. Now had it on for a few days and seeing various levels. Interesting for a jazz record with no horns and one real melody instrument.
Has had me wondering how popular it was with mods or at least whatever the group who were makers and shakers in taht scene and may have rejected taht label. Since it came out in 64 it should be more what that scene was into than what it was depicted as, especially with him being a Miles sideman.
Anyway interesting textures etc. & interesting choice of sidemen with 2 Latin players on percussion instruments/drums.

xp interesting, just been listening to a number of podcast interviews with Johnny Echols over the last couple of weeks which has given some background on the development of Love up to Forever Changes taht I wasn't 100% familiar with before. Worth looking around for, & I'm looking forward to his own memoir whic is supposed to underway and hopefully mostly written.

The JOhn Einarson reworking of Arthur Lee's incomplete memoir was pretty interesting too

Johnny Echols is kind of known for his tall tales tbh.

"unhalfbricking". Amazing record.

co-inky: a few days ago i was thinking to myself that unhalfbricking was the only FC record i'd heard, so went and listened to, and ended up *loving*, Fotheringay

Otherly Pastoralism?

(Multi-xp)

I'd say all the run of Richard Thompson era FC was worth hearing, definitely all of teh Sandy Denny era which mainly overlaps though she comes back for 2 lps later. But all that era with Hutchings and Thompson including the first lp which has Judy Dyble on and may be more psychedelic.
I'd also checck out the lps by hutchings when he moved on to other projects. The first 3 Steeleye Span which are pretty psychedelc reworkings of traditional material, then the Albion band material starting with No Roses and the Battle of The Field. & if you can get a chance to hear the early live recordings with Richard & Linda Thompson onboard they're pretty great too.
Richard & Linda Thompson the 1st 3 especially Bright Lights & Pour Down Like Silver as well as the recordings from the 1975 tour which were released much much later. All great.