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

jon lucien - thread is on fire with 70s altsoul guys today!

rashida also recommended 420 music.

One that keeps me coming back to the well is Parallel Lines.

this happened to me recently and i thought of this thread but forgot to post

I know the guy is a piece of shit but damn this Red House Painters album is punching me right in the heart lately https://open.spotify.com/album/3F9xD3Dg2zu2LZbVHdKeVD?si=ai3-rjLNRGSkr_zZ-Pc29w&utm_source=copy-link

I understand people who already knew Red House Painters still listening to them. But actively checking them out after the Kozelek revelations seems like an odd choice imo.

He put the disclaimer on there, and you're still trying to shame him?
I mean, if you extend that logic, you've cut out a pretty broad swath from the classic albums pantheon.

(fwiw, I can't listen to kozalek anymore, but I do think there's some recency bias at work here, because I'm fine with Prince or Jimmy Page or Miles Davis)

yeah, anima latina definitely has that MPB/RPI crossover sound to it and it is indeed great! i do really really think RPI is slept on as a genre in general; i've just gravitated to it more and more over time. (of course, there's the chico buarque/ennio morricone collabo for more of the sao paolo/lazio express!

wow yeah thanks Chris L, that album is sounding very cool, I’ve always seen Lucio’s albums about but didn’t know what his deal was

Gene Ammons 'Brother Jug'
- This is a very funky and groovy record. "Jungle Strut" has some filthy drums.

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers 'Free for All'
-Pretty much anything these guys did for a few years especially when Wayne Shorter was in the group is pretty ace. Title track to me is really great and to me sounds to have a bit of a Coltrane influence.

thank you earl! really love gene whenever i hear him, but so much of his catalogue is in limbo so i didn't know that one. "jungle strut" is indeed pretty badass. bernard purdie as solid as ever.

Just bought The Psychedelic Furs' Mirror Moves. I'd listened to it on Spotify on headphones before and really liked it, but what a gigantic sounding album through the stereo!

The second side faffs around a bit but the album's a solid compromise brokered between contemporary sounds and Butler's sudden interest in becoming the Bryan Ferry of "Dance Away."

kenny larkin, metaphor

i just am always looking for shimmering jazzy late night techno that sounds exactly like this

What Color Is Love is all time... need to put on Occasional Rain again. His voice is the epitome of comfort/reassurance to me. Love the dude

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A very comforting voice...I always turn to TC when I'm down...

― henry s, Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

i just am always looking for shimmering jazzy late night techno that sounds exactly like this

would make a cool thread if there isn't one already

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how have i never heard this before?!

what is this record? i have bad eyes and on my mobile phone, lol

The Watts Prophets - Black In A White World

thanks!

gris gris

suddenly it clicked

Workingman's Dead.

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown. Perfect dub!

It’s a good album, but overall I prefer the one where said rockers are met in a firehouse. Elements of that are haunting psychedelic dub.

Oooh, I don't know that one, thanks for the rec!

It's a cliche, but in the wake of Christine McVie's death I have put Rumors back in heavy rotation. It's a near perfect album.

It is. I however don't need to play it because my Starbucks has had it on rotation for years, every track except "Oh Daddy."

Haha, another album "ruined" by Starbucks.

The self-titled album is nearly as good, and "Landslide" is imho not only their best song but one of my three or four favorites of all time.

The only thing wrong with Rumors is the missing "Silver Springs"

Agreed, that song is next level.

Sidebar Starbucks fact: When I worked there, if you ever wanted to put your own CDs on the stereo (instead of Starbucks-approved CDs) it would play them backwards

Like in reverse track order, or “I buried Paul” backwards?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Graffiti

"I buried Paul", literally-backwards style

surely you mean "turn me on, dead man."

Or "wolf in white van."

have we ever done thread for songs that sound good when played backwards?

I didn't realize a CD could be played backwards without a CDJ.

I still have fond memories of a set Ken Goldsmith did on WFMU consisting of Rolling Stones songs played backwards.

Don't own it yet but is Discover America great or what

The funny thing about it was it still sounded like the Stones. xp

Full House by Fairport Convention. I've loved Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief for years but never bothered to listen to any other Fairport album, largely due to the absence of Sandy Denny. Only recently did the penny drop that Richard Thompson was still in the band for Full House and indeed assumed greater importance in the line-up. It never scales the heights of Unhalfbricking or Liege & Lief, but "Sloth" is great and the single Now Be Thankful (bonus track on the CD reissue) is superb.

Madonna’s Like a Prayer

First 2 Fairport lps are pretty great too if you haven't looked in that direction. I enjoy Judy Dyble both on the s/t and on Trader Horne.
Sandy has joined by What We Did On Our Holidays though iain Matthews is still co lead singer.
& the North Star Grassman and the Ravens is good for Sandy playing against Richard still. Bits of incidental guitar sound quite Televisiony or vice versa too.

'sloth' is so good, half of it sounds like television playing a slint song

The Djangology records with Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli

I confess I've never been that interested in 50s rock and roll so haven't listened to that much of it but I've just listened to the first two Gene Vincent albums, "Bluejean Bop!" and "Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps" and they are fucking great. I can totally see why so many people rate him as the best of the best. Great singer, so charismatic and exciting, and Cliff Gallup's guitar playing is absolutely out of this world, that guy must have blown so many people's minds when they first heard him. Both albums are good all the way through, even the corny old schools ballads are good because Vincent totally sells them, he had a sweet voice when he wanted to.

Yeah, there's a reason the Birthday Party covered "Cat Man", he was totally wild out of the gate.

Just got a Patsy Cline 3cd that is pretty great. For some reason I didn't really know her work beyond a couple of ubiquitous hits which I like half knew and had heard numerous times without owning.
She has an incredible voice for one thing and I'm really enjoying the settings. She has pretty stripped down sound expanded massively by a pedal steel guitar which seems to define the outlines of the sound picture. I heard teh Walking After Midnight here and was reminded of Boces era Mercury Rev by that amorphous envelope of guitar, not sure if I'd map it back though. Did wonder who had picked up on the sound I'm hearing here, I guess Cowboy Junkies possibly but it does just seem like the kind of thing that might describe new sound worlds if listened to on acid or some similar cliche. Not sure what I was expecting, I think I was prompted to finally pick up a set of her stuff by reading about her being friends with Loretta Lynn when I finally picked up a best of her stuff a few weeks ago.
She does cover a number of different styles from some overtly country to some stuff thgat might be more pop polus pedal steel and a few tracks of rock and roll.
Anyway, got a cheap 3cd so have some stuff to explore.
Just wondering how I overlooked her for so long. She's pretty well known so surprised i haven't found a previous point at which I did so. I do enjoy Julie London, Peggy lee, Frank Sinatra and a few other similar era torch singer/crooner types but am loving this.
& now wondering on the pedal steel guitar as psychedelic instrument beyond Glenn Ross Campbell, possibly Sneaky Pete Kleinow and the cloud of pedal steel that hovers throughout the Gun Club's Miami played by Mark Tomeo.

Psychedelic pedal steel? Red Rhodes on anything he did with Mike Nesmith is your ticket.