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

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

― octobeard, Tuesday, September 20, 2022 6:12 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1DXwtBwwuL._SX466_.jpg

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.

Yeah, should know their work better. Got the classic albums bor whatever box at the start of the year.

Would love to hear what Blixa Bargeld was doing with pedal steel he was apparently studying it just before he apparently gave up playing guitar live. He stepped back from being one of the 2 Neubauten guitarists when Alex hacke became bassist and the new permanent line up stabilised.

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.

The version of "Backwaterside" is very Televisiony/Velvetsy, even reminds me of "How Soon Is Now?"

Lately, I can't seem to get enough of Skin Tight, Fire, and Honey by the Ohio Players.

My favourite new-to-me LPs heard in 2022, all have music from the years 1948-1956

Akira Ifukube – Godzilla OST
Art Blakey – A Night at Birdland
Astor Piazzolla – Ses Premiers Enregisrements
Benny More Y Su Banda Giganta – Grabaciones Completas
Bernard Hermann – The Day The Earth Stood Still OST
Bo Diddley – The Indispensible Bo Diddley, Vol.1
Four Freshmen – Four Freshmen and Five Trombones
Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours
Glenn Gould – The Goldberg Variations
J.J. Johnson with Clifford Brown – J.J. Johnson with Clifford Brown
Jackson Do Pandeiro – Sua Majestade: O Rei Do Ritmo
Jerry Byrd – Early Country & Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
Les Baxter – The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter
Maria Tanase – Malediction d’Amour
Mahalia Jackson – Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns
Maxima Mejia – Los Grandes Exitos de Maxima Mejia
Miles David – The Complete Blue Note Sessions
Moondog – Moondog & His Honking Geese
Peggy Lee – Black Coffee with Peggy Lee
Salum Abdallah & Cuban Marimba – Ngoma Iko Huku
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant – Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Stan Kenton – New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm
Thelonious Monk – Genius of Modern Music Vol 1/2
Various – 1950: The Bomb In The Heart of The Century
Various – Africa at 78RPM
Various – Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974
Various – Blowing The Fuse (Series)
Various – Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music: Country & Western Hit Parade (Series)
Various – Forgotten Guitars from Mozambique
Various – London is the Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London, 1950-1956
Various – Music of the Magindanao in the Philippines
Various – OHM+: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
Various – Township Jazz ‘n’ Jive
Various – The Complete Sun Singles
Various – The Doo Wop Box
Various – The Pig’s Big 78s
Various – Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 1: Mondo Exotica
Yma Sumac – Mambo!

Into New Dimension's self-titled album from 1981 is highly recommended to any Boogie/Modern Funk fiends. Got tipped to it from a Numero newsletter but I don't think they're planning to issue it.

I haven't listened to it in years but John Cale's "Paris 1919" sounding pretty masterful this morning.

bought Never Mind The Bollocks on sunday. have never owned a copy, but did have a tape of the picture disk done by a friend at the time and i rinsed that tape so it was all very familiar.

Universal UMC release, (c)2012, the cover looks green and orange from some angles / in some lights, the more familiar yellow / pink in others.

That's really cool! The yellow/pink cover was the UK version, while the pink/green was the US version. I got the US version first and was surprised years later to see the yellow one. Is the cover lenticular, or is it some other printing trick?

several title sin the Rermegacorp package I bought over Xmas.
Sun Ra from the Detroit Arts Cebntre in 1980 and Italy in 1978 or Beyond the Purple Star Zone/Oblique Parallax and Media Dreams respectively.
Pretty other.

Kew Rhone by John Greaves/Peter Blegvad etc
very quirky lp by memebers of Henry Cow and Slapp happy and a supporting cast of great contemporaries.

Camberwell Now All's Well compilation of pretty much all of post This Heat band's work had me kicking myself for not going and seeing them 40 years ago. Less guitar than This Heat but that's been replaced by other instruments.

Kampec Dolores Concert
Band I've wanted to check out for ages, think I've known the name but not the music for decades. Pretty great melange of Eastern European folk/jazz/RIO & other prog stuff. Sounds like players are pretty great. I want to investigate them further.

Faust Ravivando I think this fits here since it's 20+ years old.
Hadn't checked out much of teh reunion era material for some reason. THis is brilliant industrial psychedelic stuff sounding like vast corroded metal structures.

plus some other stuff
Gun Club Miami, think I'm hearing things in this that I hadn't before Blixa Sounds remaster sounds pretty great. But this is an lp I have loved since the mid 80s.

Spirit Clear.
got given this by a friend a couple of months back but only just got around to putting this on. Had played 2 other titles by them I was given by the same person,. I did have this years ago on vinyl but hearing it again this week on multiple plays on my 3 changer has been great. Does knock me out.

really nothing special about the cover, it's a very bare bones release. the colours might just be a sunlight / artificial light thing. or my eyes.

it's not this one https://www.discogs.com/master/30445-Sex-Pistols-Never-Mind-The-Bollocks-Heres-The-Sex-Pistols

it's this one https://www.discogs.com/release/12811260-Sex-Pistols-Never-Mind-The-Bollocks-Heres-The-Sex-Pistols