What was the last classic album you got and weren't knocked out by?

Scott 4 is canon, definitely.

Live at Leeds.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wow. Hard to see that and Maggot Brain on here, but each to his/her own.

maybe in the u.k. or japan, i guess.

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99.3% of the u.s.a. has never heard a note of scott walker. and only 5% remember the walker brothers. if that.

yeah scott walker prob isn't v 'rock' tho he is def canonical (maybe esp in britain/europe?) was just kinda reaching for someone good w a big voice and big ideas.

i like pretentious music too, maybe i just don't like the things that jeff buckley is pretending to be, or wanted to be, or was.

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"Wow. Hard to see that and Maggot Brain on here, but each to his/her own."

says the guy who hates led zeppelin.

wait you are the guy that hates led zep right?

oh, bloody Astral Weeks. don't get it.

I don't if it hits as immediately hard as some of Van's other albums, but "Madame George", the title track, "Sweet Thing" and "Cyprus Avenue" have a smoldering intensity to them that grows on repeated listens for me.

i couldn't stand bitches brew by miles when i heard it in college, just didn't get it at all

Yeah, this is such a good example of something that took me some time to grow into. I checked it out from the local library in high school because I'd been reading about how innovative Miles was, and I completely hated it. Just despised it. Came back to it about 8 years later and now I can't imagine living without it. Its one of the few albums that is ALWAYS on my iPod, no matter how much I reshuffle whats on it.

I've never actually listened to Astral Weeks, but I do like Sweet Thing (only know it from Best Of)

I've listened to that album (AW) 20 times, and I couldn't tell you which of those songs are which.

All I hear is "BRAAA- LA LAA LAAA LA". I mean, it's beautiful in its own way, but that's it.

You better not be a Scott Walker fan, then...

Who's he?

:-D

He's this lounge singer from Las Vegas who went to England and got crazy famous.

Then forgot to go home, and now punches beef.

"pretentious" implies undeserved — i wouldn't say that about scott walker

Black Monk Time

the thing that irritates me about jeff buckley is that his dad is 10X more amazing and no one really rates him

i rate him. plenty of people like him.

but, no, he hasn't sold as many records as his son.

Often remarked upon, that they died at the same age.

Not so often, that Tim had made a load of albums and had laid off of the prevarication...

didn't he hire an elderly man to hit the meat for him?

say what?

wait you are the guy that hates led zep right?

― scott seward, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes. With qualifications, i like some of their stuff, like some of the funkier parts of Physical Graffiti and most of In Through the Out Door. The rest I cant stand.

I got a couple of theirs recently.

2 was dull, zoso was alright if you skip Stairway.

As I'm with you on Phys, I'll have to checkout InThru at some point.

Anyway, back to being meh about "Tusk" etc.

you might dig houses of the holy if u like physical graffiti

all led zep rules and pwns

If that's the one with Trampled, I have that single.

Oh that's phys as well, innit?

just checked the track listing, Crunge and Jamaica etc.

Yeah, someone played it to me back when.

I should say I like parts of III, pretty much all of that except that excruciating blues workout they do on it. God I hate that.

I'm trying to think of a canonical album I really really don't like, but then I find I like most (what is generally considered) "good" music if I give it a chance.

forever changes by love

i really really want to like it but i just don't.

I could never see what everyone else sees in

nah, can't think of one.

I still like "Wow" more than "Moby Grape" the first one, but hey, that's just me...

defending led zep is like defending pizza. or oral sex. there's just no point. the goodness is right there in front of you.

tusk though! man, just keep on trying. try for 20 years if you have too. it will be worth it in the end.

Oh, I got one from Fopp for a fiver.

Haven't played it yet, so.

Astral Weeks is ultra-classic for the bass playing alone, Morrison was backed by jazz Titans on that record

yeah idk how peeps can't love astral weeks, so beautiful and spiritual imo

i love all these musics, scott and van jimmy somewhere out there in "heaven" on their journey to the end of time

except theyre all still alive

:(

ilm used to despise van. or the brits on ilm did anyway. they were rebelling against their stepmums or something. if you check old van threads.

I think I just ~got~ Tusk yesterday! I love the Mac & loved its singles but the album is long & at least superficially disjointed, so I could never see how to get inside the album. & now I do.

vinyl helps. cuz when i play the vinyl i just play one side over and over and over. you sink into one side at a time.

^ this is a good point. and if one side seems markedly better than the other(s), you can just stick with what's working. turn it over a few years down the line and get a surprise (for better or worse)

How can you not like Album X? It obviously deserves its classic status? I beg you to listen to it again and you will surely learn to appreciate its many charms.

On the other hand, I must add anything by The Spacemen 3 into this list. These guys are just not my cup of musical tea, it would seem.

cecil taylor - silent tongues

haven't given up, but cecil is a tough nut

I'm always surprised how boring Can albums are.