[Music] Classic albums that totally passed you by

[rebel51]

Talking heads remain in light

 

[hans kraay fan club]

My, I loved this album at the time of release. Never listened to any New Order album before or after it though. oddly.

OMG. In that case, your answer to the thread OP questions, is this:



Enjoy.

One of the comments on the Youtube link puts it well:

This is the sound of Morris, Sumner and Hook leaving Joy Division behind slowly, painfully, and yet with a fondness. This is indeed a New Order.

 

[WATFORD zero]

A while back you mentioned another Miles Davis album, which has passed me by. Which one was it? (I have c6, all studio ones.)

It wouldn't be

Would it ? (Another favourite of mine). Although you may take some time finding it.

60 studio albums and 39 live albums, as well as 46 compilation albums, 27 box sets, 4 soundtrack albums, 57 singles and 3 remix albums.

Even I was surprised at that

 

[chip]

Neil Young is another. It was only a short while ago, when he returned his back-catalogue to Spotify after withdrawing it, I listened to my first album of his.

Interestingly, I instantly recognized about 3 or 4 album covers.

Try the Unplugged album. Some amazing variations in that: Like a Hurricane played on a church organ.

 

[chip]

FYI, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere is right up there as one of my very favourite albums. I discovered it in my mid-20s at the same time as reading Grapes of Wrath, and the two remain right up there, while the combination still resonates.

Same here, my backing track to the summer of 88

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

It wouldn't be

Would it ? (Another favourite of mine). Although you may take some time finding it.

60 studio albums and 39 live albums, as well as 46 compilation albums, 27 box sets, 4 soundtrack albums, 57 singles and 3 remix albums.

Even I was surprised at that

Funny you should say "you may take some time finding it".

I definitely own a copy, and having been prompted I can't find it amongst my boxes of CDs. I gave up quite quickly and put Porgy and Bess on instead.

I "got into" jazz a bit while I was at uni, pretty much all of the big name albums like Kind of Blue seemed to come with another couple of albums in the same box with a bunch of guff in the notes about how it was definitely interesting and a unique mix of players who'd never played together before, leaving unanswered the obvious questions of why they also never played together ever again and why it was so obscure that it was being given away for free with an album that people might actually have heard of.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

My first exposure to Dire Straits was the Alchemy live album, stunning renditions of Romeo and Juliet and Private Investigations amongst others

One of the best live albums and I feel it really brings the songs on that album to life. I've listened to the studio album versions and they feel quite flat in comparison. The extended Sultans of Swing is probably my favourite track.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I saw him a few times in North wales in the late 80s I think. A bit like Roy harper in some ways. Thanks for the reminder.

I saw him at LSE in 1976. He was absolutely captivating.

 

[Flounce]

Stevie Wonder. As a teen I had him down as the guy who did saccharine nonsense like “Happy Birthday” and “Ebony and Ivory”.

Then my brother got Mrs GB Innervisions as a present one year and we both loved it. Going back over his career I then found Songs in the Key of Life which is even better, although I could live without Isn’t She Lovely which may have started the cheesy rot.

I liked him as little Stevie Wonder at Motown and loved Innervisions which I thought was ground breaking but am quite meh about most of his other later stuff. It is all too obviously Stevie Wonder and a bit samey to me

The less said about some of his very commercial stuff the better!

 

[vegster]

Probably loads of " Classic " albums have passed me by but, how would I know ?

 

[Flounce]

Forever changes by love

A top 10 album in many people’s collection I’d think?

 

[Flounce]

A classic album I still haven’t got into despite quite a few listenings is Blue by Joni Mitchell, her voice irritates the hell out of me

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Our house was very liberal, I was watching Parkinson, The News at a very very early age , but my parents weren't into pop music themselves.

My old man was a huge cricket fan and my mum was an incredible cook.

We found our own music, nothing was banned. I was very into music in my 20s when I found myself at the arse-end of Madchester. I got seriously into was known then as "indie" (my age) and was a Reading regular.

What turned me off (pretty much for life) was finding myself afterwards working in Camden right in the middle of "Cool Britannia" / "Brit Pop". My job at the time was also running a tape library for MTV.

In my mind afterwards, it became supermarket product. Never missed being really into music, I get greater joy from finding something new to cook with.

I recently found some never seen before middle eastern garlic stock cubes in a back street food shop in Liverpool and to be frank, I've had as much pleasure from them as I did seeing Nirvana live

In fact I'm very similar to Harry Wilson's tackle in that respect. Rather than hunting out an obscure 80s electronic band he'd never heard of, I hunt down obscure stock cubes.

I have a selection of Knorr salad dressing powders that I imported from Germany.

If you liked music once, and are put off by product and commercialization, there is some amazing music out there by people who I suspect never travel any further than their bedroom when making music. Luckily embedded in my youtube algorithm. I posted some Allicorn last night on the main music thread. Just one example of thousands of original independent artists to explore. Another favourite of very different style is a swiss bloke who goes under the name Juche. More 'quirky' is Sco So much to explore

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[Sid and the Sharknados]

A classic album I still haven’t got into despite quite a few listenings is Blue by Joni Mitchell, her voice irritates the hell out of me

Oh, in that vein, I'll throw in Dark Side of the Moon.
I've heard it several times but have never owned it, I don't think I've ever reached the end without falling asleep at some point.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

A top 10 album in many people’s collection I’d think?

Had the absolute pleasure of seeing them, Arthur Lee and his young adoring musician band, play at the Canterbury Festival around 20 years ago at Mount Ephraim. A very emotional experience. It was so good - note perfect, and some of my old pals were in tears.

 

[Flounce]

Had the absolute pleasure of seeing them, Arthur Lee and his young adoring musician band, play at the Canterbury Festival around 20 years ago at Mount Ephraim. A very emotional experience. It was so good - note perfect, and some of my old pals were in tears.

Any excuse

50 minutes of heaven and considering when it was originally recorded nothing short of amazing

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

FYI, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere is right up there as one of my very favourite albums. I discovered it in my mid-20s at the same time as reading Grapes of Wrath, and the two remain right up there, while the combination still resonates.

Is the amazing Cinnamon Girl on that? The 'breadcrumb' at the end is a thing of absolute beauty.

 

[herecomesaregular]

OMG. In that case, your answer to the thread OP questions, is this:



Enjoy.

One of the comments on the Youtube link puts it well:

Thanks, will give it a listen.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

OMG. In that case, your answer to the thread OP questions, is this:



Enjoy.

One of the comments on the Youtube link puts it well:

I loved the transition between JD and NO. I remember NO's first airing - a John Peel session. I have the John Peel session CD. But (you can guess the rest). I am goin onto Amazon to order the CD.....

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

OMG. In that case, your answer to the thread OP questions, is this:



Enjoy.

One of the comments on the Youtube link puts it well:

There is a 2020 remaster with loads of extra tracks (26 in total) called "power corruption and lies (definitive)". I just bought the MP3 download version. Thanks for alerting me to that.