I should have bought it years ago....

Probably London Calling or Aja.

Howard

Bluesbreakers - John Mayall with Eric Clapton

Quite a revelation, I have to say. Can't imagine how it must have sounded to circa 1966 ears.

I just bought the Rolling Stones' Out Of Our Heads (U.S. version); can't believe I never owned this when I was a sprout. What can you say about an album with "The Last Time", "Satisfaction", and "Play With Fire" on it (among others)? Well, you can say it's one of Rocks' most important and enjoyable. I rate it with Highway 61 Revisited, Rubber Soul and Are You Experienced as a classic album. I've also been rediscovering other Stones CDs of the 60's; in fact, most of my pop CD dollars have been going to old stuff, I'm not really into what's coming out in Pop'n'Rock at the moment. Now, Baroque music...ahhh.

p.s. Check out the bass on "Have Mercy"! Must've caused needles of the day to jump outta the groove.

Odd isn't it. You finally buy an iconic album and it turns out to be genuinely brilliant. I bought Nirvana's Nevermind at a secondhand shop a while ago. Stunning.

Bruce

Is there anything around new at the moment that is "genuinely brilliant" would anyone say?

I bought Elliott Smith and Jose Gonzalez this weekend on such recommendation and was disappointed. Will keep listening to them for a week or so and may change my mind but I can't remember the last album I thought "This is bloody amazing" on a first listen.

Jonathan

I recently picked up Pet Sounds for the first time (I know, the shame of not having done so sooner) and absolutely love it.

Sadly, these days, new and genuinely brilliant seem to be something of an oxymoron (though doubtless someone will follow this post with one proving me wrong, which would be nice, since I'd like to find an album that fits the bill).


regards,

Tam

A couple of recent 'blast from the past' re-discoveries are:-

A remastered 'Pronounced' by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Not a duff track.

Jean Michel Jarre's 'Oxygene'. I had a bit of a job to find a copy, as it does not seem to be routinely available on CD. However; I tracked down a very nicely remastered new copy, which looks to be made for the French market only. It's been remastered by some geezer in New York, and sounds excellent.

Bruce's 'Nirvana' re-discovery reminds me of Tori Amos' haunting version of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' which I have recently heard for the first time on her 'Crucify' EP.

Being able to hear the lyrics of this song for the first time in stripped down acoustic intensity, made me see Mr Cobain in a new light.

John.

I have no albums by Abba, The Beach Boys or The Doors. I ought to have some of all three.

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Originally posted by JeremyD:
I have no albums by Abba, The Beach Boys or The Doors. I ought to have some of all three.

Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys (Capitol) is all you really need if you're just a casual fan; it has the two best songs from Pet Sounds, "God Only Knows" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice". The Doors have a good 2-CD best-of set as well, I forget the title.

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Originally posted by JeremyD:
I have no albums by Abba, The Beach Boys or The Doors. I ought to have some of all three.

It's very odd about Abba. No matter how many years pass the uniqueness of their lyrics still makes me stop and take notice. Some of their stuff was a bit "bubblegum". (and some even a bit repetitive) But they often showed an oddly lateral mastery of English in their lyrics and masses of catchy tunes.
Though I have never owned any of their material they still crop up on the radio competing against the latest stuff with an ageless quality.

Though everybody likes to moan about Dido these days she has the same quirky skill with the english languge. The same ability to paint pictures with very odd choices of words. Well beyond that necessary to make a simple living as a humble multi-millionairess "pop star".

The Doors were simply boring and get more boring with time. But I'm not really into drunks mumbling to random noises off. The film didn't make them any more appealing.

The Beach Boys, if you were around at the time, were remarkably fresh. Along with Procul Harum's "Whiter Shade..", The Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" and Animals' "House of the Rising Sun".

All memorable classics. You really had to be there though.

Nime

'Wish you were here' by Pink Floyd would be my choice. A really classic album which has more emotion than you would think. Also, there must be loads of people who do not own a Duke Ellington record; if you are one of them please go to a music shop or website and remedy this bizarre situation!

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Bluesbreakers - John Mayall with Eric Clapton

Still have my original copy which still gets a spin !

I don't know if it was ever a classic, but I've recently discovered Shuggie Otis' "Inspiration Information" and I think it's brilliant.

Dn'l

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Originally posted by Nime:
The Doors were simply boring and get more boring with time. But I'm not really into drunks mumbling to random noises off. The film didn't make them any more appealing.
Nime

Nime, when you spend a paragraph delineating the singular talents of Abba, and then go on to pan the Doors in those three short sentences above do you do so with a straight face?

daniel

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Originally posted by dsteady:
Nime, when you spend a paragraph delineating the singular talents of Abba, and then go on to pan the Doors in those three short sentences above do you do so with a straight face?

daniel

I have never knowingly posted anywhere with a straight face.

I just don't like the Doors and having
watched the film a couple of times this only reinforced the feeling of disgust.

"Random noises off" sums them up quite nicely IMHO.

Would you prefer "some drunks insolently
showing off their absense of musical skill in a public place?"

Nime

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Originally posted by woodface:
'Wish you were here' by Pink Floyd would be my choice. A really classic album which has more emotion than you would think. Also, there must be loads of people who do not own a Duke Ellington record; if you are one of them please go to a music shop or website and remedy this bizarre situation!

!!!...Rick Wright was quoted in an interview published around the time of Wish You Were Heres' release that he'd been listening to a lot of Duke Ellington.

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Originally posted by Nime

"Random noises off" sums them up quite nicely IMHO.

Would you prefer "some drunks insolently
showing off their absense of musical skill in a public place?" Nime

Not bad, but I think I would prefer "vapid, Scandinavian, corporate disco better suited to glorify the campy hijinks of a busload of transvetites as they traipse across the Outback."

"I just don't like the Doors and having
watched the film a couple of times this only reinforced the feeling of disgust."

Then why watch it more than once? I couldn't even sit through it a first time. Beware any representations of reality purveyed by Oliver Stone.

daniel

Oh Yeah, back to the thread -- Jeff Buckley's "Grace."
dn'l

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Originally posted by dsteady:

Not bad, but I think I would prefer "vapid, Scandinavian, corporate disco. Better suited to glorify the campy hijinks of a busload of transvestites as they traipse across the Outback."

daniel

Now that was a bløødy good film!

I did say I didn't (and never have had) any Abba material. Did I not?

I picked up a multi-CD box of Barbara Streisand at the same time as the Beethoven Piano Concertos.

But fortunately I saw the withering look on my wife's face and it suddenly became a hot potato and was quickly returned to the rack. She's not fond of "easy listening".

"Wish You Were Here" is okay, if a bit dated.

Nime

I only acquired Pet Sounds and Astral Weeks after they came out on CD, some twenty years after their original LP releases.

G

I have recently purchased 'Grace' - its not the most instantly likeable cd, but it sure grows on you after a while...

andy c!

Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain. Still sounds odly contemporary. A favorite restaurant of mine in New York plays it full length pretty regularily and that got me back into it.

Also picked up Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle. Sounds dated in parts but it is interesting to hear the beginning of break-beats.

I bought 'Grace' a while ago and just can't find my way into it. The whining voice just depresses me!

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Originally posted by David Quigley:

I bought 'Grace' a while ago and just can't find my way into it. The whining voice just depresses me!

I have never got past the end of the first track. Cannot understand what all the fuss is about (but maybe that is because I have never got to the end of the first track)

David and Expat

That's your loss, then!

G

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Originally posted by Expat in Oz:

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Originally posted by David Quigley:

I bought 'Grace' a while ago and just can't find my way into it. The whining voice just depresses me!

I have never got past the end of the first track. Cannot understand what all the fuss is about (but maybe that is because I have never got to the end of the first track)

Skip the first track and go straight to tracks 6 and 7. If you still don't like it then you probably never will.

Andy C. is right in that it does grow on you, I wasn't immediately taken by it, and now I wouldn't be parted with it.

David, how is his a whining voice? I actually think it exhibits a degree of control and tunefulness that is largely absent in most singers' voices today.

dn'l