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|   Great album from 60s, 70s or 80s that you discovered this year? | Darius
Dec 28, 2001 3:47 PM | | What's your favorite old album from the 60s, 70s or 80s that you didn't discover or listen to until this year? The classic album that you hadn't heard about or never got around to buying until this year finally because of Rave Rec'er influence.
Several albums purchased over the last year would qualify for me, but the favorite has to be The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. This has quietly become a new fave album of mine, the kind of album I know I will continue to take down from my cd rack regularly and enjoy, not just a "classic" that I appreciate but rarely listen to.
Anything like that for you? |
| sure! | Rae
Dec 28, 2001 4:21 PM | | Television's <i>Marquee Moon</i> was one of those for me, due to YOUR influence! I guess I'd peripherally heard of the band in the past, and even heard them when their dbi-nominated track appeared on RRSV1, but it wasn't until I heard the title track from <i>Marquee Moon</i> on your Building on Fire comp that I really thought I should invest in one of their records. Like you said about the Kinks, it's an album that I want to listen to all the time now.
I'm sure there are plenty of others, but that's the one that sticks out!
~Rae
NP: Hawksley Workman, growing on me at a frighteningly rapid pace |
| In my list are | Javier
Dec 29, 2001 10:13 AM | | it is 90's but anyway a great piece of music and a hell of a recording
Roger waters amused to death. |
| The Soft Boys - A Can of Bees | BradH
Dec 28, 2001 5:25 PM | | J found this disc on E-bay after sending me a copy from his vinyl. I had been touting Underwater Moonlight without having heard Bees (all of this stuff was hard to find for years) but now I think Can of Bees is more than just the best early Robyn Hitchcock; it's one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. How to describe it? Syd Barret meets Television? Guitar bashing, garage prog/power pop? It's blistering, raw, direct and complex all at the same time. Get a copy if you can. I don't recall hearing from Troy on this one so maybe he'll send you his! |
| Beach Boys' 20/20 | RickH
Dec 28, 2001 5:41 PM | | I bought the Capitol remaster (HDCD) of this album a few months ago. I had never heard it in it's entirety (the disc also has the "Friends" album on it as well and 5 bonus tracks). I was familiar with 5 of the album's 12 songs already, but listening to "Be With Me" (a great under-rated Dennis Wilson tune), "The Nearest Faraway Place" (very pretty B.W. instrumental), "Our Prayer", and even the track that was allegedly co-written by Dennis Wilson and a very infamous killer, "Never Learn Not to Love" was interesting to listen to, this one if only for curiosity's sake (the liner notes only credit Dennis Wilson as the writer). Hearing Beach Boys' tunes I had never heard before and in the great HDCD-encoded remastering job was quite a thrill. The best of the bonus tracks on this disc (not originally on 20/20) is Brian's version of "Old Folks At Home/Ol' Man River". |
| OK I'll play | YECH
Dec 28, 2001 6:12 PM | | My new addiction this year to funk/jazz/rock led me to discover some amazing bands/music that was overlooked by me in the 70's as I was busy listening to Robin Trower etc....
The top prize in that department goes to The Lafayette Afro Rock band and the double lp Darkest Light.A best of release that never fails to pick me up.
The Shuggie Otis/Inspiration Information was worth the price of admission allthough not as strong as Lafayette Afro.
I picked up Freddie Kings Women Across The River which brought back a lot of memories.
In the jazz department I found the following to be some newly discovered gems:
Face To Face/Oscar Peterson and Freddie Hubbard
Jimmy Forest/Black Forest
The Cat...The Incredible Jimmy Smith
and the 4 cd set of Little Feat reminded me of why these guys were one of my favorite bands in the 70's and still now.
Makes me want to dig deeper to see what other forms of great music I missed.
Interesting thread indeed
YECH |
| There were a few | Beatlebob
Dec 29, 2001 4:41 AM | | Several albums from those era's I discovered this past year that i've enjoyed (Thanks mostly to reccomendations here).
Love - Forever Changes
Rory Gallagher
Kinks - Arthur
Tommy Bolin
I know there are more but that's off the top of my head. |
| re: Great album from 60s, 70s or 80s that you discovered this year? | Tom D
Dec 29, 2001 7:02 AM | | from the 80's I picked up the HDCD import remasters of The Teardrop Explodes-Kilimanjaro and Wilder.They're both excellent albums especially when bolstered with the extra tracks.Teardrop was a band whos music I never heard in the 80's.They remind me a lot of Echo and The Bunneymen-I think they come from the same town in the U.K.Also picked up the import best of of The Sisters of Mercy.Haven't heard their music in a long time-a lot of the songs on their best of I remember hearing in clubs or on the radio-great alternative band.
from the 90's I picked up Massive Attack's 1991 debut album Blue Lines.It's an excellent groundbreaking album definately deserving of all the praise it's received over the years.Previously to picking this one up the only trip hop band I was familiar with was Portishead.After picking up Blue Lines I went out a purchased their other two albums Protection and Mezzanine as well as original frontman Tricky's solo album Maxinquaye |
| re: Great album from 60s, 70s or 80s that you discovered this year? | TodH
Dec 29, 2001 7:46 AM | | The 3 that stand out by decade are:
60's
Love - Forever Changes
70's
Televison - Marquee Moon
80's
Talking Heads - Remain in Light |
| re: Great albums, you bet!! | audiobill
Dec 29, 2001 8:19 AM | | 1980's
I'm listening to Bruce's "Nebraska", as I type this. Wow!! What an amazing album that, IMO, needs to be listened to from start to finish. Picked this one up, for a "song", $2.50 cndn, brand new.
Indeed Springsteen's Nebraska strikes me as one that was probably out of time, when it was released in 1982. More relevant than ever, now.
Jane's Addiction: Thanks to Ms. Nomer's Comp, I just can't get enough of this group. I definitely missed them, first time around, but I am diligently buying their entire output. Once, again, the beauty of buying some of these older gems is the pricing: "Ritual dl'habitual", $10.00 cndn, new.
1970's
David Gilmour's solo album, s/t, is another gem I missed and was reintroduced to by Pink Floyd talk on RR. "There's No Way Out Of Here" is a real gem. FWIW, $5.00 cndn, new.
1990's
I know, I know, but I couldn't resist mentioning this 90's group that I only heard of through RR. Picked up the Church's "A Box Of Birds".
Although these are covers, there is something about hearing Carole King's "The Porpoise Song" anew, that keeps this disc close by the cd player. FWIW, $7.50 cndn, new.
NP, "State Trooper", Bruce Springsteen :)
Cheers, audiobill |
| re: Great album from 60s, 70s or 80s that you discovered this year? | chrisnz
Dec 29, 2001 8:33 PM | | These were pretty much exclusively through RR Recs :-
All of Nick Drake's original albums.
Love - Forever Changes
and Neu!'s first album Neu!. Still sounds fresh to me. Thank's to my fellow musicanauts.
Chris. |
| Another vote for "Forever Changes" | maf
Dec 30, 2001 9:31 PM | | Looks like the Love album is the Rave Recs classic discovery of 2001, and it's the one that came first to mind for me.
Upon further reflection here are a few more:
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses (thanks cc, been listening to this one near non-stop :0)
Mark
NP: The New Year - Newness Ends |
| The Zombies, Ted Nugent, Love, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ambrosia | Dave M
Dec 30, 2001 11:28 PM | | This year's discoveries include the following:
1) The Zombies/Odyssey and Oracle
2) Love/Forever Changes
3) Ted Nugent/self titled
4) Ambrosia/Somewhere I've Never Travelled
5) Lynyrd Skynyrd/Second Helping |
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