What's your favorite "buried classic" album?
08-10-03, 08:47 AM
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What's your favorite "buried classic" album?
By this I mean an album that was around for a long time and you'd never even heard of it and after reading reviews bought it and fell in love with it. For me it's a toss up between Big Star Sister Lovers and the Nick Drake Fruit Tree collection.
08-14-03, 09:56 PM
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Originally posted by Tscott
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
A simply amazing album that until this year I hadn't heard.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
A simply amazing album that until this year I hadn't heard.
08-15-03, 04:14 AM
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the real surprise to me was Mark Knopfler's solo career: I was rather skeptical when he started anew, by now I think he's much a better songwriter now than in the Dire Straits era.
08-15-03, 08:36 PM
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Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath (1970). Bought it based on reputation, and I was not disappointed. I knew that the better known songs ("Iron Man" and "Paranoid") were on their sophomore effort, Paranoid, but I bought the first album anyway. It is excellent.
08-18-03, 11:10 AM
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I second the Nick Drake, Astral Weeks and Big Star nominations, all blew my mind when I first heard them. Two others:
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure: masterful S+M art-rock.
Love: Forever Changes: think a darker, more inventive and less pretentious Doors and you've got the general gist. Probably my favorite "California" album ever.
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure: masterful S+M art-rock.
Love: Forever Changes: think a darker, more inventive and less pretentious Doors and you've got the general gist. Probably my favorite "California" album ever.
