Considered A Classic Album ( But You Don't Call It That )

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  1. samthesham

    samthesham Forum Resident

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    That annoying buzz found on all formats & pressings during the end of Daddy Don't Live In New York City No More is quite distracting indeed
     
  2. Zappateer

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    I love most of The Beach Boys lps. The early ones about surfing and cars. Smile and Smily Smile are my 2 favorites. The ones just after are very good and the later ones each have their gems. I just don’t get Pet Sounds. Each year I give it a listen...hasn’t clicked yet but who knows.
     
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  3. mbrownp1

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    For a lot of people the connection seemed to have happened when they were "going through something".
     
  4. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader Thread Starter

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    One of those guys on YouTube who reviews albums hates ' Pet Sounds ' , He goes on about it quite a bit. Says it's too "psychedelic ". I have no idea what he's listening to.
     
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  5. Rickchick

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    Overrated, but worth having for We Can Talk. That praise should go to Northern Lights Southern Cross.
     
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  6. dammitjanet

    dammitjanet Fun, natural fun

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    Okay, here goes my rebuttal then ... Perfect Day, like lots of his songs, use plain, simple language to great emotional effect. Same thing in Pale Blue Eyes - "sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad" is pretty simple too but it has an impact. The piano arrangement is gorgeous.
    As for Vicious, "you hit me with a flower" was a line from Andy Warhol, so how could you not use that? I think it was meant to be funny. There is a lot of deadpan humour in his songs.
    Wild Side is a shout-out to a group of marginalized people, taking vignettes of real people and making them the heroes of the song and not casting them in a negative light as 'degenerates,' which is a statement in itself and I think why many are attached to this album in particular.
    NY Telephone Conservation is campy and fun - I think that's exactly what it was meant to be.
    Now, I think Lou's Velvet Underground stuff was his best work, but it was also a product of its time and context, and so is Transformer. Not every song is going to be Heroin because not every song is meant to be Heroin. I think that kind of criticism is a bit unfair sometimes.
     
  7. bluesky

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    The Nightfly - Donald Fagan
     
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  8. Two Sheds

    Two Sheds Sha La La La Lee

    Abbey Road. Love the Beatles, but not that LP.
     
  9. Exitmusic

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    Exile On Main Street would be my pick,don't get me wrong,it's a good album but no classic,Rocks Off and Tumbling Dice aside, there isn't too many outstanding tracks.

    I would put Exile behind

    Tattoo You
    Sticky Fingers
    Some Girls
    Goats Head Soup
     
  10. Sear

    Sear Dad rocker

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    Minutemen "Double nickels on the dime"

    Overrated word falls short
     
  11. pig bodine

    pig bodine God’s Consolation Prize

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    I'd be typing all day if I included every "classic" I fail to venerate. I'm not into classic rock for one thing. Still, it would only piss people off.
     
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  12. Vaughan

    Vaughan Forum Resident

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    Boy, that line never fails to make me smile. Just brilliant.
     
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  13. Billchi_11

    Billchi_11 What would DBoon do?

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    Don't necessarily disagree, but...boy that album and seeing them live not long after it came out changed my life...seriously
     
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  14. Billchi_11

    Billchi_11 What would DBoon do?

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    It transcends its time...at least for me
     
  15. More Than A Feeling

    More Than A Feeling Little River, Big Adventures!

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    Most stuff after 1990. It just isn't old enough to be classic.
     
  16. Gagnedouze

    Gagnedouze Forum Resident

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    Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and anything by Bob Dylan.
     
  17. If I Can Dream_23

    If I Can Dream_23 Forum Resident

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    I could list albums by all great artists I just don't care for...

    Any David Bowie album
    Any Queen album
    Aqualung by Jethro Tull
    Any Metallica album
    Most Pink Floyd albums
    Most Bob Dylan albums
    Most Black Sabbath albums
    Nevermind by Nirvana.....

    But the truth is I consider all the above to have classic albums. I simply don't find anything from them that moves me personally.

    In short, I understand that the issue is with me, not the albums. :)
     
  18. ghoulsurgery

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    Blonde on Blonde. It’s a good record but it’s too long and stylistically similar. I get bored easily with it. There are some super strong songs, some absolute classics, but as a whole I think it pales in comparison to the two records before it
     
  19. jas621

    jas621 Forum Resident

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    Two albums come to mind - Pet Sounds and Ziggy Stardust.

    With Pet Sounds, I think the arrangement of "Sloop John B" is amazing, but, but most of the rest of the album just seems rather undistinguishing.

    As for Ziggy Stardust, it's good, but vastly overrated. I may be a cretin in this regard, but, given a choice of the English glam bands operating at that time, I'm much more likely to listen to Desolation Boulevard, Electric Warrior, Slayed? or Mott. I don't find any of the excitement in Ziggy Stardust that I do in the aforementioned albums.
     
  20. jas621

    jas621 Forum Resident

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    Thank you. I thought I was the only one who felt that way. And, Waylon Jennings' version of "Me and Bobby McGee" was much better.
     
  21. jas621

    jas621 Forum Resident

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    I still don't get the veneration for Nevermind. Same goes for Appetite for Destruction....to much filler and non-descript hard rock.
     
  22. carlwm

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    Gordon Lightfoot's version is my favourite.
     
  23. jas621

    jas621 Forum Resident

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    I'll have to check it out
     
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  24. carlwm

    carlwm Forum Resident

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    Hope you like it.

    Just had a listen to Waylon's version. Excellent.
     
  25. jas621

    jas621 Forum Resident

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    Waylon was an amazing interpreter of songs.
     
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