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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:58 pm
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Ah, nice thread, orville.


Thanks! I hope to read about some hidden gems!

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Far as LPs are concerned, I have four albums from British post-punk band Magazine, of which I guess the closest to a "classic" (not sure how close) might be their third record, The Correct Use of Soap.


I didn't listen to Magazine. I did enjoy the few Buzzcocks albums in my collection.

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:00 pm
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Speaking of which, his "Kapt Kopter" album is quite obscure. I'm not sure it hits the classic level, unfortunately.

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:44 pm
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Gryphon-"Queen's Pawn To Red Gryphon 4"

Shawn Phillips-"Second Contribution"

They Might Be Giants-"Lincoln"

Gryphon was one of the first groups to combine classical,orchestral instruments and music with rock,predating ELO and Emerson,Lake and Palmer.

Shawn Phillips is mostly classed as a folksinger but his music is much too deep to be classed as such.This album also has the distinction of having the longest song title...."She Was Waiting for her Mother At The Station in Torino and You Know I love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy to Laugh."

They Might Be Giants is just 2 guys using lots of overdubs resulting in weird but very catchy songs.The best song on this disc is IMHO "Ana Ng" Lincoln is one of their earliest CDs and is a landmark recording to say the least.

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:11 am
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Racing Cars - their original self-titled album.

Frijid Pink - their original self-titled album.

The Astronauts - Surfin' With The Astronauts - some of THE BEST splash reverb ever recorded - they used all Fender gear!

I bought a good USB turntable and converted these and many of my other old vinyl CDs to digital, then cleaned them up a bit on the computer. It's a very time consuming real-time process, but worth the effort for the old vinyl LPs you love that are never going to make it to CD.

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:04 pm
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I bought a good USB turntable and converted these and many of my other old vinyl CDs to digital, then cleaned them up a bit on the computer. It's a very time consuming real-time process, but worth the effort for the old vinyl LPs you love that are never going to make it to CD.


That's pretty much what I do, except I use a CD Recorder to do the A2D. I still have my good old Thorens turntable (1987 TD-320 model). I've gotten pretty fast at fixing up the wave files.

I've checked out Gryphon and Bolder Damn on youtube. I found a 2009 Gryphon reunion concert ... I'll let you know how it is.

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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:46 pm
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Flick of the Switch--AC/DC.
One of their albums from the 80's that commercially slipped through the cracks and didn't do well. It's well-known and respected in AC/DC circles, but not really well known by casual fans or others. Great album, and a crying shame that not as many people know it.

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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:14 am
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Probably the most obscure album I ever had was "Dr. John, The Night Tripper- Gris Gris"
Really cool, very interesting stuff. Of course, I was the only one I knew who liked it.

Love this tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-7fMNImX8

This song is freaking great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvdO3l4_P8

If you look on youtube, there are some really great covers of Walk On Guilded Splinters too. Duane Allman, Papa Mali. Awesome song!

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 6:29 pm
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A record-nut I know pointed me to "L.A. Getaway." They put out one album, way back in time. It's on YouTube. Flying Burrito Brothers and Canned Heat connections ...

Flash's first album, "Flash," was pretty good. Peter Banks (RIP) and Tony Kaye doing their best Yes-like material. Speaking of Kaye, the first "One Live Badger" record is well worth listening to.

The prog group Egg is fun stuff (3 albums).

Patrick Moraz's group Refugee is quite obscure and classic prog.

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 6:52 pm
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Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead, "by" Jimi Hendrix

For anyone who doesn't know, it was a posthumous album made from Jimi's reel-to-reel recording of a jam session at the Scene Club in NYC in 1968. Jimi jammed with Johnny Winter and his band that night, and a very messed up Jim Morrison also showed up and bellowed obscenities. It was truly one of a kind.

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 7:50 pm
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 8:15 pm
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Both classic and obscure?
Hard to tell if these qualify,

Patrick Moraz- i.

Zappa- London Symphony vol. 1

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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 8:56 pm
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They Might Be Giants-"Lincoln"


TMBG are one of my guilty pleasures. I know all the chords and all the lyrics to their first three or four albums, they're just a fun band who write great tunes.

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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:55 pm
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Hot Rats - Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

Fleetwood Mac in Chicago - Fleetwood Mac, Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Shakey Horton, J.T. Brown, HoneyBoy Edwards, S.P. Leary

Boogaloo Joe Jones - Boogaloo Joe Jones

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Post subject: Re: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 11:18 pm
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symphonic slam was a $@!&#* of an album , im sure not obscure to the
canadians among us ,but for a young scottish lad it was pretty darn good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i713Fe-02nc
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