Classic albums?

[typefitter]

U2 "I Will Follow" at the Record Peddler on Queen West in Toronto. To my ears, it sounded like nothing else at the time.

The Record Peddler! God, I loved going into the city to buy music. Sam's and A&A, those were the days.

 

[swingline]

The first time I heard "Smells Like Teen Sprit," I was like, Holy shirt, what is that, and when can I hear that again? It was like nothing else on the radio, raw and visceral, a sound that I felt as much as heard.

To a lesser extent, "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" had that effect on radio listening me.

 

[DanOregon]

Welcome to the Jungle was crazy. I was never a metal fan, but they made all other bands look like soft-rockers coming out like that.

 

[Mwilliams685]

Boston's self-titled debut. Could probably listen to it front to back several times in a row. I do have one slight issue with it, I feel it should've opened with Foreplay/Long Time (insert joke here).

 

[Slacker]

If you've never even thought to skip a song on an album the hundreds of times you've played it, that's a classic album.

Another round of Seger jokes, I guess, but "Stranger in Town" accomplished that. It was so huge in the summer of '78.

 

[Starman]

In the category of Classic One-Off Cover Songs
By Drunken Rockers Up Past Midnight, I like this one ...

Drunken Warren Zevon teaming up with Drunken REM (except Stipe) to
demolish "Raspberry Beret."
Awesome.

 

[Slacker]

Drunken Warren Zevon teaming up with Drunken REM (except Stipe) to
demolish "Raspberry Beret."
Awesome.

I like that version even better than the original. Zevon's voice is such raw muscle.

 

[Starman]

I put that in my random playlist sometimes and people say, "what the heck is that?!?"

It got a little airplay on AOR stations when it came out, but not much.

 

[Huggy]

Drunken Warren Zevon teaming up with Drunken REM (except Stipe) to
demolish "Raspberry Beret."
Awesome.

This is a criminally underrated record. The REM guys were a great backing band for Zevon. Killer cover of the Georgia Satellites' "Battleship Chains" to go with that awesome cover of "Raspberry beret".

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Sticky Fingers
The Colour And The Shape
The Blue Album

 

[Starman]

This is a criminally underrated record. The REM guys were a great backing band for Zevon. Killer cover of the Georgia Satellites' "Battleship Chains" to go with that awesome cover of "Raspberry beret".

I don't remember the exact chronology, but I think that album kinda fell between the marketing cracks: Zevon was in kind of a mid-career lull waiting for his next big hit after "Werewolves" and REM hadn't hit it mega-big yet so their management didn't really want to push a side project that didn't include Stipe.

Kinda similar, I suppose, to the whole Power Station episode except in that case, the record companies involved decided they really wanted to make a hit out of it, so they shot MTV videos and everything.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Television's Marquee Moon
Violent Femmes' first album