What's your top ten? It's a great decade for music, lots to choose from. Anyway, I felt like doing a best of. So here's my list. I'll probably do other decades later on. 1. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965) 2. Music From Big Pink - The Band (1968) 3. Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix (1967) 4. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1967) 6. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan (1965) 7. Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix (1968) 8. The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul - Otis Redding(1966) 9. The Band - The Band (1969) 10. Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel (1968) Pretty standard stuff. Looking at it, it kind of looks like I have some weird problem with British people and their music, but that's just the way it came out. Revolver, Tommy, Let it Bleed, In The Court of The Crimson King, Sgt. Peppers, Led Zeppelin II, Astral Weeks, Disraeli Gears, Rubber Soul, all honorable mentions for sure. Anyway, it's clear what I dig from those days, it's not the most eclectic bunch of albums. I want to see what you favor, so let's see those lists people.
1. Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones 2. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan 3. Revolver - The Beatles 4. White Album - The Beatles 5. The Band - The Band 6. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 7. The Gilded Palace of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers 8. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground 9. Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience 10. Something Else by The Kinks - The Kinks
not having at least one album from the other side of the pond is nearly unfathomable. 1. Revolver 2. Pet Sounds 3. Sgt Pepper 4. R U Experienced 5. Highway 61 6. LZ II 7. Blonde on Blonde 8. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison 9. Electric Ladyland 10. Let It Bleed HM: Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane), Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds), Live at the Apollo ( TGoS ).
and why, pray tell, would you think that? if we are going to have such a draft, let's have it be our top 10 albums, year by year, starting with 1961, which was actually the first year of the new decade... just think...Perry Como, Jo Stafford...
1. Sgt. Peppers 2. Revolver 3. Led Zeppelin II 4. Disraeli Gears 5. Are You Experienced? 6. My Generation 7. Velvet Underground & Nico 8. Green River 9. The Band 10. The Doors
i just sold my NM copy for $230. banana sticker and everything... when you say "Green River", you mean CCR? btw, this is just about what i looked like in 1969
Yes - my older bro had lots of CCR & The Band records and I liked them both a lot. He's probably laughing as the Fogerty brothers smack each other around
Ten albums from 1961, in draft form, that's tough. If it's a draft, it's gotta be an all-time album draft with a ton of rounds, that would be legit.
I am assuming this is about classic/folk/psychedelic/blues rock rather than inclusive of other genres, otherwise it would probably be dominated by jazz pieces. I am not really qualified to argue about the top albums of that decade since there are way too many great albums although I have a pretty good idea of what I like from that period. To be honest, the amount of new music in that period would surely justify an yearly top ten, but then again, I am not one for drafts. Anyway, here are my picks, based on preference, groundbreakingness and familiarity with the material. In no particular order: 1. Forever Changes, Love 2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 3. Bluesbreakers John Mayall with Eric Clapton, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers 4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan 5. Are you experienced?, Jimmi Hendrix 6. Days of Future Passed, The Moody Blues 7. The Velvet Underground & Nico, The VU 8. Tommy, The Who 9. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd 10. The Doors, The Doors Wanted to include for the title song but not a great album overall: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly Considered including: Disraeli Gears (Cream), Green River (CCR), Gilded Palace of Sin (The Flying Burrito Brothers), Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Byrds).
Yes, I know, that is a rather idiosyncratic pick. But I am seriously infatuated with that album. Isn't Nights in White Sating the perfect song to lose your virginity to? Actually, it was probably better to include this than Procol Harum debut album, which I also considered for the list.
I like the Procol Harum better, but that's just me. btw, being idiosyncratic is fine once in a while; but try not to make a habit of it, lest people decide you're not idiosyncratic but <---
1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 2. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) 3. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle 4. The Beatles - Revolver 5. The Beatles - Rubber Soul 6. The Pretty Things - S.F Sorrow 7. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969) 8. The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina 9. The Beach Boys - Today! 10. The Doors - The Doors
Didn't we do this before? 1. The White Album 2. Let it Bleed 3. Bringin' it All Back Home 4. In A Silent Way 5. Patsy Cline Showcase 6. After Bathing at Baxter's 7. Monk Underground 8. Clouds 9. What We did on Our Holidays 10. Cheap Thrills HM-- Banana Album, Traffic, Surrealistic Pillow, Sailor, Soft Machine, Live Dead, Help.
Amazing StiltonFC is the only one to have Astral Weeks in his Top 10 and no one has any Motown in there. Every Temptations album after David Ruffin joined the group was as good as it gets.
Most of us hadn't digested "Astral Weeks" by 1970... and even then it was the next three albums that knocked us over. Not sure "A. W." would make my top forty for the 60's... Motown was a singles factory; the best of its albums are three or four stunning tracks, a good cover, a good "original" and five or six fillers. There's a Supremes album I considered, but even it really isn't that consistent-- and I had to look up its name and I've already forgotten it again, which seemed to tell the tale. And then, I never really was a Temps fan. Also thought seriously about both "Freak Out" and "Uncle Meat."
The thing about Astral Weeks is that it never produced a hit single. It's a work that's measured by its tack to track compliation and then in its entirety. Listening to the songs one segueing into the next in the order they are is what makes it special. I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Van Morrison last year at DAR Constitution Hall play Astral Weeks the way he intended it and it was amazing. Absolutely Top 10
i've said this before around here, but i saw them on the first Hendrix tour. they were amazing live. i have a Dutch pressing of the first two albums ( double LP ) in near mint condition.
Oh its strong-- but that was a hell of a decade. I wasn't even close to finding rooom for "Pet Sounds" even, after all...