best ALBUM of the 1960's

[mark414]

in a continuation of the best song of the 1960's poll (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5619440&mesg_id=5619440), it is decided that we need a best album of the 1960's poll to cover all potential flamewar ground.

(these are just some of my personal choices so please don't ridicule and mock my stupidity for leaving something off)

[Zomby Woof]

1. Blonde On Blonde

Dylan painted his masterpiece.

[fishwax]

57. that's what I'd pick too, but I voted for highway 61

since it's the second best album of the 60s :)

[elperromagico]

2. I'll indulge you. "Revolver"

An interesting question would be "Which 60s artist put out the most consistently good albums?"

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow

Bar none!

[Squeech]

4. Excellent choice

Although I'd'a said After Bathing at Baxter's or Crown of Creation.

[auburngrad82]

10. "Today" is one of the best ballads ever

But I think I still go for Highway 61.



Liberal bumper stickers

[BrotherBuzz]

15. I'm extremely biased, being a West Coast kid...

Cripes, Grace Slick was my neighbor until the Water Company burned her house down. Now she's TomInTib's neighbor and is packing a shotgun.

Truth be told there was a ton of great music from the sixties from the Beach Boys to the Beatles, and Bob Dylan was definitely an influence to reckon with. I'm still playing vinyl from the sixties and only wish I had the money to have acquire more albums back then. Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks is getting a lot of play in my house lately.

[johnnie]

5. I know this is over-played

But I am going with Sgt. Peppers. The music, the recording techniques, the different sounds and the album cover alone is worth it. It changed music forever. It was the first album to have lyrics printed on it by the way. It also sent Brian Wilson to bed for a decade or two. :)

There are so many perspectives on that album that I am hard-pressed to find another record that even comes close to it as a piece of work that changed so many things within maybe a week.

[mark414]

6. hey man

it's over-played for a reason...for everything you said and more

[KFC]

11. Not a 60's album, but this album punked Sgt. Peppers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5037792.stm


Oasis's album beat the Beatles into second place

10 BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
1: Definitely Maybe - Oasis
2: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
3: Revolver - The Beatles
4: OK Computer - Radiohead
5: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
6: Nevermind - Nirvana
7: The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
8: Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
9: The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
10: The Bends - Radiohead

[johnnie]

16. Well....

I don't know what to say. There are some good albums on there, but it is pretty obvious the "music fans" they were polling were younger.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

7. Rubber Soul

'Nuff said.

[kwassa]

18. one of my very favorites

These are good choices, all of them, but there are other as worthy, too.

[ProfessorGAC]

51. That Album Changed Everything!

It was the first left turn for pop music. The Beatles showed that popular music didn't need to be "poppy". It was their first real move toward more adventerous ideas and instrumentation and, imo, was their most fully integrated "band" sound. After that, the albums may have been great, but they were nothing that could be played by a four piece group anymore. Rubber Soul showed the way in that one could do interesting and challenging music, with just the four people, and still make good, commercially viable albums.
The Professor

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. A Love Supreme.

Brilliant, and influential far beyond its own genre (something that can't really so much be said for most of the rock/pop albums that are listed).

And on the subject of rock, you forgot Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica".

[mitchum]

26. Another vote for "A Love Supreme"...

for the very reasons you stated

[LynneSin]

9. Led Zeppelin II

That's my deserted island album - I could listen to it on repeat 100 times in a row and still not be bored

[benny05]

47. Wasn't that 1970? nt

[LynneSin]

52. October 22nd, 1969

http://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelin-II/dp/B000002J03/sr=8-1/qid=1158239347/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4633821-5683330?ie=UTF8&s=music

[RedStateShame]

12. "Pet Sounds"

Without that, what to the Beatles rip off for the next 3 albums?

Just ribbing you, Beatles fans!!

[Va Lefty]

13. The White Album

[benny05]

44. Closely followed by:

Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper, Rubber Soul, and Magical mystery Tour

Woodstock One is still one of my favs, along with Led Zepplin 1

[mvd]

14. I guess everyone knows what I'll say

Beatles - Rubber Soul

[kwassa]

17. Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"

Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."


(Dylan, of course.)

[bif]

19. "Meddle"-Pink Floyd

[Zomby Woof]

20. But that came out in 1971

[bif]

21. Ooops.

You're right.

[Burma Jones]

22. Coltrane - Giant Steps

[Spider Jerusalem]

33. That was released in '59...

'59 was a good year for jazz; Giant Steps, Kind of Blue, Ellington at Newport, Mingus Ah Um, Brubeck's Time Out...some of Coltrane's other albums from the '60's besides A Love Supreme are excellent, too, though: My Favourite Things, Africa/Brass, Ascension...

[jus_the_facts]

23. Jimi Hendrix ~ Are You Experienced 1967....year o'my birth....

:headbang:


If you can just get your mind together
Uh-then come on across to me

Well hold hands and then well watch the sunrise
From the bottom of the sea

But first, are you experienced?
Uh-have you ever been experienced-uh?

Well, I have

(well) I know, I know, youll probably scream and cry
That your little world wont let you go
But who in your measly little world, (-uh)
Are you tryin to prove to that youre
Made out of gold and-uh, cant be sold

So-uh, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced? (-uh)

Well, I have

Uh, let me prove it to you, yeah

Trumpets and violins I can-uh, hear in the distance
I think theyre callin our name

Maybe now you cant hear them,
But you will, ha-ha, if you just
Take hold of my hand

Ohhh, but are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful

:hi: :smoke: :hi:

[Mendocino]

24. #1 Astral Weeks-Van Morrison

and in no particular order

Beggars Banquet-Stones
Fresh Cream-Cream
Mr. Tambourine Man-Byrds
The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
Revolver-Beatles
Bluesbreakers-John Mayall

[Jade Fox]

25. I'll see your "Astral Weeks" and raise you....

one "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession-Laura Nyro", and "Led Zeppelin" (the first one).

[Mendocino]

31. I'll raise you a pair,

Music From Big Pink
The Band

[Redstone]

27. That would be Astral Weeks, of course. (if it was in the 1960s)

I don't remember if it was. If not, it's the best album of the 1970s.

Redstone

[Mendocino]

29. Astral Weeks

Released in November 1968. The first LP I ever bought.

[Redstone]

30. And still probably the best you ever listened to, yes?

Redstone

[Mendocino]

32. None better,

but Layla, Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East, and Tonights the Night by Neil Young come close.

[Redstone]

34. I still play Astral Weeks quietly when I need to sleep. I'm usually gone

by the middle of "Madam George." Though I generally wake up with "Slim Slow Slider" in my brain.

Amazing how Mr Morrison has been able to produce such superb work despite such monumental drunkenness through the years.

Redstone

[Mendocino]

36. The track that does it for me is...

...Sweet Thing, but all of it is excellent.

[Jade Fox]

58. Well.....

"Ballerina" is a wee bit of a dud IMO, but all the rest are like nothing I've heard before or since!

You turn around, you turn around, you turn around, you turn around
and I'm beside you....

[sendero]

28. Pet Sounds...

.. is unfairly not represented here. It was a seminal album, although it took years to see that.

I'm going to go off the wall and vote for King Crimson's debut album "in the court of the crimson king" from 1969. It is an amazing recording that stands up to the test of time.

[Mendocino]

35. Cats foot iron claw

Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoias poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man

Blood rack barbed wire
Politicans funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man

Death seed blind mans greed
Poets starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century shizoid man



Hope I got the lyrics right.

[sendero]

49. You got them right...

...and they are just as relevant today as then. As well as "Epitaph", arguably one of the top 3 anti-war anti-nuke songs of all time! What makes this record so amazing is that the music is even better than the lyrics :)

[Stardust]

48. Court of the Crimson King. Wow.//

[WCGreen]

37. Revolver.....

It is simply the best pop rock album...

Hard driving in places, tender in others...

Combining all sorts of different styles to produce a masterpiece...

Many would say Sgt Peppers...

But Revolver was the lead into SP and was tempered by the brilliant George Martin...

SP, while stunning in and of itself, was left too much in the hands of the Beatles and so was not as disciplined...

[dajoki]

38. Blind Faith

So many but I have a special place for this one!!

[Mendocino]

40. Winwood was only 21!

"Can't Find My Way Home" A true classic remembered by about...8 people.

[mark414]

41. ...but i'm wasted and i can't find my waayyy hommme....

sorry for leaving it off...

[benny05]

46. Good album also

and with "Well alright" written by Buddy Holly.

[dajoki]

55. Yeah, Buddy Holly was way ahead of his time...

Not Fade Away is agreat one.

[dajoki]

54. Too,me, possibly the best song of all time

Eric Clapton
Ginger Baker
Steve Winwood
Ric Grech
Talk about a super group.

[Initech]

39. You left off my two favorites - Electric Ladyland and Freak Out!

[enigmatic]

42. "Moby Grape"- Moby Grape

The classic example of A&R guys ruining a band by promoting them completely wrong. It's too bad, because Moby Grape should have been superstars, they were that talented.

This is brilliant stuff..

[begin_within]

43. Rubber Soul

...because you can listen to it literally hundreds of times over the years, and it never gets "old" or boring.

[lutefisk]

45. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.... or

Rubber Soul or Revolver

[kwassa]

50. "Disraeli Gears" by Cream

Best rock band ever.

"Wheels of Fire", too.

[meegbear]

53. Piper at the Gates of Dawn

[HEyHEY]

56. Anyone who could choose...doesn't like music they just like one album