Here's the thread on the '60s albums. Just like I did with the '80s (as well as the other decades, I am keeping it one album per artist): Top 10: Forever Changes - Love Disraeli Gears - Cream The Band aka Brown Album - The Band The Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan In a Silent Way - Miles Davis The Doors - The Doors Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Astral Weeks - Van Morrison Honorable Mentions: A Love Supreme - John Coltrane Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones Monster Movie - Can Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys Rubber Soul - The Beatles The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd Hot Rats - Frank Zappa Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin Truth - The Jeff Beck Group The Who Sell Out - The Who
beatles - revolver beatles - abbey road beatles - hard days night beatles - rubber soul beatles - white album rolling stones - beggars banquet rolling stones - let it bleed led zep - I led zep - II led zep - III
I usually don't participate in these best music threads. I can never make up my mind and it gets too frustrating. Also, there are some genres that I am not familiar with, so my list is surely lacking. I've always thought the most exciting time in music history was from '65 to '75, but that was when I was growing up, so naturally I'm rather partial to that time period. My top ten for the 60's would probably be almost all Beatles, Stones, Dylan, and Who, and I see those have already been selected by others. So I'm going to list ten others that I think should be considered. Traffic - Traffic(the song "Forty Thousand Headmen" has always been a favorite of mine) Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Neil Young - Everybody know this is nowhere Crosby Stills and Nash - Crosby Stills and Nash CCR - Green River Sly and the Family Stone - Stand Santana - Santana Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority Spirit - Spirit(a personal favorite) Firesign Theatre - How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
No order Blind Faith - Blind Faith Face to Face - The Kinks Revolver - The Beatles Tommy - The Who Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Disraeli Gears - Cream Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd CSN - CSN Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones One per. There would be more Beatles, I think.
The Beatles - Revolver The Beatles - Rubber Soul The Beatles - Abbey Road Led Zeppelin - I Led Zeppelin - II The Beatles - White Album The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed Honorable Mention to The Beatles albums I left off.
1) The Doors - The Doors 2) The Beatles - Rubber Soul 3) The Doors - Strange Days 4) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 5) Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 6) The Beatles - Revolver 7) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico 8) Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart 9) Pink Floyd - Pipers at the Gates of Dawn 10) Otis Redding - Otis Redding Sings Soul --------------------- 11) The Doors - Waiting for the Sun 12) The Beatles - Help! 13) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys 14) The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 15)The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album) 16) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country 17) Elvis - NBC-TV Special 18) Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills 19) The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man 20) The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. -------------------- 21) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you Experienced 22) The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere 23) Nina Simone - High Priestess of Soul 24) Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan 25) Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! 26) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love 27) Roy Orbison - Crying 28) Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed 29) The Youngbloods - The Youngbloods 30) The Who - Happy Jack So.. so.. so many... You could've at the very least assigned this incomparable decade of music a Top 20, Manny... good lord... Honorable mentions, just as to prevent this from getting longer in ranking: The Stooges - The Stooges, Elvis - How Great Thou Art, Joan Baez - Joan Baez, The Who - Tommy, The Lovin' Spoonful - Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Muddy Waters at Newport etc etc... enough!
Nice list! I can't even begin to come up with one. The '70's list was like pulling teeth and I had to cop out with the "no particular order" and "there are easily 20 more I could add" thingy. Essentially an impossible task.
2 problems with Motown and albums: 1) The Motown formula was such that they would place 2 or 3 hit singles on the album and then fill the rest of the album out with filler whether it was cover versions of existing hits or obvious b-sides. One can make the argument that it was The Beatles and Bob Dylan that really first emphasized the importance of the album and that it should be something listened to in its entirety instead of just for 1 to 3 songs. 2) Nearly all the Motown albums are out of print, why this is the case is something I don't understand but trying to buy all the early Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye stuff is damn near impossible.
non beatles, stones and zep top 10 dylan - highway 61 revisited hendrix - electric ladyland hendrix - axis bold as love the kinks - village green preservation society byrds - sweetheart of the rodeo miles davis - sketches of spain beach boys - smile nick drake - bryter layter pink floyd - piper at the gates of dawn fred neil - bleeker and mcdougal (if you like dylan and have never heard this dude then check him out)
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus The Monks - Black Monk Time Can - Monster Movie The Stooges - The Stooges MC5 - Kick Out the Jams Raymond Scott - The Secret 7: The Unexpected Eric Dolphy - Out There Bubble Puppy - A Gathering of Promises Gong - Magick Brother The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
as manny started to get at, it's a bit fruitless dicussing greatest albums with regards to the 60's. better, i think, to name top ten solo artists and top ten groups.
I'd think that'd be equally fruitless if not more so... it would merely open the floodgates for a plethora of different "the greatest band of all time" claims... which is pretty absurd...
Saw Bubble Puppy many times. We had mutual friends and went to many of the same parties. There were some killer ones at what used to be the old Weingarten mansion across the bayou from UH. Great band live.
Patsy Cline - Showcase Patsy Cline - Sentimentally Yours Elvis Presley - every release Herman's Hermits - every release beatles suck.
