Whats the greatest 60s album

[lisaparadise]

OK BOYS POST YOUR FAVORITE 1960S music. MINES Simon And Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (Live 1968) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7M5iPCS2M&feature=related)

[JenniferParisHusband]

Is there a "Beatles Exception?" Otherwise you'll have everyone posting Sgt. Pepper or the White Album. lol

I'm really torn on this, and been thinking it over since the other thread. Part of me wants to go with The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society, and part of me is thinking Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison.

[lisaparadise]

Is there a "Beatles Exception?" Otherwise you'll have everyone posting Sgt. Pepper or the White Album. lol

I'm really torn on this, and been thinking it over since the other thread. Part of me wants to go with The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society, and part of me is thinking Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison.TRU DAT LOVE THE KINKS THE KINKS-LOLA LIVE 1970 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Jzdkgj-XI&feature=related)

[JenniferParisHusband]

funny, I was just about to post this.

The Kinks - Days - '69 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzpShIhvrjU)

[lisaparadise]

funny, I was just about to post this.

The Kinks - Days - '69 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzpShIhvrjU)Mick Jagger tries to join the Beatles - Very Rare - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5gPQGRKbI&feature=related) HOWS THIS FOR AN ALLSTAR TEAM

[JenniferParisHusband]

Ugh. Mick is no Beatle. But I'm defensive about the Beatles. Still, he's good with his own stuff.

The Rolling Stones - LIVE (?) - "Under My Thumb" - '66 - HQ - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxarN-c-Z6U)

[blur1380]

Crosby Stills & Nash - Self Titled
Crosby Stills & Nash - Suite - Judy Blue Eyes - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzF_MoXOU1E)

[lisaparadise]

IN MY MIND THE GREASTEST SONG EVER American Trilogy (High Quality) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gyvTV5OJ5E&feature=related)

[Dino Velvet]

Cream - Disraeli Gears

Cream-Strange Brew - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cscejgY1Slg)

Cream Sunshine Of Your Love - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G18FS7O-Y3g)

Tales of brave Ulysses by Cream - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWzrXs4S9VQ)

http://images.coveralia.com/audio/c/Cream-Disraeli_Gears-Frontal.jpg

[maxpower]

Revolver - The Beatles

The Beatles - She Said She Said (2009 Stereo Remaster) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00VTswskFI)


or The Who Sell Out

The Who - I Can See for Miles - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGRijV8U3s)


or Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Monkey Man (Rolling Stones) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3CIhGXnntM)

[lisaparadise]

WE CANT DO THE 60S WITHOUT THESE BOYS Beach Boys - Surfer Girl - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZGgyJrruCo&feature=related)

[Dino Velvet]

or Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Monkey Man (Rolling Stones) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3CIhGXnntM)

Let It Bleed is another great album.

The Rolling Stones " Live With Me " Lyrics (Free To The Green Hornet Movie Soundtrack) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKSPcEZIAjI)

[lisaparadise]

AND FOR THE CANUCKS IN HERE LOL The Last Waltz - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.mpg - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOi0tC00Luc&feature=related) PURE CANADIANA

[Ecstatic]

Here's a dozen or so of my top albums from the 1960s (countring from 1961-70)

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde
Miles Davis - Nefertiti, Bitches Brew
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead, American Beauty
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Cream - Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire
Richard & Mimi Farina - Reflections in a Crystal Wind
Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Donovan - Sunshine Superman, Open Road
and, of course, The Beatles - Revolver, SPLHCB, White album

[lisaparadise]

AND WHO CAN FORGET THESE GUYS WITH ONE OF THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS EVEN WRITTEN [HD] Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SQAdwdTSTM&feature=related)

[lisaparadise]

AND THESE GUYS WERE WAY AHEAD OF THE TIMES The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964) High Definition [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdPQp6Jcdk&feature=related)

[Stavros]

It beggars belief anyone can rate either Donovan or the Beach Boys as worthy of a moment's listening, ah welll. I would also exclude Jazz and Classical as they are on a different level, their authors actually play musical instruments.

Two albums stand out: Playback, by The Appletree Theatre; and Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding, never bettered.

The Appletree Theatre-What A Way To Go (1968) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yT17DEeneM&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AV4oVf-d_DwKB80Ic8kMTtqtbsBdzUIzaF)

Jon Wesley Harding- Bob Dylan lyrics - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_XRXjrI_k&feature=related)

[lisaparadise]

it beggars belief anyone can rate either donovan or the beach boys as worthy of a moment's listening, ah welll. I would also exclude jazz and classical as they are on a different level, their authors actually play musical instruments.

Two albums stand out: Playback, by the appletree theatre; and bob dylan's john wesley harding, never bettered.

the appletree theatre-what a way to go (1968) - youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yt17deenem&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=av4ovf-d_dwkb80ic8kmttqtbsbdzuizaf)

jon wesley harding- bob dylan lyrics - youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_xrxjri_k&feature=related)the beach boys sold more albums then all your choices put together,what are ya thinkin man?

[maxpower]

the beach boys sold more albums then all your choices put together,what are ya thinkin man?

While Stavros is kind of a grumpy music snob, and as much as I like The Beach Boys, I don't believe they sold more records than Bob Dylan.

[iago_delgado]

Not about who sold the most. About the best album, which Lisa keeps flaunting by posting singles. But Merda that Animals singles brought memories back.

[Nicole Dupre]

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King [Full Album] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDU8FWJrZEA)

[ashymon]

The Beatles White Album...

[Dino Velvet]

Not all from the same album but The Doors needed a mention.

The Doors - Roadhouse Blues w/Lyrics - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNigNUD8CKo)

The Doors Peace Frog - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X34JarNjoIU)

The Doors - The Changeling - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjONg6h5zA)

The Doors - Riders on the Storm - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hwp_P3gKs)

Apocalypse now - The doors - The end - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRwwUZLV-IE&feature=related)

[Stavros]

the beach boys sold more albums then all your choices put together,what are ya thinkin man?

Im thinkin' excellence in music, babe...(because you are a babe, babe)

[Stavros]

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King [Full Album] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDU8FWJrZEA)

A friend of mine shacked up with Robert Fripp for a while, Notting Hill; I met him a couple of times, did him a favor for which I was 'rewarded' with the latest King Crimson album, whichever it was -he was/is a pompous asshole and I threw it away. I mean Nicole, come on, you can do better than this.

[lisaparadise]

Not about who sold the most. About the best album, which Lisa keeps flaunting by posting singles. But Merda that Animals singles brought memories back.ya your right i posted it the wrong way thats what happens when i stay up past my bedtime so how about this ,,,favorite 60s music you grew up listing to.

[Nicole Dupre]

A friend of mine shacked up with Robert Fripp for a while, Notting Hill; I met him a couple of times, did him a favor for which I was 'rewarded' with the latest King Crimson album, whichever it was -he was/is a pompous asshole and I threw it away. I mean Nicole, come on, you can do better than this.
Please drop dead. Thanks.

[onmyknees]

Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin

Tommy The Who

Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan

But I would certainly put King Crimson on the list as well

[mrtrebus]

Greatest hits of the 60s

[Yvonne183]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6t11_Rht6w


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJIHzgaIoE

[lisaparadise]

Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin

Tommy The Who

Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan

But I would certainly put King Crimson on the list as welloh great choice great album and great song thank you Led Zeppelin - Thank You (tribute video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj3bi_mckW0&feature=artist)

[Dino Velvet]

Not My Cross To Bear - The Allman Brothers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdKx9O31A0)

WHIPPING POST - Allman Brothers Band - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2dpgXYvMHI)

http://community2.metalreview.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/7/8132.The-Allman-Brothers-Band.jpg

[russtafa]

iam not really into that era but to i do like THE GUESS WHO and CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL both bands rock

[lisaparadise]

iam not really into that era but to i do like THE GUESS WHO and CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL both bands rockyou have great taste in music nice job russafa:Bowdown:

[onmyknees]

Not My Cross To Bear - The Allman Brothers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdKx9O31A0)

WHIPPING POST - Allman Brothers Band - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2dpgXYvMHI)

http://community2.metalreview.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/7/8132.The-Allman-Brothers-Band.jpg


I do feel like I've been tied to a Whipping Post after some days on HA !

Indeed, The ABB. IMHO the best American Blues influenced band ever. But they might be into the 70's with that first album. No matter, they deserve to be mentioned.

[lisaparadise]

I do feel like I've been tied to a Whipping Post after some days on HA !

Indeed, The ABB. IMHO the best American Blues influenced band ever. But they might be into the 70's with that first album. No matter, they deserve to be mentioned.im thinkin you meant abba lol

[Willie Escalade]

Since I'm an R&B fan, I'm going with one of my favorites: Aretha's debut for Warner Bros. Jazz-wise, it's gotta be Herbie's Maiden Voyage or Wayne's Speak No Evil.

Really though...WAY too many classics were released that decade.

[russtafa]

you have great taste in music nice job russafa:Bowdown:and in TGIRLS because i think you are the hottest lady on this site and if you lived in Sydney i would definitely make a play for you:praying:

[Yvonne183]

To add to Willies R&B, anything from Staxx records was cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XubVsrZJdyE



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGJXmpKGXY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeuVS6vnN7w

[Yvonne183]

1961



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSnQ0bdHW0s&feature=related

[russtafa]

1961



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSnQ0bdHW0s&feature=related

cool collection Yvonne

[Yvonne183]

cool collection Yvonne


Thanks Russ, how are you?

Here's two for you Russ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UJfdoVoM7I&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRdG0b-Py2s&feature=related

[russtafa]

Thanks Russ, how are you?

Here's two for you Russ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UJfdoVoM7I&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRdG0b-Py2s&feature=related

thanks

[ed_jaxon]

Sinatra -- A Man and His Music 1966

Come Fly With Me [from Sinatra A Man And His Music] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wa0c8CD1Jw)

[LeatherTGirlLover]

It's a tie between The Velvet Underground's debut and Forever Changes by Love

[DrinksMcGee]

In the court of the crimson king

and

Freak out!

[russtafa]

Sinatra -- A Man and His Music 1966

Come Fly With Me [from Sinatra A Man And His Music] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wa0c8CD1Jw)
Sinatra's the king of cool

[hard4janira]

Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys is pretty much on everybodies short list of 'greatest albums ever made'. Might have been cut in the 70s though

[hippifried]

Laura Nyro - The First Songs, Eli & the 13th Confession, New York Tendaberry
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Mothers of Invention - Freakout, Absolutely Free, Cruisin' with Reuben & the Jets
Santana - Santana
Joni Mitchell - Clouds
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed
The who - Happy Jack
The Rascals - Groovin, Freedom Suite
Blood Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man
Jimi Hendrix - With Lonnie Youngblood

Just thought I'd toss in some that I didn't see mentioned yet (Beggats' Banquet excepted)

Oh & thanks, Nicole. In the Court of the Crimson King was/is a fabulous Album.

[maxpower]

Not all from the same album but The Doors needed a mention.


A Doors fan, eh? Cool beans. I've loved them since junior high (a looong time ago) when my friend played me the Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine double LP. It would be hard to pick a favorite album...the first one or Strange Days perhaps. One thing that really pisses me off are those new remixes from a few years ago. Have you heard them? I do like hearing uncensored versions of "Break on Through" ("She get high" instead of just "She get") and "The End" (repeated utterances of "Fuck me!" and "Kill!" after the oedipal part - like in Apocalypse Now), but Manzarek really fucked a lot of their shit up in my opinion. They didn't just remaster the albums to clean them up and sound better, they actually changed a bunch of the songs - adding parts that weren't previously there. Whistling at the end of "Love Street" over Jim's "La la la" fadeout, or a new intro to "The Soft Parade" that precedes the "petition the lord" part. I've listened to those albums so many times, I'm so familiar with them, and the new versions really rub me the wrong way. And I think Manzarek has stated that these new mixes will be the only versions available going forward, which sucks. I'm glad I still have my original CDs...and actually I still have my vinyl from eighth grade, too. It's like Lucas constantly fucking with Star Wars. Stop it. And, like Lucas, the Doors seem to constantly find reasons to keep re-releasing their albums. There's actually another CD version of L.A. Woman being released today. Enough already. Anyway...you didn't post "Back Door Man"? I would think that's your theme song. :)

[maxpower]

It's a tie between The Velvet Underground's debut and Forever Changes by Love


Good pick with the VU. I meant to mention that before, but forgot.

[Prospero]

Tastes shift so much this is an impossible quetion. Early beatles (fresh and zestful) v late Beatles (accomplished and sophisticated and innovative). The first Velvet Underground - that debut set the tone for a generation. The first Doors album? (Well the firt three actually) What about Hendrix - the mightiest guitarist of all - and his mightiest album Electric Ladyland. The Stones - Surely Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed. But then there is a guy called Bob Dylan - and for him three albums sum it up in the 1960s - Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. The Beachboys - Pet Sounds. (Smiley Smile had good Vibrations and Heroes and Villains but was fragments of the abandoned masterwork Smile). How about The Cream - Disraeli Gears, Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, Bitches brew by Miles Davis. And what about Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding (Otis Blue) or James Brown? The Incredible String band - Layers Of The Onion? Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends. Freak Out - The Mothers of Invention.

[lisaparadise]

Tastes shift so much this is an impossible quetion. Early beatles (fresh and zestful) v late Beatles (accomplished and sophisticated and innovative). The first Velvet Underground - that debut set the tone for a generation. The first Doors album? (Well the firt three actually) What about Hendrix - the mightiest guitarist of all - and his mightiest album Electric Ladyland. The Stones - Surely Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed. But then there is a guy called Bob Dylan - and for him three albums sum it up in the 1960s - Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. The Beachboys - Pet Sounds. (Smiley Smile had good Vibrations and Heroes and Villains but was fragments of the abandoned masterwork Smile). How about The Cream - Disraeli Gears, Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, Bitches brew by Miles Davis. And what about Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding (Otis Blue) or James Brown? The Incredible String band - Layers Of The Onion? Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends. Freak Out - The Mothers of Invention.oh great read thanks:Bowdown:

[bassman2546]

Tastes shift so much this is an impossible quetion. Early beatles (fresh and zestful) v late Beatles (accomplished and sophisticated and innovative). The first Velvet Underground - that debut set the tone for a generation. The first Doors album? (Well the firt three actually) What about Hendrix - the mightiest guitarist of all - and his mightiest album Electric Ladyland. The Stones - Surely Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed. But then there is a guy called Bob Dylan - and for him three albums sum it up in the 1960s - Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. The Beachboys - Pet Sounds. (Smiley Smile had good Vibrations and Heroes and Villains but was fragments of the abandoned masterwork Smile). How about The Cream - Disraeli Gears, Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, Bitches brew by Miles Davis. And what about Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding (Otis Blue) or James Brown? The Incredible String band - Layers Of The Onion? Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends. Freak Out - The Mothers of Invention.

I don't think I could possibly add anything to this. That about covers it.

[Yvonne183]

Yardbirds with Jeff Back


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgPIveQui4


Yardbirds with Jimmy page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqxiQa74PQ


Yardbirds with Clapton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAfXQ-VEVcY

Ya ain't gonna get many better guitarists than them back then.

[Stavros]

Yardbirds with Jeff Back


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgPIveQui4


Yardbirds with Jimmy page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqxiQa74PQ


Yardbirds with Clapton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAfXQ-VEVcY

Ya ain't gonna get many better guitarists than them back then.

Which underlines the fact that it can't be done, although the Yarbirds live were better than on disc, and made a brief appearance at the beginning of Antonioni's film Blow Up, which he made in London in the Swinging Sixties. And no, I never saw them live. Yvonne, did you ever follow the various line-ups John Mayall had from Clapton through the Mick Taylor?

[Yvonne183]

Which underlines the fact that it can't be done, although the Yarbirds live were better than on disc, and made a brief appearance at the beginning of Antonioni's film Blow Up, which he made in London in the Swinging Sixties. And no, I never saw them live. Yvonne, did you ever follow the various line-ups John Mayall had from Clapton through the Mick Taylor?

I had this album. It also had John Mcvie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUEtCBhn_Q


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkulcvRkd4I

[robertlouis]

I agree with a lot of the choices here, but for me it would have to be Davy Graham's "Folk, Blues and Beyond". It was as much a revolution for acoustic guitar as Hendrix was for electric. Great blues pics, btw, Yvonne.

[Prospero]

I saw the Yardbirds live a few times. They were amazing. But they never translated to record beyond a few good singles "I wish you Would", "Shapes Of things", "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," "Heart full of Soul" "For Your Love" and a couple of others. Had three of the defining guitarists of the era though - Eric Clapton, (he left because he thought they were becoming too "pop") followed by Jeff Beck (he was in the Blow-Up clip) and finally Jimmy Page when they mutated (with some personell changes) into Led Zeppelin.

And those are great clips Yvonne. Clapton left the Bluesbreakers to join the yardbirds.

[martin48]

Greatest Ever Sixties: The Definitive Collection: Various Artists: Amazon.co.uk: Music@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41w6Dy-T6zL.@@AMEPARAM@@41w6Dy-T6zL (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Ever-Sixties-Definitive-Collection/dp/B000KHYKLS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327503936&sr=1-1)

[Prospero]

Surprised to see that none of the Byrds albums got chosen - "Younger Than Yesterday" probably being their most consistently good or 5th Dimension nor Joni Mitchell with three good sixties albums "Song To A Seagull", "Clouds" and "Ladies Of The Canyon." .... oh and Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - the first and totally crackpot album by Pink Floyd.

The Byrds - Eight Miles High (Alternate Version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbokn4r38o&feature=related)

Pink Floyd-Bike - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9TNvaXCtY&feature=related)

[GroobySteven]

Tastes shift so much this is an impossible quetion. Early beatles (fresh and zestful) v late Beatles (accomplished and sophisticated and innovative). The first Velvet Underground - that debut set the tone for a generation. The first Doors album? (Well the firt three actually) What about Hendrix - the mightiest guitarist of all - and his mightiest album Electric Ladyland. The Stones - Surely Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed. But then there is a guy called Bob Dylan - and for him three albums sum it up in the 1960s - Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. The Beachboys - Pet Sounds. (Smiley Smile had good Vibrations and Heroes and Villains but was fragments of the abandoned masterwork Smile). How about The Cream - Disraeli Gears, Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, Bitches brew by Miles Davis. And what about Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding (Otis Blue) or James Brown? The Incredible String band - Layers Of The Onion? Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends. Freak Out - The Mothers of Invention.

Great list ... I'm Spotifying through it now.

[robertlouis]

Great list ... I'm Spotifying through it now.

Come now Sean - you're not trying to kid us that you weren't actually there yourself? ;)

[Yvonne183]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8


Had this one up before.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a77yHpjdUtU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLzqQupzzmA&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY56sjDGQ78


1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzY30v9mtg

[GroobySteven]

Come now Sean - you're not trying to kid us that you weren't actually there yourself? ;)
Missed it by 11 months and 14 days.

[Prospero]

Well the say that those who were there don't remember it anyway.

[lisaparadise]

Missed it by 11 months and 14 days.somebodys not telling the truth lol i cant be older then steven lol naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Connie Francis - Where The Boys Are 1961 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC_oE8FXFCQ&feature=related) Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK5u5W8afc&feature=related)

[runningdownthatdream]

Pain In My Heart - Otis Redding (1963) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vAtaliwuqs)

Getz Gilberto - Corcovado Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x00lwS6lxeQ)

The Velvet Underground - Heroin (song only) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcwt9mSbYE)

RAY CHARLES - Worried Mind - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2fibtLu_4)

The Last Poets - When The Revolution Comes - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M5W_3T2Ye4)

[lisaparadise]

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (Louis Speaks) [Video] 1970 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGKqH26xlg&feature=related)

[Stavros]

Well the say that those who were there don't remember it anyway.

Evidence suggests otherwise...I saw my first live band in 1965, was at the NME concert in the Empire Pool in 1967 (Beach Boys -ugh! Yuck!- The Troggs, Cilla, Sandy Shaw et al), and later that year the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival to see the debut of a band called Fleetwood Mac, followed by John Mayall, and then Cream. I also saw Cream at the Savile Theatre that year -their manager, Robert Stigwood owned the theatre (it is now the Odeon cinema on Shaftesbury ave).

I cannot think of a decade which has such diversity, particularly when you realise that music in the 1950s had the substance of wet cardboard, led by the beggar of worthless filth, Elvis Presley, which isn't really music anyway but an irrelevant, ugly noise.

So, the glories of the 1960s which resist listings:

1) 'Mersey Beat' sound of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and, don't laugh, Cilla Black.
2) Psychodelia with the Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (another contender that has been left out of lists so far), Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine; Jefferson Airplane and the Doors;
3) a clutch of 'Political' music that originated with Bob Dylan's early albums, and morphed into post-Cuban missile crisis end of the world stuff like Eve of Destruction; and taken into Vietnam by Country Joe and the Fish; part of the 'west coast sound' that was part political part psychedilia;
4) there was the trivial pop of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Titch, Cliff Richard, Lulu, Hermann'S Hermits, Manfred Mann and Sandy Shaw;
5) the emerging Blues/R&B basis of the Troggs, heavy metal in Hendrix, the Who, Cream via Alexis Korner and John Mayall; Chicken Shack and the Ainsley Dunbar Federation; I would put Traffic in this division;
6) the rich Soul movement of Tamla Motown and James Brown, Dame Aretha Frankling,
7) the odd case of folk which for a while impinged on popular music before reteating into its insular ghetto -Donovan, Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch -and I would put Leonard Cohen into this group, and his first album must surely be a classic?

Legacy:
Tamla Motown and the Beatles: why? 1) Music with SOUL; 2) Songs.

I can't think of another decade which set so many different trends in the space of 10 years. I was there, and it really was bliss to be in that dawn.

[Stavros]

Well the say that those who were there don't remember it anyway.

Evidence suggests otherwise...I saw my first live band in 1965, was at the NME concert in the Empire Pool in 1967 (Beach Boys -ugh! Yuck!- The Troggs, Cilla, Sandy Shaw et al), and later that year the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival to see the debut of a band called Fleetwood Mac, followed by John Mayall, and then Cream. I also saw Cream at the Savile Theatre that year -their manager, Robert Stigwood owned the theatre (it is not the Odeon cinema on Shaftesbury ave).

I cannot think of a decade which has such diversity, particularly when you realise that music in the 1950s had the substance of wet cardboard, led by the beggar of worthless filth, Elvis Presley, which isn't really music anyway but an irrelevant, ugly noise.

So, the glories of the 1960s which resist listings:

1) 'Mersey Beat' sound of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and, don't laugh, Cilla Black.
2) Psychodelia with the Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (another contender that has been left out of lists so far), Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine; Jefferson Airplane and the Doors;
3) a clutch of 'Political' music that originated with Bob Dylan's early albums, and morphed into post-Cuban missile crisis end of the world stuff like Eve of Destruction; and taken into Vietnam by Country Joe and the Fish; and the whole 'west coast sound' part political part psychedelia;
4) there was the trivial pop of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Titch, Cliff Richard, Lulu, Hermann'S Hermits, Manfred Mann and Sandy Shaw;
5) the emerging Blues/R&B basis of heavy metal in the Troggs, Hendrix, the Who, Cream via Alexis Korner and John Mayall; Chicken Shack and the Ainsley Dunbar Federation; I would put Traffic in this division;
6) the rich Soul movement of Tamla Motown and James Brown, Dame Aretha Frankling,
7) the odd case of folk which for a while impinged on popular music before reteating into its insular ghetto -Donovan, Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch -and I would put Leonard Cohen into this group, and his first album must surely be a classic?

Legacy:
Tamla Motown and the Beatles: why? 1) Music with SOUL; 2) Songs.

I can't think of another decade which set so many different trends in the space of 10 years. I was there, and it really was bliss to be in that dawn.

[runningdownthatdream]

Evidence suggests otherwise...I saw my first live band in 1965, was at the NME concert in the Empire Pool in 1967 (Beach Boys -ugh! Yuck!- The Troggs, Cilla, Sandy Shaw et al), and later that year the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival to see the debut of a band called Fleetwood Mac, followed by John Mayall, and then Cream. I also saw Cream at the Savile Theatre that year -their manager, Robert Stigwood owned the theatre (it is now the Odeon cinema on Shaftesbury ave).

I cannot think of a decade which has such diversity, particularly when you realise that music in the 1950s had the substance of wet cardboard, led by the beggar of worthless filth, Elvis Presley, which isn't really music anyway but an irrelevant, ugly noise.

So, the glories of the 1960s which resist listings:

1) 'Mersey Beat' sound of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and, don't laugh, Cilla Black.
2) Psychodelia with the Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (another contender that has been left out of lists so far), Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine; Jefferson Airplane and the Doors;
3) a clutch of 'Political' music that originated with Bob Dylan's early albums, and morphed into post-Cuban missile crisis end of the world stuff like Eve of Destruction; and taken into Vietnam by Country Joe and the Fish; part of the 'west coast sound' that was part political part psychedilia;
4) there was the trivial pop of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Titch, Cliff Richard, Lulu, Hermann'S Hermits, Manfred Mann and Sandy Shaw;
5) the emerging Blues/R&B basis of the Troggs, heavy metal in Hendrix, the Who, Cream via Alexis Korner and John Mayall; Chicken Shack and the Ainsley Dunbar Federation; I would put Traffic in this division;
6) the rich Soul movement of Tamla Motown and James Brown, Dame Aretha Frankling,
7) the odd case of folk which for a while impinged on popular music before reteating into its insular ghetto -Donovan, Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch -and I would put Leonard Cohen into this group, and his first album must surely be a classic?

Legacy:
Tamla Motown and the Beatles: why? 1) Music with SOUL; 2) Songs.

I can't think of another decade which set so many different trends in the space of 10 years. I was there, and it really was bliss to be in that dawn.

You knock Elvis (a lot of his music does deserves ill critique) but list the 'Mersey sound' as credible!? Gerry and The Pacemakers!?! And that trivial pop you listed is more adequately described as mindless rubbish, and calling Donovan a folk musician is to denigrate the roots of folk music all over the world. Maybe's it's an English thing that I don't understand....but seriously expected better from you.

[Prospero]

"led by the beggar of worthless filth, Elvis Presley." Not keen on Elvis then, Stavros!!

And re if you ere there you don't remember... that's a reference to a famous quote coined by someone. I was hardly proposing it as a serious notion!

I think you'd have to admit that much of the music of the early 1960s built upon the rock and r+B roots laid down in the 1950s - such "wet cardboard" artist as Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Howling Wolf, John lee Hooker, Muddy waters, T Bone Walker, Ray Charles ... to name a few. And of course the 50s also had Sinatra in his heyday. (And Cliff Richard begsn in the 1950s and had lost any spark by the 1960s) Cardboard? Hardly. And as runningdownthatdream said the 1960s had its fair share of totally dunderheaded crap - Esther and Abi Ofarim, Englebert Humperdinck, Des O'Connor, Val Doonican, The love Affair, Dave Dee,Dozy,Beaky,Mitch and Tich, Herman's hermits, The dave Clark Five, Freddie and the dreamers, gerry and the pacemakers etc etc..

Donovan was not a folk musician but a songwriter and singer who, initially, modelled himself on Dylan and then discovered hallucinogenic drugs and produced a succession of nicely ornamented but utterly twee albums.

That said I'd accept your contention that the 1960s was, by and large, the most innovative era in popular music.

[gunner55]

Please drop dead. Thanks.
Love King Crimson!

[runningdownthatdream]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6t11_Rht6w


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJIHzgaIoE

Damn Yvonne......you're reaching into obscurity! Let me recommend:
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes/Carry Go Bring Come - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqn-BJc1I2c)

[onmyknees]

Any discussion 60's music has to include Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terell. Early Motown

[maxpower]

Evidence suggests otherwise...I saw my first live band in 1965, was at the NME concert in the Empire Pool in 1967 (Beach Boys -ugh! Yuck!- The Troggs, Cilla, Sandy Shaw et al), and later that year the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival to see the debut of a band called Fleetwood Mac, followed by John Mayall, and then Cream. I also saw Cream at the Savile Theatre that year -their manager, Robert Stigwood owned the theatre (it is now the Odeon cinema on Shaftesbury ave).

I cannot think of a decade which has such diversity, particularly when you realise that music in the 1950s had the substance of wet cardboard, led by the beggar of worthless filth, Elvis Presley, which isn't really music anyway but an irrelevant, ugly noise.

So, the glories of the 1960s which resist listings:

1) 'Mersey Beat' sound of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and, don't laugh, Cilla Black.
2) Psychodelia with the Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (another contender that has been left out of lists so far), Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine; Jefferson Airplane and the Doors;
3) a clutch of 'Political' music that originated with Bob Dylan's early albums, and morphed into post-Cuban missile crisis end of the world stuff like Eve of Destruction; and taken into Vietnam by Country Joe and the Fish; part of the 'west coast sound' that was part political part psychedilia;
4) there was the trivial pop of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Titch, Cliff Richard, Lulu, Hermann'S Hermits, Manfred Mann and Sandy Shaw;
5) the emerging Blues/R&B basis of the Troggs, heavy metal in Hendrix, the Who, Cream via Alexis Korner and John Mayall; Chicken Shack and the Ainsley Dunbar Federation; I would put Traffic in this division;
6) the rich Soul movement of Tamla Motown and James Brown, Dame Aretha Frankling,
7) the odd case of folk which for a while impinged on popular music before reteating into its insular ghetto -Donovan, Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch -and I would put Leonard Cohen into this group, and his first album must surely be a classic?

Legacy:
Tamla Motown and the Beatles: why? 1) Music with SOUL; 2) Songs.

I can't think of another decade which set so many different trends in the space of 10 years. I was there, and it really was bliss to be in that dawn.



Seriously?? You're going to slag Elvis Presley, and then proceed to laud the likes of Herman's Hermits ("I'm 'enery the Eighth, I am!")? Are you fucking kidding me? It's one thing to not like his music, and it certainly wasn't all good, but to call it "worthless filth" is ridiculous, and denies the major effect and influence he had on the development of popular music that came after him. You know what the Beatles and all the Merseybeat guys were listening to when they were 15 years old? Elvis. That's a fact. Outside of a handful of songs, Bob Dylan bores me to tears. He is a phenomenal poet and lyricist, a mediocre guitarist, and one of the world's worst vocalists. He couldn't carry a tune if it had a fucking handle on it. But I would never call his music worthless. To do so, again, would be to deny the profound impact and influence he had on popular music and culture. If not for Dylan, we would never have gotten "Norwegian Wood" or Rubber Soul. If not for Elvis, we would never have The Beatles. You should stop looking down your nose so much.

[runningdownthatdream]

Seriously?? You're going to slag Elvis Presley, and then proceed to laud the likes of Herman's Hermit's ("I'm 'enery the Eighth, I am!")? Are you fucking kidding me? It's one thing to not like his music, and it certainly wasn't all good, but to call it "worthless filth" is ignorant, and denies the major effect and influence he had on the development of popular music that came after him. You know what the Beatles and all the Merseybeat guys were listening to when they were 15 years old? Elvis. That's a fact. Outside of a handful of songs, Bob Dylan bores me to tears. He is a phenomenal poet and lyricist, a mediocre guitarist, and one of the world's worst vocalists. He couldn't carry a tune if it had a fucking handle on it. But I would never call his music worthless. To do so, again, would be to deny the profound impact and influence he had on popular music and culture. If not for Dylan, we would never have gotten "Norwegian Wood" or Rubber Soul. If not for Elvis, we would never have The Beatles. You should stop looking down your nose so much.

Stavros usually provides good insight even though he does tend to look down his nose when commenting.....this time around though he's not looking down his nose so much as talking through his ass!

the Mersey Beat sound: he beginning of the near incessant corruption of good American music by the eurotrash sound that hasn't really slowed up since :yayo:

[lisaparadise]

You knock Elvis (a lot of his music does deserves ill critique) but list the 'Mersey sound' as credible!? Gerry and The Pacemakers!?! And that trivial pop you listed is more adequately described as mindless rubbish, and calling Donovan a folk musician is to denigrate the roots of folk music all over the world. Maybe's it's an English thing that I don't understand....but seriously expected better from you.thnk you,as if the mainstream music played on every radio station from wolfman jack and american bandstand is somehow trivial.elvis has more fans then all his favs put together,hes always gonna be the king period.

[lisaparadise]

Any discussion 60's music has to include Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terell. Early Motowntru that,we will never ever see music explode on all levels as we did in the 1960s without a doubt the greatest era of all time.

[lisaparadise]

Seriously?? You're going to slag Elvis Presley, and then proceed to laud the likes of Herman's Hermit's ("I'm 'enery the Eighth, I am!")? Are you fucking kidding me? It's one thing to not like his music, and it certainly wasn't all good, but to call it "worthless filth" is ridiculous, and denies the major effect and influence he had on the development of popular music that came after him. You know what the Beatles and all the Merseybeat guys were listening to when they were 15 years old? Elvis. That's a fact. Outside of a handful of songs, Bob Dylan bores me to tears. He is a phenomenal poet and lyricist, a mediocre guitarist, and one of the world's worst vocalists. He couldn't carry a tune if it had a fucking handle on it. But I would never call his music worthless. To do so, again, would be to deny the profound impact and influence he had on popular music and culture. If not for Dylan, we would never have gotten "Norwegian Wood" or Rubber Soul. If not for Elvis, we would never have The Beatles. You should stop looking down your nose so much.marry me lol

[lisaparadise]

Stavros usually provides good insight even though he does tend to look down his nose when commenting.....this time around though he's not looking down his nose so much as talking through his ass!

the Mersey Beat sound: he beginning of the near incessant corruption of good American music by the eurotrash sound that hasn't really slowed up since :yayo:he just has zero taste in music period.lol

[maxpower]

marry me lol


Aw, shucks.:kiss:

[lisaparadise]

Aw, shucks.:kiss:The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaUIwuU8so&feature=related)

[Stavros]

Although it will sound defensive, to my critics I should point out I was trying to draw up a list of the different types of music that help define the diversity of the 1960s, it doesn't mean I actually like all of it, so you shouldn't think I rate Hermann's Hermits or Sandy Shaw. It is just a list, and not a comprehensive one either.

It is obviously true that a lot of popular music in the 1960s would not have happened without rock 'n roll, but I think that what marked out the 60s was not just the diversity of styles, but the sounds, some of which were due to improved recording technology. It was also a live experience, whereas these days I don't think that young people have the same access to live music being played by new adventurous bands and singers in clubs that existed in the 1960s and 1970s, most clubs these days are dominated by DJs and recorded music. I can't listen to most 60s music now anyway, exscept for Bob Dylan up to John Wesley Harding, Leonard Cohen's early albums, and the first Incredible String Band. I no longer own anything by the Beatles or any other 60s band -having been forced to give up my vinyl record collection some years ago; and I never had a need to replace it with the CD's, and have not taken advantage of YouTube to listen to it either.

I know my anti-Elvis is over-the-top, and I know how important he is in the history of popular music, but I have personal reasons for the hostility which relates to some family issues, and I genuinely detest the sound of his voice, his various looks and nothing can be done about it. There must be some performers who drive board members to extremes of fury, and not just from the 1960s.

[Paladin]

Led Zeppelin II

[Prospero]

Originally Posted by onmyknees
Any discussion 60's music has to include Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terell. Early Motown


This is true but the thread was about the greatest album of the 1960s - and Motown singers and groups were really superlative singles outfits. Some of the very best. But - by and large - their albums had a lot of filler stuff.

Another album I'd forgotten which was probably a crowing achievement for the artiste involved was "Dusty in Memphis" by Dusty Springfield.

[russtafa]

Although it will sound defensive, to my critics I should point out I was trying to draw up a list of the different types of music that help define the diversity of the 1960s, it doesn't mean I actually like all of it, so you shouldn't think I rate Hermann's Hermits or Sandy Shaw. It is just a list, and not a comprehensive one either.

It is obviously true that a lot of popular music in the 1960s would not have happened without rock 'n roll, but I think that what marked out the 60s was not just the diversity of styles, but the sounds, some of which were due to improved recording technology. It was also a live experience, whereas these days I don't think that young people have the same access to live music being played by new adventurous bands and singers in clubs that existed in the 1960s and 1970s, most clubs these days are dominated by DJs and recorded music. I can't listen to most 60s music now anyway, exscept for Bob Dylan up to John Wesley Harding, Leonard Cohen's early albums, and the first Incredible String Band. I no longer own anything by the Beatles or any other 60s band -having been forced to give up my vinyl record collection some years ago; and I never had a need to replace it with the CD's, and have not taken advantage of YouTube to listen to it either.

I know my anti-Elvis is over-the-top, and I know how important he is in the history of popular music, but I have personal reasons for the hostility which relates to some family issues, and I genuinely detest the sound of his voice, his various looks and nothing can be done about it. There must be some performers who drive board members to extremes of fury, and not just from the 1960s.mate when i was a teddy boy in the 80s ELVIS WAS KING and people that disagreed got a thick ear and loose teeth,but since then we have all mellowed out and accept different styles.but some of those bands you mentioned would put me to sleep they are so boring !

[Prospero]

A teddy boyin the 80s!!!Gosh I knew some Australians were backward but this is just absurd.

[Stavros]

I think Russtafa grew up in the Bush, Prospero, it takes a while for radio signals to get through. Guess the Bee Gees are not on your list, Russtafa?

[Caff_Racer]

A teddy boyin the 80s!!!Gosh I knew some Australians were backward but this is just absurd.


Well I think that there were Rockers all over the place back in the Eighties, otherwise a band like the Stray Cats wouldn't have been so successful...


The group, whose style was based upon the sounds of Sun Records artists and other artists from the 1950s, were heavily influenced by Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent and Bill Haley & His Comets. The Stray Cats quickly developed a large following in the New York music scene playing at CBGB and Max's Kansas City as well as venues on Long Island. When the Cats heard a rumor that there was a revival of the 1950s Teddy Boy youth subculture in England, the band moved to the UK. They then spearheaded the nascent rockabilly revival, by blending the 1950s Sun Studio sound with modern punk musical elements. In terms of visual style the Stray Cats also blended elements of 1950 rockabilly clothes such as wearing drape jackets, brothel creepers and western shirts with punk clothes such as tight black zipper trousers and modern versions of 1950s hair styles.
(from Stray Cats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_Cats))

I distinctly remember regularly seeing Teddy Boys/Rockers in the Epsom area back then... not exactly the Outback, then: the only kangaroos in the area were at Chessington Zoo, I believe...

[russtafa]

we used to fight the skinheads in the cross

[russtafa]

I think Russtafa grew up in the Bush, Prospero, it takes a while for radio signals to get through. Guess the Bee Gees are not on your list, Russtafa?i stayed in London and knocked around with the Essex teds in the mid 80s .great time i had fighting and fucking in london

[hippifried]

The Band - Music From Big Pink

Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East West

The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic, Daydream

Jackie Wilson - Baby Work Out, Higher & Higher

Moby Grape - Wow/Grape Jam

Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant

James Brown - Live at the Apollo

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Past, In Search of the Lost Chord, On the Threshold of a Dream, To Our Children's Children's Children

There's more.

[Prospero]

I would disagree with some of those on your list hippiefried... the Moody Blues who seemed to me to be devoid of any real musical direction or authenticity and were sort of fake hippies. Could you really place an album like to our childrens etc alongside the first by(or any) by Hendrix? That' why I simply suggested the best by Hendrix.

Moby Grape.. well omaha/hey Grandma were for me the pinnacle of an otherwise rather dull band.

But the Lovin Spoonful certainly.... and while we are at it how about The mamas and papas (though I never thought they did an album that worked through and through - again a better singles group). Similarly The Who. Some defining singles - My Generation, Anyway, Anyhow,Anywhere, I Can't Explain.

And what about
"After The Goldrush" by Neil Young? (1970 - just about qualifies).
Love - Forever Changes
The Zombies - Odyssey and oracle
Big Brother and the holding company - Cheap Thrills


Always thought the Arlo Guthrie album was a bit of a novelty....

But all of this is wholly subjective. There is no "best' except in our own minds.


And The Band - without a doubt. Chest Fever!

The Band: Chest Fever - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN7wrf4vaxs)

I was at this gig - it also featured CSN=Y, Joni Mitchell and Jesse Ed Davis.

[robertlouis]

Any discussion 60's music has to include Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terell. Early Motown

And at the tail end of the 60s, Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" as an album of radical questioning songs stands out for me.

And so far nobody appears to have mentioned either Stevie Wonder or Curtis Mayfield. SMH.

[lisaparadise]

And The Band - without a doubt. Chest Fever!
I was at this gig - it also featured CSN=Y, Joni Mitchell and Jesse Ed Davis. ah one of my fav bands of alltime and there signature song
The Band ... the Weight 1969 @ woodstock live - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vou51-755I&feature=related)

[Prospero]

And at the tail end of the 60s, Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" as an album of radical questioning songs stands out for me.

And so far nobody appears to have mentioned either Stevie Wonder or Curtis Mayfield. SMH.

Marvin Gaye album a real omission - but Stevie Wonder's best album work came in the 1970s - Music of my Mind, Talking book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale and Songs in The key of Life.
Great singles before that - but not really complete albums of great music.

So what then of Sly and the Family Stone? "Stand"?
Or Dear Mr fantasy by Traffic?
and surely "In A Silent Way" by Miles davis

[reformedcharacter]

TRU DAT LOVE THE KINKS THE KINKS-LOLA LIVE 1970 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Jzdkgj-XI&feature=related)

I have to say ,my first thought was Village Green. I saw Ray Davies perform it in it's entirety with a 40 piece orchestra and a choir at last year's Meltdown festival. it was awesome :)

a few days before I saw Kast Off Kinks with Mick Avory(the original Kinks drummer) who told the story of how Ray was inspired to write Lola after Mick was invited to a tranny club in Soho by a TV who approached him when he was shopping in Sainsburys. Mick claimed that he only went because he was told there was dart board and a pool table in the bar.....

[hippifried]

Could you really place an album like to our childrens etc alongside the first by(or any) by Hendrix? & if I had 6 apples & 4 oranges, how many pomegranites do I need to make a banana cream pie?

Well Prospero, that was my second list in this thread. I refuse to be held accountable for remembering everything that was going on over 40 years ago. I've been trying to keep it '60s, stick to albums, & mention ones that haven't been mentioned yet. Among the incredible amount of garbage that was pumped out over the radio, there was some real good stuff. The problem
of that era was that it was common to bury the weak shit on an album with a couple if good songs. It sucked to buy albums. Nearly every hit song had its own. Radio stations didn't play albums. If it wasn't on a 45 rpm, it didn't get played. The advent of FM was '69 & '70. Before that, it was pretty much elevator music because nobody had the receivers. The only way to listen to an album without buying it was to get somebody else, or their older siblings, to buy it. What teenager had $5 to blow. The used record stores wouldn't let us loiter & listen.

Of course there was a whole lot of stuff in other genres too. Country music didn't go away just because the Beatles showed up. Neither did jazz. You had folks like George Jones, John Coltrane, Buck Owems, Thelonius Monk, Ray Charles, Charles Mingus, etc... Everybody was recording. But like most teens of the ime, my public persona was Rock 'n' Roll snob. I've never heard the albums, & couldn't tell you the titles. It was such a landmark decade for music. Aren't they all?


robertlouis,
"What's Going On" didn't come out till 1971. I had to look it up to make sure. Marvin Gaye had several albums in the '60s, but I've never heard them. I'd venture to say that I'm probably not alone in that.

[leckery5]

Frank Zappa - Trouble Every Day 1966 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiVFfOOm_GI&feature=BFa&list=PLF5E890B29B6270D8&lf=results_main)

[robertlouis]

ah one of my fav bands of alltime and there signature song
The Band ... the Weight 1969 @ woodstock live - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vou51-755I&feature=related)

Thank you Lisa, I can spot the Canadian flag in there of course lol, but for me the original line-up of The Band is as good as rock and roll has ever got.

Music from Big Pink and The Band surely deserve places near the top of any discerning list of great albums of the 60s.

[runningdownthatdream]

Thank you Lisa, I can spot the Canadian flag in there of course lol, but for me the original line-up of The Band is as good as rock and roll has ever got.

Music from Big Pink and The Band surely deserve places near the top of any discerning list of great albums of the 60s.

You're not implying that the original lineup did not include Canadians, are you?

[robertlouis]

You're not implying that the original lineup did not include Canadians, are you?

Certainly not sir. I love the fact that "Americana" was to all intents and purposes created by four Canadians and a drummer from Arkansas.

[Stavros]

The Band? Surely, The Bland?

[dunkiex]

Cream....Disraeli Gears...1967

Can't be beat!

[runningdownthatdream]

The Band? Surely, The Bland?

Wait....you polluted this thread with the 'Mersey beat sound' and yet dare to criticize The Band!?

[lisaparadise]

Wait....you polluted this thread with the 'Mersey beat sound' and yet dare to criticize The Band!?YA YOU TELL EM LOL,I GREW UP LISTENING TO THE BAND AND I THINK THERE PRETTY AWESOME. The Band - Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VShpcqd3zE)

[Stavros]

I knew an American in the 1970s, an English graduate (Madison, says it all) who told me he thought Robbie Robertson was America's greatest poet, I think this was 1974; yes I agree, he must have been stoned. Give it some thought. The Weight sounded good in Easy Rider, but let's not upset the balance in the top quartile, The Band were never that good. The Mersey Beat was part of the 1960s musical revolution, most of it was dross, and sounds like it now, but that's how it was -and at the time it was sensational. The alternative was Elvis -How Great Thou Art- or Kathy Kirby.

A fluke I know, but when I was in HMV this afternoon they were playing the Sex Pistols God Save the Queen, a pure example of how the genius of the 1960s was followed by the worthless, anti-life, anti-art, anti-music, anti-everything Punk thing, the relentless din of No future, no future for you and me sums up what a musical desert the 70s was. Luckily for you, Punk never got to Toronto (or if it did, it was 1985 already).

[runningdownthatdream]

I knew an American in the 1970s, an English graduate (Madison, says it all) who told me he thought Robbie Robertson was America's greatest poet, I think this was 1974; yes I agree, he must have been stoned. Give it some thought. The Weight sounded good in Easy Rider, but let's not upset the balance in the top quartile, The Band were never that good. The Mersey Beat was part of the 1960s musical revolution, most of it was dross, and sounds like it now, but that's how it was -and at the time it was sensational. The alternative was Elvis -How Great Thou Art- or Kathy Kirby.

A fluke I know, but when I was in HMV this afternoon they were playing the Sex Pistols God Save the Queen, a pure example of how the genius of the 1960s was followed by the worthless, anti-life, anti-art, anti-music, anti-everything Punk thing, the relentless din of No future, no future for you and me sums up what a musical desert the 70s was. Luckily for you, Punk never got to Toronto (or if it did, it was 1985 already).

The Band had some dull songs but they were proficient vocally and instrumentally. I haven't paid enough attention to Robbie Robertson's lyrics to comment on how good of a poet he is or was. His first self-titled solo album has some great tracks though.

As for Elvis, his best days were over by the early 60s BUT he still beat anything put out by Gerry and The Pacemakers. That fucking Fairy Cross The Mersey song is music to kill oneself to..........

Toronto had a punk scene - or so I heard - during the 70s. I wasn't here for it and was too young anyways to have any interest. Punk had a purpose: to destroy the excesses of the 60s and 70s. Its not supposed to be about the music but about counter-culture and bourgeois youth rebellion.......but like any good bourgeois rebellion it became consumed by the next big moneymaker after Disco: New Wave. It is necessary to go through these cycles of genius/no genius as one inspires the other.....

[hippifried]

Just gotta love brilliant lyrics.
He could be poet lauriat if he wasn't canadian.

Up On Cripple Creek - The Band (The Band 5 of 10) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisXJSsULGM)

[Stavros]

This book -reviewed in the NYT- attempts to identify the Wrecking Crew who actually played the instruments on many of those 1960s albums, one reason among many why the Beach Boys were so poor, I had the misfortune of seeing them live at the time and was not impressed. Not sure if it was such a secret, eg Eric Clapton playing the guitar on Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, etc etc

February 19, 2012
Rockers With Low Profiles and Perfect Timing

By JANET MASLIN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/janet_maslin/index.html?inline=nyt-per)

THE WRECKING CREW


The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret


By Kent Hartman
Illustrated. 292 pages. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. $25.99.




The recent Grammy Awards featured separate segments honoring the long careers of the Beach Boys and Glen Campbell. The show didn’t mention that Mr. Campbell toured and played as a Beach Boy in the mid-1960s, before the start of his solo career. In those days Mr. Campbell was one of the all-purpose studio musicians who were loosely known as the Wrecking Crew (http://wreckingcrew.tv/). They are the subject of Kent Hartman’s nostalgic, book-length hagiography, which has the glib but potent excitement of a collection of greatest hits.
The Wrecking Crew was not supposed to attract attention. Groups like the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Monkees and many others didn’t care to point out why they sounded so much better on records than on the road. But Wrecking Crew members could work miracles, like the time when, with only three minutes’ worth of studio time allotted them, they played a first-take, no-glitch version of “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.” As Roy Halee, Simon and Garfunkel’s engineer and co-producer, once said of a top Wrecking Crew bassist: “You never have to stop the tape because of a mistake by Joe Osborn. There just aren’t any.”
Hal Blaine (http://www.halblaine.com/), who justifiably calls himself “10 of Your Favorite Drummers” on his Web site and played his drums at the bottom of an elevator shaft for Simon and Garfunkel’s “Boxer,” claims to have to come up with the Wrecking Crew’s name. Musicians like Mr. Blaine showed up in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, were put on the map by Phil Spector (Mr. Blaine plays the ace drumbeats that kick off “Be My Baby”), were appropriated by Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” and became hotly in demand. Old-school session players complained that these guys (and one woman, Carol Kaye, who played guitar as a stealth Beach Girl) were wrecking the business for everyone else.
Mr. Blaine’s timing was perfect and not only when it came to percussion. He and other Wrecking Crew regulars made their mark in an era when Top 40 singles really mattered, and rock acts sometimes became famous before they could actually play. “The Wrecking Crew” cites a Byrds recording session for “Mr. Tambourine Man” when every Byrd except one — Roger McGuinn, then still known as Jim — was kicked out of the studio so that better musicians could fill in.
There is no success story too corny for Mr. Hartman. And most of his book’s chapters follow the same pattern. Along comes a young, little-known aspiring musician like the teenage piano player and songwriter who had such a run of luck beginning in 1966. This kid was brought into a Wrecking Crew-populated studio by Johnny Rivers, who had his own record label. (The Wrecker Larry Knechtel played killer piano on Mr. Rivers’s version of “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu.”) Then Mr. Rivers introduced him.
“Everybody, this is Jimmy Webb, the songwriter I’ve been telling you about,” Mr. Rivers supposedly said. The musicians were skeptical, but they played the kid’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” anyway. Later Mr. Campbell, still a studio player, found a copy of the recording and decided to give it a spin. “What could it hurt?” Mr. Hartman writes, imagining the thoughts of Mr. Campbell.. “Didn’t they used to say back home that a stone unturned is opportunity lost?”
Mr. Campbell played the song and became a solo star. Mr. Webb kept writing, and in the Grammy lineup for 1967 two of his songs won high honors. Mr. Hartman cites him as the year’s big winner: bigger than the Beatles, with “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Mr. Hartman uses awards and chart standings as his main measures of success.
“The Wrecking Crew” is so Los Angeles-centric that the British Invasion barely registers. And although Mr. Hartman makes respectful note that outfits like Motown’s Funk Brothers (the subject of the rousing documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”) were performing similar unsung heroics in other music meccas, his focus is simple and narrow. “The next time you listen to some of your favorite groups from the ’60s, please don’t be upset,” he cautions. “I never knew it was really the Wrecking Crew either.”
Among the jukebox triumphs that are celebrated here are “Limbo Rock,” a song so simple that Billy Strange, who wrote the music and called it “just about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” was surprised to receive royalties for it; “The Beat Goes On,” the Sonny and Cher one-chord wonder that was such a bore for musicians to play; “River Deep, Mountain High,” with a Phil Spector Wall of Sound so messy that Wrecking Crew members hated being drowned out by it; and “Eve of Destruction,” which wound up on the radio before its singer, Barry McGuire, could do an adequate vocal. “Eve of Destruction” was a big hit in its own right, but it becomes even bigger when Mr. Hartman explains how it brought Lou Adler, the producer, together with four of his impecunious unknown friends: the Mamas and the Papas. Their records show off Wrecking Crew professionalism at its best.
For all Mr. Hartman’s efforts to clarify the mysteries of which musicians played on which records, the subject remains confusing. The Wrecking Crew was informal and had many members. Stars of the Wrecking Crew played on so many songs that they themselves haven’t all kept close track. It would take a whole other book to trace their individual trajectories. (There are other books. Mr. Hartman draws heavily on volumes about both Mr. Blaine and Mr. Spector.) But “The Wrecking Crew” does its job of commemorating studio heroics. It makes good music sound better.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/books/the-wrecking-crew-by-kent-hartman-on-60s-studio-musicians.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print

[Prospero]

I am not sure you're right about Eric Clapton being on Sgt Pepper. He certainly played on the White Album though - his being the guitar sol that powers the Harrison song "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and George returned the credit on the Cream song "Badge" where he was credited as L'angelo Misterioso. Never ever seen any claims or rumours that Clapton was on Pepper.

[Stavros]

Yes indeed, I got the wrong album.

[JenniferParisHusband]

Since the rules have changed and it's now best songs rather than albums, I think I need to agree with an earlier post, not enough Motown represented here.

Sam & Dave - Soul Man (best quality + lyrics) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pwaklOkoTU&feature=related)

And one of the greatest bass riffs ever...

James Brown-Soulful Christmas - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVlVOdfIWjY)

[buttslinger]

You youngn's need to get any school yearbook from 1962 to understand why critics call Sgt. Pepper's THE pivotal album of the 60s. They changed the face of the world.

Special shoutout to Hendrix and Clapton, Dylan and the Dead.

My fave love song: laughed at by Zappa for it's cretin simplicity, "Fountain of Love"

frank zappa & mothers of invention - fountain of love - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baPj1YG_-Zg)