The elephant in the room....1969....

[PeterG]

...come on...someone's got to do it....it's screaming out to us for attention

Rider: I know very little about the psych, fusion, blues and proto-prog of the day....because my list of albums from 69 really only covers a handful of bands....as a lot of the stuff (no probably most of the stuff) in 69 really didn't and still doesn't appeal to me, and that includes albums by some of the biggest of the big names e.g. No, I don't like the first two LZ albums or the early FM, DP or JT albums.

So here is my quite short list of favourite albums from 69 then:

Neil Young - s/t debut
PF - Ummagumma; More
Joni - Clouds
NY & CH - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
C,S & N - s/t
The Nice - Nice
PH - Salty Dog
MB -OTTOAD
FC - Unhalfbricking; Liege & Lief
Free - s/t
Santana - s/t
FZ - Hot Rats
KC - ITCOTCK
Pentangle - Basket of Light
DB - Space Oddity

[Zeuhlmate]

A top year:

Jack Bruce - Songs for a tailor
FZ - Hot Rats
John Mayall - The turning point
Mad River - same
Auger, Brian & Julie Driscoll - Streetnoise
Miles Davis - In a silent way
Cream - Goodbye
The Doors - Wild child (single)
Beefheart - Trout Mask
Burning Red Ivanhoe - M144
Colosseum - Valentyne suite / The grass is always greener
King Crimson - In the Court....
Led Zep I + II
Rolling stones - Let it bleed
Santana - same
Steppenwolf - Monster
Taste - On the Boards
Leslie West - Mountain
Ten years after - Stonehenge + Sshh...
The Who - Tommy
Frank Zappa & Mothers - Uncle Meat
Johnny Winter - same
Johnny Winter - Second Winter
John McLaughlin - Devotion
Van Der Graf Generator - The aerosol grey machine
Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency
Tassavallan Presidenti- Tassavallan Presidenti
Woodstock
Iron Butterfly - Ball

Many more...

[Poisoned Youth]

...come on...someone's got to do it....it's screaming out to us for attention

We don't have to do every year. After a while, the exercise gets a bit moldy, especially since people just masturbate their lists out there with no foreplay or pillow talk.

[Facelift]

1969 probably has the strongest top 10 of any of the years, IMO.

I could probably put these into preference order if I really tried, but they're all immortal 5 star albums, AFAIC. These are all in my personal top 50 of all time.

The Band - st
CCR - Willy and the Poor Boys
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
Led Zeppelin - st
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Soft Machine Volume II
Neil Young/Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Zappa - Hot Rats
Zappa - Uncle Meat

[PeterG]

We don't have to do every year. After a while, the exercise gets a bit moldy, especially since people just masturbate their lists out there with no foreplay or pillow talk.

Yea I know, it's just that 69 was such a pivotal year in music. Anyway this was my last one.

[Galactic Bulldozer]

We don't have to do every year. After a while, the exercise gets a bit moldy, especially since people just masturbate their lists out there with no foreplay or pillow talk.

Foreplay
Grow some blues PeterG...
or
Pillow Talk
I got them Ol' White Man Balls Again.

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II -Led Zeppelin
Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
Stand Up - Jethro Tull
The Allman Brothers Band - Allman Brothers Band
Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac
Tons of Sobs - Free
Halfbreed - Keef Hartley Band
Spooky Two - Spooky Tooth
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Second Winter - Johnny Winter
Free - Free
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! - Janis Joplin
The Progressive Blues Experiment - Johnny Winter
Steamhammer - Steamhammer
With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
Ssssh - Ten Years After
Taste - Taste
Blue Matter - Savoy Brown
Songs for a Tailor - Jack Bruce
Yer' Album - James Gang
Ahead Rings Out - Blodwyn Pig
Doctor Dunbar's Prescription - Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
A Step Further - Savoy Brown
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
Bakerloo - Bakerloo
Last Exit - Traffic
Liberation - Jasper
Manfred Mann Chap 3 Vol 1 - Manfred Mann Chap 3
Humble Pie - Lost and Found

[davis]

GFR: On Time & Grank Funk (aka the Red Album)
The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Beatles - Abbey Road
With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, II
Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
Stand Up - Jethro Tull
Three Dog Night - It Ain't Easy
Rare Earth - Get Ready
Steppenwolf - At Your Birthday Party, Monster

[PeterG]

Foreplay
Grow some blues PeterG...
or
Pillow Talk
I got them Ol' White Man Balls Again.

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II -Led Zeppelin
Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
Stand Up - Jethro Tull
The Allman Brothers Band - Allman Brothers Band
Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac
Tons of Sobs - Free
Halfbreed - Keef Hartley Band
Spooky Two - Spooky Tooth
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Second Winter - Johnny Winter
Free - Free
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! - Janis Joplin
The Progressive Blues Experiment - Johnny Winter
Steamhammer - Steamhammer
With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
Ssssh - Ten Years After
Taste - Taste
Blue Matter - Savoy Brown
Songs for a Tailor - Jack Bruce
Yer' Album - James Gang
Ahead Rings Out - Blodwyn Pig
Doctor Dunbar's Prescription - Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
A Step Further - Savoy Brown
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
Bakerloo - Bakerloo
Last Exit - Traffic
Liberation - Jasper
Manfred Mann Chap 3 Vol 1 - Manfred Mann Chap 3
Humble Pie - Lost and Found

OMG!!! I'm drowning in old white bluesmen! No, sorry, with the exception of the Blind Faith LP, none of that is my bag man!

[ronmac]

We don't have to do every year. After a while, the exercise gets a bit moldy, especially since people just masturbate their lists out there with no foreplay or pillow talk.

AMEN TO THAT!

[Rick Robson]

I can add just some bands not mentioned yet:

Le Orme - Ad Gloriam
Tasavallan Presidentti - s/t
The Nice - Live At The Fillmore East
Deep Purple - Concerto for Group and Orchestra (live at the Royal Albert Hall)

But from solo artists my list is not so short, beg your pardon if only bands allowed:

Ennio Morricone - Il Clan dei Siciliani
Mina - Mina For You
Sergio Endrigo - La vita, amico, è l'arte dell'incontro
Gigliola Cinquetti - Il treno dell'amore
Milton Nascimento - s/t
Caetano Veloso - s/t
Joan Manuel Serrat - Com ho fa el Vent
Paco De Lucia - Fantasia Flamenca De Paco De Lucia
Al Stewart - Love Chronicles
Elton John - Empty Sky

[Jerjo]

We don't have to do every year. After a while, the exercise gets a bit moldy, especially since people just masturbate their lists out there with no foreplay or pillow talk.

Indeed, put a gun to these threads and end this nonsense.

[PeterG]

Indeed, put a gun to these threads and end this nonsense.

So tell me, how is your comment any different to people who complain about RIP threads? At least these "year" threads deal directly with music.
I'll just roll out the litany of RIP thread defenders then, shall I? i.e.. no one is forcing you to read these "year" threads. If you don't like them, don't open them.

[JJ88]

^Well they don't 'deal directly with music' when there is no discussion, just list after list.

[Rick Robson]

Lists are not what gets moldy, nor the tons of threads like this that I've already seen on PE, but in fact people get boring (me included this time) for just throwing lists without taking a little more of their time even to just 'throw' a little comment on their personal impressions about their favourites.

Yea I know it would be fair that I make it now but with a damn cell phone on my way to work is just annoyingly inappropriate, sorry.

[Poisoned Youth]

Well, allow me to re-state...

To clarify...I am not opposed to the threads, not by a long shot. But one of the more annoying trends on PE are multiple threads based on the same theme. Even that can be fine, but if the goal of the thread is for everyone to just make a list or spam video clips, then it takes away the discussion aspect of this site.

So consider it a challenge to make a real effort to explain why you (or anyone) really thinks that 1969 (or another year) is the peak year. This will lead to more interesting points/counter-points.

[Facelift]

Well, allow me to re-state...

To clarify...I am not opposed to the threads, not by a long shot. But one of the more annoying trends on PE are multiple threads based on the same theme. Even that can be fine, but if the goal of the thread is for everyone to just make a list or spam video clips, then it takes away the discussion aspect of this site.

So consider it a challenge to make a real effort to explain why you (or anyone) really thinks that 1969 (or another year) is the peak year. This will lead to more interesting points/counter-points.

Ok well, I'll add to that. 1969 is a year that acted like the fulcrum for a bunch of styles that went to define the first half of the '70s (generally, the period of time in which many rock historians think that rock music completed its period of adding formal elements). That's why I personally find it so important and interesting of a year. It's the year that progressive rock emerged from psychedelia. It's the year that heavy metal as we know it was created (Black Sabbath recorded their first album and started performing the material in the 2nd half of 1969). It's the year that jazz fusion first emerged. It wasn't known by the public at the time, but it was the end of The Beatles. It was the year that the original Mothers of Invention dissolved. In the US anyway, this was the time of Woodstock and Altamont and all the civil/social issues going on, against the backdrop of the Vietnam conflict.

Perhaps more personally for me, it was also the year that Neil Young began what I consider to be a mostly spectacular 45+ year on-off relationship with Crazy Horse.

Of all the post WWII years ending in a "9," 1969 was the one that looks most like the end of an era, IMO, from a popular music perspective.

[StevegSr]

Well if I had to pick just one year of rock to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be 1969.

[jake]

We don't have to do every year. After a while, the exercise gets a bit moldy, especially since people just masturbate their lists out there with no foreplay or pillow talk.

Forget foreplay or pillow talk - we're doing 69!!!

[Dave (in MA)]

I haven't even listened to it, but hey, it's got 1969 and Elephant in the title.

[gpeccary]

I found these two to be pretty cool, just looking at the albums and realizing when they came out, and how many i liked and didn't like.
Yeah they do tend to get annoying when just letters are used to replace a whole effing name, or the lists upon lists of band names i can't even pronounce, or begin to know how or where to find them! It would be great to know where to find them. Cutting and pasting into google gets old, REALLY fast.