1966 - 69 - your top 20 folk/pop/rock albums

[PeterG]

Only 1 rule = only 1 LP per artist.


In no specific order.

NY - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
PF - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
JT - Stand Up
JHE- Are You Experienced?
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
LZ - s/t
S & G - Sounds of Silence
The Chieftains - 2
DP - Shades of DP
Procol Harum - s/t
Bert Jansch - Jack Orion
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Kinks - The VGPS
CSN - s/t
Buffalo Springfield - Again
JM - Clouds
The MB - Days of Future Passed
The Doors - Strange Days
FZ - Hot Rats
Love - Forever Changes

[bob_32_116]

Hmmm. Let's see if I can get to 20:

Bob Lind - Don't Be Concerned
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
S&G - Sounds of Silence
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Richard Harris - The Yard Went on For Ever
Joni Mitchell - Song To a Seagull
Elton John - Empty Sky
CSN - s/t
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic pillow
The Mamas and the Papas - Deliver
The 5th Dimension - Magic Garden
Procol Harum - s/t
The Seekers - Seen In Green
The Who - The Who Sell Out
...

Stalled for the time being. Thinking of albums I love from this period, or ones that at least have some songs I love, was surprisingly hard. Singles got a lot more attention than albums in those days.Some of those I listed, such as the M's and the P's, contain a fair bit of filler, but also a number of classic songs.

[señormoment]

I don't consider myself too enlightened about music from those years. Two records that immediately come to mind are 'Uncle Meat' by the Mothers and 'Bookends' by Simon and Garfunkle.

[Dana5140]

Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
Touch
Blue Cheer- Vincebus Eruptum
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Grateful Dead- Aoxomoxoa
Iron Butterfly- Ball
Steppenwolf- First
MC5- Live
Stooges- First
Zodiac- Cosmic Sounds of the Zodiac
Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Soft Machine- First
Yes- Time and a Word
Mothers- Absolutely Free
KC- ITCOTCK
Chicago- First
BST- Child is Father to the Man
Canned Heat- Boogie
CSNY- First
Doors- First

[bill g]

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
The Free Design - Kites Are Fun
Love - Forever Changes
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Yes - S/T
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Crosby, Stills & Nash - S/T
Joni Mitchell - Clouds
Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord
Spirogyra - Bells, Boots & Shambles
The Association - Birthday
The Doors - Strange Days
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Fairport Convention - Liege & Leaf

Probably forgot something important...

Edit: forgot Os Mutantes, Spirit, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Soft Machine. So far...

[klothos]

Like all lists like this, it could change next week....tomorrow even.......

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Bee Gees First
The Move - The Move
Spirit - Spirit
Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Yes - Yes
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Family - Family Entertainment
The Hollies - Evolution
The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
Pink Floyd - Piper
Ten Years After - Stonedhenge
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Ultimate Spinach - Ultimate Spinach
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
(Ambrose) Slade - Beginnings

[No Pride]

I'll try...

Beatles - Revolver
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Jeff Beck - Truth
Chicago Transit Authority - s/t
The Doors - Strange Days
Yes - s/t
Spirit -s/t
The Nice - Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Led Zeppelin - s/t
Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesen
Touch - s/t
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money
Jethro Tull - This Was
The Who - Sell Out
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King

[bill g]

Probably forgot something important...

Yep. So far, Spirit and Strawberry Alarm Clock.

[Dana5140]

Hell yeah, I forgot Hendrix!

Love this:

Early prog, for sure.

[Nijinsky Hind]

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King Crimson-Court of
Moody Blues- lost chord
Dylan- 61 revisited
Slade- alive
The Who- My generation
The doors- debut album
Jack Bruce- songs for a tailor
jefferson airplane- pillow
Crazy world of arthur Brown
Rolling Stones- satanic majesties
Beatles-Revolver
hendrix-experienced
Yes- debut album
Traffic-self titled
Procol harum-debut LP
Asylum choir- look inside
The city preachers-folklore
Louis prima &witnesses- the wildest comes home
Them- debut
fat mattress -self titled.

[Nijinsky Hind]

Amazing how many LPs I thought I could use here were 1970-72

[bob_32_116]

Slade - Alive was released in 1972, so it doesn't qualify.

I had a number of albums on my list that I was forced to cross out because I realised they were released after 1969, so I think I'm allowed to point this out.

[Nijinsky Hind]

Slade - Alive was released in 1972, so it doesn't qualify.

I had a number of albums on my list that I was forced to cross out because I realised they were released after 1969, so I think I'm allowed to point this out.

GAK!!!
Replace with...

Deep Purple- shades of deep purple.

[Facelift]

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Jimi Hendrix - Axis
Led Zeppelin - st
The Band - st
Flying Burrito - Gilded Palace
Byrds- Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Soft Machine - 2
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
CCR - Willy and the Poor Boys
Velvet Underground and Nico
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Sly - Stand
Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison
The Who Sell Out
Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk

[Adrian]

The Doors - s/t
Gordon Lightfoot - The Way I Feel
Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Arlo Guthrie - Alice’s Restaurant
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Iron Butterfly - In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida
Zappa/Mothers - We’re Only in It for the Money
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Silver Apples - s/t
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Yes - s/t
Chicago Transit Authority - s/t
Blind Faith - s/t
Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - s/t
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

[PeterG]

Fairport Convention - Liege & Leaf

That's my no.21.
It was in the first draft of my 20 but had to give way for something else that I like a tad more.

[PeterG]

Amazing how many LPs I thought I could use here were 1970-72

Yes, same here.

BUT that was my intention to keep it to the flower power, hippy, psych, acid, space formative years of hard rock and prog because 70 to 72 would result in very predictable lists from all of us.

[PeterG]

(Ambrose) Slade - Beginnings

Kudos Klothos! That was bubbling under on my list but didn't make the cut.

[PeterG]

Slade- alive

You're way off there, that was 1972.
Beginnnings 69, Ballzy 69.

[PeterG]

Now for my bubbling under list:

Cream, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Nirvana, Slade, Pentangle, Beatles ( for the record: Abbey Road)

[spacefreak]

Top 20 from the golden age?

Impossible to compile!

[Burley Wright]

Good lists, I'd add The United States of America

[PeterG]

Impossible to compile!

Impossible is nothing....

[Galactic Bulldozer]

Rym chart

1 Revolver
2 The Velvet Underground & Nico
3 Blonde on Blonde
4 Electric Ladyland
5 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
6 Forever Changes
7 Let It Bleed
8 In the Court of the Crimson King
9 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
10 The Doors
11 Hot Rats
12 Led Zeppelin II
13 Safe as Milk
14 The Band
15 Liege & Lief
16 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
17 Bookends
18 Younger Than Yesterday
19 Green River
20 The Stooges

8 UK artists only????

[Scrotum Scissor]

Top 20 from the golden age?

Impossible to compile!

Yes. This period marked the absolute creative zenith of pop/rock music, and not only IMHO.

I'll give a try yet.

Love - Forever Changes
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Revolver
Anne Briggs - Time Has Come
Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbor
Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon
Scott Walker - Scott 2
Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
Quicksilver Messenger Service - [same]
Pink Floyd - Piper
Soft Machine - Volume Two
Jacques Brel - J'Arrive
Country Joe & the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Incredible String Band - Wee-Tam & the Big Huge
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Os Mutantes - Mutantes
Crazy World of Arthur Brown - [same]
The Doors - [same]
The United States of America - [same]