top 20 rock and pop albums of '67

[gregory]

The Beatles Sgt Pepper’s LHCB
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Doors same
The Doors Strange Days
The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request
Love Forever Changes
JHE – Are You Experienced?
JHE – Axis Bold As Love
Procol Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Moody Blues Days Of Future Passed
The Who Sell Out
Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Cream Disraeli Gears
Donovan A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
Traffic Dear Mr. Fantasy
Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
Country Joe and the Fish I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die
Eric Burdon & The Animals Winds Of Change
Bee Gees First
Yardbirds Little Games

honorable mention:
Buffalo Springfield Again
Simon & Garfunkel Paresly, Sage, Rosemary and Thyne
The Kinks Something Else

[mogrooves]

The Nice ~ Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
MoI ~ Absolutely Free
Captain Beefheart ~ Safe As Milk
Kinks ~ Something Else (no "honorable" about it)
13th Floor Elevators ~ Easter Everywhere
Pearls Before Swine ~ One Nation Underground
Buffalo Springfield ~ Again
Stones ~ Between The Buttons
Godz ~ 2
Kaleidoscope ~ Tangerine Dream
Velvet Underground ~ w/Nico
Small Faces ~ There Are But Four Small Faces
Moby Grape ~ s/t
Red Krayola ~ Parable of Arable Land
The Who ~ Sell Out
Hollies ~ Butterfly
ISB ~ 5,000 Spirits.....

[Trane]

Many less excellent releases in pop-rock realm than 68 or 69


13 Cream Disraeli Gears Eng 1967
12 Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow USA 1967
12 Nice, The The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack Eng 1967
12 Procol Harum Procol Harum Eng 1967
11 Doors, The Strange Days USA 1967
11 H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft USA 1967
11 Hendrix, Jimi Are You Experienced USA 1967
11 Hendrix, Jimi Axis Bold As Love USA 1967
11 Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxter's USA 1967
10 Beatles, The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Eng 1967
10 Buckley, Tim Goodbye and Hello USA 1967
10 Collier Septet, Graham Deep Dark Blue Centre Eng 1967
10 Donovan Mellow Yellow Sco 1967
10 Doors, The Doors USA 1967
10 Love Forever Changes USA 1967
10 Mayall, John / Bluesbreakers A Hard Road Eng 1967
10 Moody Blues, The Days of Future Passed Eng 1967
10 Soft Machine Middle Earth Masters Eng 1967
10 Traffic Mr. Fantasy (aka Heaven is in Your Mind) Eng 1967
10 Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Fudge USA 1967


Bubbling under
09 5th Dimension, The Magic Garden USA 1967
09 ? & the Mysterians Action USA 1967
09 Blossom Toes We Are Ever So Clean Eng 1967
09 Burdon, Eric & Animals Winds of Change Eng 1967
09 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Safe As Milk USA 1967
09 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band The Mirror Man Sessions USA 1967
09 Chocolate Watchband, The No Way Out USA 1967
09 Donovan For Little Ones (aka A Gift from a Flower to a Garden LP 2) Sco 1967
09 Driscoll, Julie / Brian Auger Open Eng 1967
09 Electric Prunes, The I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) USA 1967
09 Fifty Foot Hose Cauldron USA 1967
09 Guthrie, Arlo Alice's Restaurant USA 1967
09 Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids Eng 1967
09 Incredible String Band The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion Sco 1967
09 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Volume Two: Breaking Through USA 1967
09 Zappa, Frank Lumpy Gravy USA 1967
09 Zappa, Frank / The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free USA 1967

[PeterG]

Many less excellent releases in pop-rock realm than 68 or 69

I agree, I could easily be satisfied with a list of ten from 67. I don't think I could even create a list of 20 that I actually own, truly like, and truly listen to.

David Bowie - s/t
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Doors - Strange Days
JHE -Are You Experienced?
Love - Forever Changes
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Procol Harum - s/t
Simon & Garfunkel - P, S, R & T

[gregory]

Many less excellent releases in pop-rock realm than 68 or 69

I don't think so. I see this particular year as absolutely extraordinary time, it was like breakthrough 'to the other side'. A cornerstone year for rock.
And the 20-names limit is not for naming many, on the contrary, it is for reducing some outstanding stuff to 20 names. That makes sense, not a long copy of 'many'.

[mogrooves]

I see this particular year as absolutely extraordinary time, it was like breakthrough 'to the other side'. A cornerstone year for rock.

Precisely.

[Trane]

I don't think so. I see this particular year as absolutely extraordinary time, it was like breakthrough 'to the other side'. A cornerstone year for rock.

yeah, I agree too... but 68 nd 69 was soo much better in terms of quantity of quality release

[Facelift]

1. Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
2. Jimi Hendrix - Axis (Bold as Love)
3. The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
4. The Kinks -Something Else
5. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
6. The Velvet Underground & Nico
7. Jimi Hendrox - Are You Experienced?
8. Pink Floyd - Piper
9. The Who - The Who Sell Out
10. Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
11. Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
12. Love - Forever Changes
13. Rolling Stones - Flowers
14. Moby Grape - st
15. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
16. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
17. Cream - Disraeli Gears
18. 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
19. Fred Neil - st
20. The Young Rascals -- Groovin'

[gregory]

Cool lists! I missed some well-known names. BTW, nobody mentioned Pretty Things album, Emotions. No likes for this one?

[Facelift]

Cool lists! I missed some well-known names. BTW, nobody mentioned Pretty Things album, Emotions. No likes for this one?

1. It's 1967! You'd have to make the list a lot longer than 20 before I ran out of things that I like.

2. In any event, I don't think I've heard this Pretty Things album (heard the ones before it, though).