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Poll Question: Your favorite important 1969-album?
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

From this list I'd choose either Basket of Light or Abbey Road - voted for the former. My overall favourite from 1969 is Ummagumma.
Yes, I suppose I should have included the latter album, although I'm not personally very fond of it. But I'm also glad I didn't, because if I did - Pentangle's stunning little jazzfolk-gem wouldn't have gotten its first vote. 
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My vote goes to Fairport's 'Liege and Lief'...hang on a minute - but I can vote for Led Zeppelin's debut? Shurely shome mishtake?
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

My vote goes to Fairport's 'Liege and Lief'...hang on a minute - but I can vote for Led Zeppelin's debut? Shurely shome mishtake?
Not really, as there's no escaping my personal preferences. Sandy Denny's voice is on of the most beautiful in popular music but I don't like it when Fairport Convention try to "rock" their folk - which is why I find Pentangle a far superior ensemble. And Led Zeppelin I is undoubtly incomparably more influential and important album.
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^ Methinks one overestimates the importance of Led Zeppelin's first album, especially in a progressive rock forum.  This discussion belongs elsewhere...
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KC is my fave from this list, but Ummagumma would be my fave of the year.
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Too many good ones to single out just one, but it is nice to see Os Mutantes mentioned. Because of that it gets my vote.

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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

but to me the ones I selected felt like they contributed to expand popular music and rock in general.
From the list Miles Davis - 'In a Silent Way'

Based on your statement (above)

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
The Who - Tommy
Lee Michaels - Lee Michaels
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk (aka The Red Album)
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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.
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Originally posted by dwill123 dwill123 wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

but to me the ones I selected felt like they contributed to expand popular music and rock in general.
From the list Miles Davis - 'In a Silent Way'

Based on your statement (above)

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
The Who - Tommy
Lee Michaels - Lee Michaels
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk (aka The Red Album)
If any influential album, regardless of relevance/genre was taken into consideration, my list would have looked a lot different (and maybe Sly & the Family Stone would have been included - but after having found a place for some Pharoah Sanders, Nick Drake, Ennio Morricone, Joni Mitchell, Scott Walker, Robbie Basho... first). But the reason Chicago's first and Tommy isn't here is admittedly because I'm not the biggest fan.
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Abbey Road had the biggest impact on me at the time, followed by Tull, and this little band called King Crimson.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I'm very familiar with all of these albums other than the Manfred Mann and The Moody Blues.  I'm a bigger fan of the first half of the list than the second half. Really tough choice, especially between the first twelve. I will vote for the one I most want to put on right at this moment, which is Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air.
Both Manfred Mann Chapter Three albums are really interesting, loose, fuzzy psych/jazzrock that has very little - or practically nothing in common with both former or latter Manfred Mann-incarnations. The occasional vocals won't impress anyone, but I find weakish whispers easier to digest and accept than nasal germans and rockopera-italians. Here's an instrumental from their (jazzier, and perhaps slightly more to my taste) 1970-follow up, Volume Two:

-On the Threshold of a Dream is the closest Moody Blues ever came to making kosmische:D - Still mostly cozy, warm and very melodic, but with some genuine soundexcursions into space. I love it - including the spoken word parts that others might find cringeworthy.

I hugely enjoyed the Manfred Mann track you posted, very much up my alley as one would expect.  I checked out some of Moody Blues album and was really enjoying that too (will listen in full later for sure as well as to more Manfred Mann.  I think I once glibly said about Manfred Mann, good, but he's no Herbie Mann, but obviously both Manns (or should that be Menn) made music that I would love and I just hadn't explored enough.
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There's a lot of albums here i really love; but i'll give my vote to an lp that has no votes yet and in my view has cast a long, long shadow of influence on modern electronic music (probably not so much Prog or Rock in general) and that is An Electric Storm by White Noise. Actually its a record i have a bit of a love/hate relationship with but Delia Derbyshire and David Vorhaus created something truly groundbreaking and unsettling.. and i am a huge fan of Delia Derbyshire's work with the BBC radiophonic workshop!

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Great poll and impossible to choose only one!!

King crimson, Zappa, Beatles, Miles and East Of Eden are paradigmatic and amazing albums!!

Another great one, Touch - "Touch"
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I hugely enjoyed the Manfred Mann track you posted, very much up my alley as one would expect.  I checked out some of Moody Blues album and was really enjoying that too (will listen in full later for sure as well as to more Manfred Mann.  I think I once glibly said about Manfred Mann, good, but he's no Herbie Mann, but obviously both Manns (or should that be Menn) made music that I would love and I just hadn't explored enough.
:D -I'm glad you enjoyed it! I find that track highly addictive. It has this free flowing, but steady groove that just seem to happen - and keeps plodding along magnificently. Like it's made on the spot (but probably isn't). I don't know what I'm talking about... I think you can look forward to the "epic" Happy Being Me as well. Great fun!

-I have a soft spot for the Moodies to begin with. And when I get space sounds instead of the "Light Orchestral Music interludes" on Days of Future Passed - I'm sold.
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ITCOTCK, Abbey Road, Sea Shanties, Santana, Arzachel and Mercator Projected are my picks here. Add also Ummagumma.
Nice to see Os Mutantes, but I prefer their later albums "A" e o "Z" and Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol.
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3 lps on the list I don't own but have heard,,,,,, but I chose ITCOTCK.....even though it might be an obvous choice that LP made a huge impression on me when I first heard it in April of 1970.....6 months after it's release.
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Abbey Road and Uncle Meat.
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From the list Led Zep II as it's just a great album and 'progressive' within the Heavy Blues Rock scene (well they practically invented it!).

I may have voted for The Nice s/t album if it had been an option. Its a bit of a 'cheat' as only the first half was new studio material but it's a strong album nevertheless if not as innovative as their previous two albums.

 
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You're killing me here!  Trout Mask Replica v Mercator Projected v Joy of a Toy v Phallus Dei?  And those were just the ones that I surely could have happily voted for if Soft Machine Two hadn't been up there.  The 7/4 rhythm on side 2 alone clinches it for the Softs.  To clarify, I voted for Soft Machine.
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Zeppelin II, followed by their debut, Zappa, Santana and Terry Riley. 
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