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    Posted: August 30 2005 at 07:35

As a companion piece to the 1970s thread, I think it would be interesting to see what albums people list as the most important 60s ones. Here's my faves:

1- In The Court Of The Crimson King- KING CRIMSON: one of the most influential albums ever made in prog- very few prog bands that emerged in the 1970s didn't cite this grandiose masterwork as an influence.

2- Highway 61 Revisited- BOB DYLAN: one of the first rock albums that didn't contain any filler whatsoever- just 9 sublime tracks of lyrical and musical brilliance.

3- Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- THE BEATLES: to be honest, any Beatles album from 'Rubber Soul' through to 'Abbey Road' could be included, but this was the one where the whole psychedelic boom became really big, and the mainstream world became fully aware of a new counter culture. It remains one of the best produced albums ever made, too.

4- Pet Sounds: THE BEACH BOYS: another pioneering album, which featured perhaps the most ambitious arrangements in pop music ever conceived at the time.

5- The Who Sell Out-THE WHO: a brilliant album, and a fascianting snapshot of the 1960s ethos, with parodies of radio jingles and songs of varying genres.

6- Oddesey And Oracle- THE ZOMBIES: one of the most underrated albums in rock, as it featured beautifully elegant pop tunes with complex arrangements, featuring swathes of mellotrons and organs, with utterly sublime harmonies.

7- Trout Mask Replica- CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: still a fascinating album, as it is incredibly hard to label under any specific genre. It also met with commercial success, which is incredible to believe considering how wilfully uncommercial this album is.

8- Hot Rats- FRANK ZAPPA: a pioneering album in the jazz rock/fusion genre, as unlike previous projects in the genre, it met with massive commercial success, due to its wonderfully intricate musicianship.

9- Beggar's Banquet- THE ROLLING STONES: after some ill advised attempts to ride the psychedelic bandwagon, this album did the potentially disastrous step of stripping down the Stones to the basics during the psychedelic 60s- instead, it was probably their best album and showed the band at their best- it also influenced a whole genre of roots rock music that would soon emerge.(Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Flying Burrito Brothers)

10- The Notorious Byrd Brothers- THE BYRDS: an astonishing opus, that features some hugely ambitious production effects and the pioneering use of the moog synthesiser on a rock album.

11- From Elvis In Memphis- ELVIS PRESLEY: perhaps the most astonishing comeback in rock, and by far Elvis' best album ever- after years of poor soundtracks scattered with poor novelty songs and leftovers, this showcased a man singing his heart out to save his career.

12- The Gilded Palace Of Sin- THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: a pioneering album in country rock, and if not the first, it remains the best.

13- Led Zeppelin- LED ZEPPELIN: this is still a towering album, and must have been astonishingly heavy in 1968, when it was first released.

14- Electric Ladyland- THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE: one of the early double rock albums, and showcased Hendrix's superb skill and ambition better than any other album.

15- Spooky Two- SPOOKY TOOTH: this remains a touchstone album, as it fused the rootsiness of The Band, the looseness of Traffic and the heavy rock of Vanilla Fudge seamlessly, to make an album that influenced a plethora of 70s bands.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:37

"Piper at The Gates of Dawn" by PINK FLOYD

"Are You Experienced?" by THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE

1st album by THE DOORS

"Undercurrent" by EVANS & HALL

"Book of Taliesyn" by DEEP PURPLE

"Disraeli Gears" by CREAM

Perhaps some MILES DAVIS album too?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2005 at 11:45

somethings of sergio mendes & brasil 66

ummhhh........FREE JAZZ-ORNETTE COLEMAN DOUBLE QUARTET

revolver -beatles

axis:bold as love-jimi hendrix

we`re  only in it for the money-zappa

por que el sol no es de mitad y la otra mitad de aquella mitad??
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2005 at 13:42

Originally posted by basurero de pie basurero de pie wrote:

FREE JAZZ-ORNETTE COLEMAN DOUBLE QUARTET

YES!  That's truly an important album. That presented full free improvisation as music. You should remember this LP, when you dig at Wetton-era KING CRIMSON improvisations.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2005 at 14:52
Days of Future Passed-The Moody Blues
I'll see you on the Darkside of the moon...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2005 at 00:15
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2005 at 00:32
Soft Machine-s/t

A milestone in progressive music, especially canterbury
"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2005 at 09:43
It came out in 1970, but Spirit's Twelve Dreams of Dr.
Sardonicus is the culmination of American
psychedelia. It's soooo tasty.

And SF Sorrow by the Pretty Things should at least
have an honourable mention on your list. It's really
been overlooked.

And...the greatest album of the 60s....Liege and Lief
by Fairport Convention. If you're British and you
haven't heard it, shame on you!
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And all the rest is just bullsh*t
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2005 at 16:16

Originally posted by Heptade Heptade wrote:

It came out in 1970, but Spirit's Twelve Dreams of Dr.
Sardonicus is the culmination of American
psychedelia. It's soooo tasty.

And SF Sorrow by the Pretty Things should at least
have an honourable mention on your list. It's really
been overlooked.

And...the greatest album of the 60s....Liege and Lief
by Fairport Convention. If you're British and you
haven't heard it, shame on you!

Yes, I have all of those brilliant albums, and for the latter two I made an error by missing them out. I also should have included 'Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton'.

I would have put Spirit's 1968 debut- I can hear the sound of prog emerging in songs like 'Fresh Garbage' and 'Topanga Windows'.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2005 at 16:38
Yeah, the first Spirit album is also a good one. The
next two are a little too blues-based for me, but 12
Dreams is perfect.

I also love the Notorious Byrd Brothers...the
production is brilliant.
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And all the rest is just bullsh*t
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2005 at 17:37
Actually, while I'm at it, this is the space to put in a
plug for couple more 60s obscurities that deserve
more.

Begin by the Millenium is an astonishing album of
"sunshine" pop, or Beach Boysy psychedelia. The
group was a studio project by a bunch of LA
musicians, released I think in 1969. The vocal
arrangements are past incredible. I have a hard time
believing this couldn't find an audience at the time.

The self titled album by Eclection is also amazing.
This group was the London competition to pre-folk
Fairport in the Jefferson Airplane sound-alike
sweepstakes. This album has some of the best
psych-pop melodies I've heard, shrouded in gauzy
waves of reverby vocal harmonies. It's not written
about favourably very often, which I don't get at all. It's
a beautiful album.

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And all the rest is just bullsh*t
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2005 at 23:57
Traffic - Dear Mr Fantasy
Vanilla Fudge - self titled
Santana - debut
The Band - 2nd album self titled
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
CCR - Born On The Bayou
Velvet Underground - with Nico

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2005 at 15:23

It depends what you mean by important, i.e. important in the sense of how influenced music for the subsequnt years or imporatnt to you as a listener? I have no prblems with any of the great records mentioned so far, i am just adding to the list...

Love 'Forever Changes', The Doors, 'Strange Days', Jefferson Aipplane 'After Bathing at Baxters' (Their real acid classic, the acid guitar and the harmonies contrast beautifully-so much more inventive than 'Surrealist Pillow', which I see as a transitional album in any case); Both lbums by Hp Lovecraft, but especially the HP Lovecraft II, and in a similar vein, Mad River's eponymous debut, all dark US Psych-not a flower in sight!!!

Can't remember if Miles Davis 'Bitches Brew' is 1969 or 70, does 1970 count as the sixties (like for Spirit 'Twelve dreams...'

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 17:31
Sgt Peppers and Pet Sounds were the two most important, but that's just my opinion.
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