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Poll Question: Pick one from the year before ITCOTCK.
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    Posted: February 18 2019 at 15:33
The most imortant album of 1968 from the perspective of psych, prog, contemporary folk and underground music.... I say most important... but it could also be your favourite ;)    

I know, I know, I know that several bands released 2 albums in 68.  I tell you what though, I could easily do a part 2 of this. 

I know The White Album and Electric Ladyland aren't included. Instead I included some more interesting albums from a psych-prog perspective e.g. A Beacon From Mars by Kaleidoscope and the self-titled The United States of America and The Electric Prunes Mass in F Minor.  

Side question - how many do you physically own on MC, LP or CD?   I've got most of them on some format. And I voted for Pentangle.  Fairport Convention would be my No. 2 and The Kinks my No. 3.     


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I have most of these...and I'm a massive Tull appreciator...but The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks is one of my all time favourite albums. I just bought the 50th anniversary box set; an extremely impressive package.
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Pentangle.


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Soft Machine is probably not the most important, but for me the most enjoyable. (Kudos for including Silver Appleas - nice one!)
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

(Kudos for including Silver Appleas - nice one!)
 

Thanks and yea, whatever happened to them? It was a great album.
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Great list - not familiar with all of them though.
Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a fond fave from ‘68.
Quicksilver from this list for me.
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Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

(Kudos for including Silver Appleas - nice one!)
 

Thanks and yea, whatever happened to them? It was a great album.
they came back with a couple of albums in the 90s. Pretty good ones, too.
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Great list - not familiar with all of them though.
Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a fond fave from ‘68.
Quicksilver from this list for me.
 

How the feck did I miss Arthur Brown? Sorry! That was not intentional.  


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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

they came back with a couple of albums in the 90s. Pretty good ones, too.
 


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Really hard to pick justone. I’m trying to resist just picking a favorite, and trying to judge which album moved music forward the most for its time (my current definition of “important” for the sake of this poll). I think a lot of albums here did it fairly equally but in different directions. Leaning towards the Soft Machine, the Nice (though their debut was equally forward-looking), and maybe Procol Harum (ditto).
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Quote In the same kind of style?

Pretty much. “Beacon” even reprises a couple of songs from their 1st 2 albums. I think it’s definitely worthwhile. But “ Decatur” is an album-length improvisation, which is not something they’d tried on album before. It’s okay.
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Wheels of Fire easly by Cream

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Quick answer, I own 20 of these on vinyl and also on CD (to spare the vinyl).  And am familiar with all of them.  Oh, so hard to narrow down to one!!!!!
I have to think about "most important."  Also, Spirit and The Buffalo Springfield are missing.  But I do like that The Kaleidoscope are here.  
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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

Also, Spirit and The Buffalo Springfield are missing.

No, they're not missing, I chose not to include them, I chose the 25 that you can see in the list. However, even in a part 2, I wouldn't include the country rock of Buffalo Springfield, just as I wouldn't include The Byrds, Dylan, Donovan, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson or Neil Young etc. but I would include both Spirit albums from 1968 in a part 2. I initially had Spirit in the list but it had to give way for something psychier and proggier. Big smile Big smile Big smile


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Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Great list - not familiar with all of them though.
Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a fond fave from ‘68.
Quicksilver from this list for me.
 

How the feck did I miss Arthur Brown? Sorry! That was not intentional.  

I'd certainly vote The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.
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I can already feel a part 2 coming on.
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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

I have to think about "most important." 

Yeah it depends on what standard of 'important' one is considering, e.g. the Harum was certainly important for large scale impact as the Nice was on musicians and prog as a style.
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I think the album that had the most impact worldwide would have to be Cream's.  And I love so many of these bands for so many different reasons.  I would have to agree with you, David, I think I will have to vote for Procol Harum's as being important in the sense of they way that they blended so many styles.  Most of these bands did, but they were so freaking elegant.  

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