A rather abitrary list of 60s albums in PA

Olape wrote: The usual suspects are ITCOTCK, Are you experienced, A Sacuceful of secrets, The Doors and Revolver. I voted for three personal favorites: East of Eden, Family and The United States of America.

Interesting, I wrote before that I was going to vote for those same three, but then excised it from my vote as I felt I also wanted to vote for Pentangle's and Arzachel. Now I recall that I set it up so that I am permitted by the guidelines I wrote to vote for more than three options if I or anyone do so choose. EDIT: gave those a vote but would like to vote for most here (not surprising as these are all my choices even if rather arbitrarily chosen from albums I know and like).

While I included ItCotCK, actually it's not one of my favourite KC releases. I prefer the 1970 to 1974 period. And while In the Wake of Poseidon gets accused by some as being too much like In the Court, and I've heard it called a rip-off of the debut, I considerably prefer it to In the Court of the Crimson King. Lizard, Islands, Larks' Tongues in Aspic and Red are magnificent to me. Unlike many, I am not into Discipline.

Edited by Logan - March 27 2024 at 14:12

1) King Crimson
2) Hendrix
3) Santana

KC, Jimi, Beatles, Santana, Zappa...

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Santana fanboy (apart from the numerous songs with guest singers, I bypass all those like I avoid traffic jams). The 1969 self-titled album is the birth of the Latin rock subgenre and thus is exceedingly important.

Of course, I also love Crimson, Jimi and Miles!

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

^^ I like High Tide a lot, and I adore Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis. Ribeiro actually came to mind, I recall, and then somehow managed to slip out of it.   Moody Blues I should return to, not heard it in many years. Listening now to Music Emporium. As for David Axelrod, I considerably preferred Innocence to Experience. I have not listened to Experience for many years, but I found Innocence more elegant, interesting and beautiful in its way as I recall.

Edited by Logan - March 23 2024 at 02:38

Logan wrote: I regretted not including Jethro Tull's Stand Up right after posting.

Yes, that and Benefit are my Tull-favorites. Wonderful from start to finish. Other than that I would probably have found a place for:

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
Miles Davis- In A Silent Way
Can- Monster Movie
Pink Floyd- A Saucerful Of Secrets
King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King
Amon Duul II- Phallus Dei
Santana- s/t

Such a great list of not just amazing albums but some ground breaking stuff here too that makes this hard. Just went with some favourites. But these seven stand out from the crowd.

Logan wrote: I regretted not including Jethro Tull's Stand Up right after posting. Grumpyprogfan wrote: Giving all three votes to Jimi. When I asked people to vote for three (or more, or less), I meant vote for three albums, not one album three times... As I expect people would infer.... Still, surprised not see Zappa get some recognition from you. Frequent posters at PA still manage to surprise me.

Surprise! Yeah I knew what you meant but Jimi deserved three.

Besides "Peaches," I'm not a fan of Hot Rats. The Grand Wazoo is much better.