1967 and the Prog-Rock Progenitors |
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Dean
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 05:40 | |
While Arthur Brown is mentioned a lot in the article he is not in the list because his album didn't hit the shelves until '68, there were a number of singles released in 1967 that I feel were more relevant than most of the albums listed, especially by bands like The Small Faces, The Move, Soft Machine, Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, Tintern Abbey, The Yardbirds, The Smoke, Giles, Giles & Fripp, Tommorow, The Idle Race, Family, The Gods, etc. since while Prog was a predominately an album-based genre, it was the one-off psychedelic rock single that spored it - after all, people actually bought The Crazy World of Arthur Brown album because of (and perhaps only for) Fire.
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Stool Man
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 06:25 | |
1967 was a very important year for albums in general - In 1966 popular music was dominated by singles, and in 1968 it was dominated by albums. 1967 was the year we switched from singles-led to albums-led
I voted Piper, of course, but if it hadn't been there I would have voted Pepper
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Argonaught
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 07:03 | |
It's Pepper or Piper for me
Pepper is very diverse and tasteful (as any post-1963 albums by the Fab Four). The Beatles did have a firmer control over the flow of the music, and were able to balance the "surrealistic vs. nonsensical" and the "psychedelia vs. cacophony" equation in a more masterful way than Sid Barrett's group (that what eventually evolved into Pink Floyd). I do like Jimi Hendrix, certainly The Moody Blues, JA and some others from the list, but with reservations. |
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someone_else
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 07:24 | |
Many worthy candidates here, but Velvet Underground beats them all.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 07:39 | |
Poor ol The Who......
I really like Sell Out - and I love this picture of Daltrey:
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jude111
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 08:57 | |
Very well put. I find a lot of American music criticism to be incredibly Americentric. I just read Spin Magazine's online review of the new Bowie album; it so skewered from an American perspective that it's downright offensive. [http://www.spin.com/reviews/david-bowie-the-next-day-columbia-iso]
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KingCrInuYasha
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 13:16 | |
It's possible. I think Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy had a similar release pattern, albeit with more convoluted circumstances than Emerlist Davjack. |
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 20:26 | |
^ I don't trust rock biographies for accuracy any more than I do someone sitting next to me at a concert
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Jonathan
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 20:53 | |
They'll exclude that album but yet they'll put a Non-Prog Album like "The Velvet Underground and Nico"?
Lists these days.
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jude111
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 21:35 | |
Read my first post, to see why it's not on this poll. Having said that, I agree that it should be. Concerning VU & Nico, Nick Mason has some really interesting things to say about it his book "Inside Out." He writes how at the time, Floyd members heard about this new psychedelic music coming from America. It was exciting to read about, and it fueled their imaginations about what's possible in music. They waited breathlessly for the albums to come to England - Big Brother (Janis Joplin), Jefferson Airplane, the Doors. When the albums finally arrived, they were extremely disappointed. This wasn't the radical, far out sounds they imagined - it was just recycled bluesy bar music. Pretty tame stuff. However, there was one album that they loved, one album that they found truly out there: VU & Nico. The Velvet Underground were an almost Germanic type band (e.g. Can), in that they weren't interested in being virtuosos. What a line-up! A nice hybrid, between British classically-trained avant-gardist John Cale, German chaunteuse Nico, the primal drums of Sterling Morrison, and Lou Reed's post-electric-Dylan NYC electric folk strummings and Beat lyrics. With Andy Warhol guiding them. I think they are totally prog progenitors, particularly to bands like early Floyd and many German rock bands. White Light/White Heat even more so. Unfortunately, once Cale was gone, the band became something else, and no longer Continental.
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KingCrInuYasha
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 22:39 | |
Interesting. I've always had my suspicions - I've read that Peter Jenner and Andrew King wanted to bring the Velvets' first album into the UK, but went to work with Pink Floyd at the last minute - but I've never heard any confirmations from anyone from the band until now. |
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jude111
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 22:54 | |
I just hope it's accurate and I didn't get anything wrong - it's been a few years since I read it, and I don't have the book here with me. |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 23:08 | |
From this list...Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
But there's a terrible omision: Far more Prog and transcendental than any of the mentioned IMO. Iván
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 23:18 | |
I have a treasured copy of the 1967 British release. If I'm not wrong , this is the British cover The one in my previous post is the 1968 Columbia USA cover Iván
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 10 2013 at 23:49 | |
Just as I suspected.
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kit-kat
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Posted: March 11 2013 at 03:17 | |
I can't vote yet, but VU & Nico would be my pick without a doubt.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 00:43 | |
The Doors debut, followed closely by Velvet Underground.
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dr wu23
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 11:41 | |
Chose the Beatles...Sgt Pepper......couldn't vote in the poll for some reason.
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Larree
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 11:53 | |
What about Tangerine Dream - Kaleidoscope?
And what about my favorite album from 1967, Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body? A lot of good music in 1967!
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Larree
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 11:56 | |
I voted for the Moody Blues.
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