Always glad to see newish fans of S.F. Sorrow, an all-time fave. I started with a CD compilation of their earlier stuff in '91, learned that Dick Taylor was originally in the Stones. Along with S.F. Sorrow, be sure to get Parachute (1970), nearly as great, some similarities with Abbey Road, also recorded at Abbey Road. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul Small Faces - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society Free - Tons Of Sobs The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland The Beatles - The Beatles Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now Blue Cheer - Outsideinside Traffic - Traffic Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly Gun - Gun Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Strictly Personal The Millennium - Begin The Move - Move Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun July - July Tomorrow - Tomorrow Clarence Carter - This Is Clarence Carter The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet Anthony Braxton - For Alto The Sonny Criss Orchestra - Sonny’s Dream (Birth of the New Cool) Spooky Tooth - It’s All About Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso Dr. John The Night Tripper - Gris-Gris Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil
A really great list/video of 20 quality albums for sure!!! My list would maybe look like: 1.The Beatles: The White Album 2.Bobby Darin: Born Walden Robert Cassotto 3.Tom Rush: The Circle Game 4.Laura Nyro: Eli And The Thirteenth Confession 5.The Fugs: It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest 6.Scott Fagan: South Atlantic Blues 7.Procol Harum: Shine On Brightly 8.Jackie DeShannon: Laurel Canyon 9.Eclection: Eclection 10.Donovan: A Gift From A Flower To A Garden 11.Ivory: Ivory 12.The Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow 13.James Taylor: The Apple Album 14.The Kinks: Are The Village Green Preservation Society 15.Skip Bifferty: Skip Bifferty 16The Liverpool Scene: "Amazing Adventures Of" 17Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland 18.Nick Garrie: The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas 19.Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake 20.Lee Michaels: Recitals (21.July: July)
"A rose for Emily", "Beechwood park", "Brief candles", "Time of the season"......Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies is an absolute masterpiece released in 1968 ! Number 21 ?
My Favorite Albums From 1968: 01 - THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (The United States Of America) 02 - ELECTRIC LADYLAND (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) 03 - CROWN OF CREATION (Jefferson Airplane) 04 - WAITING FOR THE SUN (The Doors) 05 - SPIRIT (Spirit) 06 - IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA (Iron Butterfly) 07 - RENAISSANCE (Vanilla Fudge) 08 - JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIND (The Amboy Dukes) 09 - BEHOLD AND SEE (Ultimate Spinach) 10 - CHEAP THRILLS (Big Brother And The Holding Company) 11 - WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT (The Velvet Underground) 12 - TENDERNESS JUNCTION (The Fugs) 13 - THE NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS (The Byrds) 14 - WOW (Moby Grape) 15 - SILVER APPLES (Silver Apples) 16 - ANTHEM OF THE SUN (Grateful Dead) 17 - REALIZATION (Johnny Rivers) 18 - OUTSIDEINSIDE (Blue Cheer) 19 - HAIR (Original Broadway Cast) 20 - MAD RIVER (Mad River)
The Kinks album is your number one favorite album of 1968, and yet it is your eighth favorite Kinks album! I get it. When you are confronted with the greatest songwriter of all time, Ray Davies, you expect to have an enormity of great albums.
My favourite year for psychedelic music for sure!!! 20 THE YANKEE DOLLAR 19 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 18 THE FREEBORNE-PEAK IMPRESSIONS 17 THE DOORS-WAITING FOR THE SUN 16 THE GROWING CONCERN 15 THE SMOKE (USA) 14 SAGITTARIUS-PRESENT TENSE 13 THE MILLENNIUM-…BEGIN 12 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-CROWN OF CREATION 11 GRATEFUL DEAD-ANTHEM OF THE SUN 10 THE BEATLES-WHITE ALBUM 9 THE OUTSIDERS-CQ 8 THE CONSTANT SOUND 7 THE BRAIN POLICE 6 JIMI HENDRIX EXP-ELECTRIC LADYLAND 5 THE ZOMBIES-ODESSEY AND ORACLE 4 ULTIMATE SPINACH 3 ULTIMATE SPINACH-BEHOLD AND SEE 2 FLAT EARTH SOCIETY-WALEECO 1 FRONT PAGE REVIEW-MYSTIC SOLDIERS Difficult to choose… Great video!!! PEACE ☮️☮️✌️✌️✌️🎶🎶🎶
Oh man, those are some killer titles that you list there. Every one of those is pretty great. I, in particular, love The Freeborne, Flat Earth Society and Odessey and Oracle.
Missing: Odessey and Oracle--the Zombies We're Only In it For The Money--the Mothers of Invention Nefertiti--Miles Davis The Family That Plays Together--Spirit Fairport Convention The Thoughts of Emerlist DavJack--the Nice Horizontal--Bee Gees In Search Of The Lost Chord--the Moody Blues Anthem of the Sun--the Grateful Dead White Light/White Heat--the Velvet Underground Guess l better stop now. Your list is great. There's just too MANY of 'em...
Shine On Brightly (Procol Harum) is an interesting choice ! My 20 favorite 1968 albums (only in english and in alphabetical order) : - The Association - Birthday - The Beach Boys - Friends - The Buckinghams - Portraits - Collins, Judy - Wildflowers - The Cryan' Shames - A Scratch In The Sky - The Eighth Day - On The Eighth Day - The Eternity's Children - (self-titled album) - The Eyes Of Blue - Crossroads Of Time - The Fifth Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic - The Fun And Games - Elephant Candy - Giles, Giles & Fripp - The Cheerful Insanity Of - The Love Generation - Montage - The Moody Blues - In Search Of the Lost Chord - Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets - The Raiders - Something Happening - Ryan, Barry - Sings Paul Ryan - Sagittarius - Present tense - Stevens, Ray - Even Stevens - The Strawberry Alarm Clock - The World In A Sea Shell - Valli, Frankie - Timeless
Ray Stevens is an odd choice. But I agree he made some great novelty records as well as a few better known serious sounding ones. Frankie Valli, underrated as a soloist, but recorded the originals of Proud One, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine, and of course Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.
AH, '68 I was 17. Some call this year as the greatest in rock history. Late at night at the Fillmore East seeing the Moody Blues and an outrageous Lee Michaels wailing out on "Stormy Monday." I wore the grooves out of "Truth" with Rod Stewart, especially on "I Don't Know Much About Love." We took acid and listened to "Electric Ladyland," all 4 sides followed by "Shine on Brightly." WHEW! What a year. Rev. MLK, Jr. and RFK assassinated that year and all major cities were on fire. On top of all that, my fav "Beggar's Banquet" and the White album. My mind was officially boggled that year.
Great shout about SF Sorrow, Notorious Byrd Brothers and Village Green🎉 However I do miss the first Quicksilver Messenger Service, Anthem of the Sun by the Dead, the 2nd Traffic and the glorious In-a-gadda-da-vida album by Iron Butterfly, possibly the most played album of that year😂. Those 4 would have made my Top 10, No 1 was and still is the perfectly haunting "Astral Weeks"❤
I need to get that Lee Michaels. Notorious Byrd Brothers is my favorite by the Byrds and was my four on my top ten video. I had a similar take on Goodnight on my video.
Ha, never understood why they chose Good Night as the closer after Revolution 9. Just bizarre. By the way I’ve been watching your channel the past few years. Great stuff. You have an amazing Psych and Punk collection.
Fantastic job. I've got everything on here except Lee Michael's but bought or discovered them all later so never thought of them as being Albums of 1968! Put in a list it makes a tremendously impressive body of work, the equal of any year in the 70s which I see as the great album decade. Of course my order would be different and I'd want to see Anthem of the Sun, Quicksilver's first and Spirit's The Family that Plays Together on the list but that's all part of the fun.
This channel is like no other. Enjoying the variety across numerous genres. I have one quibble on this trip through 1968. That would be that Jeff Beck's Truth easily deserves top five recognition for the year. I could never get enough of this LP. What a refreshing collection of talent and originality. Producer Mickie Most deserves a nod here, too, for taming things down and getting most out of this All-Star cast.
Really like this. Some interesting choices, and I agree......Village Green, Notorious Byrd Brothers, Procol Harum, Jimi. I would have included Wheels of Fire around #12 and cut The White Album down to a single disc’s worth of tracks and had it at maybe #7. I would have had Donovan in there somewhere.....was Barabajagal in ‘67? So would have to be A Gift From A Flower to A Garden. 18 in ‘68 and I have 18 of these albums still. But really well done by someone who was there clearly. Thank you.
It's the first and only "Beatles" LP that includes their HUMOR. During the two weeks before it was released the entirety of the LP, all four sides, was played without interruption, every week night, on a mega-power FM radio station. Then during the weekends it was all "Beatles" including this. "The Beatles" were LARGE, which is bigger than HUGE. They never peaked, continued to become ever more massive until they broke up. Ya had to be there. And if I could I'd be there again.
I love the song 'Good Night'. I used to sing this beautiful lullaby to my daughter at bedtime. It was produced by George Martin in exactly the way that John Lennon requested it to be done. To me it is one of the special songs which like the recording that immediately precedes it, 'Revolution 9', showcases The Beatles ability to write and willingness to record music of so many different genres. We gain so much more insight into them because they included what would be considered non-commercial (even bizarre) tracks on their albums.
Also: THE MAZE-ARMAGEDDON ILL WIND-FLASHES MAD RIVER PHLUPH STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK-WAKE UP… IT’S TOMORROW in my opinion, the greatest psych pop album came out from the States!!! 1968 MY FAVOURITE YEAR FOR PSYCHEDELIC ROCK🎸🎸✌️✌️✌️🎶🎶☮️☮️☮️
I enjoy all your videos, but I never see you honoring Jethro Tulls “Stand up.” To my mind and my time their best ever. I know later albums got more press and celebration. But the arrangements and guitar playing, song structure of that record is a built in time machine that just takes me back better than almost any other.
I do like early Tull. Benefit, Stand Up, This Was, just never been a huge fan. I love various songs off other albums like Skating Away off War Child and Mother Goose, Wondring Aloud off Aqualung.
S. F Sorrows es posiblemente para mi, Top 5 en la historia! Y coincido contigo, la mejor etapa de Janis Joplin es con The Holding Compani. Perdón por mis faltas de ortografia! No sé el ingles y no quiero hacer ruidos ya que Son las 6am. en Argentina. Me encanta tu canal. Saludos Amigo! 🇦🇷❤💪💪💪🤘🤘🤘🎸🎤🎼🎼
Missing a lot of psych titles like "In Search Of The Lost Chord," "Odessey And Oracle," "Quicksilver Messenger Service," "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, "Wake Up...It's Tomorrow," "Saucerful Of Secrets," etc.
The American federation of music banned the Kinks from touring the U.S. for 4 years right during the British Invasion. That had a huge impact on there commercial success.
It makes me wonder what direction The Kinks would have gone had it not been for that ban. It’s interesting those albums released between 66-69 have now been discovered by subsequent generations and have received high praise.
I was surprised you made The Kinks album number one. But I agree it was a superb album, although not issued in the States until early the following year. It was the last of my three favorite albums in a row of theirs, the other two being Face To Face, and Something Else. It was never deemed as very relevant at the time, as it was not really what was happening at the time when we were entering this new era when Psychedelia was morphing into Progressive Rock. But like so many other sixties bands and albums, it wasn't until years later when there were revivals of these past decades that sixties collectors suddenly realized what a good album it was, likewise The Pretty Things album. But on that album, The Pretty Things shared Pink Floyd's then-producer Norman Smith who went on to have a few MOR hits during the early seventies as Hurricane Smith. Aretha Franklin's Lady Soul album was the second in a row of my two favorite albums of hers, the other being her last previous album Aretha Arrives. This album was her third album to be recorded in 1967, but this was not issued until early 1968. It featured guitarist Eric Clapton on one track, Good To Me As I Am To You. But you should take a listen to her Songs Of Faith album, originally issued on the Chess label, containing live performances that she recorded in her father's church back in 1956 when she was 14, but had a mighty mature voice for that age, although you can tell her approximate age then on certain notes. It was reissued on CD as Aretha Gospel. The Jimi Hendrix track you mentioned The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp had already been issued as a single in the UK. But it was recorded in the States, and featured The Sweet Inspiration on backing vocals, one of whom was Cissy Houston. They were by then Aretha's backing vocalists. When reading your favorite tracks on Bookends, I'm surprised you did not mention Voices Of Old People. Finally, that last track you mentioned on that Beatles' double album featured The Mike Sammes Singers on backing vocals, although they may not have been heard of in the States. Paul McCartney was the only Beatle to sing on it. The Small Faces were unheard of in the States back in the sixties, apart from their one-off U.S. Top 20 hit with Itchycoo Park. But they were huge in the UK. But I assume it wasn't until decades later that sixties collectors in the States suddenly discovered them, and suddenly realized what a great band they were. I am surprised there was no mention of The Moody Blues' In Search Of The Lost Chord, and the studio half of Cream's Wheels Of Fire. But otherwise a good selection.
20 - Buffalo Springfield - Last Time Around 19 - Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation 18 - The Monkees - Head 17 - The Beach Boys - Friends 16 - Big Brother and The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills 15 - The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat 14 - The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo 13 - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 12 - Cream - Wheels Of Fire 11 - The Doors - Waiting For The Sun 10 - The Band - Music From Big Pink 9 - Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison 8 - The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle 7 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends 6 - Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagull 5 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 4 - Vince Guaraldi - Oh, Good Grief! 3 - The Beatles - The Beatles 2 - The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society 1 - The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Personally, that year, The Mamas and the Papas released their self-titled album, The Mamas and the Papas , my favorite album that had some of the best vocals ever from Mama Cass. And yes, that song is on it, the one John Phillips hated, which is it's best known song
I believe you're referring to 'The Papas and the Mamas' album, released in 1968? Is "that song" you mention "Dream a Little Dream of Me?" That song was a hit for Ozzy Nelson in 1931. I didn't know John Philips hated it, but it was perfect for Cass.
So many great albums from 1968, great picks ! Didn't Lee Michaels release at least six albums? Or are you saying he released three albums in 1968? I'm with you on "Good Night." The deluxe tracks reveal that Lennon used the same finger-picking pattern Donovan taught him in India on at least four different songs, the most surprising being Good Night.
The Byrds recorded "Triad" potentially for The Notorious Byrd Brothers. "Wasn't Born to Follow" was also a song that precipitated Crosby's exit. He argued about them doing covers.
1968 was maybe THE year of the album, it had just been established as a valid artistic medium by the audience and the business itself, the onus was on the artists to come up with the goods after the effect of "Pepper". Excellent choices here, I was 9 that year but heard "The Beatles" (White album), S&G's "Bookends", Small Faces "Ogden's"", Dylan's "John Wesley Harding", and the Stones' "Beggars Banquet": my parents were in their 30's by then but their ears were on. You'd probably need 30 or 40 albums to do the year justice, so I might add Cream's "Wheels of Fire", Steve Miller Band's "Children of the Future" and "Sailor", John Mayall's "Bare Wires" and "Blues from Laurel Canyon": it was a productive year, Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude", Dusty Springfield's "Dusty in Memphis" (greatest white soul record ever made), Tom Rush' "Circle Game"(kickstarted the singer songwriter genre of the 70's along with Tim Buckley's "Happy/Sad", Joni Mitchell's debut, Neil Young's solo debut), Dr.John's "Gris Gris", Canned Heat's "Livin' the Blues", Pentangle's "Sweet Child", "Jethro Tull's "This Was", Sly&The Family Stone's "Whole New Thing", and after all that I'll sneak in Led Zep's debut (wasn't released til' January 6th '69 but was made in September 68)
Great choices on your end. Neil Young’s debut is very underrated. Tim Buckley’s Happy Sad is fantastic. I believe it was recorded in ‘68, but released in ‘69. I need to pick up Gris Gris by Dr John. Never heard it in its entirety. Pentangle is another great act. I’m a big fan of Bert Jansch. Thanks for watching. 😉
Deseo tener esos discos de Jefferson Airplane!!! No los encuentro en ningún lado. Y la economia aquí esta muy mal para encargarlos importados. 😡😡😭😭🇦🇷👌👌👌
Laura Nyro's revolutionary Eli and the Thirteenth Confession was the album that obsessed the music industry in 1968 - " it blew everybody's mind " Todd Rundgren. It is probably the most influential songwriting album in contemporary music. Nyro "probably influenced more successful songwriters than anyone " Elton John 2007.
Tengo todo de Small Faces 😀 y Song off Backer es de otra galaxia!!! Hay un video que la hacen en la TV BRITANICA donde Steve Marriot me dejó pasmado con su Carisma. 💣💣💣💥. El Album Blanco de The Beatles eclipsó a Village Green Resevations de The Kinks (disco fantástico) porque fueron lanzados la misma semana adrede por parte de The Kinks. Con el tiempo Ray Davis dijo que fué eclipsado por White Album, no por eso, sinó porque su disco era malo y sonaba a Demos. 🤔🤔🤔
@@tomrobinson5776 it's Jimmy Webb sung by Harris. (I'm sure you know MacArthur Park 😄) Not rock in any way, more like chanson-pop, Idk. (btw Dunhill Records is one fire label. Lou Adler is lowkey a cult figure) Yr channel is 💎a treasure trove! Thank you
You never seem to include any Moody blues albums on these 60s best of videos? In my opinion "in search of the lost chord" is superior to procul harums "shine on brightly" but I understand its YOUR list, but enjoy your videos still👍
I think the white álbum should have closed with "hey Jude" the Coda at the end is much more proper to end a Beatles album. Not to mention the song itself. But they took the desicion to close with goodnight
Had many of those but you're on a hiding to nothing here. My best include Taj Mahal, Dr John 'Gris Gris', Steve Miller 'Sailor', Soft Machine 1st, Boogie with Canned Heat, Spirit's 'Family that plays together', Cream 'Wheels of Fire', The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Fever Tree, H.P. Lovecraft II, Kaleidoscope 'Beacon from Mars', The Electric Flag 'A Long Time Comin'.
How about. Sly and the family Stone, War, Cold Blood, Tower of Power, The Yes album, King Crimson, Roger Mansour former Leslie West Vagrants Drummer drummer R
Nice list, but a few glaring omissions, and a couple misplaced items. I'd rate Crown of Creation over Last Time Around, every day, and I was a fan of BS before the first album hit store shelves. SF Sorrow is the best album by the Pretty Things, but that doesn't stretch their mastery of instruments and song-creation far enough to beat out the competition. Ogden's is a great half-album, sorta like Humble Pie's 1st album, lacking in focus and song-writing. Again, I was a fan, but disappointed greatly, when I pulled off the shrinkwrap and dropped the tone-arm. Cheap Thrills is better than the next six albums on the list, a masterpiece from a band with no songwriters, or musical geniuses (except Janis, whose vocals defined the band). Also, Big Pink is a stunningly great album. The biggest misses, though, are telling: Traffic - The 2nd album (this time openly acknowledging Dave Mason) from Stevie Winwood's band is a tour de force, surprisingly long (40'24"), and eminently engaging, a commentary on the post-Summer of Love world, psychedelia and the way of all things. Not a weak song on it, Traffic is still prominently located on my personal Top 100 Albums of All Time. "I bought a sequined suit from a pearly queen, And she could drink more wine than I'd ever seen. She had some gypsies' blood flowing through her feet, And when the time was right, she said that I would meet My destiny" In Search of the Lost Chord - Arguably the Moodys' best LP, ISotLC set the tone for the band's work. If the first album, the immortal Days of Future Passed, was psychedelically-tinged, Lost Chord was acid-drenched. The House of Four Doors might be the weakest tracks (I & II), but if one is cognizant of the progress of a "trip", one knows of the "plateaus", where sanity seems to have re-asserted itself, only to give way to the next phase. Again, a Top 100 pick, 55 years on. The Word and Om do show their age, but the rest of the album is near-perfect, Legend of a Mind, Voices in the Sky, Best Way to Travel, Visions of Paradise and The Actor, sublime. "Along the coast you'll hear them boast About a light they say that shines so clear So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier" ("Clear" was acid, also referenced by the next band's 1969 LP of the same name) The Family that Plays Together - Spirit's second album delivered on the promise the first LP had hinted at. I played this one til the grooves gave out, still bring it out for a taste of that je ne sais pas combination of sandalwood and patchouli that made 1967 so redolent, the aroma didn't wear off until the dawn of 1970. Pay attention to Silky Sam, Dream Within a Dream, She Smiles, Aren't You Glad, and the hit, I've Got a Line on You. "Stepping off this mortal coil will be my pleasure Giving the gift that giving brings to be my pleasure" Any Day Now - Joan Baez' reading of Bob Dylan's Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word is one of her finest performances on record. The rest of this double-album offering are more songs by Bob. "Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind, Down in the gypsy café with a friend of a friend of mine, Who sat with a baby heavy on her knee, Yet spoke of life most free from slavery, With eyes that showed no trace of misery. A phrase in connection first with she occurred That love is just a four-letter word." For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder was only 18 when he recorded this LP, featuring the title track (stalled at #2, by Marvin Gaye's I Heard It through the Grapevine), a surprisingly mature statement of purpose, plus Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day (#9) "For once in my life, I have someone who needs me, Someone I've needed so long. For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me, Somehow, I know I'll be strong." Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Judy Collins' reading of Sandy Denny's immortal paean to time is probably the most accessible version of the song. Sandy did little more than a demo of the tune, and it is a powerful, if spare, reading. Judy gives it a polish, courtesy of Stephen Stills, Chris Ethridge, James Burton, and Jim Gordon. Stills is all over this record, done before his star soared with the release of the first CSN album a few months later. "Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving, But how can they know, it's time for them to go? Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming, I have no thought of time." Book of Taliesyn - Deep Purple's second album, on Tetragrammaton Records, was a better LP than their first, featuring a remake of the Ike-&-Tina-meet-Phil-Spector mash-up, River Deep Mountain High, with typical DP restraint. None, that is. Still, as a record, it keeps the listener's interest, throughout. "In ages past when spells were cast, In a time of men in steel When a man was taught no special thing It was all done by feel So listen, so learn, so read on You got to turn the page Read the Book of Taliesyn" In the Groove - Marvin Gaye's best studio album until Let's Get It On, three years later, shows the master of smooth soul in fine form, featuring the 7-weeks-at-#1-hit, I Heard It through the Grapevine, plus You, Chained, Some Kind of Wonderful, Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever, and There Goes My Baby. Well worth a listen. Dusty, Definitively - Dusty Springfield had the worst luck, it seemed, never getting the attention her talent deserved. This 1968 album is an example of the problems record labels caused artists, by their A&R approach. If Dusty had a band such as Stills put together for Judy Blue Eyes, she'd have ruled the airwaves. Instead, we have to pick through the best of her massive catalog, for gems. Blues from Laurel Canyon - John Mayall, famed blues shouter and employer of some of Britain's most-fabled guitarists, Eric, Peter, Mick, et al, fired the latest group of Bluesbreakers, and traveled to sunny Southern California, complete with sound effects, to lay down this quirky departure from his normal approach. Walking on Sunset, 2401, Fly Tomorrow, show off Mick Taylor's (soon to be a Rolling Stone) talents. The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band would have a minor hit with (I'm the) Urban Spaceman, a year or so later, but this album collects almost everything people loved about this weird collection of misfits, Dada-ists and escapees from the lunatic asylum. Whatever isn't on this LP was on the previous long-player, Gorilla. We Are Normal, Can Blue Men Sing the Whites, Trouser Press, My Pink Half of the Drainpipe, Rockaliser Baby, if you like the Kinks, you'll love Bonzo Dog! "You who speak to me across the fence Of common sense, How your tomato plant will win a prize. Won't that be nice? And by the way, how's your wife? Your holidays were spent in Spain, You went by train, You'll go again." Boogie with Canned Heart - Canned Heat's best LP, least-boogie-fied outing, the album captures the LA scene in late '68, when speed was becoming the menace it would later turn into nationally. Odyssey and Oracle - the Zombies' final album is frustrating. Not released until after the band had broken up, and never promoted, it represents the group better than their earlier albums, but failed to connect with its audience. Time of the Season is stunning, but the rest of the songs fail to meet its standard, well-written and played, but distant and somehow contrived. The Kinks did it better. TKAtVGPS is a great album, but the White Album and Beggars Banquet are sonically and stylistically better, far more accessible, and less-burdened with English Music Hall histrionics (except Side 4 of the White Album). Notorious Byrd Brothers is good, but suffers from the lack of David Crosby. Astral Weeks is simply the most impressive rebranding of an artist, to date. Van Morrison's work with Them, and the abortive first "solo" album, was lightyears from the majesty of Astral Weeks, Cypress Avenue, The Way Young Lovers Do, and Madame George. For my money, Bookends, Crown of Creation, and Big Pink belong at the top of the list, not the bottom. I saw Lee Michaels three times, enjoyed his performance, but never cared for any of his albums. Live, he was dynamic, on vinyl, not so much. Truth is good, could have been better, but it set the stage for Led Zep. Waiting for the Sun is probably the most frustrating of all the Doors' albums, saddled with a couple of outtakes that should have been dropped, and suffering from Jim's pretensions of poetry (My Wild Love & Yes, The River Knows). It's always been my second-least-favorite Doors' LP.
Odyssey and Oracle was not on my list. I like The Zombies, but the album as a whole has never appealed to me. I do like Care Of Cell 44. Great song, and a few others like Brief Candles, and Beechwood Park. Never been a Moody’s fan. One of the few acts from the 60’s I don’t care for. When I do a list like this it’s personal taste, far from a definitive list. Almost put Traffic in there, but I prefer Mr Fantasy from 67 and John Barleycorn from ‘70 more. Too each his own. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Agreed, I've never seen the Zombies' last LP as the "classic" it's made out to be, and personal taste is, well, personal, to every human I picked up on Stevie at 17, in Europe, 1967, following his career from the earliest Spencer Davis tracks. I've enjoyed (most of) his music, seen him live, in 1967, as part of the SDG, and in 1971 and '72 (Houston and LA), with Traffic. However, Traffic is a more-fully realized album, the songs flowing from one to another. Side Two is nearly perfect, not to detract from Side One, and Roamin' thu' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen is pure pop, long before Nick and Dave started playing together! If you know who I mean. Side One benefits from two songs that have entered the canon, You Can All Join In (shades of All Together Now), and the perennial sing-along, Feelin' Alright. You can't get much better than that. No Mr Fantasy, but plenty to love. As for the Moody's, the 'Sixties would have been a pale shadow without their symphonic essays. Days of Future Passed introduced symphonic rock and widened the definition of music, enriching it indescribably. Rock would have been poorer, their influence on Yes, Crimson, Styx, Uriah, Procol, and many others, indisputable, and irreplaceable. In my opinion, the arc of Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, Threshold of a Dream and To Our Children's Children's Children is essential 'Sixties, patchouli and sandalwood not included.
Amoeba in Hollywood used to have a sizable section of used LP’s for 99 cents. That was in the old location off Sunset Blvd. I believe they still have a 99 cent section in the new location off Hollywood Blvd.
I was 15 when Village Green came out, and here in the sates at least it was really difficult to find, at least for me. None of the local record stores had it and I ended up having to go to Boston, Cambridge actually, to the Harvard Coop. Next to no one listened to the Kinks in 1968. None of my friends did. They were very much like a secret.
The narrator on 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake' was Stanley Unwin, who invented his own absurdist language: 'Unwinese'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Unwin_(comedian)
~What a great year for music! Enjoyed watching . Thanks.
Thanks for watching 😉
Always glad to see newish fans of S.F. Sorrow, an all-time fave. I started with a CD compilation of their earlier stuff in '91, learned that Dick Taylor was originally in the Stones. Along with S.F. Sorrow, be sure to get Parachute (1970), nearly as great, some similarities with Abbey Road, also recorded at Abbey Road.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Small Faces - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Free - Tons Of Sobs
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
The Beatles - The Beatles
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
Blue Cheer - Outsideinside
Traffic - Traffic
Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
Gun - Gun
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Strictly Personal
The Millennium - Begin
The Move - Move
Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun
July - July
Tomorrow - Tomorrow
Clarence Carter - This Is Clarence Carter
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Anthony Braxton - For Alto
The Sonny Criss Orchestra - Sonny’s Dream (Birth of the New Cool)
Spooky Tooth - It’s All About
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso
Dr. John The Night Tripper - Gris-Gris
Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil
I’ll check out Parachute. 😉
Notorious Byrd Brothers is such a great listen: the song, the crystal clear production…so good.
A perfect record.
A really great list/video of 20 quality albums for sure!!! My list would maybe look like:
1.The Beatles: The White Album
2.Bobby Darin: Born Walden Robert Cassotto
3.Tom Rush: The Circle Game
4.Laura Nyro: Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
5.The Fugs: It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
6.Scott Fagan: South Atlantic Blues
7.Procol Harum: Shine On Brightly
8.Jackie DeShannon: Laurel Canyon
9.Eclection: Eclection
10.Donovan: A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
11.Ivory: Ivory
12.The Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow
13.James Taylor: The Apple Album
14.The Kinks: Are The Village Green Preservation Society
15.Skip Bifferty: Skip Bifferty
16The Liverpool Scene: "Amazing Adventures Of"
17Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland
18.Nick Garrie: The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas
19.Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
20.Lee Michaels: Recitals
(21.July: July)
Great list as well. I’ll have to check out that Jackie De Shannon record you mentioned. 😉
1966-1970! I still have 15 of these 1968 albums on vinyl from original purchases in the ‘60s.
Nice!
"A rose for Emily", "Beechwood park", "Brief candles", "Time of the season"......Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies is an absolute masterpiece released in 1968 ! Number 21 ?
Beautiful Choice!!!!!
If Odessey was released in 1968, then yes, I would put it in a tie for number one with The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society.
My Favorite Albums From 1968:
01 - THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (The United States Of America)
02 - ELECTRIC LADYLAND (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
03 - CROWN OF CREATION (Jefferson Airplane)
04 - WAITING FOR THE SUN (The Doors)
05 - SPIRIT (Spirit)
06 - IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA (Iron Butterfly)
07 - RENAISSANCE (Vanilla Fudge)
08 - JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIND (The Amboy Dukes)
09 - BEHOLD AND SEE (Ultimate Spinach)
10 - CHEAP THRILLS (Big Brother And The Holding Company)
11 - WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT (The Velvet Underground)
12 - TENDERNESS JUNCTION (The Fugs)
13 - THE NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS (The Byrds)
14 - WOW (Moby Grape)
15 - SILVER APPLES (Silver Apples)
16 - ANTHEM OF THE SUN (Grateful Dead)
17 - REALIZATION (Johnny Rivers)
18 - OUTSIDEINSIDE (Blue Cheer)
19 - HAIR (Original Broadway Cast)
20 - MAD RIVER (Mad River)
It's a pleasure to watch your videos ! Thanks ! Keep it up ! Сan't wait for 1971....
Thanks 😉
Traffic by Traffic. Surprised that you missed that.. You’re spot on with everything else.
More intrigueing insights on the music that matters to me. ❤
The Kinks album is your number one favorite album of 1968, and yet it is your eighth favorite Kinks album! I get it. When you are confronted with the greatest songwriter of all time, Ray Davies, you expect to have an enormity of great albums.
I have watched a few of your videos on your favourite albums by year. Very knowledgeable and great pacing! Superb content-thanks!
Thank you 😉
My favourite year for psychedelic music for sure!!!
20 THE YANKEE DOLLAR
19 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
18 THE FREEBORNE-PEAK IMPRESSIONS
17 THE DOORS-WAITING FOR THE SUN
16 THE GROWING CONCERN
15 THE SMOKE (USA)
14 SAGITTARIUS-PRESENT TENSE
13 THE MILLENNIUM-…BEGIN
12 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-CROWN OF CREATION
11 GRATEFUL DEAD-ANTHEM OF THE SUN
10 THE BEATLES-WHITE ALBUM
9 THE OUTSIDERS-CQ
8 THE CONSTANT SOUND
7 THE BRAIN POLICE
6 JIMI HENDRIX EXP-ELECTRIC LADYLAND
5 THE ZOMBIES-ODESSEY AND ORACLE
4 ULTIMATE SPINACH
3 ULTIMATE SPINACH-BEHOLD AND SEE
2 FLAT EARTH SOCIETY-WALEECO
1 FRONT PAGE REVIEW-MYSTIC SOLDIERS
Difficult to choose… Great video!!! PEACE ☮️☮️✌️✌️✌️🎶🎶🎶
Oh man, those are some killer titles that you list there. Every one of those is pretty great. I, in particular, love The Freeborne, Flat Earth Society and Odessey and Oracle.
@@rft2001 BOSTON SOUND IS GREAT!!!!✌️✌️✌️☮️☮️☮️
Missing:
Odessey and Oracle--the Zombies
We're Only In it For The Money--the Mothers of Invention
Nefertiti--Miles Davis
The Family That Plays Together--Spirit
Fairport Convention
The Thoughts of Emerlist DavJack--the Nice
Horizontal--Bee Gees
In Search Of The Lost Chord--the Moody Blues
Anthem of the Sun--the Grateful Dead
White Light/White Heat--the Velvet Underground
Guess l better stop now. Your list is great. There's just too MANY of 'em...
Shine On Brightly (Procol Harum) is an interesting choice !
My 20 favorite 1968 albums (only in english and in alphabetical order) :
- The Association - Birthday
- The Beach Boys - Friends
- The Buckinghams - Portraits
- Collins, Judy - Wildflowers
- The Cryan' Shames - A Scratch In The Sky
- The Eighth Day - On The Eighth Day
- The Eternity's Children - (self-titled album)
- The Eyes Of Blue - Crossroads Of Time
- The Fifth Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic
- The Fun And Games - Elephant Candy
- Giles, Giles & Fripp - The Cheerful Insanity Of
- The Love Generation - Montage
- The Moody Blues - In Search Of the Lost Chord
- Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets
- The Raiders - Something Happening
- Ryan, Barry - Sings Paul Ryan
- Sagittarius - Present tense
- Stevens, Ray - Even Stevens
- The Strawberry Alarm Clock - The World In A Sea Shell
- Valli, Frankie - Timeless
Cool and unique list. 😉
Ray Stevens is an odd choice. But I agree he made some great novelty records as well as a few better known serious sounding ones. Frankie Valli, underrated as a soloist, but recorded the originals of Proud One, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine, and of course Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.
AH, '68 I was 17. Some call this year as the greatest in rock history. Late at night at the Fillmore East seeing the Moody Blues and an outrageous Lee Michaels wailing out on "Stormy Monday." I wore the grooves out of "Truth" with Rod Stewart, especially on "I Don't Know Much About Love." We took acid and listened to "Electric Ladyland," all 4 sides followed by "Shine on Brightly." WHEW! What a year. Rev. MLK, Jr. and RFK assassinated that year and all major cities were on fire. On top of all that, my fav "Beggar's Banquet" and the White album. My mind was officially boggled that year.
Thanks for mentioning the Moody Blues. They had some great mind bending albums around that time frame. In Search of the Lost Chord.
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A big YES from me about The Notorious Byrd Brothers. Your number 1 and 2 albums were both released on the same day!
That’s right. 😉 11/22/68
Great shout about SF Sorrow, Notorious Byrd Brothers and Village Green🎉
However I do miss the first Quicksilver Messenger Service, Anthem of the Sun by the Dead, the 2nd Traffic and the glorious In-a-gadda-da-vida album by Iron Butterfly, possibly the most played album of that year😂. Those 4 would have made my Top 10, No 1 was and still is the perfectly haunting "Astral Weeks"❤
BB is such a strong album! Stones showed their swagger in a big way. Listening to the raw lyrics and blues guitar just brings me joy.
I love that your list includes 99 cent Freakbeat CDs, that’s one of my haunts too!
I need to get that Lee Michaels. Notorious Byrd Brothers is my favorite by the Byrds and was my four on my top ten video. I had a similar take on Goodnight on my video.
Ha, never understood why they chose Good Night as the closer after Revolution 9. Just bizarre. By the way I’ve been watching your channel the past few years. Great stuff. You have an amazing Psych and Punk collection.
Fantastic job. I've got everything on here except Lee Michael's but bought or discovered them all later so never thought of them as being Albums of 1968! Put in a list it makes a tremendously impressive body of work, the equal of any year in the 70s which I see as the great album decade. Of course my order would be different and I'd want to see Anthem of the Sun, Quicksilver's first and Spirit's The Family that Plays Together on the list but that's all part of the fun.
I really like how much you talk up the Kinks. they were a great band and super underrated
Steppenwolf!!! Blue Cheer= Vincebus Eruptum!the Birth of Heavy Metal!!!! Iron Butterfly!In a gadda da vida !! Classics!!!!!
The Moody Blues !!! In Search Lost Chord!!!
This channel is like no other. Enjoying the variety across numerous genres. I have one quibble on this trip through 1968. That would be that Jeff Beck's Truth easily deserves top five recognition for the year. I could never get enough of this LP. What a refreshing collection of talent and originality. Producer Mickie Most deserves a nod here, too, for taming things down and getting most out of this All-Star cast.
Number 11 on the list ain’t bad. 😉 😉 ha
The PRETTY THINGS-SF SORROW
THE FALLEN ANGELS-IT’S A LONG WAY DOWN
Two of my all time favourites❤️❤️☮️☮️
Really like this. Some interesting choices, and I agree......Village Green, Notorious Byrd Brothers, Procol Harum, Jimi. I would have included Wheels of Fire around #12 and cut The White Album down to a single disc’s worth of tracks and had it at maybe #7. I would have had Donovan in there somewhere.....was Barabajagal in ‘67? So would have to be A Gift From A Flower to A Garden. 18 in ‘68 and I have 18 of these albums still. But really well done by someone who was there clearly. Thank you.
Thanks for watching 😉
Great job Tom! I, as well, love Buffalo Springfield's last album. I'll have to check out the Lee Michaels album you mentioned.
Let's do 1967...now that was a year to remember.
I did 1967. Check it out. 😉
Great choice for Number One. Every song is so unique. I like them all but Phenomenal Cat and Do you remember Walter stand out at the moment.
It's the first and only "Beatles" LP that includes their HUMOR.
During the two weeks before it was released the entirety of the LP, all four sides, was played without interruption, every week night, on a mega-power FM radio station.
Then during the weekends it was all "Beatles" including this.
"The Beatles" were LARGE, which is bigger than HUGE. They never peaked, continued to become ever more massive until they broke up.
Ya had to be there. And if I could I'd be there again.
I love the song 'Good Night'. I used to sing this beautiful lullaby to my daughter at bedtime. It was produced by George Martin in exactly the way that John Lennon requested it to be done. To me it is one of the special songs which like the recording that immediately precedes it, 'Revolution 9', showcases The Beatles ability to write and willingness to record music of so many different genres. We gain so much more insight into them because they included what would be considered non-commercial (even bizarre) tracks on their albums.
Also: THE MAZE-ARMAGEDDON
ILL WIND-FLASHES
MAD RIVER
PHLUPH
STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK-WAKE UP… IT’S TOMORROW in my opinion, the greatest psych pop album came out from the States!!!
1968 MY FAVOURITE YEAR FOR PSYCHEDELIC ROCK🎸🎸✌️✌️✌️🎶🎶☮️☮️☮️
I enjoy all your videos, but I never see you honoring Jethro Tulls “Stand up.” To my mind and my time their best ever. I know later albums got more press and celebration. But the arrangements and guitar playing, song structure of that record is a built in time machine that just takes me back better than almost any other.
I do like early Tull. Benefit, Stand Up, This Was, just never been a huge fan. I love various songs off other albums like Skating Away off War Child and Mother Goose, Wondring Aloud off Aqualung.
S. F Sorrows es posiblemente para mi, Top 5 en la historia! Y coincido contigo, la mejor etapa de Janis Joplin es con The Holding Compani. Perdón por mis faltas de ortografia! No sé el ingles y no quiero hacer ruidos ya que Son las 6am. en Argentina. Me encanta tu canal. Saludos Amigo! 🇦🇷❤💪💪💪🤘🤘🤘🎸🎤🎼🎼
Thank you so much! 😉
Missing a lot of psych titles like "In Search Of The Lost Chord," "Odessey And Oracle," "Quicksilver Messenger Service," "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, "Wake Up...It's Tomorrow," "Saucerful Of Secrets," etc.
Strawberry Alarm Clock, the kings of psychedelia !
@@neurophile Oh yeah, I love The Strawberry Alarm Clock.
The American federation of music banned the Kinks from touring the U.S. for 4 years right during the British Invasion. That had a huge impact on there commercial success.
It makes me wonder what direction The Kinks would have gone had it not been for that ban. It’s interesting those albums released between 66-69 have now been discovered by subsequent generations and have received high praise.
I was surprised you made The Kinks album number one. But I agree it was a superb album, although not issued in the States until early the following year. It was the last of my three favorite albums in a row of theirs, the other two being Face To Face, and Something Else. It was never deemed as very relevant at the time, as it was not really what was happening at the time when we were entering this new era when Psychedelia was morphing into Progressive Rock. But like so many other sixties bands and albums, it wasn't until years later when there were revivals of these past decades that sixties collectors suddenly realized what a good album it was, likewise The Pretty Things album. But on that album, The Pretty Things shared Pink Floyd's then-producer Norman Smith who went on to have a few MOR hits during the early seventies as Hurricane Smith.
Aretha Franklin's Lady Soul album was the second in a row of my two favorite albums of hers, the other being her last previous album Aretha Arrives. This album was her third album to be recorded in 1967, but this was not issued until early 1968. It featured guitarist Eric Clapton on one track, Good To Me As I Am To You. But you should take a listen to her Songs Of Faith album, originally issued on the Chess label, containing live performances that she recorded in her father's church back in 1956 when she was 14, but had a mighty mature voice for that age, although you can tell her approximate age then on certain notes. It was reissued on CD as Aretha Gospel.
The Jimi Hendrix track you mentioned The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp had already been issued as a single in the UK. But it was recorded in the States, and featured The Sweet Inspiration on backing vocals, one of whom was Cissy Houston. They were by then Aretha's backing vocalists.
When reading your favorite tracks on Bookends, I'm surprised you did not mention Voices Of Old People.
Finally, that last track you mentioned on that Beatles' double album featured The Mike Sammes Singers on backing vocals, although they may not have been heard of in the States. Paul McCartney was the only Beatle to sing on it.
The Small Faces were unheard of in the States back in the sixties, apart from their one-off U.S. Top 20 hit with Itchycoo Park. But they were huge in the UK. But I assume it wasn't until decades later that sixties collectors in the States suddenly discovered them, and suddenly realized what a great band they were.
I am surprised there was no mention of The Moody Blues' In Search Of The Lost Chord, and the studio half of Cream's Wheels Of Fire. But otherwise a good selection.
"Crown Of Creation." The ending is one of my favorites. "Cushingura." Solid instrumental.
Laura Nyro's second - fantastic album. I rarely see it listed as a favourite on yt.
20 - Buffalo Springfield - Last Time Around
19 - Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation
18 - The Monkees - Head
17 - The Beach Boys - Friends
16 - Big Brother and The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
15 - The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
14 - The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
13 - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
12 - Cream - Wheels Of Fire
11 - The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
10 - The Band - Music From Big Pink
9 - Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
8 - The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
7 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
6 - Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagull
5 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
4 - Vince Guaraldi - Oh, Good Grief!
3 - The Beatles - The Beatles
2 - The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
1 - The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Great list!
Personally, that year, The Mamas and the Papas released their self-titled album, The Mamas and the Papas , my favorite album that had some of the best vocals ever from Mama Cass. And yes, that song is on it, the one John Phillips hated, which is it's best known song
I was only eleven then, forgive me.
Never heard that Mamas & Papas album. I’ll have to check it out😉
I believe you're referring to 'The Papas and the Mamas' album, released in 1968? Is "that song" you mention "Dream a Little Dream of Me?" That song was a hit for Ozzy Nelson in 1931. I didn't know John Philips hated it, but it was perfect for Cass.
I love Last Time Around. It’s underrated.
So many great albums from 1968, great picks ! Didn't Lee Michaels release at least six albums? Or are you saying he released three albums in 1968? I'm with you on "Good Night." The deluxe tracks reveal that Lennon used the same finger-picking pattern Donovan taught him in India on at least four different songs, the most surprising being Good Night.
Michaels released 2 albums in ‘68. Carnival of Life & Recital. A self titled album Lee Michaels in ‘69 and several others from the early to mid ‘70’s.
I agree that Odyssey and Oracle is missing. A brilliant album and would be in my top 3 for 68
The Chambers Bros.=Time Has Come Today!!
"Wee Tam and the Big Huge" by The Incredible String Band.
I need to explore some of their records. I’ve heard high praise.
This is my favorite ISB album, a masterpiece.
@@tomrobinson5776 A separate universe unto itself.
The Byrds recorded "Triad" potentially for The Notorious Byrd Brothers. "Wasn't Born to Follow" was also a song that precipitated Crosby's exit. He argued about them doing covers.
I prefer Sweetheart of the Rodeo to Notorious Byrd Brothers.
I was 20 during that year. "Ain't Superstitious" amazes.
An amazing track.
1968 was maybe THE year of the album, it had just been established as a valid artistic medium by the audience and the business itself, the onus was on the artists to come up with the goods after the effect of "Pepper". Excellent choices here, I was 9 that year but heard "The Beatles" (White album), S&G's "Bookends", Small Faces "Ogden's"", Dylan's "John Wesley Harding", and the Stones' "Beggars Banquet": my parents were in their 30's by then but their ears were on. You'd probably need 30 or 40 albums to do the year justice, so I might add Cream's "Wheels of Fire", Steve Miller Band's "Children of the Future" and "Sailor", John Mayall's "Bare Wires" and "Blues from Laurel Canyon": it was a productive year, Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude", Dusty Springfield's "Dusty in Memphis" (greatest white soul record ever made), Tom Rush' "Circle Game"(kickstarted the singer songwriter genre of the 70's along with Tim Buckley's "Happy/Sad", Joni Mitchell's debut, Neil Young's solo debut), Dr.John's "Gris Gris", Canned Heat's "Livin' the Blues", Pentangle's "Sweet Child", "Jethro Tull's "This Was", Sly&The Family Stone's "Whole New Thing", and after all that I'll sneak in Led Zep's debut (wasn't released til' January 6th '69 but was made in September 68)
Great choices on your end. Neil Young’s debut is very underrated. Tim Buckley’s Happy Sad is fantastic. I believe it was recorded in ‘68, but released in ‘69. I need to pick up Gris Gris by Dr John. Never heard it in its entirety. Pentangle is another great act. I’m a big fan of Bert Jansch. Thanks for watching. 😉
Deseo tener esos discos de Jefferson Airplane!!! No los encuentro en ningún lado. Y la economia aquí esta muy mal para encargarlos importados. 😡😡😭😭🇦🇷👌👌👌
Laura Nyro's revolutionary Eli and the Thirteenth Confession was the album that obsessed the music industry in 1968 - " it blew everybody's mind " Todd Rundgren. It is probably the most influential songwriting album in contemporary music. Nyro "probably influenced more successful songwriters than anyone " Elton John 2007.
Tengo todo de Small Faces 😀 y Song off Backer es de otra galaxia!!! Hay un video que la hacen en la TV BRITANICA donde Steve Marriot me dejó pasmado con su Carisma. 💣💣💣💥. El Album Blanco de The Beatles eclipsó a Village Green Resevations de The Kinks (disco fantástico) porque fueron lanzados la misma semana adrede por parte de The Kinks. Con el tiempo Ray Davis dijo que fué eclipsado por White Album, no por eso, sinó porque su disco era malo y sonaba a Demos. 🤔🤔🤔
"A Tramp Shining" by Richard Harris ❤
I’ve never listened to that one. Gotta check it out.
@@tomrobinson5776 it's Jimmy Webb sung by Harris. (I'm sure you know MacArthur Park 😄) Not rock in any way, more like chanson-pop, Idk.
(btw Dunhill Records is one fire label. Lou Adler is lowkey a cult figure)
Yr channel is 💎a treasure trove! Thank you
@@anabltc Thank you very much. 😉
You never seem to include any Moody blues albums on these 60s best of videos? In my opinion "in search of the lost chord" is superior to procul harums "shine on brightly" but I understand its YOUR list, but enjoy your videos still👍
I think the white álbum should have closed with "hey Jude" the Coda at the end is much more proper to end a Beatles album. Not to mention the song itself. But they took the desicion to close with goodnight
Had many of those but you're on a hiding to nothing here. My best include Taj Mahal, Dr John 'Gris Gris', Steve Miller 'Sailor', Soft Machine 1st, Boogie with Canned Heat, Spirit's 'Family that plays together', Cream 'Wheels of Fire', The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Fever Tree, H.P. Lovecraft II, Kaleidoscope 'Beacon from Mars', The Electric Flag 'A Long Time Comin'.
Hi make a video of 1967 😊
I did. 😉
Great man I got it I collect 1966,1967,1968,1969,1970 albums also ☺️
How about. Sly and the family Stone, War, Cold Blood, Tower of Power, The Yes album, King Crimson,
Roger Mansour former Leslie West Vagrants Drummer drummer
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'The Yes Album' was released in 1971.
And their debut - 'Yes' - was released in 1969.
So...
The name you were looking for is Rusty Young
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FREAKBEAT RECORDS!!!
Rusty young poco
Of course. Thanks 😉
Wow.. no Wheels of Fire.
Nice list, but a few glaring omissions, and a couple misplaced items. I'd rate Crown of Creation over Last Time Around, every day, and I was a fan of BS before the first album hit store shelves. SF Sorrow is the best album by the Pretty Things, but that doesn't stretch their mastery of instruments and song-creation far enough to beat out the competition. Ogden's is a great half-album, sorta like Humble Pie's 1st album, lacking in focus and song-writing. Again, I was a fan, but disappointed greatly, when I pulled off the shrinkwrap and dropped the tone-arm. Cheap Thrills is better than the next six albums on the list, a masterpiece from a band with no songwriters, or musical geniuses (except Janis, whose vocals defined the band). Also, Big Pink is a stunningly great album.
The biggest misses, though, are telling:
Traffic - The 2nd album (this time openly acknowledging Dave Mason) from Stevie Winwood's band is a tour de force, surprisingly long (40'24"), and eminently engaging, a commentary on the post-Summer of Love world, psychedelia and the way of all things. Not a weak song on it, Traffic is still prominently located on my personal Top 100 Albums of All Time.
"I bought a sequined suit from a pearly queen,
And she could drink more wine than I'd ever seen.
She had some gypsies' blood flowing through her feet,
And when the time was right, she said that I would meet
My destiny"
In Search of the Lost Chord - Arguably the Moodys' best LP, ISotLC set the tone for the band's work. If the first album, the immortal Days of Future Passed, was psychedelically-tinged, Lost Chord was acid-drenched. The House of Four Doors might be the weakest tracks (I & II), but if one is cognizant of the progress of a "trip", one knows of the "plateaus", where sanity seems to have re-asserted itself, only to give way to the next phase. Again, a Top 100 pick, 55 years on. The Word and Om do show their age, but the rest of the album is near-perfect, Legend of a Mind, Voices in the Sky, Best Way to Travel, Visions of Paradise and The Actor, sublime.
"Along the coast you'll hear them boast
About a light they say that shines so clear
So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast
To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier"
("Clear" was acid, also referenced by the next band's 1969 LP of the same name)
The Family that Plays Together - Spirit's second album delivered on the promise the first LP had hinted at. I played this one til the grooves gave out, still bring it out for a taste of that je ne sais pas combination of sandalwood and patchouli that made 1967 so redolent, the aroma didn't wear off until the dawn of 1970. Pay attention to Silky Sam, Dream Within a Dream, She Smiles, Aren't You Glad, and the hit, I've Got a Line on You.
"Stepping off this mortal coil will be my pleasure
Giving the gift that giving brings to be my pleasure"
Any Day Now - Joan Baez' reading of Bob Dylan's Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word is one of her finest performances on record. The rest of this double-album offering are more songs by Bob.
"Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind,
Down in the gypsy café with a friend of a friend of mine,
Who sat with a baby heavy on her knee,
Yet spoke of life most free from slavery,
With eyes that showed no trace of misery.
A phrase in connection first with she occurred
That love is just a four-letter word."
For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder was only 18 when he recorded this LP, featuring the title track (stalled at #2, by Marvin Gaye's I Heard It through the Grapevine), a surprisingly mature statement of purpose, plus Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day (#9)
"For once in my life, I have someone who needs me,
Someone I've needed so long.
For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me,
Somehow, I know I'll be strong."
Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Judy Collins' reading of Sandy Denny's immortal paean to time is probably the most accessible version of the song. Sandy did little more than a demo of the tune, and it is a powerful, if spare, reading. Judy gives it a polish, courtesy of Stephen Stills, Chris Ethridge, James Burton, and Jim Gordon. Stills is all over this record, done before his star soared with the release of the first CSN album a few months later.
"Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving,
But how can they know, it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming,
I have no thought of time."
Book of Taliesyn - Deep Purple's second album, on Tetragrammaton Records, was a better LP than their first, featuring a remake of the Ike-&-Tina-meet-Phil-Spector mash-up, River Deep Mountain High, with typical DP restraint. None, that is. Still, as a record, it keeps the listener's interest, throughout.
"In ages past when spells were cast,
In a time of men in steel
When a man was taught no special thing
It was all done by feel
So listen, so learn, so read on
You got to turn the page
Read the Book of Taliesyn"
In the Groove - Marvin Gaye's best studio album until Let's Get It On, three years later, shows the master of smooth soul in fine form, featuring the 7-weeks-at-#1-hit, I Heard It through the Grapevine, plus You, Chained, Some Kind of Wonderful, Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever, and There Goes My Baby. Well worth a listen.
Dusty, Definitively - Dusty Springfield had the worst luck, it seemed, never getting the attention her talent deserved. This 1968 album is an example of the problems record labels caused artists, by their A&R approach. If Dusty had a band such as Stills put together for Judy Blue Eyes, she'd have ruled the airwaves. Instead, we have to pick through the best of her massive catalog, for gems.
Blues from Laurel Canyon - John Mayall, famed blues shouter and employer of some of Britain's most-fabled guitarists, Eric, Peter, Mick, et al, fired the latest group of Bluesbreakers, and traveled to sunny Southern California, complete with sound effects, to lay down this quirky departure from his normal approach. Walking on Sunset, 2401, Fly Tomorrow, show off Mick Taylor's (soon to be a Rolling Stone) talents.
The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band would have a minor hit with (I'm the) Urban Spaceman, a year or so later, but this album collects almost everything people loved about this weird collection of misfits, Dada-ists and escapees from the lunatic asylum. Whatever isn't on this LP was on the previous long-player, Gorilla. We Are Normal, Can Blue Men Sing the Whites, Trouser Press, My Pink Half of the Drainpipe, Rockaliser Baby, if you like the Kinks, you'll love Bonzo Dog!
"You who speak to me across the fence
Of common sense,
How your tomato plant will win a prize.
Won't that be nice?
And by the way, how's your wife?
Your holidays were spent in Spain,
You went by train,
You'll go again."
Boogie with Canned Heart - Canned Heat's best LP, least-boogie-fied outing, the album captures the LA scene in late '68, when speed was becoming the menace it would later turn into nationally.
Odyssey and Oracle - the Zombies' final album is frustrating. Not released until after the band had broken up, and never promoted, it represents the group better than their earlier albums, but failed to connect with its audience. Time of the Season is stunning, but the rest of the songs fail to meet its standard, well-written and played, but distant and somehow contrived. The Kinks did it better.
TKAtVGPS is a great album, but the White Album and Beggars Banquet are sonically and stylistically better, far more accessible, and less-burdened with English Music Hall histrionics (except Side 4 of the White Album). Notorious Byrd Brothers is good, but suffers from the lack of David Crosby. Astral Weeks is simply the most impressive rebranding of an artist, to date. Van Morrison's work with Them, and the abortive first "solo" album, was lightyears from the majesty of Astral Weeks, Cypress Avenue, The Way Young Lovers Do, and Madame George.
For my money, Bookends, Crown of Creation, and Big Pink belong at the top of the list, not the bottom. I saw Lee Michaels three times, enjoyed his performance, but never cared for any of his albums. Live, he was dynamic, on vinyl, not so much. Truth is good, could have been better, but it set the stage for Led Zep. Waiting for the Sun is probably the most frustrating of all the Doors' albums, saddled with a couple of outtakes that should have been dropped, and suffering from Jim's pretensions of poetry (My Wild Love & Yes, The River Knows). It's always been my second-least-favorite Doors' LP.
Odyssey and Oracle was not on my list. I like The Zombies, but the album as a whole has never appealed to me. I do like Care Of Cell 44. Great song, and a few others like Brief Candles, and Beechwood Park. Never been a Moody’s fan. One of the few acts from the 60’s I don’t care for. When I do a list like this it’s personal taste, far from a definitive list. Almost put Traffic in there, but I prefer Mr Fantasy from 67 and John Barleycorn from ‘70 more. Too each his own. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Agreed, I've never seen the Zombies' last LP as the "classic" it's made out to be, and personal taste is, well, personal, to every human I picked up on Stevie at 17, in Europe, 1967, following his career from the earliest Spencer Davis tracks. I've enjoyed (most of) his music, seen him live, in 1967, as part of the SDG, and in 1971 and '72 (Houston and LA), with Traffic.
However, Traffic is a more-fully realized album, the songs flowing from one to another. Side Two is nearly perfect, not to detract from Side One, and Roamin' thu' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen is pure pop, long before Nick and Dave started playing together! If you know who I mean. Side One benefits from two songs that have entered the canon, You Can All Join In (shades of All Together Now), and the perennial sing-along, Feelin' Alright. You can't get much better than that. No Mr Fantasy, but plenty to love.
As for the Moody's, the 'Sixties would have been a pale shadow without their symphonic essays. Days of Future Passed introduced symphonic rock and widened the definition of music, enriching it indescribably. Rock would have been poorer, their influence on Yes, Crimson, Styx, Uriah, Procol, and many others, indisputable, and irreplaceable. In my opinion, the arc of Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, Threshold of a Dream and To Our Children's Children's Children is essential 'Sixties, patchouli and sandalwood not included.
BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY-A MESSAGE FROM…
THE INSECT TRUST
JULY
BLUE CHEER-VINCEBUS ERUPTUM
Oh God!!! So difficult(???!!!)🤔🤔
I like vintage records better, you know, 180 g editions don't make my head. Is it true that Ameba has a sector with used lps for 1 dollar each?
Amoeba in Hollywood used to have a sizable section of used LP’s for 99 cents. That was in the old location off Sunset Blvd. I believe they still have a 99 cent section in the new location off Hollywood Blvd.
Again, you ignored another great album by The Moody Blues? "In Search Of The Lost Chord"?? Wow.....ooooooooooooooooooooooookay.....
Oddessey & Oracle not in the top 20? It deserves better.
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2:06-2:55: ending eerie. Look over your shoulder eerie.
What did you see?
The zombies odyssey an orakel
I was 15 when Village Green came out, and here in the sates at least it was really difficult to find, at least for me. None of the local record stores had it and I ended up having to go to Boston, Cambridge actually, to the Harvard Coop. Next to no one listened to the Kinks in 1968. None of my friends did. They were very much like a secret.
You must dislike The Doors.
It’s on the list. Waiting For The Sun is at number 8.
The narrator on 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake' was Stanley Unwin, who invented his own absurdist language: 'Unwinese'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Unwin_(comedian)