What an awesome video! I have everything on your list with the exception of the Leonard Cohen album. He's a great song writer but I have never been able to connect with him as an artist. 1969 was such a great year for music! I would have had difficulty paring it down to 25 + honorable mentions. Thanks for posting.
My Favorite Albums From 1969: 01 - KICK OUT THE JAMS (MC5) 02 - THE SOFT PARADE (The Doors) 03 - VOLUNTEERS (Jefferson Airplane) 04 - TROUT MASK REPLICA (Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band) 05 - PRETTIES FOR YOU (Alice Cooper) 06 - HOT RATS (Frank Zappa) 07 - IN A SILENT WAY (Miles Davis) 08 - CLEAR (Spirit) 09 - BALL (Iron Butterfly) 10 - NEAR THE BEGINNING (Vanilla Fudge) 11 - AORTA (Aorta) 12 - HAPPY TRAILS (Quicksilver Messenger Service) 13 - WITCHCRAFT DESTROYS MINDS AND REAPS SOULS (Coven) 14 - THE STOOGES (The Stooges) 15 - SPACE HYMN (Lothar And The Hand People) 16 - CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Chicago) 17 - CRIMSON AND CLOVER (Tommy James And The Shondells) 18 - STAND (Sly And The Family Stone) 19 - SANTANA (Santana) 20 - REVELATION: REVOLUTION SIXTY-NINE (The Lovin' Spoonful) 21 - THE PROGRESSIVE BLUES EXPERIMENT (Johnny Winter) 22 - THE HOWLIN' WOLF ALBUM (Howlin' Wolf) 23 - MIGRATION (The Amboy Dukes) 24 - I STAND ALONE (Al Kooper) 25 - THE AMERICAN METAPHYSICAL CIRCUS (Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies)
Thumbs up all of to your faves Tom! Almost all you picked are my favorites, too, so here's my list of 25 of my favorites from 1969 (in no particular order): Fairport Convention-What We Did On Our Holidays Roberta Flack-First Take Fleetwood Mac-Then Play On MC5-Kick Out The Jams Dusty Springfield-Dusty In Memphis It's A Beautiful Day-It's A Beautiful Day The Band-The Band David Bowie-David Bowie Bee Gees-Odessa Gal Costa-Gal Costa The Shaggs-Philosophy Of The World Townes Van Zandt-Our Mother the Mountain Santana-Santana Genesis-From Genesis To Revelation Joni Mitchell-Clouds Bridget St. John-Ask Me No Questions Mary Hopkin-Postcard Ruthann Friedman-Constant Companion The Bob Seger System-Ramblin' Gamblin' Man Jan & Lorraine-Gypsy People Buffy Sainte-Marie-Illuminations Townes Van Zandt-Townes Van Zandt Carpenters-Ticket To Ride The Pentangle-Basket of Light Spooky Tooth-Spooky Two 😊
That album is a mind blower. They get labeled as early prog but I am more inclined to think of this as more psychedelic. Disclaimer: I was out of my mind the first time I heard it.
Best of '69 1 Neil Young - Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere (best song: Cowgirl in the Sand but all are good or great) Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice that "Young is a strange artist and I am not all the way into him yet, but this record is haunting". Ya think Robert? You realize it has "haunt"? 2 Neil Young - Debut So underrated. was partially remixed and re-released in 1969. (My fav song ever: "I've Been Waiting for You" via Jack Nitzsche. Only sounds great on the record. Neil Can't even come close himself. The Loner, If I could have her tonight, Emperor of Wyoming, etc. 3 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails 4 CSN debut 5 Dylan Nashville Skyline - 3 great songs 6 The Guess Who - Canned Wheat. No Time and Laughin and Undun are great songs. Any of these songs is far better than any song on Abbey Road. 7 The Velvet Underground Self-titled 8 Volunteers Jefferson Airplane 9 Chicago The rest are good: Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed. Not sure why the Stones need to do any country-tinged songs. Green River - CCR. Green River is the best song. The Stooges debut. I Wanna Be Your Dog. is their best song. No Fun is great too. Nick Drake debut Fairport Convention Led Zep Debut The Band Can I Change My Mind - Tyrone Davis One great song makes it a better album than most; not ready to say if better than Abbey Road yet.
So glad you mentioned In A Silent Way. People that aren't into jazz so much don't know about Miles electric era. Another fantastic offering from that time is Big Fun. I'd have Leslie West's solo album Mountain on my list. Great song writing and produced by Felix. Too bad the actual recording is sub par.
Good list. My list would be 1 Crosby, Stills and Nash, 2 Music - Axe (wonderful UK rarity) 3 To Our Children's, Chilldren's,.... - Moody Blues 4 In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson 5 Midsummer's Day Dream - Mark Eric 6 More - Pink Floyd 7 Led Zeppelin II 8 Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane 9 The Band - ST 10 Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
Can you imagine as a 13 year old in 1970 sneaking into your best friend's older brothers ( he was 17 yo ) room and listening to all his records ? This is where and when I discovered Neil Young..... Everybody Knows and After The Gold Rush....... I spent the rest of 70s looking for my cinnamon girl ...... also.... discovered Jethro Tull"s Benefit which remains a GOAT album for me
Great idea to include Fairport Convention ! My 25 favorite 1969 albums (only in english and in alphabetical order) : - The Arbors - I Can't Quit Her + The Letter - The Association - (self-titled album) - The Beach Boys - 20/20 - The Beatles - Abbey Road - The Carpenters - Ticket To Ride - Crosby, Stills & Nash - (self-titled album) - Elliott, Mama Cass - Bubble Gum lemonade and something for Mama - The Four Seasons - Genuine Imitation Life Gazette - The Friends Of Distinction - Highly Distinct - Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation - The Happenings - Peace Of Mind - James, Tommy, & The Shondells - Cellophane Symphony - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King - The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream and Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children - Neon Philharmonic - The Moth Confesses - The New Colony Six - Attacking A Straw Man - The 1910 Fruitgum Co. - Goody Goody Gumdrops - The Original Caste - One Tin Soldier - Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (the studio album) - Spanky & Our Gang - Without Rhyme Or Reason + Anything You Choose (69) - The Uniques - (self-titled album) - Whitenoise - An Electrical Storm - The Who - Tommy - Yes - (self-titled album)
Good to some of my favorites: King Crimson, Genesis, The Carpenters, Pink Floyd, Yes, Moody Blues, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Spanky and Our Gang on your list.
Seeing as you mention the Allman Bros. Band debut, the link below is to the original version of that album's opener, 'Don't Want You No More'. Though the Allmans did it as an instrumental, it was originally a vocal, appearing on the B-side the the Spencer Davis Group's debut single after Stevie and Muff Winwood left the band. The A-side was 'Time Seller', a very atypical track for the band though an obvious attempt to bring the lads in line with1967's 'summer of love'. Worth noting: the image here is that of the original lineup, not the one on the recording. Though Davis, who penned the tune, and drummer Pete York remained, the new boys were guitarist/vocalist Phil Sawyer (from great band Fleurs de Lys) and Eddie Hardin (organ/bass pedals/vocals). On this track it is Sawyer singing. Notice the Booker T & the MGs nature of the backing - a hard-driving 12-bar shuffle - and how Sawyer - on a white Telecaster like the MGs Steve Cropper - plays like we heard on the likes of 'Green Onions'. The track also appeared on the band's 'With His New Face On' album, though Sawyer had left by that time (didn't want to tour extensively) and replaced with Ray Fenwick (later with Ian Gillan etc.). Though the backing track was retained a new vocal was added, coming I believe from Hardin. Hardin and York would soon split to form Hardin & York - just keys/vocals and drums - a duo they called 'the world's smallest big band'. As with the Spencer Davis Group and so many other British bands they were popular on the continent (big in Germany was the British version of big in Japan for American bands). This is a killer track. I remember being surprised the Allmans even knew of it. Some years back I gave a cassette of it to Warren Haynes, who would have played it many times in the Allmans yet possible never heard the original. ua-cam.com/video/j4bxZukeOuw/v-deo.html
Well...we do disagree on Poco...I love Chris Hillman's assessment that Poco was " Kind of like The Partridge Family of Country-Rock...."Very impressive list... Peace and Love, Terry and Julia Tutor
Not a fair comment though in my mind. Peter Cetera has performed many rock numbers with Chicago, as well as Country and Brazilian Jazz Pop. Chicago ballads were in demand, and they performed them so well. From 1969 to 1979 Peter Cetera was perhaps the most talented bass player in the world. All of this is not "Air Supply".
Agree.................It's a Beautiful Day is GREAT!!!! Solid from start to finish.......................... Did a lot of smoke and drop to that one..........................
Siempre te doy mi like, aunque muchas veces no comento porque no conozco tantas bandas americanas, pero me encantan tus videos! Soy más del rock británico del 63-68 . Ya que a partir del 68, empezó el declive de mi ídolo Brian Jones! Y apareció Yoko Ono en la vida de los incomparables, THE BEATLES. Saludos! 🇦🇷❤🎸🎤🎼
I am so glad that I have discovered your channel, excellent selections that got me inspired ! Could you consider sharing your thoughts on the psychedelic albums of the 60s (not the big hits, but more deep cuts and rarities) ? Many thanks and look forward to your next videos :-)
Hi Kim, thanks for watching. I plan on doing a psych video in the near future. One rare psych album not many mention is a group called Eire Apparent from Northern Ireland. They released one album in 1968 I believe. There’s a track called The Clown which Jimi Hendrix plays on. It’s fantastic. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 hey Tom, thanks for the reference, I’ll check out Eire Apparent. From my end I would think of Would You Believe by Billy Nichols and Tangerine Dream by Kaleidoscope, two excellent psychedelic listenings. Look forward to your video, cheers !
@@tomrobinson5776 I look forward to that. One of the best psych albums of all time, in my opinion, was Axe - Music from 1969. A mix of British folk and psych with a nice Floyd influence and witchy female vocals. This is not like other UK folk records, this goes into deep and heavy space.
Great list! I saw Kinks in Wpg do Arthur & Village Green. Energy+. Julie Driscoll married Keith Tippett, she did not want to be a star. Streetnoise is amazing. Chicago Transit Authority, Love Four Sail & Poco all deserve the love & are on my must play list. Well done.
I do enjoy your brisk, to-the-point, informed and intelligent rundowns. (I'm bingeing now.) I regret I've never been able to connect with King Crimson (or British prog in general, apart from a little pre-1972 Yes between "The Yes Album" and "Close to the Edge"). I hope to try harder. Sometimes I think my favorite LP of 1969 is Firesign Theatre's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All" (aka "All Hail Marx/Lennon," with the images of Groucho and John). It's not rock music, but it's "rock" in spirit and anti-authoritarian, countercultural sensibility -- featuring a little of Joyce's "Ulysses" surrealistically melding into a "Ralph Spoilsport" SoCal car dealership commercial... coming up on the Antelope Freeway, past "Shadow Valley Condoms: If you lived here you'd be home by now..."
@@tomrobinson5776 You might think of it as "Pure Pot For Now People" -- very THC and acid-influenced, free-associative humor (they did a log of improv on their live radio shows), all set in LA and the Bay Area in the '60s and '70s. Their masterpieces are probably "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" (about an old movie star in the Hollywood Hills who stays up all night watching himself on TV reruns -- I think of it every time I hear "Blue Jay Way") and "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus," an automated theme park ride through a nightmarish dystopian Disneyland, complete with an interactive audio-animatronic Ask The President attraction..
Really great list, not really anything I'd take issue with, the records that didn't make your 25 that I'd include made your notable mentions. Good Job!
1969, for me, has always been Uncle Meat, by The Mothers of Invention, and Trout Mask Replica, by Captain Beefheart. "Free Form Guitar" was the only part of that Chicago album that I liked! 😆 I made a mix tape of it segue-ing into "Anthrax", by Gang Of Four, with its feedback intro (and very clean it was, too). Should've mixed in some Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.
Wonderful to see 'Streetnoise' included. Though the music is vastly different from that of the Beatles, I tell people it is like the 'white album' in that the tunes vary dramatically from track to track, though in this instance with great originals plus covers of Laura Nyro, Miles Davis, the Doors, Nina Simone and even a killer version of 'Flesh Failures'/'Let the Sunshine In' from 'Hair'. 'Beck-Ola' is also a fine inclusion. 'Truth' was deemed the 'blues' album, 'Beck-Ola' the 'rock 'n' roll' one. 'I feel the former has some great tunes but IMO lacks consistency, while the latter, with the exception of the pleasant quiet time of 'Girl From Mill Valley' rips it up from start to finish. The two Elvis covers, 'All Shook Up' and 'Jailhouse Rock', are not only rocky, they are really funky, with Tony Newman's drumming and Ronnie Wood's wicked bass playing being highlights. Newman told me that the funky drum breaks in 'Plynth' came from Edwin Starrr's 'Twenty-Five Miles', a tune he and Jeff heard in a record shop during a break from recording in London's Soho neighbourhood. You can hear it kicking off the track and popping up further along. You mention Chicago Transit Authority sounding like Jimi Hendrix backed by a jazz band. In case you are unaware, Hendrix saw the band at the Whiskey on Sunset Strip prior to them making it big (I believe before they'd recorded) and was not only knocked out by Terry Kath's playing but invited the band to open for him on his forthcoming tour, thus garnering them instant credibility. (Al Kooper also liked what he heard and dashed back to NYC where he assembled Blood Sweat & Tears and, thanks to his industry connections, recorded his band first, thus being credited for starting the jazz-rock craze. Given that there are so many other great albums every year that didn't make your lists you might want to consider a video(s) for them also. 'Nazz Nazz' (listen to Rundgren's playing on 'A Beautiful Song' - wow!), 'Migration' by the Amboy Dukes, the first two Electric Flag albums, John Mayall's 'Bare Wires' and 'Laurel Canyon Blues', Colosseum's 'Colosseum Live' etc. Here is the Edwin Starr track. Notice the drum intro and how Newman used that lick in 'Plynth'. Great stuff! ua-cam.com/video/hFredbE3goM/v-deo.html
another good list... my top 10 would include Steppenwolf At Your Birthday Party which is a very underrated album, and Aoxomoxoa by the Grateful Dead.... when Abbey Road came out, 15 year old me had just gotten into the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention, and Abbey Road seemed too slick to me and kind of inconsequential... but all these years later I would rate it number 1.
Hi…!!! Another great year for rock music… Too much difficult… I give you my top ten 10 LED ZEPPELIN 9 DEEP PURPLE 8 THE DOORS THE SOFT PARADE 7 SANTANA 6 REIGN GHOST FEATURING LYNDA SQUIRES 5 FAIRPORT CONVENTION WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS 4 ALEXANDER SPENCE OAR 3 THE BRITISH NORTH-AMERICAN ACT IN THE BEGINNING 2 PUSSY PUSSY PLAYS 1 GANDALF Another great video Paco… Peace ☮️☮️☮️🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶
Nick Drake - just awesome, really should get more airplay - made 3 albums - Pink Moon is tops! came out in 1972 - unfortunately he could not cope with life very well so ended his in 1974.
Great list from a great year for music. Sorry to be pedantic but although Sandy Denny left Fairport after "Liege and Lief" she returned in 1975 to record "Rising for the Moon" with the band. Perhaps not as good as the earlier albums she made with the band but still a fine album. The title track is up there with Fairport at its best.
Here's my top 25 for 1969 (at least for the time being): 25 - The Beach Boys - 20/20 24 - The Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa 23 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country 22 - Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! 21 - Rod Stewart - An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down 20 - Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It 19 - Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers 18 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys 17 - Mary Hopkin - Post Card 16 - Blind Faith - Blind Faith 15 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River 14 - Santana - Santana 13 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 12 - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King 11 - The Chicago Transit Authority - The Chicago Transit Authority 10 - The Band - The Band 9 - The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band 8 - Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash 7 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II 6 - Joni Mitchell - Clouds 5 - The Beatles - Abbey Road 4 - The Who - Tommy 3 - The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 2 - The Kinks - Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1 - Neil Young/Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
If you blended the music of Iggy and the Stooges with Sly and the Family Stone, you would perhaps come up with the sonic swagger of The MC5's Kick Out the Jams album...which to this day remains my favorite album of '69 !
I'm struck by how often I agree with your less trodden taste in music, such as, was CSN better with Y? I love Young's music, but his Deja Vu input seemed grafted on somehow. Although CSNY live could be very good. As to 'Four Sail,' I heard Lee was the voice and lyricist only, the rest of the band made the music, so once McLean and particularly Echols were gone I assumed post-1968 releases would be less stellar. It took me years to even give the album a listen. I was wrong. Plus, both those songs you mention are infused with very cool late-60s moods. Gems.
Neil was an add on. He really does not fit CS&N and there are songs on that album when he is absent from the recording. Crazy Horse is really a better fit for Neil Young. In my younger days I would not have thought that thinking that Crazy Horse were not very skilled players but I think differently now. As Neil himself has said "It is about the feel."
Poco was a great band, their music was genuine and their concerts were a trippy kind of fun. I'm not a fan of country music but Poco was different! The Eagles sucked, they had some of the silliest, most juvenile songs, New Kid In Town, Peaceful Easy Feeling (I know they didn't write it but still), I Can't Tell You Why... give me a break, they're songs for tweens!
SEX MACHINE is most important on the STAND album. It, I suggest, is the first fusion jazz. MILES DAVIS sought SLY to produce ON THE CORNER, I read when I had yet to reach what’s called puberty. I became eventually fluent in jazz-head speak - to ART ENSEMBLE IN CHICAGO from LOUIS ARMSTRONG and the HOT FIVE and HOT SEVEN, precursors - as was LOUIS JORDAN’s bands - of SLY and The FAMILY and therefore PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC. SLY signed GC to Sunflower Productions in very late 69 or early 70. STAND among fans is often rated over THERE’S A RIOT GOIN ON, an album I considered the all-time best blues album. FAMILY AFFAIR depicts well why humans aren’t gods, and that’s a great blues commentary.
Such a surprise to see 'Arthur' at number one. I showed that album on my channel last year. Though technically recorded a few years earlier, 'The Sixth Sense' by Lee Morgan is also a contender.
Kinks, Arthur, #1: agreed! Has anybody ever heard of "The Great Lost Kinks Album"? I loved that one. But, if I had to take only one album to live on a desert island, it would have to be "The Kink Kronikles," since it's a two-record set compilation from their greatest period. By the way, what kind of songwriting genius releases "Village Green Preservation Society" and "Arthur" albums a year apart? With masterpieces before and after those. Ray Davies was on fire!
Another nice list. Led Zep (1), Stand Up, the Band (2), The Soft Parade, Boz Scaggs (Atco), To Our Children's Children's Children, Bayou Country, Neil Young (1), The Rod Stewart Album, Santana (1), Then Play On, Joe Cocker! (2), Spooky Two, Town & Country, The Turning Point, It's A Beautiful Day (1), Happy Trails, Clouds, Tadpoles, Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show, Led Zep II, all stellar outings. With your 25 (although every time someone recommends the Stooges, I have to go back to listen, to see if there was something I missed) (still nothing -- same thing with the Ramones) plus your "Also rans", at least 50 excellent LPs for 1969. Another very good year for Rock 'n' Roll. I saw Chicago open for Jimi, in Charlotte, May '69, saw Jimi, Love, CCR, and Poco (Tim Schmidt's 1st gig) at Newport '69, in June. The star of that show was Jethro Tull, who played almost all of Stand Up! I'd bought the 1st Tull LP and wasn't expecting what they unleashed that night. All LA's critical personnel were out, to see the band they'd heard was in the Rolling Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Circus. It was a tour de force performance. I saw Tull in Houston, two years later, on the Aqualung tour. Still energetic, but the earlier performance was better.
@@tomrobinson5776 I saw every band I liked, including some that passed by too quickly. I saw the Beatles and Stones, Jimi, David, Tom, Neil and Joni, the Kinks, Byrds, Who, and the Band. I saw the original Love, the Out Here version of the band, and the reconstituted band. I saw good groups, fair groups, and groups I couldn't figure out how in the world they got a recording contract. It was a time when music was vibrant and bursting with energy and creativity. Today, the business is fractured into niches, where lesser talents can shine, but those days were the Wild West, with rotten managers, dishonest promoters and rapacious record companies fleecing the unwary. Music today is a pale shadow compared to the muscular beast of the '60s and '70s, when all you needed were three chords, a ton of nerve, and some great lyrics, and a whole lotta luck!
Amen brother. It’s truly pathetic what’s out there these days. You have to dig real deep to find some actual substance. Back then record companies took chances and would actually nurture artists. These days it’s a whole different story as a quick buck must be made at all costs.
@@tomrobinson5776 I wonder what will survive the passage of time, from the last 20 years? There are still bands plying the traditional trenches, bars and clubs, but there is no outlet, rock radio now pretty much "classic rock" AOR formats. The airwaves aren't friendly to rock, the way they are to Country Western music. Nashville was built on the idea of fostering "their" music. Rock was shattered by Payola, greed, and the arrival of LPs and album-oriented radio stations, then by CDs. The arc that includes I Feel Fine, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, My Generation, Eve of Destruction, Eight Miles High, Day Tripper, Time Has Come Today, Born to Be Wild, The Weight, Let It Be, Gimme Shelter, Lola, Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, American Pie, Money, Turn the Page, Takin' Care of Business, Crazy on You, Heroes Are Hard to Find, Welcome to the Machine, Rhiannon, Born to Run, Don't Take Me Alive, My Sharona, Call Me, Refugee, Who Are You?, Kids In America, Back on the Chain Gang, Money for Nothing, Born in the USA, It's My Life, Stand, Viva Las Vegas, Would I Lie to You?, Smells, Like Teen Spirit, and Lost for Words, plots the major turning points in popular music over the 32 years from 1964 to 1996, as tastes grew more refined (makes a pretty good playlist, too). The competition was so fierce, the hysteria over money so pervasive, the industry didn't "grow" the genre, the way Country radio did. Conglomerates with fascist agendas swooped in and bought up "failing" (not making the owners enough money) radio stations, when consumer tastes and the convenience of CDs intersected.
Blue Meanie records! Had a Blue Meanies record store in the San Diego area as well. I doubt they were connected. Brings back a lot of memories :-) Agree with your top two picks. The Kinks and Neil Have always been my top two. Of all of the covers out there, The Youngbloods were responsible for the best rendition of darkness darkness.
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Free - Free The Beatles - Abbey Road Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica The Kinks - Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) Tim Buckley - Happy Sad Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei MC5 - Kick Out The Jams High Tide - Sea Shanties The Stooges - The Stooges Pharoah Sanders - Karma John McLaughlin - Extrapolation Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two Procol Harum - A Salty Dog King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman Pharoah Sanders - Jewels Of Thought Gun - Gunsight The Meters - The Meters Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! Toots & the Maytals - Monkey Man
Tengos los discos de The Kinks de los 60as. Y me pareció acertada tu elección de ponerlos en el n°1 porque Abbey Road aunque es fantástico, tiene a Octopus Garden y Maxwell Silver Hammer... .
Poco was better than The Eagles. As more time has gone by more I dislike The Eagles. Poco certainly had more musical integrity and those harmonies, man oh man!
In June of '69, an album was "released" that defies, even transcends, feeble adjectives like "good", "bad", "best", "worst". What is relatively uncontroversial, however, is the suggestion that it may well be the most-polarizing album of "69, and maybe the most-polarizing album ever. Many don't, but I absolutely love "Philosophy Of The World" by The Shaggs.
Quite a nice list but as far as I'm concerned Hot Buttered Soul should be on it and not be juist a honourable mention. It is groundbreaking! And where is 'Blue Afternoon' from Tim Buckley?!
My favorite albums of this year would have included; The Moody Blues - Threshold Of A Dream & To Our Children's.... David Bowie - Space Oddity The Kinks - Arthur Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed The Who - Tommy Carpenters - Ticket To Ride Beatles - Abbey Road (although some of it sounds dated now) Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis & Memphis To Las Vegas (studio half) Gordon Lightfoot - Sunday Concert That massive Elvis comeback album is easily one of the best and most historical albums of that year, after himself spending the best part of the sixties completely lost in the wilderness with all those dreadful rush-recorded soundtrack albums that he got pushed into.
What an awesome video! I have everything on your list with the exception of the Leonard Cohen album. He's a great song writer but I have never been able to connect with him as an artist. 1969 was such a great year for music! I would have had difficulty paring it down to 25 + honorable mentions. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for watching 😉
Excellent list, and what a year in music. Nothing unusual here. King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles top my list.
My Favorite Albums From 1969:
01 - KICK OUT THE JAMS (MC5)
02 - THE SOFT PARADE (The Doors)
03 - VOLUNTEERS (Jefferson Airplane)
04 - TROUT MASK REPLICA (Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band)
05 - PRETTIES FOR YOU (Alice Cooper)
06 - HOT RATS (Frank Zappa)
07 - IN A SILENT WAY (Miles Davis)
08 - CLEAR (Spirit)
09 - BALL (Iron Butterfly)
10 - NEAR THE BEGINNING (Vanilla Fudge)
11 - AORTA (Aorta)
12 - HAPPY TRAILS (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
13 - WITCHCRAFT DESTROYS MINDS AND REAPS SOULS (Coven)
14 - THE STOOGES (The Stooges)
15 - SPACE HYMN (Lothar And The Hand People)
16 - CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Chicago)
17 - CRIMSON AND CLOVER (Tommy James And The Shondells)
18 - STAND (Sly And The Family Stone)
19 - SANTANA (Santana)
20 - REVELATION: REVOLUTION SIXTY-NINE (The Lovin' Spoonful)
21 - THE PROGRESSIVE BLUES EXPERIMENT (Johnny Winter)
22 - THE HOWLIN' WOLF ALBUM (Howlin' Wolf)
23 - MIGRATION (The Amboy Dukes)
24 - I STAND ALONE (Al Kooper)
25 - THE AMERICAN METAPHYSICAL CIRCUS (Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies)
That is an awesome list. 😉
@@TODDTAMANENDCLARK wow that's awesome I have all those 1969 albums ☮️
HUGE Kinks fan. Arthur is absolutely one of their best. PERIOD. Everyone should hear this record, preferably with headphones on.
Love ur channel. Always discover some great deep dives!
Thumbs up all of to your faves Tom! Almost all you picked are my favorites, too, so here's my list of 25 of my favorites from 1969 (in no particular order):
Fairport Convention-What We Did On Our Holidays
Roberta Flack-First Take
Fleetwood Mac-Then Play On
MC5-Kick Out The Jams
Dusty Springfield-Dusty In Memphis
It's A Beautiful Day-It's A Beautiful Day
The Band-The Band
David Bowie-David Bowie
Bee Gees-Odessa
Gal Costa-Gal Costa
The Shaggs-Philosophy Of The World
Townes Van Zandt-Our Mother the Mountain
Santana-Santana
Genesis-From Genesis To Revelation
Joni Mitchell-Clouds
Bridget St. John-Ask Me No Questions
Mary Hopkin-Postcard
Ruthann Friedman-Constant Companion
The Bob Seger System-Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
Jan & Lorraine-Gypsy People
Buffy Sainte-Marie-Illuminations
Townes Van Zandt-Townes Van Zandt
Carpenters-Ticket To Ride
The Pentangle-Basket of Light
Spooky Tooth-Spooky Two
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Love the diversity. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Thank you.
Grand Funk Railroad is my favorite album from the year 1969.(it's the red album cover with the white
letters.
I think that the King Crimson album should be at least in your top five, but that is my opinion! ❤️✌️🇬🇧
I concur. (And King Crimson is in my "top 1" of 1969)
That album is a mind blower. They get labeled as early prog but I am more inclined to think of this as more psychedelic. Disclaimer: I was out of my mind the first time I heard it.
Best of '69
1 Neil Young - Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere (best song: Cowgirl in the Sand but all are good or great) Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice that "Young is a strange artist and I am not all the way into him yet, but this record is haunting". Ya think Robert? You realize it has "haunt"?
2 Neil Young - Debut So underrated. was partially remixed and re-released in 1969. (My fav song ever: "I've Been Waiting for You" via Jack Nitzsche. Only sounds great on the record. Neil Can't even come close himself. The Loner, If I could have her tonight, Emperor of Wyoming, etc.
3 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
4 CSN debut
5 Dylan Nashville Skyline - 3 great songs
6 The Guess Who - Canned Wheat. No Time and Laughin and Undun are great songs. Any of these songs is far better than any song on Abbey Road.
7 The Velvet Underground Self-titled
8 Volunteers Jefferson Airplane
9 Chicago
The rest are good:
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed. Not sure why the Stones need to do any country-tinged songs.
Green River - CCR. Green River is the best song.
The Stooges debut. I Wanna Be Your Dog. is their best song. No Fun is great too.
Nick Drake debut
Fairport Convention
Led Zep Debut
The Band
Can I Change My Mind - Tyrone Davis One great song makes it a better album than most; not ready to say if better than Abbey Road yet.
Great list 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Thanks.
So glad you mentioned In A Silent Way. People that aren't into jazz so much don't know about Miles electric era. Another fantastic offering from that time is Big Fun. I'd have Leslie West's solo album Mountain on my list. Great song writing and produced by Felix. Too bad the actual recording is sub par.
Good list. My list would be 1 Crosby, Stills and Nash, 2 Music - Axe (wonderful UK rarity) 3 To Our Children's, Chilldren's,.... - Moody Blues 4 In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson 5 Midsummer's Day Dream - Mark Eric 6 More - Pink Floyd 7 Led Zeppelin II 8 Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane 9 The Band - ST 10 Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
Love your choices. I also like the two albums by Tim Buckley in 1969: Happy Sad; Blue Afternoon.
I totally forgot about Happy Sad. Great album.
Monster by the group Steppenwolf is my favorite
album which featured
Larry Byrom.
1969 the end of a wonderful era for albums released
Can you imagine as a 13 year old in 1970 sneaking into your best friend's older brothers ( he was 17 yo ) room and listening to all his records ? This is where and when I discovered Neil Young..... Everybody Knows and After The Gold Rush....... I spent the rest of 70s looking for my cinnamon girl ...... also.... discovered Jethro Tull"s Benefit which remains a GOAT album for me
Cool story. 😉
Great idea to include Fairport Convention ! My 25 favorite 1969 albums (only in english and in alphabetical order) :
- The Arbors - I Can't Quit Her + The Letter
- The Association - (self-titled album)
- The Beach Boys - 20/20
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
- The Carpenters - Ticket To Ride
- Crosby, Stills & Nash - (self-titled album)
- Elliott, Mama Cass - Bubble Gum lemonade and something for Mama
- The Four Seasons - Genuine Imitation Life Gazette
- The Friends Of Distinction - Highly Distinct
- Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation
- The Happenings - Peace Of Mind
- James, Tommy, & The Shondells - Cellophane Symphony
- King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
- The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream and Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children
- Neon Philharmonic - The Moth Confesses
- The New Colony Six - Attacking A Straw Man
- The 1910 Fruitgum Co. - Goody Goody Gumdrops
- The Original Caste - One Tin Soldier
- Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (the studio album)
- Spanky & Our Gang - Without Rhyme Or Reason + Anything You Choose (69)
- The Uniques - (self-titled album)
- Whitenoise - An Electrical Storm
- The Who - Tommy
- Yes - (self-titled album)
Good to some of my favorites: King Crimson, Genesis, The Carpenters, Pink Floyd, Yes, Moody Blues, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Spanky and Our Gang on your list.
Seeing as you mention the Allman Bros. Band debut, the link below is to the original version of that album's opener, 'Don't Want You No More'. Though the Allmans did it as an instrumental, it was originally a vocal, appearing on the B-side the the Spencer Davis Group's debut single after Stevie and Muff Winwood left the band. The A-side was 'Time Seller', a very atypical track for the band though an obvious attempt to bring the lads in line with1967's 'summer of love'.
Worth noting: the image here is that of the original lineup, not the one on the recording. Though Davis, who penned the tune, and drummer Pete York remained, the new boys were guitarist/vocalist Phil Sawyer (from great band Fleurs de Lys) and Eddie Hardin (organ/bass pedals/vocals). On this track it is Sawyer singing. Notice the Booker T & the MGs nature of the backing - a hard-driving 12-bar shuffle - and how Sawyer - on a white Telecaster like the MGs Steve Cropper - plays like we heard on the likes of 'Green Onions'.
The track also appeared on the band's 'With His New Face On' album, though Sawyer had left by that time (didn't want to tour extensively) and replaced with Ray Fenwick (later with Ian Gillan etc.). Though the backing track was retained a new vocal was added, coming I believe from Hardin.
Hardin and York would soon split to form Hardin & York - just keys/vocals and drums - a duo they called 'the world's smallest big band'. As with the Spencer Davis Group and so many other British bands they were popular on the continent (big in Germany was the British version of big in Japan for American bands).
This is a killer track. I remember being surprised the Allmans even knew of it. Some years back I gave a cassette of it to Warren Haynes, who would have played it many times in the Allmans yet possible never heard the original.
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Cool version. 😉
Well...we do disagree on Poco...I love Chris Hillman's assessment that Poco was " Kind of like The Partridge Family of Country-Rock...."Very impressive list... Peace and Love, Terry and Julia Tutor
Chicago--“before they became Air Supply.” That says it all.
Not a fair comment though in my mind. Peter Cetera has performed many rock numbers with Chicago, as well as Country and Brazilian Jazz Pop. Chicago ballads were in demand, and they performed them so well. From 1969 to 1979 Peter Cetera was perhaps the most talented bass player in the world. All of this is not "Air Supply".
Hot Rats and Trout Mask Replica. The much overlooked Insect Trust. Santana. Soft Machine Vol 2. Happy Trails, Quicksilver. It's A Beautiful Day. Pharoah Sanders, Karma.
Agree.................It's a Beautiful Day is GREAT!!!! Solid from start to finish..........................
Did a lot of smoke and drop to that one..........................
Cloud Nine by Temptations
also from the year 1969.
Siempre te doy mi like, aunque muchas veces no comento porque no conozco tantas bandas americanas, pero me encantan tus videos! Soy más del rock británico del 63-68 . Ya que a partir del 68, empezó el declive de mi ídolo Brian Jones! Y apareció Yoko Ono en la vida de los incomparables, THE BEATLES. Saludos! 🇦🇷❤🎸🎤🎼
I am so glad that I have discovered your channel, excellent selections that got me inspired ! Could you consider sharing your thoughts on the psychedelic albums of the 60s (not the big hits, but more deep cuts and rarities) ? Many thanks and look forward to your next videos :-)
Hi Kim, thanks for watching. I plan on doing a psych video in the near future. One rare psych album not many mention is a group called Eire Apparent from Northern Ireland. They released one album in 1968 I believe. There’s a track called The Clown which Jimi Hendrix plays on. It’s fantastic. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 hey Tom, thanks for the reference, I’ll check out Eire Apparent. From my end I would think of Would You Believe by Billy Nichols and Tangerine Dream by Kaleidoscope, two excellent psychedelic listenings. Look forward to your video, cheers !
@@tomrobinson5776 I look forward to that. One of the best psych albums of all time, in my opinion, was Axe - Music from 1969. A mix of British folk and psych with a nice Floyd influence and witchy female vocals. This is not like other UK folk records, this goes into deep and heavy space.
Great list! I saw Kinks in Wpg do Arthur & Village Green. Energy+. Julie Driscoll married Keith Tippett, she did not want to be a star. Streetnoise is amazing. Chicago Transit Authority, Love Four Sail & Poco all deserve the love & are on my must play list.
Well done.
Thank you 😉
I do enjoy your brisk, to-the-point, informed and intelligent rundowns. (I'm bingeing now.) I regret I've never been able to connect with King Crimson (or British prog in general, apart from a little pre-1972 Yes between "The Yes Album" and "Close to the Edge"). I hope to try harder. Sometimes I think my favorite LP of 1969 is Firesign Theatre's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All" (aka "All Hail Marx/Lennon," with the images of Groucho and John). It's not rock music, but it's "rock" in spirit and anti-authoritarian, countercultural sensibility -- featuring a little of Joyce's "Ulysses" surrealistically melding into a "Ralph Spoilsport" SoCal car dealership commercial... coming up on the Antelope Freeway, past "Shadow Valley Condoms: If you lived here you'd be home by now..."
I remember the Rolling Stone Record Guide from 1979 gave that record a 5 star rating. I need to check out that album. Thanks for the recommendation.
@@tomrobinson5776 You might think of it as "Pure Pot For Now People" -- very THC and acid-influenced, free-associative humor (they did a log of improv on their live radio shows), all set in LA and the Bay Area in the '60s and '70s. Their masterpieces are probably "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" (about an old movie star in the Hollywood Hills who stays up all night watching himself on TV reruns -- I think of it every time I hear "Blue Jay Way") and "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus," an automated theme park ride through a nightmarish dystopian Disneyland, complete with an interactive audio-animatronic Ask The President attraction..
Really great list, not really anything I'd take issue with, the records that didn't make your 25 that I'd include made your notable mentions. Good Job!
Thanks Ian 😉
1969, for me, has always been Uncle Meat, by The Mothers of Invention, and Trout Mask Replica, by Captain Beefheart.
"Free Form Guitar" was the only part of that Chicago album that I liked! 😆 I made a mix tape of it segue-ing into "Anthrax", by Gang Of Four, with its feedback intro (and very clean it was, too). Should've mixed in some Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.
I got 'Let It Bleed' as a birthday gift from my younger brother's friend. Wonderful gift.
Wonderful to see 'Streetnoise' included. Though the music is vastly different from that of the Beatles, I tell people it is like the 'white album' in that the tunes vary dramatically from track to track, though in this instance with great originals plus covers of Laura Nyro, Miles Davis, the Doors, Nina Simone and even a killer version of 'Flesh Failures'/'Let the Sunshine In' from 'Hair'.
'Beck-Ola' is also a fine inclusion. 'Truth' was deemed the 'blues' album, 'Beck-Ola' the 'rock 'n' roll' one. 'I feel the former has some great tunes but IMO lacks consistency, while the latter, with the exception of the pleasant quiet time of 'Girl From Mill Valley' rips it up from start to finish. The two Elvis covers, 'All Shook Up' and 'Jailhouse Rock', are not only rocky, they are really funky, with Tony Newman's drumming and Ronnie Wood's wicked bass playing being highlights.
Newman told me that the funky drum breaks in 'Plynth' came from Edwin Starrr's 'Twenty-Five Miles', a tune he and Jeff heard in a record shop during a break from recording in London's Soho neighbourhood. You can hear it kicking off the track and popping up further along.
You mention Chicago Transit Authority sounding like Jimi Hendrix backed by a jazz band. In case you are unaware, Hendrix saw the band at the Whiskey on Sunset Strip prior to them making it big (I believe before they'd recorded) and was not only knocked out by Terry Kath's playing but invited the band to open for him on his forthcoming tour, thus garnering them instant credibility. (Al Kooper also liked what he heard and dashed back to NYC where he assembled Blood Sweat & Tears and, thanks to his industry connections, recorded his band first, thus being credited for starting the jazz-rock craze.
Given that there are so many other great albums every year that didn't make your lists you might want to consider a video(s) for them also. 'Nazz Nazz' (listen to Rundgren's playing on 'A Beautiful Song' - wow!), 'Migration' by the Amboy Dukes, the first two Electric Flag albums, John Mayall's 'Bare Wires' and 'Laurel Canyon Blues', Colosseum's 'Colosseum Live' etc.
Here is the Edwin Starr track. Notice the drum intro and how Newman used that lick in 'Plynth'. Great stuff!
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Very cool. 😉
another good list... my top 10 would include Steppenwolf At Your Birthday Party which is a very underrated album, and Aoxomoxoa by the Grateful Dead.... when Abbey Road came out, 15 year old me had just gotten into the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention, and Abbey Road seemed too slick to me and kind of inconsequential... but all these years later I would rate it number 1.
Hi…!!! Another great year for rock music…
Too much difficult… I give you my top ten
10 LED ZEPPELIN
9 DEEP PURPLE
8 THE DOORS THE SOFT PARADE
7 SANTANA
6 REIGN GHOST FEATURING LYNDA SQUIRES
5 FAIRPORT CONVENTION WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS
4 ALEXANDER SPENCE OAR
3 THE BRITISH NORTH-AMERICAN ACT IN THE BEGINNING
2 PUSSY PUSSY PLAYS
1 GANDALF
Another great video Paco…
Peace ☮️☮️☮️🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶
Thanks 😉
Nick Drake - just awesome, really should get more airplay - made 3 albums - Pink Moon is tops! came out in 1972 - unfortunately he could not cope with life very well so ended his in 1974.
Tragic indeed. The guy did not write a bad song. All three of those albums are stellar in every way.
And I thought in 1969 that it was normal; the unbelievable amount of excellent music that came out in that year!!
Great list from a great year for music. Sorry to be pedantic but although Sandy Denny left Fairport after "Liege and Lief" she returned in 1975 to record "Rising for the Moon" with the band. Perhaps not as good as the earlier albums she made with the band but still a fine album. The title track is up there with Fairport at its best.
Sounds cool, never knew that. Need to check that out.
Here's my top 25 for 1969 (at least for the time being):
25 - The Beach Boys - 20/20
24 - The Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa
23 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
22 - Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
21 - Rod Stewart - An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
20 - Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It
19 - Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
18 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys
17 - Mary Hopkin - Post Card
16 - Blind Faith - Blind Faith
15 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
14 - Santana - Santana
13 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
12 - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
11 - The Chicago Transit Authority - The Chicago Transit Authority
10 - The Band - The Band
9 - The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
8 - Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
7 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
6 - Joni Mitchell - Clouds
5 - The Beatles - Abbey Road
4 - The Who - Tommy
3 - The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
2 - The Kinks - Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
1 - Neil Young/Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Great list!
If you blended the music of Iggy and the Stooges with Sly and the Family Stone, you would perhaps come up with the sonic swagger of The MC5's Kick Out the Jams album...which to this day remains my favorite album of '69 !
I just recently picked up Kick Out The Jams. Only ever heard the title track. The whole album is a relentless ass kicker. Good stuff.
Bought Arthur in 1969 when I was 15. Very lonely to be a Kinks fan in those days. Anyway, a superb great l.p. Still have it.
I'm struck by how often I agree with your less trodden taste in music, such as, was CSN better with Y? I love Young's music, but his Deja Vu input seemed grafted on somehow. Although CSNY live could be very good. As to 'Four Sail,' I heard Lee was the voice and lyricist only, the rest of the band made the music, so once McLean and particularly Echols were gone I assumed post-1968 releases would be less stellar. It took me years to even give the album a listen. I was wrong. Plus, both those songs you mention are infused with very cool late-60s moods. Gems.
Neil was an add on. He really does not fit CS&N and there are songs on that album when he is absent from the recording. Crazy Horse is really a better fit for Neil Young. In my younger days I would not have thought that thinking that Crazy Horse were not very skilled players but I think differently now. As Neil himself has said "It is about the feel."
@@Cap683 Agreed agreed.
Poco was a great band, their music was genuine and their concerts were a trippy kind of fun. I'm not a fan of country music but Poco was different! The Eagles sucked, they had some of the silliest, most juvenile songs, New Kid In Town, Peaceful Easy Feeling (I know they didn't write it but still), I Can't Tell You Why... give me a break, they're songs for tweens!
I agree with your Eagles assessment. So overrated. Poco deserves way more credit, especially the Richie Furay era. Great songs and musicianship.
SEX MACHINE is most important on the STAND album. It, I suggest, is the first fusion jazz. MILES DAVIS sought SLY to produce ON THE CORNER, I read when I had yet to reach what’s called puberty. I became eventually fluent in jazz-head speak - to ART ENSEMBLE IN CHICAGO from LOUIS ARMSTRONG and the HOT FIVE and HOT SEVEN, precursors - as was LOUIS JORDAN’s bands - of SLY and The FAMILY and therefore PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC. SLY signed GC to Sunflower Productions in very late 69 or early 70.
STAND among fans is often rated over THERE’S A RIOT GOIN ON, an album I considered the all-time best blues album. FAMILY AFFAIR depicts well why humans aren’t gods, and that’s a great blues commentary.
Such a surprise to see 'Arthur' at number one. I showed that album on my channel last year. Though technically recorded a few years earlier, 'The Sixth Sense' by Lee Morgan is also a contender.
Lee Morgan is amazing. Search For The New Land is an all time fave of mine. I’ll have to check out The Sixth Sense.
I have 19 of them. Jim
Yeah, Nick Drake albums are so good.
Kinks, Arthur, #1: agreed! Has anybody ever heard of "The Great Lost Kinks Album"? I loved that one. But, if I had to take only one album to live on a desert island, it would have to be "The Kink Kronikles," since it's a two-record set compilation from their greatest period. By the way, what kind of songwriting genius releases "Village Green Preservation Society" and "Arthur" albums a year apart? With masterpieces before and after those. Ray Davies was on fire!
You said it. Both perfect albums. Ray Davies could do no wrong during this period. Flawless songs.
ABBEY ROAD and LET IT BLEED are out of any contest….these two albums are 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶👏👏👏👍👍👍
Just not as good as Arthur. Sorry chap.
Another nice list. Led Zep (1), Stand Up, the Band (2), The Soft Parade, Boz Scaggs (Atco), To Our Children's Children's Children, Bayou Country, Neil Young (1), The Rod Stewart Album, Santana (1), Then Play On, Joe Cocker! (2), Spooky Two, Town & Country, The Turning Point, It's A Beautiful Day (1), Happy Trails, Clouds, Tadpoles, Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show, Led Zep II, all stellar outings. With your 25 (although every time someone recommends the Stooges, I have to go back to listen, to see if there was something I missed) (still nothing -- same thing with the Ramones) plus your "Also rans", at least 50 excellent LPs for 1969. Another very good year for Rock 'n' Roll.
I saw Chicago open for Jimi, in Charlotte, May '69, saw Jimi, Love, CCR, and Poco (Tim Schmidt's 1st gig) at Newport '69, in June. The star of that show was Jethro Tull, who played almost all of Stand Up! I'd bought the 1st Tull LP and wasn't expecting what they unleashed that night. All LA's critical personnel were out, to see the band they'd heard was in the Rolling Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Circus. It was a tour de force performance. I saw Tull in Houston, two years later, on the Aqualung tour. Still energetic, but the earlier performance was better.
You saw some great shows. Everyone at their prime. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 I saw every band I liked, including some that passed by too quickly. I saw the Beatles and Stones, Jimi, David, Tom, Neil and Joni, the Kinks, Byrds, Who, and the Band. I saw the original Love, the Out Here version of the band, and the reconstituted band. I saw good groups, fair groups, and groups I couldn't figure out how in the world they got a recording contract. It was a time when music was vibrant and bursting with energy and creativity.
Today, the business is fractured into niches, where lesser talents can shine, but those days were the Wild West, with rotten managers, dishonest promoters and rapacious record companies fleecing the unwary. Music today is a pale shadow compared to the muscular beast of the '60s and '70s, when all you needed were three chords, a ton of nerve, and some great lyrics, and a whole lotta luck!
Amen brother. It’s truly pathetic what’s out there these days. You have to dig real deep to find some actual substance. Back then record companies took chances and would actually nurture artists. These days it’s a whole different story as a quick buck must be made at all costs.
@@tomrobinson5776 I wonder what will survive the passage of time, from the last 20 years? There are still bands plying the traditional trenches, bars and clubs, but there is no outlet, rock radio now pretty much "classic rock" AOR formats. The airwaves aren't friendly to rock, the way they are to Country Western music. Nashville was built on the idea of fostering "their" music. Rock was shattered by Payola, greed, and the arrival of LPs and album-oriented radio stations, then by CDs.
The arc that includes
I Feel Fine, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, My Generation, Eve of Destruction, Eight Miles High, Day Tripper, Time Has Come Today, Born to Be Wild, The Weight, Let It Be, Gimme Shelter, Lola, Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, American Pie, Money, Turn the Page, Takin' Care of Business, Crazy on You, Heroes Are Hard to Find, Welcome to the Machine, Rhiannon, Born to Run, Don't Take Me Alive, My Sharona, Call Me, Refugee, Who Are You?, Kids In America, Back on the Chain Gang, Money for Nothing, Born in the USA, It's My Life, Stand, Viva Las Vegas, Would I Lie to You?, Smells, Like Teen Spirit, and Lost for Words,
plots the major turning points in popular music over the 32 years from 1964 to 1996, as tastes grew more refined (makes a pretty good playlist, too). The competition was so fierce, the hysteria over money so pervasive, the industry didn't "grow" the genre, the way Country radio did. Conglomerates with fascist agendas swooped in and bought up "failing" (not making the owners enough money) radio stations, when consumer tastes and the convenience of CDs intersected.
Blue Meanie records! Had a Blue Meanies record store in the San Diego area as well. I doubt they were connected. Brings back a lot of memories :-)
Agree with your top two picks. The Kinks and Neil Have always been my top two.
Of all of the covers out there, The Youngbloods were responsible for the best rendition of darkness darkness.
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Free - Free
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
The Kinks - Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
High Tide - Sea Shanties
The Stooges - The Stooges
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels Of Thought
Gun - Gunsight
The Meters - The Meters
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm
Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
Toots & the Maytals - Monkey Man
What, no "to our children's children's children" by The Moody blues"🤔😳
Allman Brothers! Yes Sir!
Tengos los discos de The Kinks de los 60as. Y me pareció acertada tu elección de ponerlos en el n°1 porque Abbey Road aunque es fantástico, tiene a Octopus Garden y Maxwell Silver Hammer... .
You said it my friend. 😉
I love those nudie suits on the cover of that Flying Burrito Brothers album.
Frank Zappy First Official Progressive Album . Try Small Faces from 1968
How can you ignore The Soft Parade by the Doors?
I’m a huge Doors fan. One of my all time faves. I did a Doors ranking months back. Check out the video. Soft Parade is great.
What did you say about Poco .. "In my humble opinion Poco album it's better than ? Couldnt understand. Did you say "Neil" or the "Eagles"?
The Eagles
@@tomrobinson5776 Thanks. Not a Poco fan but not Eagles either; will have to listen to Poco now.
the story oft told is that they needed neil young for touring
Yes and they are better with Neil.
Poco was better than The Eagles. As more time has gone by more I dislike The Eagles. Poco certainly had more musical integrity and those harmonies, man oh man!
In June of '69, an album was "released" that defies, even transcends, feeble adjectives like "good", "bad", "best", "worst". What is relatively uncontroversial, however, is the suggestion that it may well be the most-polarizing album of "69, and maybe the most-polarizing album ever. Many don't, but I absolutely love "Philosophy Of The World" by The Shaggs.
Quite a nice list but as far as I'm concerned Hot Buttered Soul should be on it and not be juist a honourable mention. It is groundbreaking! And where is 'Blue Afternoon' from Tim Buckley?!
Never heard it. I’ll check it out. Love the album Happy Sad. Great vibe playing.
Where Mountain first album
My favorite albums of this year would have included;
The Moody Blues - Threshold Of A Dream & To Our Children's....
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Kinks - Arthur
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Who - Tommy
Carpenters - Ticket To Ride
Beatles - Abbey Road (although some of it sounds dated now)
Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis & Memphis To Las Vegas (studio half)
Gordon Lightfoot - Sunday Concert
That massive Elvis comeback album is easily one of the best and most historical albums of that year, after himself spending the best part of the sixties completely lost in the wilderness with all those dreadful rush-recorded soundtrack albums that he got pushed into.
Chicago frst album is great to ut I don't like the album cover