ASV HoF: another new category
get your psychedlic grooviness on
Reminder that we still have cowbell nominations and other voting going on here.
In order to move this along at a better pace, I'm going to open up another category at the same time as cowbell. This one is going to be the first in an ongoing series of decade-related categories.
BEST ALBUM OF THE 60'S.
Do some Googling (or use allmusic.com) if you're not sure when an album was released. Don't make me chastise you in front of everyone! Here's a list of 200 to get you started.
Comments
Led Zeppelin: s/t
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | October 26, 2005 07:49 AM
Second Zeppelin's debut album.
Toss in Axis Bold as Love by Jimi & the boys
Posted by: spd rdr | October 26, 2005 08:09 AM
A second for Jimi - Axis Bold As Love.
Add The Beatles double White Album (its a bit difficult trying to choose 1 Beatles album)
Posted by: Frank | October 26, 2005 08:34 AM
I know you're not a big Beatles fan, Michele - but I'm gonna go with Rubber Soul.
Posted by: red | October 26, 2005 08:38 AM
Abbey Road
Posted by: Barry | October 26, 2005 08:55 AM
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze, Manic Depression, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Fire, Third Stone From The Sun, Foxey Lady....
Axis was great, but Are You Experienced was a debut album that practically comes off as a greatest hits these days.
Posted by: Jay | October 26, 2005 08:58 AM
Top five from the '60s:
1. Are You Experienced? - Hendrix
2. Abbey road - Beatles
3. Sgt. Pepper's - Beatles
4. Revolver - Beatles
5. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
AC
Posted by: Andrew | October 26, 2005 09:01 AM
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
The Who Sell Out
Tommy
Posted by: Eric J | October 26, 2005 09:01 AM
That should read, "...comes off as a greatest hits collection these days."
Posted by: Jay | October 26, 2005 09:02 AM
I still dig "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys.
Posted by: mbruce | October 26, 2005 09:29 AM
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Posted by: jwl | October 26, 2005 11:04 AM
Are You Experienced? (Jimi Hendrix)
Disraeli Gears (Cream)
Let it Bleed (Rolling Stones)
Some of the best "60's" albums ever were produced in 1970. Damn.
Posted by: Mark | October 26, 2005 11:16 AM
I figure you mean best Rock album of the 60s, so my favorites may not qualify:
"The Band"
BB King "Live at the Regal"
Beatles "Revolver"
Beach Boys "Wild Honey"
Hmmmm, I'm stuck on B. And prefer a dozen records released in 1970 over most of these.
Posted by: Chrees | October 26, 2005 11:35 AM
Wheels of Fire- Cream (1968)
Posted by: pril | October 26, 2005 11:51 AM
The Band
As odd as it sounds to me, I find most of the struff from the 60s just haven't held up. I'm tired of The Beatles, weary of The Stones, bored by Dylan and Hendrix just doesn't have the magic it used to.
Posted by: Timmer | October 26, 2005 11:58 AM
Beatles, "Rubber Soul".
Posted by: htom | October 26, 2005 12:06 PM
OK, gotta go with Rubber Soul, too. After all, my fiance was named after one of the songs. No, it's not Norwegian Wood.
Posted by: Mark | October 26, 2005 12:57 PM
Velvet Underground - "Loaded"
Posted by: Zarba | October 26, 2005 12:58 PM
Abbey Road, Beggars Banquet, Tommy, Revolver
Posted by: stephen | October 26, 2005 01:01 PM
The Band - The Band (Hands down favorite)
The Kinks - Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Tommy - The Who
The Ventures - The Colorful Ventures
Buddy Holly - Reminiscing
Posted by: Matt | October 26, 2005 01:04 PM
Definitely gotta go with The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A complete masterpiece, end to end.
Posted by: Keith | October 26, 2005 01:20 PM
Sgt Pepper - Still a bloody brilliant album.
Posted by: Alan | October 26, 2005 01:34 PM
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Monkees - More of the Monkees
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go ahead, be dismissive, but the other selections are the equivalent of "R,S,T,L,N,E" on Wheel of Fortune.
Posted by: BumperStickerist | October 26, 2005 01:38 PM
"In the Court of the Crimson King" by King Crimson.
They're still around, still good, and still influential.
Posted by: Toren | October 26, 2005 01:41 PM
The Beatles - "Revolver". Personally I think it's their best album - there are many better songs elsewhere, but it's the complete package.
Posted by: Ian S. | October 26, 2005 02:17 PM
Gotta go with Revolver.
Posted by: Jeff R. | October 26, 2005 02:21 PM
The five that get played most at my house:
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Strange Days - Doors
Anthem of the Sun - Dead
Freak Out! - Mothers of Invention
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Posted by: LDH | October 26, 2005 03:23 PM
Rubber Soul
Posted by: Adam | October 26, 2005 05:46 PM
Revolver (The Beatles)
Let It Bleed (The Rolling Stones)
Are you Experienced? (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Highway 61 (Bob Dylan)
Led Zeppelin II (Led Zeppelin)
Posted by: Solonor | October 26, 2005 06:51 PM
The Doors
Posted by: carol | October 26, 2005 07:54 PM
Led Zep II !!!!
I would have nominated Led Zeppelin II, but I thought it was released in the early 70's. I was wrong, it squeaked in under the wire in 10/69. That was my first, and favorite, Zep album of all time. It deserves a nomination, I think,.
Posted by: Mark | October 26, 2005 09:39 PM
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 26, 2005 11:24 PM
Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Beatles - Revolver
Stones - Let it Bleed
Thats just a start.
Posted by: Robert | October 27, 2005 12:43 AM
Have to agree on Jimi Hendrix's Are you Experienced?, while also picking Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde(with Al Kooper and the musicians that became The Band) and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow(back when Grace Slick was a babe and not some idiots mother)
Posted by: Pat Patterson | October 27, 2005 01:22 AM
Memories: Sing-Along with Mitch Miller
Posted by: Jim Treacher | October 27, 2005 05:11 AM
We really gotta figure out something to do with Treacher. There's like a home or something, right?
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 27, 2005 08:44 AM
I know what I'd want to do with Treacher.
But that's a whole other story.
Posted by: michele | October 27, 2005 08:46 AM
Turtles: Happy Together. (1967, I think)
Some geat pop. Fun, playful, Musical and in Bones Howe, a super production effort. A great total package. They were a slighly more musical Bare Naked Ladies of their day, and IMO, this was their best. It's not the most artistic, but it's.... It's just fun to listen to.
Posted by: Bithead | October 27, 2005 08:49 AM
Another one for Hendrix's Are You Experienced. And for a great album that hasn't been mentioned, how about the Yardbirds' Over Under Sideways Down?
Posted by: Brainster | October 27, 2005 06:14 PM