GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1967

[Dazed and Brutal]

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
3. John Fahey - Requia
4. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
5. Albert Ayler - Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village
6. Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
7. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8. AMM - AMMMusic
9. John Coltrane - Kulu Sé Mama
10. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen

in before way too much dad rock and no jazz

 

[CiG]

2. 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

 

[challenge_everything]

Is Easter Everywhere better than The Psychedelic Sounds...?

I really didn't like the latter, sloppy garage rock, nothing psychedelic about it.

 

[CiG]

It's psychedelic, but just not the entry-level psychedelia of The Beatles et al. Not sure how you could listen to, say, "Slip Inside this House" and say it's just sloppy garage rock.

 

[challenge_everything]

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico - s/t.
2. The Doors - Strange Days
3. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
5. The Doors - s/t
6. Love - Forever Changes
7. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (never really cared for Sgt Peppers!)
8. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
9. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
10. The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks

 

[challenge_everything]

It's psychedelic, but just not the entry-level psychedelia of The Beatles et al. Not sure how you could listen to, say, "Slip Inside this House" and say it's just sloppy garage rock.

No I was referring to the debut, I've never heard Easter Everywhere, but I guess I should check it out.

Not sure what you mean by entry-level psychedelia though. The jug playing of 13th Floor Elevators struck me as a rather superficial gloss on pretty basic garage/folk rock (at least on the debut). I would much more readily use the term psychedelic for albums like Forever Changes or The Electric Prunes or Surrealistic Pillow.

 

[CiG]

The jug isn't even what makes them psychedelic for me, it's more about the general fried vibe of everything. The first album is just a garage rock album that relies heavily on LSD, but the second is the one that takes it in that direction.

I think they're one of those get it or you don't bands though.

 

[challenge_everything]

Fair enough - though you'd probably struggle to find an album from 1967 that didnt have a fried vibe!

 

[CiG]

Eh, most psychedelia from 1967 is more along the lines of happy poppy vibes. By fried I guess I mean a much more cynical form of psychedelia a la Mad River.

 

[challenge_everything]

Yes well that's why Velvet Underground top my list, for songs like 'Heroin', 'Venus in Furs' etc

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Epic year. Definitely one of my top time machine destinations.

1. The Doors - The Doors
2. The Doors - Strange Days
3. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
   
4. Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
5. Cream - Disraeli Gears
6. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
   
8. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
9. Donovan - A Gift From a Flower to a Garden
10. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

 

[CiG]

@challenge_everything

 

[challenge_everything]

Listening through a tinny speaker at work is not doing that any justice, but I can see that's evolved a lot since the debut. Much more complex.

 

[CiG]

9 ratings so far and that's not including a few unfinished lists. Not half-bad, btw @Serjeant Grumbles if you get tired of hosting this let me know and I'll take over.

 

[Sirjack]

This one is definitely from 1966 man, or it'd be in my list for sure.

agh yeah you're right. shit. l'll revise my list

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

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9 ratings so far and that's not including a few unfinished lists. Not half-bad, btw @Serjeant Grumbles if you get tired of hosting this let me know and I'll take over.

Yes, it looks like I might actually adhere to the deadline I set initially. This means that I plan on closing this at 11:00 PM EDT on the 21st.

@Omni @tagradh @Burkhard @crimsonfloyd @no country for old wainds @Talos of Atmora @The Ozzman, any of you interesting in submitting a list?

And @Einherjar86 @HamburgerBoy, you may take the opportunity to finalize your lists.

As to the other point, I'm happy with continuing to host these for the time being. If I ever do tire of it, I think you should know that I already have the randomized order for all future rounds worked out, which could save the effort on your part.

 

[tagradh]

1. John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
2. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
3. Wes Montgomery - A Day In The Life
4. John Fahey - Days Have Gone By
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
6. The Beau Brummels - Triangle
7. Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
8. The Doors - The Doors
9. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
10. The Doors - Strange Days

 

[CiG]

1. Fred Neil - Fred Neil

1966 apparently.

John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

1965.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

I'm still planning to vote.

I'm really bummed that no one has Aretha Franklin's "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" listed. It's a one of the great soul records of the 60s. And way too few of you have Jimi Hendrix's "Axis: Bold as Love" listed. Start to finish, it's stronger than "Are You Experienced?" (although both will be on my list).

 

[CiG]

I'm really bummed that no one has Aretha Franklin's "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" listed. It's a one of the great soul records of the 60s.

Really good album but personally not even my favourite of hers from 1967. If it had been the year prior or the year after an Aretha Franklin album would most likely make my list. Lady Soul or Aretha Now from 1968 or Soul '69 from 1969 for example. This Girl's in Love with You and Spirit in the Dark are definitely a lock for a 1970 list.