crimsonfloyd
Active Member
There are too many great records to just list so I'll do this decade by decade.
60s/70s:
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Ecstasy expressed in one gorgeous form after another
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Melodies and hooks that repeat ad infinitum with lyrics that dance the threshold between poetic genuineness and nonsense
Buffy Sainte-Marie- Illuminations
Mystical psych folk countered with deep, grooving, sexy rock and harsh social criticism.
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Beautiful, open and vivid
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
A synthesis of archaic and futuristic, distopia and the ideal, realism and surrealism.
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Unflinching expression of a collapsing civilization
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti (disc one)
Five tracks of relentlessly driving, groovy, sexy hard rock capped with eight minutes of lush ecstasy.
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On
A gorgeous attempt to hold to hold onto meaning within a nihilistic civilization
Marvin Gaye- Let's Get it On
The ultimate expression of sexuality in all its dimensions
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
A pure expression of the human condition
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Reflections on the depth of human longing; expression as the transcendence of finitiude.
Judas Priest- Sad Wings of Destiny
Epic, cathartic, power with cinematic scope.
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
The ultimate expansion of the idea of a song
Rush- Hemispheres
Union of pure intellect and absolute creativity
Curtis Mayfield- Roots
Stunning messages of hope and beauty expressed by stunning vocals and arrangements
James Brown- The Payback
The apex of funk
60s/70s:
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Ecstasy expressed in one gorgeous form after another
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Melodies and hooks that repeat ad infinitum with lyrics that dance the threshold between poetic genuineness and nonsense
Buffy Sainte-Marie- Illuminations
Mystical psych folk countered with deep, grooving, sexy rock and harsh social criticism.
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Beautiful, open and vivid
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
A synthesis of archaic and futuristic, distopia and the ideal, realism and surrealism.
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Unflinching expression of a collapsing civilization
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti (disc one)
Five tracks of relentlessly driving, groovy, sexy hard rock capped with eight minutes of lush ecstasy.
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On
A gorgeous attempt to hold to hold onto meaning within a nihilistic civilization
Marvin Gaye- Let's Get it On
The ultimate expression of sexuality in all its dimensions
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
A pure expression of the human condition
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Reflections on the depth of human longing; expression as the transcendence of finitiude.
Judas Priest- Sad Wings of Destiny
Epic, cathartic, power with cinematic scope.
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
The ultimate expansion of the idea of a song
Rush- Hemispheres
Union of pure intellect and absolute creativity
Curtis Mayfield- Roots
Stunning messages of hope and beauty expressed by stunning vocals and arrangements
James Brown- The Payback
The apex of funk
