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Urban75 Album of the Year 1967

belboid

belboid

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I know it's traditional to wait for the end of the year for polls, but I think we are on fairly safe ground with this one.

Usual rules apply*, except I can only be arsed to read your Top 10's, so don't bother with more than that.

It's a bumper year for albums, as bands finally worked out how to make the most of the relatively new format, allowing for an explosion of creativity. The acid may have helped too.

Elvis, Miles, Jimi, Aretha, the Monkee's, some scousers...the list is long. Make your choices.




* PM me a list of your top ten, in order, and I'll add them all up. NO COMPILATIONS. Live albums fine.
 
which hendrix album is better - are you experience or Axis? That is the question
Im going axis

i dont really love any of the jazz albums from this year...bit of a transitional moment. 68 had some crackers by comparison.
 
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The Velvet Underground & Nico?

Chuck Berry's Golden Hits looks pretty incredible by the track listing too.
 
killer b said:
It's all a bit canon isn't it? Can't we do 1972 instead?
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No because the result would be a foregone conclusion:

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I979 on the other hand...
 
belboid said:
I know it's traditional to wait for the end of the year for polls, but I think we are on fairly safe ground with this one.

Usual rules apply*, except I can only be arsed to read your Top 10's, so don't bother with more than that.

It's a bumper year for albums, as bands finally worked out how to make the most of the relatively new format, allowing for an explosion of creativity. The acid may have helped too.

Elvis, Miles, Jimi, Aretha, the Monkee's, some scousers...the list is long. Make your choices.




* PM me a list of your top ten, in order, and I'll add them all up. NO COMPILATIONS. Live albums fine.
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No 'Best Ofs' then? Soz if you're slapping away at your forehead right now, just needed to check because Patsy Cline.
 
bmd said:
No 'Best Ofs' then? Soz if you're slapping away at your forehead right now, just needed to check because Patsy Cline.
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Fraid so. They're just not really from that year.

I was going to include some best of lists from the inkies of the day, but they didn't really do them, the format was still just too new!

Have one from Rolling Stone tho - Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 1967
 
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Sgt Peppers is my early forecast for number 1 but there were some right corkers in 1967. Pity Dubversion/ El Jefe isn't still about really, I remember how much he idolised The Beatles...

Small Faces were so good that year. Love that band.
 
killer b said:
It's all a bit canon isn't it? Can't we do 1972 instead?
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I think I would have really had to be there to cast a worthwhile judgement, but alas I was still 15 years in the making. Hence I'm left for the most part with what everyone always bangs on about, the canon.
 
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stavros said:
I think I would have really had to be there to cast a worthwhile judgement, but alas I was still 15 years in the making. Hence I'm left for the most part with what everyone always bangs on about, the canon.
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I don't think that's true. With the internet, 50 years hindsight and endless reissues it's probably easier to know what was going on in '67 now than it was 50 years ago.

My mum was there - aged 20 and living in Hackney, but her record collection didn't extend past Sgt Pepper, Dusty Springfield and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. She'd stare at me blankly if I said "Thirteenth Floor Elevators" and only knows what rock steady is since I found it magically soothed her granddaughter as a baby.

Of course, being there would give a different perspective, especially for someone deep into the music scene, but in those days underground records really were 'underground', in that you'd only find out about them if you had some way of connecting with a scene.

It's not hard to see past the canon if you look, it's just finding the time and inclination, what with literally millions of records - more than one person could listen to in a lifetime - released before and since '67 to check out too.

Anyway, come on Urban - find some lost classics to fill up this poll so it's not just a rearranging of the usual rock journalist best of '67 lists :)
 
This is a great idea. Two obvious runaway winners for me amongst the classic canon, and a lot of albums that I've heard some of the songs on but not all.

Also gives me an excuse to dig out the Chambers Brothers album again, as that came out in '67.

 
How about folk albums of 1967? Here's two issued by the Dubliners in that year: "A Drop of the Hard Stuff", and "More of the Hard Stuff".
 
It should be pointed out, that you needn't have actually been alive in 1967 to vote in the poll

Although I suspect everyone who has so far, was.
 
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