Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1967 poll

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there we go.

i was not going to use "The Graduate" image for 1967 but no other movie screamed 1967 like this one did from the list.

the who over hendrix, velvets, love

So much brilliance, but have to go with the Who. It's probably the only one of their records you can play for someone who hasn't heard it where you're guaranteed a "That's the Who?!" reaction.

1. Velvet Underground, 2. Who, 3. Jefferson Airplane, 4. Moby Grape

In late 1965 the Velvets were booked to play at the Café Bizarre in Greenwich Village, however the gigs did not attract many people (according to Cale the club was made up almost exclusively of drunks) and the club's owner insisted on them fulfilling every minute of their booked time, with the final straw being a long gig on Christmas Eve. The band began playing long improvised versions of "Black Angel's Death Song" to the point where they were threatened with the sack if they performed it one more time. On 11 November 1965, The Velvets retorted with an even longer grand finale of the song. On their way out they were approached by a member of the audience, Andy Warhol, who within five months was producing their debut album.

the velvets win by a landslide for me but second is "between the buttons" which is secretly the best stones' album, especially with the american tracklisting. the chemistry between mick and keith's vocals is so joyful, especially on "connection." "cool, calm, collected" features a transcendent kazoo solo, the sound of a supremely confident band who knew their star was on the rise and the had nothing to prove. "something happened to me yesterday", if interpreted in the right way, could be seen as a reassuring message to lgbtq youth. enough's been said about "ruby tuesday" and "let's spend the night together," but both bring a huge smile to my face whenever i hear them. "she smiled sweetly" is really bound up with the royal tenenbaums to me, but that beautiful shot where richie climbs up the fire escape and through the window after escaping the hospital.

Between the Buttons, British version, would be my favourite album cover here, even more than The Who Sell Out.

i think they have the same cover

but yeah, it's a brilliant photo. the bleary, early morning light; the exhausted expressions.

john wesley harding has a cool cover too in a who are those people sort of way

One big alteration--they take the little button off Charlie's jacket, enlarge it, and make it a logo on either side.

oh! i didn't know that was only on the british one. thanks for the trivia!

Actually, looks like they started out the same, but the American was changed later.

Original American:

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American reissue:

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1. Who
2. Stones
3. VU
4. Aretha
5. Cohen

Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body

I can't imagine it will get a single vote but this is a great time-and-place record, well worth hearing

i sort of like the Rolling Stone logo on Between the Buttons.

voted 'piper' without thinking twice, tho most of these are really good.

Forever Changes over Velvets Floyd Hendrix Doors

just dug out my copy of Are You Experienced?, haven't heard it in years.

This poll is trying to seduce me

listened to Are You Experienced? today and my mind was blown all over again. my version says "Includes three pre-LP singles, in order of their release, which were not contained on the original May 1967 album." and with those three bonuses it was like listening to the greatest album of all-time. Jimi was on fire in 1967 as i see Axis: Bold as Love also came out and is the Top 10 for this year. seriously, this might be the best year ever for music, it is so insane as i don't think i can actually bring myself to vote for it.

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Experienced is one of those albums with different UK and US track listings. The UK album dropped first in May; the US version came a few months later and added the three singles but cut other songs. Since the '90s, the Hendrix estate has standardized on a CD that includes all songs released on both versions along with the concurrent singles and B-sides and is regarded as the 'official' version nowadays, making an already great album seem even better than it did to anyone hearing it in 1967. The sequencing is based on the original UK release.

1. Forever Changes
2. The Velvet Underground & Nico
3. The Doors
4. Are You Experienced?
5. Days of Future Passed

not to mention the two Beatles, the other Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, the Byrds and the Who.

obviously a pretty ridiculously great year but Piper edges em all for me

1. John Wesley Harding 2. Sgt. Peppers 3. Safe as Milk

Damn, I might make JWH my first choice too---not that it's the best, but one that may well have gotten further under my skin than any other (but can I really say that, considering VU & N, Peppers, Piper, others--?) Anyway, I played the hell out of it in high school, and then again several years later, when I was doing acid. It wasn't actually more alienated and compulsively observational than much of his other 60s stuff---how can you get more etc. than most of Highway 61?---but the boondocks bleakness, times little-but-wiry resourcefulness, especially spoke to hick me: kind of Huck Finn, back for more All-American civilization frustration (spoiler: he finally gets laid). The title song seemed like take-off on cowboy politics (as busted by New Left smarties). the laid-back roll of the outlaw Pres, plus "a gun in every hand": how many hands did he have? The distortions of colorful "historical" BS, not so far from Georgie Washington's cherry tree (and several decades before Frances Fitzgerald's classic America Revised, 'bout how public school textbooks in use all over the country were skewed to the dinosaur demands of major markets like Texas). And actual historical anomalies, like, way before Fawn Brodie brought up Jefferson's slave relations again, Dyl's already got Tom Paine(!) apologizing to him for a runaway gal's drama.
And the album still seems like a rebuttal to "Americana," way back when hippies were just starting to get back to th' country. Not that "Watchtower" and "Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" aren't whole stories in themselves.

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wonder if Jimi Hendrix would win the poll of zero votes?

somehow overlooked it, it came out in 68 in the us so somehow i filed it under 68 even though it's not like i was around. yeah something else would give it some comp but yeah i would vote axis, easily my fave hendrix album

Nice take on JWH, dow. I forgot to vote. Of the zero vote getters, I might go for the Kinks or maybe Strange Days.

For me, Byrds, Kinks, Country Joe, Moody Blues.

man people really still love the Velvets. does anybody share my "I was seriously in love with the Velvets to the point of obsession once, but they don't really do the job for me any more" experience?

They do a different job for me now. Previous job was "What the hell is this?! This exists?! I love this!" Current job is "Ah, so THAT'S how/why/where they incorporated their Ornette/Cecil influences!" and "OK, now that I've listened to Tony Conrad and the Dream Syndicate recordings, I can hear Cale's application of those innovations from a whole different perspective."

"Maureen Tucker is a motherfucker of a drummer" always a constant.

But I voted for the Who.

I'm close to where you are, aero.

Yeah, me too.

Can't imagine a time when I'll not love the first Velvets album. Two or three songs I've never felt strongly about, but my favourites never lose anything. It's probably White Light that becomes less useful (if that's the right word) to me as I get older.

I still love "Waiting for the Man", but it's been a long time since I've listened to VU & Nico. I was never particularly obsessed with it and always found it hard to play all the way through. Maybe I heard it too late (or too early) in my listening life. Both Sgt Peppers and Safe as Milk blew my mind a lot more on first listen than VU & Nico.

the velvets never meant that much to me when i was younger but they've gotten more important to me in the last couple years. the songwriting on the last two albums espec is incredible. i like most of the first album but it's not really in the same league as the best stuff here imo.

poll results v much in character

These are almost uniformly "great LPs I don't quite love as much as I feel I should". Except Magical Mystery Tour which I love more than I should (maybe my favorite Beatles album) and Something Else which is unimpeachable. And got 0 votes bc I wasn't paying attn.

which Something Else? Ornette? the Move? Tech N9ne? the Kinks?

'67 is mindboggling. I could probably think of another dozen or so albums from that year that I love at least as much as some of the selections here. I have no idea what I'd pick for the top slot. Worst album of '67 is pretty easy, though: Bowie's debut. Ugh.

Damn, missed this poll. Woulda given a sympathy vote to Days of Future Passed.

Wow, surprised with the low ranking of Sgt Pep's... woulda gone for VU myself, but it's certainly in my Top 5. I doubt there's another board out there that's bought into the myth less.

I've always thought the second side of Pepper is rather weak until the last song