In A Silent Way.
On a 1969 shortlist, I'd also include Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Rain, Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino, and Gal Costa - Gal Costa (Não Identificado)
― J. Sam, Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
Voted for The Band
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
filles de kilimanjaro is my fav miles, so
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
Lots of great records here but In a Silent Way is an all-time top 10 album for me.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
I know 60s fetishism is lame and boring but this really is an insane volume of very-good-to-great records for one single year.
Is 60s fetishism even half as rife as it was a wee while back? I can't remember the last time I heard anyone who wasn't an absolute fogey romanticising the 60s. Maybe it's just so long ago now that it's escaping the collective memory: People are more interested in mining the 80s and 90s for inspo
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
but yeah, too many great albums on here. Went for Scott 4
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
I think 60s fetishism was more a UK thing whereas US critics prefer the 70s?
Lots of late teens/early 20 folk are into the beatles and co. Dont think that's going to die out any time soon
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
on ILM though the 1980s is king
I didn't see Basket of Light in there, that's a definite contender.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
it's right there under 'The Pentangle'
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
Trout Mask Replica
― . (Michael B), Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
wasn't until the album after that they dropped the 'the' xp
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
In a Silent Way just over Rainbow in Curved Air, just over Memphis Underground but damn, what a list.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
in the UK, I hardly ever hear anyone eulogising the Beatles any more. They're ancient history, mined for all they're worth, not even a lot of people's grandparents' music any more. They tried to revive Britpop and it didn't work - kids repping 90s fashion aren't wearing buckethats and Union flags, so there's no appetite for that kind of British 60s-inflected pop from where I'm standing.
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
must be a fair few of your faves there sund4r
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
'Oar' is an album I try out once in a blue moon and remember very little about. I like the idea of it though.
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
dog latin in Scotland they do
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Oar is great. One of those instances of a lost classic actually being a classic.
How long til Tom D posts that he disagrees?
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
i don’t get oar and prob never will but god bless those who do
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
Maybe it's my move to Bristol, where 90s revivalism is very much rooted in bass music, trip hop, d'n'b etc that makes me think that 60s culture isn't as praised as it used to be. Still, I think da kids are more interested in remembering Courtney Love and Saved By The Bell than, say Dodgy.
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
nobody gave a fuck about dodgy in the 1990s either. But I can assure you that beatles, stones, who, kinks, beach boys, velvet underground etc are still loved by teens who discover them on youtube or spotify.
I think teens are way more open minded than we were too. I was very sniffy about old music until I was 16 or 17 and pretty sure my friends and schoolmates were the same.
My cousins kids will listen to anything as do their friends apparently.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
Computer games soundtracks certainly help
I feel like I have to vote for TMR.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
a lot of incredible records here but i'm gonna vote for
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul ,
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
alternately memphis underground
Voted Johnny Cash. The two prison albums are must-own material no matter what your taste in music is.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
my gut vote here is "happy sad"
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
Obligatory list of overlooked personal favorites:
Kinks- ArthurThe other 2 CCR records from this year The self-titled Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil albumsJethro Tull- Stand Up
― o. nate, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Green River vs. Karma vs. In A Silent Way is very difficult, I might as well roll dice
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
Either In a Silent Way or In the Court of the Crimson King.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Others:
Buffy Sainte-Marie - IlluminationsElvis Presley - From Elvis in MemphisIke & Tina Turner - The HunterLaura Nyro - New York TendaberryThe Meters- The Meters (debut LP)Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?5th Dimension - The Age of AquariusSandie Shaw - Reviewing the Situation
― Josefa, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
Leonard Cohen- Songs from a RoomKaren Dalton- It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Good call on not including Beck-Ola, which I heard earlier today.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
No less than three of my favorite albums ever made appear here.
Imagine a year when In a Silent Way and Abbey Road were contemporaries.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
^^^ my sentiments exactly. KC extremely influential to young me, Miles the one I play the most now.
― I don't come off well (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
It's a tribute to strength of the year and the list, and no slight on the record, that In the Court of the Crimson King didn't make my top three.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
I need to hear Memphis Underground.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
a lot of 1969 music feels a lot more like it comes from the early 70s, or at least it informs that period more than stuff from 67 or 68 does
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
A quick addendum regarding Beck-Ola: 'Rice Pudding' is solid proto-metal and benefits from Rod Stewart's absence.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
Voted Trout Mask Replica, I have strong memories of my Dad playing that in the car when I was a kid. Which may explain a few things.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
Your dad sounds pretty cool. Mine was heavily into King Crimson at the time, so that also explains a few things.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
Led Zeppelin I
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
Also a contender, partly for reasons outlined just above.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
I own or used to own these:
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask ReplicaFrank Zappa - Hot RatsJohnny Cash - At San QuentinKing Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson KingLed Zeppelin - IILed Zeppelin - Led ZeppelinMC5 - Kick Out The JamsThe Stooges - The StoogesThe Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Some good ones here but gotta go with Stooges slightly ahead of Beefheart and MC5 with the rest somewhere in the back.
I was also born in 1969 and while researching this recently I came across Cromagnon's Orgasm, an insane record of psychedelic hubris whose lead track "Caledonia" sounds as if Can took a lot of LSD and invented black metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Srmk7JYlI
Coincidentally I am friends with the guy who runs ESP-Disk who of course was the only label nuts enough to release something like that 50 years ago and also coincidentally I met up with him only a couple days after I discovered the record and since he's an awesome guy, he gave me a copy of Cave Man (same album retitled when reissued some time later) on CD. I played it a few times since and while the rest of it doesn't pack the same primordial punch as the lead track, it's still a mindfuck.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
yeah that's a good one, check out this cover by Ghost (the real one, not the fake one from Sweden)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZPZw3SlAvI
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
an insane record of psychedelic hubris whose lead track "Caledonia" sounds as if Can took a lot of LSD and invented black metal.
... or the Residents, so much so that they had to deny it was the Residents.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
voting for "black woman" because it is the best album ever made
favorite '69 not listed:
john tchicai - afrodisiacapeter brötzmann - nipplesgong - magick brotherfleetwood mac - then play onalice coltrane - huntington ashram monastery the kinks - arthurjames brown - say it loud (i'm black and i'm proud)f.j. mcmahon - spirit of the golden juicebert jansch - birthday bluessandy bull - e pluribus unummoby grape - moby grape '69sunny murray - sunshineblind faith - blind faithkaleidoscope - kaleidoscope (mexico)bob dylan - nashville skylinecaetano veloso - caetano velso (white cover)silver apples - contactjorge ben - jorge benchuck berry - concerto in b. goodedavid bowie - david bowie AKA space oddityla monte young / marian zazeela - untitled / black album
― budo jeru, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
what a year
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
I can't even figure out which of these I've listened to the most ... probably IASW, Abbey Road, or Let It Bleed, with Neil, The Band, Can, CCR, VU, Fairport, Zappa, Zep, Sanders, Burritos, Sly, QMS, and Wayne Shorter not far behind
voted for Let It Bleed
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
Let it Bleed is the best 60s rock album on this list. Everyone Knows This is Nowhere is the best 70s rock album. Velvet Underground is the best 80s, Stooges the best 90s, Monster Movie the best 00s. The best 10s album on here is Unhalfbricking.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Few more rock nuggets from '69.
Grateful Dead- Live DeadCCR- Willy and the Poor BoysThe Who- TommyJefferson Airplane- Volunteers (also put out live record "Bless It's Pointed Little Head" in 69 too).Santana, Allman Brothers, Mott the Hoople- s/t debuts Free's s/t from '69 was their 2nd lp and they also put out Tons of Sobs that year).Grand Funk Railroad- Grand Funk (aka red album)
lesser known favorites of mine:Spirit- The Family that Plays Together & ClearLeslie West- Mountain Spooky Tooth- Spooky TwoHumble Pie- As Safe As Yesterday Is & Town and Country
― earlnash, Friday, 1 February 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
here are some other great cult '69 records:
clare fischer - thesaurusdave bixby - ode to quetzlcoatldick hyman - moog: the electric eclectics of dick hymandoris duke - i'm a loserhigh tide - sea shantieshowlin' wolf - this is howlin' wolf's new albumthe mandrake memorial - puzzlemark eric - a midsummer's day dreamthe masters of deceit - hensley's electric jazz band & synthetic symphonettemorgen - s/tthe open window - s/tphil upchurch - upchurchramsey lewis - mother nature's sonLe Seigneur Rochereau et l'orchestre African-Fiesta National "Le Peuple" - l'afrique danse no. 4rahsaan roland kirk - volunteered slaveryruth white - flowers of evilthird ear band - alchemywhite noise - an electric storm
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 1 February 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
Either Beefheart or In a Silent Way, I don't know. Both are very important albums.
― jmm, Friday, 1 February 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
xp very cool list, thank you!
― sleeve, Friday, 1 February 2019 06:20 (five years ago) link
geez also there’s love’s “four sail”
― budo jeru, Friday, 1 February 2019 06:37 (five years ago) link
1969 is about the point where modern mic’ing and multi-tracking become widely deployed, so you’ve got a lot of records with overall ambience that hasn’t dated as much as, say, the Spector wall-of-sound ideal that was preponderant a few years before. The idea of the LP as a cohesive statement had really sunk in. And labels would take a stab at promoting just about anything, so artistic leeway was at a high tide.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Friday, 1 February 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
The Who- Tommy
Not a favorite of mine, thought it has some incredible moments. During recording, Townshend planned on adding electric guitar overdubs to toughen up the sound, but was told by Kit Lambert that all the tracks were full. When Townshend dug up the multitracks for a remix in the '90s, he found that every reel had two or three empty tracks.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 1 February 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
― sleeve
thanks, i love when i manage to shoehorn in the opportunity to recommend records i love that i can't really talk about to anybody outside the internet
i found a really nice looking copy of the "touch" s/t on deram in a local thrift store, it was $40 but honestly in the discogs age that wasn't terribly inflated given what they were charging for old journey records
i don't have a record player though so i didn't get it. nice record. unfortunately the album cover bears a striking resemblance to goatse.
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 1 February 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
the high tide was one of the albums i had to leave off for this poll as it only allows 50 options
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 1 February 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
and the 2 Spirit albums
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 1 February 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
I really hope some of you check out that Donald Byrd album btw. What a run he made
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
Voted for Abbey Road just over Led Zeppelin II.
Oar is shite.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
Your posting is shite, and you just keep doing it.
So, I'll just continue to enjoy Oar and talk about how great it is.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
Well go on, then!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
sorry dicky but yer wrong about oar
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
Hehehe... it's fine - I know we agree on a lot of other things. Good to see you back!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
'Shite' is overstating it tbf.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
I cant wait for the 1975 poll where everone posts about how 1975 are shitexp
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
this poll is about the 1969
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
I'm sure anyone that would do that would do so when they reach the Top 10 of the EOY albums poll?
(xp)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
it's 1969 okaaaayy
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
I made a rule about the EOY poll I only comment on albums I like
... Oar across the USA (xp)
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
1969 in the sunshine
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
In a Silent Way for me and you...
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
the beatles are going to win this, aren't they?
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
somebody mentioned a gut vote, which is the only way to get through this onslaught of manna---so I'll go with Black Woman: Sonny and Linda Sharrock are both the most tenacious beauty and the beast, still right here, right now, and transcendent in both/all directions.
― dow, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
down to terry riley vs in a silent way vs stooges for me
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link
Chucking Düül a vote cos Miles doesn't need any more.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 11:42 (five years ago) link
a lot of great stuff here but went Beefheart in the end
― Neil S, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 11:44 (five years ago) link
I hope we get over 100 voters like last time
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
THere's a new version of Alchemy by the Third Ear Band coming from Esoteric imminently. I'm just listening through the Elements 3cd from them on Spotify.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
hesitated and missed the vote but would have voted for terry riley, i think
― the late great, Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
i'm happy tim buckley got a vote but sad nobody but me voted for him
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
my top three prediction was:
IASWstooges s/tlz 2
kinda surprised stooges didn’t get more votes tbh
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
sort of funny, ILM doesn't really change:
Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1969 poll
23 Miles Davis - In a Silent Way 111 The Beatles - Abbey Road 913 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 721 Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul 66 Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis 6
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
heh
ok going to start the 1970 poll in a few
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
Have funBest Album on My Favourite Albums of......1970
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
100+ votes again! Thanks for voting!
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
This is my top 5 played from '69 since I started keeping track of my listening.
Miles Davis- In A Silent Way (#1 most played overall)Rolling Stones- Let It BleedLed Zeppelin- I/IIThe Stooges- The StoogesGrateful Dead- Live Dead
― earlnash, Sunday, 10 March 2019 06:19 (five years ago) link