Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1963 poll

the Beatles are coming, the Beatles are coming!

damn #1 is James Brown - 'Live' at the Apollo.

two of my all time favorites - Night Beat and Black Saint. Voted for Sam's one great studio album.

Difficult to choose between Cecil and James. Both albums profoundly changed how 20th century Western music is approached, heard, and presented. And both are mindblowingly affecting experiences.

Good records! But that James Brown album makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time.

Monk's Dream - one of my favorite Monk albums.

Bob Dylan. The Beatles don't hit their stride for me till For Sale.

Not even as a singles band?

heart says black saint, but went w/ james as a tactical beat the meatles move

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman is ineffable.

so many good ones here ... Mingus, Monk, and Evans are all great ... I picked Ballads narrowly over Coltrane/Hartman

he sure was amazing in the early 60's wasn't he?:

8 John Coltrane - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
11 Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
12 John Coltrane - Ballads
21 John Coltrane - Impressions

Not even as a singles band?
― timellison, Wednesday, June 11, 2014

No. I like most of them, like "Love Me Do" and "I Should Have Known Better" even more, and can certainly understand why someone might think those first couple of years produced their greatest music. (Especially someone who was there--I was, but only three years old.) But I'm not really awestruck until "Eight Days a Week" and "Ticket to Ride" and lots else from '65 and '66.

he sure was amazing in the early 60's wasn't he?:

There are conflicting accounts, but supposedly this run of relatively low-key records (excepting Impressions) was either due to a) trying to get away from the "anti-music" insults critics were hurling at him, and/or b) embouchure troubles he needed to work through.

the reason why i brought John Coltrane up is that this is the third year in a row, on this Acclaimed series, that he had a least three records in the Top 25. that is such an amazing feat, it boggles the mind.

like the juxtaposition of #21 and #22

it boggles the mind.

Totally. He never let up. In an interview he talked about trying to just relax for a week or two but said something like, "I end up picking up the saxophone anyway."

Joe Henderson

xps Coltrane left a slightly bigger ... impression!

oh hell yeah, want to see why this is ranked so high. 39 best album of all-time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5JG27snLzM

damn, don't know why i thought i could watch this at the same time.

a former ilxor wrote a 33 1/3 book on that james brown live at the apollo that's fantastic

James Brown, James Brown...

Black Saint

Night Beat all the way. I've never really gotten into live at the apollo tbh.

i love it but i'm not even sure that's my fave james brown live at the apollo and i know for every time i've listened to it i've probably listened to love power peace like twenty times

I'm a huge JB fan and I get its significance and yeah I can hear why its great but similarly there's so much of his other stuff that I connect to more.

Night Beat otoh man that always grabs me. Everything about it is perfect.

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Torn between Black Saint and Impressions, went with the latter on gut feeling.

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Wow, never would've thought Freewheelin' would beat Apollo in any poll.

Glad to see someone else voted Cecil, though.

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