Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1969

on ILM though the 1980s is king

I didn't see Basket of Light in there, that's a definite contender.

it's right there under 'The Pentangle'

Trout Mask Replica

wasn't until the album after that they dropped the 'the' xp

In a Silent Way just over Rainbow in Curved Air, just over Memphis Underground but damn, what a list.

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.

must be a fair few of your faves there sund4r

'Oar' is an album I try out once in a blue moon and remember very little about. I like the idea of it though.

dog latin in Scotland they do

Oar is great. One of those instances of a lost classic actually being a classic.

How long til Tom D posts that he disagrees?

i don’t get oar and prob never will but god bless those who do

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.

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.

Computer games soundtracks certainly help

I feel like I have to vote for TMR.

a lot of incredible records here but i'm gonna vote for

Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul ,

alternately memphis underground

Voted Johnny Cash. The two prison albums are must-own material no matter what your taste in music is.

my gut vote here is "happy sad"

Obligatory list of overlooked personal favorites:

Kinks- Arthur
The other 2 CCR records from this year
The self-titled Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil albums
Jethro Tull- Stand Up

Green River vs. Karma vs. In A Silent Way is very difficult, I might as well roll dice

Either In a Silent Way or In the Court of the Crimson King.

Others:

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations
Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis
Ike & Tina Turner - The Hunter
Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
The Meters- The Meters (debut LP)
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?
5th Dimension - The Age of Aquarius
Sandie Shaw - Reviewing the Situation

Leonard Cohen- Songs from a Room
Karen Dalton- It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

Good call on not including Beck-Ola, which I heard earlier today.

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.

Either In a Silent Way or In the Court of the Crimson King.

^^^ my sentiments exactly. KC extremely influential to young me, Miles the one I play the most now.

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.

I need to hear Memphis Underground.

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

A quick addendum regarding Beck-Ola: 'Rice Pudding' is solid proto-metal and benefits from Rod Stewart's absence.

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.

Your dad sounds pretty cool. Mine was heavily into King Crimson at the time, so that also explains a few things.

Led Zeppelin I

Also a contender, partly for reasons outlined just above.

I own or used to own these:

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
The Stooges - The Stooges
The 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.

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

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.

voting for "black woman" because it is the best album ever made

favorite '69 not listed:

john tchicai - afrodisiaca
peter brötzmann - nipples
gong - magick brother
fleetwood mac - then play on
alice coltrane - huntington ashram monastery
the kinks - arthur
james brown - say it loud (i'm black and i'm proud)
f.j. mcmahon - spirit of the golden juice
bert jansch - birthday blues
sandy bull - e pluribus unum
moby grape - moby grape '69
sunny murray - sunshine
blind faith - blind faith
kaleidoscope - kaleidoscope (mexico)
bob dylan - nashville skyline
caetano veloso - caetano velso (white cover)
silver apples - contact
jorge ben - jorge ben
chuck berry - concerto in b. goode
david bowie - david bowie AKA space oddity
la monte young / marian zazeela - untitled / black album

what a year

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

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.

bendy, you just blew my mind.

I think these days my favourite of the three Fairport albums released this year might be the one not listed (they're all great of course).

Yes, I can understand that.

Might choose Filles De Kilimanjaro for that contrarian Miles vote.

The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions would definitely get my vote.

bendy OTM.
struggling with this list.
so many great albums.
MC5/Stooges/VU/Dusty/Miles Davis/Led Zep/Sly/Scott Walker/The Band
At some point over the years, each of these albums have been the best thing I had ever heard.
But I suspect its going to be In A Silent Way as that album just fits whatever mood I am in and still sends shivers all over.

I didn't realize until now that Schizophrenia and Super Nova were released in the same year; Shorter's approach changed considerably in the two years between when those albums were recorded.

xp very cool list, thank you!

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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 high tide was one of the albums i had to leave off for this poll as it only allows 50 options

and the 2 Spirit albums

I really hope some of you check out that Donald Byrd album btw. What a run he made

Voted for Abbey Road just over Led Zeppelin II.

Oar is shite.

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.

Well go on, then!

sorry dicky but yer wrong about oar

Hehehe... it's fine - I know we agree on a lot of other things. Good to see you back!

'Shite' is overstating it tbf.

I cant wait for the 1975 poll where everone posts about how 1975 are shite
xp

this poll is about the 1969

I'm sure anyone that would do that would do so when they reach the Top 10 of the EOY albums poll?

(xp)

it's 1969 okaaaayy

I made a rule about the EOY poll I only comment on albums I like

... Oar across the USA (xp)

1969 in the sunshine

In a Silent Way for me and you...

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the beatles are going to win this, aren't they?

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.

down to terry riley vs in a silent way vs stooges for me

Chucking Düül a vote cos Miles doesn't need any more.

a lot of great stuff here but went Beefheart in the end

I hope we get over 100 voters like last time

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.

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hesitated and missed the vote but would have voted for terry riley, i think

i'm happy tim buckley got a vote but sad nobody but me voted for him

my top three prediction was:

IASW
stooges s/t
lz 2

kinda surprised stooges didn’t get more votes tbh

sort of funny, ILM doesn't really change:

Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1969 poll

23 Miles Davis - In a Silent Way 11
1 The Beatles - Abbey Road 9
13 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 7
21 Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul 6
6 Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis 6

heh

ok going to start the 1970 poll in a few

Have fun
Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1970

100+ votes again! Thanks for voting!

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 Bleed
Led Zeppelin- I/II
The Stooges- The Stooges
Grateful Dead- Live Dead