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

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.

CCR

^ Best 50s album

going to be weird seeing some of these with 0 votes. the 1st poll had a few that shocked me

Here is the answer:
https://musik.antville.org/stories/1082571/

Let It Bleed

Stockhausen's Hymnen should be in there.

Ridiculous list. Probably In A Silent Way, but how do I leave out Isaac Hayes, Nick Drake, Sonny Sharrock and Liege and Lief?

create socks?

i went with In A Silent Way

anyone mention Burning Spear's self-titled yet? that's a monster

reggae is a blind spot of mine

actually that might not be 1969 anyway. reggae releases are such a mess

ok lol I was way off with that (1973). What a crazy year: I would have a hard time picking my favorite Fairport Convention release

voted foIn A Silent Way, it's a brimstead desert island disc

runners up:

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

led zeppelin ii is the only one of these i've ever owned on 8-track

"filles de kilimanjaro" is also a very good pick, but most of these are, that's the thing

for a long time "uncle meat" was my favorite 1969 record, and it's still one of zappa's best, but i think i'm probably past it now

I thought it was gonna be an easy vote for Captain Beefheart but then I kept reading and saw Miles, Sly, etc. Probably still Beefheart, but still.

Few more rock nuggets from '69.

Grateful Dead- Live Dead
CCR- Willy and the Poor Boys
The Who- Tommy
Jefferson 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 & Clear
Leslie West- Mountain
Spooky Tooth- Spooky Two
Humble Pie- As Safe As Yesterday Is & Town and Country

here are some other great cult '69 records:

clare fischer - thesaurus
dave bixby - ode to quetzlcoatl
dick hyman - moog: the electric eclectics of dick hyman
doris duke - i'm a loser
high tide - sea shanties
howlin' wolf - this is howlin' wolf's new album
the mandrake memorial - puzzle
mark eric - a midsummer's day dream
the masters of deceit - hensley's electric jazz band & synthetic symphonette
morgen - s/t
the open window - s/t
phil upchurch - upchurch
ramsey lewis - mother nature's son
Le Seigneur Rochereau et l'orchestre African-Fiesta National "Le Peuple" - l'afrique danse no. 4
rahsaan roland kirk - volunteered slavery
ruth white - flowers of evil
third ear band - alchemy
white noise - an electric storm

Either Beefheart or In a Silent Way, I don't know. Both are very important albums.

xp very cool list, thank you!

geez also there’s love’s “four sail”

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.

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.

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

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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