1967: The best ever year for rock album releases?

I consider it the best year for music. Lucky to have been a young teenager at the time.

 

That's OK - I only know half of the LPs from the original list. Moby Grape??

 

1971.
A classic album was released about every 3 to 4 months.
Who's Next
Sticky Fingers
LZ untitled

 

Quite some time ago I created a separate playlist of albums in my library for every year since I was born in 1950. My real music buying did not begin until 1969. Prior to that I was listening primarily to radio and of course singles so for a few classic years like 1967 even though I lived through it in regards to my collection I went backwards to buy them. But, 67 is sure one of the best and for me 69, 71 and a couple more in the 70's a couple in the 80's a few more in the 90's and a couple since the turn of the century. It's been a joy to enjoy.

 

1972!

 

1966 gets my vote:

Pet Sounds
Blonde On Blonde
Aftermath
Revolver
Sounds Of Silence

 

I agree 67-69 were the best years ever. What came after was just new and different but never came close.

 

Definitely one of the best years if not THE best. It certainly doesn't have to play 2nd fiddle to any other year.

 

69 was mighty fine. Lots of great debuts.

 

I'm a 1980 man myself.

 

I once went through my large collection of CDs to see which year stood out as my favorite and 1967 won. Many of the Rock titles I have were already memtioned but there were also some classic Blues and Soul albums released that year from:

Paul Butterfield
Aretha
Otis Redding/Carla Thomas
Albert King
Wilson Pickett
James Carr
Sam and Dave
William Bell
Magic Sam
Charlie Musselwhite

 

Uhhh, The Stooges - s/t!

 

1970 & 1971 for me... 1969 a very close 3rd. I'd put 1967 in either 4th or 5th place fighting it out with 1968.

 

If you were making this argument in 1967 you'd be lionizing the groovy sounds of 1919, including:

• "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" by Al Jolson
• "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" by John Steel
• "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra
• "The Moon Shines on the Moonshine" by Bert Williams
• "Alcoholic Blues" by Billy Murray
• "Saxophobia" by Rudy Wiedoeft
• "Jazz Baby" by Marion Harris
• "You'd Be Surprised" by Eddie Cantor

 

A couple more from '71...Allmans at the Fillmore East and Love it to Death.

 

Funny - when we see all these great albums crammed into one year (whether that be 1967, 68, or 69 ...) we forget how few we could afford at the time even if we knew how good they all were. And waiting wasn't an option. Have money a couple months later? There'd been more releases you liked.

 

I believe the year 1966 was the pinnacle for pop music,
before the drug excesses began to take hold.

 

1983 was always my favourite year:

AC/DC - Flick of the Switch
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Anvil - Forged in Fire
Black Sabbath - Born Again
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Dio - Holy Diver
Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
Fastway - s/t
Helix - No Rest for the Wicked
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Krokus - Headhunter
Manowar - Into Glory Ride
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Motorhead - Another Perfect Day
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Tank - This Means War
Triumph - Never Surrender
Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll
Y&T - Mean Streak

Non-Metal/Hard Rock honourable mentions:

ZZTop - Eliminator
Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
The Police - Synchronicity

 

Yep. You are in the Contrarian Minority.

 

Since this is a thread about 1967; not 1969, 1971, 1919, 1977, 1983, 1966, or 1979, I will post another one the OP should add to his list:
"Absolutely Free" by The Mothers Of Invention

 

Any 1967 list should include the Incredible String Band...

 

Yeah - a few people have noted that new releases in the 60s were beyond what they could afford at the time.

How much did records cost in those days? And roughly how much would that be in today's money, would you say?

 

I agree that that's the turning point as far as album-oriented music goes as opposed to singles-oriented, IMO it's not the best, maybe top 5. 1980 is the best year for me. Had way more albums by bigger bands. Sheer power 1980 had.

Ace of Spades
Back in Black
Blizzard of Ozz
Heaven and Hell
Permanent Waves
Sandinista
Iron Maiden
British Steel
Women and Children First
On Through the Night
Animal Magnetism

the list goes on.

 

No love for 73. They are all outstanding, It's music to my ears,

 

There is no best year.
1973, my first year as a teen buying records, means something to me:

The Great Lost Kinks Album - The Kinks
Tanx - T. Rex
Raw Power - The Stooges
In the Right Place - Dr. John
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Paris 1919 - John Cale
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren
Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Closing Time - Tom Waits
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
Catch a Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Ooh La La - Faces
There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
Yessongs - Yes
Living in the Material World - George Harrison
Head to the Sky - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get - Joe Walsh
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Berlin - Lou Reed
Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Deliver the Word - War
Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
Vagabonds of the Western World - Thin Lizzy
These Foolish Things - Bryan Ferry
Burnin' - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Quadrophenia - The Who
Time Fades Away - Neil Young
For Everyman - Jackson Browne
Stranded - Roxy Music
Ringo - Ringo Starr
Preservation Act 1 - The Kinks
Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
(No Pussyfooting) - Robert Fripp and Brian Eno