10 Best UK albums of 1967

UK only. Your ten best albums from this year.

 

Weekend bump !

 

This is such a tough year to narrow down, so it gets a lot easier when you just look at the UK releases. In no particular order:

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
The Kinks - Something Else
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Who - Sell Out
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
Small Faces - s/t Immediate debut
Procol Harum - s/t

Honorable mention to the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He had to go over there to break through.

 

Your the first one to post in this thread. Great year for music both sides of the pond.

 

Between The Buttons if only for Gered Mankowitz's iconic (primrose hill band photo )album cover.

 

Zombies - Odessey and Oracle. Have to stick this psychedelic platter in my Top Ten uk list. No bedsit should be without a copy.

 

David Bowie's debut album. Donovan - Mellow Yellow. The Kinks - Something Else. The Troggs- Cellophane.

 

It was released in 1968, though the lead single (Care of Cell 44) was released in Dec. '67.

 

Correct recorded june - Nov 1967. No wonder it sounded a tad dated in April 1968. "If you remember the sixties .. You were not there".

 

I'm ambivalent about some of these:

Kinks -- Something Else
The Who -- The Who Sell Out
Incredible String Band -- The 5000 Spirits etc.
Van Morrison -- Blowin' Your Mind
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band -- Gorilla
Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper
Hollies -- Butterfly
Hollies -- Evolution
Them -- Now and Them
Dusty Springfield -- Where Am I Going?

 

This list is almost perfect. I would substitute Jimi Hendrix "Are You Expeienced" for The Stone's "Between the Buttons". I guess "Magical Mysterty Tour" does not qualify as it was an EP in England, so my runner's up is The Hollies "Butterfly".

 

Manfred Mann- Mighty Garvey

 

1. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. The Bee Gees - Bee Gees 1st
4. The Kinks - Something Else
5. Donovan - Mellow Yellow
6. The Shadows - From Hank, Bruce, Brian and John
7. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8. Cream - Disraeli Gears
9. The Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
10.The Hollies - Evolution

 

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
Donovan - A Gift From a Flower To a Garden
The Hollies - Evolution
Bee Gees - 1st
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
Procol Harum - s/t

 

Scott Walker song.

 

The Beatles--Sgt. Pepper
The Who Sell Out
The Kinks--Something Else
Donovan--Mellow Yellow
Procol Harum--S/T
Cream--Disraeli Gears
The Hollies--Evolution
Rolling Stones--Between the Buttons