10 Best UK albums of 1967

Think you've picked the creme da la creme there.

 

It was released in '68.

 

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Something Else by The Kinks
There Are But Four Small Faces
Disraeli Gears
Magical Mystery Tour

 

1. Scott Walker - Scott
2. The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
5. Donovan - A Gift From a Flower to a Garden
6. The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
7. The Who - The Who Sell Out
8. The Kinks - Something Else
9. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
10. Bee Gees - Bee Gees 1st

 

1. The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's"
2. The Hollies "Evolution"
3. The Hollies Butterfly"
4. The Kinks "Something Else"
5. The Who "Sell Out"
6. The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request"
7. Donovan "A Gift From A Flower To A Garden"
8. Pink Floyd "The Piper At The Gates of Dawn"
9. Bee Gees "1st"
10.Nirvana "The Story of Simon Simopath"

 

Nirvana ! Alex Spyropolous & Patrick Campbell Lyons.

 

That one is one of the best and most underrated albums from the 60s, it's as good as "Odessey And Oracle", "Village Green", etc

"Everyday Another Hair To Turn Grey" it's one of the most beautiful and sad song I've ever heard.

 

I'll agree with this list. I think Satanic Majesties is a fantastic album. Of course, all the critics hated it.

 

"Blaze" by Herman's Hermits is another great and unknown album from 1967: "Museum", "Moonshine Man", "Last Bust Home", "One Little Packet of Cigarettes"... all terrific songs, the best album of the Herman's.

 

Yes agree very underrated. It's good to get away from the usual suspects.

 

I apologize totally. February 1968 is so far removed from 1967.

 

Something catches your eye when staring at the 3-D UK LP cover.

 

There was no Mellow Yellow UK release. There was a twelve song album called Sunshine Superman there were another
8 tracks released only on 45. a total of twenty tracks. these were released in the U.S. as a pair of 10-track l.p.'s
Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow.

 

There was no Little Games UK release. If the Yardbirds had had control of their releases outside the UK
it wouldn't have been released anywhere.

 

Correct!

 

Actually the industry was still tiny in 67 although growing extremely fast. the industry seemed to double size each year at the end of the sixties. It seemed to go from 1/2 billion dollars to a billion to 2 billion to 3 1/2 billion during those years 68-71. Let's say, in 67 it was in the process of becoming something big. The seventies was when the record business was big business. The Beatles contract for example was they got 1 penny for each
record sold in the UK. outside the UK they got 1/4 cent. In the mid sixties the break even point for the average album was sales of 10,000 copies.

 

Mellow Yellow was never a UK release until much later reissue programmes. Sunshine Superman was put back a year due to the contractual dispute with PYE and the UK version contains tracks from both albums. From Wikipedia -

"Due to the contractual dispute between Pye Records and Epic Records, Donovan's releases were held back in the UK throughout 1966 and early 1967. During this time, Donovan released Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow in the US. To catch up to the Epic Records schedule in America, Pye Records compiled a cross-section of both albums and titled it Sunshine Superman.

It was released in the UK (Pye NPL 18181) in June 1967 and reached #25 in the British charts."

 

Yes ' I have SS. A tad better cover.

 

As I only have 11 from 1967 it'd be churlish to relegate one.

Small Faces - Small Faces
The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Savoy Brown - Shake Down
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Gorilla
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - Crusade
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons

 

Bonzo's 'Mono/Stereo?

 

David Bowie's debut came out in 1967 and probably tops that year with absolute classics like Uncle Arthur, Rubber Band and Maid of Bond Street... unbelievably consistent album...

 

Dated well.
Sounds better in 2014.

 

No love for 'Forever Changes', by Love? Hard to believe.

 

Believe" It would be 'but this thread is for UK albums!

 

Magical Mystery Tour isn't a UK album