10 Best USA albums of 1967

USA albums only. Your ten best albums from this year ?

 

Miles Davis-Sorcerer
Miles Davis-Smiles
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Doors-S/T
The Doors-Strange Days
Capt. Beefheart-Safe as Milk
The Mothers-Absolutely Free
Monk-Stright No Chaser
Tim Buckley-Goodbye and Hello
Nico-Chelsea Girl
Moby Grape-S/T

 

Weekend bump !

 

The Beach Boys - Smile (yeah, I know, but even in unfinished form, it looms large!)
VU - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
The Doors - Strange Days
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Love - Forever Changes
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Frank Zappa & the Mothers - Absolutely Free
The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Honorable Mentions: Jefferson Airplane (Pillow & Baxters), The Doors (debut), Gene Clark (w/ Gosdin Brothers), Love (Da Capo)

 

1. The Monkees – Pisces etc.
2. The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile
3. The Doors s/t
4. VU & Nico
5. Love – Forever Changes
6. The Beach Boys – Wild Honey
7. The Mothers – Absolutely Free
8. Dion & The Belmonts – Together Again
9. The Loving Spoonful – Everything Playing
10. Jerry Reed - The Unbelievable Guitar and Voice of Jerry Reed

 

Pisces number 1. Cool !

 

Sinatra/Jobim sounds better today.

 

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Erroll Garner - That's My Kick
Claudine Longet - Claudine
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Nina Simone - Sings the Blues
Claudine Longet - The Look of Love
Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show
Nina Simone - Silk & Soul

 

Well, here are the 10 I play most often:

Love -- Forever Changes
Gene Clark -- With the Gosdin Brothers
Bob Dylan -- John Wesley Harding
H. P. Lovecraft -- s/t
VU -- The Velvet Underground and Nico
Monkees -- PAC&J Ltd.
Beau Brummels -- Triangle
Leonard Cohen -- Songs of LC
Magic Sam Blues Band -- West Side Soul
Scott Walker -- Scott [shut up; he's from the U.S.]

 

Keep them commin and a keep on truckin.

 

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Miles Davis - Sorceror
The Doors - s/t
John Fahey - Days Have Gone By
The Fugs - Virgin Fugs
The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
Sam Rivers - Contours
Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon
Sun Ra - We Travel the Spaceways
The Velvet Underground and Nico - s/t

 

Country Joe & The Fish - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die
The Turtles - Happy Together
The Monkees - Headquarters
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Harper's Bazaar - Feelin' Groovy
The Mamas and The Papas - Deliver
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Make It Happen
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
The Supremes - The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland

 

The Doors--S/T
Jefferson Airplane--Surrealistic Pillow
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jimi Hendrix--Are You Experienced?
The Beatles--Sgt. Pepper
Moby Grape--S/T
Buffalo Springfield--Again
Love--Forever Changes
The Who Sell Out

And so many titles competing for tenth place (Kinks Something Else, Aretha I Never Loved a Man, etc.), it's hard to single one out. What a year!

 

What The Who's from Detroit ?

 

The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Love - Forever Change
Moby Grape - s/t
Grateful Dead - s/t
The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Nico - Chelsea Girl

 

Think the USA trumps the UK for knockout albums in 67'.

 

The Seeds - Future

 

Electric Music for the Mind & Body - Country Joe and the Fish
Forever Changes - Love
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
Buffalo Springfield Again
Younger Than Yesterday - Byrds
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Goodbye and Hello - Tim Buckley
The Doors
Songs of Leonard Cohen

 

Deliver ?

 

1. The Glass Family Electric Band -- The Glass Family Electric Band
2. H.P. Lovecraft ‎-- H.P. Lovecraft
3. Country Joe & The Fish -- Electric Music For The Mind And Body
4. Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band -- Safe As Milk
5. The Kaleidoscope -- Side Trips
6. The Mothers Of Invention -- We're Only In It For The Money
7. The Doors -- The Doors
8. The Byrds -- Younger Than Yesterday
9. Jefferson Airplane -- Surrealistic Pillow
10. The Peanut Butter Conspiracy -- The Great Conspiracy

 

Sorry. Wasn't paying close enough attention. I guess The Beatles would have to go too, right?

 

New list:

The Doors--S/T
Jefferson Airplane--Surrealistic Pillow
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jimi Hendrix--Are You Experienced?
Moby Grape--S/T
Buffalo Springfield--Again
Love--Forever Changes
Aretha Franklin--I Never Loved a Man

I'll leave it at eight.

 

Axis: Bold As Love
Born Under A Bad Sign (Albert King)
Equinox (Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66)
Lofty Fake Anagram (Gary Burton Quartet)
Pandemonium Shadow Show (Harry Nilsson)
The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
Sorcerer (Miles Davis)
Straight, No Chaser (Thelonius Monk)
Virgin Fugs
Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim)

 

Not Outrageous, but.