Your Favorite Albums Of 1967

I suppose. But what wasted talents.

 

I think his real problem was alcohol

 

It's all good. I don't grade on spelling.

 

1. The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
2. Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3. Monkees – Pisces…
4. The Beach Boys – Wild Honey
5. The Beatles – Sgt Pepper
6. The Who – Sell Out
7. Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
8. The Doors – s/t
9. The Rolling Stones – Between The Buttons
10. The Beatles Magical Myster Tour

 

All marvelous albums! Some of my favorites too!

 

Issues regarding identity, non-conformity yet the eternal desire to fit in, and many other elements are all part of the
of the disease though. And then there is the late 6os which were, no doubt, fairly hazardous to say the least.
Anyway, The Doors got a lot of really astounding work out there in their short time together. Somehow, I can’t imagine how JM could’ve conceived and performed as he did without the booze....came with the territory, I’m afraid.
Again, it just would have ended better perhaps if he’d gotten treatment.

 

Velvet Underground & Nico
Donovan
Leonard Cohen
Buffalo Springfield
Nico

 

Yes. All exceptional albums. Definitely classics.

 

A common issue often thrown up that alcohol & drugs are essential to the creative process. John Coltrane proves this to be false by producing his most outstanding evocative work after he kicked his heroin problems. Alcohol & drugs kill the creative process & eventually kill the addict.

 

Very true and has been proven time and time again.

 

So, should I keep doing favorite albums by year or stop with this year?

 

They’re all from your list, so...

 

I didn't have all those on my list. Not Nico or Cohen. Or Donovan.

 

Oops.
Sorry about that.

 

No problem. It's all good.

 

Thank you.

 

Why not. The lists are going to get longer & the choices more diverse.

 

Ok kool I'll keep doing it then. I'm having fun doing it anyway.

 

My favourite year for music.
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
2. The Piper's at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
3. Strange Days - The Doors
4. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
5. The Doors - The Doors
6. Something Else By the Kinks - The Kinks
7. Disraeli Gears - Cream
8. Axis: Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix
9. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
10. Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

 

Great list of albums!

 

Some additional that I don't think have been mentioned as yet:

Collections - The Young Rascals
Groovin' - The Young Rascals
The Time Has Come - The Chambers Brothers
The Youngbloods - The Youngbloods
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Live In Europe - Otis Redding
Blowin' Your Mind! - Van Morrison
Reach Out - Four Tops
Album 1700 - Peter, Paul, and Mary
Deliver - The Mamas and The Papas
Hip Hug-Her - Booker T and the MGs
Cold Sweat - James Brown
Wave - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Up, Up, and Away - The Fifth Dimension

Also - an audiophile legend:
Casino Royale Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Burt Bacharach

This thread bring back great memories! I was in the 9th - 10th grade, turned 15 in October, 1967. So all of these albums were my soundtrack, and I bought as many as I could afford (not that many) at the time - or circled back and bought them later when I had more funds.

 

Great picks! Awesome albums!

 

4 albums that I bought new in 1967 that continue to cast a magical spell over me are as follows...
#1.The Doors s/t hit with so much power that it almost blew everything else off the musical map...

There was absolutely nothing that sounded like the 1967 era Doors...

Sitting down to dinner with your family was never the same after The Doors....

The Doors is my #1 record of all time

#2.Fresh Cream was the arrival of country blues juiced by Claptons English electric guitar pyrotechnics backed by the bone crushing sounds of drummer Ginger Baker & Bassist Jack Bruce....

As influential in their way as the Beatles were in theirs...

The psychedelic 60s jam would never have flourished like it did without Cream.Period.


A awesome sound!(especially in mono)

Again nothing sounded like this in 1967...until

#3.Jimi Hendrix Experience - AYE
On the back of the cover the last 2 words were Be Forewarned but that still couldn't prepare the listeners for the onslaught of prophetic music found within the grooves of yet another unqualified 1967 debut...

Guitar and music in general would forever be changed by the arrival of James Marshall Hendrix...

A top 5 favorite still today

Finally the 3rd greatest acid experience on vinyl ever recorded...

#4.Country Joe And The Fish - EMFTMAB was the album all self respecting hippies carried under their arm...

It is one of 3 premeir psychedelic albums from the 1960s & another of my favs....

I would love to be able to include Great Society - Conspicuous Only In Its Absence because it is my fav psychedelic album over everything (excluding Doors) but alas I can't because it was recorded in 1966 & released in 1968 as a cash grab for Grace Slicks involvement & immense talent in the Jefferson Airplane...

This was/is the fabled San Francisco Sound & contains the definitive versions of White Rabbit & Somebody To Love...

Anyway the other LPs I named will forever hold a special place in my heart as great musical memories from the year 1967

 

In 1967 I turned 11 years old & hadn't started buying albums. That would start in 1970 & has been an obsession ever since. Being there at the time is a very different journey & has a different feel to going back to rediscover what you missed out on. The internet has been the greatest aid to re-discovery & is equally as efficient in discovering new artists & albums if you are a seeker.

 

The Doors - S/T

The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday

Cream - Disraeli Gears

The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen

The Kinks - Something Else

The Who - The Who Sells Out

Traffic - S/T