The Kinks - Village Green Moody Blues - In Search of ... Shades of Deep Purple Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
The Beatles - The Beatles The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Van Morrison - Astral Weeks The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle Scott Walker - Scott 2 Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Band - Music From Big Pink Porter Wagoner - The Bottom of the Bottle Asylum Choir - Look Inside Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown George Harrison - Wonderwall Music Randy Newman - s/t
These are the albums that I had back in the day. Since then I’ve acquired many more from this year but I still love these after half a century! Introspect - Joe South Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel The Wichita Train Whistle Sings – Mike Nesmith The Beatles (S/T) Creedence Clearwater Revival (S/T) This Was – Jethro Tull Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash Tommy – The Who The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees The Move (S/T) Head – The Monkees Neil Young (S/T)
The Beatles Van Morrison Astral weeks Zombies Odessey and oracle Pretty things SF sorrow Stones Beggar's banquet Millennium Begin Sagittarius Present tense Laura Nyro Eli Blue Cheer Vincebus eruptum July Grateful dead Anthem of the sun Hendrix Electric ladyland Pink Floyd A saucerful of secrets Fairport convention What we did in our holidays The Soft Machine Nico The marble index Mothers of invention We're only on it... HP Lovecraft II Kinks Village green Caetano Veloso Joni Mitchell
Dr John Gris Gris Grateful Dead Anthemn of teh Sun (& live sets from August that year though released much later) Pentangle Sweet Child thinking of a number of live sets recorded taht year that were released much later , great year for jefferson Airplane , most of teh SF scene i think, Tim Buckley, James Brown, will think of others in a bit
various combos of Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Nara Leao & Gal Costa - Tropicalia: ou Panis et Circencis
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Paris (recorded live at O'Lympia Paris, January 29, 1968) This was bootlegged for a long time. One of the more well-known, more professionally-executed releases was in 1989 on the "Swingin' Pig" label. It's also available as disc 2 of the Stages compilation. I can't locate anything from this on youtube at the moment, unfortunately.
The Beatles is my favourite album of 1968 I also really like Friends by Beach Boys Scott 2 by Scott Walker Waiting For The Sun by The Doors Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel White Light White Heat by Velvet Underground A Saucerful of Secrets by Pink Floyd
I've said for decades that there were no bad rock albums made in 1967. Yes, even Sonny had Pammie to save him (lol)......1968 comes very, very close. A very 'heavy' year that was reflected in the music.
It was a very good year. Random order: Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears Simon Says - 1910 Fruitgum Company I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye Music from Big Pink - The Band Aretha Now - Aretha Franklin The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks Feliciano! - José Feliciano Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival The Beatles - The Beatles God Bless Tiny Tim - Tiny Tim At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash Move - The Move 1,2,3, Red Light - 1910 Fruitgum Company Randy Newman - Randy Newman Shades of Deep Purple - Deep Purple We’re Only In It For the Money - Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt - The Stone Poneys / Linda Ronstadt Fave track:
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Nancy And Lee P.F. Sloan - Twelve More Times The Beatles ("The White Album") Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim Big Brother and The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills Elvis Presley - Elvis (NBC-TV Special) Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland The Monkees - Head Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Fleetwood Mac The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet Quicksilver Messenger Service The Who - Magic Bus
Possibly the most obscure rock LP of '68 listed here. Five By Five was a garage rock band from the great metropolis of Magnolia, Arkansas. Their only album was on the Paula label out of Shreveport, Louisiana (the label that gave us "Judy In Disguise [With Glasses]" by John Fred & His Playboy Band the year before). The album is mostly covers, some kinda mediocre, but others dynamite, including Hendrix's "Fire" and Love's "7 and 7 Is." Sadly, their best singles ("Apple Cider" and "15 Going on 20") are missing, but some decent southern garage here. Next Exit - Five By Five (Paula, 1968) 7 and 7 Is - Five By Five:
A classic of Southern Soul, the last album by James Carr until his comeback LP 20+ years later. Includes the slow-burn smash "Dark End of the Street" -- A Man Needs a Woman - James Carr (Goldwax, 1968) Dark End of the Street - James Carr:
