Your Fave Album Reviewed (or Advertised) in Rolling Stone Vol. 1 #1 Nov. 9, 1967

Beefheart v. Hendrix.

the Sonny Bono album is out there

Odd that they'd be advertising or reviewing the first Cream album when the follow-up came out a week before publication, although I guess the details of record distribution and review protocols were still in their infancy.
Safe as Milk is very fine but voted Hendrix.

The Baroques were a great garage psych act:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04wgrjx6gM

The Hendrix and Cream reviews are in a long Jon Landau piece about blues trios comparing the two albums

I think the "regular" reviews (Guthrie, Sopwith Camel, Chuck Berry) are all by Jann Wenner.

Hendrix easy, it's in a league of its own, but if it wasn't in the poll, I'd pick Safe as Milk. Maybe Fresh Cream after that, but the 20-track program on the 1995 compilation The Very Best of Cream is pretty much all the Cream I'd want to keep and I prefer to hear them that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRsip_lZ50

Cream for me.

Yeah, I almost ticked Safe as Milk, but Are You Experienced? is just undeniable.

Some choice criticism in the Jimi Hendrix piece: "Everything else is insane and simply a matter of whether you dig it or you don't. Basically I don't for several reasons."

That Cream compilation covers all their best-known and "important" material, but leaves out two of their best songs, "Dance the Night Away" and "As You Said".

That Sonny track is fun, never heard that. Also wild to be reminded that a man with such a bleating tuneless voice was actually a successful singer for any period of time.

I like that era where folks like Sonny and Chad & Jeremy were throwing off their commercial sheen and letting out their true sound--which just happened to sound much like what was getting popular at the time

I'm about three minutes into that Sonny Bono track, and wondering how I'm going to make it through the remaining nine. Fun for a bit, but really turns into an endurance contest.

Sopwith Camel! I never really paid attn to that debut but their follow up like 5 years later is a lot of fun

torn here between JHE and Beefheart

If you were curious what Rolling Stone thought of Fresh Cream and Are You Experienced at the time:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/album-reviews-jimi-hendrix-and-eric-clapton-188030/

I love Are You Experienced to death, but even I will agree with the review that “There ain’t no life nowhere” is a pretty stupid lyric.

Beefheart. But I feel like sooner or later that lightbulb is going to click on and I'm really going to "get" Hendrix.

I assume Alice's Restaurant will get no votes, insofar as the epic title track is a huge slice of classic self-satisfied boomer hippie cheese... but I remain fond of it, and throw my Mom's old copy on for a listen every so often. I'm sure Side B has some good stuff beyond "The Motorcycle Song," but I can't place any of the tunes by their titles.

btw Wenner also reviews some singles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw3pQlYfCP8

Electric Flag- Groovin' is Easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a77yHpjdUtU

Traffic- Hole in My Shoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsfPkfHKwxE

H.P. Lovecraft- Wayfaring Stranger

The Fascinations- Hold On (Can't find a video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMPZ2UIVtoI

The Herd- From the Underworld

That Cream compilation covers all their best-known and "important" material, but leaves out two of their best songs, "Dance the Night Away" and "As You Said".
I really like the cello part of "As You Said" - I wish someone would sample it.

The Herd was Frampton, right?

I'm sure Side B has some good stuff beyond "The Motorcycle Song," but I can't place any of the tunes by their titles.

I like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyto_j-bt6M

xpost yeah I think Frampton was with them in '67

Just skimmed Landau’s Hendrix/Cream reviews. I agree with him that “I’m So Glad” is the highlight of Fresh Cream. (I’m on a touchscreen...I can’t italicizes and it’s killing me.)

The Herd was Frampton, right?

He was a teen heartthrob. Songs (mostly) written by Howard & Blaikley, the writers behind Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.

“There ain’t no life nowhere” is a pretty stupid lyric.

You have to understand, he was disgusted after a poll thread he created only got four votes.

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Hendrix all day every day.

Pammie’s on a bummer owns

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