What is the best album ever to be released in 1967?

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The correct answer is 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', with an honourable mention for 'Velvet Underground & Nico'.

― Steve Daedalus, Monday, 22 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.carlcoxphoto.com/images/mclaughlin.jpg
WRONG!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The correct answer is "I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You", with an honourable mention for "Forever Changes".

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and "Scott".

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.toyadz.com/toyadz/arcade/koolaid183.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"May the baby jesus shut your mouth and open your mind"

http://ws02.hp.infoseek.co.jp/DONDESTAN/dondestan/70/beefheart02d.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate to be canonical, but:

http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/Tips/VelvetundergroundNico.jpg

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

you Velvets people have got it all wrong, it should be
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002G7E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
I always read conflicting release dates for this, either Dec 1967 or Jan 1968. I'm going with the former for the purposes of this thread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

my brain just exploded trying to untangle the tenses in the question

oh and the correct answer is Kites Are Fun duh

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f374/f37441h03d1.jpg

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

bleh, who cares abt any of this canonical nonsense?

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB020403220926441773&sql=B51t67ul0h0jj

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I always read conflicting release dates for this, either Dec 1967 or Jan 1968. I'm going with the former for the purposes of this thread.

According to AllMusic.com it's Nov 1967, which I think is right.

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

god the 60s were awful

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB020403220926441773&sql=Aetaxqj1boj6a

this one, specifically!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

And yeah, obviously, White Light / White Heat > the banana album.

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you ever been Experienced?

― ..., Monday, 22 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Jake Thackray - The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray

either that or:

Freddie Phillips/ Brian Cant - A Visit to Trumpton

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. with an HM to Forever Changes.

And if we do this for 1968, it'll be the Turtles, The Battle of the Bands.

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Watch as I cheat a bit and choose three:
1. http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:6yF1iWQhm5AJ:lead-zepp.cool.ne.jp/p4021jc/49space.JPG 2. http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:2F0-j6yVFmQJ:www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/afterglo/music/covers/v/velvet_underground.gif 3. http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:Sq-rNNI3CcAJ:www.journalish.com/albums/Jimi%2520Hendrix%2520-%2520Are%2520You%2520Experienced%253F.jpg
1. Recorded '67, released '74
2. Recorded '66, released '67
3. Recorded & released '67

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Strongo so completely not OTM. See: James Brown, Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, but '67:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002ARY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://www.collectable-records.ru/images/GROUPS/Miles%20Davies/sorcerer/front.jpg http://noppo.bbzone.net/media/1/20030715-d685475897j.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/15496.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There's some good ones being dredged up now!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wirz.de/music/takoma/grafik/10174.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

2nd best:

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/18474.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I fully realise it's not "cool" to like the Doors any more, but I think their '67 début holds up pretty well.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UAU.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

, still

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Not the best, but the high-point of everyone involved's career:

http://www.optimismsflames.com/Webimages/1P-33.html%20imagefolder/Disraeli%20Gears.jpg

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I predict that no one is going to like my CDRGO for 1967.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

walk through this world with me - george jones

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd go with the first Moby Grape LP, because it's the pop album from '67 I enjoy the most.
Hendrix's and Beefheart's first are the most groundbreaking pop albums of the year. I'm just sick of the Velvet Underground myself.
"Cold Sweat" was the greatest popular song cut that year by a mile, forget "albums." Howard Tate was recording then too.
The best pop records made in '67 were Notorious Byrd Brothers and Odessey and Oracle (both released in '68). Sure, Forever Changes, but I still like the Byrds and Zombies releases better. Da Capo was recorded '66 but released '67, and of course its first side is unbeatable.
Yeah, George Jones!

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002OX5.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Released in 1967 in the UK, '68 in the US.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Strange Days > The Doors

Safe As Milk > everything

Also big ups to Dyke and the Blazers' Funky Broadway.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite of those mentioned so far is the Leonard Cohen album.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I just wasted twenty minutes trying to find a good picture of Judy Garland at Home at the Palace. Anyhow, there's yer answer.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

kaleidoscope - tangerine dream

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and the pink floyd one

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Piper. #2: RUX

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I had thought VU&N was December 66.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and Piper at the Gates of Dawn is seconded by Gorilla

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Forever Changes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

....is from 1968

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

No it isn't.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The correct answer is "CHEERIOS & BANANA"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Beefheart, Velvets, and

THE SOFT MACHINE 'VOLUME ONE', cunts!

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread was started 36 hours ago and no one has come up with the correct answer, which is this:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f589/f58986jdswo.jpg

you are all fired.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Leonard Cohen and Soft Machine albums are '68.

― Michael Dubsky, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Forever Changes I believe was released in November of '67, tho I have seen sources citing 1968. These things can be hard to pin down - maybe sometimes advance copies are used to determine release dates which are actually a month or two later, on the cusp of a new year. Who knows?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It is funny how whether an album was 1967 or 1968 seems important to us now, but at the time, it wouldn't have at all. I mean I don't really care if an album was released in late 2003 or early 2004. They seem the same. But 1967 or 1968 - woah, that's a big difference.

Were people avoiding saying 'Sgt Pepper' on purpose, by the way. Sorry if I spoiled the gag. I guess I just wasn't made for these times.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d658/d65898q674m.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

may 1967
http://members.aol.com/bilronlmn/cover12.gif
december 1967
http://mellocads.com/images/fifth.jpg

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Forgot about Begs2Differ's no.2, which is wonderful, but I'm staying mod for 1967 with either factcheckingcuz or billstevejim.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c429/c42963jkpy2.jpg

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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