Is Woodstock good evidence that 1969 was the worst year for music?

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Reading Reynold's post I was thinking "no, no there was plenty of good stuff that year" but then I was thinking about the sheer awfulness of most of the music from those three days and I couldn't help but think well maybe he's right.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

plenty of good shit happened in 1969 that had nothing to do with woodstock

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

lock thread

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think if the cultural baggage can be stripped away concerning the music or that era or something, it's clear there was a ton of good stuff played at Woodstock. "Sheer awfulness" is a little harsh anyhow. Also, what cutty said.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I think it might have been more the ossified legacy it left than the music itself. (Which that damned film did nothing to improve, for obvious reasons.) Hell, didn't James Brown have one of his best years ever then?

(X-post but hey.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

these were the acts that played over the three days (just for reference sake):

Friday Sept 3rd
Gang of Four, The Ramones, The English Beat, Oingo Boingo, The B-52's,
Talking Heads, The Police [Rankin' Roger from the English Beat joined the
Police at the end of their set].

Saturday Sept 4th
Dave Edmunds, Eddie Money, Santana, The Cars, The Kinks, Pat Benatar, Tom
Petty & the Heartbreakers.

Sunday Sept 5th
Grateful Dead [start time 9:30 am], Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffet, Jackson
Browne, Fleetwood Mac.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking + Liege & Lief
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
+ lots of Brazilian Tropicalia

Not what I'd call a weak year.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I actually like watching the Woodstock movie from time to time, though as much for the footage of kids and the townspeople as the music. I like Richie Havens' set in the movie, like watching Sly Stone, Canned Heat, sometimes even like watching the "1-2-3-4 what are we fighting for" follow the ball thing -- but yeah, about half the music seems completely not my thing. Joan Baez is kind of unlistenable to me.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

i think its just proof that woodstock itself was a shitty concert and everyone was too out of it to put on good performances or really get into the music.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, maybe an in-between year after sixties Zeitgeists and before seventies genres got going, but probably enough scattered things all over the place to refute the idea.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry to snark - reynolds post got me goin')

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Does music have "bad years"? What are some other years that come to mind as bad?

― Marty Slagter (martysla), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the Who performance was quite good. Kind of a "fuck-you" to the rest of the hippy-dippy shit that was on display at that crap concert.

― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

CCR @ Woodstock is unfuckwithable

― come on baby let's go downtown (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Omega Man to thread!

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Any fucking year that sees both Zep I and Zep II not to mention Trout Mask Replica and fucking Mutantes is a PRETTY GOOD FUCKING YEAR in my book.

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

haha Richie Havens fucking SUCKS in that movie!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

don't fight the sandals

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also add to the list of monster records from '69: "Let It Bleed," "In a Silent Way," the Jackson 5, Sly, about a thousand other soul records . . .

― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think that surly trumpet dude did some stuff that year, whatsisface

(xp)

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the Who performance was quite good. Kind of a "fuck-you" to the rest of the hippy-dippy shit that was on display at that crap concert.

that performance -- specifically pete's ending freakout -- is entirely responsible for everything fushitsusha ever recorded.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

And the skinny peanut butter-smearing guy, and those Dylan-pally beardos from Canada and/or Arkansas, and that baldheaded gold chainmail shirt dude and the lady from "What've I Done to Deserve This"

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

matos otm

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

what about those two nerds from Queens, did they put anything out that year?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

keeping in mind I own no Richie Havens records, I like him in the movie. yes, the sound is off, yes, he walks off mic, but actually I like that part, and I like the songs he played, particularly the first one, which seemed like a perfect way to start things

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, don't be like me and ruin your fun for this thread by peeking at the Wikipedia entry!

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

(But I think that hillbilly mama's boy may have done something interesting in that year as well)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Is Woodstock '99 good evidence that 1999 was the worst year for music?

― RODNEY HAVE TOO MANY EMOTHINS!!! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

what about those two nerds from Queens, did they put anything out that year?

I think they had a song about a guy who punches people

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh they're all bad years

― my teeth are horrible, I'm gaining weight, I don't understand twelve-tone (dubpl, Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

jess otm

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

NOT EVERYTHING'S GOTTA HAVE A CRAZY THEORY ATTACHED TO IT

― my teeth are horrible, I'm gaining weight, I don't understand twelve-tone (dubpl, Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hendrix's set must contain some of the best musical moments in rock history. I'll also rep for the Who, Santana, Sly Stone, Havens (the same way Dominique does), and I don't even mind Joe Cocker (a whole lot better than stuff he did later on). I don't think I hated anything from it. The fashions and hairstyles are practically indistinguishable from how a lot of white students and indie rockers dress now. (Watching the movie last year, I was struck by this.)

I kind of dread to think what Reynolds would pick as the best year for music.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

haha i'm pretty sure my mom was watching the same broadcast of woodstock as reynolds because she left me a voicemail last weekend asking me what happened to joe cocker because she loved him so much.

― my teeth are horrible, I'm gaining weight, I don't understand twelve-tone (dubpl, Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

If anything Country Joe is probably one of the least interesting parts for me.

xpost Let me tell you, when you have to hear Joe Cocker's GH repeatedly, you look forward to "With a Little Help From My Friends."

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I love the Santana stuff in the movie

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

JESS OTM AGAIN

i don't what the beef with joe cocker is either

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

And the skinny peanut butter-smearing guy, and those Dylan-pally beardos from Canada and/or Arkansas

Hilarious that both The Stooges and The Band released eponymous albums that year!

― shorty (shorty), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

If I may play oops for a moment, were there no good Motown/Stax/Atlantic /MillionsOfOtherSoulR&BLabels records released that year?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

none

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

And I think that Beach Boy reject guitar-picking country crooner might have put out a record that year.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Where's The Playground, Simon?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Grateful Dead - Live/Dead.

Reading his piece (and I love that he throws out things like this from time to time, fun conversation starter) it occurred to me that 1969 was a year when American music really dominated the rock landscape & electric Chicago blues influence was at its peak, maybe he was responding to some of that. Plus all the big stars in 1969 probably did look a lot better in 1967!

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

ohio express and 1910 fruitgum co. pro'lly peaked in '68.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

So then there was no good bubblegum, bubblegum psych, or bubblegum soul released that year?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

1910 Fruitgum Company's "Hard Ride" came out in 1969. Their best.

― everything (everything), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
Hot Buttered Soul
Gilded Palace of Sin

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to KENNNNNNN - there probably was, sir. "Sugar Sugar" was '69. J5, as pointed out earlier had first 45s in '69 amirite?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

TS: "the brown acid is a bummer" VS ACIEEEED house

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Tim, I was kidding. But I guess I didn't read Rickey's post too carefully- I thought the only Jackson mentioned so far was Jackson Browne.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

I guess Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash released their "Jackson" in 1968.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

I guess Wilson Pickett didn't release his version of "Sugar Sugar" until 1970, and put out his single on "Hey Jude" at the end of '68, although the album of the same name came out in 1969.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

And I guess I just don't know.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Which words were sung on a live record recorded if not released in the year in question.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

As yet unmentioned:

Allman Bros. s/t
B.B. King, "The Thrill is Gone"
Booker T. & the MG's, "Time is Tight"
David Bowie, "Space Oddity"
Eddie Harris, Silver Cycles
The Isley Brothers, "It's Your Thing"
Jimmy Hughes, "Chains of Love"
Jimmy Griff, "The Worm"
Koko Taylor s/t
Marva Whitney, It's My Thing
The Meters, s/t
Rufus Thomas, "Do the Funky Chicken"
Shocking Blue, At Home
The Winstons, "Amen My Brother"

― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Wonder what Simon thinks of that last one)

― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

(and uh Jimmy McGriff)

― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

(Simon was probably just slinging the hash so we could do the hard g00glework and refute him with the thread)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

(this thread)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Why anyone would bother to reply to this thread's question with a serious response is beyond me.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

I guess he was just trying to dis Woodstock and the self-importance of the Woodstock/BabyBoomer Generation with some overheated rhetoric, but maybe not really the year 1969 itself.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

But if he disses Woodstock the bird then Vince Guaraldi and either Colin Bailey and Monty Budwig or Jerry Granelli and Fred Marshall are gonna go medieval on his asterisk.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Why anyone would bother to reply to this thread's question with a serious response is beyond me.

Boredom/excuse to make reference to jungle building block released that very year

― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Why anyone would bother to reply to this thread's question with a serious response is beyond me."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

i figured it was a lex thread

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Why anyone would bother to reply to this thread's question with a serious response is beyond me."
I figure this is probably true for just about any thread, and not really worth the trouble it is to type.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

C/D? Making lazy, gross generalizations based on one cultural artifact.

― rigor please (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 23 November 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 23 November 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Black Sabbath "s/t"
Stooges "s/t" (touched upon above)
sounds like a pretty fucking good year in music to me. i understand the venom directed at clueless boomers and their bullshit baggage, but you can't slag an entire year because of it. Maybe some fine music was recorded in Cambodia that year, USA-centric motherfuckers.

― chad (chad), Thursday, 23 November 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

this is totally retarded but here are a few albums i like a lot from '69 that i don't think have been mentioned yet, because it seems to me this was maybe not exactly the WORST year for music ever:

elvis' memphis comeback album
"songs from a room"
"oar"
"let it bleed"
"scott 3"
"nashville skyline"
"ornette at 12"
"dusty in memphis"
"five leaves left"
"aoxomoxoa"
"our mother the mountain"
"songs for a tailor"
"happy trails"
"bull of the woods"
"the world of harry partch"
"scott 4"
can "monster movie"
neil young and crazy horse "everybody knows" (and his first one too)
kinks "arthur"
terry riley "poppy nogood"
fred mcdowell "i do not play no rock and roll"
amon duul "psychedelic underground"/ "collapsing"
staples "soul folk in action"
art ensemble "jackson in your house"
soft machine "volume 2"
gavin bryars "sinking of the titanic"
karen dalton "it's so hard to tell"
zappa "hot rats"
holy modal rounders "moray eels"
silver apples "contact"
moondog "moondog"
fahey "soli xmas"
tyrannosaurus rex "unicorn"
sonny sharrock "black woman"
aretha "i say a little prayer"
doors "soft parade"
miles "silent way"
groundhogs "blues obituary"
bridget st john "ask"
bruce haack "electronic for children"
sun ra "my brother the wind 1 & 2"
cromagnon "orgasm"
don cherry "mu 2"
xhol caravan
spirit "family that"
love "four sail"
kevin ayers "joy of a toy"
davy graham "hat"
brotzman "nipples"
gong "magick brother"
bonzos "tadpoles"
mev "sound pool"
nico "marble index"
pearls before swine "these things too"
zappa "uncle meat"
mc5 "kick"
h. czukay "canaxis"
bert jansch "birthday blues"
procol harum "salty dog" (half of it's aces...)

i never heard the spooky tooth/ pierre henry collab. but that's from '69. giorno's "dial a poem" debuted that year i see (yeah i know, who cares). the blind faith album is aces, i think. some great jamaican music in '69 too.

and fairport released THREE rad albums that yesr, including "what we did on our holidays" which i do not think was mentioned before -- hard to believe!

― yetimike (McGonigal), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

i know that "this" usually means a song and 'this' an album -- not this time, obviously.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

i never heard the spooky tooth/ pierre henry collab. but that's from '69.

oh man, get that, it rules.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band (led by Charles Wright) had two good albums released in 1969, TOGETHER and IN THE JUNGLE, BABE (which Lester Bangs raved about in Rolling Stone). TOGETHER was solid dance-party funk recorded (mostly) live; JUNGLE was slightly more experimental. If they traded in the matching suits for hippie fashions, dropped the loungey cover versions, and played more rock dancehalls like the Fillmore West, they could have been Warner Bros. answer to Sly & the Family Stone. But they were a great band as they were, and these two albums catch them in their prime.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Reynolds really has turned into the Tony Blair of music journalism.

As usual, my take.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

(scroll down a big bit)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

(nb: some of these opinions have changed since the time of writing)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Y'know, Brian M. was just mentioning those Chas. Wright records the other night.

And Mike, I shouted out to "Let It Bleed" and "Silent Way" above -- my 1st & 3rd of all time. How you spending the big day in Portland? We must hook up. Six Arms has added the ELO hits record with the badge on the front to their juke, tho it seems to have taken the place of "Mingus Ah Um."

Marcello, wasn't '69 one of your first big purchasing or at least intensively listening years? I feel I've read you on that year before. I have memories going back to late '66, but '70 is the first year that feels *whole* to me. I got Wilson Pickett's "Sugar Sugar" *and* the Monkees' "Oh My My" (total jams both) for my birthday that year!

― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Rrrickey), Thursday, 23 November 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

1969 was no particularly good vintage, when compared to 1967 and 1968, but 1970 was to become way worse, as were, for instance, 1987 and 1990 too.

Plus every single year before the arrival of The Beatles was worse too.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 23 November 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

jon savage's "meridian 1970"

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 23 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

(Rickey xpost)

Well, my '69 Christmas present from my parents was a brand new Dansette record player. I opened it up and inside were mint copies of Abbey Road and Let It Bleed which wasn't a bad start.

First single I bought (or specifically asked my folks to buy for me) was "Sugar Sugar" that same week.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

C/D? Making lazy, gross generalizations based on one cultural artifact.

Listening to "Stars on 45" the other morning, for the umpteenth time (strangely, though, i don’t think I’ve ever heard it all the way through... I always seem to come in somewhere in the middle), it struck me: was 1981 the absolute worst year for music ever?

I say classic!

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 23 November 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

1981 was a great year. Lots of great New Romantic and synthpop music.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

1981 was one of the best years for music ever you silly fule!

(I haven't done a similar job on 1981 yet, have I? At least, not in public...)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

my point exactly! '81 is maybe the greatest--but let's take one of its (as someone said) cultural artifacts (and a fairly emblematic one at that) and pronounce about the whole year based on that one thing.

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yes, got you now, sorry for my slowness Scott.

(looking through the number ones of '81/2, you'd be excused if you didn't know better for thinking "golden age? what golden age?")

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

There were other golden ages too, but 1980-84 was one of them. Along with the mid to late 60s and the mid 70s.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

"every single year before the arrival of The Beatles was worse too"

Jesus Christ, Geir.

In response to the original post, I would have killed to be alive during 1969, the whole era was an incredibly exciting time for music for really obvious reasons, some of which have been posted here. to say that 1969 is the worst year in music is to ignore years in which bands like Limp Bizkit, Creed, Vanilla Ice, etc etc etc. released music. obviously, hippies are obnoxious but come on, man.

― adam j (In Place of Something Clever), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

A year so bad I couldn't even make a worthwhile CDRGO out of it.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 23 November 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

If I may play oops for a moment, were there no good Motown/Stax/Atlantic /MillionsOfOtherSoulR&BLabels records released that year?

To name just the most visually obvious:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c489/c489611943o.jpg

But of course this thread itself can't be taken seriously. The only thing wrong with 1969 is that it wasn't 1970.

(I do appreciate that courageous anti-hippie stance however. About time SOMEBODY took those dirty LSD-smokers down a peg or two.)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing wrong with 1969 is that it wasn't 1970.

No, 1971, the most important year in the entirety of civilization. I am perhaps biased.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

My top ten fave 1969 albums, for what its' worth (first ten that came to mind):
TOGETHER, Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
HAPPY SOUL, Joe Tex
THE DETROIT-MEMPHIS EXPERIMENT, Mitch Ryder
ALIAS PINK PUZZ, Paul Revere & the Raiders
HOT BUTTERED SOUL, Isaac Hayes
IN THE JUNGLE, BABE, Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
HALLELUJAH, Canned Heat
THE STOOGES
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
THE PROGRESSIVE BLUES EXPERIMENT, Johnny Winter

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

1969:
http://www.rock.co.za/files/archies_2.jpg
http://www.rock.co.za/files/archies_3.jpg
http://www.rock.co.za/files/fruitgum_2.jpg http://www.rock.co.za/files/ohio_2.jpg
http://www.rock.co.za/files/bubblegum_music_sa.jpg
http://www.rock.co.za/files/kasenetz_2.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

And I would have mentioned the Rationals' self-titled album as well as MOBY GRAPE '69 in my Top 10 list up above, but alas, those titles only dawned on me after the list was made...

(And I thought KASENETZ-KATZ SUPER CIRCUS - by the Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus - was 1968, since "Quick Joey Small" on the LP was a hit that year.)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Equal time for 45's:
"Crystal Blue Persuasion" Tommy James & the Shondells
"C'mon Everybody" NRBQ
"Something Else," Flamin' Groovies
"Medicine Man," Buchanan Brothers
"How Can I Tell My Mom & Dad," Lovelites
"Groovy Grubworm," Harlow Wilcox
"Soul Deep," Box Tops
"Love In The City," Turtles
"Color Him Father"/"Amen Brother," Winstons
"Did You See Her Eyes," Illusion
"Okie From Muskogee," Merle Haggard
"You, I," Rugbys
"Come & Get It," Badfinger
"Baby, I'm For Real," Originals
"Oh What A Night," Dells
"The Hen," Louis Chachere
"Indian Giver," 1910 Fruitgum Co.
"Choice Of Colors," Impressions

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

the site i lifted the kasenetz album cover says 69 - it's kind of a weird record of slightly different versions of already-hits etc (like lots of the buddah shit), so could have come out a year after the single was already a hit

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

That KASENETZ-KATZ SUPER CIRKUS album you is one of the few K-K bubblegum albums that sounds consistently good all the way through (not counting greatest-hits albums). Even the Shadows of Knight and Crazy Elephant elpees had their weak spots, but K-K SUPER CIRCUS sounds good from front to back.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, it's killer!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/ofmang/shockingblue/sbfrllr.jpg

I found Chewy Chewy by Ohio Express on vinyl for 3 quid in Camden Music Exchange the other day!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

"send me a postcard" is such a freaking dynamite song.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

seconding:
http://www.zero.co.nz/music/images/Presley,%20Elvis%20-%20From%20Elvis%20in%20Memphis.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 23 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

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