Rolling Stone's 40 Essential Albums of 1967

Love

As Love

Are You Experienced?

sgt. pepper, piper, forever changes, and easter everywhere all deserve consideration imo.

i mean, i know it's rolling stone, but we can't do better than those dead and big brother lps for top forty albums of this year?

oh and vu and nico, too

two jefferson airplane albums - i ask u is this necessary

that big brother album sucks somethin fierce but the first dead is pretty awesome, dude!

Fair to say that 1967 is completely underrated by everyone who doesn't like Rolling Stone magazine? Seriously, that's a pretty great list... I'll probably vote for Sell Out or Between the Buttons or Wild Honey or Dionne Warwick or Velvets or the second Hendrix--plus there are a bunch of things I have a feeling are just as good that I don't know as well (Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, maybe a few others). I'd even consider The Doors. Surprised there's no Mothers of Invention, and I see at least three on here I thought were 1968 (Kinks, Dylan, second Hendrix). Sure, there's some junk also, but...

Who are The Serpent Power?

some ny folk rock band i think

i actually like the big brother album more than the dead one because it has "down on me" and "light is faster than sound."

PLZ TO ACCEPT GARBAGE MUSIC IN CANON

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No Safe As Milk, no cred.

No Fairouz? No Eddie Palmieri? No La Lupe?

I'm glad Moby Grape made it in the list.

yeh thank goodness san francisco is represented!

(To my partial surprise) I'm voting for: Only ten people bought it, but. . .

Where's the jazz though?

Forever Changes.

Between The Buttons today. At least 15 or 16 more great ones on there though.

The Serpent Power were Bay Area, too. That record is on Vanguard, it's good! Hard for me to decided between Easter Everywhere, Piper, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, Moby Grape, and Sell Out. EE wins.

this is pretty much a list of some of my least favorite records (but that doesn't necessarily mean bad) by some of my favorite artists.

and yes, who is this Serpent Power?

xpost thanks

Forever Changes

cheers to the first and last great Pink Floyd album

Forever Changes forever and always.

Serpent Power wonderers, go here:

http://lost-in-tyme.blogspot.com/2006/09/serpent-power1967-ripped-by-rcadium.html

P.S. Fuck jazz, esp. in freakin' 1967!

P.S. Fuck jazz, esp. in freakin' 1967!

Why are you even here?

"Kevin John"

I voted for Aretha.

Jazz albums would make it more Ralph J. Gleason-like.

I think the real reason for absence of jazz albums would be this:
Rolling Stone's 40 Essential Albums of 1967

Jazz was around for, what, 50 years (at least) by 1967. Let rock have its canonical year. What's next - people getting miffed cuz cakewalks are not properly represented? Sheesh.

doing some campaigning for The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

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Purple Haze
Manic Depression
Hey Joe
Love or Confusion
May This be Love
I Don't Live Today
The Wind Cries Mary
Fire
Third Stone from the Sun
Foxey Lady
Are You Experienced?

If the album only had the last 6 songs on it, I would still be voting for it.
The first 5 are pretty good too.

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STOP LIVING IN THE PAST, ROLLING STONE.

Was gonna post something like NO MUSIC MACHINE NO CREDIBILITY, but Tim has beaten me to the punch with a better funny.

I'm voting for VU or Pink Floyd due to the fact that neither had anything whatsoever to do with the Summer of Love.

Is that really true about Floyd?

Total acid casualty sure, but do you think they cared about peace, love and understanding with songs like Gnome and Bike?

easter everywhere!

Easter Everywhere seconded!

I'm voting for VU or Pink Floyd due to the fact that neither had anything whatsoever to do with the Summer of Love.

I think that Piper was released in the summer, or soon afterwards, so that makes it kinda relevant. Nico, OTOH, was recorded in early '66; and using that odd reasoning, it gets my vote. And that's the ONLY reason I'm voting. Otherwise, imipossible for me to choose between that and Are You Experienced? and Forever Changes. And maybe Floyd and Moby Grape. And another 3 or 4 that aren't here. (No Fifty Foot Hose, no cred!)

Serpent Power wonderers, go here

Misread this as "Sergeant Pepper wonderers" for a second! Anybody else? No?

"Forever Changes"
I like "Something Else" and a few others too, but this is the best.

i was just about to bitch about NOTORIOUS BYRD BROS. being overlooked but it was released jan. 68 :/

Something Else by the Kinks

After Bathing At Baxters just over Flowers, for me.

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Somehow I missed this thread. Tough call. Must be one of the best years ever for rock. I guess I would have gone with Sgt Peppers or John Wesley Harding.

forever changes is probably a more satisfying and better record than velvets and nico overall, but i would have probably still gone with the velvets had i voted.

There are obviously dated clunkers on VU and Nico. Forever Changes for the win, please.

I voted for Surrealistic Pillow!

One pill makes you smaller... and one pill makes you tall...

I just found a copy of Johnny Bush's '67 country record, with Jerry Reed on guitar and Buddy Emmons on steel, Sound of a Heartache, and it's as good as just about any of those records. I would always vote for Moby Grape and Sell Out and Forever Changes. And Da Capo, another genius record, came out early '67, didn't it? Safe as Milk is a great one too, one that sounds better to me now than it used to (literally and figuratively).

ILX sure is a lot like Mojo magazine, huh?

"Sgt. Pepper" would of course have deserved to win this.

Fair to say that 1967 is completely underrated by everyone who doesn't like Rolling Stone magazine?

Not by Mojo Readers, possibly not by Uncut readers. :)

But otherwise, sure. And "Sgt. Pepper" is the most underrated of all among them.

(And also among Amerocentric Uncut readers)

Sgt. Pepper is the most overrated album of all time bar none.

lol @ "obviously dated clunkers" on vu & nico in comparison to...forever changes?!?!

which is of course a great album, but seriously now

Surprising what got no votes. John Wesley Harding and Tim Buckley!

I, for one, have never fully understood what people mean by "dated", and why it should be an automatic detriment. Why shouldn't an LP recorded in 1967 sound like a 40-year old recording?

"Dated" is kind of a daft criticism for a 40 year old record!

these results are some serious proto-indie bullshit.

So then why didn't you vote for The Moody Blues?

"Sgt. Pepper is the most overrated album of all time bar none."

Except for the album that won this poll.

Today, "Sgt. Pepper" is underrated. It may not have been before punk, but since the days of punk it has always been underrated.