Album of The Year - Endgame

I've been fascinated with 1967 for a while, it was a huge year and not just because of Sgt Peppers.

The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Captain Beefheart, and Leonard Cohen all released their first albums (mostly all within a very dense 6 months or so too).
Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane and Tim Buckley released significant albums as well.

Rock and Roll really got knocked over that year, and it never got picked up. This should be a very interesting list.
 
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1967:
1. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
2. The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
3. Leonard Nimoy - Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space
4. Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
5. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's
6. Bee Gees - Bee Gee's 1st
7. Cream - Disraeli Gears

Aaaand that's all I got
 
My Favourite Albums from 1967: Now that was a year with Soul!


  1. Aretha Franklin – I’ve Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You
  2. Miles Davis – Miles Smiles
  3. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  4. Nina Simone – Nina Simone Sings The Blues
  5. Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
  6. Otis Redding – Live in Europe
  7. William Bell – The Soul of a Bell
  8. Sam & Dave – Soul Men
  9. Albert King – Born Under a Bad Sign
  10. Magic Sam – West Side Soul (@Storfer: I know you're out there lurking. This album needs the Classics treatment ASAP!)
  11. McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy
  12. The Doors – The Doors
  13. Antonio Carlos Jobin – Wave (@Storfer: Why did we get Willie Bobo 1-2-3 in Classics, when this Bossa Nova masterpiece needs a reissue?)
  14. Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
  15. Otis Redding & Carla Thomas – King & Queen
  16. Eddie Floyd – Knock on Wood
  17. Richie Havens – Mixed Bag
  18. Wayne Shorter – Schizophrenia
  19. Lee Morgan – Cornbread
  20. Buddy Guy – I Left My Blues in San Francisco
 
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Top 10 - 1967
  1. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
  2. Love - Forever Changes
  3. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
  4. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
  5. The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
  6. Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
  7. Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
  8. The Bee Gees - 1st
  9. Four Tops - Reach Out
  10. The Paragons - On The Beach
HMs:
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell - United
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
The Beach Boys - Wild Honey/Smiley Smile
The Creation - We Are Paintermen
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?/Axis: Bold As Love
 
1. Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced?
2. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - United
3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. The Doors - The Doors
5. Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground and Nico
6. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
7. Cream - Disraeli Gears
8. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (sometimes a single just can’t be denied, and All You Need is Love is such a single)
9. Nina Simone - Sings the Blues
10. Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign

Hon. Mention: Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love, Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim, Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
 
1. Aretha Franklin - Never Loved A Man
2. Love - Forever Changes
3. Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
4. The Beatles - Sgt Peppers
5. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
6. Les Vikings - Boum des Vacances
7. Lee Morgan - Cornbread
8. The Doors
9. Velvet Underground & Nico
10. Cream - Disraeli Gears

If singles were allowed, I might have put Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane as number 1 as I'd possibly make it my favourite single ever...
 
Poly-Rythmo said:
It's a great record, chock full of fabulous songs. But I have trouble thinking of it as an album - for me it's a few new songs added to a compilation of singles. Maybe that just makes me old (or British)...
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Yeah I’m the same. From a distance is an amazing collection of songs but it does feel at times like what it is, an EP put on one side of a 12” record and the other side filled with some great leftover non-album singles.

That said I do kind of love it and there really isn’t a bad song on it!
 
Simply, a magnificent year in music! 1967 was a year with so much innovative music!

1. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man, The Way I Loved You
2. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings The Blues
5. The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
6. The Velvet Underground & Nico
7. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - United
8. William Bell - The Soul Of A Bell
9. The Doors - The Doors
10. Miles Davis - Miles Smiles

The single “Your Precious Love” by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell is such a classic jam! It’s one of my favourite songs ever! Their other single, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”, is another favourite of mine. Those two tracks are truly joyful! 😊
 
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So here we are...

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
3. Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. Nico - Chelsea Girl
6. The Who - The Who Sell Out
7. The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
8. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
9. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
10. Aretha Franklin - I’ve Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
 
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