Greatest Album of 1969

[Matt Wilson]

A new week, a new year. I'll go back and do earlier years in the '60s as well - but for now, let's keep the forward momentum going... As always, choose ten.

I had to leave off a lot of LPs to get it down to 50 choices. More so than any year thus far.

[Walk In My Shadow]

I've done 10. Could've been 20.

[Jimbo]

I didn't like Tommy so much at the time because it lacked the whoo whoo stereo effects so I didn't choose it. I mean how could the BWAAAANNNNGGGG of Pinball Wizard not bounce from speaker to speaker?

[Matt Wilson]

I didn't like Tommy so much at the time because it lacked the whoo whoo stereo effects so I didn't choose it. I mean how could the BWAAAANNNNGGGG of Pinball Wizard not bounce from speaker to speaker?

I just put the poll up, but Tommy is doing quite well, isn't it? The haters are quite vocal about that album, but so far BCB seems to like it.

[C]

I've done 10. Could've been 20.

Spot on lad

Spot on






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[Darkness_Fish]

"Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Roon"

[sloopjohnc]

I didn't like Tommy so much at the time because it lacked the whoo whoo stereo effects so I didn't choose it. I mean how could the BWAAAANNNNGGGG of Pinball Wizard not bounce from speaker to speaker?

I just put the poll up, but Tommy is doing quite well, isn't it? The haters are quite vocal about that album, but so far BCB seems to like it.

A 13 year-old won this year's pinball world championship. He wasn't blind or deaf though.

[Darkness_Fish]

I don't have much to add this time, though I would've had:

Robbie Basho - Venus in Cancer
Phil Ochs - Rehearsal for Retirement
Archie Shepp - Blasé
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro (which isn't quite as good as In a Silent Way)

Actually voted for:
The Velvet Underground
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Stooges
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Can - Monster Movie
Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Roon
TMR

[Quaco]

Tommy
Led Zeppelin (their best)
Trout Mask Replica
In the Court of the Crimson King
Let It Bleed (in its position as album of the times, on every turntable)
Uncle Meat
Stand Up

Plus ... Soft Machine Volume Two

[toomanyhatz]

Abbey Road
The Band (the 10th one I voted for - barely outdid a few runners-up)
Arthur
Everybody Knows (still my favorite Neil album)
Green River (close between the two CCRs)
Velvets
Drake
Stooges
Can (still my favorite Can album)
Trout Mask

Would've voted for Fairport if WWDooH had been there!

Some great ones just miss the cut - Let it Bleed, both Fairports, Tommy, etc. Stand is marred by a couple of weak tracks or it'd be there for sure.

I'd like to second the vote for Rehearsals for Retirement, the best Ochs album (though utterly depressing).

[naughty boy]

Trout Mask Replica (my fave album)

Monster Movie
The Stooges (two big faves)

The Velvet Underground
Abbey Road
Kick Out The Jams
Liege and Lief
Hot Rats
In A Silent Way
Stand!


Scott 4 is the only one I think really should be there - it's his best. I might have voted for it above Sly or Zappa.

[Matt Wilson]

Scott 4 is the only one I think really should be there - it's his best. I might have voted for it above Sly or Zappa.

I would've included that had I remembered it. The other omissions suggested so far wouldn't have made my cut.

[naughty boy]

Would've voted for Fairport if WWDooH had been there!

Ah - the year when two major bands put out three studio albums! (CCR being the other)

[Matt Wilson]

I left off Bayou Country and What We Did on Our Holidays because I felt they were the least of the three LPs released by those bands (Burnt Weeny Sandwich was another). Had to leave room for everybody. Certain groups who released two albums in '69 were similarly left off entirely because I felt neither album was good enough to make the grade (Monkees, Moodies).

[BARON CORNY DOG]

BAYOU COUNTRY SHITS ON WILLY AND THE POOR BOYS.

From great heights, etc.

[sloopjohnc]

BAYOU COUNTRY SHITS ON WILLY AND THE POOR BOYS.

From great heights, etc.

Green River too, for that matter.

[toomanyhatz]

I think they're all pretty equally great - the Fairports too. But hey - not a bad thing to have an embarrassment of riches. Though none of the ones currently sitting on 0 votes are surprising me much.

[Matt Wilson]

Though none of the ones currently sitting on 0 votes are surprising me much.

Really? Johnny Cash at San Quentin, Live Dead or Harry aren't worthy of at least one vote?

[toomanyhatz]

Hey, it's a crowded field. But yeah, those three I can see. It's more Winter/Cocker/BS&T, etc., that I was talking about.

[Matt Wilson]

Interesting you mention Blood, Sweat and Tears. That album was considered a classic when we were kids in the '70s. You never hear about it now.