here's a rough sketch of a list to get you started...for those new to the series, you rank however many records you want from a given year and later on we compile a board top ten out of the individual lists. If there are any omissions, please let me know.

The Velvet Underground * Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Verve)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Are You Experienced? (Reprise)
George Russell * Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (Soul Note)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Axis: Bold As Love (Reprise)
Aretha Franklin * I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You (Atlantic)
Pink Floyd * The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (Columbia)
The Kinks * Something Else (Reprise)
The Doors * The Doors (Elektra)
Love * Forever Changes (Elektra)
Miles Davis * Nefertiti (Columbia)
Albert Ayler Trio * Love Cry (Impulse)
Archie Shepp * Magic Of Ju-Ju (Impulse)
Otis Redding * The Immortal (Stax/Atlantic)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band * Safe As Milk (Buddha)
The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
The Pretty Things * Get A Buzz: Best of the Fontana Years 64-67 (Fontana)
Etta James * Tell Mama (Chess)
Harry Nilsson * Pandemonium Shadow Show (RCA)
James Brown * Live At the Apollo (II) (Polydor)
The Beatles * The Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)
The Doors * Strange Days (Elektra)
Miles Davis * Sorcerer (Columbia)
Cecil Taylor * Conquistador (Blue Note)
Small Faces * There Are But Four Small Faces (Immediate)
Otis Redding * The Dock Of The Bay (Atlantic)
Moby Grape (Columbia)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Jimi Plays Monterey (Reprise)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Radio One (Rykodisc)
The Rolling Stones * Between The Buttons (London/Abko)
Nina Simone * Nina Simone Sings The Blues (RCA)
Gilberto Gil * Louvao (Philips)
Donovan * A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (Epic)
McCoy Tyner * The Real McCoy (Blue Note)
John Coltrane * Stellar Regions (Impulse)
John Coltrane * Expression (Impulse)
The Beau Brummels * Triangle (Warner)
Gene Chandler * The Girl Don't Care (Brunswick)
Darrell Banks *Rolled Gold (Parasol)
Red Crayola * Parable of Arable Land (IA)
The Rolling Stones * Their Satanic Majesty's Request (London/Abko)
Sly & the Family Stone * Dance To The Music (Epic)
Aretha Franklin * Aretha Arrives (Atlantic/Rhino)
Van Dyke Parks * Song Cycle (WB)
Jefferson Airplane * After Bathing At Baxter's (RCA)
Frank Zappa & the Mothers Of Invention * Absolutely Free (Rykodisc)
Otis Redding * Love Man (Atlantic/Rhino)
Otis Redding * Tell The Truth (Atlantic)
The Who * The Who Sell Out (MCA)
Donovan * Mellow Yellow (Epic)
The Byrds * Younger Than Yesterday (Columbia)
Brigitte Bardot * Brigitte Bardot Show (Universal/AZ Fr)
The Chambers Brothers * The Time Has Come (Columbia)
The Chocolate Watchband * No Way Out (Sundazed)
Strawberry Alarm Clock * Incense and Peppermints (UNI)
Caetano Veloso e Gal Costa * Domingo (Mercury)
Blue Cheer * Vincebus Eruptum (Philips)
Love * Da Capo (Elektra)
Jefferson Airplane * Surrealistic Pillow (RCA)
Otis Redding * In Person At The Whisky-A-Go-Go (Atco/Stax)
Otis Redding * Live In Europe (Atlantic)
Tim Buckley * Goodbye And Hello (Elektra)
The Smoke * My Friend Jack (Retroactive)
Lee Hazelwood * Hazelwoodism: Its Cause And Cure (Smells Like)
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas * King & Queen (Stax/Atlantic)
The Deviants * Ptooff! (Underground Impressarios)
Quicksilver Messenger Service * Happy Trails (Capitol)
The Electric Prunes * The Electric Prunes (I Had Too Much to Dream) (Collectors)
Strawberry Alarm Clock * Wake Up?It's Tomorrow (UNI)
The Youngbloods (Edsel)
Scott Walker * Scott (Fontana)
The Bonzo Dog Band * Gorilla (BGO)
Van Morrison * The Bang Masters (Epic/Legacy)
Dave Peel & the Lower East Side * The Pope Smokes Dope (Elektra)
The Pretty Things * Emotions (Fontana)
Cream * Disraeli Gears
Albert King * Born Under a Bad Sign
Traffic * Mr. Fantasy
The Moody Blues * Days of Future Passed (Deram)
The Beach Boys * Smiley Smile
Love * Da Capo
Kaleidoscope (UK) * Tangerine Dream
Electric Prunes * Underground
Buffalo Springfield * Buffalo Springfield Again
Elvis Presley * How Great Thou Art
The Beach Boys * Wild Honey
Procol Harum * Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade of Pale
13th Floor Elevators * Easter Everywhere
Bob Dylan * John Wesley Harding
The Rolling Stones * Flowers (London/Abkco)
Country Joe and the Fish * Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Duke Ellington * The Far East Suite
The Four Tops * Reach Out
Magic Sam * West Side Soul
Nina Simone * High Priestess of Soul
Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim * Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim
Tim Hardin * 2
The Incredible String Band * The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
Nico * Chelsea Girl
Wilson Pickett * The Sound of Wilson Pickett
Phil Ochs * Pleasures of the Harbor
Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Band * Stand Back!
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy * Live at "The Club"
Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbushan Kabra, and Hariprasad Chaurasia * Call of the Valley
Sam and Dave * Soul Men
The Supremes * Sing Holland Dozier Holland/Sing Motown (Motown)

1 Pink Floyd * The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
2 The Velvet Underground * Velvet Underground & Nico
3 Love * Forever Changes
4 The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Axis: Bold As Love
5 Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
6 Traffic * Mr. Fantasy
7 The Beatles * The Magical Mystery Tour
8 The Rolling Stones * Between The Buttons
9 The Rolling Stones * Their Satanic Majesty's Request
10 The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
11 The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Are You Experienced?
12 Bob Dylan * John Wesley Harding
13 Nico * Chelsea Girl

I'm probably gonna eat these words, but there really shouldn't be more than a handful of additions/subtractions from this list...

This is a motherfucker.
eclipsed perhaps only by 1977.
Perhaps not.

Anyway:
1. The Kinks - Something Else
2. Velvet Underground - VU and Nico
3. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
5. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
6. Bonzo Dog Band - Gorilla
7. The Who - The Who Sell Out
8. Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To the Music
9. Roilling Stones - Their Satanic Majesty's Request
10. Pink Floyd - Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
11. Love - Forever Changes

With the exclusion of the Beatles and Stones, and in no real order

Velvet Underground and Nico
Pink Floyd: Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
James Brown: Live at the Apollo
Moby Grape
Lee Hazelwood
Cream: Disraeli gears
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding

1. The Who * The Who Sell Out
2. Pink Floyd * The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
3. The Velvet Underground * Velvet Underground & Nico
4. Bob Dylan * John Wesley Harding
5. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
6. The Kinks * Something Else
7. The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Axis: Bold As Love
9. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band * Safe As Milk
10. Love * Da Capo

11. The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Are You Experienced?
12. The Beatles * The Magical Mystery Tour
13. Love * Forever Changes
14. Buffalo Springfield * Buffalo Springfield Again
15. The Rolling Stones * Between The Buttons
16. Cecil Taylor * Conquistador
17. The Doors * The Doors
18. Jefferson Airplane * Surrealistic Pillow
19. Scott Walker * Scott
20. Nico * Chelsea Girl

1. The Doors * The Doors
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Are You Experienced?
3. Cream * Disraeli Gears
4. The Who * The Who Sell Out
5. Van Morrison * The Bang Masters
6. The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Sam and Dave * Soul Men
8. The Moody Blues * Days of Future Passed
9. Buffalo Springfield * Buffalo Springfield Again
10. Traffic * Mr. Fantasy

1. Love “Forever Changes”
2. Kinks “Something Else”
3. Moby Grape S/T
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Are You Experienced?”
5. The Beatles “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”
6. Aretha Franklin “I Never Loved A Man the Way I Loved You”
7. Love “Da Capo”
8. Bob Dylan “John Wesley Harding”
9. Bobby Hutcherson “Oblique”
10. Velvet Underground “Velvet Underground & Nico”
11. Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim S/T
12. Left Banke "Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina"
13. Nirvana [UK] "The Story of Simon Simopath"
14. The Creation "We Are Paintermen"
15. James Brown “Live at the Apollo II”
16. Rolling Stones “Between the Buttons”
17. Antonio Carlos Jobim “Wave”
18. Velvet Underground “White Light White Heat”
19. Nico “Chelsea Girl”
20. The Who “Sell Out”
21. Cannonball Adderly “Mercy Mercy Mercy”
22. Caetano Veloso S/T
23. Byrds “Younger than Yesterday”
24. Byrds “Notorious Byrd Brothers”
25. William Bell “The Soul of a Bell”
26. Astrud Gilberto “Beach Samba”
27. Etta James “Tell Mama”
28. Hal Blaine “Psychedelic Percussion”
29. Van Dyke Parks “Song Cycle”
30. Scott Walker “Scott”
31. Pink Floyd “The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn”
32. The Chamber Brothers “Time Has Come”
33. Dyke & The Blazers “Funky Broadway”
34. The Smoke “My Friend Jack”
35. Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso “Domingo”
36. Dom Salvador “Dom Salvador Trio”
37. Marlena Shaw “Out of Different Bags”
38. Tim Harden “2”
39. Tim Buckley “Hello and Goodbye”
40. Cecil Taylor “Conquistador”


edited for left banke, nirvana & the creation

I've been wanting to hear some Moby Grape since reading a little about them recently in that Neil Young biography.

Also, I've been thinking about picking up a Bobby Hutcherson album (familiar with his playing from Out to Lunch and Idle Moments). Would you recommend this one in particular?

I'd like to get the Coltrane albums from this year, too, especially Expression.

Of the ones I have Oblique, Now! and Montara are all great. Montara is probably my favorite. Oblique would be a good place to start though I suppose and I wouldn't be surprised if you liked it the best of the three.

1. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced?
3. VU - VU & Nico
4. The Kinks - Something Else
5. The Who - The Who Sell Out
6. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
7. Otis Redding - Dock of The Bay
8. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Axis: Bold As Love
10. Miles Davis - Nefertiti


still have never heard Forver Changes

1. The Who - Sell Out
2. The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
3. The Velvet Underground & Nico
4. The Free Design - Kites Are Fun
5. Nico - Chelsea Girl
6. The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
7. The Rolling Stones - Flowers

1. The Kinks - Something Else
2. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
4. The Who - The Who Sell Out
5. The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesty's Request
6. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
7. The Rolling Stones -Between The Buttons
8. Dusty Springfield – Where Am I Going?
9. Love – Da Capo
10. Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
11. Love - Forever Changes
12. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – Make it Happen
13. Pink Floyd - The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
14. The Greatful Dead (ST)
15. Van Morrison – Blowing Your Mind
16. Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
17. The Small Faces – From the Beginning
18. The Hollies - Evolution
19. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic
20. Sly Pillow & the Family Stone - Dance To The Music
21. Moby Grape – Moby Grape
22. Cream - Disraeli Gears
21. The Doors - The Doors
23. The Beatles - The Magical Mystery Tour
24. The Doors - Strange Days
25. The Chambers Brothers - The Time Has Come
26. Otis Redding - The Dock Of The Bay
27. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
28. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
29. The Incredible String Band -The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
30. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
31. The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
32. The Supremes - Sing Holland Dozier Holland/Sing Motown
33. Kaleidoscope - Side Trips
34. Procol Harum - Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade of Pale
35. The Four Tops - Reach Out

01 Buffalo Springfield :: Buffalo Springfield Again
02 Left Banke :: Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
03 Love :: Forever Changes
04 Chambers Brothers :: The Time Has Come
05 Cream :: Disraeli Gears
06 Rolling Stones :: Between the Buttons
07 Moby Grape :: Moby Grape

Special Shout Out goes to The Lemon Pipers for Green Tambourine.

1. Love * Forever Changes
2. The Velvet Underground * Velvet Underground & Nico
3. Nico * Chelsea Girl
4. The Kinks * Something Else
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Are You Experienced?
6. Bob Dylan * John Wesley Harding
7. The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
9. Tim Buckley * Goodbye And Hello
10. Love * Da Capo

Damn it fu I forgot about left banke which should be in my top 20 for sure.
Along with the also forgotten:

Nirvana "The Story of Simon Simopath"
The Creation "We are painterman"

I like that Lemon Pipers album but not enough to bump anything else from the list

Dunno- these are always frustrating for me; mebbe something like:

01 VU :: White Light/ White Heat
02 Pearls Before Swine :: One Nation Underground
03 Love :: Forever Changes
04 Dylan :: John Wesley Harding
05 Van Morrison :: Blowing Your Mind
06 Left Banke :: Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
07 Buffalo Springfield :: Buffalo Springfield Again
08 Moby Grape :: Moby Grape
09 Jefferson Airplane :: Surrealistic Pillow
10 Traffic :: Dear Mr. Fantasy
11 Quicksilver :: Happy Trails

and a bunch of others

such a good year. I wish i had time to do this.

Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, the Kinks, Sinatra, Simone, Love, Sly, Duke, Pink Floyd, VU, The Doors (i know they were like the Britney Spears of their era but I still like em), Nico, Hendrix, Presley, the Beach Boys, Coltrane, Davis?

How the FUCK are we going to ever have a year like that again?

The only forseeable way is that everyone who was alive during that time will have to be dead, but even then it'll remain a matter of perception.

1. Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
2. Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
3. Doors S/T
4. VU & Nico

man Left Banke are great

im not making another fucking list though

While scouring through my collection last night, I realized I've been blessed with a bit of hand-me-down material from '67 - even if on beatdown vinyl.

1. Otis Redding – Live In Europe
2. The Mothers – Absolutely Free
3. Gene Clark – With the Gosdin Bros.
4. Magic Sam – West Side Soul
5. Dylan - JWH
6. Jimi Hendrix – Are you Experienced?
7. Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request
8. Booker T & the MGs – Back-to-Back
9. The Who – The Who Sell Out
10. Love – Forever Changes
11. Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
12. Red Krayola – Parable of Arable Land
13. Rolling Stones – Between the Buttons
14. Miles Davis – Sorcerer
15. The Easybeats – Friday on my Mind (burned copy from an Obner)
16. VU – VU & Nico
17. The Beau Brummels - Triangle
18. Sun Ra – Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
19. Small Faces – From the Beginning (burned copy from an Obner)
20. Thelonius Monk – Underground
21. Tim Hardin – 2 (burned copy from an Obner)
22. Kinks – Something Else By the Kinks
23. Townes Van Zandt – In the Beginning (2003 release, but supposedly recorded in ’67)

I thought Axis: Bold As Love came out in '68.

[edit]: I see it was December of '67 UK and Jan. '68 US, nevermind.

Something like this:

1. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Verve)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Axis: Bold As Love (Reprise)
3. Aretha Franklin * I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You (Atlantic)
4. Bob Dylan * John Wesley Harding
5. The Rolling Stones * Flowers (London/Abkco)
6. The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Are You Experienced? (Reprise)
7. Love * Forever Changes (Elektra)
8. The Rolling Stones * Between The Buttons (London/Abko)
9. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band * Safe As Milk (Buddha)
10. The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)

Tied for 11th:

James Brown * Live At the Apollo (II) (Polydor)
The Velvet Underground * Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
Sly & the Family Stone * Dance To The Music (Epic)
The Who * The Who Sell Out (MCA)
The Doors * The Doors (Elektra)
The Kinks * Something Else (Reprise)
Pink Floyd * The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (Columbia)
The Beatles * The Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)
The Doors * Strange Days (Elektra)
Small Faces * There Are But Four Small Faces (Immediate)
Otis Redding * The Dock Of The Bay (Atlantic)
Moby Grape (Columbia)
The Rolling Stones * Their Satanic Majesty's Request (London/Abko)
The Beau Brummels * Triangle (Warner)
Tim Buckley * Goodbye And Hello (Elektra)
Procol Harum * Procol Harum/ Whiter Shade of Pale


(I've gotta get that Chambers Bros. reckid one of these days)

I still consider it a 1968 release that's why its not on my list...its not like a lot of people were buying imports back then and we're a board mostly made up of north americans.

revised my list though to include left banke, creation and nirvana