You Should Hear This: 1969

jasn · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:36 pm

Not many songs from this year tops Sly's Sex Machine for me. But I will offer:

The Chambers Brothers: Love, Peace and Happiness:

(more crappy artwork)

and:

Lee Michaels: S/T

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:41 pm

jasn Wrote:

Not many songs from this year tops Sly's Sex Machine for me. But I will offer The Chambers Brothers Love, Peace and Happiness:

(more crappy artwork)

and:

Lee Michaels: S/T

Big yes to both of those.

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:44 pm

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

shmoo Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Sticky Fingers

Um... Let It Bleed? Sticky Fingers was 1971.

That's what I meant and shit...but again whatever the album was, it's better than any 3 posted here unless you took The Band, Mendocino and Willie And The Poor Boys...but even then I think I come out in the lead.

It's good, but it ain't nearly THAT good. Gar puffing heavily on that Stones crack pipe again.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:47 pm

Can't believe neither Gar nor BG mentioned this one yet:

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:49 pm

tentoze Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

shmoo Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Sticky Fingers

Um... Let It Bleed? Sticky Fingers was 1971.

That's what I meant and shit...but again whatever the album was, it's better than any 3 posted here unless you took The Band, Mendocino and Willie And The Poor Boys...but even then I think I come out in the lead.

It's good, but it ain't nearly THAT good. Gar puffing heavily on that Stones crack pipe again.

It's actually BETTER than I am giving it credit for. A lot of stuff in a year like this is stuff I like in the abstract, or know I am supposed to like, but probably never need to listen to again.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:51 pm

Not the definitive versions of some of these songs, but their first appearances on record. Also any album with "Whipping Post" is essential.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:52 pm

I'm wearing a pink tank top and a giant round belt buckle RAHT NOW!

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:56 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I'm wearing a pink tank top and a giant round belt buckle RAHT NOW!

I can't believe it took Dickie 25 years to realize....and quit....

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

tentoze Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

shmoo Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Sticky Fingers

Um... Let It Bleed? Sticky Fingers was 1971.

That's what I meant and shit...but again whatever the album was, it's better than any 3 posted here unless you took The Band, Mendocino and Willie And The Poor Boys...but even then I think I come out in the lead.

It's good, but it ain't nearly THAT good. Gar puffing heavily on that Stones crack pipe again.

It's actually BETTER than I am giving it credit for. A lot of stuff in a year like this is stuff I like in the abstract, or know I am supposed to like, but probably never need to listen to again.

It's a great album and its not so much that you're overrating it as that you're underrating other '69 albums. But cmon now, no Stones album is BETTER than you give it credit for.

I'm a fan of that Herbie Mann joint but I've pimped it before and figured out by now that funky flute has very limited appeal to most obs and ole GAR ain't a fan so much as intrigued by HST's Herbie Mann fandom.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:10 pm

jasn Wrote:

Lee Michaels: S/T

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:45 pm

billy g Wrote:

I'm a fan of that Herbie Mann joint but I've pimped it before and figured out by now that funky flute has very limited appeal to most obs and ole GAR ain't a fan so much as intrigued by HST's Herbie Mann fandom.

Throwing Gar in there was tongue in cheek, BG--You and HST are the only two people on the planet who ever owned that album much less were fans of it.

k · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:40 pm

LaMonte Young-The Black Record: Killer dark drone with even better packaging.

Terry Riley-A Rainbow In Curved Air: This thing has been pressed so many times (that album cover up there is so much better than the later releases of Riley's head in the sky in rainbow hues, that cover damn near ruins the piece), but the '69 Columbia Masterpieces release is my favorite pressing. A lot less repetitions than you would expect on this, the biggest surprise being the legitimate changes in the keys vice just variations during the repetitions. It's subtle but a nice way to move forward the loops here. My second favorite thing he's done behind "In C".

Can: Monster Movie: Certainly most people on here have heard this, but this is just a great record and needs to be mentioned if for no reason other than the full side "Yoo Doo Right".

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

Yail Bloor Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

I'm a fan of that Herbie Mann joint but I've pimped it before and figured out by now that funky flute has very limited appeal to most obs and ole GAR ain't a fan so much as intrigued by HST's Herbie Mann fandom.

Throwing Gar in there was tongue in cheek, BG--You and HST are the only two people on the planet who ever owned that album much less were fans of it.

i'm a huge fan of that album

paper · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:33 pm

paper · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:34 pm

berliner Wrote:

what about this one?

archie shepp // kwanza

funky, wild, african.

yes

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

I'm surprised there are so many fans of that Archie Shepp album here. I'm probably as big a fan of his as there is here and like but don't love that album. I just counted and I own 32 Archie Shepp albums, which is easily the most I own by any artist, but think that I'd probably put Kwanzaa somewhere in the bottom third of the ones I own. I'll have to pull it out for another listen soon and try to reassess that.

paper · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:29 am

I've only heard about 5 of his albums, Kwanza being one because it was and AMG pick.

I think I got into Shepp from a post you made a long time ago.

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:30 am

It's not as accomoplished as "House On The Hill", but there's some gems on here...esp. Waverly Stagecoach...think Croce meets Dahmer.

This album takes a lot of work, but once you get your world will have changed forever. Reflected could be the best single song old Vinnie ever made, and Levity Ball is sublime.

I'll leave the Mott debut for Rads, only saying that their Doug Sahm cover is my favorite thing they ever did.

shmoo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:49 am

This thread needs more links. I'm interested in the Can and Flying Burrito Bros, to start.

shmoo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:03 am

So, nobody has yet posted

?

Weird.

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:47 am

I'm really impressed with this thread so far. I have 230 fucking albums for this year and I adore a good portion of them and yet there is still a handful here that I've never heard.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:58 am

Drinky Wrote:

This is an amazing year, for sure, and it's hard to know where to even begin talking about it.

But how about this:

Fairport Convention
What We Did on Our Holidays
Unhalfbricking
Liege and Lief

this really is quite a feat

berliner · **Joined:** Fri May 09, 2008 7:00 pm **Posts:** 1516

billy g Wrote:

I'm surprised there are so many fans of that Archie Shepp album here. I'm probably as big a fan of his as there is here and like but don't love that album. I just counted and I own 32 Archie Shepp albums, which is easily the most I own by any artist, but think that I'd probably put Kwanzaa somewhere in the bottom third of the ones I own. I'll have to pull it out for another listen soon and try to reassess that.

I'm still in discovery mode for shepp, since my bandmate owns the so called shepp towers, a collection of around 75 CDs he brought together in a quite short time but from shops all around the world. I picked this album because of its release year and I like it pretty much, though I'm absoulutely unable to rank this album in his works yet.
you may recommend some interesting records, billy g, would be much appreciated.

bort · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:34 am

Bruce Haack - Electronic Record For Children

Great early electronic pop album. Obviously great for kids, but enjoyable to me as well. I think because it's creative and odd, and a bit psychedelic, but not in a druggy/trippy way, just a far-out fun kinda way.

Dick Hyman - Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman

Dude was a composer/pianist/jazz guy first, electronic pop dude second, and it shows. Spacey improv stuff as well as my two fav songs by him, "The Minotaur" and "Give It Up Or Turn It Loose."

FT · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:57 am

bort Wrote:

Dick Hyman

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