You Should Hear This: 1969

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:28 pm

billy g Wrote:

I guess we're up to the list phase now?

I like these that haven't been mentioned yet:

Aretha Franklin - Soul 69

I've never heard this, but I saw where the original RS review in 69' hailed it as the "best album in 5 years." Which colored me intrigued even if that statement seems crazy.

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

Kingfish Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

I guess we're up to the list phase now?

I like these that haven't been mentioned yet:

Aretha Franklin - Soul 69

I've never heard this, but I saw where the original RS review in 69' hailed it as the "best album in 5 years." Which colored me intrigued even if that statement seems crazy.

Huh, that's a whole helluva lot of hyperbole. It's not her best album from that period let alone the best album from that period. She could do little wrong in the late 60's/early 70's though. It doesn't have the recognizable hits but it's really good and features a great supporting band including King Curtis, the Muscle Shoals players and a bunch of jazz players including Kenny Burrell, Fathead Newman, Pepper Adams and a few others I'm forgetting.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:18 pm

billy g Wrote:

Kingfish Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

I guess we're up to the list phase now?

I like these that haven't been mentioned yet:

Aretha Franklin - Soul 69

I've never heard this, but I saw where the original RS review in 69' hailed it as the "best album in 5 years." Which colored me intrigued even if that statement seems crazy.

Huh, that's a whole helluva lot of hyperbole. It's not her best album from that period let alone the best album from that period. She could do little wrong in the late 60's/early 70's though. It doesn't have the recognizable hits but it's really good and features a great supporting band including King Curtis, the Muscle Shoals players and a bunch of jazz players including Kenny Burrell, Fathead Newman, Pepper Adams and a few others I'm forgetting.

Here's the quote,

Quote:

Music journalist Stanley Booth wrote in Rolling Stone that Soul '69 was "quite possibly the best record to appear in the last five years", describing it as "excellent in ways in which pop music hasn't been since the Beatles spear-headed the renaissance of rock"

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:18 pm

Looking through this thread again, I didn't see any mention of these. And if there was, the covers weren't posted:

Tim Buckley
Happy Sad
Blue Afternoon

Hardly scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Both of these albums are great, and are my 2nd and 3rd favorite Buckley albums, respectively, after Starsailor. I'd give Happy Sad the slight edge of the two, but both are essential if you like this guy at all. They're kind of languid and dreamy but don't ever get as weird as Starsailor. Both are big improvements over his first two records, I think.

Also don't think I saw a mention of:

Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room

One of the three Leonard Cohen albums I really care about.

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

Drinky Wrote:

Also don't think I saw a mention of:

Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room

One of the three Leonard Cohen albums I really care about.

RYM must have failed me on that one too. Great album.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:16 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

nobody Wrote:

Ya know, I gotta just jump in to agree with those talking up Credence for '69. I mean, they basically had 5 solid albums, and three of them came out in '69, pretty amazing. Of course, those three albums together weren't all that much longer than a typical CD that comes out these days so I don't think it should get too exaggerated as to how much great stuff they were putting out. But, '69 really was their year in a lot of ways. Bayou Country, Green River and Willie & the Poor Boys; I really couldn't pick a favorite between 'em. Definitely a good year for those guys.

Like Springsteen said about 'em during their induction speech:

"They weren't the hippest........just the best."

They are also very easy to sort of forget about/underestimate because most people's exposure to them was Chronicle. But fuck, man, they bring the heat.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:08 pm

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Rick Derris Wrote:

nobody Wrote:

Ya know, I gotta just jump in to agree with those talking up Credence for '69. I mean, they basically had 5 solid albums, and three of them came out in '69, pretty amazing. Of course, those three albums together weren't all that much longer than a typical CD that comes out these days so I don't think it should get too exaggerated as to how much great stuff they were putting out. But, '69 really was their year in a lot of ways. Bayou Country, Green River and Willie & the Poor Boys; I really couldn't pick a favorite between 'em. Definitely a good year for those guys.

Like Springsteen said about 'em during their induction speech:

"They weren't the hippest........just the best."

They are also very easy to sort of forget about/underestimate because most people's exposure to them was Chronicle. But fuck, man, they bring the heat.

In a lot of ways I wish I had never listened to Chronicle and heard the proper albums first.

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

i felt that way about bowie, and then we did that thread and now i'm not sure which is the best way to have learned bowie.

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