You Should Hear This: 1966

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:45 am

Pretty important year.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:51 am

You got Revolver.
You got Pet Sounds.

And you got:

The first really big leap forward for songwriting for the band. In my mind this is the album that put them squarely into the same league as the two bands mentioned above. Every song on the album was a winner. (With, maybe the exception of the opening cut.)
Too obvious?

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:30 pm

Another obvious one. But maybe not even as obvious as The Kinks. But as far as the title of the thread goes:
Yes, you should hear this.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:35 pm

Loud, amateurish garage ROCK.
This was the sound of punk to come. The MC5, before there was any MC5.

nobody · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:37 pm

Ike & Tine Turner: River Deep, Mountain High

Ike & Tine + Phil Spector = fantastic album. The title track is considered by Spector as his greatest track ever.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:40 pm

Damn, I'm posting a lot. But it's just so easy to find great stuff from this year.
Here is another band that is kinda kindred spirits with The Sonics, but more twisted and weird. Like if the 13th Floor Elevators were taking different drugs. Weirder drugs.

bort · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:44 pm

so far, so good!

i spin these more than most of my "modern vinyl"

Not even their best, but still essential. And I just listened to it a few days ago:

nobody · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:46 pm

The Supremes: I Hear a Symphony

Probably my favorite full length by the Supremes. The title track, A Lover's Concerto and more. Nothing really sounds like filler here.

nobody · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:49 pm

Paul Revere and the Raiders: Midnight Ride

Laugh away, but Kicks is a great song, this album has the first version of Stepping Stone, and the whole thing is a great example of early garagey rock 'n' roll.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:52 pm

AllMusic Wrote:

This album found Q 65 at their peak, and this reissue adds six strong bonus tracks to the original 12, including their first two singles, "You're the Victor" and "The Life I Live." Q 65 were among only a handful of non-English speaking bands of the mid-'60s whose talent rivaled second-tier groups such as the Pretty Things in the search for a rock-oriented update of Chicago blues. What set them apart, and what makes Revolution very reminiscent of Back Door Men by the Shadows of Knight, is the broad range of music performed above and beyond the basic R&B. The band played acoustic as well as hard psych numbers along with the standards, and experimented with harmonium and other instruments to make Revolution more interesting than the average garage release. Despite the eclecticism, their blues interpretations work best, from the nice take of "Spoonful" to the groundbreaking 13-minute cover of "Bring It on Home," the real missing link between the rave-ups of the Yardbirds and the post-Cream jam bands of the late-'60s. Not every move is successful, as a few numbers are derivative, and vocalist William Bieler's language barrier sounds clumsy at times. Like many great bands of that era, Q 65 peaked in 1966-1967, and then fell into disarray after Bieler was drafted, never again reaching the heights of Revolution. Start with this, or the harder-to-find Complete Collection (1966-1969), for a surprisingly consistent set of songs by a group you may have assumed to have only been one-hit wonders.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:00 pm

Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
I think I like Zappa less and less after this album, but this is just incredible. For its time, especially.

The Monks - Black Monk Time
This is just one of the most fun albums ever made.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:17 pm

Great year with some obvious choices and some, not so obvious.

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

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

A good year for country:

Porter Wagoner - Soul of a Convict
Hank Thompson - A Six Pack To Go
Bobby Bare - Streets of Baltimore
Merle Haggard - Swinging Doors and the Bottle Let Me Down

Some jazz:

Paul Bley - Closer
Joe Henderson - Mode for Joe
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll

Other stuff:

Baden Powell & Vinicius De Moraes - Os Afro Sambas
Love - S/T
Don Covay - See-Saw
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension

FT · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:13 pm

1966

PRO: Gave the world tons of great music.
CON: Gave the world FT.

shmoo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:45 pm

FT Wrote:

1966

PRO: Gave the world tons of great music.
CON: Gave the world FT.

I'm sure the first thing the doctor said was "you should hear this."

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:05 pm

How awesome is it that while the Beach Boys and Beatles are embarking on the road to drug-fuelled, overindulgent, concept wankery (granted the Beatles only truly achieved this in '67), Mick and Keef write what might be the best straightforward rock and roll album ever made.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:15 pm

nobody · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:55 am

Supremes A Go Go

Whadda ya know...seem one of my other favorite Supremes records is from 1966 as well. Another damn fine release. These girls were having a great year.

nobody · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:57 am

Moods of Marvin Gaye

The more I look art this era, the more Motown ruled this year for my tastes.

nobody · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:09 am

Of course, Stax wasn't doing so bad either...

Sam & Dave: Hold On, I'm Comin'

Booker T. & the MGs: And Now!

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:48 am

ShamWow! Wrote:

How awesome is it that while the Beach Boys and Beatles are embarking on the road to drug-fuelled, overindulgent, concept wankery (granted the Beatles only truly achieved this in '67), Mick and Keef write what might be the best straightforward rock and roll album ever made.

Take out the "concept" part, and Aftermath isn't all that different, at least in terms of the adjectives you're using here.

They're all good albums, anyway, and the whole taking sides bullshit between Brian Wilson-type orchestrated pop and "real rock and roll" is completely retarded.

Anyway, carry on!

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

ShamWow! Wrote:

How awesome is it that . . . Mick and Keef write what might be the best straightforward rock and roll album ever made.

It's too bad they became meh after that.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:20 pm

More great jazz from 1966:

John Coltrane - Meditations
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice
Lee Morgan - Cornbread

Meditations is my favorite jazz album.

You Should Hear This: 1966

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