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Post by melon1 on Oct 29, 2005 10:33:43 GMT -5
;D
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Post by melon1 on Oct 29, 2005 10:34:14 GMT -5
It's all about chillin' with Dylan, my friend.
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Post by Rit on Nov 5, 2005 14:20:07 GMT -5
10 Best Sixties albums:
(in roughly the order of how much they bring the wicked awesome)
Bringing It All Back Home - BOB DYLAN
The Velvet Underground and Nico - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
The Rolling Stones, Now! - THE ROLLING STONES
The Doors (s/t) - THE DOORS
Strictly Personal - CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND
The Piper At The Gates of Dawn - THE PINK FLOYD
Mr. Tambourine Man - THE BYRDS
Dicitonary of Soul - OTIS REDDING
Pet Sounds - THE BEACH BOYS
Rubber Soul - THE BEATLES
*honorouable mention, but not quite: The Stooges (s/t) by THE STOOGES*
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Post by Rit on Nov 5, 2005 14:23:54 GMT -5
The best guitar rock innovators:
The Who
The Yardbirds
The Byrds (at times)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Post by Rit on Nov 5, 2005 14:25:56 GMT -5
i realized that i love the Sixties. it's definitely my favourite era of music. by far. followed at long last by the 80s.
but there's much dreck in the 60s as well, and my Top Ten list above is pretty much an indication of what exactly from the Sixties i consider worthwhile. That said, those few albums (and a few more) are the best music ever created.
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Post by Rit on Nov 5, 2005 14:30:08 GMT -5
the Byrds are a special case. I've long considered them the equivalent in the 60s of what Radiohead meant to the 90s. As in, they started out with the immediate sounds of that era, stamped with intelligence, and rocking really hard, with a kind of cerebral quality to it, but moved on to embrace technological ephemera in order to turn those initial conventions on its head. And yet held onto their esteemed reputations as the premier rock band of its time through it all.
The Byrds = Radiohead.
er.. at least until the release of Younger Than Yesterday and Notorious Byrd Brothers
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Post by Rit on Nov 5, 2005 14:31:55 GMT -5
i.e., the kinds of people that dug the Byrds in the 60s, are the same mold of people that dug Radiohead in the 90s. Fairly literate music afficianados, often whom have a wide music critical base.
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Post by Rit on Nov 5, 2005 14:36:52 GMT -5
10 best songs of the 1960s:
Subterranean Homesick Blues - BOB DYLAN
The Last Time - THE ROLLING STONES
I'm Waiting For The Man - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Wouldn't It Be Nice - THE BEACH BOYS
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - THE WHO
Electricity - CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - THE YARDBIRDS
Break On Through - THE DOORS
Spanish Castle Music - JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Eight Miles High - THE BYRDS
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Post by Paul on Dec 7, 2005 13:46:34 GMT -5
Well back in March I started on a huge task of disecting the Kinks. Now this is a band I've known all my life, I'm mean who grew up w/o knowing Lola, All Day & All of the Night, and You Really Got Me? Other than these songs, I was largely unfamiliar w/ the group. Well, back in March of 2005 I got Face to Face and was pleasantly surprised. Then I got the first 3 albums (Kinks, Kinda Kinks, Kink Kontroversy) and liked the loose, raw garage rock feel. I was also equally impressed w/ Dave Davies guitar playing, and Ray's vocals.
In May I got Arthur: Or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire and was floored. I instantly fell head over heals about this album, and knew I was hearing some of the best rock ever recorded. After Arthur I got Village Green Preservation Society, Lola, Muswell Hillbilles, & Something Else. Every last one of these albums is flat out brilliant, and each sounds completely different. With the exception of the Beatles, I've never heard such a dynamic mix of music, for a few years in the sixties and early seventies it seemed like there was no limit to the Kinks, and Ray Davies creative output. I've since listened to some of there 70's Rock Opera, and Arena rock albums and they're not nearly as impressive; but what the Kinks accomplished in the 60's was only rivaled by the Beatles IMHO. The Kinks have now moved to my second favorite band of all time b/c of what they did from 1964-1974. Ray Davies is a flat out genius and it's a damn shame so few know about his work. He has/had such a great way of writing, part social commentary, part British nostalgia, part paranoind depression, and always seemed to keep the working class in mind while writing. The Kinks are truely an underrated/under appreciated band, and I urge anyone who reads this to listen to a few of their albums.
Well, I suppos that's my long winded rant for the day. If anyone is curious about the Kinks, or wants to know a good place to start, feel free to ask me....
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Post by wayved on Dec 8, 2005 0:04:17 GMT -5
pcook-I love the Kinks. I even checked out the 80s stuff...I disagree with you regarding Arthur though--What about Something Else and Village Green? Finding the The KINKS KRONIKLES on vinyl when I was 13 (child of the 80s/early 90s) was a revelation. I may be wrong and after all its all a matter of taste but to me Arthur didn't hit me the same way Something Else and Village Green did. I will listen to it again.Wait a minute-you are the Kinks expert here. WHAT AM I MISSING???
My top 10 albums from the 60s:
1. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2. Trout Mask Replica-Captain Beefheart
3. Astral Weeks-Van Morrison
4. Revolver-Beatles (all of em actually-Revolver is my fav)
5. All the Nuggets samplers, box sets etc (from the US AND the UK) --this includes 45s I have inherited somehow
6. Love-Forever Changes
7. Jimi Hendrix-Axis-Bold as Love
8. Rolling Stones-Entire Catalog up til Beggars Banquet
9. Kinks - Something Else
10. Jack Bruce-Songs From a Tailor
But wait! What about CAN? Aww-Dylan is a given.
I think THE BYRDS hit their second creative peak (and their nadir) in the 70s. Check out BALLAD OF EASY RIDER and (untitled) for the GOOD stuff....The Beach Boys also put out SURFS UP and HOLLAND in the 70s...
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Post by wayved on Dec 8, 2005 0:07:14 GMT -5
To be honest, their is far too much good music out of this decade to even list a top 10 of anything. I QUIT.
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Post by wayved on Dec 8, 2005 0:16:45 GMT -5
All the bubblegum shit (Fun and Games, Association, Crazy Elephant, 1910 Fruitgum, Cowsills) and then you have the Turtles, The Rascals, Isley Brothers, Junior Walker, anything by Motown, Fuckin A! The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Checkmates Ltd (a contender for the best Flipside of all time is "Never Shouldve Lied" --A side was "Love Is All I Have To Give")--BLUE CHEER! Lovin Spoonful, Yardbirds, Jerry Butler, Fever Tree, Neil Diamond...FORGET IT! Outsiders, Mercy, Foundations, THE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD!. THE HOLLIES!
This sounds stupid as shit, but I bought a turntable a decade ago so I could investigate this decade (the 70s and 80s too) and not bankrupt myself. I am so glad I did.
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 8, 2005 0:21:13 GMT -5
I'll take (another) stab at this ... one album per artist, had to have been released between January 1, 1960 and December 31, 1969 ...
1. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
2. Abbey Road, The Beatles
3. The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground
4. The Band, The Band
5. Willie & the Poor Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. The Who Sell Out, The Who
7. Beggar's Banquet, The Rolling Stones
8. Something Else, The Kinks
9. Mr. Tambourine Man, The Byrds
10. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
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Post by wayved on Dec 8, 2005 0:29:17 GMT -5
Rit: what are you talking about? You really dont know what you are talking about man. What the hell is wrong with Notorious Byrd Brothers and Younger than Yesterday by the Byrds? Thats when they started streching out beyond Dylan covers. Also--Only elite, cutting edge and intellectual people listened to the Byrds? You and I don't know WHO listened to the Byrds! WE WERENT THERE! COMPARING THE BYRDS TO RADIOHEAD? From what I understand there was no ALTERNATIVE back then--cos it was all pretty good....AND NEW!
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Post by Rit on Dec 8, 2005 6:40:08 GMT -5
yeah well, i retract that Byrds-Radiohead statement now, but what i was trying to get at was that the kind of experimentation and attitude the Byrds displayed was akin to what Radiohead displayed..
AND THIS IS NOT that they were the most "cutting edge or elite or anything". Radiohead were a populist band from the start, they just happened to think it ought to be done on their own terms.
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