Music: Best Albums of the Year Series: 1967

Select your 10 (or fewer) favourite albums of 1967

  • Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Nina Simone - Nina Sings the Blues

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Miles Davis - Sorcerer

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .

Saturated Fats

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Hi all,

I've had this idea for a while, and with a flourishing music community on HF that is (usually) fun to interact with, I thought of a cool way to bring together the music lovers on the forum to do the things we love the most - making lists and gushing about our favourites.

In order to facilitate an ordered discussion, I'll make a poll with the maximum allowable options - 30, plus one for other, and I'll take the options from a variety of lists across the internet. Albums must be published in a given year in order to be included - not necessarily recorded or reissued/etc. in those years. Live albums will be included, but compilations (with some obvious exceptions) will not be.

In the interest of fairness and accuracy of responses, I've limited the amount of responses you can make to 10. If you feel keenly about an album that isn't listed, select Other, and make a case for it below! You're welcome to list your own top-10 in a comment as well, and feel free to champion a specific album (like an underdog) with a comment or two in a response.

If there's enough take on this, we'll continue beyond this first thread. Consider this my casting of bait into the water, to see if it'll stir up some chum

The Next Year we'll cover is 1980.
 

Trap Jesus

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Was going to take Odyssey and Oracle but it looks like it was just recorded in '67. Kinks, Velvet Underground and Cream stand out to me but I'll go with The Kinks.
 
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YoSoyLalo

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I voted for Sgt Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, VU, Floyd, The Beach Boys, and the Stones.

if I had to pick one though it’d be Magical Mystery Tour, my favorite Beatles album
 

Chili

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Magical M.Tour, Sgt Pepper, Doors, Sur. pillow, Are you experienced and Days of Future Passed which has aged very nicely.

Added: Happy Together/The Turtles
 
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JesusPrice

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Only voted for one which was Piper at the Gates of Dawn. While I like Saucerfull of Secrets more, it's still an amazing Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett experience!

Still, Sgt. Peppers should win :)
 

McDeepika

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Some really good albums on this list but 4 really stand out to me.

1. The Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground and Nico
2. The Kinks: Something Else by the Kinks
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are you Experienced
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis, Bold As love
 

Mikeaveli

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1. Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
2. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
3. Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
4. The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
5. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
7. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
9. Cream - Disraeli Gears
10. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

Great year for music but I prefer 1966's peak over 67. Also The Beach Boys' Smile Sessions would be in the top 3 but they weren't released until 2011.
 
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Pranzo Oltranzista

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Thought I had to select only one, went with Magical Mystery Tour (can't vote against The Beatles). I would have voted for Beefheart, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Mother of Invention.

Glad The Turtles were named in the thread. I would have added Harry Nilsson's Pandomonium Shadow Show too - not as good as Aerial Ballet ('68), but still a very good album.
 

kihei

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The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Dionne Warwick: Dionne Warwick Golden Hits, vol 1
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's
Velvet Underground with Nico
Jimi Hendrix
: Are You Experienced?
Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Nico: Chelsea Girl
 

Teemu

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1. Love – Forever Changes
2. Beatles – Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band
3. Velvet Underground & Nico – Velvet Underground & Nico
4. Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
5. Merle Haggard – I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
 
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plank

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1. s/t - The Doors
2. Disraeli Gears - Cream
3. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
4. Again - Buffalo Springfield
5. Sell Out - The Who
6. Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones
7. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
8. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
9. Easter Everywhere - 13th Floor Elevators
10. Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
 

Spring in Fialta

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Made me circle back a little bit to Safe as Milk..it'd been a little while. Goddamn is Electricity such a great f***ing song. Colossal.



Singin through you to me
Thunderbolts caught easily
Shouts the truth peacefully
E-LEC-TRI-CITY
High voltage man kisses night to bring the light to those who need to hide their shadow deed
Go into bright find the light and know that friends don't mind just how you grow
Midnight cowboy stained in black reads dark roads without a map
To free selectricity (repeat) (Repeat both lines)
Lighthouse beacon straight ahead straight ahead across black seas to bring
Seeking electricity
High voltage man kisses night to bring the light to those who need to hide their shadow-deed hide their shadow-deed (repeat)
Seek electricity
Electricity
 

Saturated Fats

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Jan 24, 2007
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My top 5:

The Velvet Underground and Nico (a top-5 album of all time for me)
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Aretha Franklin - I've Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
 

Say Hey Kid

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With more time to think I'll take:

1. I never loved a man
Forever Changes
Sgt Pepper's
VU & Nico
R U Experienced?
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Younger than Yesterday
John Wesley Harding
Buffalo Springfield Again
Disraeli Gears
 

Pranzo Oltranzista

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I restricted myself to the poll options on this one and only voted for The Beatles... Might revisit at some point. :)

 

Pranzo Oltranzista

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Back to the very first of these polls... When I was all fresh and innocent and didn't know how this series of polls would turn out to be the most fun thing on HF...

So yeah, I voted for Magical Mystery Tour, I stick by it, but here's a more complete list for an amazing year:

1. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour / The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile / The Beach Boys – Wild Honey
T3. The Kinks – Something Else
T3. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Safe As Milk
T3. AMM – AMMMusic
6. Intersystems – Number One / Intersystems – Peachy
7. Serge Gainsbourg – Anna
8. The Red Crayola with The Familiar Ugly – The Parable of Arable Land
9. Nina Simone – Nina Simone Sings the Blues (High Priestess of Soul and Silk & Soul are also good, but lesser albums)
10. Harry Nilsson – Pandemonium Shadow Show
11. The First Edition – The First Edition
12. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
13. Andrew Hill – Compulsion
14. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
15. Sam Rivers – Contours

HMs:
The Turtles – Happy Together
The Mothers of Invention – Absolutely Free
McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy
The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
Chocolate Watch Band – No Way Out
John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers – A Hard Road
John Coltrane – Kulu Se Mama / John Coltrane – Expression
Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser
Savoy Brown – Shake Down
Kaleidoscope – Side Trips
The Pretty Things – Emotions
The Who – Sell Out
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again (a few very good songs that should have landed higher here, but very uneven album)
Miles Davis Quintet – Miles Smiles
Jefferson Airplane – After Bathing at Baxter's / Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
Pharoah Sanders – Tauhid

Curiosities:
Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon
Traffic – Mr. Fantasy
Country Joe and The Fish – I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die / Country Joe and The Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity – Open
Claude Vasori – Musique Pour L'Image N° 2 / Action, charme, espace
Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble – On the Beach
 
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frisco

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The Doors-The Doors
How Great Thou Art-Elvis Presley
Bee Gees 1st-Bee Gees
Carryin' On With Johnny Cash And June Carter-Johnny Cash And June Carter
Strange Days-The Doors

My Best-Carey
 

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