Top 10 Favourite albums of 1969?

[SlyStone63]

1969 was the year I started to listen to music, so I'm curious. What are your top 10 albums of 1969?

[rubber soul]

No, you have to list your top ten first.

[SlyStone63]

Originally Posted by rubber soul

No, you have to list your top ten first.

Sure!

1. Stand - Sly and The Family Stone
2. Soul 69 - Aretha Franklin
3. Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
4. Abbey Road - The Beatles
5. My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
6. Cloud Nine - Temptations
7. First Take - Roberta Flack
8. Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes
9. Santana - Santana
10. The Soft Parade - The Doors

Next!

[rubber soul]

Not a bad list. Here's mine...

1. Let it Bleed- Rolling Stones
2. Abbey Road- Beatles
3. Tommy- The Who
4. Odessey and Oracle- Zombies
5. In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson
6. The Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground
7. Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)- Kinks
8. Illuminations- Buffy Sainte- Marie
9. Unhalfbricking- Fairport Convention
10. Led Zeppelin II- Led Zeppelin


(Incidentally, Stand just missed this list, was definitely Sly's best album)

[Psy-Fi]

I was just barely able to whittle my list down to 13 but that's as far as I could go.

In no particular order...

Elephant Mountain - The Youngbloods
Monster - Steppenwolf
More - Pink Floyd
Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service
Uncle Meat - The Mothers of Invention
Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Santana - Santana
In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash

[Norg]

Ummm something like this ill admit tho i dont know much about this year or 60's at all was not even born 60's and 70's seemed like a great 20 years of music then 80's happend and everything changed


1. Aorta (previously The Exception)-Aorta

2. frank zappa- Hot rats

3.Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin1

4.White Noise-An Electric Storm

5. beatles -Abbey road

6.Randy Weston- African Rhythms

7. Piero Umiliani-La legge dei gangsters

8. The Lost Grooves: Rare And Previously Unissued Slices Of Funk From The Vaults Of Blue Note, 67-70

9. Spooky Tooth-Spooky two

10. John Lee Hooker-Urban Blues (Bonus Tracks)

[SlyStone63]

Originally Posted by Norg

Ummm something like this ill admit tho i dont know much about this year or 60's at all was not even born 60's and 70's seemed like a great 20 years of music then 80's happend and everything changed


1. Aorta (previously The Exception)-Aorta

2. frank zappa- Hot rats

3.Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin1

4.White Noise-An Electric Storm

5. beatles -Abbey road

6.Randy Weston- African Rhythms

7. Piero Umiliani-La legge dei gangsters

8. The Lost Grooves: Rare And Previously Unissued Slices Of Funk From The Vaults Of Blue Note, 67-70

9. Spooky Tooth-Spooky two

10. John Lee Hooker-Urban Blues (Bonus Tracks)

Lol! You sounded like George Michael there... He said the same thing

[SlyStone63]

Originally Posted by rubber soul

Not a bad list. Here's mine...

1. Let it Bleed- Rolling Stones
2. Abbey Road- Beatles
3. Tommy- The Who
4. Odessey and Oracle- Zombies
5. In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson
6. The Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground
7. Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)- Kinks
8. Illuminations- Buffy Sainte- Marie
9. Unhalfbricking- Fairport Convention
10. Led Zeppelin II- Led Zeppelin


(Incidentally, Stand just missed this list, was definitely Sly's best album)

Agree... If I were to do a ranking.

1. Stand
2. Life
3. There's A Riot Goin On
4. Dance To The Music
5. Greatest Hits album (3 extra songs)
6. Fresh (their weakest and it was over at this point)

[YoshiMadness]

10. Johnny Cash- At San Quentin
9. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Green River
8. Miles Davis- In A Silent Way
7. The MC5- Kick Out The Jams
6. Dusty Springfield- Dusty In Memphis
5. Isaac Hayes- Hot Buttered Soul
4. The Who- Tommy
3. The Stooges- self titled
2. Sly And The Family Stone- Stand
1. The Byrds- Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

[Lisnaholic]

You picked an interesting year, SlyStone, right in the middle of the psychedelic era, with the "Summer of Love" ('67) still a fresh memory. None the less, checking in with wiki, I find that some of my favourite artists were either idle, or not coming up with their best in '69.
(Also, Honorary Mention to Simon & Garfunkel, who spent '69 recording Bridge over Troubled Water, but missed Sly's deadline because the album wasn't released until 26 days into the next year.)

I'm going to play my Boomer card because, unlike Norg, I was regulary buying albums in '69, so I have two lists, both of which are in As-I-Thought-Of-Them order:-

Albums I liked at the time:-

1. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
2. John Fahey -The Yellow Princess
3. Pentangle - Basket of Light
4. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
5. Nick Drake -Five Leaves Left
6. Captain Beefheart - Tout Mask Replica
7. Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
8. Original London Cast - Hair
9. Wendy* Carlos - The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (* known as Walter '69 )
10. Quintessence - In Blissful Company

Albums I discovered later in life:-

1. Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs
2. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
3. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
4. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
5. Kevin Ayers - Joy Of A Toy
6. Renaissance - Renaissance
7. Moondog - Moondog
8. Clark-Hutchinson - A=MH2
9. Third Ear Band - Alchemy