Top 10 Favourite albums of 1969?
 

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

No, you have to list your top ten first. :D

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!

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

Lol, being a boomer is a great feeling our generation grew up with the best music of the 60s and 70s. I thank the lord that I'm not a GenX'er everyday when I play my Sly and The Family Stone. GenX born's suck.

Now having that said... Norg admitted he wasn't born then

Could be worse. You'll be dead way sooner than we will.

HaHa! When that happens, your generation will get promoted to the vacancy of Tedious Old Windbags. Perhaps you should start working on your stories now:-

- Back in my day, nobody imagined tele-transportation would become a reality.
- I remember when Florida was still above sea level.
- I was there, during the first Summer of Covid.
- I saw Dolly Parton live. (to which the response will be "Dolly who?" )
- Of course, we had it tough; we actually had to lift food up to our mouths and chew it!

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I didn't know you grew up in the 60s/70s, Sly! Welcome to the oldtimers club. Our goal: to exasperate Batlord by flooding the threads with annoying, nostalgic posts.

im a older Gen Y or millennial i was born in the mid 80's

we were kids when we seen the rise of MTV all the alt rock bands grunge the rise of hip hop and pop and pop country well in the 90's it was just a melting pot of everything pretty much then around 2000 we were full fledge teenagers

Jeez, I feel like a little baby boy. Born in '93, so definitely a younger millennial. Almost gen z, in fact. But not quite.

Damn yall really got sucked into the time grift hard. Abandon age and assume timelessness to escape the trappings of your physical form like a real one.

In no real order:

TMR
The Stooges
In a Silent Way
Moondog
European Echoes
Black Woman
Orgasm
White Noise
Mu
Contact

Trout Mask Replica is not in your Top Ten?

First on the list my dude.

.The only album I recall hearing straight through is Trout Mask Replica. I know and like a lot of those other bands, but can't recall listening to those particular albums.

A then & now sorta along the same lines as Lisnaholic. I'm old enough to remember buying music before I could find it "free" *cough cough* on the iinternet. Most of these albums I borrowed from family. A few I bought myself. ItCotCK was one of the first albums I ever bought. I bought 6 &12 right after seeing Leo Kottke play live.
Then:

1. Solid Gold 69 by Chet Atkins
2. 6- & 12- String Guitar by Leo Kottke
3. Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
4. Abbey Road by The Beatles
5. In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
6. Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
7. Underground Fire by The Ventures
8. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin
9. Smash Hits by Jim Hendrix Experience
10. Retrospective by Buffalo Springfield

Albums I discovered on YouTube.
Now:

1. Sound of Sunforest by Sunforest
2. The Sacred Mushroom by The Sacred Mushroom
3. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4. Genesis by Wendy & Bonnie
5. Escalator by Sam Gopal (Lemmy g,v)
6. The Howlin' Wolf Album by Howlin' Wolf
7. An Apple a Day by Apple
8. Contact by Silver Apples
9. It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You by Karen Dalton
10. Flying Machine by Flying Machine

honourable mentions to:

• Philosophy of the World by The Shaggs

I heard that one at a record store I was working at in the early eighties. Definitely falls in the so bad, it's good territory.

No particular order (apart from the #1 spot)

1. Abbey Road – The Beatles

Let it Bleed – The Rolling Stones

Santana – Santana

Live/Dead – Grateful Dead

In a Silent Way – Miles Davis

Nashville Skyline – Bob Dylan

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere – Neil Young

With a Little Help From My Friends – Joe Cocker

Trout Mask Replica – Beffheart

Space Oddity – David Bowie

I'll drink to that

I hope it's a nonalcoholic drink, cause the Wiggin sisters would not approve otherwise. :beer:
Lucky you -- working in a record store. I guess that was a real learning experience.

Yep. Discovered a lot of great bands there. That's also where I discovered the Pebbles series (60s garage rock comps)

In no particular order...

Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Joe Harriott & Amancio D'Silva Quartet - Hum Dono
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Robbie Basho - Venus in Cancer
Gal Costa - Gal
Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll
The Meters - The Meters
Moondog - Moondog
Nature's Consort - Nature's Consort
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Archie Shepp - Blasé
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown

Nice. Forgot that one was released in 69 or it would've made my list too.

You don't **** with this?



Agreed that it's pretty overrated though.

My intake of Zappa has dwindled each year but I can't ever deny that Hot Rats f*cking slaps.

Fun House is one of the greatest albums of all time but I just can't include their debut on my list of favorites. It's just off to the side though.

Nah, Stooges is the 1969 garage rock king.

I like to think that they disbanded after White Light/White Heat so that I don't have to associate that album with their name.

I can think of a couple right off the bat...

The MC5- Kick Out the Jams
NRBQ- NRBQ (though maybe more R&B than punk)

I love the self-titled one but loaded is meh

One of the best songs

The whole album is one of my all time favorites except maybe the 10-minute prayer service

This is another one that just blows my mind

Anyway...

Can - Monster Movie
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
The Stooges
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Silver Apples - Contact
Zappa - Hot Rats
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Velvet Underground

At first I thought to myself 'Hey, wait a minute, that's not ten albums.' Then it dawned on me that's your Top 10 (in Tetradecimal) Favorite Albums of 1969. I felt both ashamed for doubting your ability to count to ten, and then awed that we have a mathematical genius for a mod counting his Top 10 in base-14!

Mods make the rules. We do not follow them.

why so?

Glad to see you (pl.) drunk with power. :beer: Funny thing though, it's not a rule as in "forum rules," it's instructions set up by the OP to list "10" -- be it binary, decimal, tetradecimal, what have you. I never cared for the "list [X] amount of albums" anyways cause it doesn't always work out to be that number for the amount of albums one wants to mention. And then perhaps if forces one to have to choose between two albums (leaving off one) just to meet the criterion of [X] amount.

The Ventures, CCR and The Meters had a busy year in '69 all releasing more than one album. What album do you consider better The Meters (debut) or Look-Ka Py Py?