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Topic: PA's Top 100 Prog Albums, Year by YearPosted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: PA's Top 100 Prog Albums, Year by Year
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 09:12
The ultimate list! A year-by-year inventory of Prog Archives' Top Albums, including all available album links and (some questionable) album ratings, so don't be too surprised if your favourite Avant Prog album from any particular year receives a measly 1 or 2-star rating from yours truly.
1967 The year of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album and the Summer of Love for Psychedelic Rock with Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar (and the world) on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival. 1967 is also the year when it all began for Progressive Rock (if you don't include Miles Davis) with debut albums from The Nice, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Traffic and the newly-reformed Moody Blues.
01. 1967: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw
02. 1967: The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2ZtCW2av-6BOB9GRzbLcYyFkwbjkwreo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2ZtCW2av-6BOB9GRzbLcYyFkwbjkwreo
03. 1967: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSgXPSP2bLvCWtPF64Wopm2N1OHhCe4sg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSgXPSP2bLvCWtPF64Wopm2N1OHhCe4sg
07. 1967: Miles Davis Quintet - Sorcerer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Mtmfcn84A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Mtmfcn84A
08. 1967: The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuzhqEsWO03OddTJc-iHkm7SMe-dlfzGo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuzhqEsWO03OddTJc-iHkm7SMe-dlfzGo
09. 1967: Traffic - Mr. Fantasy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns0kxtY7ze8a5Ey3b93WT7hSbqgYVA2u4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns0kxtY7ze8a5Ey3b93WT7hSbqgYVA2u4
13. 1967: Mecki Mark Men - Mecki Mark Men - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6kJbAbB2JrPLSygKw8F65Jfan3lhBqJc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6kJbAbB2JrPLSygKw8F65Jfan3lhBqJc
14. 1967: Larry Coryell & The Free Spirits - Out of Sight and Sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTKUWdL5Cc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTKUWdL5Cc
15. 1967: Larry Young - Contrasts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zru0PKzgQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zru0PKzgQ
16. 1967: Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7RwoAvs-rjLKrZECC-mL14SK6Ez1E-Vg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7RwoAvs-rjLKrZECC-mL14SK6Ez1E-Vg
18. 1967: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity - Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw
19. 1967: Czeslaw Niemen - Dziwny Jest Ten Swiat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8my1-lhSIY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8my1-lhSIY
20. 1967: The Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNE78JD7rl4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNE78JD7rl4
Replies: Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 09:20
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA. I've found many albums you've recommended resplendent. That said, you put a dent in my spending money account. Enjoying my Mostly Autumn binge.
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 09:29
omphaloskepsis wrote:
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA. I've found many albums you've recommended resplendent. That said, you put a dent in my spending money account. Enjoying my Mostly Autumn binge.
being a collaborator has got nothing to do with posting in the forums (or the quantity of that). It's a contribution to the archive, evaluating suggested bands, adding bands and albums.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 09:43
Cristi wrote:
omphaloskepsis wrote:
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA. I've found many albums you've recommended resplendent. That said, you put a dent in my spending money account. Enjoying my Mostly Autumn binge.
being a collaborator has got nothing to do with posting in the forums (or the quantity of that). It's a contribution to the archive, evaluating suggested bands, adding bands and albums.
I doubt if I'd make a good PA collaborator anyway. How on earth would I ever find the time!?? And besides, many of the collaborators in war movies I've seen end up getting shot.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 09:43
Very interesting thread, Paul, and my 1967 faves from PA's top 20 are:
01. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
03. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 09:48
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
.... many of the collaborators in war movies I've seen end up getting shot.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 09:55
David_D wrote:
Very interesting thread, Paul, and my 1967 faves from PA's top 6 are:
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
By the way, before moving onto 1968, I'm wondering why The Beatles and The Nice aren't included in PA's Top Albums list for 1967?
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 10:09
omphaloskepsis wrote:
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA.
That's surely not an exaggeration.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 10:24
Cristi wrote:
omphaloskepsis wrote:
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA. I've found many albums you've recommended resplendent. That said, you put a dent in my spending money account. Enjoying my Mostly Autumn binge.
being a collaborator has got nothing to do with posting in the forums (or the quantity of that). It's a contribution to the archive, evaluating suggested bands, adding bands and albums.
Is that true for honorary collaborators? Or the folks who vote for the collaborators end-of-the-year album list?
I ask, because I voted one year....submitted my top 20 albums. I wasn't a collaborator.
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 10:36
omphaloskepsis wrote:
Cristi wrote:
omphaloskepsis wrote:
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA. I've found many albums you've recommended resplendent. That said, you put a dent in my spending money account. Enjoying my Mostly Autumn binge.
being a collaborator has got nothing to do with posting in the forums (or the quantity of that). It's a contribution to the archive, evaluating suggested bands, adding bands and albums.
Is that true for honorary collaborators? Or the folks who vote for the collaborators end-of-the-year album list?
I ask, because I voted one year....submitted my top 20 albums. I wasn't a collaborator.
As far as i know, honorary collaborators were either collabs/special collabs, prog-reviewers, they didn't get the "honorary" for nothing. Their contribution to the site meant something.
" collaborators end-of-the-year albums" - this one is obvious, isn't it?
I don't know to what list you contributed... you have to give more info for that...
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 10:56
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
By the way, before moving onto 1968, I'm
wondering why The Beatles and The Nice aren't included in PA's Top
Albums list for 1967?
I
guess the proto-prog and prog-related categories are not taken into
account for the overall PA lists (and rightly so, I think).
Anyway, I don't know what the purpose of this thread (and undoubtedly the following ones) is, since PA is already an inventory...? But I wish you a lot of fun with it.
-------------
The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 10:57
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
By the way, before moving onto 1968, I'm wondering why The Beatles and The Nice aren't included in PA's Top Albums list for 1967?
Well, I won't say, I miss The Beatles here.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 11:09
Prog related artists are not considered for those lists.
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 11:09
suitkees wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
By the way, before moving onto 1968, I'm
wondering why The Beatles and The Nice aren't included in PA's Top
Albums list for 1967?
I
guess the proto-prog and prog-related categories are not taken into
account for the overall PA lists (and rightly so, I think).
The PA Top Albums lists do not include the Proto-Prog and Prog Related categories. In order to see the top albums from the Proto-Prog and Prog Related categories, one has to go to Proto-Prog and Prog Related categories, where there is a link to the list of top albums in the respective categories. In the top prog albums list, the Sub-Genre filter does not include either Proto-Prog or Prog Related.
------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 11:16
Cristi wrote:
omphaloskepsis wrote:
Cristi wrote:
omphaloskepsis wrote:
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA. I've found many albums you've recommended resplendent. That said, you put a dent in my spending money account. Enjoying my Mostly Autumn binge.
being a collaborator has got nothing to do with posting in the forums (or the quantity of that). It's a contribution to the archive, evaluating suggested bands, adding bands and albums.
Is that true for honorary collaborators? Or the folks who vote for the collaborators end-of-the-year album list?
I ask, because I voted one year....submitted my top 20 albums. I wasn't a collaborator.
As far as i know, honorary collaborators were either collabs/special collabs, prog-reviewers, they didn't get the "honorary" for nothing. Their contribution to the site meant something.
" collaborators end-of-the-year albums" - this one is obvious, isn't it?
I don't know to what list you contributed... you have to give more info for that...
I was invited to vote for the 2017 collaborator's list. Here's a copy of the top 20 list I submitted.
01. Barock Project - "Detachment"
02. Wobbler- "From Silence to Somewhere"
03. Big Big Train - "Grimspound"
04. Unreal City -"Frammenti Notturi"
05.Sparks - "Hippopotamus"
06. Cirkus - "Wild Dogs"
07. Panther & C - "il Giusto Equilibrio"
08. Astrolabio- "I Paralumi della Ragione"
09. Obiymy Doschu- "Son"
10. Lunatic Soul - "Fracture"
11. Accordo Dei Contrari - "Violato Intatto"
12. L'Albero Del Veleno- " Tale of a Dark Fate"
13. Magenta - "We are Legend"
14. Leprous - "Malina"
15. Herd of Instinct - "Drone Priest"
16. Steven Wilson - "To the Bone"
17. Maxophone - "La fabbrica delle nuvole"
18. Diablo Swing Orchestra - "Pacifisticuffs"
19. il Cerchio D'oro- "il Fuoco Sotto la Cenere"
20. Soup - "Remedies"
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 11:18
^^ One further difference is that the top prog albums are "Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music", whereas the top Proto-Prog or Prog Related albums are "Essential: a masterpiece of rock music". This seems to suggest a higher status for the top Proto-Prog and Prog Related albums.
------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 11:18
omphaloskepsis wrote:
I was invited to vote for the 2017 collaborator's list. Here's a copy of the top 20 list I submitted.
01. Barock Project - "Detachment"
02. Wobbler- "From Silence to Somewhere"
03. Big Big Train - "Grimspound"
04. Unreal City -"Frammenti Notturi"
05.Sparks - "Hippopotamus"
06. Cirkus - "Wild Dogs"
07. Panther & C - "il Giusto Equilibrio"
08. Astrolabio- "I Paralumi della Ragione"
09. Obiymy Doschu- "Son"
10. Lunatic Soul - "Fracture"
11. Accordo Dei Contrari - "Violato Intatto"
12. L'Albero Del Veleno- " Tale of a Dark Fate"
13. Magenta - "We are Legend"
14. Leprous - "Malina"
15. Herd of Instinct - "Drone Priest"
16. Steven Wilson - "To the Bone"
17. Maxophone - "La fabbrica delle nuvole"
18. Diablo Swing Orchestra - "Pacifisticuffs"
19. il Cerchio D'oro- "il Fuoco Sotto la Cenere"
20. Soup - "Remedies"
ok then.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 12:00
Good news! I just discovered a far more extensive list of Prog Archives Top 20 Albums for 1967 (with a little help from Google), which still doesn't include The Beatles, but it does include The Nice and Miles Davis (twice!).
01. 1967: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw
02. 1967: The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2ZtCW2av-6BOB9GRzbLcYyFkwbjkwreo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2ZtCW2av-6BOB9GRzbLcYyFkwbjkwreo
03. 1967: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSgXPSP2bLvCWtPF64Wopm2N1OHhCe4sg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSgXPSP2bLvCWtPF64Wopm2N1OHhCe4sg
07. 1967: Miles Davis Quintet - Sorcerer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Mtmfcn84A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Mtmfcn84A
08. 1967: The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuzhqEsWO03OddTJc-iHkm7SMe-dlfzGo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuzhqEsWO03OddTJc-iHkm7SMe-dlfzGo
09. 1967: Traffic - Mr. Fantasy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns0kxtY7ze8a5Ey3b93WT7hSbqgYVA2u4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns0kxtY7ze8a5Ey3b93WT7hSbqgYVA2u4
13. 1967: Mecki Mark Men - Mecki Mark Men - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6kJbAbB2JrPLSygKw8F65Jfan3lhBqJc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6kJbAbB2JrPLSygKw8F65Jfan3lhBqJc
14. 1967: Larry Corryell & The Free Spirits - Out of Sight and Sound - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTKUWdL5Cc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTKUWdL5Cc
15. 1967: Larry Young - Contrasts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zru0PKzgQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zru0PKzgQ
16. 1967: Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7RwoAvs-rjLKrZECC-mL14SK6Ez1E-Vg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7RwoAvs-rjLKrZECC-mL14SK6Ez1E-Vg
18. 1967: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity - Open - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw
19. 1967: Czeslaw Niemen - Dziwny Jest Ten Swiat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8my1-lhSIY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8my1-lhSIY
20. 1967: The Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNE78JD7rl4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNE78JD7rl4
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 12:11
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
Good news! I just discovered a far more extensive list of Prog Archives Top 20 Albums for 1967 (with a little help from Google), which still doesn't include The Beatles, but it does include The Nice and Miles Davis (twice!).
01. 1967: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw
02. 1967: The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2ZtCW2av-6BOB9GRzbLcYyFkwbjkwreo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2ZtCW2av-6BOB9GRzbLcYyFkwbjkwreo
03. 1967: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSgXPSP2bLvCWtPF64Wopm2N1OHhCe4sg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSgXPSP2bLvCWtPF64Wopm2N1OHhCe4sg
07. 1967: Miles Davis Quintet - Sorcerer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Mtmfcn84A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Mtmfcn84A
08. 1967: The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuzhqEsWO03OddTJc-iHkm7SMe-dlfzGo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuzhqEsWO03OddTJc-iHkm7SMe-dlfzGo
09. 1967: Traffic - Mr. Fantasy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns0kxtY7ze8a5Ey3b93WT7hSbqgYVA2u4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns0kxtY7ze8a5Ey3b93WT7hSbqgYVA2u4
13. 1967: Mecki Mark Men - Mecki Mark Men - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6kJbAbB2JrPLSygKw8F65Jfan3lhBqJc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6kJbAbB2JrPLSygKw8F65Jfan3lhBqJc
14. 1967: Larry Corryell & The Free Spirits - Out of Sight and Sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTKUWdL5Cc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTKUWdL5Cc
15. 1967: Larry Young - Contrasts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zru0PKzgQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zru0PKzgQ
16. 1967: Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7RwoAvs-rjLKrZECC-mL14SK6Ez1E-Vg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7RwoAvs-rjLKrZECC-mL14SK6Ez1E-Vg
18. 1967: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity - Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw
19. 1967: Czeslaw Niemen - Dziwny Jest Ten Swiat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8my1-lhSIY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8my1-lhSIY
20. 1967: The Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNE78JD7rl4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNE78JD7rl4
Good! The Davis albums are my favs from 1967....followed by Moody Blues and then Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Traffic, and Beefheart.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 12:28
^ I'm liking this new 1967 list much more too, especially bearing in mind it now includes one of my all-time favourite psych albums.
I've been watching London's Burning again on YouTube, so this next track seems a fitting tribute to firefighters everywhere - not just in London.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 13:19
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
Good news! I just discovered a far more extensive list of Prog Archives Top 20 Albums for 1967 (with a little help from Google), which still doesn't include The Beatles, but it does include The Nice and Miles Davis (twice!).
As far as I'm concerned, top 10s would be very fine.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 13:22
^ Even it's interesting to see this one:
19. 1967: Czeslaw Niemen - Dziwny Jest Ten Swiat
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 13:40
David_D wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
Good news! I just discovered a far more extensive list of Prog Archives Top 20 Albums for 1967 (with a little help from Google), which still doesn't include The Beatles, but it does include The Nice and Miles Davis (twice!).
As far as I'm concerned, top 10s would be very fine.
But if I'd only listed a Top 10, you would have missed out on Czeslaw Niemen at #19.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 15:18
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
I just discovered a far more extensive list of Prog Archives Top 20 Albums for 1967 (with a little help from Google), ...
I'm curious, Paul, how did you do that?
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 15:37
David_D wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
I just discovered a far more extensive list of Prog Archives Top 20 Albums for 1967 (with a little help from Google), ...
I'm curious, Paul, how did you do that?
I typed into Google: "Prog Archives 1967 Top Albums" - and this is the Top 20 list they came up with...
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 15:57
^ All right, you know some tricks.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 03:30
1968 The year when a tripped-out Syd Barrett was replaced by David Gilmour in Pink Floyd and also the year when the Canterbury Scene came to mean more than just an invite to one of the Archbishop of Canterbury's cheese and wine parties. Leading band Caravan (at #10) left all of the other Canterbury Scene bands trailing behind in their wake, and coincidentally, Caravan's eponymous debut album was the first album to mention "Progressive Rock" in the sleeve notes.
01. 1968: The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mZIwX2v46fKfMEDrJoQ3wbSu8Ila4Ciks" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mZIwX2v46fKfMEDrJoQ3wbSu8Ila4Ciks
04. 1968: Family - Music in a Doll's House - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1F6E4AF96C3F9481" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1F6E4AF96C3F9481
05. 1968: The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5UdP-SFNgY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5UdP-SFNgY
06. 1968: Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6eZHnIA__A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6eZHnIA__A
07. 1968: Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5awe-gTz1p0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5awe-gTz1p0
08. 1968: Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qdsdtFUMs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qdsdtFUMs
09. 1968: Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q-lpXN7_DM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q-lpXN7_DM
11. 1968: Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmmuHnXLJiw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmmuHnXLJiw
12. 1968: David Axelrod - Song of Innocence - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nBJgNLqUL8A64tQMKFNPK3x7KzNOgfbUw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nBJgNLqUL8A64tQMKFNPK3x7KzNOgfbUw
20. 1968: The Incredible String Band - Wee Tam and the Big Huge - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns6VP3D4JtA1wRmmyptz2KKfh_lIxGkV4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns6VP3D4JtA1wRmmyptz2KKfh_lIxGkV4
21. 1968: Aphrodite's Child - End of the World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFj4RHPPyfw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFj4RHPPyfw
23. 1968: Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlSciahOkI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlSciahOkI
24. 1968: The Ceyleib People - Tanyet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOoj1eAIJI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOoj1eAIJI
25. 1968: Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Velvet Opera - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD7B647064FBFC95" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD7B647064FBFC95
26. 1968: Lily & Maria - Lily & Maria - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIgdyMdi5CmljHAV1o6SoiBrkjd9fKTpw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIgdyMdi5CmljHAV1o6SoiBrkjd9fKTpw
27. 1968: Mandrake Memorial - The Mandrake Memorial - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZnpDlBzipIzU89vnrwG6YvUKMIfh4S5" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZnpDlBzipIzU89vnrwG6YvUKMIfh4S5
28. 1968: Don Ellis & His Orchestra - Autumn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp6PWDUbaZA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp6PWDUbaZA
29. 1968: John Martyn - The Tumbler - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTZFwWztY33UaLcSnSVPaWuEFmqUqj-ik" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTZFwWztY33UaLcSnSVPaWuEFmqUqj-ik
30. 1968: Jean-Luc Ponty - More Than Meets the Ear - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWy1VqVN8GlqcO4C_boKbg9xyWus_sqPu" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWy1VqVN8GlqcO4C_boKbg9xyWus_sqPu
40. 1968: Made in Sweden - With Love - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2SxQtaONFFj9Xf1n3P3t3eS" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2SxQtaONFFj9Xf1n3P3t3eS
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 03:35
David_D wrote:
^ Even it's interesting to see this one:
19. 1967: Czeslaw Niemen - Dziwny Jest Ten Swiat
It may also be interesting to know that the title says, Strange Is This World
while I'd at least say, it gets more and more made by plastic.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 03:59
Cristi wrote:
Prog related artists are not considered for those lists.
Thanks Cristi. That explains why The Beatles aren't included in the 1968 list either.
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 04:00
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
1968
A top fifteen from me would look something like:
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets Family - Music in a Doll's House Pentangle - Sweet Child The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child Terje Rypdal - Bleak House The Incredible String Band - Wee Tam and the Big Huge The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money Ultimate Spinach - Behold and See
Pentangle - The Pentangle
Captain Beefheart - Strictly Personal Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes Caravan - Caravan
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 04:30
^ If The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, by far their most popular (and best) album everywhere but here was among the 40 to choose from, it would been in my top five.
-with that out of the way I've got ten favorites from
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
1967
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
Miles Davis Quintet - Nefertiti (I have it as a 1968-album though) The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free Miles Davis Quintet - Sorcerer The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 04:38
It's good to see the psych classics Mandrake Memorial (at #27) and Ultimate Spinach (at #16) in the Top 40 chart for 1968.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 04:59
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
... Caravan's eponymous debut album was the first album to mention "Progressive Rock" in the sleeve notes.
As stated/documented by, as far as I remember, Enigmatic in another thread, this sleeve note first appeared in the 1972 reissue.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 05:02
My '68 faves from the list are:
02. Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
03. Soft Machine - The Soft Machine
11. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 05:32
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Miles Davis Quintet - Nefertiti (I have it as a 1968-album though)
Only PA lists it as a 1967 album. Weird - and wrong
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 05:38
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Miles Davis Quintet - Nefertiti (I have it as a 1968-album though)
Only PA lists it as a 1967 album. Weird - and wrong
report the mistake and the E & O team will fix the issue.
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 07:04
David_D wrote:
...
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Hi,
At
the time, a lot of the music was depending on radio play, specially in
America when the AM radio was still favored, which was to begin falling
apart the following year, when a lot of the folks on it, started the
dumping ground on the new materials, including a jackass in Madison that
called Jimi Hendrix a stoned kid that didn't know music, and at least
twice that I caught, he started the single and ripped the needle through
the rest of the song! I would have fired that idiot on the spot for
being in the wrong business and not supporting the music!
PF,
on that first album, was kinda known in England, to a small degree,
along with other bands in their "college circuit" of bands, that at the
time also featured The Soft Machine and others ... but beyond that I
think it was kinda ... so what ... more weird, far out, quasi
psychedelic music ... (PF's early stuff is NOT psychedelic at all,
despite it being around during the time) ... that was getting some
attention, but in America it was not going to get played much on the AM
radio. It was later on the FM radio band that PF got better known in
America, because the weird/eccentric nature of the music was an
attractive new choice, and a much better product than some cheap stuff
or "I had too much to dream last night", which, btw, is not even a drug
song!
It is, neat, and far out, that some 50
plus years later, we can sit back and say ... that was a far out album,
even if Roger still speaks of them as crap and not worth discussing!
Dave has an inch of respect, but does not think of it as valuable when
it comes to composition, since it does not feature one of his solos !
But
what it told us all was that in the next few years, the long cut and
the "tripping" was what a lot of music was all about, which meant that a
lot of the Syd stuff was no longer an interest for the new radio folks
with FM radio in America. England different in this aspect, and even
Dave Cousins book on it (he worked in the evolution of FM radio in
England) is elusive and sometimes not clear about all the music, and
what it needed ... and maybe all he really wanted was to get a new
keyboard, or guitar so his band could continue, and his wife wouldn't
throw the bum out the door!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 08:22
omphaloskepsis wrote:
You should be a collaborator, Paul. You post more material on forums...than anybody on PA. I've found many albums you've recommended resplendent. That said, you put a dent in my spending money account. Enjoying my Mostly Autumn binge.
I'm glad you're enjoying Mostly Autumn, especially bearing in mind they're mostly ignored by radio stations and anyone outside of the progosphere. I'll have various shades of Welsh band Magenta coming up for you soon, including Cyan, Chimpan A, Kiama, Trippa, The Fyreworks, together with solo albums by Christina Booth, Chris Fry & Rob Reed - so that's a few more albums to put a dent in your bank account.
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 08:39
moshkito wrote:
(PF's early stuff is NOT psychedelic at all,
despite it being around during the time)
Piper at the Gates of Dawn, fueled by Syd Barrett's escalating consumption of LSD (exacerbating his schizophrenia), is psychedelic music by intention, by acclaim and by historical perspective, as was Floyd's multimedia stage shows at the time.
You are utterly wrong.
------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 10:09
Two evergreen prog classics from 1967 that you can never hear too many times.....
01. 1967: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw
Nights in White Satin (an eternal classic which has entered the British Top 20 singles chart three times in 1967, 1972 & 1979)
A Whiter Shade of Pale (reportedly, Gary Brooker turned a whiter shade of pale when he discovered that Matthew Fisher was claiming writing royalties for the song 38 years later, which ended in a court case, and which Gary Brooker described as a darker shade of black for British justice).
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 12:46
An ideal song for Halloween and a favourite track from Brian Auger's best album...
18. 1967: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity - Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 04:32
Two mind-expanding psych favourites from 1968 to trip out your reality and twist your sobriety.....
16. 1968: Ultimate Spinach - Behold and See - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9Nx-Y61yg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9Nx-Y61yg
27. 1968: Mandrake Memorial - The Mandrake Memorial - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZnpDlBzipIzU89vnrwG6YvUKMIfh4S5" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZnpDlBzipIzU89vnrwG6YvUKMIfh4S5
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 06:58
Though recorded in the summer of 1967, Nefertitii's official release date (garnered from multiple sources--including Discogs and the Miles Davis site) was January 15, 1968.
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 07:37
BrufordFreak wrote:
Though recorded in the summer of 1967, Nefertitii's official release date (garnered from multiple sources--including Discogs and the Miles Davis site) was January 15, 1968.
again, if the year on the album PA page is wrong, tell the E & O team to help fix it.
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 17:15
Thanks for starting and posting this thread, Paul! I've discovered several fantastic bands/albums that are totally new to me--including:
Aphrodite's Child's End of the Wold
THE ZODIAC Cosmic Sounds
THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL (especially Medium and Puzzle)
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 17:25
BrufordFreak wrote:
Thanks for starting and posting this thread, Paul! I've discovered several fantastic bands/albums that are totally new to me--including:
Aphrodite's Child's End of the Wold
THE ZODIAC Cosmic Sounds
THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL (especially Medium and Puzzle)
DAVID AXELROD Song of Innocence
THE ZODIAC Cosmic Sounds
Awesomeness!
You're welcome! Those four albums are favourites of mine too and The Zodiac's Cosmic Sounds album is so good you named it twice!
Incidentally, I was born under the sign of Leo, but I'd rather have been born under the sign of Aquarius - The Lover of Life (and Music).
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 21:58
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
BrufordFreak wrote:
Thanks for starting and posting this thread, Paul! I've discovered several fantastic bands/albums that are totally new to me--including:
Aphrodite's Child's End of the Wold
THE ZODIAC Cosmic Sounds
THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL (especially Medium and Puzzle)
DAVID AXELROD Song of Innocence
THE ZODIAC Cosmic Sounds
Awesomeness!
You're welcome! Those four albums are favourites of mine too and The Zodiac's Cosmic Sounds album is so good you named it twice!
Btw, ever heard this heavy proggish version of Aries from that album? It's awesome.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 14 2023 at 01:34
^ Yes, I'm a big fan of Writing on the Wall too, having first discovered them around ten years ago by following a YouTube link from Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album.
1969: Writing on the Wall - Power of the Picts - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXEQJubcY7JTh7GRyD1A5OFrYHq1GwZm0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXEQJubcY7JTh7GRyD1A5OFrYHq1GwZm0
1994: Writing on the Wall - Rarities from the Middle Earth -
1996: Writing on the Wall - Burghley Road - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kJ4qGsglkOrorw7qz9to9qqo1TV1W9pUI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kJ4qGsglkOrorw7qz9to9qqo1TV1W9pUI
2014: Writing on the Wall - Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_loXY5d9h1t1Y7QomhUI5T_LUqean_7pU0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_loXY5d9h1t1Y7QomhUI5T_LUqean_7pU0
2015: Writing on the Wall - The Rockfield Sessions - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lS3qfLVpjpOdvRfcckBE6jWTJzNCCmr2o" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lS3qfLVpjpOdvRfcckBE6jWTJzNCCmr2o
WRITING ON THE WALL were a one-album Heavy Prog band from Bonnie Scotland. They began life in Edinburgh in the late- 1960's and later moved down to London where they became a popular Live act, playing at the famed Middle Earth club. They were hit by ill fortune in 1973 though when their band gear was stolen and the writing was on the wall for the break-up of the band. Their one and only studio album "The Power of the Picts" (1969) featured a creepy black and white image of a skull. The album is categorised as Occult Rock on Wikipedia, so you can expect to hear a spooky witches brew of music in the style of those other two hocus pocus black magic bands, Black Widow and Coven. The CD re-issue of "The Power of the Picts" added two bonus tracks to the original nine songs on the album. There were three later album releases from Writing on the Wall, featuring rare recordings from various sessions in the late-60's and early-70's:- "Rarities from the Middle Earth" (1994); "Burghley Road" (1996); and "The Rockfield Sessions" (2015).
The album opens in fine rollicking and rambunctious style with "It Came On Sunday", which comes loudly knocking at your back door. The postman doesn't bother to ring twice, he just comes crashing straight through your door with a special delivery of powerhouse heavy blues. It's not quite as heavy as the throbbing and thunderous raw proto-metal of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath though. No, this roaring song with its pounding beat and hypnotic rhythm is more akin to the powerful organ-driven sound of early Uriah Heep, Deep Purple and Rare Bird, with a healthy splash of mean and mighty blues thrown into the mix too. It's probably best to hunker down through the storming Hard Rock of "It Came On Sunday" and wait for Monday to come 'round. There's no peace for the wicked (or the good) though, because it's time now for a piece of "Mrs. Cooper's Pie", which turns out to be a tasty slice of thrumming organ-driven heavy rock, of which High and Mighty keyboard wizard Ken Hensley of Uriah Heep fame would be mighty proud. This Very 'eavy, Very 'umble song is a Demons and Wizards Wonderworld of sonic energy which has all of the raw undiluted power of a tank rolling across Salisbury Plain, so you better run, you better take cover, because this tank ain't stopping for anyone. We're celebrating the Sweet Freedom of a "Ladybird" next, as we dive Head First into this sonic blast from the past. Again, the Writing is on the Wall for another pounding and pulsating explosion of audio dynamite, as this band of stormtroopers are on a take-no-prisoners Conquest, where you the listener may be the Innocent Victim. This is an album that should come with a noise abatement notice! The band really Ram the message home with the next storming rocker: "Aries". Batten down the hatches because this album is about to get VERY LOUD indeed! "Aries" is a supercharged high-energy cover version of a track from the classic American Psychedelic Rock album , "The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds", recorded in the Summer of Love year of 1967. This is where the manic intensity of earlier numbers is ramped up to 99 and taken to a whole new level of sonorous magnitude, instilling the music with all of the unstoppable power and energy of a battering Ram. Whether or not you believe in horoscopes, it's written in the stars that the Astounding Sounds of this song and album will Amaze and Delight fans of Heavy Prog.
Take cover! It could be a good time to hide under the bed now or the "Bogeyman" might get you. He sounds like a mean and moody bogeyman too, if this creepy blues number with a mean and moody attitude is anything to go by. The brief and very bizarre sailor's hornpipe sea shanty in the opening only adds to the Looney Tunes wackiness in this wild ride on the Crazy Train, with the manic vocalist sounding like he's on some kind of psychedelic acid trip from Hell. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible..... There's no hope of sanity returning any time soon though as it's a Return To Fantasy for "Shadow of Man". It's another dark and brooding return to insanity that doesn't just verge on madness - it goes right off the rails altogether and takes the listener on a nightmare ride of absolute bedlam where the lines between fantasy and reality are constantly blurred. The music is a lunatic asylum of crazy over-the-top vocals accompanied by an absolutely manic keyboard player and a drummer going hell for leather with the relentless pounding power of a pneumatic drill. "Shadow of Man" represents a non-stop bunker-busting artillery barrage of sound from beginning to end, so it's best to have the ear- defenders at the ready. This band might sound as crazy and demented as a box of frogs at times, but that only adds to their manic appeal. Some sense of normality returns now for the heavy blues rocker "Tasker's Successor", which still barrels along relentlessly on full-power, but without the craziness of the two earlier numbers. We're S-L-O-W-I-N-G things right down now for "Hill of Dreams", an epic and grandiose number with all of the pomp and magnificent splendour we've come to expect from the best in Prog-Rock. This truly IS Progressive Rock too because the song progresses from a fairly sedate beginning, and then lights up like a Firefly into a dynamic crescendo of sound for the magnificent finale. This is the kind of gloriously pompous prog that dreams are made of! The album is rounded off nicely now by "Virginia Waters", a heavy psych number charging full-steam ahead, featuring some strangely incomprehensible babbling vocals and a maniacal accordion player, but that's no less than what we've come to expect from this psycho band of warriors on the edge of time.
If you like your Heavy Prog all-fired up with some added manic intensity, then the Writing on the Wall is that you'll love the sound of "The Power of the Picts". This band are a whole Different World of prog with a unique style all of their own, which verges on madness at times, but the album should appeal to fans of the keyboard-heavy sound of such bands as Black Widow, Deep Purple, Rare Bird, and especially Uriah Heep.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 02:41
PA's Top 60 Progressive Rock Albums of 1968 (recycled Mk II version)
01. 1968: The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOapKldMdM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOapKldMdM
04. 1968: Miles Davis - Nefertiti - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QMU8CVlpM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QMU8CVlpM
05. 1968: The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5UdP-SFNgY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5UdP-SFNgY
06. 1968: Family - Music in a Doll's House - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1F6E4AF96C3F9481" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1F6E4AF96C3F9481
07. 1968: Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6eZHnIA__A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6eZHnIA__A
08. 1968: Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qdsdtFUMs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qdsdtFUMs
09. 1968: Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5awe-gTz1p0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5awe-gTz1p0
10. 1968: Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmmuHnXLJiw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmmuHnXLJiw
12. 1968: Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q-lpXN7_DM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q-lpXN7_DM
13. 1968: David Axelrod - Song of Innocence - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nBJgNLqUL8A64tQMKFNPK3x7KzNOgfbUw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nBJgNLqUL8A64tQMKFNPK3x7KzNOgfbUw
21. 1968: The Incredible String Band - The Big Huge - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns6VP3D4JtA1wRmmyptz2KKfh_lIxGkV4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ns6VP3D4JtA1wRmmyptz2KKfh_lIxGkV4
22. 1968: The Ceyleib People - Tanyet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOoj1eAIJI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOoj1eAIJI
23. 1968: Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlSciahOkI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlSciahOkI
24. 1968: Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Velvet Opera - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD7B647064FBFC95" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD7B647064FBFC95
25. 1968: Aphrodite's Child - End of the World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFj4RHPPyfw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFj4RHPPyfw
26. 1968: The Mandrake Memorial - The Mandrake Memorial - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZnpDlBzipIzU89vnrwG6YvUKMIfh4S5" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZnpDlBzipIzU89vnrwG6YvUKMIfh4S5
27. 1968: John Martyn - The Tumbler - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTZFwWztY33UaLcSnSVPaWuEFmqUqj-ik" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTZFwWztY33UaLcSnSVPaWuEFmqUqj-ik
28. 1968: Jean-Luc Ponty - More Than Meets the Ear - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llrLnE2l5WOGbDf4XrEofFlwtDGSq1YX8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llrLnE2l5WOGbDf4XrEofFlwtDGSq1YX8
29. 1968: The Web - Fully Interlocking - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJoVFNa8-ouxzaAaWnPXV-1QMkRjk9Pr" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJoVFNa8-ouxzaAaWnPXV-1QMkRjk9Pr
31. 1968: Made in Sweden - With Love - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2SxQtaONFFj9Xf1n3P3t3eS" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2SxQtaONFFj9Xf1n3P3t3eS
32. 1968: The Incredible String Band - Wee Tam - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwn6Hs1ZcuZl3kEE5wT2lr_8XbKDcAQFf" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwn6Hs1ZcuZl3kEE5wT2lr_8XbKDcAQFf
33. 1968L Jeff Beck - Truth - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kR-4CMFi3C6kSGLW45cS4SL2PDkoICbhE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kR-4CMFi3C6kSGLW45cS4SL2PDkoICbhE
39. 1968: Traffic - Heaven is in Your Mind - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0IenmeCOtwtpbvZ9-EsVd4VubdzAe6n" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0IenmeCOtwtpbvZ9-EsVd4VubdzAe6n
40. 1968: Skaldowie - Wszystko mi Mowi, ze Mnie Ktos Pokochal - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kwOPqy-3Ce-oOIEqD2rIEJhRTwFqX9ESI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kwOPqy-3Ce-oOIEqD2rIEJhRTwFqX9ESI
47. 1968: Second Hand - Reality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sF3nZJFRic" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sF3nZJFRic
48. 1968: The Sallyangie - Children of the Sun - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltfjEcjrJ9KY4jwMAMWuKnvJbQ-QzIMNY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltfjEcjrJ9KY4jwMAMWuKnvJbQ-QzIMNY
49. 1968: Omega Red Star - From Hungary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY9lFunJN7E" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY9lFunJN7E
50. 1968: Framus 5 - Blues in Soul - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiSYJpzIhDWAy8WGcJ1XYwxIFAHOCRQFP" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiSYJpzIhDWAy8WGcJ1XYwxIFAHOCRQFP
51. 1968: Tyrannosaurus Rex - My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mL34cjXB932tTzvQ7--wjeA5KDjz4BGC8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mL34cjXB932tTzvQ7--wjeA5KDjz4BGC8
56. 1968: Jan Akkerman - Talent for Sale - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lB3_wqQz3RYGWyPpqKZ7WLsKyBYYlLYHU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lB3_wqQz3RYGWyPpqKZ7WLsKyBYYlLYHU
57. 1968: Brian Auger & the Trinity - Definitely What - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhDVhMxf9WQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhDVhMxf9WQ
59. 1968: New Trolls - Senza Orario, Senza Bandeira - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0B0gmYjDaM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0B0gmYjDaM
60. 1968: Omega Red Star - Trombitas Fredi es a Rettenetes Emberek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4Osnopuug" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4Osnopuug
Timeline of Progressive Rock (1966-1969) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_progressive_rock_%281960%E2%80%931969%29" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_progressive_rock_(1960%E2%80%931969)
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 21 2023 at 03:13
PA's Top 100 Progressive Rock Albums of 1969 (recycled Mk II version)
01. 1969: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw85aNJabkE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw85aNJabkE
02. 1969: Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdU4FHH4FnE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdU4FHH4FnE
03. 1969: Miles Davis - In a Silent Way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHesqaMhh34" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHesqaMhh34
07. 1969: The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0y71bx2K8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0y71bx2K8
08. 1969: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8D60ORnvE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8D60ORnvE
16. 1969: The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gsqrqsNsf8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gsqrqsNsf8
34. 1969: Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uERU6vvoA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uERU6vvoA
35. 1969: Colosseum - Those Who Are About to Die Salute You - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59FAF8A1B59C04DD" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59FAF8A1B59C04DD
36. 1969: Manfred Mann Chapter Three - Volume 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygISw0LY5o" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygISw0LY5o
38. 1969: Writing on the Wall - The Power of the Picts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOvj3WHark" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOvj3WHark
39. 1969: Tasavallan Presidentti - Tasavallan Presidentti - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WplRp0UALvo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WplRp0UALvo
41. 1969: Tea & Symphony - An Asylum for the Musically Insane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55InKdHS1o" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55InKdHS1o
42. 1969: Music Emporium - Music Emporium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfwOG89syc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfwOG89syc
43. 1969: Procol Harum - A Salty Dog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhwPnDql4A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhwPnDql4A
44. 1969: Family - Family Entertainment - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL17BC19C0125975EB" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL17BC19C0125975EB
45. 1969: Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWIY8RMj106NNJFKxeTGuN5vyRu1xk-vc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWIY8RMj106NNJFKxeTGuN5vyRu1xk-vc
46. 1969: Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lObleNa9bk_en50sN9hFENz9f8QDFjES4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lObleNa9bk_en50sN9hFENz9f8QDFjES4
47. 1969: Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9PKg6dqqrozEbFXURmscPRBLIC06sw7w" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9PKg6dqqrozEbFXURmscPRBLIC06sw7w
65. 1969: The Web - Theraposa Blondi - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kb_FCbEIb9vIzQbST_YozJ6oHfFu0nIdI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kb_FCbEIb9vIzQbST_YozJ6oHfFu0nIdI
66. 1969: Mecki Mark Men - Running in the Summer Night - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM7k5L_U7M90xEIeHXyMrs-RaTcN-wjJh" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM7k5L_U7M90xEIeHXyMrs-RaTcN-wjJh
67. 1969: Made in Sweden - Snakes in a Hole - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kdrLvLpecMlUgyaRVgm-kAPgVaofY_UZw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kdrLvLpecMlUgyaRVgm-kAPgVaofY_UZw
68. 1969: Alrune Rod - Alrune Rod - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kqHjCgq8ZZ-PDq-2oX7VUjyPeek3ecRuo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kqHjCgq8ZZ-PDq-2oX7VUjyPeek3ecRuo
70. 1969: David Axelrod - Songs of Experience - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m5zY_7P-RVEXc54eTpZga375PwHD68S1M" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m5zY_7P-RVEXc54eTpZga375PwHD68S1M
71. 1969: Lighthouse - Peacing It All Together - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lfbIEFN3eKsiGJ7_0m95XIupfxc0wDTBI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lfbIEFN3eKsiGJ7_0m95XIupfxc0wDTBI
78. 1969: Dr. Strangely Strange - Kip of the Serenes - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kzFaQ-ovOzKpe1FKOou3hvBQe5L7_8EDI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kzFaQ-ovOzKpe1FKOou3hvBQe5L7_8EDI
82. 1969: Wayne Shorter - Super Nova - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mcNlP0LfPwR9PF4l5Gixtr7348oiDjkn4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mcNlP0LfPwR9PF4l5Gixtr7348oiDjkn4
83. 1969: Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger - Jools & Brian - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLcWNyTcvXG5D4xjE3STyfy" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLcWNyTcvXG5D4xjE3STyfy
85. 1969: Man - 2ozs. of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viV-3zwdseE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viV-3zwdseE
95. 1969: Stormy Six - Le Idee di Ogga per la Musica di Domani - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYw5-NOKZY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYw5-NOKZY
100 1969: Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvt2xJB4uMc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvt2xJB4uMc
Timeline of Progressive Rock (1966-1969) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_progressive_rock_%281960%E2%80%931969%29" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_progressive_rock_(1960%E2%80%931969)
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 21 2023 at 09:56
My '69 faves from PA's top 100 are:
01. 1969: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
02. 1969: Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
12. 1969: Pentangle - Basket of Light
17. 1969: Renaissance - Renaissance
31. 1969: Group 1850 - Paradise Now
32. 1969: Arcadium - Breathe Awhile
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 21 2023 at 10:55
David_D wrote:
My '69 faves from PA's top 50 are:
01. 1969: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
02. 1969: Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
12. 1969: Pentangle - Basket of Light
17. 1969: Renaissance - Renaissance
31. 1969: Group 1850 - Paradise Now
32. 1969: Arcadium - Breathe Awhile
You've picked five of my favourites right there, and in addition, Hot Rats is the best Frank Zappa I've ever heard, although I know that's no great recommendation coming from me.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 21 2023 at 12:57
My faves from PA's top list for the years 1967-69 are:
1967
01. The Moody Blues (UK) - Days of Future Passed
03. Pink Floyd (UK) - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1968
02. Procol Harum (UK) - Shine On Brightly
03. The Soft Machine (UK) - The Soft Machine
11. Pink Floyd (UK) - A Saucerful of Secrets
1969
01. King Crimson (UK) - In the Court of the Crimson King
02. Frank Zappa (USA) - Hot Rats
12. The Pentangle (UK) - Basket of Light
17. Renaissance (UK) - Renaissance
31. Group 1850 (NL) - Paradise Now
32. Arcadium (UK) - Breathe Awhile
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 21 2023 at 14:35
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
....Hot Rats is the best Frank Zappa I've ever heard, ....
I'm also most fond of Hot Rats, even I like Over-nite Sensation too.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: April 21 2023 at 16:24
David_D wrote:
My faves from PA's top list are so far:
1967
01. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
03. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1968
02. Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
03. Soft Machine - The Soft Machine
11. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
1969
01. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
02. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
12. Pentangle - Basket of Light
17. Renaissance - Renaissance
31. Group 1850 - Paradise Now
32. Arcadium - Breathe Awhile
1969:
1) In The Court
2) Trout Mask
3) Uncle Meat
4) Happy Sad
5) Hot Rats
6) Ummagumma
7) Valentyne Suite
8) Entertainment
9) Phallus Dei
10) Aerosol Grey Machine
(there are some albums I've never heard)
------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 22 2023 at 03:55
^ We have a match!
01. 1969: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw85aNJabkE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw85aNJabkE
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 22 2023 at 05:01
30 (PA-relevant) albums I'd rate at least four stars. Many of them higher. Ca. in correct order:
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Can - Monster Movie Soft Machine - Volume Two
East of Eden - Mercator Projected
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis - Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis
The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream Jethro Tull - Stand Up Arzachel - Arzachel Frank Zappa - Hot Rats High Tide - Sea Shanties
White Noise - An Electric Storm
The Advancement - The Advancement
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
Santana - Santana
Music Emporium - Music Emporium
Roy Harper - Folkjokeopus
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Manfred Mann Chapter Three - Volume 1
Mutantes - Mutantes
Renaissance - Renaissance
Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy
Morgen - Morgen
David Axelrod - Songs of Experience
Mighty Baby - Mighty Baby & The Action
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
Tea & Symphony - An Asylum for the Musically Insane
Third Ear Band - Alchemy
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 22 2023 at 05:16
RYM's Progressive Rock chart for the years 1967-69 (popularity weighting on 4) can be seen here:
01. 1970: Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQR6e_wpeiY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQR6e_wpeiY
02. 1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTJPldB_Vc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTJPldB_Vc
03. 1970: Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lxLu4pwFGTn57EfAvXFx0FWoQfqQUsy60" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lxLu4pwFGTn57EfAvXFx0FWoQfqQUsy60
04. 1970: Miles Davis - Bitches Brew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50fB5L1vmn8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50fB5L1vmn8
09. 1970: Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNuUilJm-b2csXdNoaBVzfCvJFuEhYIfo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNuUilJm-b2csXdNoaBVzfCvJFuEhYIfo
11. 1970: Chicago - Chicago II - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ndk90AgovYl4XkFqy-BwVKQnIAgLRlRos" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ndk90AgovYl4XkFqy-BwVKQnIAgLRlRos
12. 1970: Various Artists - Jesus Christ Superstar - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvTdu1-ynLERVmux8xQVY_MiciHqg9SBs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvTdu1-ynLERVmux8xQVY_MiciHqg9SBs
20. 1970: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-T1J2YTdQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-T1J2YTdQ
21. 1970: King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBeB4aeVBzORcLWae_cPFmLyL3pybrp3E" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBeB4aeVBzORcLWae_cPFmLyL3pybrp3E
22. 1970: Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEEf1GCyK_8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEEf1GCyK_8
30. 1970: The Greatest Show on Earth - Horizons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m59QlRFwnN0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m59QlRFwnN0
35. 1970: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJg70B_PUl0rXiTFrXGgcm2cWob8SpOR8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJg70B_PUl0rXiTFrXGgcm2cWob8SpOR8
39. 1970: Marek Grechuta & Anawa - Marek Grechuta & Anawa - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nelm7PNWjL1FCZUiEwJ8fv1Kmz4ro-Ghk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nelm7PNWjL1FCZUiEwJ8fv1Kmz4ro-Ghk
40. 1970: Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyhI6k_ZBlE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyhI6k_ZBlE
56. 1970: Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lzoO7sxFzS9q4tde9DafSJ9zmNZ9-S0ts" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lzoO7sxFzS9q4tde9DafSJ9zmNZ9-S0ts
71. 1970: Julian's Treatment - A Time Before This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTD9SWyXtvk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTD9SWyXtvk
72. 1970: Tony Williams Lifetime - Turn It Over - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYUAtox95Y" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYUAtox95Y
76. 1970: Beggars Opera - Act One - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyuhcIPapo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyuhcIPapo
77. 1970: Kevin Ayers & the Whole World - Shooting at the Moon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfb2R92OHulYFUl2BrHyjHm6AqX-2Dot" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfb2R92OHulYFUl2BrHyjHm6AqX-2Dot
78. 1970: The Greatest Show on Earth - The Going's Easy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7m5BGOII5M" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7m5BGOII5M
79. 1970: Skin Alley - To Pagham and Beyond - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LpeCu6Zew" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LpeCu6Zew
83. 1970: Brian Auger & the Trinity - Befour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYr6z2hq6TU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYr6z2hq6TU
84. 1970: Oriental Sunshine - Dedicated to the Bird We Love - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l4h75SDnghDjHik-gdalfCchU9Wf5duF8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l4h75SDnghDjHik-gdalfCchU9Wf5duF8
89. 1970: Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W0WFtS9DK0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W0WFtS9DK0
90. 1970: Arbete Och Fritid - Arbete Och Fritid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_KHABowSzE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_KHABowSzE
92. 1970: Chris Spedding - Songs Without Words - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqVAtgtYRj1Ofj0kwgmytXSBJ0uSjv1ej" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqVAtgtYRj1Ofj0kwgmytXSBJ0uSjv1ej
95. 1970: Tamam Shud - Goolutionites and the Real People - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mgSl27mIpxngd4r03DpkLB2nCspq8jsb4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mgSl27mIpxngd4r03DpkLB2nCspq8jsb4
96. 1970: Keith Tippett Group - You Are Here, I Am There - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8UfM7ycll7RxeD4skFIbUD7K-ZOS5NxN" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8UfM7ycll7RxeD4skFIbUD7K-ZOS5NxN
97. 1970: Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird
98. 1970: Life - Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDjWT97Jw4c" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDjWT97Jw4c
99. 1970: Guru Guru - UFO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mmK6etUMQ0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mmK6etUMQ0
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 05:31
My faves from PA's top 100 Prog albums of 1970 are:
01. Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One
02. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
04. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
05. Santana - Abraxas
07. Genesis - Trespass
10. Amon Duul II - Yeti
12. Various Artists - Jesus Christ Superstar
16. T2 - It's All Work Out in Boomland
18. Jethro Tull - Benefit
23. Czeslaw Niemen - Enigmatic
52. Orange Peel - Orange Peel
54. Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 06:57
52. Orange Peel - Orange Peel
Nice to see this one so highly ranked, I didn't quite reckon with that.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 07:14
David_D wrote:
52. Orange Peel - Orange Peel
Nice to see this one so highly ranked, I didn't quite reckon with that.
So many great albums in one amazing year, and PA's 1970 album chart for Nos. 101-250 looks equally good too.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 10:34
18. 1967: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity - Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI4xuEvGkasrIajJW0P3bjw
BRIAN AUGER (born 1939) has a very long and complicated discography, so let's go right back to the beginning for this London- born Hammond organ maestro and Jazz-Rock legend. Brian Auger formed the soulful British blues band Steampacket in 1965, although they never recorded an official studio album together. He recorded his first solo album "Attention: Brian Auger" in 1965, although the album didn't come to the attention of the record-buying public until its belated release in 1972. The "Open" album followed in 1967, which was billed as a Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger album. His first album as Brian Auger & the Trinity saw release in 1968 under the title "Definitely What" and another album with Julie Driscoll followed in 1969 titled "Jools and Brian". Later that same year, the "Streetnoise" album was released under the banner of Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity, followed by the Brian Auger & the Trinity album "Befour" in 1970, this time without Julie Driscoll. He formed the Jazz-Rock ensemble Brian Auger's Oblivion Express in the early 1970's, releasing a whole string of albums:- "Brian Auger's Oblivion Express" (1970); "A Better Land" (1971); "Second Wind" (1972); "Closer to It" (1973); "Straight Ahead" (1974); "Reinforcements" (1975); "Live Oblivion: Volume 1" (1975); "Live Oblivion: Volume 2" (1976) and "Happiness Heartache" (1977). The two volumes of Brian Auger's Live Oblivion albums are especially recommended. He recorded one further album with Julie Driscoll in 1978, billed as "Brian Auger & Julie Tippetts - Encore", and there were three more albums to come from Brian Auger in the 1980's:- "Search Party (1981); "Here and Now" (1984) and "Keys to the Heart" (with Oblivion Express) (1987). And so, after that long introduction, it's time now to step back in time to swinging 1960's London for the Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger album, "Open", which features the spooky Halloween classic, "Season of the Witch". It's an album literally of two halves, with Side One featuring mostly instrumental Jazz-Rock numbers and Side Two where Julie Driscoll joins the party on vocals.
Opening the album, there are few surprises in store with "In and Out", a fairly routine funky jazz instrumental which'll transport you right back in time to a 1960's mods dance floor of swinging chicks in bright mini-skirts and hip and trendy dudes in flared trousers, flowered shirts and kipper ties. Yes, this groovy number sounds like it could have come straight from an Austin Powers movie. It's fabulous, baby! The second instrumental Jazz number, "Isola Natale", is a reference to Christmas Island, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. The music is pretty laid-back but you can still tap your feet along to the funky rhythm, or you may even feel inclined to get up and dance to it if you're feeling particularly energetic, although this is more like the kind of easy-going cocktail lounge Jazz you can do a gentle hipsway to instead of boogieing on down and shaking your booty to down at the Disco. The third song "Black Cat" is where the album REALLY comes to life and hits you straight between the eyes. It's a storming Jazz rocker with Brian Auger taking lead vocals. This is where Brian Auger gets to display his amazing dexterity on the Hammond organ with some incredible keyboard runs. His fingers literally fly over the keys like lightning on the YouTube video that accompanies this barn-storming song. This song is no timid "Black Cat". No, this is a growling black panther which leaps out at you and grabs your attention right from the first blast from Auger's powerful Hammond organ. We're in suitably mellow mood for the next song, "Lament for Miss Baker", a soft and tender piano piece that's as light and breezy as a zephyr wind. The next song "Goodbye Jungle Telegraph" inevitably features tom-tom jungle drums, which conjures up images of Tarzan swinging from vine to vine shouting "Aaaaaggggghhhhhaaaaa!" - or something like that. The sassy saxophonist sounds like he's having a real blast here with a storming "Go wild in the jungle" sax solo, somehow keeping time with the pounding ape-crazy percussionist.
We get to hear the soulful bluesy voice of Julie Driscoll for the first time on "Tramp", a well-known Soul Blues song which was most famously recorded by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas earlier that same year of 1967. The song has since become a funky Soul Blues standard. The seventh song "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" is a raw and earthy blues number, with Julie Driscoll able to instil the song with all of the soul and powerful emotion of Janis Joplin. Both singers have the same "Don't mess with me" attitude and they also have the ability to sound like they're singing straight from the heart. A stuttering telegram-style tapping of the keyboard keys announces the arrival of our next song, "A Kind of Love In". This is no lovey-dovey ballad though. No, this is an uptempo rocker that barrels along relentlessly at breakneck speed for 150 seconds, which is swiftly followed by another storming Jazz-Rock song, "Break It Up". This song opens to the tolling of wedding bells, although it sounds more like divorce might be looming if the title of this song is anything to go by. This is the first real duet between Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll, with both impassioned singers angrily sounding like a real-life couple who are badly in need of a marriage guidance counsellor. Now comes the real highlight of the album, "Season of the Witch", a song originally co-written and recorded by Scottish songsmith Donovan in 1966 and also famously covered by Vanilla Fudge in 1968 in their own inimitable raucous style. This is spooky bedknobs and broomsticks music to listen to under a full moon on the night of Halloween with a glowing hollowed-out pumpkin for company, although in reality, the song is probably no more scary than a box of Black Magic chocolates.
If you're "Open" to the sound of some storming Hammond organ Rock, then look no further than this impressive debut from Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll. This album is bluesy Jazz-Rock with a heart full of Soul!
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 14:18
48. 1968: The Sallyangie - Children of the Sun - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltfjEcjrJ9KY4jwMAMWuKnvJbQ-QzIMNY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltfjEcjrJ9KY4jwMAMWuKnvJbQ-QzIMNY
THE SALLYANGIE may have been a short-lived Prog-Folk duo, but both members went on to have long and distinguished solo careers, because they were none other than sister and brother duo Sally and Mike Oldfield! The SallyAngie recorded their one and only hippyish Folk album "Children of the Sun" in 1968. It would be another five years before Mike Oldfield stunned the world with his landmark "Tubular Bells" (1973) album. Sally Oldfield launched her long solo career as a Folk singer five years after brother Mike with the release of her "Water Bearer" album in 1978. The Oldfields were a very musical family - their brother Terry Oldfield was also a multi-talented musician who appeared on Mike Oldfield's "Hergest Ridge" (1974), "Ommadawn" (1975) and "Incantations" (1978) albums. Terry Oldfield also went on to establish a long solo career, specialising in his own particular brand of New Age World music. And so, it's time to travel back over half a century in time now to the late 1960's for Mike Oldfield and sister Sally's unique Prog-Folk offering, "Children of the Sun". The 2002 CD re- issue included a bonus disc, adding eight songs to the original fourteen songs on the album.
Right from the opening few bars of "Strangers", we're in very familiar territory with the honey-sweet demure vocals of Sally Oldfield. She's best-known for the song "Mirrors" from her first "Water Bearer" album in 1978. Sally performed the song on Top of the Pops and the single reached #19 in the U.K charts, although the hippyish Sally Oldfield would be the last person to regard herself as a Pop star. One of the most surprising things about The SallyAngie album is hearing Mike Oldfield singing for the first time, when he's not normally noted for his vocal abilities, although he sounds in remarkably fine voice on this endearing Folk album, admirably accompanying his sister Sally in a duet. Mike Oldfield also provides accompaniment on acoustic guitar (obviously!) and there's the sound of a flautist to be heard too on this brief but charming 70-second-long opening introduction to the album. "Strangers" sounds more like two familiar old friends. We're off to meet "Lady Mary" next, a saccharine-sweet Folk song with some lovely harmonies and rich orchestration. Mike Oldfield even takes the vocal lead for a brief time on this song. There's no inkling of the masterpiece to come in five years time, when Tubular Bells was still a twinkling in Mike Oldfield's eye at this early stage in his career. The music on this charming Folk album so far sounds as delicately exquisite as a warm gentle breeze. And now we come to the title track and one of the longest songs on the album at five minutes long: "Children of the Sun". The song opens with a spoken introduction from Sally Oldfield before brother Mike joins in for a duet. This song sounds like the kind of pleasant pastoral Folk number that Peter, Paul & Mary or The Seekers might have recorded back in their heyday. The song certainly has commercial potential, had it ever been released as a single, although a warm and tender Folk melody probably wouldn't have stood much of a chance in the charts when they would have been up against some of the mighty giants of late-1960's Pop/Rock such as The Beatles. The fourth song "A Lover for All Seasons" continues in similar vein with another acoustic guitar and vocal duet, so there are no real surprises in store here. Although The SallyAngie are billed as Prog-Folk, you won't find many proggy elements here, as this is more of a traditional pastoral Folk album, but that's no bad thing as the gentle music contained within is very pleasing on the ears. The SallyAngie features a percussionist, although he's so low-key that you hardly even notice he's there. You certainly won't hear any pounding drums on this album. There's no sign of Mike Oldfield's trademark electric guitar sound to be heard either on this totally acoustic album, but it's still turning out to be a very agreeable Folk album judged on its own merits. Next up is the "River Song" which has a macabre sting in its tail, because despite the pleasant melody and the dulcet tones of sweet- voiced Sally, the lyrics reveal a shocking tale of a brutal murder, so there are no happy endings here. The frightful lyrics to this song bring to mind the classic Neil Young song "Down by the River", which also involves a murder. We'd better not delve too deeply into the horrifying lyrics of "River Song", so we'll move swiftly on to the next song, which is: "Banquet on the Water". We're on much safer ground here as this lovely song is all about going for a pleasant stroll along the river and stopping for a picnic with a romantic partner for company.
Side Two opens with "Balloons", the longest song on the album at five and a half minutes long. The song begins as a very twee- sounding lullaby that sounds so light and delicate, you feel it might get blown away like a balloon by the slightest of breezes, but don't let that put you off, because it's really a great song once you get past the first minute or so. This song comes the closest to Psych-Folk of any of the songs so far on the album. Not that you'll hear any psychedelic fuzz guitars, but the music is a hauntingly-beautiful Folk refrain, featuring some eerie-sounding harmonising and witchy chanting in the style of Comus, although nowhere near as creepy as those witchfinder generals of Psych-Folk. "Balloons" is a helium-filled uplifting highlight of the album. We're travelling right back in time to the world of Shakespeare now for "Midsummer Night's Happening". This fluty duet sounds like a typical Elizabethan madrigal that you might hear accompanying a medieval banquet, so watch out for those flying chicken bones and glasses being thrown into the hearth fire with gusto and gay abandon! Yes, this is definitely minstrels in the gallery music, so you'll know exactly what to expect here with this merry-making music. The intriguingly-titled "Love in Ice Crystals" conjures up a frosty image of some romantic brief encounter at the South Pole, which is not that far from the truth, as the lyrics are about making love on a rug in front of the warm comfort of a blazing fire when it's freezing cold and snowing outside. Listen out for the soaring echoey vocals on this song, the like of which you may never have heard before. They're really quite incredible! Side Two of this lovely album is so far turning out to be even better than Side One. The next piece of music "Changing Colours" is a brief prelude, featuring some offbeat twangy guitar strings where Mike Oldfield sounds like he's tuning his guitar up, so we'll leave him there and move on to the next song which is the aptly- titled "Chameleon", which follows on nicely from "Changing Colours". The enchantingly mystical lyrics to this haunting refrain deserve a special mention here:- "The king of Orion brings, The jewels from his belt and his sword, The emeralds shine through the trees, To dance upon the high forest lord, I am to you as I am to me, I am a star in a deep blue sea, I am the queen of a million queens, I am a ripple on a crystal stream, The three kings from the east bring gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh." ..... It's a complex tune in which Mike Oldfield cleverly sings in counter-point to Sally Oldfield, bringing a whole extra dimension to this engaging piece of music. The next brief 30-second-long acoustic instrumental "Milk Bottle" sounds just like a "born on the bayou" twangy country steel guitar, which it probably is! This leads us into the penultimate Psych-Folk song on the album, the ominously-titled "The Murder of the Children of San Francisco". Mike Oldfield's semi-whispered vocals sound quite sinister on this song, giving the song an ethereal other-worldly haunting atmosphere, which makes a stark contrast to Sally Oldfield's traditional sweet-voiced Folky tones. This is another album highlight in what is turning out to be quite an extraordinary album, featuring mainly traditional Folk songs on Side One, spiced up with some spookier off-kilter Psych-Folk tunes on Side Two. We're entering a twilight zone world now, as It's time to bed the album down for the night with the 14th and final song and what better way than with the "Twilight Song", a delightful Folk melody where Sally Oldfield's gorgeous dulcet tones carry you away blissfully to a land of sweet dreams and peaceful slumbers.
Mike Oldfield and sister Sally have come up with a very pleasant album of gentle pastoral Folk in their first musical outing together. It's not going to take the progosphere by storm, but it makes a pleasurable diversion to while away a warm summer's afternoon when we can all be transported back in time to the late 1960's and be "Children of the Sun" all over again. That's the theory anyway. If music be the food of love, then let Mike & Sally Oldfield play on forever!
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 16:16
David_D wrote:
My faves from PA's top 100 Prog albums of 1970 are:
01. Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One
02. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
04. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
05. Santana - Abraxas
07. Genesis - Trespass
10. Amon Duul II - Yeti
12. Various Artists - Jesus Christ Superstar
16. T2 - It's All Work Out in Boomland
18. Jethro Tull - Benefit
23. Czeslaw Niemen - Enigmatic
52. Orange Peel - Orange Peel
54. Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
I like these albums.
1) VdGG - I love it. In my opinion, it's one of the best prog album ever
2) EL&P - Good album, possibly their best album. Classic/Heartland/Roots rock fans appreciate this album (not the followers). I like especially the firsts two song.
3) Miles Davis, oh, ok, but it's jazz to my ears.
4) Abraxas: great album, my fave Santana's album. Black Magic Woman: wow!
5) Genesis: I love Trespass, possibly my fave Genesis' album, melodically extraordinary
6) Yeti: I like it very much
7) JC superstar: wonderful soundtrack
8) T2: I like it very much
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9) Benefit - good but not so much
(I dont know the last three)
I love (and consider wonderful from a critic point of view) these albums:
Podium:
1) VdGG: The Least
2) VdGG: H to He
3) Soft Machine III
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4) Tim Buckley: Starsailor
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5) Tim BuckleY: Lorca
6) Gentle Giant
7) Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother
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8) Magma
9) Amon Dull II: Yeti
10) Genesis: Trespass
11) Quatermass
12) Santana: Abraxas
13) King Crimson: Lizard
Very Good: High Tide, Traffic
(I should evaluate Kevin Ayers)
Well, I guess 1970 is my fave year of prog music.
------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 22:15
jamesbaldwin wrote:
3) Miles Davis, oh, ok, but it's jazz to my ears.
I agree, and I'm not so sure about Abraxas, either.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 02:29
I noticed today that YES - Time and a Word is not listed amongst PA's Top 250 albums of 1970, even though the album has an overall rating of 3.35.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 04:01
23. Czeslaw Niemen - Enigmatic
Polish album released January 1970, interesting in relation to Progressive Rock history and also very interesting concerning
my personal music history, as it was the very first record I bought.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 09:53
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
PA's Top 100 Progressive Rock Albums of 1970
To be more precise, I don't think, PA's toplist is meant to be for "Progressive Rock".
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 11:30
David_D wrote:
jamesbaldwin wrote:
3) Miles Davis, oh, ok, but it's jazz to my ears.
I agree, and I'm not so sure about Abraxas, either.
Bitches Brew is jazz of course, but in many ways it's the album that opened up for a myriad... a flood of possibilities fusing jazz with funk, rock and more. Its sort of the motherlode for a direction of progressive rock that doesn't lean so much on the In the Court... approach. It's hard to imagine Nucleus, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Mwandishi, Perigeo mm... without it. I think Abraxas is a perfect fit though. Don't see what the problem could be.
Anyway a spectacular year for music in general. From PA's top hundred here's:
My five Stars:
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Magma - Kobaia
Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One
Soft Machine - Third
Can - Soundtracks
King Crimson - Lizard
Jethro Tull - Benefit
Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes
Four and a half:
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Genesis - Trespass
Supersister - Present from Nancy
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
Nucleus - Elastic Rock
1970: Embryo - Opal
Four:
Tamam Shud - Goolutionites and the Real People
Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!
Santana - Abraxas
Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other
Skin Alley - Skin Alley
Igor Wakhevitch - Logos
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Egg - Egg
Marsupilami - Marsupilami
High Tide - High Tide
Audience - Friend's Friend's Friend
Arbete Och Fritid - Arbete Och Fritid
Also really like (3.5).
Gracious - Gracious!
Black Widow - Sacrifice
May Blitz - May Blitz
The Garden of Jane Delawney
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 02:55
David_D wrote:
23. Czeslaw Niemen - Enigmatic
Polish album released January 1970, ......
When interested in early side-long songs, you should check out this album, Lorenzo, I find it to be a beauty, and Progressive
while btw, I wouldn't say, JT's Benefit is very proggy, either.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 03:57
I definitely need to redo the Top 100 Albums list for 1970 (to include YES - Time and a Word), now that Cristi and others have helpfully shown me how to use the minimum number of ratings filter to change the results.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 04:50
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
I definitely need to redo the Top 100 Albums list for 1970 (to include YES - Time and a Word), now that Cristi and others have helpfully shown me how to use the minimum number of ratings filter to change the results.
That seems very fair to me.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 05:12
^ I think, minimum 100 ratings would be appropriate.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 07:37
David_D wrote:
^ I think, minimum 100 ratings would be appropriate.
That sounds fine in theory, but in practice it only gives me a Top 65 albums list - not a full Top 100, although it does have the consolation of YES - Time and a Word at #61.
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 09:37
...or: The Art of Manipulating Statistics, so that they correspond better to desired results than to reality.
You should go into politics...
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The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 10:23
suitkees wrote:
...or: The Art of Manipulating Statistics, so that they correspond better to desired results than to reality.
You should go into politics...
There's clearly something wrong with the statistics when one of the best-known prog albums of 1970 doesn't even feature in PA's Top 250 Albums list.
Anyway, at least I now know how to manipulate the statistics to my liking.
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 11:22
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
suitkees wrote:
...or: The Art of Manipulating Statistics, so that they correspond better to desired results than to reality.
You should go into politics...
There's clearly something wrong with the statistics when one of the best-known prog albums of 1970 doesn't even feature in PA's Top 250 Albums list.
Anyway, at least I now know how to manipulate the statistics to my liking.
The PA charts has some f**ked up algorhitms that comes up with this kind of logic, so yeah there's something wrong. 1968:
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 11:31
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
suitkees wrote:
...or: The Art of Manipulating Statistics, so that they correspond better to desired results than to reality.
You should go into politics...
There's clearly something wrong with the statistics when one of the best-known prog albums of 1970 doesn't even feature in PA's Top 250 Albums list.
Anyway, at least I now know how to manipulate the statistics to my liking.
The PA charts has some f**ked up algorhitms that comes up with this kind of logic, so yeah there's something wrong. 1968:
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those charts improve when you choose a number of ratings, less abnormalities as the one above.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 13:23
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
David_D wrote:
^ I think, minimum 100 ratings would be appropriate.
That sounds fine in theory, but in practice it only gives me a Top 65 albums list - not a full Top 100, although it does have the consolation of YES - Time and a Word at #61.
The lower you set the minimum number of ratings, the lower will Time and a Word be ranked, but your choice.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 13:32
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
suitkees wrote:
...or: The Art of Manipulating Statistics, so that they correspond better to desired results than to reality.
You should go into politics...
There's clearly something wrong with the statistics when one of the best-known prog albums of 1970 doesn't even feature in PA's Top 250 Albums list.
Anyway, at least I now know how to manipulate the statistics to my liking.
Nothing manipulating in setting the minimum number of ratings to a certain number, the question is only which number is appropriate/fair.
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 13:37
David_D wrote:
Nothing manipulating in setting the minimum number of ratings to a certain number...
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The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 13:44
Saperlipopette! wrote:
The PA charts has some f**ked up algorhitms that comes up with this kind of logic, so yeah there's something wrong.
Yes, indeed, I've seen that many times.
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 13:49
David_D wrote:
Saperlipopette! wrote:
The PA charts has some f**ked up algorhitms that comes up with this kind of logic, so yeah there's something wrong.
Yes, indeed, I've seen that many times.....How many more times?
f**ked up algorhitms
Klaatu mannerisms
barada nikto
Cluster f**ck communism's window
Subrosa unrehearsed multipolar prism.
Magic mushroom alcoholic logic innuendo .
Ping-pong, King Kong...Fay Ray swo0ns
....so yeah there's something wrong.
SNAFU ALGORYTHM virtue signal
the mild mannerisms of Kung-fu...
Magic logic hopping mad kangaroo
On the bony shoulders of a young horse
Sucked down the brain drain
another sick thing
Of course, it's the same thing
We're all insane gang.
Don't jump to your foreskin conclusion
now that you've lost a skin or two.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 13:51
suitkees wrote:
David_D wrote:
Nothing manipulating in setting the minimum number of ratings to a certain number...
Is it better to compare the average ratings of an album rated by say 1500 people with one rated by 5 people?
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 14:04
^ We were talking about setting a "minimum number of ratings", which is manipulating settings to get different results. The question of what is "better" depends on norms and/or objectives, not on algorithms.
Now, that the PA algorithm is very questionable seems to be an understatement, but that doesn't mean it is not functioning: it does what it was supposed to do, whether we like it or not.
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The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 14:34
^We have a system which places the 229th fastest runner at the 11th place, but that doesn't mean it is not functioning: it does what it was supposed to do, whether we like it or not
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 14:46
^ I find it as awkward as you, but you can not blame an algorithm: it indeed just does what it was supposed to do. It is those who conceived it who are to blame if it doesn't give the results you (we) would like to see.
Write to God (aka M@X) if you want to see things change...
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The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 15:30
suitkees wrote:
^ I find it as awkward as you, but you can not blame an algorithm: it indeed just does what it was supposed to do. It is those who conceived it who are to blame if it doesn't give the results you (we) would like to see.
Write to God (aka M@X) if you want to see things change...
Fair enough I wouldn't blame the calculator, a sewing machine or a robot either, but the creators. I blame the creators of this algorithm.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 16:02
suitkees wrote:
^ We were talking about setting a "minimum number of ratings", which is manipulating settings to get different results. The question of what is "better" depends on norms and/or objectives, not on algorithms.
The algorithms set the minimum number of ratings on 10, is that less manipulating?
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 22:00
omphaloskepsis wrote:
David_D wrote:
Saperlipopette! wrote:
The PA charts has some f**ked up algorhitms that comes up with this kind of logic, so yeah there's something wrong.
Yes, indeed, I've seen that many times.....How many more times?
f**ked up algorhitms
Klaatu mannerisms
barada nikto
Cluster f**ck communism's window
Subrosa unrehearsed multipolar prism.
Magic mushroom alcoholic logic innuendo .
Ping-pong, King Kong...Fay Ray swo0ns
....so yeah there's something wrong.
SNAFU ALGORYTHM virtue signal
the mild mannerisms of Kung-fu...
Magic logic hopping mad kangaroo
On the bony shoulders of a young horse
Sucked down the brain drain
another sick thing
Of course, it's the same thing
We're all insane gang.
Don't jump to your foreskin conclusion
now that you've lost a skin or two.
Mosh might say:
"Dang ... Cindy ... you been smoking some dandies over there! "
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 04:22
David_D wrote:
suitkees wrote:
^ We were talking about setting a "minimum number of ratings", which is manipulating settings to get different results. The question of what is "better" depends on norms and/or objectives, not on algorithms.
The algorithms set the minimum number of ratings on 10, is that less manipulating?
Of course not, the manipulation has just been automated... Algorithms are mainly that: automated manipulations of data. That's why there's so much fuzz about them; they're not created without specific (ideological, commercial, informational, ...) objectives.
(That said, I think the minimum ratings is set at 0 from the start, but you have to set it at least to 1 otherwise the number of results will be limited - now, that seems to be a bug in the algorithm)
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The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 06:48
PA's Top 99 Progressive Rock Albums of 1969 (Mk III version with the minimum number of ratings filter set at 20 and with all new entries between Nos. #79 & #99).
01. 1969: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw85aNJabkE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw85aNJabkE
02. 1969: Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdU4FHH4FnE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdU4FHH4FnE
03. 1969: Miles Davis - In a Silent Way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHesqaMhh34" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHesqaMhh34
07. 1969: The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0y71bx2K8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0y71bx2K8
08. 1969: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8D60ORnvE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8D60ORnvE
16. 1969: The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gsqrqsNsf8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gsqrqsNsf8
34. 1969: Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uERU6vvoA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uERU6vvoA
35. 1969: Colosseum - Those Who Are About to Die Salute You - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59FAF8A1B59C04DD" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59FAF8A1B59C04DD
36. 1969: Manfred Mann Chapter Three - Volume 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygISw0LY5o" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygISw0LY5o
38. 1969: Writing on the Wall - The Power of the Picts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOvj3WHark" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOvj3WHark
39. 1969: Tasavallan Presidentti - Tasavallan Presidentti - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WplRp0UALvo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WplRp0UALvo
40. 1969: Music Emporium - Music Emporium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfwOG89syc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfwOG89syc
41. 1969: Tea & Symphony - An Asylum for the Musically Insane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55InKdHS1o" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55InKdHS1o
42. 1969: Procol Harum - A Salty Dog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhwPnDql4A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhwPnDql4A
43. 1969: Family - Family Entertainment - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL17BC19C0125975EB" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL17BC19C0125975EB
44. 1969: Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWIY8RMj106NNJFKxeTGuN5vyRu1xk-vc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWIY8RMj106NNJFKxeTGuN5vyRu1xk-vc
45. 1969: Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lObleNa9bk_en50sN9hFENz9f8QDFjES4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lObleNa9bk_en50sN9hFENz9f8QDFjES4
46. 1969: Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9PKg6dqqrozEbFXURmscPRBLIC06sw7w" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9PKg6dqqrozEbFXURmscPRBLIC06sw7w
68. 1969: Man - 2ozs. of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viV-3zwdseE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viV-3zwdseE
69. 1969: The Flock - The Flock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38DiEaY1F2k" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38DiEaY1F2k
74. 1969: Stormy Six - Le Idee di Ogga per la Musica di Domani - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYw5-NOKZY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYw5-NOKZY
99. 1969: Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7JQAWLCnX4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7JQAWLCnX4
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 10:04
As meticulous as I am, my faves from PA's top 99 Prog albums of 1969 (mk III) are:
01. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
02. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
12. Pentangle - Basket of Light
17. Renaissance - Renaissance
31. Group 1850 - Paradise Now
32. Arcadium - Breathe Awhile
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 10:24
jamesbaldwin wrote:
10) Aerosol Grey Machine
By manipulating the algorithm, Van der Graaf Generator have finally made an appearance at #91 in the new list for 1969.
Coming up, a revamped Top 100 albums chart for 1970, which WILL include YES - Time and a Word.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 11:39
13. 1969: East of Eden - Mercator Projected - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IAV-pw27qc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IAV-pw27qc
EAST OF EDEN were a British Jazz-Rock band who were best-known for their chart song "Jig-a-Jig", although the single wasn't representative of their album recordings. They released their first album "Mercator Projected" (1969) on the Deram label, a subsidiary of Decca Records. East of Eden recorded seven more albums during the proggy 1970's:- "Snafu" (1970); "East of Eden" (1971); "New Leaf" (1971); "Another Eden" (1975); "Here We Go Again" (1976); "It's the Climate" (1977); and "Silver Park" (1978). The band reunited nearly twenty years later for their "Kalipse" (1997) album and they've released two further albums in the early 21st century:- "Armadillo" (2001) and "Graffito" (2005). It's time now to map out the songs for their first album: "Mercator Projected". The 2004 CD reissue added three bonus tracks to the original eight songs on the album, including a cover version of The Byrds "Eight Miles High".
We're heading for the "Northern Hemisphere" for the first stop on our musical journey. It's a slow but powerful burst of Blues- Rock for the opening song which ploughs on ahead relentlessly like a runaway steamroller. The song has a somewhat menacing air, so it's best to stand well clear, because this steamroller of hard driving rock doesn't sound like it's about to stop for anyone. The song has the same strident appeal as King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man", only without the tortured vocals. Dancing gracefully into view now comes "Isadora", a tribute to the dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), who was tragically killed when her scarf became wrapped around the wheels of the car she was travelling in. It's a stirring Jazz-Rock number in which the flawless flautist takes flight and showcases his talent in the best tradition of Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. The enchanting lyrics deserve a mention too:- "Isadora dance, we are entranced, Billowing sleeves, in the breeze, Her heart's so soft, the willow weeps, To dance is to live, to love is to give, Beneath a vine of ivy leaves, Isadora sleeps." ..... This resonant refrain was recorded 42 years after Isadora Duncan's tragic death, and now, here we are nearly a century on listening to this immortal musical tribute, when some of the East of Eden band members themselves may be no longer with us. It's a lovely song with timeless appeal. We're sailing along next with "Waterways", an Indian-influenced fuzzy guitar psych-out, so it's time to order a vindaloo curry and settle down for some sitar and electric guitar with a Quintessential side order of Raga Rock. Next up is "Centaur Woman", a raw and earthy, good old-fashioned blast of Jazz-tinged Blues-Rock in the style of Canned Heat, featuring a flautist, a saxophonist, a harmonica player, and with a mean and moody guitarist hammering out some aggressively raucous riffs. This dynamic song veers dramatically from slow blues to wild flamboyant outbursts of uptempo Jazz-Rock with all of the musicians going hell for leather in a helter-skelter frenzy of sound.
Onto Side Two now and we're dipping our toes in the water for the mellow and hypnotic "Bathers", a swirling and mystical magic carpet ride that's tripping the light fantastic in a sea of psychedelic rainbow colours. This song is awash in a Purple Haze of soothing psychedelia. It's time to follow that camel next, because we're headed to the kasbah for "Communion", a song with an exotic Egyptian feel to it. The eastern-influenced music conjures up images of pharaohs and sphinxes and pyramids. You can almost picture the harem scene where a circle of be-robed and be-turbaned Bedouins are getting high as a kite as they puff away eagerly on their hookah pipes. This groovy song is a real Jewel of the Nile. We're continuing our global travels somewhere in the exotic east with "Moth". Maybe it's Egyptian, maybe it's Turkish, but either way, it's psychedelic snake- charming music that takes the listener on an Egyptian flight of fancy, or a magical mystery tour of Turkish delight - whichever you prefer. There's no mistaking the exotic middle-eastern pretensions for the next song: "In the Stable of the Sphinx", the highlight of the album and the longest song on the album with a running time of eight and a half minutes. It's a real whirling dervish of swirling and hypnotic eastern rhythms, all bathed in a healthy splash of psychedelic colours. Prepare for the manic middle section when the music is speeded up to 99 and it sounds like the record is about to go spinning off the turntable in a psychedelic freak-out. A serene calm is restored though for the magnificent conclusion which floats along on a mystical and spiritual wave of flower-power love and peace.
This stunning debut from East of Eden has all of the sweet eastern promise of a box of Turkish delights. "Mercator Projected" is a magical mystery tour around the world, featuring a delicious exotic cocktail of hypnotic eastern rhythms, romantic refrains, psychedelic freak-outs, mean and moody blues, and jazzy jam sessions. This superb album has it all!