Twenty-five 1967 and 1968 tracks

Rednight wrote: You couldn't throw in one stand-out number of the Fabs? Los Beatles got slighted here.

See page one for my response.

Rednight wrote: What? No Incense and Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock?

I love Incense and Peppermints, but as I said one page one, I was planning to do a second poll. I do think that was in my longer list, in fact I remember it was as well as some others that were mentioned by people, but then I didn't feel like doing the second part because, well, it seems some people are hard to please and it does take quite a long time to put together. These are a lot of effort. Not sure if you missed my response to you on slighting the Beatles on page one as you failed to respond.

I ask again, please consider making your own polls if you don't like my choices. Somehow I very much doubt you know all of them or took the time to listen through the choices you didn't know before mentioning those others. You might have found something you liked well-enough to mention. I won't complain about you leaving off my favourites on lists of your favourites. If you come up with that 25 of your personal choices of this ilk, I'll be amazed if I can't find one to comment on positively.

By the way, as I have said so many times that I must sound like a broken record, I'm happy with people mentioning others, but I prefer it when people also comment on my choices. I do that in other people's polls; for one, it seems more polite to me, and two, I like to show my appreciation for what's being offered if it's the kind of music I am into (especially happy if I discover something new-to-me that I enjoy thanks to polls). Sometimes when I've disliked or felt really lukewarm about everything on a list and "other" was an option, then I have just mentioned my "other" choice.

For instance:

Question: What is your favourite album of all-time?

Option 1: Hot Booty - Hot Booty's Dance Party Mix Volume 6
Option 2: Chainsaw - The Sounds of Chainsaws 'n Screams
Option 3: Windy Carlos and The Amazing Bottom Band - Beans on Toast
Option 4: Nails on A Chalkboard - self-titled
Option 5: Cowboy Bob - Trucks, Guns, and Jesus
Option 5: Construction Site and the Wolf-Whistlers - Sounds Recorded On the Job as a Pretty Girl Walks By
Option 6: Other

I vote other for The Dung Beetles - Magical Mystery Turd

Edited by Logan - September 30 2019 at 21:11

This could have been one of my mix tapes.
No vote, just digging the list overall.

JIMI!

Logan wrote: I actually had Suzanne (1967) in my list, one of my all-time favourite songs, and I had the Byrds Eight Miles High from 1966 (another all-time fave of mine) before scaling it down and limiting it to 1967 and 1968 (those were two of the first I thought of when making the psychedelic list). Considered some of the others too. For another, I was sad not to include Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man".

Very good selection indeed. Some of them, I have nor heard in a long time, so it's a good reminder. Jimy Hendrix gets my vote.

Soft Machine 

Astronomy Domine is terrific track, and I remember your Red Krayola suggestion thread. I'm not sure how many of these in my poll are included in Prog Archives (I added Gun the other day to Proto-Prog).

Of course I like all of these tracks considerably, but right now, I guess it's between Love's "The Red Telephone", The Incredible String Band's "Very Cellular Song", International Harvester's "Skördetider", The United States of America's "The American Metaphysical Circus" and David Axelrod's "Holy Thursday". The Pink Floyd, Cream and many others are actually right up there too. My initial list was longer, but I had to scale it down to 25 (I was especially sad to drop a Leonard Cohen and Donovan song, which had nothing to do with a lack of love of those songs, but I felt that they didn't fit quite so well as some others). There are so many great albums and songs of the time travelling down these musical avenues.

Like Doug, were I to pick just one, I'd probably go with the Love. Forever Changes is a brilliant album, and even though the end of summer here is wet and cold like an Autumn day, it's still a great album to listen to. I think that "The Red Telephone" was the first song that I heard off Forever Changes, and it's an almost transcendent song for me (I can't describe the feeling I get from it). I Love it.

By the way, when I was editing my poll and first post, I accidentally edited out the paragraph where I mention that this is a multiple-choice poll, so if anyone wants to vote for multiple tracks, go right ahead.