The Great Blitz Album Survey…Favourite Albums Across The Years…The 60s

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Early 60s albums was just as hard as keeping the late 60s to 3 albums. Hard to go past some of the amazing albums for a lesser known must listen.

1960

3 - muddy waters sings big bill
2 - John Lee hooker - that’s my story
1 - Wes Montgomery - incredible jazz guitar

1961

3 - Freddie King - Freddie king sings
2 - Freddie King - Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King
1 - BB King - my kind of blues

1962

3 - bob Dylan
2 - John Lee hooker - burnin
1 - ray Charles - modern sounds in country and western music

(Howlin wolf should count but it’s listed as compilation… albums were a weird concept pre 63)

1963

3 - bob Dylan - freewheelin bob dylan
2 - James brown - live at the Apollo
1 - Beatles - please please me

1964

3 - bob Dylan - times they are a changin
2 - bob Dylan - another side of bob dylan
1 - Herbie hancock - empyrean isles

1965

3 - bob dylan - highway 61 revisited
2 - bob Dylan - bringing it all back home
1 - Beatles - rubber soul

1966

3 - Beatles - revolver
2 - beach boys - pet sounds
1 - bob dylan - blonde on blonde

1967

3 - Beatles - magical mystery tour
2 - Jefferson airplane - surrealistic pillow
1 - velvet underground and nico

1968

3 - van Morrison - astral weeks
2 - the byrds - sweetheart of the rodeo
1 - Fleetwood Mac

1969

3 - grateful dead - live / dead
2- king crimson - in the court of the crimson king
1 - Beatles - abbey road

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Tried again… don’t like it. People swear by it. Is there a specific version? Sometimes mono/stereo stuffs these old records.

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I’m somewhere in the middle…I played it again a few days ago…there’s some really good stuff but I don’t see what Doggie does to rate it so highly.

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Theres no mono version. Just stereo.

You got a wiim yeah? If you’re not digging the standard release via that, then I guess its not for you. But for me it remains the ultimate Heavy Psychedlic Underwater Sci Fi Delta Blues Adventure

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I have 3 versions on tidal; 50th anniversary and then the diff between the other 2 is some bonus video. I think they’re the same quality.
I will trial again.

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You can just get rid of it; it was kind of a placeholder

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As far as records go the 50th is the best as its mastered by Bernie Grundman. But Ive heard the digital release was messed with after he did hos thing.

Dont force it brother. If it aint your thing, it aint yoir thing. It is my favourite record of all time but even I’ll admit its not perfect. Burning of the Midnight Lamp should never have been put on it ( was a single from 67) and Noel Reddings song being allowed on it was nothing short of a nicety from Jimi.

But the title track: what else sounds like that? And what else has sounded like it since. Its so unique.

Voodoo Chile: Not the Slight Return…at the time, Cream were considered the heaviest blues act. This is Heavy Deep Blues.

Tracks like Crosstown Traffic, Long Hot Summer Night and Gypsy Eyes…just great little late 60s rock numbers.

Come On Let The Good Times Roll: This fucken cooks…three guys in a studio ripping it up…amp buzz and all.

The entire Rainy Day/1983 suite (side 3): …oh man. Starts out as a jazz funk vamp, turns into an underwater space odyssey about the nuclear destruction of the planet,that takes the listener to the bottom of the ocean and back to the top again.

Side 4 opens up with Still Dreaming: We’re back at the Soul Jazz Funk of Rainy Day with Jimi literally talking to us with his strat and his wah pedal. Into House Burning Down, not my favourite but cool.

…then All along The Watchtower…yeah its been over played, but for a reason. Its incredible. It soars. Its another journey. But this time on land. Its about a mission or someting. Its important. But its not clear why. If the album ended there one would be satisfied because its a great finish…but it doesnt…it gets better…

Voodoo Child Slight Return: Where the Delta meets Saturn. Equal parts Earth and Space. The heaviest blues of all. Powerful. The ultimate finish. The most heartbreaking thing about this song is it was filmed by the American ABC tv crew. In the studio. Being written. On the spot. Live…footage has been lost since 1970. That footage is deemed by many as the Hendrix Holy Grail. Hopefully it may turn up oneday.

I didn’t intend this to be a total review or breakdown of the album. But these are the reason why I love it so much. Jimi is my favourite artist. He has been since i was 14. Electric Ladyland is his most expansive and free album out of his three studio releases. It breaks my heart thats all we got out of such a talented young man.

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Man looking through some of my old blues and rock playlists I realised how influential and saturated late 60s and 70s was on my musical tastes. To the point where I don’t even recognise the band, song title or album artwork.
Oddity, country Joe and the fish live at Fillmore west 1969. Wasn’t released until the 90s but what a set. Donovan’s reef jam 38 minutes of bliss!
Gimme a time machine and take me to the Fillmore late 60s

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This is a pic I sent to Doggie recently

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One of the things that runs threw most, if not all Fillmore show recordings is how good they sound. That joint musta been acoustically gifted.

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And yet at the same time eerily quiet. Crowds must of been really accommodating to not be obtrusive and ruin the recording.

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= stoned

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There’s a reason so many live albums were recorded there. At both of them.

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@Maxx

Let me just post this then I’ll leave the entire subject alone…

Im not trying to sell it (as an album). If it aint your bag, it aint your bag. But I know you play guitar. So from a players perspective listen to this…

Jimi demoing Electric Ladyland at the Record Plant in 1968. Just Jimi, a strat and probably a twin or a princeton with a touch of tremolo dialed in. Only goes for a minute and a half. But its a minute and a half of an orchestral psychedlic soul masterclass executed by the biggest set of hands on a five ten frame Mother Nature ever spat out.

It has its own sense of time that goes beyond mere syncopation. Its kinda like Curtis Mayfield…but like way more.

One can not like Hendrix, thats easy. But one can not simply dismiss the beauty and grace in which he effortlessly executes this meticulously constructed piece of music.

Fucken majestic.

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1960

3 - Miles Davis - Sketchers of Span
2 - Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
1 - John Lee Hooker - House of Blues

1961

3 - Bill Evans Trio - Explorations
2 - John Coltrane - Olē Coltrane
1 - Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweat

1962

3 - Howlin Wolf - Howlin Wolf
2 - Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods
1 - Roy Orbison - Crying

1963

3 - Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
2 - Betty Carter - Round Midnight
1 - Art Pepper - Intensity

1964

3 - The Ronnettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronnettes
2 - Otis Reading - Pain In My Heart
1 - The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk

1965

3 - The Bryds - Mr Tambourine Man
2 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1 - Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You

1966

3 - The Beatles - Revolver
2 - The Bryds - Fifth Dimension
1 - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

1967

3 - The Beatles - Sgt Peppers
2 - Procol Harum - Procol Harum
1 - The Doors - The Doors

1968

3 - The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle
2 - The Kinks - Are the Village Green Presentation Society
1 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends

1969

3 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
2- The Beatles - Abbey Road
1 - Credence Clearwater Revival - Green River

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Released 1959…please amend and tag me when you’ve done so :slight_smile:

Also, looks like a great first half of the decade…some stuff there that I’'l have to listen to.

And…at last, somebody recognising the greatness of The Doors debut album :grin:

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@swoodley

1960

  1. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat
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Have had a look at this site ? Every band, every set at Fillmore West.
Hmmm they used to have the recordings available, will do some digging. Also a shot of the show we went to AUM, Black Oak Arkansas and Iron Butterfly. Missed out on seeing Cold Blood by a couple of days

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same

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Best part of the album.
Reading about the album made me appreciate it a bit more. I think another album or two and he would have absolutely nailed it.
I think it all comes down to the panning that gets under my skin. Maybe if I wasn’t sober… will play again when I ride the tortoise across the galaxy.

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