Celebrating 1967

[Midnight Rider]

Pretty good? One of the hottest babes ever in my book.

After sseing the pic I have to agree with you. I stand corrected.

 

[Midnight Rider]

Here is my personal top 10 singles from 1967. Albums to come later.

1. Light My Fire - The Doors
2. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
3. Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
4. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
5. Society’s Child - Janis Ian
6. Pushin' Too Hard - Seeds
7. I can see for miles - The Who
8. San Francisco, Wear Flowers In Your Hair - Scott McKenzie
9. Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
10. (We ain’t got) nothin’ yet -Blue Magoos

 

[Reverend Rock]

I don't think I could narrow it down to 10 myself. But I'll name the first ten that come to mind:

"Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane" by the Beatles
"Pleasant Valley Sunday/Words" by the Monkees
"Daydream Believer/Goin' Down" by the Monkees
"All You Need Is Love/Baby You're A Rich Man" by the Beatles
"Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus" by the Beatles
"Ode To Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry
"Heroes And Villains" by the Beach Boys
"Wild Honey" by the Beach Boys
"Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" by Donovan

OK, that's the very tip of the iceburg...

 

[Midnight Rider]

I don't think I could narrow it down to 10 myself. But I'll name the first ten that come to mind:

"Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane" by the Beatles
"Pleasant Valley Sunday/Words" by the Monkees
"Daydream Believer/Goin' Down" by the Monkees
"All You Need Is Love/Baby You're A Rich Man" by the Beatles
"Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus" by the Beatles
"Ode To Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry
"Heroes And Villains" by the Beach Boys
"Wild Honey" by the Beach Boys
"Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" by Donovan

OK, that's the very tip of the iceburg...

You are so right. It's a real drag trying to narrow it down. It gets even tougher making a top 10 album list. There were like some real groovy albums man. That is why my list is not done yet. I am working on it though.

 

[Music Wench]

I couldn't even begin a top twenty list, let alone a top ten list. LOL

This is a great thread but it's really making me feel old!!!

 

[Reverend Rock]

Here's a list of my ten favorite albums of 1967, (in no particular order and selected almost entirely for subjective and sentimental reasons):

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band by the Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd. by the Monkees
Headquarters by the Monkees
Are You Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Axis, Bold As Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Forever Changes by Love
Joan by Joan Baez
Pandomonium Shadow Show by Nilsson
Collage by Noel Harrison

 

[Martha Washington]

great choices!
I was gonna add "white light/white heat", I always see it listed as '67. somebody told me it didn't come out until '68 and they usually know what they're talking about.

so... I'll say "Absolutely Free" by The Mothers of Invention. if it was released in '68, please don't tell me.

 

[Midnight Rider]

Great picks RR. Here is my list. They are my personal favorites.

1. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band...The Beatles
2. The Doors...The Doors
3. Flowers... The Rolling Stones
4. Buffalo Springfield Again... Buffalo Springfield
5. Are You Experienced...Jimi Hendrix
6. Days Of Future Passed...Moody Blues
7. Disraeli Gears...Cream
8. Surrealistic Pillow...Jefferson Airplane
9. Procol Harum...Procol Harum
10. Time Has Come Today...Chambers Brothers

A non rock album is Bill Cosby...Revenge. Even back then he did some funny stuff.

Two albums I saw rated high that I am not familiar with are
Forever Changes...Love
The Velvet Underground & Nico...The Velvet Underground

I may have to check them out and find out what all the fuss was about.

The Mothers are another to check out. If I find out they were 68 I promise not to tell.

 

[Reverend Rock]

Great picks RR. Here is my list. They are my personal favorites.

1. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band...The Beatles
2. The Doors...The Doors
3. Flowers... The Rolling Stones
4. Buffalo Springfield Again... Buffalo Springfield
5. Are You Experienced...Jimi Hendrix
6. Days Of Future Passed...Moody Blues
7. Disraeli Gears...Cream
8. Surrealistic Pillow...Jefferson Airplane
9. Procol Harum...Procol Harum
10. Time Has Come Today...Chambers Brothers

...Two albums I saw rated high that I am not familiar with are
Forever Changes...Love
The Velvet Underground & Nico...The Velvet Underground

I may have to check them out and find out what all the fuss was about...

You know, I can't believe I actually left Days of Future Passed out of my own list!

Forever Changes and The Velvet Underground and Nico are both definitely worth checking out. What's amazing about the pop music ferment that happened at this time (really from '65 through the rest of the decade) is that so many vastly different things were happening at once, all of them totally unprecedented. You probably couldn't ask for two more diametrically different kinds of music than the two albums mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph. And they were both amazingly original and fresh expressions at the time.

I should also add that I never heard either Forever Changes or the Velvet's first album until many, many years later.

 

[Spike]

It was 40 years ago today...

Literally...

It Was 40 Years Ago Today

By Daniel J. Levitin
Friday, June 1, 2007; Page A15

Yes, it's been 40 years exactly since Sgt. Pepper, having labored the previous 20 years teaching his band to play, arranged for its debut in full psychedelic regalia. He leveraged a little help from his friends, notably the vocalist Billy Shears and a riverboat owner named Lucy who had apparently made her fortune in the diamond business. Pepper realized that good music-making requires the expanding of horizons. A recent "trip" inspired him to incorporate tabla and sitar into the music. The band exhorted us to sit back and let the evening go so that they could turn us on, musically, lyrically, and blow our minds for the next several decades.

The Whole Thing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy.../05/31/AR2007053101848.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Spike