50 years as a band - unbelievable. So many great years of music.

General question - Looking back if you had to choose one year as your favorite (its hard to do) and then pick 20 albums, what would it be?

1967 for me (in no particular order) :


Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates OF Dawn
Stones - Satanic
Stones - Buttons
Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Doors - The Doors
Doors - Strange Days
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Traffic - Mr Fantasy
Buffalo - Buffalo Springfield Again
Beatles - Pepper
Beatles - MMT
Love - Forever Changes
Love - De Capo
Who - The Who Sell Out
Donavon - Mellow Yellow
The Young Rascals - Groovin
Small Faces - There are But Four Small Faces (US version)


I know I must of missed something!

1971 with 1966 as a close second.

1969

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1971 with 1966 as a close second.

Nailed it.

The range of music which I love spans far too many years to get stuck liking just one. I never give back music just because others may say it is not cool anymore.

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The range of music which I love spans far too many years to get stuck liking just one. I never give back music just because others may say it is not cool anymore.

Come on Max - just give us one. We won't hold you to it.

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1972

Being from the Midwest originally, I'm a big fan of garage band music, which peaked in 1966 and then ebbed under the weight of psychedelia. Jangly guitars, cheatin' girls. I'm all in.

Little Girl - The Syndicate of Sound

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1969
Tommy
Let it Bleed
Abbey Road
Arthur
Kick out the Jams
The Velvet Underground
Nashville Skyline
From Elvis in Memphis (sadly the King's last truly solid good album)
Ummagumma

1966 POP.......or 1968/69

Ok I'll go for '68

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Good question. I often take requests at my shows as long as the music requested is between 1967-1973, it was a particularly good run for creativity and influence in my music world. Even though I was just a toddler at the time, it hit me hard a few years later.

If I had to pick one year it would likely be 1971 followed by 1969.

I sure wish we could have another run like that but since almost no artist development is happening and no one is buying new records I'm not very optimistic. peace

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Relax Max, a few good ones after 1973/74 but not nearly as many. Yes VH's 1st was OK, The Wall wasn't great until the current show came along, imho. Floyd topped out with DSOTM and Wish You Were Here, ZZ Top topped out with Fandango, Def Leppard could hardly play their instruments, Metallica has maybe 2 good songs total, Zepplin was on the skids in the late 70's .....you've got to admit not much could top the quality of recorded output from '67 to '73 or '74. Seven years of amazing stuff. peace

The year I discovered my older bro's albums from '67-71.

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I have to go with 1966. Look at the singles charts from that year (I'll post it later).
There were some great singles. Plus, that year gave us Aftermath, Pet Sounds, Revolver, Blonde On Blonde, Face To Face, the 2 S&G albums, 5D, the first Springfield album, Sunshine Superman and on and on...

Showing my age here:

1957

Charlie Gillett said that rock'n'roll petered out around 1958.That was the year that "ballads" were touted as the next big thing, and rock'n'roll sort of ran out of steam. Or maybe it was just that I grew one year older, and was less impressionable.

Here's a sample of what was in the charts in'57:

Tony Blackburn - Pick Of The Pops 1957 (BBC R2)

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MP3 @ 128kbps, 56 min. BBC R2 14/7/12.

I found it to be such a high-quality chart that I recorded it, something that I've never before been inclined to do with PotP.

I think that 1965 thru 1973 were the most important years in many, many ways.

1987

The Joshua Tree/U2
Appetite for Destruction/Guns N' Roses
Hysteria/Def Leppard
Solitude Standing/Suzanne Vega
Sentimental Hygenie/Warren Zevon
Faith/George Michael
Sign O The Times/Prince
Document/R.E.M.
Tunnel of Love/Bruce Springsteen
Terence Trent D'Arby/Introducing the Hardline
Aerosmith/Permanent Vacation



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Well, ahem, certainly not 1972. Most likely it`s 1969 or 1971.

1971

Let's look at a few of the albums from 71

Sticky Fingers
Who's Next
Meddle
Led Zeppelin 4
A Nod's As Good As A Wink
Every Picture Tells A Story
LA Woman
Hunky Dory
Ram
Imagine
Killer
Teaser And The Firecat
After The Goldrush
Songs For Beginners
Blows Against The Empire
Stephen Stills
Surf's Up
Free - Highway
Tumbleweed Connection
Madman Across The Water
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Nursery Cryme
There's A Riot Going On
What's Going On
MC5 - Back In The USA
Muswell Hillbillies
Joni - Blue
Carole King - Tapestry
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Bless The Weather
Rainbow Bridge
Black Moses
Rockin' The Fillmore
In Search Of Space
Pawn Hearts
The Snake
Maggot Brain
Teenage Head
Four Way Street
Curtis Mayfild - Roots
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Paranoid
Spotlight Kid
Tago Mago
Rock Of Ages
In Hearing Of
666
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead Live
Love It To Death
Santana 3
From The Witchwood
Electric Warrior
Watt
Rockin' The Fillmore
Let's Stay Together
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Tupelo Honey

>I know I must of missed something!

I would have included THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO and AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S.

1902. That Scott Joplin always got my toe a tappin'.

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1987

The Joshua Tree/U2
Appetite for Destruction/Guns N' Roses
Hysteria/Def Leppard
Solitude Standing/Suzanne Vega
Sentimental Hygenie/Warren Zevon
Faith/George Michael
Sign O The Times/Prince
Document/R.E.M.
Tunnel of Love/Bruce Springsteen
Terence Trent D'Arby/Introducing the Hardline
Aerosmith/Permanent Vacation

You forgot:

Grateful Dead's in the Dark
Whitesnake's Whitesnake





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1971

Let's look at a few of the albums from 71

Sticky Fingers
Who's Next
Meddle
Led Zeppelin 4
A Nod's As Good As A Wink
Every Picture Tells A Story
LA Woman
Hunky Dory
Ram
Imagine
Killer
Teaser And The Firecat
After The Goldrush
Songs For Beginners
Blows Against The Empire
Stephen Stills
Surf's Up
Free - Highway
Tumbleweed Connection
Madman Across The Water
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Nursery Cryme
There's A Riot Going On
What's Going On
MC5 - Back In The USA
Muswell Hillbillies
Joni - Blue
Carole King - Tapestry
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Bless The Weather
Rainbow Bridge
Black Moses
Rockin' The Fillmore
In Search Of Space
Pawn Hearts
The Snake
Maggot Brain
Teenage Head
Four Way Street
Curtis Mayfild - Roots
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Paranoid
Spotlight Kid
Tago Mago
Rock Of Ages
In Hearing Of
666
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead Live
Love It To Death
Santana 3
From The Witchwood
Electric Warrior
Watt
Rockin' The Fillmore
Let's Stay Together
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Tupelo Honey

One of the best years. Can't go wrong with this list. Glad to see one of my favorite live albums, Humble Pie - "Rockin' The Filmore". Also glad to see - "Blows Against The Empire" and "From The Witchwood" - 2 forgotten albums. Good stuff!



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1971

Let's look at a few of the albums from 71

Sticky Fingers
Who's Next
Meddle
Led Zeppelin 4
A Nod's As Good As A Wink
Every Picture Tells A Story
LA Woman
Hunky Dory
Ram
Imagine
Killer
Teaser And The Firecat
After The Goldrush
Songs For Beginners
Blows Against The Empire
Stephen Stills
Surf's Up
Free - Highway
Tumbleweed Connection
Madman Across The Water
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Nursery Cryme
There's A Riot Going On
What's Going On
MC5 - Back In The USA
Muswell Hillbillies
Joni - Blue
Carole King - Tapestry
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Bless The Weather
Rainbow Bridge
Black Moses
Rockin' The Fillmore
In Search Of Space
Pawn Hearts
The Snake
Maggot Brain
Teenage Head
Four Way Street
Curtis Mayfild - Roots
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Paranoid
Spotlight Kid
Tago Mago
Rock Of Ages
In Hearing Of
666
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead Live
Love It To Death
Santana 3
From The Witchwood
Electric Warrior
Watt
Rockin' The Fillmore
Let's Stay Together
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Tupelo Honey

That is a staggeringly good list.

1971 would be very hard to beat