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Best rock album of 1966?

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,893 Founders Club
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Best rock album of 1966? 23 votes

Face to Face - The Kinks
0%
Fresh Cream - Cream
17%
SwayeCougzzBasemanJoey 4 votes
Revolver - The Beatles
30%
DerekJohnsonBennyBeaverchuckLebamDawgEl_KBleachedAnusDawgNoWarningJustDawg 7 votes
Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
4%
Laocoön 1 vote
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
4%
GayThoughts 1 vote
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
30%
RaceBannonMad_SondncTequillaFenderbender123YellowSnowFishpo31 7 votes
Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
4%
biak1 1 vote
A Quick One - The Who
0%
Roger The Engineer - The Yardbirds
8%
alumni94GrundleStiltzkin 2 votes
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,893 Founders Club
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    1966 had 3 monster albums, plus some other really great ones. Not quite as much depth as 1967 and beyond, but really the first true year of album oriented rock displacing singles. Pet Sounds, Revolver and Blonde on Blonde at 1a, 1b and 1c for me. I think overall, Revolver, has more depth than Pet Sounds (this album still has some weak, corny tracks) but the highs of Pet Sounds trump those of Revolver.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,852 Swaye's Wigwam
    Revolver - The Beatles
    Taxman and And Your Bird Can Sing are my favorite tracks. The openly drug related subject matter in three of John's songs was what really made the album cutting edge and makes it stand apart though. She Said She Said is the funniest, and most accurately representative, description of a typical conversation during an acid trip that I've ever heard.

    If Paul hadn't been mostly fagging out with soft artsy shit, and had embraced guitar driven rock like the others were at the time, Revolver would have a way higher place on the all time rock album list. It's up there anyways because the strengths are just that amazing.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,156 Founders Club
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    Fuck Paul
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,156 Founders Club
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    The Beatles were inspired by Pet Sounds to do Sgt. Pepper

    Case closed
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,685
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    The gold standard...
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,893 Founders Club
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    RaceBannon said:

    Fuck Paul

    Paul had been fagging out since 1963 (e.g., covering "Till there was you" on With The Beatles). But Revolver is where he really started to get too cute. McCartney is a god damned genius albeit a very flawed one.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,852 Swaye's Wigwam
    Revolver - The Beatles
    RaceBannon said:

    The Beatles were inspired by Pet Sounds to do Sgt. Pepper

    Case closed

    The Beach Boys were inspired by the Beatles to do Pet Sounds.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,893 Founders Club
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    chuck said:

    RaceBannon said:

    The Beatles were inspired by Pet Sounds to do Sgt. Pepper

    Case closed

    The Beach Boys were inspired by the Beatles to do Pet Sounds.
    And they could barely play instruments. But the Wrecking Crew sure could. Wowza!
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,893 Founders Club
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    chuck said:

    RaceBannon said:

    The Beatles were inspired by Pet Sounds to do Sgt. Pepper

    Case closed

    The Beach Boys were inspired by the Beatles to do Pet Sounds.
    Pet Sounds is such a fascinating moment in rock history. The Beach Boys had withstood the British Invasion onslaught and basically caught up to the Beatles in the artistic arms race. Good Vibrations (later 1966) trumped anything the Beatles did in the studio pre Pepper. But Brian Wilson was a mentally weak loser carrying a bunch of squares like Mike Love who didn’t want to fuck with the formula. Their artistic and commercial collapse by 1967 is the saddest in rock history.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,857 Swaye's Wigwam
    Revolver - The Beatles
    well I picked this because it was my favorite Beatles album.

    good ones on that list, disappointed no Rod Stewart - he influenced Neil Young
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