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Best Rock Album - 1968?

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,854 Founders Club

Best Rock Album - 1968? 20 votes

Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds
0%
Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
20%
GrundleStiltzkinhuskyhooliganBasemanNoWarningJustDawg 4 votes
White Album - The Beatles
45%
whlinderBennyBeaverMad_SonYouKnowItchuckbiak1BleachedAnusDawgJoeyGayThoughts 9 votes
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
30%
DerekJohnsonalumni94dfleaLebamDawgYellowSnowEl_K 6 votes
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
0%
Music From Big Pink - The Band
5%
Fishpo31 1 vote
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
0%
Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
0%
Wheels of Fire - Cream
0%
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off__________
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Comments

  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,841 Swaye's Wigwam
    White Album - The Beatles
    Tough, tough choice between the Beatles and Hendrix. Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably change my answer.
  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,878
    Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
    Although I would be the only one to vote for it, this should be on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_the_Sun
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,854 Founders Club
    Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
    alumni94 said:

    Although I would be the only one to vote for it, this should be on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_the_Sun

    Hold fast. We're not there yet on the Grateful Dead. They were still getting their reads down.
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,682
    Music From Big Pink - The Band
    Tuff Poll, came down to (for me) Great: Big Pink...Good to Very Good: Everything else...I could justify voting for each, but Big Pink was the first wide spread exposure of a genre that is thriving 50-plus years later...is it folk? Country? R & B? Soul? Rock? Gospel? For me the answer is “Yes”...good chit
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,854 Founders Club
    Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
    Fishpo31 said:

    Tuff Poll, came down to (for me) Great: Big Pink...Good to Very Good: Everything else...I could justify voting for each, but Big Pink was the first wide spread exposure of a genre that is thriving 50-plus years later...is it folk? Country? R & B? Soul? Rock? Gospel? For me the answer is “Yes”...good chit

    I like the label for this type of music as coined by Gram Parson..."Cosmic American Music".

    I recall reading about how Clapton was totally blown away the first time he heard The Band and decided this was the kind of music he wanted to play. He had been doing all heavy stuff prior to then and you can here the strong turn to roots music once he went solo.
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,682
    Music From Big Pink - The Band

    Fishpo31 said:

    Tuff Poll, came down to (for me) Great: Big Pink...Good to Very Good: Everything else...I could justify voting for each, but Big Pink was the first wide spread exposure of a genre that is thriving 50-plus years later...is it folk? Country? R & B? Soul? Rock? Gospel? For me the answer is “Yes”...good chit

    I like the label for this type of music as coined by Gram Parson..."Cosmic American Music".

    I recall reading about how Clapton was totally blown away the first time he heard The Band and decided this was the kind of music he wanted to play. He had been doing all heavy stuff prior to then and you can here the strong turn to roots music once he went solo.
    The Beatles, Stones, Kinks (and others) obviously began to think outside the box in their writing and musicianship in this period, much to the chagrin of their record companies, I’m sure...they made their bones as “pop idols”, and flexed when they got power...diverse multi-genre styles...Stones doing country; Beatles folk and psychedelic; Jimi playing straight blues, Clapton with his JJ Cale phase...
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,682
    Music From Big Pink - The Band
    I remember my JJ Cale phase...
  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,855 Swaye's Wigwam
    Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
    Sweetheart of the Rodeo is an all tim favorite but just can't compete at this tim
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,854 Founders Club
    Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
    LebamDawg said:

    Sweetheart of the Rodeo is an all tim favorite but just can't compete at this tim

    True, Mabel. But still, not other record of the late 60's probably had a greater impact on the sound of the Stones from 1969- 72 than Sweetheart. Gram Parson is a god damned genius.