ITT: /mu/ in 1969
I GOT MY FIRST REAL SIX STRING
nice
Far out, man.
>>129585589Why couldn't Bobby have been president instead of Tricky Dick?
>>129585618
SUGAR SUGAR, OOH OOH OOH OOH
Good music is backhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klqsi3s5_s8
>>129585641Funny how the killer and his motives have been whitewashed from history. I can't imagine why.
>>129585714Are they Beatles 2.0
Stupid-rock at its best--the side of the Velvets John Cale never developed. B
>>129585719nah they broke up and Robin went solo
Perhaps because I expected such miracles from the beginning, I was never turned around by Cream or Traffic, but neither group ever put out a record that didn't contain a track or two that I loved--"I Feel Free" or "Paper Sun" or "Politician" or "Feelin' Alright." There is nothing here that makes me feel that way: I'm almost sure that when I'm through writing this I'll put the album away and only play it for guests. Unless I want to hear Clapton--he is at his best here because he is kept in check by the excesses of Winwood, who is rapidly turning into the greatest wasted talent in the music. There. I said it and I'm glad. B
>>129585755Pat tries making like comeback Dion. If nothing else it's certainly one of his more interesting experiments.
>>129585850I thought Robin's Reign was '69 but it actually came out next year.
>>129585828>>129585659that point in time when things did a 180 from the '50s where white music was crazy and let-your-hair-down while black music became serious and uptight
>>129585903CSN, Blind Faith, and now this? How many more goddamn supergroups does anyone need?
>>129585714wrong album
>>129585734I guess that's why critics overrated Loaded so much.
>>129586003those guys will be forgotten in a year. trust me.
These guys are singlehandedly saving rock and roll
A puzzler--no matter how many times I listen, I can't connect. Every time Grace Slick lilts out "Up against the wall, motherfuckers" (a phrase I think we can all agree has lost its currency by now) I want to laugh out loud and I don't find the instrumental cuts very inspired, either. It's hardly a bad album of course and everybody seems to dig it a lot but everybody may be wrong. B
>>129585589Just saw an ad for this little thingie while I was out and about downtown, now, is there ANYBODY out there (whose brain hasn't completely melted from LSD like that pink floyd guy for instance) that's REALLY gonna attend this? I mean, don't get me wrong, I think Jimi Hendrix is a truly magical negro, and Santana is also a really good guitar player (for a spic, I suppose), anybody else in this bill? A bunch of literal who's that MUST be CIA assets, with how dreadful their music is (case and point, give a listen to "The Grateful Dead" or at least try to), also, can you guys even imagine the smell of the atendees of this thing? Sure, maybe you'll share the space with some of those nudist hippie chicks or something, but even then, it ain't worth the smell, for sureBesides, I'm gonna go see my girl around the same time that ole hippie fest is taking place anyway, she's been outta town for a couple of months now, under the care of some "Uncle Charlie" guy, I thought it was her actual uncle or something, turns out the guy was just some sort of youth pastor/coach or whatever, yeah, I know it sounds a little weird, but hey, it's not like they're killing anyone or something, right? lol, if any of you plan on attending this shit-show, just let me know
>>129585903Good instrumentals but that guy sings like a cat being tortured.
Man, I am so high right now.
>>129585903Songs sound oddly familiar
>>129586077Wait until you see what his next album does. It's not gonna be pretty, I can tell you that.
This lp is so overstated that it may be said it carries its own validity--a Baroque, lush production job over the non-singing of one half of Sam and Dave's production team. C
>>129586008Album covers like this are honestly peak... I mean far out man
>>129585589Woah man, what if God is love and we're all just the universe experiencing itself infinitely?
>>129586164the Bee Gees do sound great when stoned, i admit
>>129586143Y'know what, fuck it, it's not even a bad album. I don't care anymore.
>>129586171>>129586166all you long haired druggie filth need to get shipped off to Nam and finally learn some discipline
>>129586198Chill out, square
>>129586198>no one told him it's an absolute shitfest where C/Os encourage soldiers to murder and rape plus everyone is on drugs and white and black soldiers are forming gangs and starting race wars with one another
This group is getting attention apparently because they play faster than Iron Butterfly. Which, I grant is a start in the right direction. Me, I saw them in Detroit before I knew any of this. I found myself enjoying them for five minutes, tolerating them for fifteen, and hating them for forty-five. This lp, their second, isn't as good as that performance. C-
>>129586182Nobody explain to Georgie boy that the honey he's singing about there is being drilled by Clapton in all holes as we speak.
The best of the wah-wah mannerist groups--so dirty they drool on demand. It's true that all the songs sound the same, but nobody ever held that against Little Richard. Then again, Robert Plant isn't Little Richard. B
>>129586308>>129586231Time for Jan Wenner to get triggered hard. Ah, fuck him anyway.
Rest in peace sweet prince, I hope no other rockstar dies at 27 years old
>>129586354been ten years since we lost Buddy. where did the time go?
These blokes are up to something interesting!
>>129586338I heard Jan’s trying to rope in that Hunter S Thompson guy from the New Observer
The usual sweet-hard rock, pleasant and soulful enough. B
Four of ten cuts on this lp are sung by Alan Wilson, who has one of the great freak voices and writes songs to match. As usual, the album is dominated by Bob "Rastus" Hite, who must have inspired Rolling Stone's remark that it should be titled "Yassuh, Boss." He is most offensive on one of those introducing-the-band jams--("Henry's shoah gots the feelin'"). I'm sure I forgive him of his version of Fats Domino's "The Big Fat" only because I don't happen to know the original. Still, Alan Wilson's talent is too peculiar to fill an album. I wonder what should be done with him? B
>>129586414I'm sure this cover art made sense while the artist was high.
>>129586198Great, now I'm addicted to heroin and my left leg's missing.
>>129586275Hey free love man
>>129585589what do you guys think of this charles manson mixtape? this guy has potential!
after getting back from Nam you can become a junkie and member of a biker gang or a roving serial killer. whatever your trip is.
The end, at least as far as US audiences are concerned. Adios after 14 years, Concetta.
>>129586261
Rated by request, I've written elsewhere that this album is perfect but that is not necessarily a compliment. Only David Crosby's vocal on "Long Time Gone" saves it from a special castrati award. Pray for Neil Young. B
>>129586542There will be darker days ahead for her but more on that later.
>>129586512shit, i just want a job in my dad's shop
>>129586554I can't speak for Cuckgau's tastes but a lot of people never liked CSNY that much compared to CSN and felt Neil really threw off their sound, plus he never put his good material on any collabs he did with the other guys.
>>129586365man, who's still listening to the lame old Beach Boys anyway? this isn't '64.
Ringmaster Ian Anderson has come up with a unique concept that combines the worst of Arthur Brown, Roland Kirk, and your local G.O. blues band. I find his success very depressing. C-
>>129586611Euros I guess.
One experimental cut which hasn't made it for me yet, otherwise fantastic. A
>>129586677If an American from New York made this he would give it an A.
>>129585589hey guys im a big fat gay virgin and also it's 1969
I wonder what he will be doing next year
This is a Winnipeg group that hit it big with a blue-eyed soul ballad titled "These Eyes" which most of you probably hate. I love it. Nothing else on here is up to it but with the exception of one bung track (which of course runs ten minutes) everything is well-sung, well-arranged, and personal without being pushy. Not to be confused with. . . B-
No war! We're gonna levitate the Pentagon, man!
No one even thinks about the Doors any more--such is fame--but this is an acceptable record, with predictable pretensions and two or three first-rate songs ("Touch Me," "Wild Child"). Nothing to get excited about, either way. B-
This group's fans consider it a great album. I'm not a fan of the group. I think it's an adequate album. B-
>>129586931It didn't work two years ago but we've got our heads together now.
>>129586971>Nothing to get excited about, either wayIf only because the band sounds a bit bored (drunk? stoned?) and lacks anything like the first album's energy.
>>129586971>No one even thinks about the Doors any more--such is fameAlso things were moving so fast back then that 1967 may as well have been 20 years ago when it was only two.
>>129587166he said Woodstock was the worst Who gig ever. aside from the general shitshow the whole thing was, the audience wasn't really their kind of crowd anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhx40WNsREHow many times do we have to teach you a lesson, old man?
>>129587400the message of the single is tl;dr the South sucks, please don't come here
Somehow I have never bothered to state my almost unqualified admiration for John Fogerty. Creedence's ecumenical achievement is almost unbelievable: this is the only group since the Beatles and the Stones to turn out hit after hit without losing any but the most perverse hip music snobs. With this in mind, Fogerty's subtlety as a political songwriter (have you ever really dug the words of "Fortunate Son"?) comes as no surprise. This is everything a good rock album should be--the best they've done yet, I think. A+
>>129586720Bless my soul, I can't understand a word they're saying.
>>129586720>>129586589damn though, just imagine that '69 was only 15 or so years removed from music being this.>>129587539
>>129587484he only liked these guys because they still sounded half like 50s rock and roll
Much weaker than Folsom Prison or Greatest Hits, which is where to start if you're just getting into Cash. Only ten songs, one of which is performed twice. The other was written by Bob Dylan. C
ITT: /mu/ in 2026
For years it has been my fond belief that a great rock band could be concocted of studio musicians. Professionals, you dig? Trained to communicate, with no hangups or pretensions. I was wrong because this is that group. It is super competent and super vapid, harmonizing tastefully on one well-executed "love song" after another. With a good beat, of course. If Crosby, etc. are the Limeliters of rock--and they are--then these guys are the Lettermen. C-
What the FUCK did I just listen to?
>>129587743Quite possibly the most overrated album of the 60s, and I say that as a huge Dusty fan. It's no more special than any other run of the mill southern soul album Atlantic was releasing at the time, but when a white chick does it it's suddenly an important achievement. It's also funny that the only time American rock critics afforded her any serious respect was when she self-consciously chased an "authentic" black sound.
>>129585982In 1967 that was true, but most '69 releases were a lot more serious in tone.
Young is a strange artist and I am not all the way into him yet, but this record is haunting. For someone who is into him, try to find the piece Greil Marcus wrote for Good Times (reprinted in the July 23 EVO). Best rock criticism in a while. B+
>>129587816Great album however it does lose steam track 4, Cowgirl in the Sand saves it
A year ago I thought B.B. was the best live act there was and treasured several of his lps, notably Live at the Regal. Since then he has been transformed by astute management into the major attraction he should have been 10 years ago, and I hope he makes two million, but his music is not improving. There's no reason why someone as sweet-voiced as B.B. shouldn't cut his blues with ballads, but his ballad-singing is just plain schmaltzy--the taste that serves him so exquisitely in blues betrays him when he tries to be tasty. This record is good enough, especially the first side. But Live at the Regal is so much better. B
>>129587816Despite of the fact that track 4 is probably my favorite ever Neil song.
>>129587886Who cares about Brenda Lee?!
Terrible. The Mercury years were his absolute nadir.
Without David Crosby's production--this is basically a voice-and-acoustic record--Joni's voice sounds malnourished, which it is. Three excellent songs, but two of them, "Both Sides Now" and "Chelsea Morning," have been done better elsewhere. (By the way, nightclub singer Gloria Loring's version of "Chelsea Morning" is better than Judy Collins'.) The other one is called "Roses Blue." C
>>129588015Their best album
>>129587999She was always one of those artists that to me you respected more than you actually played.
>>129588049I'll only argue the point that Clouds held up better than maybe 90% of '69 albums for the exact reason Cuckgau complained about it, just her with an acoustic guitar.
>>129587968I wanted to like this album so badly but the title track is dominated by a fucking organ
>>129587999>The other one is called "Roses Blue."tl;dr Wiccans are faggots?
>>129587999If only they could have looked 16 years into the future and seen Dog Eat Dog...well, fortunately they couldn't.
This is on the charts. Get it off. D
How many more years are you gonna keep doing this before you finally realize you have no business in a recording studio, Steve?
Doo-doo to you, Frank. When I want movie music I'll listen to Wonderwall. C+
>>129585589Host to a fantastic batch of classics, The Band blows Folk out of the water once again!
Fowley is such a gargantuan shuck that he ought to be preserved in a time capsule. I don't understand how he continues to earn a living, but he does. This is a follow-up to his flower record of a couple of years ago. It comes complete with revolutionary liner notes ("Guerilla warfare has begun. The streets belong to the people. Let's tune in to find out what went wrong today.") that for some reason--they'd sell a few, no?--are concealed within the double-fold. E
When's Dylan ever gonna get back to writing protest songs?
>>129587964who are you replying to, schizo?
Another Col. Sanders special from the white Taj Mahal. The playing is very good and Hammond's taste in blues-based material original enough, but his vocal style demeans his mentors. Otiose. C
>>129586243>I swear I didn't know that dress was see-through, honest!
I cannot believe the Mothers broke up, again. That's it for old Frankie. He's done.
I once had hopes for this group, but success ruined them too, encouraging all of their most vulgar plastic-nigger excesses. Each of the (only) nine renditions is more flaccid than the studio version (that's right, no new material) and the "Tenderness" which closes the set, admittedly an exciting climax live, doesn't work any better than it did the first time it was recorded. D+
>>129590452How do you do fellow kids?
>>129590595they are a cover band. they will always be a cover band.
the godfathers of funk
Anybody who isn't already hip should get hip to rock's greatest spastic. This is even better than the first lp--not as contrived. B+
>>129590923Five fucking LPs this year. As bad as some country singers for product glut.
Ever since Mike Jahn called this group the best since the Beatles (something like that) it has been the victim of terrible anti-hype. Four or five of the cuts on this album are really compelling, and while the rest is marred by a kind of cute funkiness, it is original and grows on you. Dig their version of Sun Ra's "Rocket Number 9." A-
An admitted fanatic raves to all the other admitted fanatics. Side two of this four-sided set contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded, and the rest is gently transcendent as usual. Beautifully recorded, too. A+
POP AND GOBBLE IT, START WOBBLIN'STUMBLE, HOBBLE, TUMBLE, SLIP, TRIP, THEN I FALL INTO BEDWITH A BOTTLE OF MEDS AND A HEATH LEDGER BOBBLEHEAD
>>129591717I don't remember that Steve & Eydie song.
Whose just spamming album covers?
>>129591798They had albums before that one with Funky Worm on it?
>>129590374Shitty albums are far far from the worst thing Fowley ever did.
>>129587743I honestly don't "get" this thing either.
>>129591537is he being electrocuted or having an orgasm? i can't tell.
It's Nashville, meaning assembly line product.
Jackie's other '69 release.
>>129585618Groovy
Yep yep yep.
>>129592103I still like Aretha's "The Weight" better, one reason being that it's faster. But that's not until next year.
>>129588368whoever said they can't actually rock?
>>129585589>69lol
I love being a hippie. I never want it to end
>>129591663holy fuck give it a break alreadycan't you see nobody gives a shit about those?
>>129592910i get that a lot of people are filtered by the Grateful Dead and that's ok
frank zappa fucking sucks does he
>>129592937I think he means the Christagu reviews
>>129591596https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw4DA4E-Hw0Oh joy, meta songs. I agree it is indeed over for this kind of music.
this album is terrible
>>129586319Title cut was the only success Lieber and Stoller ever had trying to be "adult" songwriters.
And so it begins.
I don’t know how to feel about this one…
The plus is because Peter Townshend likes it. This can also be said of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Beware the forthcoming hype--this is ersatz shit. D+
>>129593346i remember some retard said the cover art was supposed to be Richard Nixon when it's a self-portrait of the cover artist, who died mere months after the album came out.
>>129586029>>129587484These boys have really come into themselves. Their old singles were good but these records are outta sight>>129586182Wow The Beatles have suddenly gotten really great in the past 2 years. No more teenyboppers. I bet they aren't actually gonna break up though>>129586308Holy fucking shit this is the greatest record I've ever listened to. These cats can fucking play>>129586589I guess Aftermath is always gonna be the only time the stones broke out of just being a singles band
I put this record on a couple of months ago, noted that the famous second-rate English blues band was mixing easy ballads and Latin rhythms with the hard stuff, and forgot about it. Much, much later I tried again. Well, it's an odd amalgam but very good. Recommended to the curious. B+
Album cover kind of doesn't make sense when you realize the girl was originally supposed to be nude.
>>129593357The Beatles been teenybopper free since Revolver, man. Tomorrow Never Knows is too far out for them
My prejudice against Stewart (who used to be Jeff Beck's singer) was so strong that I would never have really listened to this without the rave notices in Fusion and Rolling Stone. I'm still not quite convinced. But the music is excellent instrumentally, and Stewart's singing and composing mostly superb. Maybe it was all Jeff's fault. A-
shame he actually had a good voice before he chewed his throat up from coke abuse
This is the only comedy record (except for Tuli Kupferberg's Pop Poems) that I can imagine myself buying. Unlike Firesign's puerile first album, this is close to a work of genius, great high or straight but especially high. Listen to the Nick Danger side first; the title side is so far out it lacks credibility alone. A+
>>129593355I did not know that. Interesting
>>129586677it's honestly not as bad as he makes it out to be
There ought to be hundreds of groups like this one--hard, competent, slightly commercial--but there probably aren't more than 20. This is not especially original, but it's good, and I'll bet they're a stone happy gas live. B
>>129586554yeah David's singing on LTG is pretty good even if it's his usual "complain that The Man is persecuting me" shit
