ITT: /mu/ in 1969
>>130356502Another bot thread
>>130356502“Wehres my hath güün?”
this new band led zeppelin came in fucking hard with the first lp, what a banger Beatles sound old as hell compared
I'm so sick of this mumbling faggot.
I'm so god damn sick of hearing SUGAR SUGAR HONEY HONEY
dude acid
>>130356562https://youtu.be/L1zQDMizcKw?si=AvWrzq15o5RrQSP1
why did Bobby Kennedy have to die? instead we got N*xon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvW8Z7kiws&list=PLdF2A7b4Ih0zY42-hstal6JpYMdSlP6Bathese guys have competletly rewrote the template of modern music
Thinking about running for Sheriff of Aspen
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+
>>130356741let's round up them dirty unwashed hippies and run them out of town the next time we get here
>Hey man you can have my song man I don't care, just don't change the lyrics!>Of course Charlie >I mean it man, these lyrics are important to me-it's my art dig. >Sure, sure>Do whatever else you want man, just leave the lyrics as they are>You have our word Charlie....Alright he's gone, change the lyrics and add fucking sleighbells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JacmCO7GDR4&list=RDJacmCO7GDR4&start_radio=1
Betcha didn't know the Sabbath version was a coverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iZjuNojKIg
>>130356758You fool, those will be my voters! I bet you're one of the greed head swines that I'll be pushing out
>>130356758Thank God Nixon's in there and backs our efforts to crack hippie skulls.
I'm so sick of this guy. Why can't he just fuck off for good?
This group is getting attention apparently because they play faster than Iron Butterfly. 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-
>>130356742>eh...it's an ok album i guess, also read this other critic for an actual opinion on it
Arguably one of the last hits of the garage rock era.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uyBjbcVym4
need a lift to that Woodstock thing next week. seems interesting.
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
>>130356787He's a crook.
>>130356894>openly admits to accepting a bribe>everyone forgives him because it was a HECKIN CUTE PUPPERINOWe are so fucked as a country
>>130356916Worse what that Hubert Humphry pig. Anyone with a brain would've voted for Dick Gregory.
>>130356845>Rated by request, I've written elsewhere that this album is perfect but that is not necessarily a compliment.what does any of this even mean?
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+
A puzzler--no matter how many times I listen I can't connect. Every time Grace Slick lilts out the phrase "Up against the wall, motherfuckers!" (something 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
>album is so weird that it doesn't get released
hiring a fucking biker gang for security--genius move, man.
Shame, he could actually sing pretty good before trashing his voice with coke.
>>130357206The Nile Song disproves those who said they only make stoner nursery rhymes and can't actually rock.
>>130356845Not a fan of Suite Judy Blue Eyes. Meh.
>>130357012>Carmela! Would you please shut The Doors!
>>130357012is he being electrocuted or having an orgasm?
>>130357356tf is this noise? these guys blow, man. rock peaked two years ago and it's been downhill since then.
Just fucking stop already, Steve. This wasn't funny 10 years ago or 15 years ago for that matter.
>>130357435would look great on the shelf next to your 1910 Fruitgum Company and Monkees albums
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
>>130357435my teenage daughter loves this album!
Lieber and Stoller's only success as adult songwriters, the rest of their attempts fell flat.
>>130357536>>130357687Haters
Another day, another Reprise Sinatra pop album with a hit he didn't want to record.
>>130357772Watertown mogs
I've treasured several BB King lps over the past year including Live at Cook County and Live at the Regal, astute management has managed to transform him into the major star he should have been ten years ago, and I hope he makes a million dollars, but his music is not improving. There is no reason why someone as sweet-voiced as BB shouldn't cut his blues with ballads but his sensibilities betray him when he tries to get tasty and he all too often leans into schmaltz. This is a good lp, especially on the first side. But Live at the Regal is so much better. B
>>130357831but that's not until next year
>>130357435Where can they go from here?
>>130357840yeah he lost it once his audience switched to white hippies. what about it?
>>130357865Technically recorded in 1969
Ah, shaddup.
Doo-doo to you, Frank. If I want movie music I'll listen to Wonderwall. C
Much worse 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
>>130357657>>130357356the beginning of the worst band of all time
The most overrated '69 album.
>>130358240We are so fucking back
>>130358277Funny that American critics only started giving Dusty her due after she came to their turf and virtue signaled her inferiority and submission by under-singing on an “authentic” American soul album.
>>130358277why did critics dicksuck this thing so much? i've never understood it.
>>130356845>Only David Crosby's vocal on "Long Time Gone" saves it from a special castrati awardUnsurprisingly it's yet another Crosby song about The Man holding him back.
And that's his "cred" album for the year, continuing the usual Reprise pattern.
>>130358277why go for a scene tourist when you have the authentic home-grown version anyway?
>>130357882there's only one direction they can go
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-
BUT WHAT'S PUZZLING YOU IS THE NATURE OF MY GAME
Going to Canada for the next three years. See ya.
Stupid-rock at its best--the side of the Velvets John Cale never developed. B
>>130358558Don’t post that bubblegum trash here
>>130358601That's not a nice thing to say about the Raiders just because they go on Dick Clark and the covers of teen magazines.
Pat's '69 folk rock album which is not as bad as it could have been.
>>130358541the guitar on Let Me is cool but it's just studio cats and Mark Lindsay. Paul didn't even play on the records by this point.
Kino
>>130358510>Sorry guys, you're Canadian which makes you British by proxy. No B+ for you.
man i am so high right now
>>130358588>The Stooges initially recorded five songs which comprised the majority of their live setlists at the time, but were surprised when Elektra executives told them they couldn't release a five song album. Ron Asheton assured them that the band had additional material, which was untrue. They quickly convened and in a few hours managed to work out four more tracks to fill out the album.[8]
>>130358722You can get out of Perdition if you're like the Stones or Dusty Springfield and LARP as a black person from Louisiana though.
>>130358334Eh, by this point the label had mostly given up on trying to squeeze another big hit out of Frank and just left him to his own interests. He did Watertown and a second Jobim album immediately after this.
>third LP of the y...Alright, see this, shit Steve? Stop it this instant.
SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE MOVES MEATTRACTS ME LIKE NO OTHER LOVERSOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE WOOS ME
>>130358845My 11 year old cousin loves that song.
Contains another bummer experiment, some stereo mystery, but otherwise their best--melodic, literate, compellingly sung; Paul Williams loves it. A
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
*sigh*
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-
An excellent comeback from two bad albums, marred only by the lyrics. John Kay's lyrics have always been awkward and preachy, in a fairly endearing way, but he had the sense to keep them fuzzed behind, so that they had to be discovered. This time he is out front with the protest, and sometimes the result is very good protest music instead of something better. B+
I'm sure that album cover made sense while the artist was high.
>>130358989>four albums in 18 monthsYeah they were all used up by then
>>130358541they made the mistake of turning into 1910 Fruitgum Company last year so they quickly did a 180 and heavied it up again
>>130358707The first glimpses of smile
This group's fans think it's a great album. I'm not a fan of the group. I think it's an adequate album. B-
Come the fuck on. We were not made for this.
>>130359128Absolutely cutting music journalism there.
>>130359180Is that McCartney on the last track?
Four of them this year.
>>130359128You really showed them, Bob.
>>130359180>Some people call me the space cowboyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOypE0DHeJc
>>130359159>>130358806>>130357905Pretty sure these are intended as free giveaways you get at the gas station with enough green stamps. Can't imagine what else they could possibly be for.
>>130359209if it's any comfort, he made five albums last year
and that's where it all began
The usual sweet hard-rock--pleasant and soulful enough. B
>>130359128Too British. They need to do more BB King impersonations to be accepted.
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 been responsible for Rolling Stone's suggestion that it 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
>>130356502the great thing about the 60s was there is absolutely no rap anywhere
This is on the charts. Get it off. D
>>130356805Mark Farner only had a good tone on the first three albums after that he turned into buttrock guitar.
>>130357435the first Zeppelin album made the Beatles look like yesterday's news
Just want to register my unreconstructed opposition to the methedrine school of American music. A lot of noise. C-
>>130356805This one gave Black Sabbath an album name (Sabbath opened for Grand Funk on their first US tour and were huge fans of them)
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
>>130359159Between the two of them these chucklefucks put out a grand total of 8 albums this year.>>130359236I believe it.
when's Dylan ever gonna write any songs about Vietnam? he's really slacking lately.
>>130359662>>130358215i sometimes forget that "The Seeker" was a standalone single and not on an album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhx40WNsREHow many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?
It's so easy to forget what a genius he still is. No balladeering here, no Beatle-mongering, nothing but hard-bopping Ray Charles soul. Yeah. A
One experimental cut which hasn't made it for me yet, otherwise fantastic. A
>>130356502bands I should see before they send my ass to Nam?
>>130359998>country hit about cheating or being cheated onThat was a totally original concept I'd never expect.
>>130359813what's the experimental cut he's talking about?
The plus is because Peter Townshend likes it. Beware the forthcoming hype--this is ersatz shit. D+
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-
Rod McKuen out of Ray Conniff with assists by Hugo Montenegro and Bob Crewe. Ugh. D-
>>130357435all the geriatric crooner people loved Something and covered it
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-
>>130360235George finally got rid of the crew cut
>>130359729i hate this song because it's disturbingly catchy
>>130360298It’s a good song
>>130360298it's based on a strong vocal melody so was easily accessible to Sinatra and friends
>>130360524Unlike Oh! Darling
>>130360164too bad really, she's only 24 here and sounds closer to 54
>>130360312Bread at least were harmless, not like the Eagles aka that other studio supergroup.
Connie's going-away party. It's been quite a run even though much darker days lay ahead.
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+
>>130360576https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diSK0dbotXIthis song means what it means
>>130360576>>130360312it was a thing in the 60s...there were two kinds of album covers and they were designed to tell you what was cool and what was for 40 year old housewives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESNf0TMt80you never had those super-raw guitar tones on albums again after the late 60s, the industry quickly figured out how to process the fuck out of everything
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
>>130360837>track 5Women who get into astrology and psychicshit are dum, we know, Joni.
>>130361421>I swear I didn't know that dress was see-through, honest!
>>130358277>men cant appreciate vocals episode
>>130361421Poor Babs. She was such a total born in the wrong generation kid and wished she could be born in 1914 instead of 1942 and be a singer in the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
See you at Woodstock bitches
>>130363245You won’t be seeing me at one of those filthy hippie orgies, that’s for sure.
How do you do fellow kids?
Only Euros care about Roy by now.
>>130363306>You won’t be seeing me out of the house let alone mom's basement, that’s for sure.ftfy
>>130359159https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnfvprzQM1wEydie's last charting hit. Please just go away already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeaBC48dUMMLloyd Price, like Steve Lawrence, was a gnarled survivor whose recording career extends back to pre-Elvis days. His music was infinitely cooler than anything Steve could ever conceive of, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAE9yTZZd0Mormons have never ever made any good music and these guys were a decade-long cancer on the Billboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncQF01qYC_UAnd then there's Jewish Lettermen, although they have a better beat at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqp92nt9f6YSurvivors of the doo-wop era enter their 11th year of recording and haven't updated their sound a fig the whole time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9s7xOLEM1QAnother name in R&B from way back lives on.
>>130358707nobody except Europeans still cared about the Beach Boys at this point
This lp is so overstated 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+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GvJKJbpPYkNobody could roar like this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-M7X8xglEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlc4trtPJmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltQqYLqYbiw
>>130358796He had four charting hits in '69 including one of his most well-known songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX8iJ5pvsBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqc_EhmL8-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kgM5qGFd6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L6xlffjEP8
>>130370090Cuckgau would hate this song so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz4hnvi4gBcWait, Bobby, what do you mean by "the little girl I married"?
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-
>>130357435What a nice album.I hope some drugged up hippie and his screeching banshee wife don’t break them up.
>>130370146>Initially I distrusted Rod Stewart>but some of my critic buddies at RSM decided for me that he is in fact tasteful
>>130370146it's sad what happened to Rod after 73 when he started pandering to trailer trash women
>>130370957When you've been on the road too long eventually you don't know how to write anything except about the rock star lifestyle.
CBS makes Babs do rock covers instead of showtune goo. Doesn't really work.
Still the best album of all time.
>>130371254My BF (we're illegally gay in 1969) agrees!
>>130371411It's the year of the Stonewall Riots. Change is a-comin'.
>>130371006this was because they wanted her to put out something that appealed to kids instead of their parents. her rock/pop attempts were okay but clearly not up to her showtune/standards stuff.
>>130371434God bless ya, Tony. Even your sellouts are tasteful.
>>130371443I get the feeling that Streisand particularly in her 20s was the boomer equivalent of those chicks like Samantha Fish who play boomer buttblues for boomers, only here it was the novelty of a young chick doing standards shit for the 50 year olds of that time.
>>130371487Believe it or not, not every 20something in the 60s was intensely interested in the latest rock music.
>>130371434next year comes the total humiliation he'll have to endure. you'll see the next time we do a /mu/ in 1970 thread.
>>130371487that's kind of selling things short. actually her gimmick in a sense was that she did more obscure standards most people hadn't heard of instead putting out recording #328900303 of "Stormy Weather" or "The Things We Did Last Summer."
>>130371524Also she was a broadway actress, not really a nightclub crooner, so she had a different sensibility about it.
>>130367818one good part about 1969 is that Brewer took a hiatus from recording for a couple of years in the late 60s-early 70s so we don't have to post her Down's Syndrome-tier albums in here. unfortunately there is no escape from Steve Lawrence until him and wifey's careers finally wind down in the 70s.
>>130371524>or "The Things We Did Last Summer."There's a million versions but they all just copy Frank Sinatra's because I guess everyone was so in awe of him that nobody wanted to change things up. The only one that really has its own sound was Shelly Fabares's version. As for "Stormy Weather", well, nobody ever beat the Ethel Waters version.
>>130371502we know. that's where those dudes like Bobby Goldsboro came in. they were clearly Sinatra rather than Little Richard enthusiasts.
>>130371578>one good part about 1969 is that Brewer took a hiatus from recording for a couple of years in the late 60s-early 70sNext to I guess obviously being filtered by current music developments, she had some personal stuff going on as she divorced her husband around that time. At least she didn't end up in a straitjacket on Thorazine like happened to Rosemary Clooney during this time period.
>>130370133Oh boy, if you know about Goldsboro's later life misadventures you'd really be creeped out by that song.
Hey man, who’s coming with this long-haired flower child to Woodstock?
>>130368515one of his most underrated singles
hey guys anybody listen to trout mask replica yet?
>>130372676Me and my friends were listening to it in my folks basement, it made my buddy trip balls, he was freaking out and making too much noise so we had to lock him in the bathroom. Took him like an hour to calm down man, I broke the record and set that crap in the trash. Don't listen to it on acid, better yet, don't listen to it all together.
GUYS... I heard the Beatles are about to break up.. is it real?
I find it impossible to give this record an A because it is just too weird. But I'd like to. Very great played at high volume when you're feeling shitty, because you'll never feel as shitty as this record. B+
The inexplicable late '60s resurrection of this geezer, who wasn't a kid when he started.
So anybody know where I can get some acid? I want to buy drugs.
>>130356986Xgau nonsense. Don't bother trying to decipher it
>>130375967Laine first recorded in 1944, he was in his 30s then. Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Perry Como have him well beat in length of recording career though, Ella is in her 34th year as a recording artist in '69.
>>130375996Were glowies actually doing God's work by getting people freshly out of psychedelic experiences and putting them in a harsh contrasting environment to force them into enlightenment?
