ITT: /mu/ in 1968
>>130697019far out, man
HEY, HEY, LBJ. HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY?
when's Dylan ever gonna make a song about Vietnam? he's been slacking lately.
>>130697019>went to see The Second International Fuzzburry Moondrop Company at the fillmore>oh cool free punch>mfw im a glass of orange juice
>>130697088should have known better that that would happen, man. that Owlsley juice is powerful stuff.
And I say rock has too much jamming these days and Hendrix is a psychedelic Step 'N Fetchit. Don't you guys agree that "Wooly Bully" was the final word in rock and it's all been down from there?
>>130697111i had worse happen to me at a Jefferson Airplane gig. my buddy turned into Richard Nixon, sprouted a winged toaster out of his head, and flew away.
What the fuck is this? I thought Nico was blonde! Why is she not with the Velvet Underground? This is horseshit.
>>130697155Nuts to you, Bob. Let's just hope he doesn't make good on his talk about starting a monthly music review column like he's been saying lately.
>>130697019SELLOUT
RIP Bobby Kennedy. You beautiful soul, you were our last hope to stop Nixon or Humphrey from winning. ;_;
THERE MUST BE SOME KINDA WAY OUTTA HERE
>>130697342>THERE MUST BE SOME KINDA WAY OUTTA HERETell me about it.
>>130697315Aka totally dumb thing she won't do again at next year's Oscars.
>>130697019HAPPENING
>>130697326that would look great on the shelf next to your Monkees and 1910 Fruitgum Company albums
>>130697439fuck, now i can't walk downtown without POCs spitting at me and threatening to waste all crackers
No war! Hell no, we won't go! Let's levitate the Pentagon, man!
>>130697419Hey 'Retha, you oughta cover "The Weight" sometime. You'd probably BTFO Jackie's version, innit?
dude acid
They temporarily make the mistake of turning into 1910 Fruitgum Company.
>>130697326Heh heh, any tall handsome fellas in the San Francisco area really dig this band? Perhaps we can come over to my place and listen to it with the lights off, ha ha. I'm a man btw
>>130697470Yeah nice try, Mr. FBI man.
This thread sucks, OP and everyone else who's contributed should be ashamed.
IT'S GETTIN' NEAR DAWN
Damn, they've still got it!
Agggh, I'm getting divorced for the second time, I'm turning 40, and my friend RFK is dead. Someone help me! I'm losing all my marbles!
>>130697326This isn't a board for 11 year olds and their music, kiddo.
WHEN LIGHTS CLOSE THEIR TIRED EYES
>>130697019wait... hippie bad?
>>130697621>"I was given an acetate of Big Pink back in England and it shook me to the core">"I was in Cream at the time with already the notion that it wasn't going in the right direction, and I thought, well this is what it is. I knew who Robbie Robertson was but I didn't realize that was their group. I thought they just appeared. I thought they were all from the Mississippi Delta."
>>130697019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRMpoUc6Kuc
HEY JUDE, DON'T BE AFRAID
>>130697657they smell bad and think getting stoned and abandoning showering will somehow change the world
>>130697679Nice kiddie nursery rhyme btw.
>>130697688You're such a square, man
George Wallace has my vote.
If the Beatles break up, I will shoot myself in the chest in front of my wife and kids. But that won't happen.
omg girls do you think the beatles are going to break up? they're soooo cute don't do ittttttt
>>130697593>Facing increasing psychological issues after separating from Ferrer a second time, her career in decline as was the case for most singers of her generation, and addicted to prescription pills, Clooney was in the Ambassador Hotel on June 4, 1968, not far from where her friend Robert Kennedy, whom she had campaigned for, was assassinated. A few weeks later, the veteran singer was giving a performance in Las Vegas when she suffered a mental breakdown onstage and began shouting obscenities at the audience. Clooney was committed to mental health care for the next several years.[3]
>>130697653go to Hell, war criminal
>>130697662who still cares about the Beach Boys in '68? they were ok back 5 years ago but nobody wants that cutesy slop anymore.
>>130697445>>130697554>>130697636He didn't post the Rolling Stones
So is this thread another bot spamming albums from 1968?
>>130697759these guys are never gonna sell out man
>>130697820Another band flogged to death by their label and just didn't have the material for like 5 albums in two years.
Dammit. Bobby, you could have prevented this. If only things had gone different...
>>130697537That tune's on Jerry's bucket list. I reckon we can take that white girl to school soon's we find the time to do it.
>>130697840Dick Gregory sholuld've won
>>130697872Hopefully his and Ertegun's to-do list also doesn't include getting the Yardbirds guitarist and ruining rock forever with a bunch of shitty pedophile buttblues.
>>130697948This is also a boyband, just a slightly edgier one than the Buttles.
>>130697840he'd have lost anyway if he lived because unwashed hippies don't actually vote
boy, critics hated him
I just bought the new white cover Beatles album for my 12 yo niece for her birthday, she loves it.
>>130698064It wasn't funny all the other times you posted it, schizo.
>>130697593I hear ya, Rosie. Music today is for the birds. This stuff my daughters are bumping...ah, fuck I'm done with this game. Also my husband, much like yours, skipped town because I'm not bringing in the bacon anymore. See you guys!
And so...
Four of 'em, if you can consider Motown LPs "albums"
>>130697593Oh great, the Mitch Miller schizo
Me (23) and my girlfriend (16) went to see Pink Floyd last night and there was a new guy with the band. I suppose he's replacing Syd for a while.
>>130698142Don't come back any time, Tezza. Also I'm sure the Monkees LP on your kids' shelf is of far more depth and content than your own music ever was.
>>130697936i forgot they'd already broken up by this point
>>130697593
>>130698202Can you talk about something else already?
>>130698239Yes that would be an accurate description of her life at this point.
>>130698228>>130697820I literally have no idea which album "Born To Be Wild" was even on and I'm too lazy to look it up.
>>130698251>Can you talk about something else already?Ok so we abused that boyband meme a few times too many in here.
The Possum keeps the product coming with four LPs in '68, even though it's a stretch to call cuntree LPs that.
>>130698282True...
>>130698272The first album and I know nobody has ever heard any other Steppenwolf songs.
Another perennial critic pinata, these guys.
>>130698272that song invented buttrock anyway, so...
>>130698373No, pretty sure buttrock is applied to post-grunge bands whose singers sound like Eddie Vedder
>>130698373did you expect anything good to come from leafs anyway?
>>130698326because the one before this is their only good album
>>130698318magic carpet ride gets played all the time on classic rock radio
>>130698393Their frontman is American, which coincidentally happens to be the bands one principle member anyways
>>130698393>did you expect anything good to come from leafs anyway?Nope.
This man will be exposed as a pedophile someday. For now he's just a nuisance on AM.
as you might know, BB's transformative year when white hippies discover him.
...it goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuhsSnQagAs
The first encounter.
>>130698546>GET OFF THE STAGE YA DAMNED LONGHAIRS
>>130698577and it turns out in time that Roger McGuinn is a Republican-voting chud and has some slightly entertaining (according to him) exchanges with David Crosby about polly ticks
>>130698500Unfortunately he'll also never make great music again after this point once he's rich and doesn't have to toil in seedy black juke joints to afford gas money anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XGIGJ5Qu9o
>>130698577Frank might agree on that.
>>130698568She got better. The second album had more punch to it.
>>130698568>60s Joanna Newsom
Alright, now that Nixon won can't wait to bust some hippie skulls in two months.
>>130698831the best 60s rock contractual obligation album
>>130698831Stills really came into his own on this one. He was already mapping out the CSNY sound here.
>>130698799Too bad their records were always low budget quickies and seemed that they were just advertisements for their live shows they put no real effort into.
>>130697803It and Roots are good albums if only anyone still cared about him or the Everlys anymore.
>>130698893Best kiddie music of the year next to The White Album. Your 5th grader's gonna love it.
>>130698831also i just realized this comes from the song called merry go round here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qysWprQrfiU&list=RDqysWprQrfiU&start_radio=1
>>130698908You’re bits boring
The Supremes' second LP of '68 is this ill-conceived gambit at peeling off the "adult" music audience that ended up on the cutout bin in two months.
>>130698466eh, i never liked "Summertime Blues" anyway for as heavy as the guitar hook is there
>>130698962And they didn't have to pay Eddie Cochrane any royalties because he's kind of...dead.
>>130698974until Sabbath they were pretty much the heaviest dudes in rock, nobody else could lay down those riffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVa2xV6G6A
>>130697948i wonder what they're ever gonna do if the Beatles break up and they don't have them to rip off anymore? probably play the same two riffs every night for the rest of their lives.
Now listen here, lady. This joke (at least I assume it was a joke anyway) got stale about 12 albums ago. You and hubby need to stop now, I mean it.
>>130699125Right before "that" album comes out which we shall not discuss.
Jimbo's attempted initial start, derailed by smack.
Ughh. The good part being that hubby, by and far the much more sinister of the pair, did not put an album out this year.
Part 3. Together at Last.
There is no Hollies album out this year.
>>130699317shit
>>130699330Cuckgau also denounced Arthur Brown iirc.
I'll just go out on a limb and say it's their best 60s album
>>130699339hate to agree with him.
>>130699260they were busy starring in a Broadway musical that flopped this year is probably why. next year is a massive flood of Steve and Eydie product probably stockpiled stuff the record label all released at once.
Part 4
>>130699349this band had bob dylan syndrome. they could write good pop songs but their annoying voices ruin them.
>George Harrison travels to Haight-Ashbury to see what the fuss is about>all he gets is a bunch of unwashed drug addict teen runaways wandering around with no place to go
>>130697019shouldve put dark magic on this bitchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqEBLhx7Xc&list=RDyVqEBLhx7Xc&start_radio=1
>>130697829rock was still such a new thing in '68 that record labels hadn't yet figured out how to move away from the old business model where singers were interpreters so you could have them crank out assembly line albums ala Sinatra or Steve Lawrence. this didn't work when the band wrote their own material and lacked the ability to fill out three albums a year. i think by the early 70s they had mostly gotten things down to a relatively ironed out one LP a year.
the actual first prog album
Three of them this year and time to pick up the slack now that Coltrane is gone.
>>130698672Welp, thank God his crotch spawn didn't put any albums out this year.
>>130698672After this album, Warners pretty much gave up trying to squeeze another Strangers in the Night or Something Stupid out of Frank and just let him be himself again.
>>130699473i'm sure she'll give us many more years of great music ahead
Yep yep yep.
With another four LPs, MGM still not giving up on wringing every last cent they can out of her.
>>130699459wrong. at least it has 1 good song
The two prison albums belie the fact that the only studio material Cash put out in 68-69 were a pair of gospel albums.
The inexplicable late 60s resurrection of these fossils and Frankie Laine.
>>130697300>Why is she not with the Velvet UndergroundBecause they suck, they are just pretentious Warhol shit, will be forgotten in a decade
>>130697019i sure do love elevated rock music
>>130697872hopefully not after Wexler decides British women cutting a soul album is a good idea
Goddamn Gooks.
Six of them this year.
This gave the old journeywoman her final Billboard appearances with the title cut and "Little Green Apples."
>go down to the antiwar protest on campus>some long haired dude with love beads walks up to me and says "Death to pigs! Bring it all down! Hey man, wanna buy some dope?"
>>130702141HATE CRIME!!!
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTIONWELL YOU KNOW, WE ALL WANNA CHANGE THE WORLD
>>130702141and that, children, inspired "Come Together."
Andy, no!
Why are we allowing this bot to spam?
>>130702500that cover is kinda dum
don't think anyone disputes how bad Chuck's Mercury run was
>>130699396what did he honestly expect to find there anyway?
>>130702202it's so charming when a band for 5th graders does a political song
Floyd before they got good and were just ambient dope background music.
>>130699221boy he loves his suspenders, doesn't he?
>>130697326everyone forgets that the album version of "Revolution" was totally different from the singles one they all know
>>130698142Teresa put out two singles on SSS Records in '68 (who?) before fucking off for a while. This is presumably moping about her divorce, one of the few adult/self-aware songs she ever made.
>>130702664That's some very interesting facts about a band for 11 year old girls.
>>130702232After a while these albums just became "Andy Williams sings everybody else's greatest hits".
>>130702760tbqh his artistic heyday was around the same time Connie Francis was at her peak and he was already kind of a has-been by the late 60s
It's an answer to that Time Magazine "Is God Dead?" cover.
>wincing at the thought of what Cuckgau writes about Hallelujah next year
>>130702683Leave the divorce songs to the professionals who sing them for a living.
>>130702805ya dig?
>>130702630I miss Syd - Kevin Ayers
>>130702865>>130702805thank you for reminding me how much i always hated country and how 75% of its songs are about cheating or being cheated on
>>130702690And what’s a band for grown ups? Or are you not going to reply like a coward?
>>130702630>Floyd before they got good and were just ambient dope background musict. Roger
>>130702891That's why I love country
>>130702795What did he say? Or should I not ask?
As with all of their post-66 albums it's just Mark+the Wrecking Crew and the actual band doesn't play on it.
This guy, man, this fucking guy.
>>130702785WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US?
>>130702500as he said, the year bluesmen firmly transitioned to the white longhair audience
>>130703067I don't think that was a Loretta Lynn song.
Yup yup yup.
>>130703156this has a recycled cut (track 3) from 1961, a bit of an odd choice as that was during James's wilderness years
I'd have denounced Arthur Brown too tbqh.
>>130699328the spoken word cut goes on a little longer than it needed to tbqh
Tony about to learn that Clive Davis is a worse slavemaster than Mitch Miller was.
Still making the same music he did six years ago with nearly no artistic progression.
>>130699539a children's album, singing to the children she will never have
What an odd pairing.
>>130703531Wonder if the Beatles will cover this since it would fit their target audience?
Say, this is keen!
>>130703589the nurse is due in about 15 minutes to bring your your anti-psychotic meds, anon
The last track is a bit my soggy knees though, innit?
>>130703589Get a life
Another singer on Cuckgau's hate list for some reason.
>>130703758not R&B enough
>>130698142>Also my husband, much like yours, skipped town becauseto be honest if i was in a house with four girls all attaining puberty at once i would also likely fuck off from there before i go insane. that sounds nightmarish.
>>130703809True that. Any black singer that's too showtune/crooner got on his enemies listl.
F
>>130703877And that, folks, is why Uncle Perry made a little tune called "Father of Girls."
One year wonder.
>>130703758He thought any black singer who didn't sing in ebonics, grunt and moan like a sex maniac or write songs about killing whitey was a sellout porch monkey.
"Well, Kay, what's your take on music today? Though I'm not sure that Doors or whatever you call that stuff album my nephew had on the other day was 'music.'""What do I think of it? Well...I'll just say I liked things better in '49 than now and we're on the radio so not gonna say what I really think."
>>130704078Cool it with the racism, dude
>>130703758Including Nancy Wilson, Sammy Davis Jr., Della Reese, Donny Hathaway, Carmen McRae, Lou Rawls, and Sarah Vaughan.
Just Ray doing Ray stuff.
>>130704078>or write songs about killing whiteyi dunno, he wasn't that big on the O'Jays doing black power songs
>>130704146He also tended to be dismissive of "let's all just get along" songs and commended bands like Funkadelic for their black power themes.
One of three this year.
>>130705168Queen 100% stole the bassline of this song fro Another One Bites the Dust.
WHERE THE FUCK IS BOB DYLAN?!
>>130705168Always a decent B-tier soul singer mostly remembered for the cheese bomb he unleashed on the top 10 many years later.
>>130705248wish i knew, man. time he says something about Vietnam already.
>>130705229There must be a Hall & Oates B-side somewhere that also consists of a stolen Johnnie Taylor song.
>>130697019I just watched some band called The Jackson 5 perform at the local theatre.That kid has so much potential.
Fuck off, Pat.
The ultimate doo-wop-turned-soul journeymen whom we met in the 1955 thread last week and we meet them again here. Give them points for hanging in there, especially when they had many years of nearly no success or sales.
And so it all began.
>>130703059i am certain that everything he ever recorded was made just so he could impress underage groupies in LA. "see honey im a wild rock star ive got records in the stores". it certainly sounds like it & knowing his character its a guarantee.
>>130701861my uncle owns a record store and theyve been sitting in the cutout bins for 5 cents each for months. nobody wants this crap. weve been using it for kindling
>>130705660>my uncle owns a record store and theyve been sitting in the cutout bins for 5 cents each for months. nobody wants this crap. weve been using it for kindling>>130705332Could also apply to this one.
>>130705608i like this one, it's such a weird debut and has a sound neil really never explored again. everybody knows this is nowhere sounds like a proper debut, not whatever this is
Can't do the time, don't do the crime. RIP, pal.
>>130705608funny how his first album cover was the most high effort. IG it must have been hard to take the pic for on the beach.
Nobody can roar like Pickett.
How do you do fellow kids?
The album this was on came out in '69 but the single was released October '68, so...
James's tribute album to LWJ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJdyQ2lBV8
>>130705832This absolute madman was dropping a new record practically every month at a time when you actually had to buy them. I don't know how fans kept up.
>>130697593Rosie, you should have known better than to marry a Latin bvll since marital fidelity is not in their vocabulary.
>>130705859>>130705832Some of these were filler/contractual obligation, often instrumental-only albums.
>>130705702poor guy is mostly just remembered because some old white woman stole one of his songs
Philadelphia's answer to Tony Bennett has been a reliable B-tier crooner since the early '50s, but his greatest success is still some years off.
Another new face we will see much more.
>>130705832and he put out a Christmas album just for kicks
What's that you say, Joanie? War bad?
>>130705810most don't know he's been recording since 1961, much as most don't know Jackie DeShannon has been recording since 1956
The second JT album.
>>130705859The Hardest Working Man In Show Business.
>>130705684atleast hes not a niggerloving homosexual communist like those hippies
>>130706533
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vt0YrZJ7U
>>130702683at least she didn't end up in mental prison like Clooney
>280 repliesis this the longest /mu/ in X year thread we've ever done?
>>1307069751968 was a very big year of music with much to talk about.
>>130702013Little Green Apples was a standard that lots of people recorded back then, most of them people whose musical stock in '68 was a lot higher than hers.
>>130706848classic Etta laying down the jamshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rbWGi1m22U
Miss Five Head. Of course this isn't her _famous_ album we all know from Goodwill bins, that will come later.
>>130707133That is not a Four Seasons cover, even though it looks like it.
