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The 40th anniversary of the 1st Atlanta Pop Festival earlier this month got me all nostalgic for the music I was enjoying that summer. As I assembled a playlist on i-tunes, it struck me that 1969 was something of a watershed year for popular music. Some of the albums released that year were:
Led Zeppelin/first 2 albums
Stand/Sly and the Family Stone
Bayou Country/Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tommy/The Who
Live Dead/Grateful Dead
With a Little Help From My Friends/Joe Cocker
Chicago Transit Authority/1st album
Allman brothers Band/1st album
Let it Bleed/The Rolling Stones
Uncle Meat/The Mothers of Invention
Abbey Road/The Beatles
Goodbye/Cream
The Soft Parade/The Doors
Nashville Skyline/Bob Dylan
Beck-Ola/Jeff Beck
Johnny Winter,2nd Winter, The Progressive Blues Experiment/Johnny Winter
Clear/Spirit
The Meters/1st album
Volunteers/Jefferson Airplane
Fathers and Sons/Muddy Waters
The Band/2nd album
Bridge Over Troubled Waters/Simon and Garfunkel
Love,Peace, and Happiness/The Chambers Brothers
Happy Trails/Quicksilver Messenger Service
Assume you can pick only one of those. Brutal, I know; many of them are still among my all-time favorites. But if it comes down to only one, after much deliberation, I've still gotta go with...
Abbey Road
Can't pick just one. 'Abbey Road' is the obvious pick if I hadn't heard it a thousand times. Maybe 'Let it Bleed'...well we all need someone we can lean on....The last Brian Jones album too, but no, can't pick one. Would be a satisfying desert island list for me!
One that stuck out (in a good way) to me was 'Clear'. Love that disc, still play it from time to time. Forerunner to the quintessential '12 Dreams' album, Spirit's "Abbey Road/DSOTM". Love the tune off of 'Clear'- So Little Time to Fly. So happy to have seen them play several times, even got to meet Randy & Ed once. RIP Randy!
Staxsun
07-13-2009, 12:33 PM
Lots of great albums that year. Just a few more that weren't on that list:
Aoxomoxoa
Ball
Dusty in Memphis
The **** of the Mothers
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Hot Buttered Soul
Hot Rats
Allman Brothers Band
The Booker T. Set
Canned Wheat
In the Court of the Crimson King
Memphis Underground
Monster
It's a Beautiful Day
Rock & Roll
Space Oddity
There are a whole lot more great ones, too.
Can't pick just one. 'Abbey Road' is the obvious pick if I hadn't heard it a thousand times. Maybe 'Let it Bleed'...well we all need someone we can lean on....The last Brian Jones album too, but no, can't pick one. Would be a satisfying desert island list for me!
One that stuck out (in a good way) to me was 'Clear'. Love that disc, still play it from time to time. Forerunner to the quintessential '12 Dreams' album, Spirit's "Abbey Road/DSOTM". Love the tune off of 'Clear'- So Little Time to Fly. So happy to have seen them play several times, even got to meet Randy & Ed once. RIP Randy!
It would be a satisfying desert island list for me too. I had a similar thought about still picking Abbey Road after all these years and thousands of listens, and I challenged it with a few others, namely Let it Bleed, The Band, Zeppelin I, Bayou Country and The Allman Brothers Band, and gave at least fleeting thought to just about every other one on the list. But even after all those listens, if I had to choose only one, it would still be Abbey Road for me. Perhaps surprisingly, it is the diversity of the songs on the album that clinches it for me. Obviously the second side is the time-honored masterpiece, but even the songs on the first side have a lot of diversity among them.
The 40th anniversary of the 1st Atlanta Pop Festival earlier this month got me all nostalgic for the music I was enjoying that summer. As I assembled a playlist on i-tunes, it struck me that 1969 was something of a watershed year for popular music. Some of the albums released that year were:
Led Zeppelin/first 2 albums
Stand/Sly and the Family Stone
Bayou Country/Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tommy/The Who
Live Dead/Grateful Dead
With a Little Help From My Friends/Joe Cocker
Chicago Transit Authority/1st album
Allman brothers Band/1st album
Let it Bleed/The Rolling Stones
Uncle Meat/The Mothers of Invention
Abbey Road/The Beatles
Goodbye/Cream
The Soft Parade/The Doors
Nashville Skyline/Bob Dylan
Beck-Ola/Jeff Beck
Johnny Winter,2nd Winter, The Progressive Blues Experiment/Johnny Winter
Clear/Spirit
The Meters/1st album
Volunteers/Jefferson Airplane
Fathers and Sons/Muddy Waters
The Band/2nd album
Bridge Over Troubled Waters/Simon and Garfunkel
Love,Peace, and Happiness/The Chambers Brothers
Happy Trails/Quicksilver Messenger Service
Lots of great albums that year. Just a few more that weren't on that list:
Aoxomoxoa
Ball
Dusty in Memphis
The **** of the Mothers
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Hot Buttered Soul
Hot Rats
Allman Brothers Band
The Booker T. Set
Canned Wheat
In the Court of the Crimson King
Memphis Underground
Monster
It's a Beautiful Day
Rock & Roll
Space Oddity
There are a whole lot more great ones, too.
I believe the ABB's first album, which is on Moon's list, was the eponymous one you reference.
Staxsun
07-13-2009, 12:44 PM
I believe the ABB's first album, which is on Moon's list, was the eponymous one you reference.
Indeed. I was trying not to repeat but did anyway.
PaulC
07-13-2009, 12:49 PM
man,.. now i know why i remember enjoyin' my last year before becomin' a teenager... it really was damn cool,.. and not jus' because of those groovy pantaloons that we were sportin'....
did i miss an attempt to connect the 40th fest this year w/ the anniversary of the meters releasin' their 1st album???...
Michelino
07-13-2009, 12:52 PM
The 40th anniversary of the 1st Atlanta Pop Festival earlier this month got me all nostalgic for the music I was enjoying that summer. As I assembled a playlist on i-tunes, it struck me that 1969 was something of a watershed year for popular music. Some of the albums released that year were:
Led Zeppelin/first 2 albums
Stand/Sly and the Family Stone
Bayou Country/Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tommy/The Who
Live Dead/Grateful Dead
With a Little Help From My Friends/Joe Cocker
Chicago Transit Authority/1st album
Allman brothers Band/1st album
Let it Bleed/The Rolling Stones
Uncle Meat/The Mothers of Invention
Abbey Road/The Beatles
Goodbye/Cream
The Soft Parade/The Doors
Nashville Skyline/Bob Dylan
Beck-Ola/Jeff Beck
Johnny Winter,2nd Winter, The Progressive Blues Experiment/Johnny Winter
Clear/Spirit
The Meters/1st album
Volunteers/Jefferson Airplane
Fathers and Sons/Muddy Waters
The Band/2nd album
Bridge Over Troubled Waters/Simon and Garfunkel
Love,Peace, and Happiness/The Chambers Brothers
Happy Trails/Quicksilver Messenger Service
I am not one who dreams of being stuck in a time warp, but if I was...that would be a good list to spend some time with...but knowing the future and that Bitches Brew was just a few months away... I'd still be eager to go forward
did i miss an attempt to connect the 40th fest this year w/ the anniversary of the meters releasin' their 1st album???...
Yes: Apparently Bon Jovi teased Cissy Strut, Sophisticated Sissy and Here Comes the Meter Man repeatedly in between songs throughout his set to honor the occasion. It was very subtle though. I think most people missed it.
Michelino
07-13-2009, 12:58 PM
Yes: Apparently Bon Jovi teased Cissy Strut, Sophisticated Sissy and Here Comes the Meter Man repeatedly in between songs throughout his set to honor the occasion. It was very subtle though. I think most people missed it.
Geez...there I was in the front row and it all flew right passed me. Rock on.
revjimk
07-13-2009, 01:09 PM
Impossible call. My top 3 would be Abbey Road, Let it Bleed, The Band.
Remember how much good stuff was still on AM radio back then? How about the first reggae song ever on Top 40, "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker? Very few people, myself included, even knew what reggae was back then. Had the pleasure of seeing Desmond in some lil ole bar in Eugene, Oregon, in about 1994.
Trivia question: first ska song on American Top 40?
rev
MormonMatthew
07-13-2009, 01:39 PM
Yes: Apparently Bon Jovi teased Cissy Strut, Sophisticated Sissy and Here Comes the Meter Man repeatedly in between songs throughout his set to honor the occasion. It was very subtle though. I think most people missed it.
Not nearly as cool as the inspirational "Livin' On A Prayer" instrumental that Art and George busted out during a smoking version of "Fiyo On The Bayou"................
freebo
07-13-2009, 02:35 PM
Wow, Matthew!
Was that during the CAC gig we were at?
I thought I heard them bust out 'You Give Love a Bad Name' during 'Ain't No Use', but maybe that was someone's iPhone going off behind me...
;)
OK, but seriously, folks:
HOW COULD YOU CHOOSE ONLY ONE from this list?!?!
That's just cruel...
But it was a great year for musical releases, no doubt. Wow. Are we past that peak, or are subsequent years just as vibrant?
I'd choose The Allman Brothers.
Not nearly as cool as the inspirational "Livin' On A Prayer" instrumental that Art and George busted out during a smoking version of "Fiyo On The Bayou"................
That may have sounded instrumental to your ears and many others Matthew, but if you play it backwards you can clearly hear George saying "I buried Jon Bon Jovi," in a clever nod to the events of 40 years ago without being self-referential to The Meters themselves. When confronted about it afterwards, George insisted coyly that he said "Cochon de lait po' boy" instead.
MormonMatthew
07-13-2009, 02:56 PM
Wow, Matthew!
Was that during the CAC gig we were at?
I thought I heard them bust out 'You Give Love a Bad Name' during 'Ain't No Use', but maybe that was someone's iPhone going off behind me...
;)
OK, but seriously, folks:
HOW COULD YOU CHOOSE ONLY ONE from this list?!?!
That's just cruel...
But it was a great year for musical releases, no doubt. Wow. Are we past that peak, or are subsequent years just as vibrant?
I'd choose The Allman Brothers.
Freebo, did you see that here on the "torrents" thread (and also on the f- Meters website) that a recording of the CAC show has finally been made available???
When you download your copy, would you mind making me one as well?
It was a fine time hanging out with you that night, and meeting your lovely wife afterwards---As much as the CAC leaves to be desired as a music venue, it sure was an Uptown-hustler hoodoo show from where we were shakin' at............. (sometimes knowing where/when to go makes all the difference in the funky world)
Anyways, hope you are keeping cool in Florida, and enjoying a sun drenched, music filled summer---Matthew
glinda
07-13-2009, 03:16 PM
Damn, that was a great year for music.
Maybe the best ever.
festivalgirl
07-13-2009, 04:15 PM
When I saw this thread started by Moon, I thought it was about ......
The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon. It was also the second all-veteran crew in manned spaceflight history. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. (10:56pm EDT, July 20), 1969
Damn, that was a great year for music.
Maybe the best ever.
"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact."
- HJS
glinda
07-13-2009, 07:06 PM
Fluck, yea!
Wow, I feel so much better.
frangooch
07-13-2009, 07:24 PM
Epistrophy
Cash at Quentin
Willie and the Poor Boys
Blind Faith
festivalgirl
07-13-2009, 07:40 PM
"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact."
- HJS
1. Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
2. Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers
3. 461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
4. Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
5. Country Life - Roxy Music
6. Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
7. Autobahn - Kraftwerk
8. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) - Brian Eno
9. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard & Linda Thompson
10. Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat
11. Nightbirds - LaBelle
12. AWB - Average White Band
13. Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra
14. Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
15. Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell
16. Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno
17. Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne
18. Al Green Explores Your Mind - Al Green
19. Secret Treaties - Blue Öyster Cult
20. Too Much Too Soon - The New York Dolls
21. Good Old Boys - Randy Newman
22. Up For The Down Stroke - Parliament
23. Paradise And Lunch - Ry Cooder
24. Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder
25. Wish You Were Here - Badfinger
26. Bridge Of Sighs - Robin Trower
27. Bad Company - Bad Company
28. Skin Tight - The Ohio Players
29. Spider Jiving - Andy Fairweather-Low
30. Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On - Funkadelic
31. The Heart Of Saturday Night - Tom Waits
32. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
33. Rejuvenation - The Meters
34. Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
35. Heart Like A Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
36. All American Boy - Rick Derringer
37. Dark Horse - George Harrison
38. Can't Get Enough - Barry White
39. Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
40. Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
41. Five To A Side - Ace
42. Fear - John Cale
43. Not Fragile - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
44. Kimono My House - Sparks
45. New Skin For The Old Ceremony - Leonard Cohen
46. Okie - J.J. Cale
47. Mysterious Traveller - Weather Report
48. On The Beach - Neil Young
49. Hell - James Brown
50. Rags To Rufus - Rufus
http://www.geocities.com/jt_ia/CPB/opinion/albums/1974.html
Michelino
07-13-2009, 11:20 PM
Don't want to start no decade vs decade culture wars, but as nice as some of the 74 stuff is, with no Dylan, Stones...and Dark Horse being the only album from the Beatles or Alumni,the year just doesn't match up to 1969 (or 1970) for that matter. For examples, all 30 minutes of pop-centric Apostrophe just doesn't come close to Uncle Meat PLUS Hot Rats, in my canon. And On The Beach vs Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - 69 wins again.
MormonMatthew
07-13-2009, 11:32 PM
Don't want to start no decade vs decade culture wars, but as nice as some of the 74 stuff is, with no Dylan, Stones...and Dark Horse being the only album from the Beatles or Alumni,the year just doesn't match up to 1969 (or 1970) for that matter. For examples, all 30 minutes of pop-centric Apostrophe just doesn't come close to Uncle Meat PLUS Hot Rats, in my canon. And On The Beach vs Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - 69 wins again.
To me, there are not a lot of albums by ANYONE, from ANY year, that can stack up to the brilliance that is "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"..............
(and I actually like "On The Beach" but it is not nearly as good as "Nowhere"---IMHO)
Michelino
07-14-2009, 12:05 AM
To me, there are not a lot of albums by ANYONE, from ANY year, that can stack up to the brilliance that is "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"..............
(and I actually like "On The Beach" but it is not nearly as good as "Nowhere"---IMHO)
No problem with On The Beach although I haven't heard it in 30 years or so. It's only dawning on me now that 40th Jazz Fest was also the 40th anniversary of Neil's Great Album...and the songs he played from it surely stood the test of time. Down by the River a highlight of a highlight for me.
Don't want to start no decade vs decade culture wars, but as nice as some of the 74 stuff is, with no Dylan, Stones...and Dark Horse being the only album from the Beatles or Alumni,the year just doesn't match up to 1969 (or 1970) for that matter. For examples, all 30 minutes of pop-centric Apostrophe just doesn't come close to Uncle Meat PLUS Hot Rats, in my canon. And On The Beach vs Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - 69 wins again.
461 Ocean Boulevard vs Blind Faith (and Live Peace In Toronto and touring w/ Delaney & Bonnie) 69 wins again.
To me, there are not a lot of albums by ANYONE, from ANY year, that can stack up to the brilliance that is "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"..............
(and I actually like "On The Beach" but it is not nearly as good as "Nowhere"---IMHO)
yyr MM! Biggest jewel in his crown imo
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was not on Moon's original 1969 list; had it been, I think that would have been my top choice. At a minimum, I agree that it is Neil's best.
And Grievous Angel from Gram Parsons certainly deserves mention on any list of 1974 great albums.
My list certainly left out some important work from that year. I can't believe I didn't think of Neil or the Stephen Stills album that featured David Crosby and Graham Nash. I'm gonna blame it on Suzie.
As for the moon shot; I'll never forget that night as long as I live. I was selling puppies out in front of a K-Mart. The proceeds from that evening would go on to help fund a trip to upstate New York the following month.
I even got to see the landing later that evening at my girlfriend's house. What a great summer.
Michelino
07-14-2009, 08:25 AM
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was not on Moon's original 1969 list; had it been, I think that would have been my top choice. At a minimum, I agree that it is Neil's best.
And Grievous Angel from Gram Parsons certainly deserves mention on any list of 1974 great albums.
Always been my favorite of Neil's and so I agree that it is near the top. One of those albums I latched on in early youth and have never let go. Not true for plenty others. For some reason, Rolling Stone has always (at least mildly) dissed this album since the 1970s. For example, they currently claim that there are 207 better albums out there, including Harvest (#78) and After the Gold Rush (#71)...both also great albums..can't argue about that. Plus Deja Vu (#148). But Abba and the Carpenters get ranked higher than "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere"? What the @#@#! See here (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time)
And it gets left off this list as well (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/908674.stm) although Harvest and After the Gold Rush make it as they should.
Rossvegas
07-14-2009, 08:34 AM
I've never heard of any of those bands! You people must be really old...
"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact."
- HJS
This was just a joke. I wasn't actually suggesting that '74 was better than '69. I just never miss a chance to quote from my favorite episode of the Simpsons.
Gards
07-14-2009, 09:06 AM
I've never heard of any of those bands! You people must be really old...
Dementia is a real and present thing
Michelino
07-14-2009, 12:47 PM
This was just a joke. I wasn't actually suggesting that '74 was better than '69. I just never miss a chance to quote from my favorite episode of the Simpsons.
Oh really? How dense do you think we are ? But not even the all-mighty swagory can prevent a little thread drift.
festivalgirl
07-14-2009, 04:43 PM
This was just a joke. I wasn't actually suggesting that '74 was better than '69. I just never miss a chance to quote from my favorite episode of the Simpsons.
I just figured I'd roll with the joke ...... :o
I've never heard of any of those bands! You people must be really old...
yes Dad.
revjimk
07-14-2009, 05:01 PM
Someone sayeth, "Homer is an idiot."
Duh.....
He's a "cosmic idiot": so dumb he's brilliant
Nobody replied to trivia question of first ska song on Top 40.
Answer: "My Boy Lollipop" by Millie Small, sometime in the mid 60s. Forget the band who did it a few years ago at JF, but they threw lollipops to the crowd. Kewl....
rev
festivalgirl
07-14-2009, 05:49 PM
As for the moon shot; I'll never forget that night as long as I live. I was selling puppies out in front of a K-Mart. The proceeds from that evening would go on to help fund a trip to upstate New York the following month.
I even got to see the landing later that evening at my girlfriend's house. What a great summer.
The NY Times has started their Anniversary coverage.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/space/index.html?hp
Michelino
07-14-2009, 06:05 PM
The NY Times has started their Anniversary coverage.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/space/index.html?hp
Ah yes...the moon landing. Back in the day before Ronald Reagan decided that government was the cause all of our problems, occasionally it did a little something...For All Mankind (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-secondlook12-2009jul12,0,5566117.story)!
A great movie..by the way...it brought back all the wonder of that amazing moment when I first saw it in the Theater twenty years ago.
festivalgirl
07-14-2009, 06:21 PM
Ah yes...the moon landing. Back in the day before Ronald Reagan decided that government was the cause all of our problems, occasionally it did a little something...For All Mankind (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-secondlook12-2009jul12,0,5566117.story)!
A great movie..by the way...it brought back all the wonder of that amazing moment when I first saw it in the Theater twenty years ago.
http://www.pax-intl.com/Paxenews/paxenews_apr2009/bud_light_lime.jpg
These pictures are pretty amazing. I remember how amazing the whole thing was. I watched every Apollo mission ..... I had fallen asleep & remember my mother waking me up to make sure I witnessed this specactualr event.
We see pictures like this all the time now but these were not Photoshopped or CGI ...... they are real!!