The summer of peace, love and psychedelia
A quick trawl through the iPod brings up
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Reach Out - The Four Tops
I Never Loved a man the way I love you - Aretha Franklin
And the classic LP and inspiration for South London's finest ever fanzine - Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band.
I think the Beatles had a new LP that year but it's not on my Ipod.
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Hendrix Are you Experienced
Hendrix Axis: Bold as Love
Love Forever Changes
Kinks Something Else
Hendrix: Are you experienced ( no surprises there eh ! Absurdian)
Sgt Peppers: Which Hendrix played the title track at the Saville theatre on the Sunday it came out with Macca in the audience......
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding, Jimi covered 3 of those tunes.... on that album.
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Beatles :Magical Mystery tour, still some great songs on that album, Strawberry Fields, Hello Goodbye, etc.
Peter Green and John McVie on lead and bass.
Yumm.
Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
Younger than Yesterday - The Byrds
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
Born under a Bad Sign - Albert King
Grateful Dead - Greatful Dead
Scott - Scott Walker
A Gift from a Flower to a Garden - Donovan
There are but Four Small Faces - Small Faces
Interstellar Space - John Coltrane
Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
A quick trawl through the iPod brings up
iPod Henry, how quaint !
Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream_(album)
For me easily amongst the best British psychedelic LPs of the era, local connections as well (the guitarist/lyricist was from Woolwich). They later became Fairfield Parlour before splitting in the early 70s. The main guy, Peter Daltrey is still going & has recently been performing Kaleidoscope concerts - there are some upcoming in London. I caught his show in Austin a couple of years ago & it was magical.
Anyway I love this LP - its an absolute belter.
Those two performaces would top any bill any time..........
Which neatly reminds me of another brilliant 1967 LP, by a British band with a familiar name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Simon_Simopath
Smiley Smile - Beach Boys
She Was A Rough Rider - Prince Buster
Casino Royale - Soundtrack (Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield and Herb Alpert)
It was released in the UK as an EP .
The album, including the singles you mention was another Stateside hotch potch
Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles (Staggering in it's breadth and cultural impact. My 20 something kids are completely "meh" about it and viewed now, it is probably both quaint and dated. Maybe you had to be around to appreciate it's majesty. I still hear it as I did then)
Their Satanic Majesties - The Stones. Haha, how the Stones struggled to hold on to the Beatles coat tails with their 60's albums. But it's got a lot of gothic charm this one and next up was Beggars Banquet and the start of their ascendancy to "The Greatest Rock'n'Roll band in the World"
Smiley Smile - The Beach Boys - In the absence of the real thing, this drugged-up substitute will do
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones - The Monkees. Well, hell, I was only 14 I'm allowed the odd teenybop confection :-)
Sgt Pepper = The Beatles
Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground