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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 17, 2023 17:51:00 GMT
1967 is another (maybe more than any to date) scenario when I'm sitting down at the restaurant with the amazing menu, spoilt for choice, and asking everyone at the table to let me order last. There's a handful of personal icons that cause me to think "Well, if Dougie orders the ribeye and hatz orders the catfish, I can just go ahead and lean into the crab legs with full confidence." Hatz will probably go for some vegan tofu thing In 1967? Are you kidding me??? 1971, maybe. Anyway, here's my choice (again rather predictably). This is from the best album of 1967, and it has plenty of competition. You may have noticed that my choices so far mostly consist of recordings I consider 'game changers'. It took the world a while to catch up, but there's few bigger game-changers than this. Subject matter, musical adventurousness (eventually) embraced by the mainstream, number of bands formed in its wake - it's all there. And yes, the Be-att-les were among those listening. And more yes, I don't have much of a dilemma in picking this over anything on Sgt. Pepper, save maybe ADITL. 1967:
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Post by DayoRemix on Jan 17, 2023 18:45:43 GMT
1967
Well, with VU off the board, guess this will do..It was this or "Break on Through (To the other side)":
"Hurricane Fighter Plane" Red Krayola
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Post by davey on Jan 17, 2023 18:51:46 GMT
I’m leaving a bunch of “must picks” for the rest of you in order to make sure this one gets picked. Every bit as much a “game changer” as anything Lou Reed was doing - and perhaps the most singular record of 1967:
Ode to Bille Joe - Bobbie Gentry
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2023 19:10:15 GMT
I’m leaving a bunch of “must picks” for the rest of you in order to make sure this one gets picked. Every bit as much a “game changer” as anything Lou Reed was doing - and perhaps the most singular record of 1967: Ode to Bille Joe - Bobbie Gentry This was one of my "Either THEY'RE picking it or I'M picking it!" gimmes. Such a magical 4 minutes.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 17, 2023 19:11:52 GMT
How did so many 'singular moments' happen in 1967? I can think of at least a dozen more off the top of my head.
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2023 19:13:30 GMT
Good shout on "Venus". In terms of sound, it's the Godhead.
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2023 19:19:31 GMT
NAILING MY 1967 COLORS TO THE MAST.
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Post by osgood on Jan 17, 2023 19:32:48 GMT
No way, I can't wait any longer.
1967 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
But it could have been Death of a Clown equally
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Post by fange on Jan 18, 2023 8:57:50 GMT
Oh man, choices are startin to get real hard now.
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Post by fange on Jan 18, 2023 8:59:53 GMT
NAILING MY 1967 COLORS TO THE MAST. You bastard.
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Post by fange on Jan 18, 2023 9:27:37 GMT
Ah fuck it, just go with my gut...
1967: Love - A House Is Not a Motel
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Post by ernie on Jan 18, 2023 17:09:52 GMT
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Post by rayge on Jan 18, 2023 18:23:19 GMT
from Adam,
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Post by Sneelock on Jan 18, 2023 18:25:57 GMT
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Post by rayge on Jan 18, 2023 19:01:36 GMT
Ah, 1967, the year I lost - well, gave away - my virginity, fathered my only child, got drunk for the first time, and saw my father die. That was one week ( raygeb4beauty.blogspot.com/2017/06/ ).
Some time in the other 51 came the last single released on Philles, and for once an endeavour ends in a blaze of glory,a culmination rather than a whimper. The name on the label is Ike & Tina Turner, but Ike was nowhere near it, and it's actually more a collaboration between Ellie Greenwich (writer), Spector, Jack Nitzsche (arrangement) and the Wrecking Crew (peerless noise), with vocals by Tina: to this day it remains as my favourite three and a half minutes of music.
The song may be about the ecstacy of first love, about music, perhaps the female orgasm, probably all three: but whatever it is, its dynamic is the twin realizations that every peak, every epiphany contains the seed of knowledge that you can look forward to nothing better ('the only way is down'), and that the sense of loss once you wil experience when you let go of it will be profound.
Unlike River Deep, which revs up, the record opens at full throttle. The arrangement teeters on the edge of chaos, of abandonment, throughout: it's occasionally punctuated by a bubbling, tumbling bass line from Carole Kaye and great work from Hal Blaine, but all the other instruments surge together to a climax (if you'll forgive the expression) that eclipses River Deep Mountain High, and resolves into massed saxophones surfing a tsunami of strings, before a great fading comedown coda, as Tina's voice ebbs away, 'forever and ev-ev-er. It's a fucking marvel, it really is.
I never yet heard any digitalization that doesn't remove some of its power and glory. The one I chose below is the best of an indifferent bunch. To write this, though, I dug out my London American single and blasted it through headphones. Still blows me away more than half a century later.
[Ike & ]Tina Turner - I'll Never Need More Than This
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