104. The Velvet Underground | White Light/White Heat (1967)

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Tracks

1. White Light/White Heat
2. The Gift
3. Lady Godiva's Operation
4. Here She Comes Now
5. I Heard Her Call My Name
6. Sister Ray

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White Light/White Heat is a noisy album. There's a certain amount of normalcy in most of the songs, but at some point the songs veer off in a surreal direction. Either the music turns into fuzzy, screeching feedback or the lyrics become nightmarish.

This makes even the most psychedelic album seem like a collection of children's songs. This is like being trapped forever in a trip gone wrong. It's understandable that this album wasn't successful. I don't think it ever could. It's only possible for this album to be accepted after incremental imitations of are made of it.

I like this album a lot. Would I have liked this album in 1967? I can't imagine I would have. The first half of the album would have been tolerable, but the second half would had been unlistenable. It seems to have taken nearly ten years for this kind of music to be accepted and even then punk is a watered down form.

All the songs except for The Gift are worth listening to. The Gift was good the first time, but once I knew how it ends it became tiresome to listen to. Sister Ray is a masterpiece, but it's not "user-friendly".

★★★★★★★★★☆

103. Shivkumar Sharma / Brijbushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia | Call of the Valley (1967)

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Tracks

1. Ahir–Bhairav
2. Nat–Bhairav – Ek Tala
3. Piloo – Teen Tala
4. Bhoop – Jhap Tala
5. Des – Dadra Tala
6. Pahadi – Kehrawa Tala

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Call of the Valley is a peaceful album. All the pieces are classical Indian music.

It's hard to have an "informed" opinion on this album since I have no basis from which to form an opinion on any Indian music. Apparently, this was a popular album with many of the rock and roll musicians at the time, so it must be good, right?

Nevertheless, I enjoyed this album a lot. I enjoying listening to the flute and the tablas. The flute has a haunting quality to it. It's also pretty amazing how versatile a guitar can be. In the hands of an Indian musician it sounds completely different; of course, it resembles the sound of a sitar.

Should this album be on the 1001 Albums list? It shouldn't if it's simply because of the influence it had on the rock and roll musicians of the 1960s. However, the list only pays lip service to non-Western music, so it wouldn't have been on the list otherwise. Therefore, it shouldn't be on the list. Of course, the title of the list should be changed from Albums to Western Popular Music Recordings

Is it an album worth listening to? I think it is. Indian music, in general, is worth listening to, so someone knowledgeable about Indian music should produce a book called 1001 Indian Classical Music Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die.

★★★★★★★★★★

102. Loretta Lynn | Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) (1967)

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Tracks

1. Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
2. I Really Don't Want to Know
3. Tomorrow Never Comes
4. There Goes My Everything
5. The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight
6. Saint to a Sinner
7. The Devil Gets His Dues
8. I Can't Keep Away from You
9. I'm Living In Two Worlds
10. Get What 'Cha Got and Go
11. Making Plans
12. I Got Caught

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Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) is a strong album. The songs are typical country. However, Loretta Lynn is a charismatic singer, so the songs are fun and lively.

It's a solid, predictable album. The songs deal with the typical themes and the music is of the same style.

This is a good album and the songs are all good, but I don't think it should be on the 1001 Albums list. The stand out songs are: Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind), Tomorrow Never Comes, There Goes My Everything, The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight, The Devil Gets His Dues, Get What 'Cha Got and Go and I Got Caught.

There seems to be a recent spate of albums that I don't think should be on the list. Perhaps, the 1001 Albums editor put these albums on the list because they had a significance at the time they were made. However, that doesn't suggest that these are timeless albums which is what the title of the book would suggest. If this trend continues, I'll have to change the way I discuss these albums.

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

101. The Electric Prunes | I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (1967)

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Tracks

1. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
2. Bangles
3. Onie
4. Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)
5. Train for Tomorrow
6. Sold to the Highest Bidder
7. Get Me to the World on Time
8. About a Quarter to Nine
9. The King Is in the Counting House
10. Luvin'
11. Try Me on for Size
12. The Toonerville Trolley

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The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) is a curious album. It's a mixed bag of songs that lean toward a psychedelic sound.

This album is sort of a cross between the Sonics and Jefferson Airplane. It's a psychedelic album performed by a garage rock band. Not only that, the band had a professional writing much of the songs, so there are a handful of songs that just don't fit: Onie, Sold to the Highest Bidder, The King Is in the Counting House and The Toonerville Trolley. These oddities could be interesting when tripping on acid, I suppose, but they just don't fit.

This album doesn't seem to be a necessary album to listen to. It's not terrible, but it's not great either.  Neither is it some outlier that had a substantial impact in the music world. In the context of the 1001 Albums list, it stands aloof.

There are some good songs that might be worth listening to if the opportunity presents itself. The stand outs are: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), Bangles, Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less), Train for Tomorrow, Get Me to the World on Time, Luvin' and Try Me on for Size. Perhaps if these songs were the only ones on the album, I'd have better things to say about it. However, the problem would then be album length. Can an album really be an album if it's only fifteen minutes long?

★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

100. The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced (1967)

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Tracks

UK release

1. Foxy Lady
2. Manic Depression
3. Red House
4. Can You See Me
5. Love or Confusion
6. I Don't Live Today
7. May This Be Love
8. Fire
9. 3rd Stone from the Sun
10. Remember
11. Are You Experienced

US release

1. Purple Haze
2. Manic Depression
3. Hey Joe
4. Love or Confusion
5. May This Be Love
6. I Don't Live Today
7. The Wind Cries Mary
8. Fire
9. Third Stone from the Sun
10. Foxey Lady
11. Are You Experienced?

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Note: There are two versions of this album. The Wikipedia entry for this album discusses the differences between the two and the reason for the different versions. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die discusses the UK version.

Are You Experienced is a monstrous album. The songs are loud and heavy.

With this album, Jimi Hendrix has changed the way the guitar is played on rock and roll albums. This isn't an unexpected development. Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck and Keith Richards all had hinted at a more prominent lead guitar role, but it's primacy had remained elusive. Then, Jimi Hendrix simply cut to the chase and gave the lead guitar primacy. There hardly seems any point during a song where Jimi isn't doing something significant and jaw-dropping with the guitar.

This is a must-have album. It's a must to have both the US and UK versions. Every time I listen to it, I'm amazed by how great the songs are and how great a guitarist Jimi Hendrix is. 

Every song is outstanding, so there's no point in having a stand-outs list.

★★★★★★★★★★

99. Merle Haggard | I'm a Lonesome Fugitive (1967)

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Tracks

1. I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
2. All of Me Belongs to You
3. House of Memories
4. Life in Prison
5. Whatever Happened to Me
6. Drink Up and Be Somebody
7. Someone Told My Story
8. If You Want to Be My Woman
9. Mary's Mine
10. Skid Row
11. My Rough and Rowdy Ways
12. Mixed Up Mess of a Heart

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I'm a Lonesome Fugitive is a stoic album. The songs are pure country.

The success of country music is in the formula employed. There is never a doubt whether the music is country music because the rhythm, the choice of instruments and how they sound, and the style of singing give it away. But if there's any doubt remaining, it's gone once the carefully chosen lyrics, themes and iconic imagery that is conjured are considered.

Merle Haggard has the formula perfected. This is a brilliant country music album through and through. The songs are fun, entertaining and sound great. They are all worth listening to and contribute to sound of the album. The stand outs are I'm a Lonesome Fugitive, Drink Up and Be Somebody, If You Want to Be My Woman, Skid Row and Mixed Up Mess of a Heart.

★★★★★★★★★★

98. Donovan | Sunshine Superman (1967)

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Tracks

US version

1. Sunshine Superman
2. Legend of a Girl Child Linda
3. Three King Fishers
4. Ferris Wheel
5. Bert's Blues
6. Season of the Witch
7. The Trip
8. Guinevere
9. The Fat Angel
10. Celeste

UK version

1. Sunshine Superman
2. Legend of a Girl Child Linda
3. The Observation
4. Guinevere
5. Celeste
6. Writer in the Sun
7. Season of the Witch
8. Hampstead Incident
9. Sand and Foam
10. Young Girl Blues
11. Three Kingfishers
12. Bert's Blues

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Note: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die features the cover of the US version, but refers to the UK version of the album in the review. The reason for the difference in versions is discussed in the Sunshine Superman Wikipedia entry.

Sunshine Superman is a trippy album. There is a mix of folk, rock and roll and blues songs. A heavy bass guitar groove runs through and unites all the songs.

This album is what Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would have sounded like had it been filtered through Love You To from Revolver. The album is heavy enough to rock out to, but also mellow enough to relax to.

I didn't expect to like this album very much because I think the album cover looks terrible. It makes Donovan look like a silly teen idol. However, this album has some excellent folk songs. Donovan's use of the sitar is smart, too. It really helps to create a psychedelic aura.

There isn't a bad song on this album, but the stand outs are: Sunshine Superman, Three King Fisher, Bert's Blues, Season of the Witch, Guinevere and The Fat Angel.

★★★★★★★★★☆

97. The Kinks | Something Else by the Kinks (1967)

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1. David Watts
2. Death of a Clown
3. Two Sisters
4. No Return
5. Harry Rag
6. Tin Soldier Man
7. Situation Vacant
8. Love Me Till the Sun Shines
9. Lazy Old Sun
10. Afternoon Tea
11. Funny Face
12. End of the Season
13. Waterloo Sunset

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Something Else by the Kinks is a focused album. The songs are heavy pop songs. Moreover, there is an "English" sound to this kind of rock and roll, but I'll be damned if I can define what "English" means here. Certainly, the song titles suggest this "English" sound may exist. Most British bands pay homage to their American blues roots in their songs titles and choice of songs. That's a lot less so with this album.

Most of the songs are efficiently stay on point rather than wander or meander. There are no frills with either the music or the lyrics. What is played is what is necessary. That's all.

This album filled with lots of excellent songs. The stand out songs are David Watts, Death of a Clown, Harry Rag, Tin Soldier Man, Love Me Till the Sun Shines, Afternoon Tea and Waterloo Sunset.

★★★★★★★★★☆

96. Jefferson Airplane | Surrealistic Pillow (1967)

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1. She Has Funny Cars
2. Somebody to Love
3. My Best Friend
4. Today
5. Comin' Back to Me
6. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
7. D.C.B.A.—25
8. How Do You Feel
9. Embryonic Journey
10. White Rabbit
11. Plastic Fantastic Lover

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Surrealistic Pillow is a mellow album. The songs are straightforward rock and roll.

This album is one of my favorites, so of course it should be on the 1001 Albums list. Seriously though, this album itself isn't as groundbreaking as many other albums on the list. However, the songs are all fantastic and make a very consistent album.

The stand out songs are: Somebody to Love, My Best Friend, Today, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds, White Rabbit and Plastic Fantastic Lover.

★★★★★★★★★☆

95. The Young Rascals | Groovin' (1967)

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1. A Girl Like You
2. Find Somebody
3. I'm So Happy Now
4. Sueño
5. How Can I Be Sure
6. Groovin'
7. If You Knew
8. I Don't Love You Anymore
9. You Better Run
10. A Place in the Sun
11. It's Love

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Groovin' is a relaxed album. Most of the songs are straightforward rock and roll.

I'm not sure why this album is on the 1001 Albums list. It's a fine album, but there's nothing here that wasn't being done ten years ago.

I also didn't feel like the songs connected with each other very well. It's rather like listening to a greatest hits album, especially since most of the songs are excellent. The real stand outs are: A Girl Like You, Find Somebody, Sueño, How Can I Be Sure, Groovin', If You Knew, I Don't Love You Anymore,  You Better Run and It's Love. Gee, I guess that's almost the whole album.

★★★★★★★★☆☆

94. The Byrds | Younger Than Yesterday (1967)

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1. So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
2. Have You Seen Her Face
3. C.T.A.-102
4. Renaissance Fair
5. Time Between
6. Everybody's Been Burned
7. Thoughts and Words
8. Mind Gardens
9. My Back Pages
10. The Girl with No Name
11. Why

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Younger Than Yesterday is a trusty album. It's also a short album made up primarily of rock and roll songs and country songs. There are a couple of songs that flirt with a sitar sound, but they're not the focus of the album.

The songs are written and played well and they go together well for the most part. The problem with the album is that it's uninteresting. It's certainly a good album for the Byrds, but it's mediocre compared to what has been coming out during 1967.

If you just need some soulless, non-threatening music on in the background that won't distract you, this is the album for you. So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star, Have You Seen Her Face, Time Between and Mind Gardens are the stand out songs. C.T.A.-102 could have been better had the stupid alien chatter been omitted. 

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

93. The Doors | The Doors (1967)

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1. Break on Through (To the Other Side)
2. Soul Kitchen
3. The Crystal Ship
4. Twentieth Century Fox
5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
6. Light My Fire
7. Back Door Man
8. I Looked at You
9. End of the Night
10. Take It as It Comes
11. The End

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The Doors is an aggressive album. The music is loud, heavy and droning. Jim Morrison is loud, confrontational and out for blood.

The lyrics are as deep as an Introduction to Philosophy course or an English Literature course, but for rock and roll that's deep enough. And with Morrison singing the lyrics, the songs become mystical and deep, eternal truths.

There is a lot of texture in the music. The bass is deep and rough. The keyboard and organ drone and create eerie moods. The guitar jangles and wails. All together, the music paints some surreal soundscapes. 

Combine that with Morrison's vocals and the songs become self-aware and transcendent. To say this is new is an understatement. This is getting into Beatles territory.

This is not just an album to listen to; it's an album to own. Every song is worthwhile, but the real stand outs are Break on Through (To the Other Side), Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship, Light My Fire, Back Door Man and The End.

★★★★★★★★★★

92. Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim | Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)

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1. The Girl from Ipanema
2. Dindi
3. Change Partners
4. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
5. Meditation (Meditação)
6. If You Never Come to Me
7. How Insensitive (Insensatez)
8. I Concentrate on You
9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. Once I Loved (O Amor em Paz)

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Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim is a soothing album.  The songs are in the bossa nova style. Sinatra sounds really good and Jobim is so unassuming that you forget he's playing the guitar and the piano. It's only when he is singing that you remember he's there. It's not meant as a slight against Jobim. He is the music and the music is great.

I'm not quite sure why this album is on the 1001 Albums list. For 1967, the album is slightly anachronistic. This album is germane to either the late '50s or early '60s, but not late '60s. It's not that an album has to be progressive, but bossa nova music doesn't have much variation, nor do the pop standards that are Sinatra's forté. You could have listened to In the Wee Small Hours and Getz/Gilberto back-to-back and have gotten a similar experience.

It's a good album, especially if you like Sinatra. The stand out songs are The Girl from Ipanema, Dindi, Change Partners, How Insensitive (Insensatez), I Concentrate on You and Baubles, Bangles and Beads.

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

91. The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

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1. Sunday Morning
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
3. Femme Fatale
4. Venus in Furs
5. Run Run Run
6. All Tomorrow's Parties
7. Heroin
8. There She Goes Again
9. I'll Be Your Mirror
10. The Black Angel's Death Song
11. European Son

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The Velvet Underground and Nico is a stark album. The songs evoke a dark exoticism. The music is either rumbling and manic or slow and droning. The guitar sound is reminiscent of an exposed nerve—raw, metallic, bright and painful.

The world that this album inhabits is not a nice, beautiful kind world. It's ugly, dark, twisted, lonely and painful. But, for all its brutality, it's honest.

It's a brilliant album, but it's so bleak that it'll bum you out if it's all you listen to. I don't think there have been any albums that have had such authentic songs and lyrics.  Most songs on other albums are sappy love songs, idealistic or fantastical so that they really don't infer the real world. The Who and Jack Elliott come close, but even Bob Dylan isn't able to capture reality so vividly.

The songs  establish a coherent mood that lasts the whole album. The real stand out songs are Sunday Morning, Venus in Furs, Run Run Run, All Tomorrow's Parties, Heroin, There She Goes Again and European Son.

★★★★★★★★★☆

90. The Who | The Who Sell Out (1967)

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1. Armenia City in the Sky
2. Heinz Baked Beans
3. Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand
4. Odorono
5. Tattoo
6. Our Love Was
7. I Can See for Miles
8. Can't Reach You
9. Medac
10. Relax
11. Silas Stingy
12. Sunrise
13. Rael (1 and 2)

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The Who Sell Out is a clever album. Thirteen songs are wrapped around faux advertisements and radio programming to simulate a pirate radio station. The advertisements are amusing and some of the products worked their way into songs—Heinz Baked Beans, Odorono and Medac. The radio station jingles are cute and well-down. It's certainly a convincing concept.

The songs themselves are quite varied. There are heavy rock and roll songs, folk songs and theatrical stuff. They are all catchy. Lyrics seem to be a strong focus of the band. It's too bad then that their songs can be hit or miss. The subject of most songs on the album is a person and there are some interesting ideas, but sometimes it's just bad rhyming.

I enjoy this album, but the pirate radio advertisements and jingles wear thin after listening several times. Fortunately, the songs are really strong and are worth the minor annoyances. I didn't expect too much from this album. I was confused by the album cover and the pirate radio concept. I think it's a good album that's worth listening to, especially to hear the pirate radio parts. The Who is certainly a richer band than the offerings on classic radio stations would suggest.

All the songs are really good, but the real stand outs are Armenia City in the Sky, Odorono, Tattoo, Our Love Was, I Can See for Miles, Can't Reach You, Relax and Silas Stingy.

★★★★★★★★★☆

89. Pink Floyd | Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

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1. Astronomy Domine
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R. Toc H.
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. Scarecrow
11. Bike

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Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a mad album. It is a challenge at first to figure out where the ground is, but once stability is found and it can be found, it's quite an interesting album of sound. The songs are defined by their contradictions. They are well-structured until they become formless. They are loud until they become quiet. They are fast and heavy until they become quiet and melodic.

This album blows the whole roof off of psychedelic music. Whatever it had been, well, it's something else now. What came before will seem too tame to be called psychedelic music. And so won't what comes after it. The songs that have lyrics are completely bizarre and nonsensical. The remaining songs are instrumentals attempt to give a sense of what a trip is without the mind-altering drugs.

There is a beauty buried deep within all the contradictions and insanity. It may not be an album for everyone, but it's certainly worth listening to just to hear one of progressive rock's direct ancestors. The songs are all really worth listening to, but the real stand outs are Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam, Matilda Mother, Interstellar Overdrive, Chapter 24 and Bike.

★★★★★★★★★★

88. Cream | Disraeli Gears (1967)

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1. Strange Brew
2. Sunshine of Your Love
3. World of Pain
4. Dance the Night Away
5. Blue Condition
6. Tales of Brave Ulysses
7. SWLABR
8. We're Going Wrong
9. Outside Woman Blues
10. Take It Back
11. Mother's Lament

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Disraeli Gears is a feverish album. Many of the songs work from a blues groove and Clapton plays his guitar over that as if the guitar were either the actual lead singer or the refrain to the lead singer. All the while his guitar playing. On the other songs his guitar playing is like a slow burning wick.

This kind of album has been a long time in the making, and the time has finally arrived. There have been lots of albums with outstanding lead guitar work, but this album has taken it to a new level where the lead guitarist is on par with or even surpasses the lead singer in importance.

The other feature that begins to emerge with this album, but has appeared on other previous albums is the heavy guitar riff. No other riff has been as heavy as the riff on Sunshine of You Love is. Not only is the riff novel, but so is the long guitar solo over the riff.

This album is a gem in any collection. Mother's Lament isn't necessary to the album, but every other song is great. Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Dance the Night Away, Tales of Brave Ulysses, SWLABR and Outside Woman Blues are the stand outs.

★★★★★★★★★★

87. Love | Forever Changes (1967)

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1. Alone Again Or
2. A House Is Not a Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. The Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. The Red Telephone
7. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
8. Live and Let Live
9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10. Bummer in the Summer
11. You Set the Scene

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Forever Changes is a relentless album. All the songs have a heavy, robust and driving rhythm section. It's a mix of loud rock and roll songs and heavy ballads. Other bands have made heavy albums, but they are more direct descendants of the blues. This album is more mature in that sense. There's much more innovation with this album.

The previous Love album was good, but the songs were a lot shorter and the last piece didn't fit well. This album is much different. It retains the nice melodies, but the songs have more structure. This album has a nice clear sound and the songs work well together.

It's certainly an album that grew on me. I liked it from the start, but I've gotten more impressed with it each time I listen to it. I highly recommend this album. There's not a weak song on it, but the real stand outs are Alone Again Or, A House Is Not a Motel, The Red Telephone, Live and Let Live, Bummer in the Summer and You Set the Scene.

★★★★★★★★★★

86. Tim Buckley | Goodbye and Hello (1967)

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1. No Man Can Find the War
2. Carnival Song
3. Pleasant Street
4. Hallucinations
5. I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain
6. Once I Was
7. Phantasmagoria in Two
8. Knight-Errant
9. Goodbye and Hello
10. Morning Glory

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Goodbye and Hello is a sublime album. Each song projects confidence and intensity. The music is a grand mix of folk and rock and roll with a theatrical flair coming from Tim Buckley's vocals. Despite the style of music, Tim Buckley is channeling Jacques Brel more than Bob Dylan.

This album is worth owning. I can't believe I had never heard of Tim Buckley before. Every song is brilliant, but Pleasant Street, Hallucinations, I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain and Goodbye and Hello are the show-stoppers.

★★★★★★★★★★

85. The Monkees | Headquarters (1967)

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1. You Told Me
2. I'll Spend My Life With You
3. Forget That Girl
4. Band 6
5. You Just May Be the One
6. Shades of Gray
7. I Can't Get Her Off Of My Mind
8. For Pete's Sake
9. Mr. Webster
10. Sunny Girlfriend
11. Zilch
12. No Time
13. Early Morning Blues and Greens
14. Randy Scouse Git

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Headquarters is a trite album. It's not surprising that so many songs sound like Beatles songs, but it's downright pathetic that in 1967 they only sound like the Beatles from 1965—seriously a day late and a dollar short, guys. Despite being neither fresh nor original, it is consistent.


I've listened to this album far more than it deserves. There are a some good songs on it. You Told Me, You Just May Be the One, No Time and Early Morning Blues and Greens are interesting, but they just can't compensate for the really bad songs and skits that just ruin the experience. Band 6 and Zilch are just stupid filler. Mr. Webster is just a stupid pointless rip off of Eleanor Rigby. Randy Scouse Git is another rip off that even foolishly makes reference to the Beatles.


And those two song really say it all about the Monkees. Despite all their desire to be legit by making their own album, they made the problem worse by making this album.

★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆☆

84. The Beau Brummels | Triangle (1967)

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1. Are You Happy?
2. Only Dreaming Now
3. Painter of Women
4. The Keeper of Time
5. It Won't Get Better
6. Nine Pound Hammer
7. Magic Hollow
8. And I've Seen Her
9. Triangle
10. The Wolf of Velvet Fortune
11. Old Kentucky Home

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Triangle is a soothing album. The songs all have a pleasant melody. There are a lot of diverse instruments, making it a very sophisticated folk album. The lyrics of many of the songs tell colorful stories. The vocals sound just like how someone from the 19th Century would sing a rock album.


This album is consistent, big-sounding, adventurous and borders on the fantastical. The music really helps support and extend the imagery conveyed by the lyrics.


I had no expectations for this album, but it's pretty darn good. It is definitely a new favorite of mine. It is certainly worth listening to. There's not a bad song on this album. The stand out songs are Only Dreaming Now, Painter of Women, The Keeper of Time, Nine Pound Hammer, Triangle and The Wolf of Velvet Fortune.

★★★★★★★★★ ☆