Nineteen Sixty Eight

[too larry]

I was listening to NPR on the way home the other day, and they had a short segment on all the good albums to come out in 1968. And me not being shy about stealing other's ideas, thought it would make a good thread.

Add your favorites. I'll start it off with Blue Cheer. {I got a good chuckle from the wall of sound}

 

[too larry]

 

[too larry]

So was 1968 the best year ever for music. Homer would disagree.

 

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[Amos Otis]

I'd contribute, but I spent my bullets here:

https://www.rollitup.org/t/who-remembers-the-60s.960503/page-10

 

[too larry]

Lots of really influential albums to drop in '68, but Music from Big Pink might have been the one to leave the biggest mark.

 

[too larry]

I'd contribute, but I spent my bullets here:

https://www.rollitup.org/t/who-remembers-the-60s.960503/page-10

Those were all good ones.

 

[too larry]

"68 was a big year for Zappa/MoI. They had two albums in Rolling Stones top 30 albums of 1968,

 

[too larry]

Waiting for the Sun is the third studio album by the Doors. Recorded at TTG Studios in Los Angeles, the album's 11 tracks were recorded between February and May 1968 and the album was released by Elektra Records on July 3, 1968. It became the band's only #1 album (topping the charts for four weeks).

 

[too larry]

 

[Beachwalker]

 

[vostok]

I was listening to NPR on the way home the other day, and they had a short segment on all the good albums to come out in 1968. And me not being shy about stealing other's ideas, thought it would make a good thread.

Add your favorites. I'll start it off with Blue Cheer. {I got a good chuckle from the wall of sound}

Dusty Springfield recorded the Bacharach-David composition "The Look of Love" for the James Bond parody film Casino Royale.[52][54] For "one of the slowest-tempo hits" of the sixties, Bacharach created a "sultry" feel by the use of "minor-seventh and major-seventh chord changes", while Hal David's lyrics "epitomized longing and, yes, lust"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield

 

[too larry]

 

[Amos Otis]

Waiting for the Sun is the third studio album by the Doors. Recorded at TTG Studios in Los Angeles, the album's 11 tracks were recorded between February and May 1968 and the album was released by Elektra Records on July 3, 1968. It became the band's only #1 album (topping the charts for four weeks).

The album that ended my Doors fandom.

 

[Jimdamick]

 

[Jimdamick]

 

[Tstat]

“When we mixed it, we mixed it for the hallucinations. Phil and I performed the mix as though it were an electronic music composition. It was pretty intense.”

 

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