Last month as part of their 40th Anniversary Issue, Rolling Stone came up with their list of 40 Essential Albums from 1967. It's a pretty good list, with all of the consensus "classics" from that year and a few left-field surprises. I'd never heard of Serpent Power before, but the album is going for $120 on amazon, so it has to be good!
Rolling Stone's list is arranged by release date, but here it is in semi-alphabetical order (would Mississippi John Hurt fall under M or H?)
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile, Wild Honey
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's, Magical Mystery Tour
Big Brother - Big Brother And The Holding Company
James Brown - Cold Sweat
Tim Buckley - Goodbye And Hello
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
Country Joe & the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
The Doors - The Doors, Strange Days
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced?, Axis:Bold As Love
The Hollies - Evolution
Mississippi John Hurt - The Immortal
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing At Baxter's
The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
Love - Forever Changes
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind
Otis & Carla - King And Queen
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Procul Harum - Procul Harum
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons, Flowers
The Serpent Power - The Serpent Power
Howard Tate - Get It While You Can
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
Dionne Warwick - Golden Hits
The Who - The Who Sell Out
As an academic exercise, I've tried to come up with a few 1967 albums that RS left off. Anyone who's read that magazine knows that they have lots of musical blind spots, and tend to value "importance" over "listenability", and devalue bands that start with definite articles. Here are ten of the largest omissions I've noticed on the list, and I'm sure there are many more.
- The Beau Brummels - Triangle
- The Bee Gees - Bee Gees' 1st
- The Bonzo Dog Band - Gorilla
- The Fifth Dimension - Magic Garden
- The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
- The Merry Go Round - You're A Very Lovely Woman/Live
- The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
- The Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show
- The Turtles - Happy Together
- The Yardbirds - Little Games
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