top 20 rock albums of 1968

[gregory]

JHE Electric Ladyland
The Beatles same aka White Album
BST Child Is Father To The Man
Free Tons Of Sobs
Family Music From A Doll’s House
Pink Floyd A Sauceful Of Secrets
Jefferson Airplane Crown Of Creation
Zappa We’re Only In It For The Money
Procol Harum Shine On Brightly
Bee Gees Horizontal
Bee Gees Idea
Moody Blues In Search Of The Lost Chord
Tyrannosaurus Rex Prophets, Seers, Sages, The Angels of the Ages
Donovan Hurdy Curdy Man
The Doors Waiting For The Sun
Janis Joplin Cheap Thrills
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda Da-Vida
Crazy World of Arthur Brown same
Simon & Garfunkel Bookends
Jethro Tull This Was

[mogrooves]

A great year! 20+:

Soft Machine ~ s/t
Caravan ~ s/t
John Mayall ~ Blues From Laurel Canyon
Arthur Brown ~ The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
John Mayall ~ Bare Wires
HP Lovecraft ~ II
The Move ~ s/t
Stones ~ Beggar's Banquet
Ford Theatre ~ Trilogy For The Masses
Jeff Beck ~ Truth
Small Faces ~ Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
It's A Beautiful Day ~ s/t
Mad River ~ s/t
ISB ~ The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
QMS ~ s/t
Spirit ~ s/t
The Band ~ Music From Big Pink
Steve Miller ~ Sailor
Kaleidoscope ~ A Beacon From Mars
Blue Cheer ~ Vincebus Eruptum
Pretty Things ~ SF Sorrow
Kooper/Stills/Bloomfield ~ Supersession
Cream ~ Wheels of Fire
Traffic ~ s/t
United States of America ~ s/t
Kinks ~ VGPS
Zombies ~ Odessey & Oracle

[strawberrybrick]

Pretty Things ~ SF Sorrow

Everyone should own this album. It's brilliant.

[PeterG]

Restricted to rock, I haven't got 20. The rest in my list for 68 would be made up of soul, motown, ska, reggae, Irish folk and country.

Beatles - white album
Buffalo Springfield - Last Time Around
Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn
Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull
Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
Neil Young - s/t
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets
Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Spirit - s/t
Status Quo - Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo

[Trane]

I took the jazz albums out (most of them anyway)...

13 Hendrix, Jimi Electric Ladyland USA 1968
13 Jefferson Airplane Crown of Creation USA 1968
13 Morrison, Van Astral Weeks Ire 1968
12 Buckley, Tim Happy / Sad USA 1968
12 Caravan Caravan Eng 1968
12 Collectors, The The Collectors Can 1968
12 H.P. Lovecraft Live May 11, 1968 USA 1968
12 Pentangle Sweet Child Eng 1968
12 Pentangle The Pentangle Eng 1968
12 Procol Harum Shine On Brightly Eng 1968
12 Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service USA 1968
12 Santana Live At The Fillmore '68 USA 1968
12 SRC SRC USA 1968
12 Vanilla Fudge Renaissance USA 1968
11 Big Brother and the Holding Company / Janis Joplin Cheap Thrills USA 1968
11 Bloomfield, Mike / Al Kooper / Stephen Stills Super Session USA 1968
11 Brel, Jacques J'arrive Bel 1968
11 Buckley, Tim Copenhagen Tapes USA 1968
11 Burdon, Eric & Animals The Twain Shall Meet Eng 1968
11 Cream Live Cream Volume II Eng 1968
11 Cream Wheels of Fire Eng 1968
11 Family Music In A Doll's House Eng 1968
11 H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft II USA 1968
11 It's a Beautiful Day It's a Beautiful Day USA 1968
11 Jethro Tull This Was Eng 1968
11 MacDermot, Galt - Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (Original Broadway Cast Rec.) Var 1968
11 Moody Blues, The In Search of the Lost Chord Eng 1968
11 Pearls Before Swine Balaklava USA 1968
11 Spirit Spirit USA 1968
10 Beck, Jeff Truth Eng 1968
10 Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Eng 1968
10 Cream Live Cream Eng 1968
10 Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival USA 1968
10 Davis, Miles Miles in the Sky USA 1968
10 Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple Eng 1968
10 Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn Eng 1968
10 Free Tons of Sobs Eng 1968
10 Giles, Giles and Fripp The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp Eng 1968
10 Guess Who Wheatfield Soul Can 1968
10 Iron Butterfly Heavy USA 1968
10 Mayall, John Bare Wires Eng 1968
10 Mayall, John Blues From Laurel Canyon Eng 1968
10 Renbourn, John Sir John Alot of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & ye Grene Knyghte Eng 1968
10 Riley, Terry In C USA 1968
10 Rypdal, Terje Bleak House Nor 1968
10 Sallyangie, The Children of the Sun Eng 1968
10 Savoy Brown Getting to the Point Eng 1968
10 Silver Apples Silver Apples USA 1968
10 Traffic Traffic Eng 1968

[Progmatic]

Beatles, The The Beatles {White Album}
Stoughton, David Transformer
Family Music In A Doll's House
Group 1850 Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth
Pretty Things, The S.F. Sorrow
Soft Machine The Soft Machine
Spirit Spirit
Buckley, Tim Happy / Sad
Caravan Caravan
Cohen, Leonard Songs of Leonard Cohen
Grateful Dead, The Anthem of the Sun
Incredible String Band The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
July July
Kinks, The Village Green Preservation Society
Mad River Mad River
McGough & McGear McGough & McGear
Music Emporium Music Emporium
Nice, The Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Omega Trombitas Fredi Es A Rettenetes Emberek
Pearls Before Swine Balaklava
Procol Harum Shine On Brightly
United States of America, The The United States of America

[Facelift]

1. Jimi Hendrix -- Electric Ladyland
2. The Byrds -- Sweetheart of the Rodeo
3. The Kinks -- Village Green Preservation Society
4. Rolling Stones -- Beggars Banquet
5. The Byrds -- Notorious Byrd Brothers
6. The Band -- Music From Big Pink
7. Magic Sam -- West Side Soul
8. Johnny Cash -- Folsom Prison
9. Aretha Franklin -- Lady Soul
10. The Zombies -- Odessey and Oracle
11. Spirit -- st
12. Os Mutantes -- st
13. Jeff Beck -- Truth
14. Frank Zappa -- Lump Gravy
15. Soft Machine -- st
16. Van Morrison -- Astral Weeks
17. Procol Harum -- Shine On Brightly
18. Traffic -- st
19. Electric Flag -- Long Time Comin'
20. Velvet Underground -- White Light/White Heat

[PeterG]

7. Magic Sam -- West Side Soul
8. Johnny Cash -- Folsom Prison
9. Aretha Franklin -- Lady Soul
15. Soft Machine -- st


You didn't read the thread title did ya? ;) ROCK albums!!!!

[Facelift]

You didn't read the thread title did ya? ;) ROCK albums!!!!

Well... I think that West Side Soul and Folsom Prison are more "rock" than many of the albums I've seen on others' lists in this thread (have you heard these albums?), and the Soft Machine album was mentioned multiple times already, so I assumed it was in play. Plus, how the heck is Pink Floyd's Saucerful of Secrets more "rock" than the first Soft Machine album? :)

But if you must disqualify Lady Soul, then add at No. 20... Dr. John -- Gris-Gris? Or is that too 'New Orleans' to count?

[PeterG]

Well... I think that West Side Soul and Folsom Prison are more "rock" than many of the albums I've seen on others' lists in this thread (have you heard these albums?)

Doh...!!!! I wouldn't be commenting if I hadn't heard them!

[gregory]

Pretty Things, The S.F. Sorrow
Buckley, Tim Happy / Sad
Kinks, The Village Green Preservation Society

Music Emporium Music Emporium

United States of America, The The United States of America
Nice to see these names mentioned.

[philsunset]

Listening-s/t

[enigmatic]

Nice The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack

December 1967

Soft Machine - s/t
Caravan - s/t
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
The United States of America - s/t
Sweetwater - s/t
It's a Beautiful Day - s/t
Music Emporium - s/t
Time - Before There Was ...Time
Crazy World of Arthur Brown - s/t
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Group 1850 - Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Jethro Tull - This Was
Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
The Nice - Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Wake Up...It's Tomorrow

[gregory]

December 1967


Thanks for clarifying. I'll include them in my '67 list...

[gregory]

I took the jazz albums out (most of them anyway)...

12 Vanilla Fudge Renaissance USA 1968

I never could get into them. I know they were very influential in England, sometimes bigger than Hendrix, according to Blackmore's praiseful notion, but even that high recommendations didn't help...


11 Bloomfield, Mike / Al Kooper / Stephen Stills Super Session USA 1968
'Some kind of jam?'))

11 Brel, Jacques J'arrive Bel 1968
He was a chansonnier, a cabaret singer, wasn't he? or maybe he's been bigger than that...?


11 Burdon, Eric & Animals The Twain Shall Meet Eng 1968

I love this one too. One of Burdon's fabulous. Not as bright as Wind Of Changes, but good anyway.

11 Cream Live Cream Volume II Eng 1968
11 Cream Wheels of Fire Eng 1968
Yes, of course. I strangely miss these great albums in my list. Should be placed up there on top of the list along with Jimi's Electric Ladyland.


11 It's a Beautiful Day It's a Beautiful Day USA 1968
I remember I loved 'Hot Summer Day' - a lovely little tune, but other songs didn't impress me very much..


11 MacDermot, Galt - Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (Original Broadway Cast Rec.) Var 1968
Yes, great album. A couple of years ago I watched the expanded version of Hair in Gielgud Theatre. It was a fine performance.


10 Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple Eng 1968
10 Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn Eng 1968
Both good albums, but they could make it much better compiling one album of these two)


10 Giles, Giles and Fripp The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp Eng 1968
Fine album. Full of whimsical charms.


10 Mayall, John Bare Wires Eng 1968
Is this the first rock album with side long epic?))

[Trane]

I never could get into them. I know they were very influential in England, sometimes bigger than Hendrix, according to Blackmore's praiseful notion, but even that high recommendations didn't help...

>>> Well, Renaissance is clearly an album apart in their discography (if you'll except the oddball Beat Goes On)... It's maybe their only where there are more original composition than covers, and personally I think this is a good news



'Some kind of jam?'))

>> not really... good songs and covers >> good playing, but not real jams ... killer version of Donovan's Season Of The Witch


He was a chansonnier, a cabaret singer, wasn't he? or maybe he's been bigger than that...?

>> Brel is heads and heels above all of the chanson française singer (and he was Belgian at that)


I love this one too. One of Burdon's fabulous. Not as bright as Wind Of Changes, but good anyway.

I much prefer it (TSM) to WoC


Yes, great album. A couple of years ago I watched the expanded version of Hair in Gielgud Theatre. It was a fine performance.

>> this was one of my first exposition to rock music (along with Stand UP) >> Age of Aquarius and Flesh Failures are absolutely breathtaking.... And personally I think the OST of the Milosz Forman musical is just as good >> what a tucking bass throughout that remake


Both good albums, but they could make it much better compiling one album of these two)

Yeah, the ultimate would be a compilation of all three Evans-Simper albums


Is this the first rock album with side long epic?

>> never thought about this (because I don't find it an "epic"... Always assumed the first was Shine On Brightly




yup!!!

[gregory]

Yeah I agree about Forman's "Hair" film. Just a pure entertainment.

[Levgan]

14 Fallen Angels It's a Long Way Down USA 1968
14 Procol Harum Shine On Brightly Eng 1968
14 Zappa, Frank / The Mothers of Invention We're Only In It For The Money USA 1968
13 Music Emporium Music Emporium USA 1968
12 Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Eng 1968
12 Family Music In A Doll's House Eng 1968
12 It's a Beautiful Day It's a Beautiful Day USA 1968
12 Kinks, The Village Green Preservation Society Eng 1968
12 Pink Floyd Saucerful of Secrets Eng 1968
12 Smoke, The The Smoke USA 1968
12 Stoughton, David Transformer USA 1968
12 Vanilla Fudge Renaissance USA 1968
11 Big Boy Pete Return To Catatonia Eng 1968
11 Buckley, Tim Happy / Sad USA 1968
11 Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn Eng 1968
11 Incredible String Band The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Sco 1968
11 Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida USA 1968
11 Manset, Gérard Manset Fra 1968
11 Move, The The Move Eng 1968
11 Zombies, The Odessey & Oracle Eng 1968

[Levgan]

Stoughton, David Transformer
Nice to see I'm not the only one to include this album in my list. Awesome stuff, seriously underrated, and it's almost criminal there is no CD.

I remember I loved 'Hot Summer Day' - a lovely little tune, but other songs didn't impress me very much..
"Time Is..." is quite a trip...

[gregory]

Time is is not bad, agreed.

[Rufus]

Is there love for The Beach Boys FRIENDS ?