Music Banter - Best Albums Pre-60

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 447519)

This only problem with pre 60s music is that a lot of great music wasn't released on albums. I'd say people like Son House & Robert Johnson were hugely influential in the pre 60s period yet neither man had any albums until compilations came out in the 60s. Even though a lot of their work dates back to the 20s & 30s

Eh, absolutely. Hell, even in the SIXTIES the LP was still not really the dominant format, in all truth. It had only really become entrenched as the dominant format by the early 70s, though of course the late 60s were what brought it on and changed the shape of what an album could be, what with LPs like Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road and of course the many contributions of other bands etc..

As far as it not being the dominant format in that era, it's telling enough that as many as 10 Beatles singles for example didn't even appear on any of their albums. On top of that, look at the disparity between UK and US releases concerning their first four albums. They had completely different names and rather different track listings. Even more striking is the point that on those first four albums there were around 20 covers. The music industry was just a completely different animal back then. Everything really changed for good by the onset of the 70s.