Guybrush

I have them in my collection (their 3 first), but I'm not a big enough fan to include them in my own personal list.

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Minstrel

Their third one (Third/Sister Lovers) is a masterpiece too, but wasn't released at the time of recording, I believe. That's why I didn't mention it.

I'd do a list, but I don't really associate (that is, recall) years with albums. But yeah, I consider Big Star a seminal '70s band, so I had to throw them in with people listing albums for those years.

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NumberNineDream

Oh thx, didn't know about those. Will be checking them out soon.

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storymilo

I wish some more people were making lists... these things are really cool

TheCellarTapes

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1965-1969

1965 - The Beatles play Shea Stadium whilst Bob Dylan begins his Holy Trinity and becomes Judas in the same breathe with the release of Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Joe Meek is busy in the worlds first independent studio putting the finishing touches to a whole new genre called Freakbeat. The Kinks release the last of their hard edged RnB albums with the release of The Kink Kontroversy, whilst The Pretty Things release two of their own. The Yardbirds take American black music from a bygone age, inject it with napalm and return to America with the results for a full on Rave Up. Meanwhile over in Washington State, a band release an album so damaging to health it probably should have been banned, thankfully Here Are The Sonics remains available for the purposes of self harming for the ears to this very day. Not to be outdone, The Who turn up with My Generation, whilst over in France, the ye ye girls of Chic Paris rule the airwaves.

1966 - It seems like thousands upon thousands of young lads from across North America emerge from their garages making beautiful noise to take on their British occupiers. The Count Five, The Five Americans, The Seeds, ? & The Mysterians, The Standells, The Music Machine, The Syndicate of Sound and of course The 13th Floor Elevators, all releasing unbelievable albums in this year. Eric Clapton joins John Mayall in a studio whilst over in Germany, a band of 5 ex American GIs reinvent Beat music and create the finest album of any decade called Black Monk Time. Oh and The Beatles release Revolver.....

1967 - What a marvellous year, where do you start? West Coasts where its at my friends.......or is it? The Doors and The Electric Prunes enter history with some brilliant and exceptional debuts. But then there's The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Sly & The Family Stone and The Chocolate Watchband, staggering stuff! Whilst over in Britain, The Beatles have padlocked themselves into a studio where Ringo Starr learns how to play Chess and the other three learn how to create a line in the sand. London's UFO Club becomes the base for Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and Tomorrow, whilst over in a New York Factory, The Velvet Underground meet a German model named Nico. An American named Scott Engel leaves The Walker Brothers, takes songs written by some Belgium dude and reinvents them with an album simply called "Scott", whilst jazz is reinvented under the stewardship of Brian Auger.

1968 - All that has gone before collided in 1967 and exploded leaving schrapnel all over 1968. In Brazil the Troplicalia movement leaves a dictatorship sweating uncontrollably, led by Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes, the power of music gives Brazillians something to behold. In London, three bands are leading the way with the concept album, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, The Small Faces' Ogden's Nut Gone Flake and The Pretty Things with SF Sorrow. The Velvet Underground go off the top board right into the deap end with the release of White Light/White Heat. The Beatles have far toooooooo many songs to just not release and rightly decide balls to it and release the lot! Whilst The Rolling Stones leave Psychedelia far behind and go to their spiritual roots in 1930's Chicago and release Beggars Banquet.

1969 - Woodstock? Isle of White? Hyde Park? Name the artists and the sets they played and say you arnt happy. The Beatles record their last and probably most compelling album with Abbey Road. Johnny Cash in 1969 played San Quentin, The New Yardbirds were doing some interesting things whilst The Who did Tommy. 1969 which ever way you look at it was the end of one era and the dawning of a new, but these five years were the years which I think were the most "awsome"

I have probably missed loads, but Im going for a cup of tea.

storymilo

I like that list. I seriously wish that I had grown up in the 60s, they just seem like such an exciting time

Rickenbacker

Damn, I just did one and then Google Chrome crashed. Maybe later.

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Talk About the Passion - R.E.M.'s Discography Reviewed

storymilo

What was your timeline?

Guybrush

Great timeline write-up Mr. Tapes A lot of interesting trivia in there!

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Alfred

I'm gonna have to say the last five years in music history in terms of albums.

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