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1967: the finest year in rock and roll history
Posted: 04 Jan '06, 14:06
Jimi Hendrix slaying all ears at the Monterey Festival, The Beatles unleashing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to a world not ready for such a radical stylistic departure, the Stones and Pink Floyd becoming megastars: 1967 has been voted the finest year in rock and roll history by Radio 2 listeners.
Presenter Andrew Collins may have pointed out on his Monday night show that the UK charts were dominated by the soundtrack to The Sound Of Music in '67, but the year still belonged to rock: the so-called Summer of Love was but the icing on the cake, the cake full of The Beach Boys and The Doors, and many more.
At the opposite end of the praise spectrum was 1999, considered the worst year on record. Of course, much of this is down to the age of voters - the average was 51. Nostalgia, anyone?
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this year
2006 is the greatest year for music.
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Looks about right
I'm sure Q will find a way to make a 60 page special out of these findings next month, including a free CD featuring all sorts of dullards covering songs from said year.
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Well the Beach Boys
were in freefall in 1967 critically and erm the most influential producer Joe Meek blew his brains out on the 3rd Feb that year and Hendrix 'wowed' everyone on the Walker Brothers Tour in 1966 not 67.
Still what could have been worse than 1997
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1966...
I always think of that year as being the golden year from that era - pet sounds, revolver, and phil spector's last stand before semi-retirement. I suppose you had Smile by the Beach Boys in 67, but only Smiley Smile surfaced in that year.
1999 was pretty poor from what I remember though. Terris on the front cover of the NME?!
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TERRIS!
Weren't they great...
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i liked them
and if we're talking nostalgia i'm voting 2001.
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you've taken ample influence
since writing about mister peel, eh?
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I completely agree with this!
Utterly. and have always secretly thought this.
1967: first VU album.
1999: only decent record released for 12 months = The Soft Bulletin*.
*unresearched - may not be true.
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I agree with this aswell
Though alot of 1967's music was the result of 1966 if you get what i mean.
If you look back at some of the top ten charts summer 67 its pretty staggering the amount of classics in there.
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a lot of music in 1999 could be the result of 1967. influences.
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terris were on the cover first week of 2000, i thought...
correct me if i'm wrong
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The years
1999 through 2002 were pretty awful.
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Nostalgia
Isn't what it used to be
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Nice article about Terris
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1054
One I like.
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It's A Stupid Question of Course...
Comes down to age and stuff.
1967 a predictable answer. Not sure what I'd say. 1997 was the year I really got into music so I quite like that, even if the music wasn't so hot. 2004 was pretty good and there was another year in the early 2000s but I've forgotten which.
In any year with 'bad' music it may just be you missed the good ones.
1999 was pretty bad from my perspective. I remember "Supergrass"'s eponymous album as being one of my favourite albums of the year and, whilst it was no means a bad album, I've never really been a Supergrass fan...
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i know...
i just relly liked 2001.
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well
after a little research, lets see what really awful albums came out in 1999:
Sigur Ros - '�gætis Byrjun'
Mr Bungle - California
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
The Flaming Lips - 'The Soft Bulletin'
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
Therapy? - 'Suicide Pact: You First'
Wilco - Summer Teeth
Low - Secret Name
Smog - Knock Knock
Roots - Things Fall Apart
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
Le Tigre - Le Tigre
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Madonna
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!
Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Deus - The Ideal Crash
Pavement - Terror Twilight
Opeth - Still Life
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
Nine Inch Nails - 'The Fragile'
Jimmy Eat World - 'Clarity'
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morningas that contains 2 or 3 of my favourite albums ever made, the last of the summer wine watching voters for this poll can eat my furry cunt.
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Neutral Milk Hotel
I was going to suggest Neutral Milk Hotel's "in the aeroplane over the sea" as a good album from 1999, but it turns out it was released in 1998. Silly me.
That album is the balls :-D
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Well said Jamie Summers.
The Soft Bulletin?
Emergency & I?
Guerrilla?
Come On Die Young?
Midnite Vultures?
Terror Twilight?Who said 1999 was a shit year for music? Bring it on.
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LOVE
Dont forget Love Forever Changes an absolute classic of those times, beats Pet Sounds by a mile imo.
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didn't that come out in '68?
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2006
2006 definitely has the potential to be the best. New Chili Peppers, new TBS, debut Angels and Airwaves, a billion new bands. How can 1967 be the best with so few bands? More like easier to analyse.
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fraid not,
november 67 it was released.
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i hope that you're joking
chilli peppers have been crap since one hot minute (yeah, i liked it)
tbs - pffft
angels and airwaves? don't get me started.67 spawned classics.
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They're all probably
REALLY shit records though.
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This is true.
And anyone who disagrees is most probably a total fucking idiot.
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