Who had the best of these 1969 albums?

[Mithrandir]

Abbey Road by a hair over Arthur.

[Mithrandir]

The Beatles - Abbey Road: A marvelous album where the sum is greater than its parts. The Beatles pull together odds and ends and leftovers and pull off a magical ride with side two.It shouldn't work but it does. It is never boring. What holds it all together? Great arrangements, great sequencing, great melodies, great vocals and some of the Beatles' best instrumental performances. I think a lot of future prog epics benefited from what the Beatles accomplished with side two. Side one suffers from the inclusion of two novelty songs that, to me, prove to be a distraction. Take one of them off and give George another slot (Not Guilty?) and I feel the album would improve significantly. [9/10]

 

The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire): The Kinks' weakest album in a brilliant late 1960s run. The Kinks at their best are the best, but I feel Arthur is bogged down by its concept and, quite frankly, the best songs on the album don't hold up to the best songs on other Kinks albums. A very good album that is inferior to what came before it and after it. [7/10]

 

The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed: A transitional album for the Stones. Something about it feels incomplete to me, it's probably related to losing Brian Jones and waiting for Mick Taylor's arrival. But the highs reach the very top. Gimme Shelter! Midnight Rambler! You Can't Always Get What You Want! Wow. [9/10]

 

The Who - Tommy: I always felt Tommy was incredibly overrated. I find it a chore to listen to beginning to end. I feel the Who went on to release much better albums. Personally, I would rate it lower, but I can't ignore its influence and popularity. [8/10]

 

It's between Abbey Road and Let It Bleed. I'm a Beatles guy, so the Fab Four it is. By the way, I think the Band's The Band is the best album of 1969.

Couldn't disagree more about Arthur. In my opinion the best Kinks album hands down. Perhaps one of the most under rated albums in the rock and roll era.

[Mithrandir]

I went with Let It Bleed

 

The Stones are the only band here that I feel connected with and that I have a passion for

 

Tommy and Abbey Road are total classics and are incredible landmark albums, but I just never felt the bond with The Who or The Beatles that I do with Mick, Keith and The Stones - and The Kinks even less ..

 

The first few seconds of both Monkey Man and Gimmie Shelter send shivers thru me every time I listen, and Can't Always Get What You Want is a classic amongst classics

I find the Stones to be more of singles band. They've got some great songs but I've yet to find a Stones album that I can listen to all the way through. There's too many songs that are either fake country, pseudo RnB, pop pap, morose ballads etc. And even the songs that rock don't rock hard enough! I like some Stones songs like that but I wish they had more balls, especially in the guitar department.

 

The one thing that I can point to that doesn;t really work well for me with The Stones is the fake country thing .. The other stuff I love - Fool To Cry, Angie, Hot Stuff - that would probably be the pop pap, morose ballad, pseudo R&B category but I love those songs ..

 

Dead Flowers is a song I would like a lot better if Mick hadn't hammed it up

I don't know why they do that fake country stuff at all, makes no sense.

 

Duck, you've heard Michael Schenker talk about how he was asked to join The Stones back in 1974-75, right ??

 

I can;t imagine how that would have worked -- but I can somehow hear Mick Jagger singing "Let It Roll" !!

He would have made them into an essential band for true music fans and not just posers who pretend to like music. It's just that MOST people are posers who pretend to like music so there's more money to be made from them.

What does this post even mean?

[treeduck]

I went with Let It Bleed

 

The Stones are the only band here that I feel connected with and that I have a passion for

 

Tommy and Abbey Road are total classics and are incredible landmark albums, but I just never felt the bond with The Who or The Beatles that I do with Mick, Keith and The Stones - and The Kinks even less ..

 

The first few seconds of both Monkey Man and Gimmie Shelter send shivers thru me every time I listen, and Can't Always Get What You Want is a classic amongst classics

I find the Stones to be more of singles band. They've got some great songs but I've yet to find a Stones album that I can listen to all the way through. There's too many songs that are either fake country, pseudo RnB, pop pap, morose ballads etc. And even the songs that rock don't rock hard enough! I like some Stones songs like that but I wish they had more balls, especially in the guitar department.

 

The one thing that I can point to that doesn;t really work well for me with The Stones is the fake country thing .. The other stuff I love - Fool To Cry, Angie, Hot Stuff - that would probably be the pop pap, morose ballad, pseudo R&B category but I love those songs ..

 

Dead Flowers is a song I would like a lot better if Mick hadn't hammed it up

I don't know why they do that fake country stuff at all, makes no sense.

 

Duck, you've heard Michael Schenker talk about how he was asked to join The Stones back in 1974-75, right ??

 

I can;t imagine how that would have worked -- but I can somehow hear Mick Jagger singing "Let It Roll" !!

He would have made them into an essential band for true music fans and not just posers who pretend to like music. It's just that MOST people are posers who pretend to like music so there's more money to be made from them.

What does this post even mean?

I guess you'll have to keep reading it until you understand, or move on. These are your choices.

[ReRushed]

The Beatles - Abbey Road: A marvelous album where the sum is greater than its parts. The Beatles pull together odds and ends and leftovers and pull off a magical ride with side two.It shouldn't work but it does. It is never boring. What holds it all together? Great arrangements, great sequencing, great melodies, great vocals and some of the Beatles' best instrumental performances. I think a lot of future prog epics benefited from what the Beatles accomplished with side two. Side one suffers from the inclusion of two novelty songs that, to me, prove to be a distraction. Take one of them off and give George another slot (Not Guilty?) and I feel the album would improve significantly. [9/10]

 

The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire): The Kinks' weakest album in a brilliant late 1960s run. The Kinks at their best are the best, but I feel Arthur is bogged down by its concept and, quite frankly, the best songs on the album don't hold up to the best songs on other Kinks albums. A very good album that is inferior to what came before it and after it. [7/10]

 

The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed: A transitional album for the Stones. Something about it feels incomplete to me, it's probably related to losing Brian Jones and waiting for Mick Taylor's arrival. But the highs reach the very top. Gimme Shelter! Midnight Rambler! You Can't Always Get What You Want! Wow. [9/10]

 

The Who - Tommy: I always felt Tommy was incredibly overrated. I find it a chore to listen to beginning to end. I feel the Who went on to release much better albums. Personally, I would rate it lower, but I can't ignore its influence and popularity. [8/10]

 

It's between Abbey Road and Let It Bleed. I'm a Beatles guy, so the Fab Four it is. By the way, I think the Band's The Band is the best album of 1969.

Couldn't disagree more about Arthur. In my opinion the best Kinks album hands down. Perhaps one of the most under rated albums in the rock and roll era.

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[Entre_Perpetuo]

None of these compare to the 1969 releases that aren't mentioned.

 

Starting with Led Zep I and II, Chicago Transit Authority, In the Court of the Crimson King...

 

I was going to rant about excluding Hendrix, but he didn't have any 1969 albums. But I'm pretty sure he was active in 69 in more than one way.

 

I meant for this to be about these four bands in particular. Not saying that any of these albums are necessarily the best of 1969 by excluding other fantastic releases from that year, though Abbey Road is probably still my fav of the year. Just that Beatles, Stones, Who, and Kinks are often seen as the kind of big four british invasion bands of the 60s, and these are all some of their best albums.

[apetersvt]

My preference of the four is Let It Bleed (but Zep 1 or Live Dead would probably be my favorite album from '69)

[custom55]

TOMMY

 

Around this time ( 1969 / 8th grade ) I was getting into harder music. Led Zep, The Who were waking up my ears. I was into The Beatles and Stones up to this point in my musical career but Tommy really stood out as something unique.

 

 

http://youtu.be/aaUDOzorCcI

 

 

A very close second was Let it Bleed and then Led Zep II ( released Oct 1969 ).

Edited April 4, 2018 by custom55

[librarian]

1,4,3,2.

[Rushman14]

Led Zeppelin II

[Blue J]

I feel bad NOT picking Abbey Road, but I have to go with Let it Bleed. It is just incredible beyond words. I think Gimme Shelter might be the Stones’ finest studio creation, and the rest of the album is just home run after home run, all the way to the end.

[LedRush]

LZ1, LZ2, then Abbey Road, Let it Bleed, and Tommy.

[bathory]

all too easy

[Entre_Perpetuo]

It took forever, but someone finally voted for the Kinks, yay, lol.