1968 - THE YEAR © ℗®™ Part 14 - Which album from this list of 1968 releases do you consider to be the best?

[treeduck]

A new year, a new thread...

[RushFanForever]

Kensington Market - Avenue Road

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVj77r9xY4

 

For the record, this album was produced by the late Felix Pappalardi, who also produced Cream, Mountain, and Hot Tuna.

 

Mandala - Soul Crusade

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQThbeEEUM

Edited April 19, 2020 by RushFanForever

[treeduck]

Kensington Market - Avenue Road

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVj77r9xY4

 

For the record, this album was produced by the late Felix Pappalardi, who also produced Cream, Mountain, and Hot Tuna.

 

Mandala - Soul Crusade

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQThbeEEUM

Here we go again. I'll tell you what you do the next poll and meanwhile I'll find a bunch of albums that you don't put in and post videos in the thread instead. :bang bang:

[yyz305]

I hear the click clack of your feet on the stairs - Beggars Banquet, just above a number of others

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Oh this is terrible, this is just awful.

 

How am I supposed to decide between:

The White Album

Village Green

Wheels Of Fire

Electric Ladyland

 

The White Album is the patchiest but it's best moments are among the best moments in recorded music history to this day

Village Green is the most consistent with the most brilliantly crafted songs and concept, but it can read as a bit plain

Wheels Of Fire is brilliantly dynamic, but is more consistently great than outstanding

Electric Ladyland is Jimi's masterpiece, exploring every side of him in depth, but it can drag in places

 

I want all four. Why can't I vote for all four?

 

All right....if this is any metric to go by, I turn back to Electric Ladyland the most often out of these four juggernauts. Jimi steals it from the Brits by the skin of his guitar playing teeth.

[Rick N. Backer]

The White Album is my favorite studio album ever.

[GeddysMullet]

Kensington Market - Avenue Road

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVj77r9xY4

 

For the record, this album was produced by the late Felix Pappalardi, who also produced Cream, Mountain, and Hot Tuna.

 

Mandala - Soul Crusade

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQThbeEEUM

Here we go again. I'll tell you what you do the next poll and meanwhile I'll find a bunch of albums that you don't put in and post videos in the thread instead. :bang bang:

 

Be nice! Your thing is polls, RFF's thing is tangential trivia. It's fun!

[RushFanForever]

RFF's thing is tangential trivia. It's fun!

 

 

As mentioned, I'm giving a shout-out to lesser known Canadian albums that have made an impact.

 

Maybe other forum members might dig this stuff.

 

Also some of these lesser known acts were influential to RUSH. :)

Edited April 19, 2020 by RushFanForever

[Nova Carmina]

I looked at the list; I looked at the list again; my eyes glazed over; my brain filled with about 40 pieces of music from those albums that demand to be labelled as "best"; I surrendered to despair; shutting out all the cries of the worthy and the needy, I voted for The White Album; now I'm oddly at peace.

 

As these polls have gone up, I said to myself (and to my wife, who's not listening), these'll get easier when they get beyond things I experienced and listened to in real time. As they become more like museum or "classic" polls, there will be fewer worthy choices. I was wrong about that, very wrong.

[Nova Carmina]

Sorry; double-posted. But it's still The White Album. Edited April 19, 2020 by Nova Carmina

[78jazz]

Nova, I could not vote on this. Those first 4 albums alone would get my consideration for best album released in 1968 along with 3 others in the list and probably 2-3 that I need to hear that might also be in the mix.

[The Cat 3]

http://performingsongwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/the-beatles-white-album.jpg

[custom55]

Edited April 19, 2020 by custom55

[driventotheedge]

Like with '67, too many for me to choose just one. However unlike '67 where I felt there were 10-15 worthy of a vote, '68 there's like 5 or 6. Still too many and they mean too much to me to single one out

[treeduck]

Kensington Market - Avenue Road

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVj77r9xY4

 

For the record, this album was produced by the late Felix Pappalardi, who also produced Cream, Mountain, and Hot Tuna.

 

Mandala - Soul Crusade

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQThbeEEUM

Here we go again. I'll tell you what you do the next poll and meanwhile I'll find a bunch of albums that you don't put in and post videos in the thread instead. :bang bang:

 

Be nice! Your thing is polls, RFF's thing is tangential trivia. It's fun!

My thing is singing the blues in the bath actually, this is just a little sideline. :D-13:

[Texas King]

Electric Ladyland, hands down.

[ReRushed]

The White Album is a crazy disjointed road map of rock music. It doesn't always take you where you want to go, but it's still a wild ride and never boring. I am always finding new things navigating the peaks and valleys. The 2019 remix is fantastic.

[Na na na]

The Byrds

[tangy]

give me some jimi.

[cygnify]

Went with The White Album... just over Hendrix. Lots of contenders again..

[laughedatbytime]

The Beatles by the slimmest of margins over Beggars Banquet.

[custom55]

http://youtu.be/KH7T6Y2me6k

[pjbear05]

Hendrix, over another dozen winners, includng Quicksilver Messenger Service. Edited April 20, 2020 by pjbear05

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Wait Duck!

 

You forgot Astral Weeks by Van Morrison

 

 

oooh....I think I would actually vote for that too.

[RushFanForever]

I was listening to a recent episode of CBC My Playlist with Ben Mink from February of this year.

 

The albums I mentioned by the music acts Kensington Market and Mandala were influential to him as well.

 

Ben mentioned that he and a friend saw Steppenwolf live, when they were known as The Sparrows at a venue in Yorkville, Ontario.

 

He got to hear 'Born To Be Wild' live sitting in an audience of about seven people.