1969 - THE YEAR © ℗®™ Part 15 - Which album from this list of 1969 releases do you consider to be the best?

[treeduck]

Over 50 years ago some albums were released...

[yyz305]

I got nasty habits, I take tea at three....Let it Bleed.

This is getting really difficult, would be hard enough to vote for three...

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Take Abbey Road off the list and I really can't decide. Of all my favorites, this is simultaneously one of the most ambitious and the most consistent. Even Ringo's song is great!

[bathory]

the only real competition the beatles have here is zeppelin, crimson, and zappa, and beatles annihilate them all in the songwriting department. I listen to hot rats the most out of all these though

[bathory]

actually, I'd probably call hot rats and in a silent way flawless. but not my favorite records. pretty good year

 

nice to see stuff like the stooges on here, who I love even though I don't dig their first album very much

[bathory]

let it bleed and tommy will probably do pretty well but I actually think those albums are comparative weak links in their bands' respective "classic runs"

[Rick N. Backer]

Hard to pass on Zeppelin II and Let it Bleed, but Abbey Road.

[GeddysMullet]

Lots of great records here, but my 'eart belongs to the ‘Oo.

[RushFanForever]

treeduck, I'm just giving a shout-out to two favorite Canadian albums of mine; not hinting at them for exclusion on the list. :)

 

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was voted 'best guitar album' of 1969 by Guitar Player Magazine.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREf47BPe5w

 

The Band - The Band

 

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

Edited April 19, 2020 by RushFanForever

[Nova Carmina]

This one is easier for me, maybe not "best" but certainly "favorite" because I an undiminished and unreformed enthusiast for LZ I. That album just absolutely thunders from beginning to end. It's a Desert Island disc for me.

 

Do we have a communication breakdown? I hope my choice doesn't make me seem dazed and confused, but babe, I'm gonna leave you because I don't know how many more times I can say it.

[78jazz]

These may be too hard for me. I have a toss-up between 4 (!) albums here.

[The Cat 3]

http://www.mybestreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140319_stooges72.jpg

[custom55]

On man...

 

I went with Led Zep II but for only one reason: I got Led Zep II and my first pair of bell-bottom pants for Christmas 1969.

 

Led Zep II is outstanding but so are:

 

Ummagumma

Tommy

Yes

Jethro Tull

 

...

 

A lot of groundbreaking music being released that year.

[driventotheedge]

Like with '67, there's 10-15 I could choose here. Too many that mean too much to me to only pick one.

[treeduck]

[Texas King]

Led Zeppelin II

[ReRushed]

Write in vote - The Band

[Na na na]

The Beatles

[cygnify]

Oh lord, this is the hardest one for me by far!

 

Could almost choose any album, but these stand out:

Zeppelin I & II

Yes, Tull & Floyd (better works are yet to come!)

The Who - Tommy (amazingly, not even their best work)

Abbey Road, Let it Bleed

Zappa - Hot Rats!

Doors - Soft Parade (much maligned, and underrated!)

Santana

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But I went with one of my all-timers: King Crimson "In the Court of the Crimson King"

[invisible airwave]

Abbey

[pjbear05]

Another ten album toss up. Went with Tommy.

[Tony R]

For a very long time I would have voted for Tommy over Led Zep I or II.

 

For it’s seismic impact on rock music I have to go for Led Zep I

[Stormtron]

The Beatles - Abbey Road

[apetersvt]

Zep 1 for me.

 

As so many others have stated, so many good albums this year. My 10th place album would have easily won any of the 80s polls.

[RushFanForever]

The Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

 

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

 

The album was released in Canada (1969) and the United States (1970).

Edited April 21, 2020 by RushFanForever