Category: Jam Session
Ok, I created this topic because I love the 60's. There were so many things going on, the music scene was expanding to unthinkable proportions, and it's sad to think that there can never again be a revolution of such epic proportions because it's all been done before. but anyway, this is the place to post all your favorite bands from the 60's, so I'll start. Obviously I love the Beatles, CCR, The Doors (Jim Morrison is perhaps the greatest musician to have ever lived), The Turtles, The Rolling Stones, etc. There were also great things happening in folk music, Nick Drake and James Taylor being prime examples. Now I'm really starting to get into garage bands, such as Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Blues Magoos, Illinois Speed Press, Count Five, The Sonics, The Music Machine, and a lot more. I've been hunting down compilations with rare underground psychedelic stuff, and I love it.
It's been so more of late
oh say the last couple of years
when really for almost a first
it seems I've gotten into the enjoyment of
listening to the music of the 60's.
Yes, The Doors and too, INXS comes to mind
Funny how people are so different. I never saw the big eal about the Doors, just can't get .. into them .. haha, I appreciate others do and that's cool, but they just nevr appealed to me, except the keybord line from "Light My Fire", which is pure brilliance and "People Are Strange", which is a great song, and "Riders on the Storm". That being said, it is 3 tracks more than many other bands have managed to impress me with, but, hey, all the power to the Doors.
I like the Kinks too, they had a brilliant run in the 60s, the guitar solo from "You Really Got Me" is, I think credited to be one of the first real guitar solos, and it is just really neat. "Tired of Waiting" is just a beautiful song and they had an excellent run.
Not sure if King Crimson is 60s or 70s, but great band. CCR is, and always will be, a classic, it's amazing how they just never managed any solo fame, there was something about their chemistry.
The Byrds were excellent too, that 12 string sound was really cool.
The Beach Boys, do not forget them although they stretched into the 70s.
I dig the stuff the Shadows were doing and their surf rock thing. I have to kind of be doing something else when I listen to instrumental music, but they knew how to use a Fender Jaguar to get that jangly surf sound and some of their song are just fantastic.
I'm mostly a 1990s man, though I dig stuff from every decade, but these are my highlights from the 60s. I will keep an eye on this topic thoug for new ideas.
Mmm, the 60's, definitely would have loved to live during those times. I love the garage bands, that I mostly don't know the names of, and if I do, I don't know how to spell them. The recording was beautifully primitive and raw, no over production or auto-tuners. I also love the reggae and ska of the 60's, much different from the southern California ska, that sounds like something out of a Taco bell commercial. If I can figure out how to spell, I'll definitely post some of those bands.
hmm,
i like the kinks, " waterloo sunset", " lazing on a sunny afternoon", and uh... yeah, the other ones too, though none of the other songs spring to mind.
i love ccr, have you ever seen the rain has to be one of there best tracks.
the beatles were anoying at first, but i do like penny lane.
i love the song from the beach boys about hoisting up the sails because they want to go home... can't think of the track names.
but i'm more in to the rock seen really. linken park, shinedown, mitalica, ac/dc, mcr, disturbed, that kind of thing.
Then too,
Pink Floyd
and
The Monkeys, who had their own tv show and was
more so a comedy act.
I love Sixties music, even though I was very little when the good stuff was out. Was born in 1965 and I remember top 40 music from maybe '68 and '69 on the radio. Discovered album rock from that era in my teens when I really started taking an interest in music. Always liked the unusual so went for a lot of the psychedelic music and later obscure garage bands. But yeah, overall, be it top 40, album rock or even some of the easy listening, the Sixties had some great music. I really started listening to Sixties music when music started getting kind of bland in the Eighties. Thing is, people really thought they could change the world for the better in the late Sixties, even though I'm sure a lot of that may have been fueled by drugs. But it beats the hell out of music from more modern times which seems more negative and hopeless.
Ah yes, Pink Floyd's first 2 albums from the late 60's were awesome. That song about a bike (the title escapes me right now) is probably the most ridiculous song I've ever heard, but it's catchy as hell.
Was never really a Beach Boys fan, I can appreciate their musical genius but it's just not my thing.
here are some bands and albums from the 60s to check out
Nick drake, obviously, because he is amazing, probbably my favourite artist.
Tim buckly's first few records
Fairport convention selftitled, leage and leafe, unhalfbricking
king crimson, the court of the crimson king
tyrranasaurus rex first 3 albums which were my people were fair and had sky in their hair, but now their content to ware stars on their brows, no kidding that's the name of it... proffits, seers and sages, the angels of the ages, and unicorn, the titles alone are worth getting the albums for :p
joni mitchell song to a seagull and clouds
trees on the shaw and the garden of jane delorny, however you spell that
the electric prunes i had too much to dream last night
pink floyd piper at the gates of dawn and saucer full of secrets, sydd barrat was awsome.
jefferson airplane takes off, after bathing at backsters, serialistic pillo etc
the incredible string band selftitled, the five thousand spirits or the layers of the onion, the hangman's beautiful daughter.
the sallyangie children of the sun
love forever changes and da capo
it's a beautiful day selftitled
jacson c frank selftitled, nick drake's earliest influence, or one of them to write how he did, he even covered some of his songs in his bootleg home recordings etc.
the purple gang strikes!
jimmy hendrix are you experienced? obviously
fleetwood mac peter green's fleetwood mac
trader horne morning way, actually from 1970 but hey
I'll come back and post more probbably lol I know i have a strange taste in music.
here are some bands and albums from the 60s to check out
Nick drake, obviously, because he is amazing, probbably my favourite artist.
Tim buckly's first few records
Fairport convention selftitled, leage and leafe, unhalfbricking
king crimson, the court of the crimson king
tyrranasaurus rex first 3 albums which were my people were fair and had sky in their hair, but now their content to ware stars on their brows, no kidding that's the name of it... proffits, seers and sages, the angels of the ages, and unicorn, the titles alone are worth getting the albums for :p
joni mitchell song to a seagull and clouds
trees on the shaw and the garden of jane delorny, however you spell that
the electric prunes i had too much to dream last night
pink floyd piper at the gates of dawn and saucer full of secrets, sydd barrat was awsome.
jefferson airplane takes off, after bathing at backsters, serialistic pillo etc
the incredible string band selftitled, the five thousand spirits or the layers of the onion, the hangman's beautiful daughter.
the sallyangie children of the sun
love forever changes and da capo
it's a beautiful day selftitled
jacson c frank selftitled, nick drake's earliest influence, or one of them to write how he did, he even covered some of his songs in his bootleg home recordings etc.
the purple gang strikes!
jimmy hendrix are you experienced? obviously
fleetwood mac peter green's fleetwood mac
trader horne morning way, actually from 1970 but hey
I'll come back and post more probbably lol I know i have a strange taste in music.
lmao multiples, on the boreds? sorry guys, but this does give me a chance to add a few i just thought of
ultimate spinich, selftitled, probbably the trippiest rock lp ever
family, music in a doll's house
the pentangle selftitled, baskit of light, cruel sister
comus first utterance
simon and garfunkel wednesday morning 3 a.m, the sounds of silence
byeeeeeee
Those of you skeptical about the Beach Boys may want to check out the Pet Sounds album. This is nothing like the usual teenage music they did before this album. This was Brian Wilson's pet project and there's just something groovy about everything in this album, not just the lyrics and vocals but the instrumental arrangements, too.
I like pet sounds, although i wouldn't give it the lable of a psychedelic album as a lot of people would, that term was way overused in the 60s, wouldn't it be nice is a great track.
screaming turtle, the floyd song about the bike was actually called bike.
Man, there were so many great bands/artists that came out of the sixties... led zeppelin, the who, the yardbirds, jeff beck, the jimi hendrix experience and later his band of gypsies, the doors, cream, bob dylan, the beatles, the rolling stones, creedence, america, chicago, the kinx, the animals, iron butterfly, vinella fudge, the grateful dead, mountain, crosby stills and nash, pink floyd, santana, the moving sidewalks, (who later became ZZ top), the moody blues, ten years after, the birds, the guess who, the hollies, the mamas and the papas, elton john, (yes he did start his career in the late sixties), and the list goes on. I wish I could have been at woodstock...
Man, forgot about iron butterfly, and the early status quo stuff was pritty damn great. I have a complete recording of the woodstock and man I wish i could have been there.
OK, let's steer the topic in a slightly different direction. Are you guys pretty open about your love of Sixties music, or do you keep a lid on it because you know people would criticize you for it. I mean, I'm sure whatever music you like, you'll get criticism, but I would suppose at least amongst younger folks there's this idea that one should listen to whatever is going on now because it's the current thing, not necessarily because it's artistically more interesting music, and anyone who likes anything old is just living in the past and has something wrong with them. I mean, I think at this point I can get away with being majorly interested in Sixties music because I'm 45 years old. Hahahahahaha!
Oh hell yeah. Considering I'm 20, I get crap all the time for the music I listen to. But I also have a wide variety too, so if someone wants to be closed-minded I can steer the topic to more modern bands. I'll listen to pretty much anything except country music, so it's easy for me to talk about all different genres. But the 60's produced, in my opinion, the absolutely greatest music ever made. A lot of younger people don't understand that, especially my love of the more obscure psychedelic stuff. But I think for me it's a mindset, I mean I would just love to go back in time and really understand what kind of things inspired that kind of songwriting. The obvious culprit is drugs, but I don't think that's all of it. There was a huge amount of social change, a freedom and liberation not present in other generations. My favorite way to put it is, the 60's was the age of expression, today is the age of suppression. I would have loved to live in those times for the simple fact I bet it was a lot easier to be yourself back then. So of course a lot of people don't understand why I think that way either, or why I prefer vinyl over cd's, but that's a whole other topic.
I'm not such as big a fan of all this, having not been so exposed to it as some people but I had to comment on the post of whether we show our unusual music tastes. I'm a huge fan of various types of music from New Age to Celtic to trance to soundtracks to really obscure melodic Gothic stuff like Within Temptation to Nick Drake, Trader Horne and the like, so I can probably comment lol. No, I don't hide it at all; in fact a great deal of strange music follows me everywhere I go. Then again I'm known for being a strange bird, so.
lol feathers's's's
I'm the same as you, a lot of people like me because I am eclectic, I had a couple of radio shows and they got listening figures because I'd play pritty out of the way stuff, and they also got shut down for that reason lol
it all depends on the individual. Personally I strongly dislike closemindedness and tend to avoid it.
I like lots of different sorts of music, but I can't name any bands or artists from current times that interest me. Some of the last artists that interested me were Phish and They Might Be Giants. A lot of the rock music I hear these days seems to just be too serious and dark and a fella can just take so much doom and disillusionment. Never got into rap or hip-hop, so pop music is out. Never got much into country either, although I don't mind country novelty songs, although I enjoy any sort of comedy or novelty thing no matter what style it is. So yeah, I am sort of half-kidding when I call myself a goddamn eletist snob. LOL!
I think part of the reason a lot of current rock/metal is dark is because we're in dark and disillusioned times. But there's also a lot of this crazy party mentality wannabe metal that I can't stand, too, as well as the blood-hate-pain-death "die muthafucka die muthafucka die muthafucka die die die aaaaaaaa" stuff. People think it's cool to play blaring discords, bang out pointlessly fast "non-rhythm rhythms" and shriek and growl till they have a heart attack. and it's not. Though you can find reeeeeeally obscure current stuff of various genres that's good, too.
I've heard some of the indie pop that college stations play and I like it. But yeah, never got into metal of any sort, even that Eighties stuff with the hair on it. LOL! I did like Rush, though, but they were more akin to progressive rock than anything else, and I liked Led Zeplin until they got played to death. I'm still amazed by Jimi Hendrix, though, and let's please please not forget Frank Zappa.
Omg. Speaking of good metal/rock--why has no one mentioned Dream Theater?? Lol wrong topic for them but someone mentioned metal earlier and, well, I couldn't resist.
I dunno if I can buy the idea that modern times are so much scarier than any other time. In the Sixties there was plenty to be scared of. Race riots, dying in a war that didn't seem to concern you, the constant threat of Russia pushing the button, whatever. Some of the threats have gone away, but some of them are still around although they've taken on new forms. I think marketers decided that pessimism sells more CDs or downloads. I don't know.
dude, frank zapper!!! I swear by that apostrophie album, and absolutely free, too. He's done some stuff that was just out rite odd, but seriously, how can one not laugh at a dog doo snow shoe? The soft machine were pritty good for that sort of stuff, too.
Current music, all the stuff I like nobody's ever heard of lol I like a lot of underground techno, dave clark (the techno producer not from the dave clark 5) jeff mills, venitian snares, I like a lot of drum and bass, too. My current new act is a guy called devendra banhart. He is amazing.
Post 25 I think what it comes down to is the media makes a hell of a lot more money on suffering than it did in the 60's. I don't know this of course so correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like every time you turn around you hear about something bad happening, hence why I never watch the news, or much tv for that matter. It seems only natural then that music would follow that dark path, partially because if you do watch stuff like that on a daily basis, no wonder you'd be depressed.
Now I do like my fair share of rock and metal music, sometimes it's for the killer guitar riffs, sometimes because I do find some of those dark lyrics touching.
I agree with you about not watching news, because I know it's just another show and it is in no way an accurate picture of reality. I like to believe real life has both good and bad bits, not just one or the other, just like it's always been. People who want to tell you things are falling apart are probably trying to sell you something, including wanting you to hop aboard their given political or religious point of view. No thank you, leave the fearmongering and brainwashing for the herd. Hahahahahaha!
A good deal is falling apart though, that can't be denied. But a good deal is growing and changing. Music of all times--or at least of the last century--has always reflected both sides of the good and bad, and at many points tried to make light of both. Yes, I'off-topic, yes, I'm rambling and yes, I'll shut up now.
Frank Zappa was a fucking genius. More peple should check out his music. His son is also an amazing guitarist, dweezil. and yeah, to the guy who mentioned them, dream theater are amazing, they are my favorite band next to rush. however, they began in the eighties, so this is the wrong board for them.
Hmm, not sure if it's just me, but anyone else really love the early 60s doo wop stuff? and some of the reggae and ska from that period was the best ever, in my opinion.
Oh, nothing like that classic ska and yeah, let's not forget rocksteady.