I'm 68. In 1968 I was 13 years old. Here are the albums that were on my turntable that year. I can't just list 5. The Beatles: White album Electric Ladyland: Jimi Hendrix Experience Wheels of Fire: Cream Waiting for the Sun: The Doors Steppenwolf: Steppenwolf The Second: Steppenwolf Creedence Clearwater Revival: Creedence Clearwater Revival Cheap Thrills: Janis Joplin Music from Big Pink: the Band In Search of the Lost Chord: The Moody Blues In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly Heavy: Iron Butterfly Crown of Creation: Jefferson Airplane Vincebus Eruptum: Blue Cheer Outsideinside: Blue Cheer Truth: Jeff Beck Blood, Sweat & Tears: Blood, Sweat & Tears Traffic: Traffic Neil Young: Neil Young Spirit: Spirit The Family That Plays Together: Spirit Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Messenger Service Sailor: Steve Miller Band Children Of The Future: Steve Miller Band Nazz: Nazz Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits Magic Bus: The Who On Tour Three Dog Night: Three Dog Night
@@DanFan2042 Well, three things. I worked every summer to make money. Sometimes 2 jobs. One summer I worked on a construction job during the day, $5.50 an hour, and then at night I worked at a Pizza Hut, $2.25 an hour plus free pizza. Some of these may have been released in 68, but I bought them in 69. In 1969 I worked at Memorial Auditorium (Dallas) where I saw a lot of bands for free. Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Santana, Led Zeppelin, James Brown, etc. I also joined the Columbia Record Club. What a great deal. They always had really good deals on certain Albums. And thirdly, my mother worked at Spartan Atlantic Department store where I could buy albums at wholesale cost. The albums I listed are just a partial list for 68. There were others. In the end, I had over 3000 lp's in my collection before everything shifted to CD's.
@@berniemiller2992 I agree. However, I didn't think "Dance to the Music" nor "Life ", both released in 1968, had enough good songs on them. The first LP I bought was 1969's *"Stand!"*. Then they followed that up with *"There's a Riot Goin' On"* in 71. They were both killer LP's. Bought *"Fresh"* in 73, another killer LP. Then I was done. In their heyday they were awesome. Great music.
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets Creedence Clearwater Revival - Self Titled The Beatles - White Album Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Silver Apples - Self-Titled is the shit. It's amazing how something so simple and minimal can be so trippy. It also has some of the best drum parts ever
I like your characterization of The Beatles White album as a free for all of ideas. It was “imperfect” but a great collection of musical ideas and styles.
One album that changed my life is HEAD from the Monkees. Great album .Will change all your lives .... forever 😏🐒. Iron 🦋 Butterfly is one of the best too
For me, I’d have to say my all time favorite album from ‘68 (and maybe even of all time) is Traffic’s self titled album. I love Steve Winwood’s earthy holler
Blood Sweat & Tears - Child Is A Father Of The Man Pacific Gas And Electric - Get It On...Blues Bloomfield, Cooper, Stills - Super Session Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac Free - Tons Of Sobs Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills Jethro Tull - This Was The Zombies - Odyssey And Oracle Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
We’d be best friends if we knew each other in real life. 1, because I’m kicking myself for forgetting Super Session. And 2, you’re the only other person I’ve seen here that’s mentioned Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac (aka the superior Fleetwood Mac lol)
My favorites: 1. The Immortal Otis Redding 2. The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society 3. The Beatles (white album) 4. Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin
Beatles - White Album Jeff Beck Group - Truth Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland Cream - Wheels of Fire Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Deep Purple - Shades Of
My five favorite 1968 albums: 1. Jimi Hendrix--Electric Ladyland 2. The Grateful Dead--Anthem Of The Sun 3. Morton Subotnick--Silver Apples Of The Moon 4. Van Dyke Parks--Song Cycle 5. United States Of America--self-titled
Oh wow, I love these picks, nice! Odessey & Oracle is one of my favorite albums of all-time, and the White Album might be the most re-listenable Beatles album just because how diverse and rich it is
‘Wheels of Fire’ by Cream, ‘Move’ by the Move, ‘Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake’ by the Small Faces, the ‘Village Green Preservation Society’ album by the Kinks, and ‘Beggars Banquet’ by the Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones The Marble Index - Nico Music From Big Pink - The Band Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds SF Sorrow - The Pretty Things
My favorites: - The White Album (The Beatles) - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (The Kinks) - Bookends (Simon & Garfunkel) - The Marble Index (Nico) - Song to a Seagull (Joni Mitchell)
I don't know if I should thank you or damn you for putting Rocky Raccoon in my head. I mean, it's a great song but once it wriggles it's way inside my brain it stays for quite a while.
The Millennium - Begin, The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It, The Beatles - self titled, Soft Machine - self titled, Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
1. Cheap Thrills: Big Brother and The Holding Company 2. Sweetheart Of The Rodeo: The Byrds 3. Time Has Come Today: Chambers Brothers 4. The White Album: Beatles 5. Electric Maryland: Jimi Hendrix Experience
Astralweeks - Van Morrison Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix White Album - The Beatles Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks Creedence Clearwater Revival -Self-Titled
It's pretty fun to think about something like this 1. The Beatles - gotta have the Beatles 2. Caetani Veloso - probably my favorite of the year, I love the instrumentation 3. Os Mutantes - kind of quirky, but all of the songs are super catchy 4. Chico Buarque de Hollanda vol. 3 - A collection of beautiful well written songs 5. Edit: Grande Liquidaçao - Tom Zé's second best also I'm not Brazilian and I don't really know portuguese
Traffic - ST (self-titled) (ALL TIME FAVORITE ALBUM) Cheap Thrills - Joplin & Holding Co. Peters Green’s Fleetwood Mac - ST Wheatfield Soul - The Guess Who Aerial Ballet - Harry Nilsson Electric Mud - Muddy Waters
Has to be the pretty things sf sorrow, or the beatles white album----- sf sorrow is fuckinnn great , and underated everytime i hear it , it blows my mind , beautiful album
an alternate top 5 for 1968: jeff beck group/truth, stones/beggars banquet, big brother & holding co./cheap thrills, sly and fam stone/life, mothers of invention/only in it for the money.
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. I am not the biggest fan of the Kinks, but this record is really something else.
Something Else is actually the previous album 😂
@@MattWilson. I'm glad you got the joke 😏
They're also the actual proto-punk pioneers, as they created all the harder that was to come (1964 You Really Got Me).
@jens4689 in surprised someone who doesn't like the kinks likes their most english, least rocking albums haha
@@regentogrin518created hard rock with that distortion too
Beggars Banquet ❤
A Saucerful of Secrets
One of my favourite Floyds
A music critic of the time wrote of the White album, “it’s a 2-disk offering of 31 ways you can write a song and record it.“
best part is there are only 30 songs so one song has to have 2, i wonder which one
@miiviscerator “happiness is a warm gun” - its literally multiple songs rolled into one. imo one of the greatest songs of all time.
true - and the reviewer of the 2 Act Beckett play 'Waiting For Godot' wrote it was "a play where nothing happens ... twice"
Bookends Simon :& Garfunkel my favourite album of 1968 super great album with wonderfull music and stuff in this album ❤❤❤❤
I'm 68. In 1968 I was 13 years old. Here are the albums that were on my turntable that year. I can't just list 5.
The Beatles: White album
Electric Ladyland: Jimi Hendrix Experience
Wheels of Fire: Cream
Waiting for the Sun: The Doors
Steppenwolf: Steppenwolf
The Second: Steppenwolf
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cheap Thrills: Janis Joplin
Music from Big Pink: the Band
In Search of the Lost Chord: The Moody Blues
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly
Heavy: Iron Butterfly
Crown of Creation: Jefferson Airplane
Vincebus Eruptum: Blue Cheer
Outsideinside: Blue Cheer
Truth: Jeff Beck
Blood, Sweat & Tears: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Traffic: Traffic
Neil Young: Neil Young
Spirit: Spirit
The Family That Plays Together: Spirit
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Sailor: Steve Miller Band
Children Of The Future: Steve Miller Band
Nazz: Nazz
Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits
Magic Bus: The Who On Tour
Three Dog Night: Three Dog Night
You had a lot of discretionary income for a boy that young at that time...
@@DanFan2042 Well, three things. I worked every summer to make money. Sometimes 2 jobs. One summer I worked on a construction job during the day, $5.50 an hour, and then at night I worked at a Pizza Hut, $2.25 an hour plus free pizza. Some of these may have been released in 68, but I bought them in 69. In 1969 I worked at Memorial Auditorium (Dallas) where I saw a lot of bands for free. Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Santana, Led Zeppelin, James Brown, etc. I also joined the Columbia Record Club. What a great deal. They always had really good deals on certain Albums. And thirdly, my mother worked at Spartan Atlantic Department store where I could buy albums at wholesale cost. The albums I listed are just a partial list for 68. There were others. In the end, I had over 3000 lp's in my collection before everything shifted to CD's.
Add some Sly Stone and we'll party.
@@berniemiller2992 I agree. However, I didn't think "Dance to the Music" nor "Life ", both released in 1968, had enough good songs on them. The first LP I bought was 1969's *"Stand!"*. Then they followed that up with *"There's a Riot Goin' On"* in 71. They were both killer LP's. Bought *"Fresh"* in 73, another killer LP. Then I was done. In their heyday they were awesome. Great music.
banquet
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Self Titled
The Beatles - White Album
Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
"Friends" by the Beach Boys is a great album.
one of my favourites
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Perfect album.
I love all five records you listed, but to me the Kinks have to be in there with “The Village Green Preservation Society” excellent album
Silver Apples - Self-Titled is the shit. It's amazing how something so simple and minimal can be so trippy. It also has some of the best drum parts ever
I like your characterization of The Beatles White album as a free for all of ideas. It was “imperfect” but a great collection of musical ideas and styles.
The Velvet Underground and the Beatles review were on point
I was 14/15 in ‘83. I remember a lot of those albums and I’ve heard most of them. I remember that year. Thanks Richard, enjoyed this.
Beggar's Banquet
One album that changed my life is HEAD from the Monkees. Great album .Will change all your lives .... forever 😏🐒. Iron 🦋 Butterfly is one of the best too
Totally agree. Tripping my balls off for the first time in my life while listening to the Porpoise Song changed my life for the better lol
For me, I’d have to say my all time favorite album from ‘68 (and maybe even of all time) is Traffic’s self titled album. I love Steve Winwood’s earthy holler
Blood Sweat & Tears - Child Is A Father Of The Man
Pacific Gas And Electric - Get It On...Blues
Bloomfield, Cooper, Stills - Super Session
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Free - Tons Of Sobs
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Jethro Tull - This Was
The Zombies - Odyssey And Oracle
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
We’d be best friends if we knew each other in real life. 1, because I’m kicking myself for forgetting Super Session. And 2, you’re the only other person I’ve seen here that’s mentioned Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac (aka the superior Fleetwood Mac lol)
Beggars Banquet, Waiting for the sun,
The White Album is easily the best album of 1968. It’s also the best Beatles album.
2nd place Electric Ladyland
The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp is pretty spectacular. It is a weird mish-mash of ideas done beautifully and in absurdity.
My favorites:
1. The Immortal Otis Redding
2. The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
3. The Beatles (white album)
4. Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin
Good taste la
@@Thebrownmod Thank you!
Beatles - White Album
Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
Deep Purple - Shades Of
The Doors album Waiting For The Sun would be on my list.
God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
Great album.
My five favorite 1968 albums:
1. Jimi Hendrix--Electric Ladyland
2. The Grateful Dead--Anthem Of The Sun
3. Morton Subotnick--Silver Apples Of The Moon
4. Van Dyke Parks--Song Cycle
5. United States Of America--self-titled
Beggars Banquet? Wheels of Fire?
Just posted the exact two albums 😂
Stellar,😊 cheers. Syd put out some cool things between 67-70. Not really 68 but hey im a child of '67...
astral weeks by Van Morrison
Good call. It sounds so timeless, I associate it with records released later.
It held the record for being the album who spent, the longest time to recieve a RIAA certification.
@@eivindgjengstjohansen9625 I don't know what that is
@@shadowbear66 the company that awards a album with gold, platinum and etc
@@eivindgjengstjohansen9625 thanks I had a hunch but wasn't sure. That's a nice tidbit of information about one of my all-time favorite albums.
Oh wow, I love these picks, nice! Odessey & Oracle is one of my favorite albums of all-time, and the White Album might be the most re-listenable Beatles album just because how diverse and rich it is
‘Wheels of Fire’ by Cream, ‘Move’ by the Move, ‘Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake’ by the Small Faces, the ‘Village Green Preservation Society’ album by the Kinks, and ‘Beggars Banquet’ by the Rolling Stones
My Top5
1.White album
2.Odessey and Oracle
3.Beggars Banquet
4.The United States of America
5.July
Couldn’t agree more! Great picks
Rolling Stones, Beggar's Banquet, Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
The Marble Index - Nico
Music From Big Pink - The Band
Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds
SF Sorrow - The Pretty Things
No Friends by The Beach Boys?
One of my favorite albums by them!
That was a GREAT selection
Fuckkin love saucerful of secrets was a huge introduction to more experimental music
The Band, Songs from Big Pink. incredible albums
Grand Funk Railroad: On Time.
🎸👈😀👍
No way that was a 68 record I thought it was 69
An underground shout is Behold & See by Ultimate Spinach
Astral Weeks...In Search of the Lost Chord...Idea...Traffic...Wheels of Fire...
My favorites:
- The White Album (The Beatles)
- The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (The Kinks)
- Bookends (Simon & Garfunkel)
- The Marble Index (Nico)
- Song to a Seagull (Joni Mitchell)
Insanely based top 5
probably some obscure proto-metal psychedelic-blues shit no one has ever heard of but can still blow your speakers out.
Damn. All bangers
This list is really solid!
I don't know if I should thank you or damn you for putting Rocky Raccoon in my head. I mean, it's a great song but once it wriggles it's way inside my brain it stays for quite a while.
Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro
Amazing choice
Also folks. .do NOT forget "BlindFaith"
Wasn't that in '69
Rocky Raccoon is so odd, it’s one of my favorites by Paul. A man of a thousand voices.
Os Mutantes
Music from the Big Pink - The Band
The United States of America
We're Only in it for the Money
The Millennium - Begin, The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It, The Beatles - self titled, Soft Machine - self titled, Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
1. Cheap Thrills: Big Brother and The Holding Company
2. Sweetheart Of The Rodeo: The Byrds
3. Time Has Come Today: Chambers Brothers
4. The White Album: Beatles
5. Electric Maryland: Jimi Hendrix Experience
Astralweeks - Van Morrison
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
White Album - The Beatles
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Creedence Clearwater Revival -Self-Titled
It's pretty fun to think about something like this
1. The Beatles - gotta have the Beatles
2. Caetani Veloso - probably my favorite of the year, I love the instrumentation
3. Os Mutantes - kind of quirky, but all of the songs are super catchy
4. Chico Buarque de Hollanda vol. 3 - A collection of beautiful well written songs
5. Edit: Grande Liquidaçao - Tom Zé's second best
also I'm not Brazilian and I don't really know portuguese
The Temptations Wish It Would Rain
Court of the crimson king❤️❤️❤️❤️
why did you put Garfunkel on the front if you didn't put Bookends? my favourite album
Waiting for the Sun
i think Prophets, Seers and Sages: The Angels of the Ages is a very underrated record from 1968 by T. Rex
A shame about the guy who died who named himself after a lord of the rings hobbit
A saucerful of secrets
Beggars Banquet, Strange Days, White Album, thr fitst C.C.R was 68?, right? Second Floyd album.
Traffic - ST (self-titled) (ALL TIME FAVORITE ALBUM)
Cheap Thrills - Joplin & Holding Co.
Peters Green’s Fleetwood Mac - ST
Wheatfield Soul - The Guess Who
Aerial Ballet - Harry Nilsson
Electric Mud - Muddy Waters
To name a couple
Beatles White album❤
cheerful insanity - giles giles and fripp. give it a listen
In Search Of The Lost Chord, Moody Blues
White Album, Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival, CCR
very solid list
God Bless Tiny Tim
S.F. Sorrow - The Pretty Things
'68 is perfect
The Doors’ Waiting for the Sun
White light White heat is probably the most John Cale on a velvet record
S. F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things, Notorious Byrd Brothers by The Byrds and Birds, Bees & Monkees by The Monkees
rocky raccoon may be an oddity but it is madly underrated, i may be biased but its one of my favorite songs they made
Been looking for someone who shares this opinion
Beggars Banquet
Cream - wheels of fire
Has to be the pretty things sf sorrow, or the beatles white album-----
sf sorrow is fuckinnn great , and underated everytime i hear it , it blows my mind , beautiful album
nice
The Doors of course!
White Light White Heat for me
The Band- Music from Big Pink
I think mine would be steppenwolf self titled or led zepplin
Led came out in 69
Oh I forgot I guess then it would be the doors that might have been 67 though but I'm not sure
White Album forever!
How about Bookens ( Simon and Garfunkel), A sourceful of secrets (Pink Floyd)and Astral weeks (Van Morrison)?
Sailor..,,.Lost Chord
I'm more fond of Electric Larryland
an alternate top 5 for 1968: jeff beck group/truth, stones/beggars banquet, big brother & holding co./cheap thrills, sly and fam stone/life, mothers of invention/only in it for the money.
The Stooges, Waiting for the Sun, and Saucerful of Secrets...
Waiting For The Sun, Wheels Of Fire, Village Green Preservation Society
BlindFaith w/Sir Eric Clapton
Did Eric get knighted?
That’s from ‘69. Great album tho. Steve Winwood’s voice on the live recording of that album is killer!
Begars Banquet duh.
van in the picture?
I know Charlie Manson. Loved the Beatles white Album.
My favorites are the white album and led zeppelin
Astral Weeks is the best album from 1968
Year I was born
What about Vanilla Fudge?
Astral Weeks by Van Morrison.
Beatles
I'm not arguing with this list.
Jimi hendrix. Iron butterfly. Blue cheer. The doors. waiting for the sun.
Thank u how has no one mentioned waiting for the sun not a bad song on there
Wheels of Fire