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23-07-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1965-1969  >>The Who, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Love, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Donovan, THE BEATLES, Spirit, King Crimson, The Moody Blues<<

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1965-1969

An explosive combo that pioneered progressive and arena rock, each new sound increasing their influence and legacy.
The Who
Out In the Street (Pete Townshend)
I Don't Mind (James Brown)
from My Generation 1965

An explosive debut, and the hardest mod pop recorded by anyone. At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record... While the execution was sometimes crude, and the songwriting not as sophisticated as it would shortly become, the Who never surpassed the pure energy level of this record.

With a style honed in the gritty blues bars of Chicago's south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a young white audience in the mid-'60s, and although the band wasn't a particularly huge commercial success, its influence has been enduring and pervasive.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Born in Chicago (Nick Gravenites)
Screamin' (Michael Bloomfield)
from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 1965
Even after his death, Paul Butterfield's music didn't receive the accolades that were so deserved. Outputting styles adopted from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters among other blues greats, Butterfield became one of the first white singers to rekindle blues music through the course of the mid-'60s. His debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, saw him teaming up with guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, with Jerome Arnold on bass, Sam Lay on drums, and Mark Naftalin playing organ. The result was a wonderfully messy and boisterous display of American-styled blues, with intensity and pure passion derived from every bent note. In front of all these instruments is Butterfield's harmonica, beautifully dictating a mood and a genuine feel that is no longer existent, even in today's blues music....

One of the best L.A. folk/psych bands, and producers of the seminal Forever Changes, a symphonic masterpiece of lush textures and surreal lyrics.
Love
Stephanie Knows Who  (Arthur Lee)
Orange Skies (Arthur Lee / Bryan MacLean)
Seven & Seven Is  (Arthur Lee)
She Comes in Colors (Arthur Lee)
from Da Capo 1966
Love broadened their scope into psychedelia on their sophomore effort, Arthur Lee's achingly melodic songwriting gifts reaching full flower. The six songs that comprised the first side of this album when it was first issued are a truly classic body of work, highlighted by the atomic blast of pre-punk rock "Seven & Seven Is" (their only hit single), the manic jazz tempos of "Stephanie Knows Who," and the enchanting "She Comes in Colors," perhaps Lee's best composition (and reportedly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow")...

By 1966, the Stones had decided to respond to the Beatles' increasingly complex albums with their first album of all-original material, Aftermath. Due to Brian Jones' increasingly exotic musical tastes, the record boasted a wide range of influences...
The Rolling Stones
Mother's Little Helper (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)
Stupid Girl (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)
Lady Jane (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)
Under My Thumb (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)
from Aftermath 1966
...It's still a great album, though the difference in song lineup makes it a different record; "Mother's Little Helper" is one of the more in-your-face drug songs of the period, as well as being a potent statement about middle-class hypocrisy and political inconsistency...

...It was in a New York club that Hendrix was spotted by Animals bassist Chas Chandler. The first lineup of the Animals was about to split, and Chandler, looking to move into management, convinced Hendrix to move to London and record as a solo act in England. There a group was built around Jimi, also featuring Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass, that was dubbed the Jimi Hendrix Experience...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Up from the Skies (Jimi Hendrix)
Spanish Castle Magic  (Jimi Hendrix)
Wait Until Tomorrow  (Jimi Hendrix)
Ain't No Telling (Jimi Hendrix)
from Axis: Bold as Love 1967
Jimi Hendrix's second album followed up his groundbreaking debut effort with a solid collection of great tunes and great interactive playing between himself, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and the recording studio itself. Wisely retaining manager Chas Chandler to produce the album and Eddie Kramer as engineer, Hendrix stretched further musically than the first album, but even more so as a songwriter...

Upon his emergence during the mid-'60s, Donovan was anointed "Britain's answer to Bob Dylan," a facile but largely unfounded comparison which compromised the Scottish folk-pop troubadour's own unique vision. Where the thrust of Dylan's music remains its bleak introspection and bitter realism, Donovan fully embraced the wide-eyed optimism of the flower power movement, his ethereal, ornate songs radiating a mystical beauty and childlike wonder; for better or worse, his recordings remain quintessential artifacts of the psychedelic era, capturing the peace and love idealism of their time to perfection...
Donovan
Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Donovan)
Skip-a-Long Sam (Donovan)
Voyage Into the Golden Screen (Donovan)
from A Gift From a Flower to a Garden 1967
Rock music's first two-LP box set, A Gift from a Flower to a Garden overcomes its original shortcomings and stands out as a prime artifact of the flower-power era that produced it. The music still seems a bit fey, and overall more spacy than the average Moody Blues album of this era, but the sheer range of subjects and influences make this a surprisingly rewarding work.

...The Beatles did use their unaccustomed peace in India to compose a wealth of new material. Judged solely on musical merit, the White Album, a double LP released in late 1968, was a triumph. While largely abandoning their psychedelic instruments to return to guitar-based rock, they maintained their whimsical eclecticism, proving themselves masters of everything from blues-rock to vaudeville...
The Beatles
Back in the U.S.S.R. (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Dear Prudence (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Glass Onion (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
from The Beatles [White Album] 1968
Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view, but what makes the so-called White Album interesting is its mess... None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound through its mess.

Ambitious and acclaimed West Coast psychedelic band that fused hard rock to jazz, blues, country, and folk.
Spirit
I Got a Line on You  (Randy California)
Poor Richard  (Jay Ferguson)
It's All the Same  (Randy California / Ed Cassidy / Joe Walsh)
from The Family That Plays Together 1968
On this, the second Spirit album, the group put all of the elements together that made them the legendary (and underrated) band that they were. Jazz, rock & roll, and even classical elements combined to create one of the cleanest, most tasteful syntheses of its day. The group had also improved measurably from their fine debut album, especially in the area of vocals. The album's hit single, "I Got a Line on You," boasts especially strong harmonies as well as one of the greatest rock riffs of the period. The first side of this record is a wonderful and seamless suite, and taken in its entirety, one of the greatest sides on Los Angeles rock...

If there is one group that embodies progressive rock, it is King Crimson. Led by guitar/Mellotron virtuoso Robert Fripp, during its first five years of existence the band stretched both the language and structure of rock into realms of jazz and classical music, all the while avoiding pop and psychedelic sensibilities. The absence of mainstream compromises and the lack of an overt sense of humor ultimately doomed the group to nothing more than a large cult following, but made their albums among the most enduring and respectable of the prog rock era...
King Crimson
21st Century Schizoid Man (Robert Fripp / Michael Giles / Greg Lake / Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield)
Epitaph  (Robert Fripp / Michael Giles / Greg Lake / Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield)
The Court of the Crimson King (Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield)
A Man, A City (Robert Fripp / Michael Giles / Greg Lake / Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield)
from Epitaph (Live, 1969)
This two-disc archival set includes live performances from the short-lived incipient 1969 incarnation of King Crimson. After months of arduous sonic restoration -- or what Robert Fripp (guitar) refers to as "necromancy" -- the results are well worth the painstaking processes involved... Joining Fripp are Ian McDonald (flute/sax/mellotron/vocals), Greg Lake (bass/vocals), Michael Giles (drums/percussion/vocals), and the only non-performing member, Peter Sinfield (words/illuminations). They single-handedly fused electric rock music with jazz in a way that no one else has done before or, arguably, since...

Pop mystics of the rock era whose impeccably produced albums exuded pseudo-classical glory, driven by lush Mellotron orchestrations.
The Moody Blues
Floating (Ray Thomas)
Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time) (ustin Hayward)
Watching and Waiting (Justin Hayward / Ray Thomas)
from To Our Children's Children's Children 1969
...The material dwells mostly on time and what its passage means, and there is a peculiar feeling of loneliness and isolation to many of the songs. This was also the last of the group's big "studio" sound productions, built up in layer upon layer of overdubbed instruments -- the sound is very lush and rich, but proved impossible to re-create properly on-stage, and after this they would restrict themselves to recording songs that the five of them could play in concert...