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Страница 1 Contents The Album Is Dead!? Long Live The Album! What Have We Here? Страница 6 The 1950s Peggy Lee Black Coffee Who would have thought Norma Deloris Egstrom would have had a voice like this? Julie London Julie Is Her Name Intimate and sensual torch song motherlode. The Four Freshmen Four Freshmen And Five Trombones Best album by vocal group that influenced The Beach Boys. Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook The great American voice meets the great American composer. Frank Sinatra Songs For Swingin’ Lovers Sinatra’s sophisticated cool peaks at the dawn of rock’n’roll. Johnny Burnette And The Rock’n’Roll Trio Johnny Burnette And The Rock’n’Roll Trio Neglected classic from the birth of rock’n’roll. Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus Saxophonist comes of age … Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool Young bop trumpeter and hip arrangers invent cool jazz. Nat ‘King’ Cole Love Is The Thing Gorgeous, moody and romantic in the extreme. Mose Allison Back Country Suite Debut album from a pianist/trumpeter/vocalist who would influence not only jazzmen but also The Who. Nina Simone Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Club Neither, says the lady, jazz, nor her debut. Either way, it heralded a singular talent. The Crickets The ‘Chirping’ Crickets First album by one of the giants of modern popular music. Billie Holiday Lady In Satin The life of jazz’s greatest singer, laid desperately bare. Mahalia Jackson Live At Newport 1958 Maybe the most famous gospel album of all time. Frank Sinatra Come Fly With Me Sinatra’s first and best collaboration with Billy May. Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely The greatest of Sinatra’s suicidal mood albums. Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs The first successful C&W concept album. Ornette Coleman The Shape Of Jazz To Come The influence of chaos … Miles Davis Kind Of Blue Masterclass in modal improvisation. Whatever that is. Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um Brawny, belligerent and beautiful, the jazz composer’s rootsy modern masterpiece. The 1960s Billy Fury The Sound Of Fury Driving debut from the UK’s only decent answer to Elvis, the man who had more hits in the ’60s than The Beatles. Elvis Presley Elvis Is Back! The best rock’n’roll LP between Buddy Holly’s death and the rise of The Beatles. Joan Baez Joan Baez As important as Dylan in popularising folk music in the ’60s. Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain Trumpeter and arranger combine gloriously on timeless, impressionist orchestral jazz. Oliver Nelson Blues And The Abstract Truth Jazz philospher creates a bracing new blend of musical colours to inaugurate the 1960s. Jimmy Smith Back At The Chicken Shack Hammond-led groove that spawned soul-jazz and became one of Blue Note’s biggest sellers. Bill Evans Trio Sunday At The Village Vanguard An innovative pianist finds his niche and makes jazz history. Ray Charles And Betty Carter Ray Charles And Betty Carter Masterly easy jazz vocal duets between the Genius Of Soul and Betty Bebop. Charles Mingus The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Some say it’s the best jazz record ever made. Mingus thought it was folk music. Whatever it is, it’s brilliant. James Brown Live At The Apollo (Vol. 1) A benchmark for thrilling soul performance, and the first of Brown’s enormous selection of live albums. Sam Cooke Night Beat A pivotal moment in soul history. Koerner, Ray And Glover Blues, Rags And Hollers Lo-fi early ’60s blues from influential American stylists. The Holy Modal Rounders The Holy Modal Rounders America’s first truly underground group blend old-time banjo music, bluegrass and traditional folk with a unique vision. Davy Graham And Shirley Collins Folk Roots, New Routes A seemingly bizarre pairing of folk song’s English rose and an inventive young guitar genius. The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones British beat moves up a gear; Jagger wanted to make this LP ‘the best ever by a British group’. Dusty Springfield A Girl Called Dusty The debut album, recorded only months after the split of The Springfields. The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night Rock’n’roll grows up as the Fabs write all of their third album. The Animals The Animals Provincial British R&B, as dirty and sweaty as the group’s ill-fitting suits. Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch Tour de force of articulate free jazz. John Coltrane A Love Supreme More than a jazz milestone, a landmark in music. The Beach Boys The Beach Boys Today! A teenage surf-band starts to grow up strange. The Sonics Here Are The Sonics Before they made The Sonics they broke the mould. Bert Jansch Bert Jansch Possibly the very first British singer/songwriter album. Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club, Hamburg The Killer invents garage punk with a little help from the Nashville Teens. Them Them Future superstar Van Morrison arrives with an influential slice of garage blues. Jackson C Frank Jackson C Frank American troubadour records prototype singer-songwriter LP, influencing Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, Sandy Denny and others in the process BB King Live At The Regal Widely regarded as the greatest ever live blues album. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited Dylan’s experiments with rock backings reach full fruition. Otis Redding Otis Blue The definitive Southern soul album. Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass Going Places Fifth album from MOR kings, six weeks at Number 1. Vernon Haddock’s Jubilee Lovelies Vernon Haddock’s Jubilee Lovelies The most obscure album ever made. Sun Ra The Magic City Pioneering big-band free jazz. The Mamas And The Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Your Ears The group who were the epitome of hippy become a commercial sensation musically, visually and commercially. The Monks Black Monk Time Five GIs dressed as monks make garage rock in Germany. Strangely obscurity ensues. The Rolling Stones Aftermath The Stones take a quantum leap beyond recycled R&B. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds In 1995, MOJO contributors voted it the ‘Greatest Album Of All Time’. John Mayall’s Blues Breakers Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton The commercial breakthrough of British blues. The Beatles Revolver The next great leap forwards for the Fab Four. The Association And Then … Along Comes Classy, harmony pop, and one of the most-played songs of all time. David Blue David Blue Unexpectedly caustic debut from former Dylan affiliate. Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde Translucent poetic imagery and steaming Chicago blues – the single most convincing case for Dylan’s genius. The Byrds Fifth Dimension Splicing Dylan, jazz and quantum physics. And why not? The Kinks Face To Face Ray Davies’s satirical gaze – here turned on himself – finds its first full expression in album format. The Butterfield Blues Band East-West US blues rock pioneers. At the crossroads, but headed for the upper stratosphere. Duke Ellington Far East Suite Jazz composer giant still hitting the heights 40-odd years into his career. Bobby Darin If I Were A Carpenter Former teen idol reinvents himself for the third time with a Tim Hardin song. The Doors The Doors A great mess of an artist, Jim Morrison, captured in all his wild majesty. The Lovin’ Spoonful Hums Of The Lovin’ Spoonful Much-loved ’60s hitmakers’ finest album, packed with classic songs by John Sebastian. Fred Neil Fred Neil Recluse comes out of hiding long enough to leave indelible footprint in the sands of pop history. The Left Banke Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina Fey New York band combine pop with chamber music. Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You Breakthrough of a soul legend. The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground And Nico New York’s brutally realistic, genre-spawning riposte to the West Coast dream of psychedelia. Merle Haggard And The Strangers I’m A Lonesome Fugitive All hail the first New Traditionalist. The Mothers Of Invention Freak Out Rock music’s first double album takes in blues, R&B, doo-wop, rock, surrealist satire and La Monte Young. Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? Landmark debut from rock’s original wild axe-man. Tim Hardin Tim Hardin 2 Second album by the errant young singer-songwriter, many of whose songs have become standards. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The most famous rock album of all time. Donovan Sunshine Superman Donovan, at his peak, shakes off the junior plastic Dylan tag. Nobody shouts Judas. The Monkees Headquarters TV’s phoney-rockers prove they can make their own music. Pearls Before Swine One Nation Underground Ukulele protégé beats Dylan, signs to eccentric New York jazz label and records classic psychedelic-folk debut. Small Faces Small Faces The Small Faces’ second album proper took a subtle, organic approach to psychedelia. Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign Breakthrough album for an unorthodox blues giant. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Part One Drug-free psych made to satisfy the lusts of an eccentric millionaire. The Electric Prunes Underground Dissolution around the corner, dark psychedelic visionaries – briefly – reach flashover. Etta James Tell Mama The toughest female soul voice of the ’60s gets the full Muscle Shoals treatment. Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn London’s underground goes overground with a mix of playpen pop and grown-up acid rock. Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow San Francisco’s psychedelic secrets get their first airing. The Thirteenth Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere Alleged to get you high even when you’re straight. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Gorilla Debut from Britain’s best comic-rock troupe. Country Joe And The Fish Electric Music For The Mind And Body Pioneers of psychedelic-protest mix acid and satire. The Hollies Butterfly As close as they came to a classic. Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim The Voice Of The Century’s last consistently great vocal performance. Tim Buckley Goodbye And Hello Landmark in the shift from folk to singer-songwriting music. Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again Landmark album recorded in the brief space between inventing West Coast rock and falling apart. Country Joe And The Fish I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die San Francisco scenesters’ second, an essential acid rock milestone. Cream Disraeli Gears The great virtuoso excess starts here. Kaleidoscope Tangerine Dream One of the very few genuine British psychedelic albums. The Moody Blues Days Of Future Passed Birmingham beat group turn into lush art-rockers. Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis Bold As Love Hendrix gets trippier. Jefferson Airplane After Bathing At Baxter’s A defiant statement of the possibilities of acid rock. Traffic Mr Fantasy Pastoral debut from the crushed velvet heart of hippy England. The Appletree Theatre Playback Saturday Night Live meets Sgt. Pepper in an innovative – and irreverent – theatrical concept album. Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band Safe As Milk Howlin’ Wolf projected into the future. Extraordinary debut from one of rock’s premier league eccentrics. Leonard Cohen The Songs Of Leonard Cohen Definitive harbinger of bedsit melancholia. Fleetwood Mac Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac Young Brit-blues master Green in excelsis. Not much to do with the Californian edition of Fleetwood Mac. Love Forever Changes An unclassifiable trove of bittersweet pop. Nirvana The Story Of Simon Simonpath Sumptuous soft-psych classic from the original UK Nirvana. Bobbie Gentry The Delta Sweete Her great lost concept album. The Incredible String Band The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter Celtic minstrels record their psychedelic masterpiece and copyright the concept of ‘getting it together in the country’. Tom Rush The Circle Game Pivotal bedsit folk album that – though largely built around covers – helped herald the arrival of the singer-songwriter. The United States Of America The United States Of America The electronic rock revolution starts here. The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers Recorded amid group turmoil, this unexpectedly emerged as their most gentle and reflective work. The Zombies Odessey And Oracle Gorgeous album, overlooked in the UK, since acknowledged as a key example of British psychedelia. Johnny Cash Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison Cash’s big-time comeback, after five years of declining sales and battles with pills and the law. Flat Earth Society Waleeco Teenage prodigies create Willy Wonka-style curio. Magic Sam West Side Soul The record that announced a new generation of American electric blues. Billy Nicholls Would You Believe Long-lost harmony-laden psych-pop rarity. Simon & Garfunkel Bookends Massively successful breakthrough album for former folkies. Harper’s Bizarre The Secret Life Of … A much underrated vocal group, smooth but perverse. Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Herein the Iliad and Odyssey of heavy metal jamming. Ill Wind Flashes Boston hippy intellectuals make one-off psychedelic classic. Os Mutantes Os Mutantes Eccentric Brazilian trio invent South American psych. Small Faces Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake Mods go prog on loveably nutty concept album in circular tobacco-tin sleeve. The Beach Boys Friends ‘I haven’t talked to anyone who’s discovered Friends,’ says Beach Boy Bruce Johnston. ‘They think it’s a TV show.’ Dr John, The Night Tripper Gris-Gris The record that transformed session player Mac Rebennack into post-hippy psychedelic voodoo king Dr John. J.K. & Co. Suddenly One Summer Dreamy psychedelia from Canada! Now a cult classic. The Millennium Begin Ambitious, avant-garde but accessible West Coast genius from a legendary cult figure. The Band Music From Big Pink Astonishing debut from Dylan’s backing band, a soulful throwback completely against the grain of the times. Blue Cheer Outsideinside Second album by San Francisco lysergic hard rock outfit who sowed the seeds of punk and grunge. Nilsson Aerial Ballet The Beatles’ favourite songwriter shines. David Ackles David Ackles A former toilet-factory security guard taps into the American heartland in a classic debut. The Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds unintentionally kickstart the country rock boom of the early ’70s. The Jeff Beck Group Truth A great band built on shifting sand export the blues back to America. Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit And Greenhill The Unwritten Works Of Geoffrey, Etc. Showcase of the sophisticated scene in Ft Worth, Texas. Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland Mould-busting double disc set, notorious in the UK for its gratuitous naked-lady-lined gatefold. The Outsiders CQ Dutch psychedelic beast touches on love, murder, revenge – and space travel. Pentangle Sweet Child The UK’s folk rock supergroup make their definitive work. The Beatles The Beatles The White Album. The Kinks The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Chart success on the wane, Ray Davies conceives one of the quintessentially English pop albums. The Smoke The Smoke Forgotten American psych-pop in thrall to The Beatles and dedicated to Stuart Sutcliffe. The Beau Brummels Bradley’s Barn Psychedelic San Franciscan pop outfit turns up in Nashville. With creamy results. The Insect Trust The Insect Trust Hippy visionaries who deserve to be in the dictionary under ‘eclectic’. The Open Mind The Open Mind London hippies make the world’s first heavy metal album. Euphoria A Gift From Euphoria Two musical nomads take psychedelic rock, bluegrass and orchestral ballads into lasting obscurity. Gandalf Gandalf Bar band record hypnotic one-off psychedelic classic. The MC5 Kick Out The Jams Bucking tradition, these Motor City rock revolutionaries released a live album as their debut. Silver Apples Contact Second album from pioneers of loops and ambience. Now active again after belated recognition. Bee Gees Odessa Red velvet-covered double which almost killed them. Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails Hippies get heavy, live and loud. The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace Of Sin Gram Parsons’ finest work: fusing soul, country and R&B in one package. Tommy James And The Shondells Cellophane Symphony Bubblegum pin-up becomes psychedelic pop composer. Dusty Springfield Dusty In Memphis Landmark white-soul session that almost didn’t happen. The Youngbloods Elephant Mountain New York quartet go West to make sprawling Sgt. Pepper-inspired masterpiece. The Who Tommy Huge double concept-album, the first rock opera, spawning a movie, an orchestral spin-off and a stage musical. Richie Havens Richard P Havens 1983 Double folk apocalypse from the Woodstock Freedom man. Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere First electric album with Crazy Horse blueprinted the guitar-driven sound that would later inspire grunge. Burt Bacharach Make It Easy On Yourself Having conquered the Brill Building, Broadway and movies, Burt becomes a reluctant pop star. Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country Second album from San Francisco’s own Southern boys. Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash One moment of harmony begot a rollercoaster career. Judy Henske & Jerry Yester Farewell Aldebaran The definitive space-blues-Arthurian-bubblegum album. Kaleidoscope (US) Incredible Apogee of these undervalued American avatars of acid rock comes with Middle-Eastern spice. Jeff Beck Beck-Ola Career high point for mercurial guitar genius. Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking The record that sowed the seeds of British folk rock. Procol Harum A Salty Dog Procol Harum remain a greatly undervalued band, and this was undoubtedly their finest hour. Jethro Tull Stand Up Featured a pop-up likeness of the group in the gatefold. Sadly, a marketing wheeze that never caught on. Elvis Presley From Elvis In Memphis Hot from his TV comeback, The King exorcises the frustration of his wasted years in Hollywood. Fleetwood Mac Then Play On The last and greatest recording of the Mac’s first phase. The Beatles Abbey Road Glorious almost-swan-song for the ultimate pop group. Jack Bruce Songs For A Tailor Ex-member of the world’s first supergroup boldly follows his muse into the realms of jazz rock. Chicago Transit Authority Chicago Transit Authority A benchmark for brass and guitar-fuelled jazz rock. Scott Walker Scott 4 Former heartthrob sheds last remaining fans with only entirely self-written album. The Stooges The Stooges Debut from Michigan misfits, regarded by most as the world’s punk pioneers. Van Morrison Astral Weeks Van’s first official solo album went beyond blues rock to a magical place many have tried to revisit since. King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King A bunch of unknown British jazz rock virtuosos and their pet wordsmith define prog rock with their ambitious debut. Frank Zappa Hot Rats Instrumental, jam-heavy fusion masterpiece. Alexander Spence Oar Among the most enigmatic solo albums in all of pop music. The Mandrake Memorial Puzzle Psychedelic delight from Philadelphia. The Grateful Dead Live/Dead The Dead at their improvisational best. Kevin Ayers Joy Of A Toy Urbane ex-Soft Machine chap goes to Majorca and pens a slice of classic ‘anglodelica’. Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica The most radical-sounding record of the 1960s. Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River Third album from archetypal roots-rockers highlights the internal schisms forming. Fairport Convention Liege And Lief The first British electric folk album. {buyButton}

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