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The Mojo Collection
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Contents
The Album Is Dead!? Long Live The Album!
What Have We Here?
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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
.
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