Who were the best band of the 1960s?

[Spion]

So what? it's a better trick than anyone elses.

ludicrous - LOL

 

[Maggot]

Surely Cream are the worst band of the sixties? They're where it all went wrong. I blame them for the bilge that clogged up the early seventies.

Cream were a great band, the took blues in a new direction. And you can't blame them for what other bands did afterwards.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Cream were a great band, the took blues in a new direction. And you can't blame them for what other bands did afterwards.

Cream reaked of sour milk.

 

[ringo]

by that criteria, and it's a fair one, i'd go with The Skatalites - great in their own right and also the backing band for literally scores of classica

Yup

 

[danny la rouge]

Tricky one this.

No.

It's the Small Faces.

 

[internetstalker]

The Beatles.

^this

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Someone mentioned the Beach Boys - often get undermentioned iMO, got to be up there for their huge influence on the Pixies (Frank Black even covered Hang On To Your Ego)

 

[Dr. Furface]

Sly & the Family Stone

Easily

 

[yardbird]

The YaRdbiRdS
The Who
The Funk Brothers
Buffalo Springfield
CSN&Y

 

[tarannau]

I'll add to the chorus for Sly and The Family Stone. First big multiracial band, a love of technology and a distinctive sound that influenced many others, from rock to jazz.

Hard to believe that they were once so massively successful and how quickly Sly pissed it all away.

 

[Spion]

by that criteria, and it's a fair one, i'd go with The Skatalites - great in their own right and also the backing band for literally scores of classica

Yup

Or Sound Dimension - that way you get a band with all the great Studio One intrumentalists included

 

[plasticene]

Mungo Jerry

 

[chico enrico]

Third World War.

 

[butchersapron]

Classic marxist pub-rock. But not 60s

 

[chico enrico]

Classic marxist pub-rock. But not 60s

they were about in the 60s though. My mate used to go and see them. and i've got an issue of Oz that has a feature on them.

Got both the albums - amazing stuff. Weird they're not better known

 

[chico enrico]

marxist pub-rock

what a great genre term!

"Now that's What I Call marxist pub-rock Vol 4"

 

[butchersapron]

fair dos then. Imagine if they had those lyrics on a High Tide LP in 66-67 instead of fucking flowers and shit. That would have been fantastic and we'd all be living in a better world

 

[butchersapron]

I always remember this band as Steve Albini picked their first LP as his 3rd fav of all time in the NME back in the 80s.

 

[Voley]

Jimi Hendrix Experience for me. I was gonna say The Stones but most of my favourite stuff by them's in the 70's.

 

[grimble]

Ronettes? Or stretch the question a bit and say best PRODUCER, Phil Spector, because it didn't really matter who the band was, but he had the best body of work in the 60s.

 

[chico enrico]

I always remember this band as Steve Albini picked their first LP as his 3rd fav of all time in the NME back in the 80s.

did he? they were one of andy Martin (of the Apostles) fave bands and i picked up all their records in the early 80s. 2nd album & singles came out on Marc Bolan's 'Fly' label. probably pretty rare now now.

you should see the lyrics to 'hammersmith guerillas' and 'preaching violence'

make the Living Legends sound like the Beach Boys!

 

[chico enrico]

Jimi Hendrix Experience for me. I was gonna say The Stones but most of my favourite stuff by them's in the 70's.

Yea, Hendrix. Gotta be. No comparison.

 

[butchersapron]

Albini:

'This album has the best title of any record ever released, and it represents a bizarre and inexplicable tangent of my taste - extreme English boogie rock. I have equal fondness for the Dr. Feelgood album, 'Down By The Jetty', or any or several records by The Count Bishops, Stackwaddy or Motor Boys Motor, but this record gets the nod for its abrasive personality, impressively rude guitar playing and no-holds-barred radical communist lyricism. Check out the words to 'Hammersmith Guerillas' or 'I'd Rather Cut Cane For Castro', for a peek into the hardcore lunkhead lefty mindset.

 

[belboid]

I've always wanted to ask you, what meat was it? And why?

It was a side of beef, and cos it sounded great.

The sixties best recordings tended to be solo artists, imo (Dylan, Hendrix, Joplin, Walker) but if it is gonna be bands it's between The Stooges, Love & 13th Floor Elevators

 

[butchersapron]

you should see the lyrics to 'hammersmith guerillas' and 'preaching violence'

make the Living Legends sound like the Beach Boys!

Fantastic stuff!

"I've got just the thing for you
A real cop beater
A sawn off twelve gauge
Five shot repeater
Get your ass down to Hammersmith town
Join the urban guerrilas
Take up arms against the crown

 

[butchersapron]

Albini:

“Third World War were an odd band, even in the post-psychedelic era. Their subject matter was peppered with radical communist/revolutionary rhetoric, often couched in English working class realism. If the song title “I’d Rather Cut Cane (for Castro)” isn’t evidence enough, the opening lines of “Hammersmith Guerrillas” is : “I’ve got just the thing for you / It’s a real cop beater / a sawed-off twelve-gauge / five shot repeater … ” and later in the song, in a lyric that is technically Treason, we are encouraged to “take up arms against the Crown.” This passage was excised from a CD reissue of their second album, the heroically-titled Third World War II, so I recommend all Third World War listening be done from their two Track Records LPs [although the second LP was issued on Track, the first LP was actually issued on Fly/Polydor]. The sound of the music is a strained bluesy hard rock, with acoustic folk flourishes. Re-reading that sentence, I realize how uninviting a description it is, but I think Third World War were a great band. Their album artwork is eerily prescient of the other great English radical group, the Crass records crowd from the 1980s. Their second album cover may as well have been on a Rudimentary Peni record. They Rocked hard, in an English boogie way, not miles from bands like the Count Bishops or Dr. Feelgood, but with a more sinister edge and a vocal delivery that was both stoic and committed.” - Steve Albini

 

[belboid]

torrent?

 

[butchersapron]

Both Lps here
http://www.swanfungus.com/2008/05/treasures-from-the-collectors-slum-023.html

 

[belboid]

excellent, that Eric Dolphy album should be downloaded too, its astoundingly good

 

[Spion]

Both Lps here
http://www.swanfungus.com/2008/05/treasures-from-the-collectors-slum-023.html

I'm there. Sounds interesting, to say the least. Ta