This topic really got into my head last night and I decided to put this list of 25 together. It was harder than I thought without resorting to more than 1 tape per artist. I kept it to rock oriented stuff. Obviously anything James Brown, Wilson Pickett did in the 60's is VERY hard and sometimes heavy. Definitely curious to see what others come up with.

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk
The Stooges - The Stooges
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Free - Tons of Sobs
Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter
Led Zeppelin - I
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Link Wray - Jack The Ripper
Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn
Vanilla Fudge - Rock & Roll
Leslie West - Mountain
Tom Jones - Live in Las Vegas - At the Flamingo
The Who - Tommy
Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
Lonnie Mack - The Wham of that Memphis Man!
Cream - Wheels Of Fire
Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
Santana - Santana
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency!

Surfers Choice! Nice one I would not have expected up there.

Dick Dale is hard & heavy!

Nice! I'll come up with mine, and I'll also go ahead and post the 80's one since I've been thinking about that one as well.

[Rubs hands together] This will be lots of fun... but it will take some time. There's so much good stuff to choose from; and I've probably forgotten half of it...


The Best Of The Animals
The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968
The Jeff Beck Group ~ Truth
The Jeff Beck Group ~ Beckola
Blind Faith ~ Blind Faith
Blue Cheer ~ Vincebus Eruptum
Count Five ~ Psychotic Reaction
The Cream ~ Fresh Cream
The Cream ~ Disraeli Gears
The Cream ~ Wheels Of Fire
The Cream ~ Goodbye Cream
Miles Davis ~ Bitches Brew (pretty heavy)
Deep Purple ~ Shades of Deep Purple
Deep Purple ~ Book Of Taliesyn
Deep Purple ~ Deep Purple
The Doors s/t
The Doors ~ Strange Days
The Doors ~ Waiting For The Sun
The Electric Prunes ~ Mass In F Minor
The Electric Prunes ~ Stockholm '67
The Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Are You Experienced ?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Axis: Bold As Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Electric Ladyland
Jefferson Airplane ~ Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane ~ Crown Of Creation
Jefferson Airplane ~ Bless It's Pointed Little Head
Iron Butterfly ~ In-a-Gadda-da-Vida
Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II
Love s/t
Love ~ Da Capo
Love ~ Four Sail
The MC5 ~ Kick Out The Jams
Moby Grape s/t
Moby Grape ~ Wow
(Turn On) The Music Machine
Here Comes... Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band (Blues, but it's fairly heavy)
Santana s/t
Savoy Brown ~ A Step Further
Spirit ~ I Got A Line On You (the song is killer, and better than the LP it's on, imo)
Steppenwolf s/t
Steppenwolf ~ At Your Birthday Party
Steppenwolf ~ Monster
the stooges s/t
Three Dog Night ~ One
Vanilla Fudge s/t
Vanilla Fudge ~ Near The Beginning
Leslie West ~ Mountain
Johnny Winter s/t
The Yardbirds' Greatest Hits
The Yardbirds ~ Five Live Yardbirds
The Yardbirds ~ Having A Raveup
The Yardbirds ~ For Your Love
The Yardbirds ~ Roger The Engineer
The Yardbirds ~ Over Under Sideways Down


Yeah, I know, the list was supposed to be 25. I want to leave this list up, and then I'll narrow it down to 25 & post that list later.

EDIT: I lied. I'm not deleting squat. : )

And some honorable mentions:

The Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop
The Blues Magoos - Electric Comic Book
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Gun - Gun
Iron Butterfly - Heavy
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Take a Ride
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Breakout...!!!
The Seeds - The Seeds
The Bob Seger System - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
Shadows Of Knight - Gloria
Shadows Of Knight - Back Door Men
Ten Years After - Undead
Ten Years After - Ssssh
Thirteenth Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The Who - sings My Generation
The Who - Tommy
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere






No one else on this?

Poisin Ivy? Willb? Anyone?

Wow. It looks like you left me no albums to chose, haha.

Art - Super Natural Fairy Tales
Banchee - Banchee
Crow - Crow Music
Eden's Children - Eden's Children
Fields - Fields
Grand Funk - On Time
High Tide - Sea Shanties
Humble Pie - As Safe As Yesterday & Town and Country (anything by the Pie is good to me)
James Gang - Yer Album
Mad River - Mad River
Mecki Mark Men - Running In The Summer Night
The Open Mind - The Open Mind
Puzzle - Puzzle
Rare Earth - Get Ready
The Head Shop - The Head Shop
The Litter - Emerge
The Savage Resurrection - The Savage Resurrection
The Temptations - Cloud Nine
Thunder & Roses - King Of The Black Sunrise
Valhalla - Valhalla
Yesterdays Children - Yesterdays Children
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band (should be an automatic top 5)

Some of the albums not listed, but that I deem fairly worthy to own. If not for the whole album, at least just for a song.

If you just use 1969, you can find tons of great albums that fit the bill. That said, 67-69 was pretty rich with albums that hit that sweet spot.

Nobody mentioned The Damnation of Adam Blessing?
Chicago Transit Authority?

Those are just two examples.

So you'll be making another list for us?

Is that what you're saying? : )

Actually, no, that was not what I was saying, but, for you Mikey, I will do so : )

Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei (1969)
Blind Faith (1969)
Chicago Tranist Authority (1969)
Dennis Coffey - Hair and Thangs (1969)
Larry Coryell - Coryell (1969)
Free - Free (1969)
Fuse - Fuse (1969)
Golden Earring - Eight Miles High (1969)
Howlin' Wolf - The Howlin' Wolf Album (1969)
The Masters Apprentices - Masterpiece (1969)
The Rugbys - Hot Cargo (1969)
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two (1969)
Zephy - Zephyr (1969)
Canned Heat - Boogie with Canned Heat (1968)
Jethro Tull - This Was (1968)
Jethro Tull - Stand Up (1969)
Spooky Tooth - It's All About (1968)
The Damnation of Adam Blessing - The Damnation of Adam Blessing (1969)
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (1967)
Country Joe & The Fish - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die (1967)
Dragonfly - Dragonfly (1968)
Andromeda - Andromeda (1969)
Edgar Broughton Band - Wasa Wasa (1969)
The Frost - In From the Cold (1969)
Writing on the Wall - The Power of the Picts (1969)
Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (1969)
The Amboy Dukes - The Amboy Dukes (1967)
Sam Gopal - Escalator (1969)
The Other Half - The Other Half (1968)
The Guess Who - Canned Wheat (1969)
Floating Bridge - Floating Bridge (1969)
SRC - SRC (1968)
Kak - Kak (1968)
Creepy John Thomas - (1969)
Bent Wind - Sussex (1969)

I tried to list stuff that had not been mentioned yet, but it is still great. Isn't that great?

Yeah, great, GodShifter. Thanks for doing it. : )

It's not easy, is it?
Having said that, and as you said before, the well still isn't dry.

I would imagine that Poisin Ivy has some good ideas, too.

No, not as easy as I had alluded to it being, but it was fun. I'd like to see if anyone can come with more that haven't been mentioned yet.

How 'bout this classic...



Black Cat Bones - Barbed Wire Sandwich


Chocolate Watchband - No Way Out
Chocolate Watchband - The Inner Mystique
Chocolate Watchband - One Step Beyond
The Illusion - The Illusion
The Illusion - Together (As a Way of Life)
Josefus - Get Off My Case
The Kingsmen In Person
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Greatest Hits (Stepping Stone, etc.)
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (includes Gimme Shelter, Live With Me, Midnight Rambler, Monkey Man)
The Rolling Stones - Through The Past Darkly (includes Jumpin' Jack Flash)
The Kinks - Greatest Hits [ok, only a Hard Rock band on occasion, but this LP features You Really Got Me and All Day and All of the Night- two of the earliest and best 'hard' Rock songs of the era, and songs which proved to be quite influential as well]

The Back From The Grave comp series is loaded with raw and intense (and sometimes crazed) songs from 60's American Garage bands.

Great thread.

Here's a sample from the Back From The Grave series.

Arzachel- Arzachel (1969)
Bitter Creek- Plastic Thunder / Behind the Smiles (1967)
Children of the Mushroom- You Can't Erase a Mirror (1967)
Day Blindness- Day Blindness (1969)
Electric Flag- A Longtime Comin' (1968)
Fat Mattress- Fat Mattress (1969)
Federal Duck- Federal Duck (1968)
Gandalf- Gandalf (1969)
Iron Maiden- Maiden Voyage (1969)
Junior's Eyes- Battersea Powerstation (1969)
Les Sinners- Sinerisme (1967)
Lighthouse- Suite Feeling (1969)
Missing Links- You're Driving Me Insane (1965)
Nazz- Nazz (1968)
Odyssey- Setting Forth (1969)
Os Mutantes- Os Mutantes (1968)
Pleasure Seekers- Light of Love (1968)
Quicksilver Messenger Service- Happy Trails (1969)
Red Krayola-Parable of the Arable Land(1967)
Satan's Breed- Laugh Myself to the Grave (1966)
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound- Without Reservations (1969)
Stereo Shoestring- On the Road South (1968)
The Bear Fax- Out of Our Tree (1967)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)
The Monks- Black Monk Time (1966)
The Psychedelic Aliens- Psycho African Beat (1969)
The Nice- The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (1967)
The Smoke- High in a Room (1967)
Twilighters- Nothing Can Bring Me Down (1967)
Vampires of Dartmoore- Dracula's Music Cabinet (1969)
Womb- Overdub (1969)
Yuya Uchida & The Flowers- Challenge! (1968)

Geez, I was going to add something but I'm all out. Great list(s).

Can offer a comp though - Ugly Things. Esp the Creatures who performed the title track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBf3tmGh23o

^ ^
Not bad.


How does this grab you?




The Spats, with 'She Done Moved', one of my fave tracks. It's an old Blues song, but the Spats change it/arrange it and make it intriguingly weird and dramatic. I also like the way they altered the lyrics.

That's pretty sweet.

What about early Alice Cooper? Pretties for You came out in 1969

Wow, some interesting titles up there. Have some serious digging to do.

OK, my list, one album per artist/band, personal faves, hard/heavy in the broadest sense of the term, pretty obvious choices for the most part I guess (sorry 'bout that):

The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds of...
The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band
Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band – Safe As Milk
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country
Deep Purple – The Book Of Taliesyn
Dr. John – Gris-Gris
Free – Tons Of Sobs
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced
High Tide – Sea Shanties
King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King
Led Zeppelin – s/t
Love – Forever Changes
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
Music Emporium – s/t
Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Rolling Stones – Beggar's Banquet
The Sonics – Boom
The Stooges – s/t
Ten Years After – Undead
The Who – My Generation
Link Wray – Jack The Ripper
The Yardbirds – Roger The Engineer