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119 The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers Mar 25, 2019

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Yet another Byrds record in this book?! This was is one of the band’s most interesting and cohesive sounding albums that furthered the ever evolving sound of the Byrds.

118 Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum Mar 21, 2019

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Vincebus Eruptum is a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army; only a few of Blue Cheer’s peers could turn up and they did it with just three people.

117 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul Mar 18, 2019

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Lady Soul completed a remarkable 12 months of achievement for Aretha Franklin. Having been signed to Atlantic in 1966 after years in the doldrums at Columbia.
These 10 tracks represent Aretha Franklin’s coronation as the Queen of Soul. There’s soul. And then there’s Aretha Franklin.

116 Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Mar 14, 2019

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A brilliant and innovative composer, with intricate, haunting works highlighting her singularly powerful vocal phrasing, evocative lyrics. Modern comparisons have been drawn to Kate Bush and Tori Amos to St. Vincent and Joanna Newsom. This album and song structures are completely baffling.

115 Johnny Cash - at Folsom Prison Mar 11, 2019

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The album has gone on to be something of legend. An outlaw country singer with a penchant for danger performs songs about breaking the law and casualty jokes with the inmates as if they had been locked up together. This record would further push the romantic outlaw aura for Cash as not only the man that sang about prison life but of someone willing to connect with those who lived it every day.

114 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen Mar 07, 2019

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At a time when a growing number of pop songwriters were embracing a more explicitly poetic approach in their lyrics, the 1967 debut album from Leonard Cohen introduced a songwriter who, rather than being inspired by “serious” literature, took up music after establishing himself as a published author and poet.

113 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland Mar 04, 2019

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Jimi Hendrix’s third and final album with the original Experience found him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. The result was not only one of the best rock albums of the era, but also Hendrix’s original musical vision at its absolute apex.

112 Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes Feb 28, 2019

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Os Mutantes‘ first album is an astonishing listen. It’s far more experimental than most of the albums produced by the era’s first-rate psychedelic bands of Britain or America and at times seems like a reinterpretation of the genre itself.

111 Ravi Shankar - The Sounds of India Feb 25, 2019

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Ravi Shankar could be considered one of the the most famous Indian musician’s on the planet. And his introduction to India music is soothing and incredible.

110 The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Feb 21, 2019

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Ray Davies’ sentimental, nostalgic streak emerged on Something Else, but it developed into a manifesto on The Village Green Preservation Society, a concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions.

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