MUSIC - WHAT WE HEARD BACK THEN

THE LP REVOLUTION

"Somethin's happenin' here. What it is ain't exactly clear....."

While the AM music world was consumed with the commercial whitebread crap many listed in the Billboard hits included here , there was a subversive music revolution going on over on the FM bands.  Starting with WOLFMAN JACK blasting out of Mexico with 500,000 watts of power, underground FM spread like a horde of locusts across the airways.  The no static signals and unprecedented freedoms allowed the DJs in determining their own playlists, moved the music industry from singles to LPs as the major moneymakers.  No longer constrained by the rigidity of Top 40 playlists, hard rock, folk, protest music, and other counterculture genres found a huge audience that wasn't shy about spending money on LPs. It was a time when the music community was actually populated with musicians.  Novel concept that, eh?  They might have been dope smokin' long haired livin' in the common unwashed hippie Marxists, but they changed the world of music.  Unfortunately, the corporate weasels have recaptured the airways so it's highly doubtful that we'll ever see the likes of that time again.  That said, check out what the collective WE were listening to back then.  Chances are,  unless you dust off your old turntable and dig those old vinyls out of the garage or attic(That is if your ol' lady hasn't offed them in a garage sale.) you'll never hear most of this stuff ever again.  But do not dispair Grasshopper, I'll be rolling a some of them through the Jukebox here if i can get off my lazy ass now and then.

1969 BILLBOARD HOT 100

HOTTEST LPS FROM BILLBOARD 1969-1970

1969

ABBEY ROAD - BEATLES      LET IT BLEED - STONES     THE BAND - THE BAND     TROUT MASK REPLICA - CAPT. BEEFHART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

II - LED ZEPPLIN    DUSTY IN MEMPHIS - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD    TOMMY - THE WHO    LED ZEPPLIN - LED ZEPPLIN    THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN - THE FLYING BURRITO BROS.

IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING - KING CRIMSON    EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE - NIEL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE

STAND! - SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE    THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND   GREEN RIVER - CCR   HOT RATS - FRANK ZAPPA

FROM ELVIS IN MEMPHIS - ELVIS    THE STOOGES - THE STOOGES    CROSBY, STILLS, AND NASH - CSN    KICK OUT THE JAMS - MC5

WILLY AND THE POORBOYS - CCR   LIVE/DEAD - GRATEFUL DEAD     HOT BUTTERED SOUL - ISAAC HAYES    LIEGE AND LIEF - FAIRPORT CONVENTION

HAPPY TRAILS - QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE    SCOTT 4 - SCOTT WALKER    AT SAN QUENTIN - JOHNNY CASH    NASHVILLE SKYLINE - BOB DYLAN

ARTHUR(OR THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE) - THE KINKS    HAPPY SAD - TIM BUCKLEY    UNCLE MEAT - FRANK ZAPPA

VOLUNTEERS - JEFFERSON AIRPLANE    A SALTY DOG - PROCUL HAREM    BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS - BS&T    WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS - JOE COCKER

SONGS FROM A ROOM - LEONARD COHEN    SANTANA - SANTANA    SONGS FOR A TAILOR - JACK BRUCE    CLOUD NINE - THE TEMPTATIONS

CALIFORNIA BLOODLINES - JOHN STEWART    ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN - THE YOUNGBLOODS    BOZ SCAGGS - BOZ SCAGGS

FIRST TAKE - ROBERTA FLACK    JOHNNY WINTER - JOHNNY WINTER    MENDOCINO - THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET

1970

AFTER THE GOLD RUSH - NIEL YOUNG    JOHN LENNON /PLASTIC ONO BAND - JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND    LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS - DEREK AND THE DOMINOS

MOONDANCE - VAN MORRISON   BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS - SIMON AND GARFUNKLE    FUN HOUSE - THE STOOGES    DEJA VU - CSNY

ABRAXAS - SANTANA    LOADED - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND   PARANOID - BLACK SABBATH    BRYTER LAYTER - NICK DRAKE

AMERICAN BEAUTY - GRATEFUL DEAD    12 SONGS - RANDY NEWMAN    LIVE AT LEADS - THE WHO    COSMO'S FACTORY - CCR    WORKING MAN'S DEAD - GRATEFUL DEAD

SWEET BABY JAMES - JAMES TAYLOR    ALL THINGS MUST PASS - GEORGE HARRISON    IN ROCK - DEEP PURPLE    SEX MACHINE - JAMES BROWN

GET YER YA-YA'S OUT - ROLLING STONES    III - LED ZEPPLIN    WOODSTOCK - VARIOUS ARTISTS    BACK IN THE USA - MC5    JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE - TRAFFIC

CURTIS - CURTIS MAYFIELD    GASOLINE ALLEY - ROD STEWART    SUNFLOWER - THE BEACH BOYS    LET IT BE - BEATLES    MORRISON HOTEL - THE DOORS

STARSAILOR - TIM BUCKLEY    BLACK SABBATH - BLACK SABBATH    TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN - CAT STEVENS    TWELVE DREAMS OF DR. SARDONICUS - SPIRIT

FIRE AND WATER - FREE    SPIRIT IN THE DARK - ARETHA FRANKLIN    MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL - OTIS REDDING & JIMI HENDRIX

BAND OF GYPSIES - JIMI HENDRIX    THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD - DAVID BOWIE    SHAZAM! - THE MOVE

LICK MY DETAILS OFF, BABY - CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND    JAMES GANG RIDES AGAIN - JAMES GANG    ME AND BOBBY MCGEE - KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

IDLEWILD SOUTH - THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND    ELTON JOHN - ELTON JOHN    ATOM HEART MOTHER - PINK FLOYD    INDIANOLA MISSISSIPPI SEEDS - B.B. KING

PENDULUM - CCR    JOHNNY WINTER AND - JOHNNY WINTER    NO DICE - BADFINGER    ABSOLUTELY LIVE - THE DOORS

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday