Un evento che non ha bisogno di presentazioni né esaltazioni, rappresenando un unicum nella storia! Per la nostra generazione, che può soltanto stare a guardare qualche sterile ed accademico servizio al tg sul suo quarantennale, non vi è niente di così distante, assuefatti alle manifestazioni prefabbricate e confezionate ad hoc per gli sponsor. Qui almeno ci gustiamo la favolosa scaletta di quel concertone
Day One:
Richie Havens
1. Minstrel From Gault
2. High Flyin' Bird
3. I Can't Make It Anymore
4. With A Little Help
5. Strawberry Fields For Ever
6. Hey Jude
7. I Had A Woman
8. Handsome Johnny
9. Freedom
Sweetwater
1. Motherless Child
2. Look Out
3. For Pete's Sake
4. Day Song
5. What's Wrong
6. Crystal Spider
7. Two Worlds
8. Why Oh Why
Bert Sommer
1. Jennifer
2. The Road To Travel
3. I Wondered Where You Be
4. She's Gone
5. Things Are Going My Way
6. And When It's Over
7. Jeanette
8. America
9. A Note That Read
10. Smile
Tim Hardin
1. Misty Roses
2. If I Were A Carpenter
Ravi Shankar
1. Raga Puriya-Dhanashri / Gat In Sawarital
2. Tabla Solo In Jhaptal
3. Raga Manj Kmahaj /
Alap Jor /
Dhun In Kaharwa Tal /
Medium & Fast Gat In Teental
Melanie
1. Beautiful People
2. Birthday Of The Sun
Arlo Guthrie
1. Coming Into Los Angeles
2. Walking Down The Line
3. Amazing Grace
Joan Baez
1. Joe Hill
2. Sweet Sir Galahad
3. Drug Store Truck Driving Man
4. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
5. We Shall Overcome
Day Two:
Quill
1. Waitin' For You
Country Joe McDonald
1. I Find Myself Missing You
2. Rockin' All Around The World
3. Flyin' High All Over The World
4. Seen A Rocket
5. Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-Die-Rag
John B. Sebastian
1. How Have You Been
2. Rainbows All Over Your Blues
3. I Had A Dream
4. Darlin' Be Home Soon
5. Younger Generation
Keef Hartley Band
1. Believe In You (from album Battle of North West 6)
2. Rock Me Baby
3. Medley (from album Halfbreed)
. . . Leavin' Trunk
. . . Halfbreed
. . . Just To Cry
. . . And Sinnin' For You
Incredible String Band
1. Catty Come
2. This Moment Is Different
3. When You Find Out Who You Are
Canned Heat
1. A Change Is Gonna Come / Leaving This Town
2. Woodstock Boogie
3. Going Up The Country
4. Let's Work Together
5. Too Many Drivers At The Wheel
Grateful Dead
1. St. Stephen
2. Mama Tried
3. Dark Star / High Time
4. Turn On Your Lovelight
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1. Born On The Bayou
2. Green River
3. Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)
4. Commotion
5. Bootleg
6. Bad Moon Rising
7. Proud Mary
8. I Put A Spell On You
9. Night Time Is The Right Time
10. Keep On Choogin'
11. Suzy Q
Janis Joplin
1. Raise Your Hand
2. As Good As You've Been To This World
3. To Love Somebody
4. Summertime
5. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
6. Kosmic Blues
7. Can't Turn You Loose
8. Work Me Lord
9. Piece Of My Heart
10. Ball and Chain
Sly & The Family Stone
1. M'Lady
2. Sing A Simple Song
3. You Can Make It If You Try
4. Stand!
5. Love City
6. Dance To The Music
7. Music Lover
8. I Want To Take You Higher
The Who
1. Heaven And Hell
2. I Can't Explain
3. It's A Boy
4. 1921
5. Amazing Journey
6. Sparks
7. Eyesight To The Blind
8. Cristmas
9. Tommie Can You Hear Me
10. Acid Queen
11. Pinball Wizard
12. Abbie Hoffmann Incident
13. Fiddle About
14. There's A Doctor I've Found
15. Go To The Mirror Boy
16. Smash The Mirror
17. I'm Free
18. Tommy's Holiday Camp
19. We're Not Gonna Take It
20. See Me Feel Me
21. Summertime Blues
22. Shakin' All Over
23. My Generation
24. Naked Eye
Jefferson Airplane
1. The Other Side Of This Life
2. Plastic Fantastic Lover
3. Volunteers
4. Saturday Afternoon / Won't You Try
5. Eskimo Blue Day
6. Uncle Sam's Blues
7. Somebody To Love
8. White Rabbit
Day Three:
Joe Cocker
1. Delta Lady
2. Some Things Goin' On
3. Let's Go Get Stoned
4. I Shall Be Released
5. With A Little Help From My Friends
Country Joe & The Fish
1. Barry's Caviar Dream
2. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
3. Rock And Soul Music
4. Thing Called Love
5. Love Machine
6. Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-Die-Rag
Leslie West/Mountain
1. Blood Of The Sun
2. Stormy Monday
3. Theme From An Imaginary Western
4. Long Red
5. For Yasgur's Farm [then untitled]
6. You And Me
7. Waiting To Take You Away
8. Dreams Of Milk And Honey
9. Blind Man
10. Blue Suede Shoes
11. Southbound Train
Ten Years After
1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
4. I'm Going Home
The Band
1. Chest Fever
2. Don't Do It
3. Tears Of Rage
4. We Can Talk About It Now
5. Long Black Veil
6. Don't Ya Tell Henry
7. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos
8. Wheels On Fire
9. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
10. The Weight
Johnny Winter
1. Mean Town Blues
Blood Sweat And Tears
1. More And More
2. I Love You Baby More Than You Ever Know
3. Spinning Wheel
4. I Stand Accused
5. Something Coming On
Crosby, Stills & Nash
1. Suite Judy Blue Eyes
2. Blackbird
3. Helplessly Hoping
4. Guinnevere
5. Marrakesh Express
6. 4 + 20
7. Mr Soul
8. Wonderin'
9. You Don't Have To Cry
10. Pre-Road Downs
11. Long Time Gone
12. Bluebird Revisited
13. Sea Of Madness
14. Wooden Ships
15. Find The Cost Of Freedom
16. 49 Bye-Bye
Day Four:
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
2. Driftin'
3. Born Under A Bad Sign
4. All My Love Comin' Through To You
5. Love March
Sha-Na-Na
1. Na Na Theme
2. Jakety Jak
3. Teen Angel
4. Jailhouse Rock
5. Wipe Out
6. Who Wrote The Book Of Love
7. Duke Of Earl
8. At The Hop
9. Na Na Theme
Jimi Hendrix
1. Message To Love
2. Getting My Heart Back Together Again
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Red House
5. Master Mind
6. Here Comes Your Lover Man
7. Foxy Lady
8. Beginning
9. Izabella
10. Gypsy Woman
11. Fire
12. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Stepping Stone
13. Star Spangled Banner
14. Purple Haze
15. Woodstock Improvisation / Villanova Junction
16. Hey Joe
Come ogni fase di transizione che si rispetti, anche il 1970 resta "schiacciato" tra due annate incredibili, ma riesce comunque a segnare un passaggio decisivo. I Beatles ormai erano sciolti, Woodstock aveva celebrato il canto del cigno della hippie generation, due incredibili talenti - Janis Joplin e Jimi Hendrix - stanno per diventare icone immortali, ma nuove tendenze iniziavano ad affermarsi stabilmente: in particolare, il progressive e l'hard rock contagiano sempre più l'intero panorama internazionale
Importanti:
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Release February 13, 1970
tracklist:
Black Sabbath, The Wizard, Behind the Wall of Sleep, N.I.B., Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me), Sleeping Village, Warning
Deep Purple - In Rock
Release June 1970
tracklist:
Speed King, Bloodsucker, Child in Time, Flight of the Rat, Into the Fire, Living Wreck, Hard Lovin' Man
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Release February 1, 1970
tracklist:
Roadhouse Blues, Waiting for the Sun, You Make Me Real, Peace Frog, Blue Sunday, Ship of Fools, Land Ho!, The Spy, Queen of the Highway, Indian Summer, Maggie M'Gill
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Release November 1970
tracklist:
The Barbarian, Take a Pebble, Knife-Edge, The Three Fates (a. Clotho - Royal Festival Hall Organ b. Lachesis - Piano Solo c. Atropos - Piano Trio) Tank, Lucky Man
Eric Burdon and War - Eric Burdon Declares War
Release May 1970
tracklist:
The Vision of Rassan (a. Dedication b. Roll on Kirk), Tobacco Road (a. Tobacco Road b. I Have a Dream c. Tobacco Road), Spill the Wine, Blues for Memphis Slim (a. Birth b. Mother Earth c. Mr. Charlie d. Danish Pastry e. Mother Earth), You're No Stranger
Free - Fire and Water
Release June 26, 1970
tracklist:
Fire and Water, Oh I Wept, Remember, Heavy Load, Mr. Big, Don't Say You Love Me, All Right Now
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Release June 14, 1970
tracklist:
Uncle John's Band, High Time, Dire Wolf, New Speedway Boogie, Cumberland Blues, Black Peter, Easy Wind, Casey Jones
The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneyground (Part One)
Release November 27, 1970
tracklist:
The Contenders, Strangers, Denmark Street, Get Back in Line, Lola, Top of the Pops, The Moneygoround, This Time Tomorrow, A Long Way From Home, Rats, Apeman, Powerman, Got to Be Free
Magma - Magma [Kobaïa]
Release 1970
tracklist:
Kobaia, Aïna, Malaria, Sohïa, Sckxyss, Auraë, Thaud Zaia, Naü Ektila, Stoah, Mûh
Nucleus - Elastic Rock
Release June 1970
tracklist:
1916, Elastic Rock, Striation, Taranaki, Twisted Track, Crude Blues Part 1, Crude Blues Part 2, 1916 (Battle of Boogaloo), Torrid Zone, Stonescape, Earth Mother, Speaking for Myself, Persephones Jive
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Release October 10, 1970
tracklist:
Atom Heart Mother (a. Father's Shout b. Breast Milky c. Mother Fore d. Funky Dung e. Mind Your Throats Please f. Remergence), If, Summer '68, Fat Old Sun, Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (a. Rise and Shine b. Sunny Side Up c. Morning Glory)
The Pretty Things - Parachute
Release June 1970
tracklist:
Scene One, The Good Mr. Square, She Was Tall She Was High, In the Square, The Letter, Rain, Miss Fay Regrets, Cries From the Midnight Circus, Grass, Sickle Clowns, She's a Lover, What's the Use, Parachute
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Release January 26, 1970
tracklist:
Bridge Over Troubled Water, El Condor Pasa (If I Could), Cecilia, Keep the Customer Satisfied, So Long Frank Lloyd Wright, The Boxer, Baby Driver, The Only Living Boy in New York, Why Don't You Write Me, Bye Bye Love, Song for the Asking
The Stooges - Fun House
Release July 1970
tracklist:
Down on the Street, Loose, T.V. Eye, Dirt, 1970, Fun House, L.A. Blues
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Release January 3, 1970
tracklist:
Terrapin, No Good Trying, Love You, No Man's Land, Dark Globe, Here I Go, Octopus, Golden Hair, Long Gone, She Took a Long Cold Look, Feel, If It's in You, Late Night
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Release November 2, 1970
tracklist:
Come Here Woman, I Woke Up, Monterey, Moulin Rouge, Song to the Siren, Jungle Fire, Starsailor, The Healing Festival, Down by the Borderline
Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band
Release 1970
tracklist:
Air, Earth, Fire, Water
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Release August 1970
tracklist:
Glad, Freedom Rider, Empty Pages, Stranger to Himself, John Barleycorn, Every Mother's Son
Fondamentali:
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Release July 25, 1970
tracklist:
Ramble Tamble, Before You Accuse Me, Travelin' Band, Ooby Dooby, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Run Through the Jungle, Up Around the Bend, My Baby Left Me, Who'll Stop the Rain, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Long as I Can See the Light
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà vu
Release March 11, 1970
tracklist:
Carry On, Teach Your Children, Almost Cut My Hair, Helpless, Woodstock, Déjà vu, Our House, 4 + 20, Country Girl (a. Whiskey Boot Hill b. Down Down Down c. Country Girl)
Genesis - Trespass
Release October 23, 1970
tracklist:
Looking for Someone, White Mountain, Visions of Angels, Stagnation, Dusk, The Knife
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Release November 1, 1970
tracklist:
Box of Rain, Friend of the Devil, Sugar Magnolia, Operator, Candyman, Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Till the Morning Comes, Attics of My Life, Truckin'
Led Zeppelin - III
Release October 5, 1970
tracklist:
Immigrant Song, Friends, Celebration Day, Since I've Been Loving You, Out on the Tiles, Gallows Pole, Tangerine, That's the Way, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Hats Off to (Roy) Harper
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Release September 19, 1970
tracklist:
Tell Me Why, After the Gold Rush, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Southern Man, Till the Morning Comes, Oh Lonesome Me, Don't Let It Bring You Down, Birds, When You Dance I Can Really Love, I Believe in You, Cripple Creek Ferry
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Release November 1, 1970
tracklist:
Introduction, Hazey Jane II, At the Chime of a City Clock, One of These Things First, Hazey Jane I, Bryter Layter, Fly, Poor Boy, Northern Sky, Sunday
The Pentangle - Cruel Sister
Release November 1970
tracklist:
A Maid That's Deep in Love, When I Was in My Prime, Lord Franklin, Cruel Sister, Jack Orion
Santana - Abraxas
Release September 1970
tracklist:
Singing Winds Crying Beasts, Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen, Oye como va, Incident at Neshabur, Se a cabo, Mother's Daughter, Samba pa ti, Hope You're Feeling Better, El nicoya
The Soft Machine - Third
Release June 6, 1970
tracklist:
Facelift, Slightly All the Time, Moon in June, Out-Bloody-Rageous
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Release November 1970
tracklist:
Prelude - Nothin' to Hide, Nature's Way, Animal Zoo, Love Has Found a Way, Why Can't I Be Free, Mr. Skin, Space Child, When I Touch You, Street Worm, Life Has Just Begun, Morning Will Come, Soldier
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
Release December 1970
tracklist:
Killer, House With No Door, The Emperor in His War-Room (The Emperor - The Room), Lost (The Dance in Sand and Sea - The Dance in the Frost), Pioneers Over c.
The Who - Live at Leeds
Release May 1970
tracklist:
Heaven and Hell, I Can't Explain, Fortune Teller, Tattoo, Young Man Blues, Substitute, Happy Jack, I'm a Boy, A Quick One While He Is Away, Amazing Journey / Sparks, Summertime Blues, Shakin All Over, My Generation, Magic Bus
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Release December 1969
tracklist:
Come All Ye, Reynardine, Matty Groves, Farewell Farewell, The Deserter, Medley (The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunters' Jig/Toss the Feathers), Tam Lin, Crazy Man Michael
Grateful Dead - Live / Dead
Release November 10, 1969
tracklist:
Dark Star, Saint Stephen, The Eleven, Turn on Your Love Light, Death Don't Have No Mercy, Feedback, And We Bid You Goodnight
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Release November 1969
tracklist:
We Can Be Together, Good Shepherd, The Farm, Hey Frederick, Turn My Life Down, Wooden Ships, Eskimo Blue Day, A Song for All Seasons, Meadowlands, Volunteers
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Release October 1969
tracklist:
21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors), I Talk to the Wind, Epitaph (Including March for No Reason and Tomorrow and Tomorrow), Moonchild (Including The Dream and The Illusion), The Court of the Crimson King (Including The Return of the Fire Witch and The Dance of the Puppets)
The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Release October 10, 1969
tracklist:
Victoria, Yes Sir No Sir, Some Mother's Son, Drivin', Brainwashed, Australia, Shangri-La, Mr. Churchill Says, She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina, Young and Innocent Days, Nothing to Say, Arthur
Led Zeppelin - II
Release October 31, 1969
tracklist:
Whole Lotta Love, What Is and What Should Never Be, The Lemon Song, Thank You, Heartbreaker, Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman), Ramble On, Moby Dick, Bring It on Home
Man - Revelation
Release January 1969
tracklist:
And in the Beginning, Sudden Life, Empty Room, Puella! Puella! (Woman! Woman!), Love, Erotica, Blind Man, And Castles Rise in Children's Eyes, Don't Just Stand There (Come in Out of the Rain), The Missing Pieces, The Future Hides Its Face
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
Release January 1969
tracklist:
Ramblin' Rose, Kick Out the Jams, Come Together, Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa), Borderline, Motor City Is Burning, I Want You Right Now, Starship
The Pentangle - Basket of Light
Release October 1969
tracklist:
Light Flight, Once I Had a Sweetheart, Springtime Promises, Lyke-Wake Dirge, Train Song, Hunting Song, Sally Go Round the Roses, The Cuckoo, House Carpenter
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Release March 1969
tracklist:
Who Do You Love - Part 1, When You Love, Where You Love, How You Love, Which Do You Love, Who Do You Love - Part 2, Mona, Maiden of the Cancer Moon, Calvary, Happy Trails
The Who - Tommy
Release May 1969
tracklist:
Overture, It's a Boy, 1921, Amazing Journey, Sparks, Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker), Christmas, Cousin Kevin, The Acid Queen, Underture, Do You Think It's Alright?, Fiddle About, Pinball Wizard, There's a Doctor, Go to the Mirror!, Tommy Can You Hear Me?, Smash the Mirror, Sensation, Miracle Cure, Sally Simpson, I'm Free, Welcome, Tommy's Holiday Camp, We're Not Gonna Take It
Importanti:
Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei
Release 1969
tracklist:
Kanaan, Dem Guten Schönen Wahren, Luzifers Ghilom, Henriette Krötenschwanz, Phallus Dei
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Release September 26, 1969
tracklist:
Come Together, Something, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, Octopus's Garden, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Here Comes the Sun, Because, You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End, Her Majesty
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Release June 1969
tracklist:
Strange Feelin', Buzzin' Fly, Love From Room 109 at The Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway), Dream Letter, Gypsy Woman, Sing a Song for You
Fairport Convention - What We Did on Our Holidays
Release January 1969
tracklist:
Fotheringay, Mr. Lacey, Book Song, The Lord Is in This Place, No Man's Land, I'll Keep It With Mine, Eastern Rain, Nottamun Town, Tale in Hard Time, She Moves through the Fair, Meet on the Ledge, End of a Holiday
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Release July 1969
tracklist:
Genesis Hall, Si tu dois partir, Autopsy, A Sailor's Life, Cajun Woman, Who Knows Where the Time Goes?, Percy's Song, Million Dollar Bash
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Release September 1969
tracklist:
Coming Your Way, Closing My Eyes, Fighting for Madge, When You Say, Show-Biz Blues, Under Way, One Sunny Day, Although the Sun Is Shining, Rattlesnake Shake, Without You, Searching for Madge, My Dream, Like Crying, Before the Beginning
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Release January 12, 1969
tracklist:
Good Times Bad Times, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, You Shook Me, Dazed and Confused, Your Time Is Gonna Come, Black Mountain Side, Communication Breakdown, I Can't Quit You Baby, How Many More Times
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Release December 5, 1969
tracklist:
Gimme Shelter, Love in Vain, Country Honk, Live With Me, Let It Bleed, Midnight Rambler, You Got the Silver, Monkey Man, You Can't Always Get What You Want
Santana - Santana
Release August 1969
tracklist:
Waiting, Evil Ways, Shades of Time, Savor, Jingo, Persuasion, Treat, You Just Don't Care, Soul Sacrifice
Sly and The Family Stone - Stand!
Release May 3, 1969
tracklist:
Stand!, Don't Call Me Nigger Whitey, I Want to Take You Higher, Somebody's Watching You, Sing a Simple Song, Everyday People, Sex Machine, You Can Make It if You Try
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Release May 14, 1969
tracklist:
Cinnamon Girl, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Round & Round (It Won't Be Long), Down by the River, The Losing End (When You're On), Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets), Cowgirl in the Sand
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Release October 10, 1969
tracklist:
Peaches en Regalia, Willie the Pimp, Son of Mr. Green Genes, Little Umbrellas, The Gumbo Variations, It Must Be a Camel
il vertice raggiunto nel 1969 nella produzione Rock mondiale rappresenta un picco di tale intensità da essere difficilmente eguagliabile: nonostante gli anni appena trascorsi abbiano regalato centinaia di albums meravigliosi ed importanti, l'ultima summer of love rimarrà impressa non soltanto per l'irripetibile evento di Woodstock o per la conquista della Luna!
Oltre alle deliziose perle della psichedelia come il "Live/dead" o "Happy trails", nuove sonorità iniziano ad affermarsi: il progressive vede cominciare la sua ascesa coi King Crimson, il folk rock diviene elegante e sublime grazie ai Fairport Convention ed ai Pentangle, e l'esplosione dei Led Zeppelin dipingerà un nuovo volto alla concezione che si aveva di hard rock!
La conclusione dell'Age of Aquarius, pur sancendo il declino dell'epopea hippie, troverà molti altri canali ove direzionare la creatività degli artisti più geniali, ma il sogno dei figli dei fiori, già fortemente indebolito dall'elezione di Richard Nixon nel 1968 ed affossato dalla tragedia di Altamont nel dicembre 1969, svanisce irrimediabilmente, oppresso dall'invincibile forza degli interessi commerciali che conquisterà ogni spazio del nostro globo
Pescando ancora tra il panorama glam è facile restar folgorati dai
Roxy Music,
band capeggiata dall’istrionico Brian Ferry e che ha realizzato splendidi albums grazie ad una formazione geniale e poliedrica: i contributi di Brian Eno e Phil Manzanera in particolare hanno contribuito in modo decisivo a delineare un sound unico e di impatto immediato.
L’esordio avviene con il disco omonimo del 1972,
prodotto da Pete Sinfield, già paroliere e produttore dei King Crimson, diretto, efficace sin dalle prime note: apre remake remodel, che fornisce subito la migliore accelerazione possibile in un viaggio alimentato da ladytron, if there is something e 2 HB, che ne concludono il lato “allegro”, poichè dal medley the bobs fino a sea breeze ed a bitter’s end i toni si fanno più scuri, ma non meno interessanti! le melodie espresse incantano l’ascoltatore ad ogni passaggio, senza mai saziarlo.
Più difficile l’impatto con For your pleasure (1973)
sofisticato ma intensamente genuino, con sonorità velatamente decadenti: i brani di apertura do the strand, beauty queen e strictly confidential hanno toni quasi disperati, finchè interviene editions of you ad esaltare gli umori. Sorprendono infine Bogus man e la title track for your pleasure, che chiude l’album, imponendosi con interesse esplosivo e graffiante, concretizzando appieno le enormi capacità nell’anticipare di parecchio i suoni che avranno la meglio qualche anno dopo!
per approfondire, sono consigliatissimi anche i successivi Stranded (1973) e Country life (1974), anche se privi di Eno, che abbandona dopo una serie di attriti con gli altri componenti, per essere sostituito da Eddie Jobson.
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Release July 1, 1968
tracklist:
Tears of Rage, To Kingdom Come, In a Station, Caledonia Mission, The Weight, We Can Talk, Long Black Veil, Chest Fever, Lonesome Suzie, This Wheel's on Fire, I Shall Be Released
Big Brother & the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Release August 1968
tracklist:
Combination of the Two, I Need a Man to Love, Summertime, Piece of My Heart, Turtle Blues, Oh Sweet Mary, Ball and Chain
Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
Release September 13, 1968
tracklist:
Lather, In Time, Triad, Star Track, Share a Little Joke, Cushingura, If You Feel, Crown of Creation, Ice Cream Phoenix, Greasy Heart, The House at Pooneil Corners
The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Release November 22, 1968
tracklist:
The Village Green Preservation Society, Do You Remember Walter?, Picture Book, Johnny Thunder, Last of the Steam Powered Trains, Big Sky, Sitting by the Riverside, Animal Farm, Village Green, Starstruck, Phenomenal Cat, All of My Friends Were There, Wicked Annabella, Monica, People Take Pictures of Each Other
Mad River - Mad River
Release 1968
tracklist:
Merciful Monks, High All the Time, Amphetamine Gazelle, Eastern Light, Wind Chimes, The War Goes On, Hush Julian
The Pentangle - Sweet Child
Release December 1968
tracklist:
Market Song, No More My Lord, Turn Your Money Green, Haitian Fight Song, A Woman Like You, Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat, Three Dances (Brentzel Gay/La Rotta/The Earl of Salisbury), Watch the Stars, So Early in the Spring, No Exit, The Time Has Come, Bruton Town, Sweet Child, I Loved a Lass, Three Part Thing, Sovay, In Time, In Your Mind, I've Got a Feeling, The Trees They Do Grow High, Moon Dog, Hole in the Coal
The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
Release December 1968
tracklist:
S.F. Sorrow Is Born, Bracelets of Fingers, She Says Good Morning, Private Sorrow, Balloon Burning, Death, Baron Saturday, The Journey, I See You, Well of Destiny, Trust, Old Man Going, Loneliest Person
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Release December 6, 1968
tracklist:
Sympathy for the Devil, No Expectations, Dear Doctor, Parachute Woman, Jig-Saw Puzzle, Street Fighting Man, Prodigal Son, Stray Cat Blues, Factory Girl, Salt of the Earth
The United States of America - The United States of America
Release March 6, 1968
tracklist:
The American Metaphysical Circus, Hard Coming Love, Cloud Song, The Garden of Earthly Delights, I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You Sugar, Where Is Yesterday, Coming Down, Love Song for the Dead Ché, Stranded in Time, The American Way of Love (i. Metaphor for an Older Man ii. California Good-time Music iii. Love is All)
Importanti:
The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album]
Release November 22, 1968
tracklist:
Back in the U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Martha My Dear, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, I Will, Julia, Birthday, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, Revolution 1, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution 9, Good Night
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Release January 3, 1968
tracklist:
Artificial Energy, Goin' Back, Natural Harmony, Draft Morning, Wasn't Born to Follow, Get to You, Change Is Now, Old John Robertson, Tribal Gathering, Dolphin's Smile, Space Odyssey
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Release July 12, 1968
tracklist:
Hello, I Love You, Love Street, Not to Touch the Earth, Summer's Almost Gone, Wintertime Love, The Unknown Soldier, Spanish Caravan, My Wild Love, We Could Be So Good Together, Yes the River Knows, Five to One
Family - Music in a Doll's House
Release July 15, 1968
tracklist:
The Chase, Mellowing Grey, Never Like This, a. Me My Friend b. Variation on a Theme of Hey Mr. Policeman, Winter, a. Old Songs New Songs b. Variation on a Theme of The Breeze, Hey Mr. Policeman, a. See Through Windows b. Variation on a Theme of My Friend, Peace of Mind, Voyage, The Breeze, 3 x Time
Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
Release July 18, 1968
tracklist:
That's It for the Other One, New Potato Caboose, Born Cross-Eyed, Alligator, Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Release July 1968
tracklist:
Shapes of Things, Let Me Love You, Morning Dew, You Shook Me, Ol' Man River, Greensleeves, Rock My Plimsoul, Beck's Bolero, Blues De Luxe, I Ain't Superstitious
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Release October 25, 1968
tracklist:
...And the Gods Made Love, Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland), Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo Chile, Little Miss Strange, Long Hot Summer Night, Come On (Let the Good Times Roll), Gypsy Eyes, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Rainy Day Dream Away, 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be), Moon Turn the Tides.... Gently Gently Away, Still Raining Still Dreaming, House Burning Down, All Along the Watchtower, Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Kaleidoscope - A Beacon From Mars
Release 1968
tracklist:
I Found Out, Greenwood Sidee, Life Will Pass You By, Taxim, Baldheaded End of a Broom, Louisiana Man, You Don't Love Me, Beacon From Mars
The Pentangle - The Pentangle
Release June 1968
tracklist:
Let No Man Steal Your Thyme, Bells, Hear My Call, Pentangling, Mirage, Way Behind the Sun, Bruton Town, Waltz
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Release June 29, 1968
tracklist:
Let There Be More Light, Remember a Day, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Corporal Clegg, A Saucerful of Secrets, See-Saw, Jugband Blues
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver Messenger Service
Release May 1968
tracklist:
Pride of Man, Light Your Windows, Dino's Song, Gold and Silver, It's Been Too Long, The Fool
Spirit - The Family That Plays Together
Release December 1968
tracklist:
I Got a Line on You, It Shall Be, Poor Richard, Silky Sam, Drunkard, Darlin' If, It's All the Same, Jewish, Dream Within a Dream, She Smiles, Aren't You Glad
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
Release January 1968
tracklist:
Sookie Sookie, Everybody's Next One, Berry Rides Again, Hoochie Coochie Man, Born to Be Wild, Your Wall's Too High, Desperation, The Pusher, A Girl I Knew,Take What You Need, The Ostrich
Tomorrow - Tomorrow
Release 1968
tracklist:
My White Bicycle, Colonel Brown, Real Life Permanent Dream, Shy Boy, Revolution, The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase, Auntie Mary's Dress Shop, Strawberry Fields Forever, Three Jolly Little Dwarfs, Now Your Time Has Come, Hallucinations
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Release November 1968
tracklist:
Astral Weeks, Beside You, Sweet Thing, Cyprus Avenue, The Way Young Lovers Do, Madame George, Ballerina, Slim Slow Slider
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Release January 30, 1968
tracklist:
White Light/White Heat, The Gift, Lady Godiva's Operation, Here She Comes Now, I Heard Her Call My Name, Sister Ray
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Release April 19, 1968
tracklist:
Care of Cell 44, A Rose for Emily, Maybe After He's Gone, Beechwood Park, Brief Candles, Hung Up on a Dream, Changes, I Want Her She Wants Me, This Will Be Our Year, Butcher's Tale, Friends of Mine, Time of the Season
Nel mezzo della triade meravigliosa, il 1968 si contraddistingue per l’enorme portata innovativa di molti albums: basta pensare alle sonorità futuristiche dei Velvet Undergroung e dei Silver Apples, alla prima rock-opera, realizzata dai Pretty Things, alla psichedelia circenze degli United States of America o alla pietra angolare del folk americano eretta dalla Band.
Molti artisti osano, insomma, a costo di sacrificare l'ascoltabilità dei propri lavori e abbandonare la struttura della forma-canzone.
Non mancano certamente dischi zeppi di brani sublimi, che in aggiunta hanno acquistato col tempo ancor più fascino!
Sullo sfondo s'innalza la contestazione studentesca, tanto per imprimere anche nella storia l'irripetibilità di questo periodo.
Nella galassia creativa di inizio anni settanta comincia a brillare con splendore una stella dalla voce stupenda, con carisma astrale e talento cristallino: siamo al cospetto del duca bianco, ben noto come David Bowie, “uno dei primissimi musicisti a concepire il rock come arte globale, aprendolo alle contaminazioni con il teatro, il music-hall, il mimo, la danza, il cinema, il fumetto, le arti visive”.
Dopo essersi fatto notare col brano space oddity e successivamente con the man who sold the world, nel 1971 pubblica “Hunky Dory”
manifesto del glam rock in cui trionfa il disimpegno, il travestitismo e l'ambiguità sessuale, in un profluvio di lustrini e paillettes, boa di piume e rimmel, stivali e tutine spaziali, un "Rock'n'roll col rossetto", come dirà John Lennon.
changes, oh you pretty thing, life on mars, quicksand e queen bitch sono i brani di maggiore portata, che rivelano definitivamente le doti compositive di Bowie.
Nel successivo The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, del 1972
registrato con gli stessi componenti del precedente album, indossa la maschera di Ziggy Stardust, ambigua e sfrontata icona del glam; il concept inizia con le splendide “five years”, “soul love” e “moonage daydream”, l’apice viene raggiunto grazie a “starman” e “ziggy stardust”, per poi attendere la conclusione del disco nella teatrale “rock n’ roll suicide”. Tale saga diviene immediatamente un fenomeno mondiale, che consacra il vertice raggiunto in quel periodo dalla scena glam (anche grazie ai dischi di T-Rex, Roxy Music e New York Dolls).
Dopo una fase di transizione ed ulteriori trasformazioni, indossati i panni aristocratici del Duca Bianco ed abbracciata l’elettronica, arriva la svolta con “Station to station” nel 1976, preludio al “periodo berlinese”: il sodalizio con Brian Eno porterà infatti all’acclamata trilogia di albums Low, Heroes e Lodger (che mi è ancora ignota, ma prima o poi mi dedicherò ad essa...)
Discografia:
David Bowie (1967)
Space Oddity (Rca 1969)
The Man Who Sold The World (Rca 1971)
Hunky Dory (Rca 1971)
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (Rca 1972)
Aladdin Sane (Rca 1973)
Pin-Ups (Rca 1973)
Diamond Dogs (Rca 1974)
David Live (Rca 1974)
Young Americans (Rca 1975)
Station To Station (Rca 1976)
Low (Rca 1977)
Heroes (Rca 1977)
Stage (live) (Rca 1978)
Lodger (Rca 1979)
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Release September 1967
tracklist:
Slip Inside This House, Slide Machine, She Lives (In a Time of Her Own), Nobody to Love, Baby Blue, Earthquake, Dust, Levitation, I Had to Tell You, Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)
Big Brother and the Holding Company - Big Brother and the Holding Company
Release August 1967
tracklist:
Bye Bye Baby, Easy Rider, Intruder, Light Is Faster Than Sound, Call on Me, Women Is Losers, Blindman, Down on Me, Caterpillar, All Is Loneliness
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Release December 27, 1967
tracklist:
Suzanne, Master Song, Winter Lady, The Stranger Song, Sisters of Mercy, So Long Marianne, Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye, Stories of the Street, Teachers, One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Release April 1967
tracklist:
Flying High, Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, Death Sound Blues, Porpoise Mouth, Section 43, Super Bird, Sad and Lonely Times, Love, Bass Strings, The Masked Marauder, Grace
The doors - Strange Days
Release September 25, 1967
tracklist:
Strange Days, You're Lost Little Girl, Love Me Two Times, Unhappy Girl, Horse Latitudes, Moonlight Drive, People Are Strange, My Eyes Have Seen You, I Can't See Your Face in My Mind, When the Music's Over
The Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes
Release April 1967
tracklist:
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), Bangles, Onie, Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less), Train for Tomorrow, Sold to the Highest Bidder, Get Me to the World on Time, About a Quarter to Nine, The King Is in the Counting House, Luvin', Try Me on for Size, The Toonerville Trolley
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Release March 17, 1967
tracklist:
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion), Beat It on Down the Line, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Cold Rain and Snow, Sitting on Top of the World, Cream Puff War, Morning Dew, New New Minglewood Blues, Viola Lee Blues
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
Release December 1, 1967
tracklist:
EXP, Up From the Skies, Spanish Castle Magic, Wait Until Tomorrow, Ain't No Telling, Little Wing, If 6 Was 9, You Got Me Floatin, Castles Made of Sand, She's So Fine, One Rainy Wish, Little Miss Love, Bold as Love
The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks
Release September 15, 1967
tracklist:
David Watts, Death of a Clown, Two Sisters, No Return, Harry Rag, Tin Soldier Man, Situation Vacant, Love Me Till the Sun Shines, Lazy Old Sun, Afternoon Tea, Funny Face, End of the Season, Waterloo Sunset
Love - Da Capo
Release February 1967
tracklist:
Stephanie Knows Who, Orange Skies, ¡Que Vida!, Seven & Seven Is, The Castle, She Comes in Colors, Revelation
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Release May 29, 1967
tracklist:
Hey Grandma, Mr. Blues, Fall on You, 8:05, Come in the Morning, Omaha, Naked if I Want To, Someday, Ain't No Use, Sitting by the Window, Changes, Lazy Me, Indifference
The Pretty Things - Emotions
Release May 1967
tracklist:
Death of a Socialite, Children, The Sun, There Will Never Be Another Day, House of Ten, Out in the Night, One Long Glance, Growing in My Mind, Photographer, Bright Lights of the City, Tripping, My Time
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
Release September 13, 1967
tracklist:
Conquistador, She Wandered Through the Garden Fence, Something Following Me, Mabel, Cerdes (Outside the Gates Of), A Christmas Camel, Kaleidoscope, Salad Days (Are Here Again), Good Captain Clack, Repent Walpurgis
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
Release 1967
tracklist:
Ticket to Ride, People Get Ready, She's Not There, Bang Bang, Illusions of My Childhood - Part One, You Keep Me Hanging On, Illusions of My Childhood - Part Two, Take Me for a Little While, Illusions of My Childhood - Part Three, Eleanor Rigby
The Animals - Winds of Change
Release October 1967
tracklist:
Winds of Change, Poem by the Sea, Paint It Black, The Black Plague, Yes I Am Experienced, San Franciscan Nights, Man-Woman, Hotel Hell, Good Times, Anything, It's All Meat
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Release June 1, 1967
tracklist:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a Little Help From My Friends, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Getting Better, Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite, Within You Without You, When I'm Sixty-Four, Lovely Rita, Good Morning Good Morning, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
Release November 1967
tracklist:
Mr. Soul, A Child's Claim to Fame, Everydays, Expecting to Fly, Bluebird, Hung Upside Down, Sad Memory, Good Time Boy, Rock and Roll Woman, Broken Arrow
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
Release February 20, 1967
tracklist:
So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star, Have You Seen Her Face, C.T.A. - 102, Renaissance Fair, Time Between, Everybody's Been Burned, Thoughts and Words, Mind Gardens, My Back Pages, The Girl With No Name, Why
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Release November 1967
tracklist:
Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, World of Pain, Dance the Night Away, Blue Condition, Tales of Brave Ulysses, Swlabr, We're Going Wrong, Outside Woman Blues, Take It Back, Mother's Lament
The Doors - the Doors
Release January 4, 1967
tracklist:
Break on Through (To the Other Side), Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship, Twentieth Century Fox, Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), Light My Fire, Back Door Man, I Looked at You, End of the Night, Take It as It Comes, The End
John Fahey - Requia
Release 1967
tracklist:
Requiem for John Hurt, Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper, When the Catfish Is in Bloom, Requiem for Molly (Part 1), Requiem for Molly (Part 2), Requiem for Molly (Part 3), Requiem for Molly (Part 4), Fight On Christians Fight On
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Release February 1967
tracklist:
She Has Funny Cars, Somebody to Love, My Best Friend, Today, Comin' Back to Me, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds, D.C.B.A.-25, How Do You Feel, Embryonic Journey, White Rabbit, Plastic Fantastic Lover
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's
Release November 29, 1967
tracklist:
Streetmasse (The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil, A Small Package of Value Will Come to You shortly, Young Girl Sunday Blues), The War Is Over (Martha, Wild Tyme), Hymn to an Older Generation (The Last Wall of the Castle, Rejoyce), How Suite It Is (Watch Her Ride, Spare Chaynge), Schizoforest Love Suite (Two Heads, Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Release May 12, 1967
tracklist:
Purple haze, Manic Depression, Hey Joe, Love or Confusion, I Don't Live Today,
May This Be Love, The wind cries Mary, Fire, Third Stone From the Sun, Foxy Lady, Are You Experienced
Love - Forever Changes
Release November 1967
tracklist:
Alone Again Or, A House Is Not a Motel, Andmoreagain, The Daily Planet, Old Man, The Red Telephone, Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale, Live and Let Live, The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This, Bummer in the Summer, You Set the Scene
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Release August 5, 1967
tracklist:
Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam, Matilda Mother, Flaming, Pow R. Toc H., Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk, Interstellar Overdrive, The Gnome, Chapter 24, Scarecrow, Bike
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
Release December 1967
tracklist:
Heaven Is in Your Mind, Berkshire Poppies, House for Everyone, No Face No Name and No Number, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Dealer, Utterly Simple, Coloured Rain, Hope I Never Find Me There, Giving to You
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Release March 12, 1967
tracklist:
Sunday Morning, I'm Waiting for the Man, Femme Fatale, Venus in Furs, Run Run Run, All Tomorrow's Parties, Heroin, There She Goes Again, I'll Be Your Mirror, The Black Angel's Death Song, European Son
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Release December 15, 1967
tracklist:
Armenia City in the Sky, Heinz Baked Beans, Mary Ann With the Shaky Hand, Odorono, Tattoo, Our Love Was, I Can See for Miles, Can't Reach You, Medac, Relax, Silas Stingy, Sunrise, Rael 1