1965 The best year in rock?
1967 is always sited as the YEAR, but 1965 really was the beginning and without the groundbreaking artists and albums, 1967's masterpieces would never have been.
Soooo, 1965 just may be, al least for the kids that grew up then, and for "kids" & fans born later who care about when an album was released...1965 was a pivotal year indeed! It may be hard to gain a perspective if you weren't a teen in 1965--you likely discovered the Beatles or LoVE or The Doors or Stones [etc] albums completely out of chronological order. We didn't have the internet to leak spoilers THREE years ahead of when a new album is released! Artists nowadays release a new alum every three or four years if we are lucky! And we had to spot the next new album in a record shop window on the day of release, and we didn't get the latest five star reviews online...but from our friends.
Imagine. 1965!
The Bealtes (in the USA Capital realm anyway) released four full albums and two EPs including their artistic masterpiece Rubber Soul. The Stones had FIVE I believe. DYLAN released his visionary masterpieces Bringing It All Back Home & HWY 61 Revisited. Donovan had two. The Who were introduced as were The Yardbirds (well they released Five Live in the UK but we really were unaware of them until 1965), The Animals, The Moody Blues, The Beau Brummels, The Turtles, Sonny & Cher, Lovin' Spoonful, Fred Neil, Beach Boys had three, Them, The Pretty Things, The Zombies...and of COURSE...THE BYRDS released Mr Tambourine Man AND Turn Turn Turn.
Let's see any band or artist today pull of two masterpieces in one year let alone a lifetime!!
So as far 1965 goes...can't agree MORE, Ed the Bear & John9 (from the Love forum). The best year for music was 1965
And yes...Perhaps it was being just 15 (the innocent age, at least in 1965 withOUT the internet to force kids to grow up long before their time). But the music was of a time like no time before or since.
Magical.
Here is a short list...really quite unbelievable. It was a monumental year for rock!
January
The Rolling Stones No 2
The Zombies
February
The Rolling Stones, Now!
The Animals On Tour
John Coltrane A Love Supreme
Herman's Hermits
The Impressions People Get Ready
March
Kinks-Kinks Kinks
The Beach Boys Today!
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
The Early Beatles
The Zombies Begin Here
The Pretty Things -ST
Dusty Springfield Ooooooweee!
April
Beatles For Sale
The Beau Brummels Introducing
May
Donovan What's Bin Did & What's been Hid
Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage
The Animals Animal Tracks
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs Wooly Bully
June
Them The Angry Young Them
Yardbirds For your Love
Beatles VI
The Byrds Mr Tambourine Man
July
Roy Orbison There Is Only One
The Shadows The Sound of
The Moody Blues Magnificent Moodies
August
Sonny & Cher Look At Us
Beatles HELP!
Dylan HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
Fred Neil Bleecker & MacDougal
September
The Hollis Hollies
Otis Redding Otis Blue
Rolling Stones Out Of Our Heads
October
Dusty Spingfield Everything's Coming Up Dusty
Cher All I Really Want To Do
Donovan Fairy Tale
Joan Baez Farewell, Angelina
The Turtles it Ain't Me Babe
Manfred Mann Mann Made
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - ST
November
Yardbirds Having A Rave Up
Lovin' Spoonful Do You Believe In Magic
Chuck Berry Fresh Berry's
Kinks Kingdom
December
The Who My Generation
Beatles RUBBER SOUL!
Rolling Stones December's Children
The Byrds Turn Turn Turn
Pretty Things Get The Picture
Jackson C. Frank - st
