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Metal At The End Of The 60’s


Back were it all began, yes the end of the sixties provide really good music and the genesis in what became heavy metal and hard rock

Created by: Blackcrowe | 21.01.2022



1. The Beatles - The Beatles
1968 This record represent a pure demonstration of what Hard Rock or Earlier Heavy Metal gonna sound or the attitude of the lyrics songs like Back in the Ussr, Happiness is a warm gun, Yer blues, Everybody got something to hide except for me and my monkey and birthday are earlier demonstrations in what becomes heavy metal of course the most recognizable song its Helter Skellter the pure essential of the future genre
2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
1969 great riffs solos the most heavy record of LZ
3. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
1969 Maybe the first real record of progressive rock the most unique debut in rock history.
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
1969 great guitar work, Jimi Hendrix is the best guitar player of all time no one can beat or deny his talent and he invented the hard sound every record from 1967-1969 are a masterpiece
5. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
1969 I forgot in my first list this record is really heavy so one of the landmarks in Zappa’s history.
6. Pink Floyd - More
1969 More is a soundtrack, the Nile Song it’s totally amazing
7. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
1969 Great record a Classic really hard and heavy
8. Jethro Tull - Stand Up
1969 Blues hard rock powerful guitars a sustainable bass.
9. Deep Purple - Deep Purple
1969 I ve always found this record really good maybe my favorite from this band.
10. Cream - Wheels Of Fire
1968 outstanding guitar work the first power trio.
11. Free - Free
1969 U.K Hard Rock n Blues
12. Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
1969 Peter Green the guitar on *Oh Well* and Green Manalishi blown my mind
13. Humble Pie - As Safe as Yesterday Is
1969 Steve Marriot’s band are overflowing especially Steve voice
14. Johnny Winter - Second Winter
1969 Great Hard Rock
15. Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
1969 Great UK hard rock heavy power band
16. The Who - Tommy
1969 lots of great hard and heavy tunes and great music on this rock opera.
17. Spirit US - Spirit
1969 Experimental hard rock don’t forget listen the song Taurus it is very starway to heaven look a like
18. Vanilla Fudge - Near The Beginning
1969 VF great record
19. Gun - Gun
1969 Great band really heavy and dark for me the real fathers of doom
20. The Rolling Sones - Let it Bleed
1969 Really hard record songs like Gimme Shelter, Live With Me, Let It Bleed , Midnight Rambler, Monkey Man are really hard and sometimes remains an AC/ DC attitude and taste.
21. Steppenwolf - Monster
1969 this record its pretty hard
22. Blue Cheer - Blue Cheer
1969 great hard rock
23. Ten Years After - Ssssh
1969 Heavy blues Alvin Lee great guitar playing
24. Savoy Brown - Blue Matter
1969 Power Rock
25. Iron Butterfly - Heavy
1969 the lyrics and the music are really dark
26. The Stooges - The Stooges
1969
27. The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola
1969 this record sounds more heavy than zeppelin and purple in those years
28. Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reap Souls
1969 really dark record , the first song its call Black Sabbath.
29. MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
1969
30. The Faces - First Step
1969 Hard Heavy Blues
31. The Doors - The Soft Parade
1969 One of the most complex in their discography
32. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
1968
33. Grand Funk Railroad - On Time
1969 American power trio
34. Bloomfield, Kooper and Stills - Super Session
1968 A hard rock classic
35. The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
1969 Not their heaviest but great work
36. Canned Heat - Living The Blues
1968 American Blues Hard rock
37. Alice Cooper - Pretties For You
1969 Cooper’s beginning



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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21.01.2022 - 01:42
Blackcrowe

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21.01.2022 - 06:36
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
1967-69 is the best era in music history as far as I'm concerned, there are simply too many classics to choose from, but my top 5 would be:

1. Fairport Convention - Liege And Leif
2. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
3. Cream - Disraeli Gears
4. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
5. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
6. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
7. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
8. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Knowhere
9. Country Joe And The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
10. Pink Floyd - A Sauceful Of Secrets
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21.01.2022 - 07:08
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
My top late 60's list with albums featured MS;

1. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
3. The Doors - The Doors
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
5. Led Zeppelin - II
6. The Doors - Strange Days
7. Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
9. Jethro Tull - Srand Up
10. Iron Butterfly - Heavy
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21.01.2022 - 12:07
JoHn Doe

This is basically what some people call "proto metal". Now, this is not the name of a metal subgenre, but just a term that refers to bands that (without any premeditation that is) that shaped up heavy metal music.

There was a lot of psychedelic rock, heavy psych, blues-rock that lead to heavier sounds.

Little list (other bands)

Vanilla Fudge
Grand Funk Railroad
Mountain
Spooky Tooth
Gun
High Tide
Humble Pie

and a lot of short lived bands, I could mention a few if you want me to.

Nice list
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21.01.2022 - 13:46
Blackcrowe

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 21.01.2022 at 06:36

1967-69 is the best era in music history as far as I'm concerned, there are simply too many classics to choose from, but my top 5 would be:

1. Fairport Convention - Liege And Leif
2. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
3. Cream - Disraeli Gears
4. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
5. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
6. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
7. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
8. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Knowhere
9. Country Joe And The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
10. Pink Floyd - A Sauceful Of Secrets

I will Add some of those thank you
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21.01.2022 - 13:46
Blackcrowe

Written by JoHn Doe on 21.01.2022 at 12:07

This is basically what some people call "proto metal". Now, this is not the name of a metal subgenre, but just a term that refers to bands that (without any premeditation that is) that shaped up heavy metal music.

There was a lot of psychedelic rock, heavy psych, blues-rock that lead to heavier sounds.

Little list (other bands)

Vanilla Fudge
Grand Funk Railroad
Mountain
Spooky Tooth
Gun
High Tide
Humble Pie

and a lot of short lived bands, I could mention a few if you want me to.

Nice list

Yeah thank you I will add some that I forgot
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21.01.2022 - 13:48
Blackcrowe

Written by JoHn Doe on 21.01.2022 at 12:07

This is basically what some people call "proto metal". Now, this is not the name of a metal subgenre, but just a term that refers to bands that (without any premeditation that is) that shaped up heavy metal music.

There was a lot of psychedelic rock, heavy psych, blues-rock that lead to heavier sounds.

Little list (other bands)

Vanilla Fudge
Grand Funk Railroad
Mountain
Spooky Tooth
Gun
High Tide
Humble Pie

and a lot of short lived bands, I could mention a few if you want me to.

Nice list

Yep Humble Pie and Mountain is has to be there I will add later
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21.01.2022 - 14:18
Blackcrowe

Thank for the constructive comments I made some changes and I will add more bands
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21.01.2022 - 19:14
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Coven bangs, glad to see them here
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21.01.2022 - 19:37
Blackcrowe

Written by Roman Doez on 21.01.2022 at 19:14

Coven bangs, glad to see them here

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21.01.2022 - 20:28
JoHn Doe

I've just seen Pink Floyd's More. One of my favorites from PF. Nile Song & Ibiza Bar are the heaviest thing they ever did.
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27.01.2022 - 16:16
Crème fraiche

Killer list dude! I've been listening to a lot of 60' 70's albums lately and this is just what I needed haha!

Just picked up Hot Rats on vinyl, wow what a cool jazzy-rock album! So much gold here to sift through!
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28.01.2022 - 02:29
Blackcrowe

Written by Crème fraiche on 27.01.2022 at 16:16

Killer list dude! I've been listening to a lot of 60' 70's albums lately and this is just what I needed haha!

Just picked up Hot Rats on vinyl, wow what a cool jazzy-rock album! So much gold here to sift through!

Thank you buddy
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28.01.2022 - 06:05
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Tage Westerlund
Cool list whit few forgotten bands
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Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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28.01.2022 - 06:45
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Written by Crème fraiche on 27.01.2022 at 16:16

Killer list dude! I've been listening to a lot of 60' 70's albums lately and this is just what I needed haha!

Just picked up Hot Rats on vinyl, wow what a cool jazzy-rock album! So much gold here to sift through!

Hot Rats is a great album, I used to listen to alot of Frank Zappa, "peaches en regalia" is one of my favourite songs of all time.
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28.01.2022 - 16:29
Crème fraiche

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.01.2022 at 06:45

Written by Crème fraiche on 27.01.2022 at 16:16

Killer list dude! I've been listening to a lot of 60' 70's albums lately and this is just what I needed haha!

Just picked up Hot Rats on vinyl, wow what a cool jazzy-rock album! So much gold here to sift through!

Hot Rats is a great album, I used to listen to alot of Frank Zappa, "peaches en regalia" is one of my favourite songs of all time.


Still going through the Zappa albums; quite a lot to digest lol.

Any other's you would recommend for someone just diving into his music?
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28.01.2022 - 16:47
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Written by Crème fraiche on 28.01.2022 at 16:29

Still going through the Zappa albums; quite a lot to digest lol.

Any other's you would recommend for someone just diving into his music?

Other jazz fusion rock bands similar to Frank Zappa from that era that I would recommend would be Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, and early King Crimson, but I would highly recommend Santana the most, he was mostly early 70's, but began in the late 60's.
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28.01.2022 - 17:04
JoHn Doe

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.01.2022 at 16:47

Written by Crème fraiche on 28.01.2022 at 16:29

Still going through the Zappa albums; quite a lot to digest lol.

Any other's you would recommend for someone just diving into his music?

Other jazz fusion rock bands similar to Frank Zappa from that era that I would recommend would be Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, and early King Crimson, but I would highly recommend Santana the most, he was mostly early 70's, but began in the late 60's.


I believe Crème fraiche wants some Zappa albums recommendations.

Also Beefheart does not sound like Zappa. I would not dare recommend Beefheart to anyone...
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28.01.2022 - 18:02
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Quote:
Written by JoHn Doe on 28.01.2022 at 17:04

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.01.2022 at 16:47

Written by Crème fraiche on 28.01.2022 at 16:29

Still going through the Zappa albums; quite a lot to digest lol.

Any other's you would recommend for someone just diving into his music?

Other jazz fusion rock bands similar to Frank Zappa from that era that I would recommend would be Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, and early King Crimson, but I would highly recommend Santana the most, he was mostly early 70's, but began in the late 60's.


I believe Crème fraiche wants some Zappa albums recommendations.

Also Beefheart does not sound like Zappa. I would not dare recommend Beefheart to anyone...

Sorry I misread the question Hot Rats is my favourite Zappa album, but my other favourites of mine are Apostrophe ('), Over-nite sensation, and Sheik Yerbouti, which I would say are all good in a Zappa kind of way, so I guess I would recommend them.

As for Beefheart, I always thought he was partly jazz fusion, but I suppose his not really, so my bad, but I quite like some of his stuff though, extremely weired but funky.
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01.02.2022 - 14:38
Crème fraiche

Written by JoHn Doe on 28.01.2022 at 17:04

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.01.2022 at 16:47

Written by Crème fraiche on 28.01.2022 at 16:29

Still going through the Zappa albums; quite a lot to digest lol.

Any other's you would recommend for someone just diving into his music?

Other jazz fusion rock bands similar to Frank Zappa from that era that I would recommend would be Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, and early King Crimson, but I would highly recommend Santana the most, he was mostly early 70's, but began in the late 60's.


I believe Crème fraiche wants some Zappa albums recommendations.

Also Beefheart does not sound like Zappa. I would not dare recommend Beefheart to anyone...


I actually like Captain Beefheart!
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01.02.2022 - 14:39
Crème fraiche

Quote:
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.01.2022 at 18:02

Written by JoHn Doe on 28.01.2022 at 17:04

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.01.2022 at 16:47

Written by Crème fraiche on 28.01.2022 at 16:29

Still going through the Zappa albums; quite a lot to digest lol.

Any other's you would recommend for someone just diving into his music?

Other jazz fusion rock bands similar to Frank Zappa from that era that I would recommend would be Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, and early King Crimson, but I would highly recommend Santana the most, he was mostly early 70's, but began in the late 60's.


I believe Crème fraiche wants some Zappa albums recommendations.

Also Beefheart does not sound like Zappa. I would not dare recommend Beefheart to anyone...

Sorry I misread the question Hot Rats is my favourite Zappa album, but my other favourites of mine are Apostrophe ('), Over-nite sensation, and Sheik Yerbouti, which I would say are all good in a Zappa kind of way, so I guess I would recommend them.

As for Beefheart, I always thought he was partly jazz fusion, but I suppose his not really, so my bad, but I quite like some of his stuff though, extremely weired but funky.



Thanks dude, I appreciate the recommendations! Cheers guys!
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07.06.2023 - 02:11
Blackcrowe

Written by Blackcrowe on 28.01.2022 at 02:29

Written by Crème fraiche on 27.01.2022 at 16:16

Killer list dude! I've been listening to a lot of 60' 70's albums lately and this is just what I needed haha!

Just picked up Hot Rats on vinyl, wow what a cool jazzy-rock album! So much gold here to sift through!

Thank you buddy

After all this time I didn’t read your comment sorry… I can recommend you
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Frank Zappa With The Mothers- Over-Nite sensation
Frank Zappa With The Mothers - Live at The Roxy and Elsewhere
Frank Zappa - Live in New York
Frank Zappa - Sheik YerBoutty

Sorry for that late answer
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07.06.2023 - 14:24
JoHn Doe

Mountain could get quite heavy
https://youtu.be/qPT6JH4Ir_o
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08.06.2023 - 01:38
Blackcrowe

Your right
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08.06.2023 - 10:11
RaduP
CertifiedHipster
Some of the heaviest and weirdest music you'll find in the 60s:
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Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking
One day there will be no heart at all?
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08.06.2023 - 10:19
JoHn Doe

Written by RaduP on 08.06.2023 at 10:11

Some of the heaviest and weirdest music you'll find in the 60s:


indeed, it's like Revolution 9 on steroids.
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08.06.2023 - 10:23
JoHn Doe

The Who - I Can See for Miles was the heaviest thing around at hat time, Paul McCartney made Helter Skelter in a reaction to that, wanting to create something louder, heavier somehow. The Who song is better though (IMO obviously).
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08.06.2023 - 21:08
Blackcrowe

Written by JoHn Doe on 08.06.2023 at 10:23

The Who - I Can See for Miles was the heaviest thing around at hat time, Paul McCartney made Helter Skelter in a reaction to that, wanting to create something louder, heavier somehow. The Who song is better though (IMO obviously).

Both are great songs
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08.06.2023 - 21:09
Blackcrowe

Written by JoHn Doe on 07.06.2023 at 14:24

Mountain could get quite heavy
https://youtu.be/qPT6JH4Ir_o

Yeah heavy
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08.06.2023 - 21:10
Blackcrowe

Written by RaduP on 08.06.2023 at 10:11

Some of the heaviest and weirdest music you'll find in the 60s:


Really weird its like a drug monk’s having a big orgy
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