Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967
It took about seven hundred hours of studio time when their first album took one day, and no singles were released from it.
★ 9.6
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Showing 16 albums from 1967
The Velvet Underground & Nico
1967
Andy Warhol's only real production instruction was to leave the mistakes in. It sold badly enough that the band were dropped soon afterwards.
★ 9.4
Are You Experienced?
1967
Hendrix cut it on four tracks in stolen studio hours between gigs, and nobody had heard a guitar do any of it before.
★ 9.3
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You
1967
The Muscle Shoals session collapsed in a fight after a day and a half, and the rest was finished in New York without the argument.
★ 8.1
Forever Changes
1967
Arthur Lee was convinced he was about to die and wrote it as a goodbye. Session players were hired when the band could not play.
★ 7.6
The Doors
1967
Light My Fire was mostly written by guitarist Robby Krieger, who had been in the band a matter of months and had never written a song.
★ 6.7
The Velvet Underground
1967
John Cale had left, taking the viola and the noise with him. They recorded it through small amplifiers because their equipment had been stolen.
★ 6.7
Disraeli Gears
1967
The title came from a roadie getting derailleur gears wrong. They recorded the whole thing in New York in under a week.
★ 6.1
Songs of Leonard Cohen
1967
Cohen was thirty-three and already a published novelist when he made it, and he disliked the strings the producer added behind him.
★ 5.9
Surrealistic Pillow
1967
Jerry Garcia played on it and is credited only as the band's spiritual adviser. The whole record took thirteen days.
★ 5.4
Born Under a Bad Sign
1967
King played a right-handed guitar upside down without restringing it, which is why nobody else's bends sound quite like his.
★ 5.1
The Who Sell Out
1967
One sleeve photograph left Roger Daltrey sitting in a bath of cold baked beans long enough to catch pneumonia. The radio jingles between songs are real.
★ 4.8
Buffalo Springfield Again
1967
The band was falling apart while they made it, recording their songs separately. Neil Young quit twice before it was finished.
★ 4.5
Younger Than Yesterday
1967
Chris Hillman had never written a song before and suddenly wrote four, because Gene Clark had left and Crosby could not fill the gap alone.
★ 3.9
Moby Grape
1967
Columbia released five singles from it on the same day, which made radio ignore all of them and effectively finished the band.
★ 3.6
West Side Soul
1967
Sam played through a tremolo unit that puts a shiver on every chord, and he sang in a high, urgent voice most bluesmen avoided.
★ 2.8