Respect
1967 · From I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You
Aretha takes Otis Redding's song away from him for good, spells out the demand, and never gives it back.
★ 9.9
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1967
Showing 139 works across all media from 1967
A Day in the Life
1967 · From Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Two unfinished songs bolted together, an orchestra climbing to nothing, and the last piano chord in pop.
★ 9.9
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
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967 · 417 pages
Seven generations of one family in Macondo, where insomnia comes as a plague and the rain lasts four years. García Márquez reports the impossible as plain fact.
★ 9.5
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
Purple Haze
1967
The intro is a tritone, medieval music's forbidden interval, and Roger Mayer's new Octavia pedal makes the solo scream.
★ 8.9
The Master and Margarita
1967 · 411 pages
The devil arrives in Stalin's Moscow with a retinue that includes an enormous talking cat, and the literary bureaucrats never recover. Threaded through it runs a stark short novel about Pontius Pilate.
★ 8.7
I have also decided to stick with love...hate is too great a burden to bear.
Where Do We Go From Here? · 1967
The Graduate
Directed by Mike Nichols
1967
A generation was told their parents were wrong and believed it: Nichols made aimlessness look cinematic, and the soundtrack put Simon and Garfunkel into every house in America.
★ 8.5
Waterloo SunsetThe Kinks
Waterloo Sunset
1967 · From Something Else by The Kinks
Davies started it as "Liverpool Sunset," moved it to the Thames, and Dave's tape-delay guitar did the rest.
★ 8.3
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
Le Samourai
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
1967
Every filmmaker who has ever shot a hitman putting on a hat is quoting this: Melville stripped the crime film down to ritual, silence and a trench coat.
★ 8.1
Light My FireThe Doors
Light My Fire
1967 · From The Doors
Krieger wrote most of it, Manzarek built a Bach-shaped organ intro, and Morrison sang the banned lyric on Sullivan anyway.
★ 8.1
Penny Lane
1967 · From Magical Mystery Tour
McCartney heard a piccolo trumpet on a Bach broadcast, called David Mason in, and pop had never sounded brighter.
★ 8.1
Rothko Chapel murals
1967 · Rothko Chapel, Houston
Fourteen near-black panels in an octagonal room, where your eyes adjusting to the dark is the point. Rothko died before it opened.
★ 7.9
For What It's Worth
1967 · From Buffalo Springfield
Stills wrote it about the Sunset Strip curfew riots, not Vietnam, and Young's harmonics ring like a warning bell.
★ 7.8
What a Wonderful WorldLouis Armstrong
What a Wonderful World
1967 · From What a Wonderful World
Armstrong took union scale so the orchestra could collect overtime; ABC's president hated it and buried the record.
★ 7.8
Bonnie and Clyde
Directed by Arthur Penn
1967
New Hollywood starts here: the violence was unlike anything American films had shown, the Newsweek critic who panned it printed a retraction a week later, and the studio system collapsed.
★ 7.8
Heroin
1967 · From The Velvet Underground & Nico
Written in 1964 while Reed was a staff songwriter, and Tucker abandoned her drums at the climax, unable to hear.
★ 7.7
A Whiter Shade of Pale
1967
Fisher's Hammond nods at Bach for a bar before veering off, and Reid took the title from a party remark.
★ 7.7
Brown Eyed Girl
1967 · From Blowin' Your Mind!
Twenty-two takes at A&R Studios, the Sweet Inspirations behind him, and a song Morrison says never paid him royalties.
★ 7.7
I Am The Walrus
1967 · From Magical Mystery Tour
Lennon stitched three unfinished songs together, then let a live BBC King Lear broadcast wander into the mix.
★ 7.7
I'm Waiting for the ManThe Velvet Underground
I'm Waiting for the Man
1967 · From The Velvet Underground & Nico
Recorded in Hollywood with Cale on piano, the rhythm pushing like a subway train under Reed's flat delivery.
★ 7.7
Soul ManSam & Dave
Soul Man
1967
Hayes lifted the title from Detroit buildings marked soul to spare them; Cropper gets shouted out mid-song.
★ 7.6
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
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
1967 · From I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You
Muscle Shoals, January 1967, Oldham on Wurlitzer, and a session that fell apart in an argument right after it.
★ 7.6
White Rabbit
1967 · From Surrealistic Pillow
Slick borrowed the one long crescendo from Bolero and Lewis Carroll's cast, then rode both to number eight.
★ 7.6
Little Wing
1967
A glockenspiel, a Leslie speaker meant for organs, and Hendrix fading out after two minutes and twenty-five seconds.
★ 7.6
Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
1967
Two quiet verses, then Artie Schroeck's brass kicks the door in, and Valli's solo single stalled one place from number one.
★ 7.6
Sunshine of Your LoveCream
Sunshine of Your Love
1967 · From Disraeli Gears
Bruce came home from a Hendrix show carrying the riff, and Baker answered it by drumming on one and three.
★ 7.6
Chain of Fools
1967 · From Lady Soul
Joe South's tremolo guitar opens it, Don Covay wrote it young while singing gospel, and Franklin turns it merciless.
★ 7.5
All You Need is LoveThe Beatles
All You Need is Love
1967 · From Magical Mystery Tour
Beamed live to 400 million on the first global satellite link, opening on La Marseillaise, its coda quoting Bach.
★ 7.5
Belle de Jour
Directed by Luis Bunuel
1967
Bunuel's most seductive film, and the role Deneuve never quite escaped: a bored bourgeois wife takes afternoon work in a brothel, and her fantasies blur in without warning.
★ 7.5
Cool Hand Luke
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
1967
American English took a line about failure to communicate from it, and Newman his best role: a man who will not be broken, on a chain gang that keeps trying.
★ 7.5
The EndThe Doors
The End
1967 · From The Doors
Krieger's raga-style tuning, Morrison at his most unnerving, and nearly twelve minutes Coppola later gave to Apocalypse Now.
★ 7.4
With a Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles)
1967 · From Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Starr sang it at dawn after ten takes, having first made them cut the line about thrown tomatoes.
★ 7.4
Ode to Billie Joe
1967
Gentry's demo vocal was kept, Jimmie Haskell added four violins and two cellos, and the intended B-side became the A-side hit.
★ 7.3
SuzanneLeonard Cohen
Suzanne
1967 · From Songs of Leonard Cohen
Cohen thought Simon's orchestration overblown, but the four-track master wouldn't let him strip it; Judy Collins recorded it first.
★ 7.3
Play Time
Directed by Jacques Tati
1967 · France
Tati built a working modern city on the edge of Paris and it bankrupted him: there is no plot, no close-up, and something funny in every corner of the frame.
★ 7.1
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
1967
James Jamerson's bass, cut in Chicago with Funk Brothers moonlighting for cash, and Wilson sounding weightless above it.
★ 7.1
By the Time I Get To Phoenix
1967
Webb mapped a drive that is geographically impossible, and Sinatra still called it the greatest torch song ever written.
★ 6.9
Foxey Lady
1967
One note shaken into a wide vibrato, then feedback, then the sharp-ninth chord that carries his name.
★ 6.9
I Say a Little Prayer
1967
Hal David wrote it about a woman whose man is in Vietnam; Bacharach thought the finished take too rushed.
★ 6.9
Ruby TuesdayThe Rolling Stones
Ruby Tuesday
1967 · From Between the Buttons
Brian Jones on recorder, Wyman fingering a double bass while Richards bowed it, and the Stones' most delicate number one.
★ 6.8
Jackson
1967 · From At Folsom Prison
Wheeler got the idea from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Cash and Carter trade the taunts like they mean them.
★ 6.8
Venus in Furs
1967 · From The Velvet Underground & Nico
Cale's viola drone, Reed's ostrich guitar, Tucker's tambourine: one of three songs the band recut in Hollywood.
★ 6.8
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 Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
1967 · 432 pages
Colonists rebelled because they believed London was conspiring to destroy their liberty. Reading hundreds of pamphlets, Bailyn showed that ideas made the Revolution. A generation of historians rewrote the founding on his terms.
★ 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
I Can See for MilesThe Who
I Can See for Miles
1967 · From The Who Sell Out
Townshend called it his ace in the hole and never forgave Britain for stopping it at number ten.
★ 6.6
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
1967 · From Surrealistic Pillow
Darby Slick wrote it after his girlfriend left; Grace Slick brought it from the Great Society to number five.
★ 6.5
The Society of the Spectacle
1967 · 132 pages
Lived experience has been replaced by images of itself: in 221 numbered theses Debord argues capitalism now sells the appearance of living. Spectacle became the word critics of media reach for.
★ 6.5
BernadetteThe Four Tops
Bernadette
1967
Dozier had three Bernadettes in mind, and Levi Stubbs shouts the name at the false ending like a man drowning.
★ 6.4