1967, a great year for music! + Viewer Systems!

[@Srode1999]

I was born in 1967 and love so much music from that year. First album I bought with my own money was Sgt. Pepper in 1977. The same year, a cousin gave me his extra copy of Axis. I was going to say you forgot Aretha and Lady Soul but I fact checked myself and that came out in early 68. Clapton played on a track in that album while he was in New York recording Disraeli Gears.

[@danielwilliams1921]

Great episode! I was 17 in ‘67, and hearing these albums in real time was a life-changing experience.

[@johnfisher3929]

I was 16 in 1967. Your show was my life. Thanks.

[@awhirsch]

Love the album reviews!

[@TheEvolvingAudioNut]

One year later Frank Zappa released "We're Only in it for the Money". One of my favorites.

[@simoncliff4376]

We're Only In It For The Money was actually recorded in 67. The album artwork parody of Sgt Pepper must be one of the greatest album covers of all time.

[@FOH3663]

Steve, all that context is so appreciated ... you're a treasure trove of enlightenment ... setting the scene of that era. Very cool. I share with my kids; everyone had a record collection ... and everyone had a system. Also, upon going over to someone's place, the first thing one does is ask if they can check out their record collection. Thanks for this.

[@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac]

Thank you!

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Magical mystery tour holds up much better. George is fantastic. Bluejay way, Paul, sad a fool on the hill, the grand silliness of flying, the rock ‘n’ roll of baby, you are rich man, and the blaring headlights of the title track. Love it.

[@glenncurry3041]

"67 saw my transition from greaser to hippy. From James Brown, Wilson Picket, Otis Redding, bags, Ban-Lon and Stacy Adams ... to Beatles, Stones, Floyd, Hendrix,... bell bottoms, peace sign necklaces and hair down my back.

[@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac]

I relate

[@clasvirhodes4969]

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliacI credit two songs for transitioning me from "Monkees" and "Herman's Hermits" to Iron Butterfly and Moody Blues ... The Strawberry Alarm Clock song "Incense and Peppermints" and Tommy James and the Shondells : "Crimson and Clover". My 12 year old mind was blown by these two songs. I went looking for more.

[@OgamJan]

Interesting video, Steve. All that psychedelia was never for me, but Strawberry fields forever... wow, that is still so beautiful.

[@MR_Elektronik]

Hi Steve, in 1967 i was only 4 years old. But a few years later i got my first lp as a gift from my sister. It was the red album from the Beatles. What a great gift. Love your videos. Greetings from germany.

[@velchuck]

I must confess. I am a child of the 60s. In 1967 I was in the service. I thought I knew my 60s music. You have opened my eyes to a group I have never heard of. How is this possible. I googled them and was astonished what I read. The Velvet Underground is amazing. Thank you Steve for this educational video.

[@williammcdonald4922]

my three favorite LP's by those bands. magical mystery tour was the first LP that i owned, i was 13 at the time so i asked my mom to buy it for me. i had heard "I Am the Walrus" on the radio and it blew my mind. nothing else had ever sounded like that! Satanic Majesty is by far my favorite Stones record, probably because it doesn't sound at all like the Stones. And "Piper", i had heard Echoes on the radio in its' entirety (WBCN Boston), again mind blown. Got it then worked my way backwards quickly through all their releases. I really like the whimsy of the Barrett songs, clever yet truly psychedelic.

[@marknielsen8977]

The Piper ATGD is a masterpiece album, Barret really had a vision. Interstellar OD blows me away every single time, especially pushing the air around with some 15" drivers.

[@octothorpe12]

1967 and 1984 are easily the most important years of music history. I don't think we'll ever have that again.

[@billbrandon1697]

what came out in 1984 ?

[@rabit818]

I was too young for that era, but I love the 60s. My introduction with 60s music was in 80s art school... Velvet Underground. Sixties music mixed with Elvis Costello, Clash, and other eighties bands. And the journey continues to this day. The Doors + Sgt Peppers LHCB are my 1967 faves. Love the well researched single covers and your thoughts on the music Steve.

[@BobMetcalf]

My number one album that blew my mind was the first Vanilla Fudge.

[@imabeliever85]

Thank you for taking us back to 1967! The year I was born! So much awesome music came out that year! As far as the Beatles, I love all their music, but the recently remastered 2023 red album just sounds so fresh and exciting. I love the blue album, I always have, the music is absolutely incredible, but the red album is party music.

[@contemporaryartist6542]

Excellent. Do every year of your listening life, an important archive. Thank you

[@timothyfreeseha4056]

This rates with me as one of my favorite videos. I really do think 1966 / 67 reveals a lot of change/ broadening of the artistic horizon.

[@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac]

Thanks Timothy, well, 68 and 69 were pretty incredible as well. 1970 wasn't up to those standards, and for me not until 1977 did things start to pick up!

[@bobb.9917]

Great Video….I ❤LOVE❤ to remember AND learn! Thanks Steve!

[@billirby2541]

Steve, we are close to the same age so come from much the same context. Great episode. What an era!

[@keithwaring1642]

Amazing year 1967, a couple of albums I would like to add from this side of the pond, The Hollies, Evolution and The Small Faces self titled Immediate album, your summary of the other albums was spot on Steve.

[@robertfiorellino6070]

I feel lucky to have been born when I was. My 1st album purchase was Meet the Beatles and that was the beginning of a life long love affair with music. The best part of that time was seeing Cream and The Who four months apart in a local high school gym. Oh my, what a time that was. By the way, there was a book written about how that high school got those bands. It is called When the Stars Were Within Reach by Michael Rosenblum. The first concert was 11/29/67 and it was The Who.

[@JerryFerreri]

Steve, let me say this once for all: you’re the luckiest guy in the world! You were born in the right time and space to witness the music world at its best and you made your passion your profession and still today you’re making of it a living. Good for you! I do envy your luck!

[@edholmwood2263]

Nice change of pace. Enjoyable.

[@robertyoung1777]

I agree - The Monterey International Pop Festival was in 1967 ! Music was full of joy through 1967. That feeling was largely lost after the Manson murders in 1967.

[@andyanderson3352]

Fabulous review, I was 10 years old in 67 l had every record except for Pink Floyd. Please do more reviews like this.

[@DarkJeffau]

I was. 14 in 1867. I had one of those suitcase players with the detachable lid with one speaker.I only had singles back then.

[@NisuUuno]

Great video! Hope to see more of this! 67 is still my favorite year for music. 91 is very cool too - Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Metallica, GnR, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chilli Peppers :P

[@davidatrakchi2707]

I was 14 back at 1967 and I do agree that these records shaped my musical taste until this very day

[@damianzaninovich4900]

Nice job. To me the best sounding albums of these are Love, next The Doors two records. Both Electra. Axis Bold as Love, what an album! My favorite Strawberry Fields are the demos on Anthology, just incredible, sound more live. You are the only person I know who likes Satanic … kinda Spinal Tapish “Listen to what the flower people say” . I’m glad you pointed out how good music used to be. Truly great classics. I had three older brothers. Ed Sullivan, JBL L100’s, saw most of the legends.

[@handymoore-ik7oc]

I agree with you on Magical Mystery Tour. I play it frequently. Steve why not do the same for 1968 and 1969? (Individually, not together)

[@DPSingh-px4xu]

I bought all of these records in 1967 as a teen in musical paradise Jimi was just getting started....however Magical Mystery Tour was by far my favorite

[@bdee3614]

Piper is my FAVORITE!

[@amosshearer1137]

You’ve already listed most of what I’d pick and probably all of the important ones. Two adds for me would be Safe As Milk and Born Under A Bad Sign.

[@danedes9297]

The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free as well as all you listed. I noticed that you have the original Surrealistic Pillow cover before the label cropped the bottom part of the picture on subsequent releases.

[@louisperlman8030]

Nice to see some love for MMT😊

[@ChrisJohnson-c3s]

Steve agree 100% Magical Mystery Tour

[@darrellross8609]

Got MMT for my 11th birthday. Best, D.

[@errolfouquet7381]

Steve, I thought I added a comment, but not seeing it here. 😕 I was asking if you had the German "true stereo" pressing of Magical Mystery Tour. If not, you really should find a copy, it's stunning.

[@danmartin3183]

All of those albums blew my 1967 mind. Then I heard Electric Flag, have mercy.

[@bacarandii]

I dig your specs. And this video in general. Of course, "Magical Mystery Tour" -- the American LP, not the UK double EP -- exists mainly because EMI pushed George Martin (much to his everlasting regret) to release "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" as a double A-sided single in February, 1967, rather than on that summer's then-unfinished "Sgt. Pepper" album, which was the original intention. Those two songs and "I Am the Walrus," I would argue, are Peak Beatles (at least from the middle period that began with "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver"). The pace of production back then still astounds me, and probably wouldn't be rivaled until Elvis Costello put out "King of America" and "Blood & Chocolate" in the same year (1986). In 1967, not only did Hendrix and the Doors and the Beatles drop two albums apiece but the Stones released "Between the Buttons," "Satanic Majesties" AND "Flowers" (a U.S. patchwork of singles and alternate takes from British releases). They don't make 'em that fast anymore! And I'm with you on "Satanic Majesties": the production on that record is so vivid and exciting. And the Pink Floyd records I've listened to most in the past few years are "Meddle" and "Atom Heart Mother." Those are my two all-time favorite Floyd album covers, too.

[@fletchermunson6225]

Buffalo Springfied Again. Traffic Mr Fantasy, Electric Flag, Jesse Colin Young, The Young Bloods.

[@CarlosPerez-eb5er]

Santana cover! Made me want to be an artist, and I did.

[@karpen]

Completely agree with your preference, if that's the right word, for MMT over Sgt. Pepper. More psychedelic, and stronger tunes overall imo. As time has passed, I've really come to love Satanic Majesty's Request, although I don't hear it as out of the Stones album lineage as you do. Some great tunes, but some filler too. Anyway, this was a terrific Audiophiliac. Thanks.

[@raysville7256]

For me, A Day in the Life' is the transcendental Beatles track.

[@xstensl8823]

skipped school and drove all night up to Monterey to attend the Monterey Pop festival.

[@BostonMike68]

Back in the early 80s when I was around 16 I was getting more info the heavy music especially after I started listening to Sabbath, but anyway my friend was really into the Beatles and Stones and got me into the music from the 60s and he told me Strawberry Fields John wrote about his childhood and he grew up less privileged and kinda poor and Paul wrote Penny Lane about his childhood because he came from money and was more privileged. I don't know how true it is but that's what he told me

[@36karpatoruski]

What a year! Add the Vanilla Fudge debut album.

[@clasvirhodes4969]

I am so glad Steve made this video. People look at me like I blasphemed God when I say that the Beatles album Sgt Pepper in overrated. I then go on to say that Magical Mystery Tour is a better album. That's when i can sense they have shut their ears to anything else I say like " If you removed Blue Jay Way & Flying from MMT album and swapped them for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds & A Day in the Life, MMT would be widely considered the greatest Beatle album and SGT Pepper would lose it's grandeur and be just another album. From now on... when this subject comes up, I will refer them to the opinion of the great Steve Guttenberg.

[@handymoore-ik7oc]

1969 was a great year also. I was 20.

[@bigfishhk]

Love all these bands though really1968 best year for the Stones IMHO. Would also love to see an annual comparison of something a bit more 21st century.lol.

[@DQ-su6qf]

Saw Love about 11 times including twice at North Hollywood High…and the Doors took things to a number of different places….67 was an incredible time in so many ways…not all good…

[@peternappi5220]

Great list- I would add Leonard Cohen's debut.

[@dinosaursr]

Rubber Soul is my favourite. Beggars Banquet my Stones pick.

[@manuelramos4731]

Steve love your show but I was born in 1967

[@lsaideOK]

No Who or The Kinks? I can see for miles and Waterloo Sunset are singles from their 1967 albums.

[@Sunflower0122Z]

A wonderful trip-sorry for the pun, down stereo lane.

[@dancomiskey2101]

You left out that other Sgt. Pepper album cover/parody...mod-a go-go stretch elastic pants.

[@geneobrien8907]

"Baby You're A Rich Man" is about acid. Yes, the lyric, "You keep all your money in a big brown bag...", is pretty clearly about money but in the mid to late 1960's, you weren't really considered to be part of he counterculture until you went through that door. After that first trip, you had become, metaphorically, one of the beautiful people. "How often have you been there? Often enough to know." "What did you see when you were there? Nothing that doesn't show." "And have you traveled very far? Far as the eye can see." None of the above lyrics has anything to do with money, they were about an experience.

[@darrellross8609]

This is how I see "73".

[@weeooh1]

Wonder if Steve also had Monkees or Hermans Hermits albums he was too embarrassed to mention. 😅

[@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac]

Noooooo!

[@fakeklg]

😆@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Hell yea!

[@armanddimeo6575]

The only year that may have been better than '67 was '69. This was the year of Abbey Road (the best Beatles album IMHO), Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Led Zeppelin I and II, The Band's "Brown Album," The Who's "Tommy," and The Stones' "Let It Bleed" (much better than "Satanic" in my opinion).

[@skumnjepf]

I am the Walrus.

[@Hiluxtaco]

1967. Also a great year for cars....

[@fakeklg]

What was the 1967 car of your dreams?

[@Hiluxtaco]

@@fakeklg 1967 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C.

[@fakeklg]

@@Hiluxtaco that’s quite a car! Thanks!

[@tfrench4366]

I was born 65 so I didn't get introduced to that music until later in the 70's. For me "Band on the run" started it off for me in the later 70's. Late 60's into the 70's for me is the best time for music. There was so much great music in that time period.

[@doobydub8363]

No Kinks' Something Else??? Waterloo sunset's fine! Don't miss the subliminal seduction cover art.

[@edwardyoung8575]

Steve how dare you put The Beatles and Taylor Swift in the same sentence!!!! 🫢

[@mikechristensen1285]

“Get off my lawn!!! (Waving fist)”…. That’s what you meant to say.

[@edwardyoung8575]

@@mikechristensen1285 lol!!!! Yup!

[@Sunflower0122Z]

😂😂😂😂

[@richardvezina5346]

John Lennon famously said: « we’re more popular than Taylor Swift »

[@JerryFerreri]

First of all I am a Pink Floyd fan, second “I am the walrus” is the best Beatles song ever. Is 1967 the best year in rock music? Steve you have a strong case when showing those records in particular The Velvet Underground but maybe 1972/73 are no slackers, either. Last but not least, I see you’re a more pre TDSOTM guy: understandable because you were triggered by their debut album and so when Waters took the creative control it was a different band. Fair enough…

[@devonmoors]

Real rock is music based on R&B and Country Boogie and simply called RocknRoll

[@meshplates]

1971 or 1972

[@1rwp]

I was inspired by this, so I dug out my Satanic M.. original LP, and also played the reissued CD/SACD (played both layers) and still think the sound on this song/recording/album is typical crappy Rolling Stones. Too bad.

[@cremersalex]

first view, first like!

[@kellygrant4964]

All great... but the Beatles. I really think anybody else playing their music is far better. Just don't like them.

[@ernies8828]

On the cover of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts, go to the top upper left, second head over. The bald guy is Aleister Crowley, known as the wickedest man alive, the beast. That's disturbing, and one of many reasons why any wise person should be concerned about what transpired from the 50s and 60s going forward. Witchraft/satanism is not anything we should be embracing or celebrating. This is a huge part of what's wrong in the world.

[@fakeklg]

🙄 666

[@ernies8828]

@_fakeklg - yep, that's the number they use, which, by the way, means anyone who ignorantly goes along with that evil, also embraces all that these demonicly indoctrinated people believe and do, including SRA, pedophilia, child and adult sacrifice and rape, and terrorism. People need to be smarter than this.

[@ernies8828]

@_fakeklg -comment may have been deleted. Ridiculous censorship, but it's our world today. I would never recommend anyone getting caught up in any type of witchcraft/satanism. There is nothing good about it. I have seen things that would make that painfully obvious

[@stevenkoski228]

No mention of The Who?🙈, Alzheimer’s is looming🤨.