Last LP Of The Sixties/First Of The Seventies

[Dr_Eugene_Landy]

Let It Bleed = 1960s.
Sticky Fingers = 1970s.

In this thread we will name albums right on that cusp and ask ourselves questions like "is Abbey Road more of a seventies sound than sixties?

[Dr. Tim]

OK, I'll bite.
Friends, 20/20  = 60s.
Sunflower = 70s.

Even though a good part of Sunflower was recorded in 69.

Your move.

[Dr_Eugene_Landy]

Led Zep 1 still had some sixties in it.
Led Zep 2 is more of a seventies statement.

And Zozo is seventies up the wazoo.

[Aegir]

John Denver's first solo album, Rhymes and Reasons, was released in 1969. It is full of joy, optimism, and brass. Even the depressing songs (like Yellow Cat) are upbeat. And overall it's very folksy.

Then it's 1970 with Take Me To Tomorrow. Track 1, the title track, is the hardest thing you'd ever expect from John Denver. The fadeout is an instrumental jam featuring an organ. R&R, on CD, has an early version Take Me to Tomorrow as a bonus track. This is not the rocker it would become. The organ, drums, and electric bass are replaced by a banjo and an acoustic guitar. Just listening to both Take Me to Tomorrows shows you the passage of the decade. Other songs of note are Amsterdam (with the lyric, "Then it's out into the night with their pride in their pants, with a slut that they tow underneath the street lamps,"), Forest Lawn (a happy song about a cemetery), and Molly (which starts off as a happy song about leaving to join the circus but then we learn he abandoned his wife and hasn't seen her for years and hasn't made any money, which was the entire reason he joined the circus in the first place - features the lyric "greasepaint covers everything but winter's chill").

OK, I'll bite.
Friends, 20/20  = 60s.
Sunflower = 70s.

Even though a good part of Sunflower was recorded in 69.

Your move.

Tears in the Morning (lover runs away, takes baby) is the 1970 equivalent of the 1969 that is Deirdre (lover comes back, takes bath).

[Dr_Eugene_Landy]

I'm thinking that an album released in 1967 might be the first with a seventies aesthetic - Bob Dylan's "John Wesley Harding". 

On Abbey Road, the gloss of overdubbing with the cleaned up sound on a 16 track board, with some synthesizer sounds that can be legitimately accused of being dated, makes it more of a seventies album in my book.

[Sheriff John Stone]

1969 - The Doors - The Soft Parade
1970 - The Doors - Morrison Hotel

The Soft Parade contains some last remnants of hippie/flower power lyrics - "please, listen to me, children!- with that late 60's, in vogue brass, and the last time Jim would resemble The Lizard King.

Morrison Hotel is a trip to the bar, with guitar-driven blues-rock, "the human race is dyin' out", and the beginning of Morrison's transformation into the overweight blues singer. Land Ho!

[Alex]

OK, I'll bite.
Friends, 20/20  = 60s.
Sunflower = 70s.

Even though a good part of Sunflower was recorded in 69.

Your move.

Sunflower has a 60s vibe to it, even though it was released in 1970. Just going by the overall vibe of each record, I would say
Sunflower=60s and Surf's Up=70s.

[1-1-wonderful]

1969 Tommy
1971 Who's Next

Other than Moon's drumming, I don't find these 2 albums very alike at all

[donald]

Jefferson Airplane

October 1968 Crown of Creation

November 1969 Volunteers

October 1971 Bark

Crown was the peak. 

Volunteers was the first mega tracked JA album and suffered for it.  Plus the band was breaking up.

Bark.   Suited the times.   After the flameout and crash.  Grunt.

[Dr_Eugene_Landy]

On the Volunteers lp you gotta give them credit for Good Shephard and We Can Be Together (w/ Nicky Hopkins on piano!)

[James Hughes-Clarke]

Marvin Gaye:

MPG (1969)
What's Going On (1971)

2 years apart, but a decade apart musically/lyrically!

[MBE]

Elvis Presley- From Elvis In Memphis 1969-60's
That's The Way It Is 1970-70's
Vocals and arrangements very different. Both sound current for there times, but the feel is quite different

Ike and Tina
Cussin Cryin Caryin On 1968-60's
Outta Season 1968-70's

Recorded within a 9 months to a year of each other the first has a kind of Stax Memphis sound, while the second is much more heavy blues. Totally different ascetics

[Roger Ryan]

60s: "Hunky Dory"
70s: "Ziggy Stardust"

Although Bowie's "Hunky Dory" was recorded and released in 1971, its soft, folky vibe makes it feel firmly rooted in the 60s, especially the tribute songs to Dylan, Reed and Warhol's Factory days.

"Ziggy Stardust" came out only a year later, but ushered in the entire glam era almost single handedly.

[mikee]

Last LP of the 60's first of the 70's

Literally it is none other than Jimi Hendrix/ Band Of Gypsys 'Live at the Fillmore' recorded 12/31/69 and 01/01/70.  It wasn't released in it's entirety until 1999, but the shorter Band Of Gypsys version came out while Hendrix was still living.