That one year in music

I loved the British Invasion years.

If you weren't there then, you can't appreciate the difference between pre-Beatle music and that which they brought with them.

I'm not smart enough to quickly remember the major players then so I googled them...

* The Animals
* The Beatles
* The Bee Gees
* Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
* Chad and Jeremy
* Dave Clark Five
* Freddie and the Dreamers
* Gerry and the Pacemakers
* Herman’s Hermits
* The Hollies
* The Honeycombs
* The Kinks
* Manfred Mann
* Moody Blues
* Peter and Gordon
* Rolling Stones
* Small Faces
* The Searchers
* Spencer Davis Group
* The Tremeloes
* The Troggs
* Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
* The Who
* The Yardbirds
* The Zombies

 

Your point is a great one, but that chart couldn't have been from Billboard. "Like A Rolling Stone" peaked at No. 2, kept out of the top spot by "Help!" [/chartnerd]

 

And there's no way I could pick a particular year. For nostalgia's sake, 1987 was my year (first time falling in love, or what I thought at the time was love!) but that wasn't necessarily the best year for music.

 

Would you please get busy writing a book about Rock & Roll already.

 

I'm gonna say 2005. It was then I started getting into club shows and more indie bands. Saw the Arcade Fire at the Riv, saw the Shins at Congress Theater. Really got into Nada Surf and the Strokes that year, too.

Other than that, I'm gonna say 1992 for the reasons already listed as well.

 

The Making of Rock & Roll?

 

Since I'm probably the oldest geezer around, I'll go with '65. I was 16 at the time:

I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Rolling Stones
2 Like A Rolling Stone Bob Dylan
3 In The Midnight Hour Wilson Pickett
4 Papa's Got A Brand New Bag James Brown
5 My Generation The Who
6 Mr. Tambourine Man Byrds / Bob Dylan
7 Yesterday Beatles
8 The Sounds Of Silence Simon & Garfunkel
9 Ticket To Ride Beatles
10 The Tracks Of My Tears Miracles
11 California Dreamin' Mamas & Papas
12 Heart Full Of Soul Yardbirds

Except for "The Tracks of My Tears", all classic stuff that stands up today

 

I thought we had already decided on this. It was a Beatles album. Was it, the Making of Please Please Me?

Lots of good stories though, and you see to know a lot of them.

Get cracking.

 

That's pretty fucking strong.

And i still like "The Tracks of My Tears".

 

Shit, you're right. God, to have been a fly on the wall at Abbey Road the day they recorded that album......

 

The ad at the bottom of my page right now is for "Bob Dylan in Concert, Brandeis University 1963."

Is this the latest in the Bootleg Series? Off to google it now.

 

Double J can look it up, but the Billboard chart released the day I was born - July 10, 1965, was the one where "Satisfaction" hit the top of the charts. And I'll take "Tracks Of My tears' any day over something like "California Dreaming"...

Anyway, back to the question...I have been a music junkie as long as I can remember, but one year that stands out is 1979.

That summer me and some other guys from the neighbourhood spent our last summer before high school hanging out and listening to great stuff out that year like Cheap Trick's Live At Budokan, The Cars' Candy-O, Dynasty by KISS, Breakfast In America by Supertramp, Get the Knack, still one of the great debuts ever and A Million Vacations by Max Webster, local Toronto heroes who were label and tour mates of Rush. As I recall we never hung out as a group after that, some guys went to a different high school, a couple of guys moved. Wonder if they remember that summer like I do.