Concrete toes and pigeons' feet
I hate the term "alternative," but that doesn't mean I get to dismiss other people's use of it.
When Christopher Weingarten sent his list of potential acts for Spin's '60s alternative roundup, I wrote back that they should get rid of the Velvets, Stooges, and Leonard Cohen and put Vanilla Fudge, Rare Earth, and Iron Butterfly in their stead. Was ( Read more... )
When Christopher Weingarten sent his list of potential acts for Spin's '60s alternative roundup, I wrote back that they should get rid of the Velvets, Stooges, and Leonard Cohen and put Vanilla Fudge, Rare Earth, and Iron Butterfly in their stead. Was ( Read more... )
Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is the Massage (Columbia, 1968)
Cromagnon - Orgasm (ESP-Disk, 1969)
Mulatu Astatke - Afro-Latin Soul, Vol. 1 (Worthy, 1966)
Brigitte Fontaine - Comme À la Radio (Saravah, 1969)
Alan Watts - OM: The Sound of Hinduism (Warner Bros., 1967)
Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (Columbia Masterworks, 1969)
Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound (Subliminal Sounds, 2001)
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (ESP-Disk)
The Monkees - Head (Colgems, 1968)
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (Polydor, 1968)
Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch (Columbia, 1969)
Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion (Columbia, 1960)
Ornette Coleman - Town Hall 1962 (ESP-Disk, 1965)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With the Lions (Zapple, 1969)
Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Other Planes of There (Saturn, 1966)
Joe Cuba Sextet - Wanted Dead or Alive (Bang! Bang! Push, Push, Push) (Fania, 1967)
Kim Fowley - Outrageous (Imperial, 1968)
The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble - Congliptious (Nessa, 1968)
The Electric Prunes - Release of an Oath (Reprise, 1968)
The United States of America - The United States of America (Columbia, 1968)
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (Blue Note, 1966)
Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces (Folkways, 1961)
Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record (Allied Record Corporation, 1968)
Various Artists - Back From the Grave Volume One (Crypt, 1983)
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Gorilla (Liberty, 1967)
Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde (Fontana, 1968)
Pentangle - Basket of Light (Transatlantic, 1969)
Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei (Liberty, 1969)
The Seeds - The Seeds (GNP Crescendo, 1966)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! (Blue Note, 1964)
Karen Dalton - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best (Capitol, 1969)
The Roland Kirk Quartet - Rip, Rig & Panic (Limelight, 1965)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen / Carré (Deutsche Grammophon, 1968)
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (Philips, 1969)
Various Artists - The Balinese Gamelan: Music From the Morning of the World (Nonesuch, 1967)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Karyobin (Island, 1968)
David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence (Capitol, 1968)
Moondog - Moondog (Columbia Masterworks, 1969)
Dick Hyman - MOOG: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman (Command, 1969)
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid (Impulse!, 1967)
Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (Important, 2012)
Pierre Henry - Messe Pour Le Temps Présent (Philips, 1967)
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - BBC Radiophonic Music - (BBC, 1968)
The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land (International Artists, 1967)
Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon (Nonesuch, 1967)
Perrey-Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out! (Vanguard, 1966)
AMM - AMMMusic (Elektra, 1966)
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Elektra, 1968)
Scott Walker - Scott 2 (Smash, 1968)
The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money (Verve, 1968)
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