Well it's 1969 OK

compiling a cd of more than a dozen bona fide great records has not been easy this year.

Consider the same task in 1969 - the headache then would be which tracks to leave out. I spent a few minutes this morning setting upa 1969 playlist on iTunes, and here's what my end of year best of might have looked like - when I was one year old...

(I picked 1969 pretty much at random, because that was the year the King crimson album in the below post was released).

1. The Stooges - 1969
2. MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
3. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
4. Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
5. Pinball Wizard - The Who
6. I Want To Take You Higher - Sly and the Family Stone
7. Nick Drake - Day Is Done
8. Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito #1
9. Buzzin' Fly - Tim Buckley
10. Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Cleawater Revival
11. Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
12. Come Together - Beatles
13. Son of a Preacher man - Dusty Springfield
14. Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
15. Matty Groves - Fairport Convention
16. Live Injection - The Upsetters
17. San Quentin - Johnny Cash
18. Moonlight on Vermont - Capt Beefheart


and we could go on...it's a long list of classic records across loads of genres, even with below par LPs by Dylan and the Beatles, both of which seem like stone classics compared to 2006 releases.
it also gives a lie to the notion that the '60's were done and dusted by '69 - everyone was either dead or on smack, 'they're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths' etc. but by the above evidence it was a bleedin vintage year, the like of which will never be seen again.