Magical Mystery Tour
Artist: The Beatles
Community Score: 7.75

The U.S. version of the soundtrack for the Beatles' ill-fated British television special embellished the six songs that were found on the British Magical Mystery Tour double EP with five other cuts from their 1967 singles. (The CD version of the record has now been standardized worldwide as the 11 tracks found on the American version.) The... Read More

Mr. Fantasy - 5 BONUS TRACKS
Artist: Traffic
Community Score: 9.00

Since Traffic's debut album Mr. Fantasy has been issued in different configurations over the years, a history of those differences is in order. In 1967, the British record industry considered albums and singles separate entities; thus, Mr. Fantasy did not contain the group's three previous Top Ten U.K. hits. Just as the album was being released... Read More

The Small Faces - DERAM
Artist: The Small Faces
Community Score: 6.00

This CD and the accompanying 1996 reissue of From the Beginning make collecting the Small Faces' Decca sides complicated, containing as it does many tracks that are not on the anthology double disc. The new remastering has turned this into a must-own disc for anyone who enjoys the early Rolling Stones or, especially, the early Who, and wants to... Read More

I Love You
Artist: People
Community Score: 9.50

Their debut album, highlighting their drawn-out cover of "I Love You," presents dated original material in an undistinguised heavy rock vein, with some strained attempts at Zappa-esque weirdness on the closing number, "The Epic." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide Read More

Balaklava
Artist: Pearls Before Swine

A record that virtually defies categorization, Pearls Before Swine's 1968 epic Balaklava is the near-brilliant follow-up to One Nation Underground. Intended as a defiant condemnation of the Vietnam War, it doesn't offer anthemic, fist-pounding protest songs. Instead, Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical... Read More

One Nation Underground
Artist: Pearls Before Swine
Community Score: 8.00

Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock, Thomas D. Rapp (and the first of his ever-changing Swine). Although the songs here lack some cohesion, this is still a stunning piece of work, from the nightmarish sleeve art -- the "Hell Panel" from Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century painting "Garden of Delights" -- to... Read More

Yeh Yeh
Artist: Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames
Brave New World
Artist: Steve Miller Band

Blasting out of stereo speakers in the summer of 1969, Brave New World was more fully realized, and rocked harder, than the Steve Miller Band's first two albums. From the opening storm of the uplifting title track to the final scorcher, "My Dark Hour," featuring Paul McCartney (credited as "Paul Ramon"), this recording was the strongest project... Read More

Sailor
Artist: Steve Miller Band

Most definitely a part of the late-'60s West Coast psychedelic blues revolution that was becoming hipper than hip, Steve Miller was also always acutely aware of both the British psychedelic movement that was swirling in tandem and of where the future lay, and how that would evolve into something even more remarkable. The result of all those... Read More

Children of the Future
Artist: Steve Miller Band
Community Score: 5.00

A psychedelic blues rock-out, 1968's Children of the Future marked Steve Miller's earliest attempt at the ascent that brought him supersonic superstardom. Recorded at Olympic Studios in London with storied producer Glyn Johns at the helm, the set played out as pure West Coast rock inflected with decade-of-love psychedelia but intriguingly... Read More

Permanent Damage
Artist: The G.T.O.'s

This 17-track aural document is arguably more sociological than musical in nature. Frank Zappa's insatiable curiosity into human behavior -- especially with regard to all manner of sexual deviance and the so-called "lunatic fringe" -- became the subject of several releases on his ironically titled Straight Records vanity label. However,... Read More

The Beatles - WHITE ALBUM
Artist: The Beatles
Community Score: 7.95

Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view, but what makes the so-called White Album interesting is its mess. Never before had a rock record... Read More

Shorty
Artist: Georgie Fame