Was 1967 the best year ever for Rock Music?

I think it might be.

This was the year when the British Underground and American West Coast took off with Acid Rock and Psychedelia taking Rock into a new dimension! This was the year where there was an explosion of new bands and a great expansion in music styles, depth, lyrics and complexity. 1967 was when it all began – Rock grew up!

Look at the albums that came out in 1967. A lot of them were the first albums of major new bands, new sounds, now genres and experimentation.

Roy Harper – Come out Fighting Ghenghis Smith

Doors – The Doors/Strange Days

Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground

Canned Heat – Canned Heat

Jimi Hendrix – Are you Experienced/Axis Bold as Love

Cream – Cream/Disraeli Gears

Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield/Again

Country Joe and the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body/ I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die

Byrds – Younger than Yesterday/Notorious Byrd Brothers

Beatles – Sgt Peppers/Magical Mystery Tour

Big Brother & the Holding Company – Big Brother & the Holding Company

Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gate of Dawn

Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac

Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow/After Bathing at Baxters

Love – Forever Changes/Da Capo

Mothers of Invention – Absolutely Free/We’re Only in it for the Money

Eric Burdon – Winds of Change

John Mayall – A Hard Road

Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request

Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk/Strictly Personal

Yardbirds – Little Games

Phil Ochs – Pleasures of the Harbour

Leonard Cohen – Songs of

Albert King – Born under a Bad Sign

Traffic – Dear Mr Fantasy

Incredible String Band – 500 Spirits of the layers of the Onion

Nice – Thoughts of Emmerlist Davjack

Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead

That gives you a flavour – What other year could boast such a range of great albums? With all those brilliant debuts?