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Fug Motivation 101: The noisemakers, funkateers, folkies, proto-punks, and freaks who made the truly radical music of the social revolution
by SPIN Staff

"During the 1960s, the counterculture simply became culture: the sexual revolution, psychedelic drugs, hating the Vietnam War, Dennis Hopper. And it's impossible to bodypaint this decade's popular music as anything less than a combustible force of nature, especially with Jimi Hendrix torching guitars and Pete Townshend smashing guitars and James Brown fining his masterfully precise guitar player for flubbing a note. Unfortunately, Baby Boomers have tenaciously dominated the discourse for decades, and a canon of explosive, world-altering music quickly became another generation's California Raisins ad.

So here's our collection of that generation's alternatives; the noisemakers and hopeless outsiders whose visions ran so counter to the counterculture that they were never Big Chill-ed. In these 100 albums are the origin stories of punk, grunge, hip-hop, noise, EDM, and more. Feral garage bands, splattery free-jazzers, vanguard composers, haunting folkies, psychedelic funkateers, and whatever Moondog was. We didn't start the fire."

http://www.spin.com/articles/best-100-a ... tive-list/

Not sure if this has been posted here. Eligible?

That list has indeed been posted here before, but it doesn't look like it's been added yet. Henrik?

We all know Henrik will answer anyway, but I refuse to believe that it is unnecessary to call him, so I will too: Henrik?

I think this one is a bit difficult to decide. On one hand, I think Spin sometimes claim to be an alternative magazine. On the other hand, they have made more non-alternative lists. Also, I couldn't find the word 'Alternative' on their website.

Any suggestions?

Considering that you included the TOP 100 ALTERNATIVE ABUMS (1995) and the ratings of Spin's Book of Alternative Albums, Ratings 1-10 (USA, 1995), the addition of this list would be a perfect coverage for the 60's....

Bump.

Eligible or not?

OK, eligible!

1 The Velvet Underground - White Light\/White Heat (Verve, 1968)
2 The Stooges - The Stooges (Elektra, 1969)
3 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve, 1967)
4 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (Straight, 1969)
5 The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin (A&M, 1969)
6 Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era (Elektra, 1972)
7 Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1960)
8 Terry Riley - In C (Columbia, 1968)
9 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 & 2 (ESP-Disk, 1965)
10 Can - Monster Movie (United Artists, 1969)
11 Various Artists - Tropicalia ou Panis et Circensis (Phillips, 1968)
12 The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (International Artists, 1966)
13 Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte (WERGO, 1964)
14 Nico - The Marble Index (Elektra, 1968)
15 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia, 1967)
16 The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (Third World, 1969)
17 MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (Elektra, 1969)
18 The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (CBS, 1968)
19 Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk, 1964)
20 The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (1966)
21 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Columbia, 1967)
22 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (MGM, 1969)
23 Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle (Warner Bros., 1968)
24 The Fugs - The Fugs First Album (Folkways, 1965)
25 Silver Apples - Silver Apples (Kapp, 1968)
26 Love - Forever Changes (Elektra, 1967)
27 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (Island, 1969)
28 John Fahey - Vol. 3: The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites (Takoma, 1964)
29 Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
30 Steve Reich - Early Works (Nonesuch, 1987)
31 John Coltrane - Ascension (Impulse!, 1966)
32 The Meters - The Meters (Josie, 1969)
33 White Noise - An Electric Storm (Island, 1969)
34 The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics (Etiquette, 1965)
35 Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (Island, 1969)
36 The Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun (BR\u00d6, 1968)
37 The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders (Elektra, 1968)
38 Desmond Dekker - This Is Desmond Dekkar (Trojan, 1969)
39 Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (Vortex, 1969)
40 The Godz - Contact High With the Godz (ESP-Disk)
41 Alexander Spence - Oar (Columbia, 1969)
42 Anthony Braxton - For Alto (Delmark, 1969)
43 Nico - Chelsea Girl (Verve, 1967)
44 Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song (Poppy, 1968)
45 The Monks - Black Monk Time (International Polydor Production, 1965)
46 Ray Barretto - Acid (Fania, 1968)
47 Terry Riley \u2013 A Rainbow in Curved Air (CBS, 1969)
48 The Watts Prophets - The Black Voices: On the Streets in Watts (FFRR, 1969)
49 Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection (Cadet Concept, 1968)
50 Francoise Hardy - Francoise Hardy (Disques Vogue, 1962)
51 The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money (Verve, 1968)
52 Scott Walker - Scott 2 (Smash, 1968)
53 The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Elektra, 1968)
54 AMM - AMMMusic (Elektra, 1966)
55 Perrey-Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out! (Vanguard, 1966)
56 Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon (Nonesuch, 1967)
57 The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land (International Artists, 1967)
58 The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - BBC Radiophonic Music - (BBC, 1968)
59 Pierre Henry - Messe Pour Le Temps Present (Philips, 1967)
60 Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (Important, 2012)
61 Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid (Impulse!, 1967)
62 Dick Hyman - MOOG: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman (Command, 1969)
63 Moondog - Moondog (Columbia Masterworks, 1969)
64 David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence (Capitol, 1968)
65 Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Karyobin (Island, 1968)
66 Various Artists - The Balinese Gamelan: Music From the Morning of the World (Nonesuch, 1967)
67 Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (Philips, 1969)
68 Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen / Carre (Deutsche Grammophon, 1968)
69 The Roland Kirk Quartet - Rip, Rig & Panic (Limelight, 1965)
70 Karen Dalton - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best (Capitol, 1969)
71 Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! (Blue Note, 1964)
72 The Seeds - The Seeds (GNP Crescendo, 1966)
73 Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei (Liberty, 1969)
74 Pentangle - Basket of Light (Transatlantic, 1969)
75 Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde (Fontana, 1968)
76 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Gorilla (Liberty, 1967)
77 Various Artists - Back From the Grave Volume One (Crypt, 1983)
78 Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record (Allied Record Corporation, 1968)
79 Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces (Folkways, 1961)
80 Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (Blue Note, 1966)
81 The United States of America - The United States of America (Columbia, 1968)
82 The Electric Prunes - Release of an Oath (Reprise, 1968)
83 The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble - Congliptious (Nessa, 1968)
84 Kim Fowley - Outrageous (Imperial, 1968)
85 Joe Cuba Sextet - Wanted Dead or Alive (Bang! Bang! Push, Push, Push) (Fania, 1967)
86 Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Other Planes of There (Saturn, 1966)
87 John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With the Lions (Zapple, 1969)
88 Ornette Coleman - Town Hall 1962 (ESP-Disk, 1965)
89 Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion (Columbia, 1960)
90 Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch (Columbia, 1969)
91 Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (Polydor, 1968)
92 The Monkees - Head (Colgems, 1968)
93 Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (ESP-Disk)
94 Parson Sound - Parson Sound (Subliminal Sounds, 2001)
95 Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (Columbia Masterworks, 1969)
96 Alan Watts - OM: The Sound of Hinduism (Warner Bros., 1967)
97 Brigitte Fontaine - Comme a la Radio (Saravah, 1969)
98 Mulatu Astatke - Afro-Latin Soul, Vol. 1 (Worthy, 1966)
99 Cromagnon - Orgasm (ESP-Disk, 1969)
100 Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is the Massage (Columbia, 1968)