Bonus Video: Elliot's Favourite Music of the 1960s (sans Beatles & Beach Boys)
Added 2024-08-31 04:12:38 +0000 UTCHey folks!
Had a really fun time making this one where I dig into my favourite songs, artists, and albums of the 1960s. I work through the decade chronologically so as to add some structure and it's a real trip, man!
I'd love to hear your favourites from the decade in the comments to this Patreon post.
Thanks for being patrons, and I hope you enjoy :)
E.
Comments
So glad you mentioned the boat that rocked, the soundtrack to that film had a steel grip on me as a teenager and I still love it to this day
fitzroy
2026-01-04 13:29:02 +0000 UTCNo golden era kinks mentioned 😔
Alexander Watts
2025-12-22 13:09:46 +0000 UTCI massively found myself listening through and enjoying everything Buffalo Springfield had to offer only short lived earlier on into the year, followed by some of Stephen Stills own solo stuff and some of the work him and BS bandmate Neil Young would venture into with the phenomenal supergroup CSN&Y. And whilst they only ever released 3 albums with all of them not living up to the definitive potential the band had being listened to playing live, they still feature excellent tracklists and offer up something distinctively each. Stephen Stills guitar playing and ability to write very personal and touching lyrics are something I've become very fond of this year and so I highly recommend giving them a chance Elliot! (personal) Favourite Buffalo Springfield tracks: For What It's Worth Hot Dusty Roads (2nd favourite song of all time followed only behind Harry Nilsson's "Bath") Baby Don't Scold Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing Hung Upside Down Sad Memory Bluebird (controversial but BS > Wings in regards to their own songs with this shared title) Mr. Soul Carefree Country Day Also if you've ever watched Scott Pilgrim, a reference I finally only understood this year seeing the film in cinemas for its 15th anniversary re-release were the names of the two characters Stephen Stills and Young Neil that are amusing homages to Stills and Neil Young respectively!
Steven
2025-11-04 20:07:53 +0000 UTCI think the ones I’d add to this are Love’s Forever Changes album, The Sonics, the Grateful Dead, The Stooges, and Janis Joplin. A lot of great artists and songs covered in this though! Love love love 60s music!
Tyler Piper
2025-10-24 04:39:02 +0000 UTCId love for you to do this with 70s 80s and so on
Mark
2025-04-25 19:06:32 +0000 UTCSilk Sonic is technically a band that did well
BeatemDown 103
2025-02-22 17:09:10 +0000 UTCIf you haven't watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, then do so. There are many aspects to it, including a showcase of sixties (and early seventies) music, including one other Buffalo Springfield song, Expecting To Fly. Bizarre, confronting and brilliant movie.
Craig Hilton
2025-01-18 11:03:02 +0000 UTCI joined your Patreon several days ago and will enjoy having so many excellent videos to watch. I was born in 1953 so I am very familiar with 60s music and love it. It’s impossible to get even a fraction of them mentioned in a video, but you did a great job. I would mention the first CS&Y album and their second album Deja Vu as very strong contenders. Steven Stills was previously in Buffalo Springfield (who I saw in concert in 1966). Buffalo Springfield’s second album is excellent and worth listening to. It’s called Buffalo Springfield Again. (Really clever title. 😂).
KathyT
2025-01-15 21:58:03 +0000 UTCThe Band and their seminal 1968 record, "Music From Big Pink"
Mike Griffith
2024-09-30 17:23:07 +0000 UTCI always resented the criticism the Monkees had to endure because they "didn't play their own instruments" when the Wrecking Crew played on 3/4 of the records coming out of LA.
Mike Griffith
2024-09-30 17:14:22 +0000 UTCHuge Turtles fan
Kev B
2024-09-22 19:54:22 +0000 UTCI genuinely love A LOT of Monkees songs
Kev B
2024-09-22 19:51:23 +0000 UTCThe Troggs also have Love is All Around, With a Girl Like You, & I Can’t Control Myself
Kev B
2024-09-22 19:44:18 +0000 UTCArtic Monkeys, Maneskin, & The Killers are the most popular atm
Kev B
2024-09-21 21:34:27 +0000 UTCLoved the video! Joni Mitchell didn't hit her peak until the 1970s, but I'd mention Song to a Seagull featuring the sublime "Cactus Tree", and Clouds featuring the immortal "Both Sides Now". Also CSNY and Phil Ochs
Allan Massie
2024-09-16 22:12:34 +0000 UTCI'd love to watch that... but it sounds like an impossible task!
Allan Massie
2024-09-16 22:07:02 +0000 UTCOoooh ok well you should DEFINITELY check them out if you like prog rock
Marshal Does Stuff
2024-09-12 04:45:59 +0000 UTCI only just recently discovered them!
Elliot Roberts
2024-09-12 04:04:46 +0000 UTCHopefully we can get a Beatles album ranking video
Sam
2024-09-12 03:05:55 +0000 UTCGreat video, but I'm surprised that you didn't mention King Crimson in 1969!
Marshal Does Stuff
2024-09-08 18:59:40 +0000 UTCOh I had no idea Todd put out a retro 70s style album https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGP_fY0MmMJpvKE01FfZSL58ApHQ-DlQA&si=3SzBs-OU2wrVnNXO
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 14:35:27 +0000 UTCThis is Utopia (Todd's band, who wrote "love is the answer", no english dan did a cover, he didn't write the tune, Todd did): Utopia's Deface the Music.. Which is a beatles parody almost, its like getting more beatlesque music, like XTC and Jellyfish.. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kAjR5r1Fv-Wg5XYrSdfVAl_AK2yuvtlM4&si=p376i2rvxF_SAben
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 14:27:05 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite musicians is Todd Rundgren, but he is more 70s than 60s..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 14:23:31 +0000 UTCSomeone needs to make a vr app that is like the sims, but set in the 60s.. Maybe something like an RPG, otherwise I just won't have any orientation for the 60s..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 14:22:42 +0000 UTCMy fave is rubber soul.. that and abbey road.. I liked their weird stuff.. But not so much sgtpeppers, never got into magical tour thing.. Looking through a glass onion that was white album right? Revolver..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 14:18:24 +0000 UTCI live with my mom who was born in 1937 and she hates music if it isn't classical.. My step father is 92, has dementia, cant remember anything past 30 minutes, still has a senseof humor, we try to keep him happy, but I can't play music or it bugs him, watches the lone ranger all day.. And I make UDIO songs of every genre even in other languages, whichis fun.. Hindi disco country.. Cuban metal.. Just mix it up... Its fun fun fun.. Theonly musicians it hurts are the snobs and the mainstream ones still alive and earning royalties like Don Henly and Tom Waits, which can both go eat urinal cakes for all I care..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 14:10:55 +0000 UTCIts harder to like stuff that your youth had nothing to do with, and thats what its like for me anything before my birth 1970.. When the 70s hit everyone got long hair and the music got more relaxed.. Cause there was nobody to fight anymore.. There wastv shows: jeffersons, all in the family, barnie miller, sanford and son, chico and the man, pink lady and jeff, tony orlando.. When did the 60s really happen? In the 70s.. 60s was great I suppose until kennedy was shot, thats possibly why people were more receptive to the beatles..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 14:02:27 +0000 UTCIf you are not adverse to doing it, but the remix feature in UDIO permits you to create more of whatever you like, if you want to hear more of some song, you can load it in and remix it, turn it into another genre.. Give it a couple years people will come around..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:55:47 +0000 UTCI dont kniw if I have any 60s style UDIO tunes
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:52:41 +0000 UTCI prefer the four seasons
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:51:54 +0000 UTCthe reason steve wozniak hung out with jobs! Woz's words "he knew girls".
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:38:18 +0000 UTCI still own the original Ipad 1.. by the way
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:37:17 +0000 UTCThis is an UDIO commentary song about Bethel https://www.udio.com/songs/fUmyFM9BVtT8h7y4mH8LrD It sounds like Peter Coyote doesn't it? I made this in UDIO I forced UDIO to remove the names of the celebrities its eluding to in the commentary, I think one of them was springsteen
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:36:32 +0000 UTCFELLOW UDIOers, I know you are out there.. What are we trying to do? Bring back good music? Its okay, the greats are all dead they won't mind us using their voices..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:33:01 +0000 UTCTruthfully, choice killed the industry.. people had few freedoms in the 70s.. After dinner you could turn on the television, play a musical instrument, play a board game, knit, use a ham radio, etc.. In the 80s people got sucked into consumer electronics.. And we've been trying to get away ever since..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:30:41 +0000 UTCI would drop the 90s, its easy to, cause every band was given effectively a double LP for every release, and they were encouraged to fill it up, and those cds went for $16.. If you want to know what killed the music industry, it was cds..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:27:12 +0000 UTCI have all the beatles albums..
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:25:13 +0000 UTC60s ... cause I was born in the 70s
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:24:41 +0000 UTCHAINBACH did a show this, its an iOS app that simulates a moon echo, which is a thing astronomers do with radio telescopes of bouncing audio waves as radio waves off the moon, and playing back the reflections, there is a slight doppler shift in the playback.. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moon-echo/id6503342104
Kiernan Holland
2024-09-07 13:19:59 +0000 UTCSadly, I have not yet watched this one, but look forward to it! It is quite inspiring to hear about a youngster’s love for this era of music, especially when I feel like much of my generation (born 1964) DID NOT especially connect with Elvis, Doo Wop, and/or pop singers from the 50’s which came JUST BEFORE this big change. 🤷🏼♂️ Btw, here’s a great question to consider: If you had to eliminate one decade of pop music from your library, would it be the 60’s, 70’s, or 80’s? In a nutshell, I would pick the 70’s, as there’s just something more provocative about the other two, while the 70’s seems a bit too formulaic (re: Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, etc). There, I’ve said it! 🤓👍🏽🙏🏽
Jorge Bernardo
2024-09-07 12:43:29 +0000 UTCLegend!
Jacky B
2024-09-03 23:50:32 +0000 UTCThank you!
Elliot Roberts
2024-09-02 20:33:40 +0000 UTCdone one
Þorgeir Tryggvason
2024-09-02 16:36:32 +0000 UTCA playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7jDou5uabSs58mLTD3SswR?si=2bc5409be3fc4c55
Þorgeir Tryggvason
2024-09-02 16:36:09 +0000 UTCI work at a 50s/early 60s themed diner and this video is basically the company playlist.
bighenry
2024-09-02 15:02:08 +0000 UTCI’ve gotta focus on the Ringo video for now but be my guest! Also, I use Apple Music and I’m assuming most of you are Spotify users.
Elliot Roberts
2024-09-01 22:55:14 +0000 UTCGreat video as always, Elliot! Would you be willing to make to playlist of the songs in this vid?
Jacky B
2024-09-01 22:41:34 +0000 UTCGreat video. My mum listened to so many of these artists when I was a kid, and they've stayed with me into adulthood. Musical legends, all of them.
Dan Hinchliffe
2024-09-01 14:29:14 +0000 UTCGreat selection!
Elliot Roberts
2024-09-01 09:46:25 +0000 UTCMan the 60s was an amazing time for music - band/artists/albums that you didn’t mention that I absolute love would be The Zombies Odessey and Oracle, Crosby Stills and Nash, the who sell out - I also love my generation and Tommy but sell out just encompasses the decade to me, Incense and peppermints, the left bank… This was such a fun video to watch and can’t wait to see what comes next!!!
Marie Desrosiers
2024-09-01 01:44:49 +0000 UTChi elliott - watched your sixties favourites video and think you would be enriched if you added the following to your list of must listens: (a few have a beatles connection) arthur alexander - the beatles covered him officially with “anna”- but my picks to click are: “sally sue brown”, “a shot of rythmn and blues”, “pretty girls everywhere”, “soldier of love”. the action - produced by george martin, the action started as an r&b mod band (& a good one!) but their real last single, “shadows & reflections” is just lovely psychedelic tinged pop. the creation - the lead guitarist was so amazing that pete townshend wanted him to join the who. the first time i can recall the band being widely recognized after their split was when “making time” was used in the soundtrack to “rushmore”. crosby stlls & nash - i was surprised to not see them in your video, since their first album came out in 1969. john’s children - so technically not a very good band (they used to have a member fall off the stage if there was a reviewer in the audience to ensure they weren’t bashed in print) “desdemona” is fantastic - and one of their members was marc bolan! small faces - their entire catalog is beyond reproach. another band that started as mod r & b, but ended in the richest psychedelic rock/pop. and steve marriott’s voice is at another level. major lance - “um, um, um, um, um” and “the monkey time” can only make one smile and swoon. zombies - a great band with so many worthwhile songs! “time of the season”, “tell her no”, “spooky little girl like you” and of course, “she’s not there”. nick drake - how could anyone leave “five leaves left” off their best of 1969 list??? simply impossible! lucky for you, when you do that 1970s list, you’ll have two more albums to include. sadly, it’s not more than that.
amanda siegelson
2024-08-31 22:19:34 +0000 UTCGreat video, Elliot! I always enjoy hearing about what other music you like 🤘
Matt Tregortha
2024-08-31 18:17:10 +0000 UTCP.S. you’re right re: your comment about The Kinks…they are definitely deep dive worthy…did one a couple years ago & I think there had to be some kind of quiet competition between “the boys” and these guys. Autumn Almanac sounds like something Macca probably wishes he’d written. P.P.S. Nick Drake’s debut came out at the end of the 60s…though I know he wasn’t well known then his music has gone on to influence so many
Carolyn Krick
2024-08-31 16:36:02 +0000 UTCThanks Alex!
Elliot Roberts
2024-08-31 15:28:37 +0000 UTCOf course! The Zombies! That album is so great I can’t believe I missed it
Elliot Roberts
2024-08-31 15:28:17 +0000 UTCThanks for this one, Elliot! ✌️❤️🎶 No matter how much I love all the groovy 70s & 80s music I grew up listening to, I still think the 60s gave us the most interesting and progressive decade of popular music. One noticeable omission from this list (at least for me) is the song Time of the Season by The Zombies from the Odessey and Oracle album 💜 If you haven’t listened to that one, I highly recommend it. I saw them in 2019 on a double bill with Brian Wilson and his band. The Zombies had just been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame so all the original members toured and performed this album in its entirety! A memorable show for many reasons and one of the last I saw before the pandemic.
Carolyn Krick
2024-08-31 15:06:54 +0000 UTCHonestly, one of my new favorite videos from you. Love listening to your passion for 60s musicians. Two of my favorites of the 60s are from France during the Yé-yé movement in Europe: Françoise Hardy and France Gall. In particular, France Gall's 1966 album Baby Pop and Françoise Hardy's 1962 album Tous les garçons et les filles, and 1968 album Comment te dire adieu. I don't speak/understand French, but I really enjoy listening to their voices. Makes me want to learn French myself.
Alex Navas
2024-08-31 13:33:19 +0000 UTCI was having a vulnerable moment and couldn’t think straight 🙃
Elliot Roberts
2024-08-31 09:39:25 +0000 UTCas always, we love your musical-enthusiasm... but really, you need a re-take on your comment about 'Buffalo Springfield' with hall-of-famers Neil Young & Stephen Stills...!
MARK ULLOA
2024-08-31 05:00:07 +0000 UTCI forgot just how mindblowingly beautiful of a song A Whiter Shade of Pale is. Now I gotta listen to it again! Super excited for the Ringo video
Jonah Lee
2024-08-31 04:58:29 +0000 UTCMan... the 1960s without The Beatles... like a decade without Sunshine...!
MARK ULLOA
2024-08-31 04:55:59 +0000 UTC
