The Zombies这个乐队相当不出名，Odessey and Oracle大概是让他们被人记住的唯一理由，因为他们好不容易出了这么一张像样的专辑就马上散伙了。这张专辑录制于1967年，录完后两个星期乐队就宣告解散。发行商直到1969年才把它翻出来听（个人认为很可能是打算听一遍就扔掉），然而听过之后，这个交好运的发行商忽然发现原来垃圾堆里也有宝贝，这张专辑才得以发行。 就是这样一张侥幸逃过灭顶之灾且知名度并不太高的唱片，在强手林立的滚石500张最强专辑中排名却高居第80位，并不是偶然的。滚石的编辑认为，这张专辑把类似于Beatles的那张Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band中的迷幻曲风和正在发展的英格兰流行音乐进行了很好的融合。我听过之后，觉得确实非常好听，单纯论好听的话，我认为不比Beatles那张Sgt' Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band差。如果不是因为乐队名气实在太小，我相信这张专辑还可以获得更高的名次，推荐！ 这张专辑在1998年推出30周年纪念版，在原版12首歌基础上增加15首Bonus Track。2004年又再版一次，总曲目变为28首，这里发布的是2004年版本。

Beggars Banquet is a studio album by English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released in December 1968 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States; it is the band's seventh British and ninth American studio album. The recording marked a change in direction for the band following the psychedelic pop of their previous two albums, Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request

Margo Guryan (born September 20, 1937) is an American songwriter, singer, musician and lyricist. As a songwriter, her work was first recorded in 1958, although it was for her 1960s song "Sunday Mornin'", a hit for both Spanky and Our Gang and Oliver, that she is perhaps best known. Her songs have also been recorded by Cass Elliot, Glen Campbell and Astrud Gilberto, among others.

滚石音乐(Rolling Stone Magazine )史上最佳Top 500 Albums之010#

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is the fourth album by the Mothers of Invention, and fifth overall by Frank Zappa, released under the alias Ruben and the Jets. Released on December 2, 1968 on Bizarre and Verve Records with distribution by MGM Records, it is a concept album, influenced by 1950s doo-wop and rock and roll. The album's concept deals with a fictitious Chicano doo-wop band called Ruben & the Jets, represented in the cover illustration by Cal Schenkel, which depicts the Mothers of Invention as anthropomorphic dogs. It was conceived as part of a project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: Lumpy Gravy, We're Only in It for the Money and Uncle Meat. The album and its singles received some radio success, due to its doo-wop sound. Subsequently, the name Ruben and the Jets continued with a different lineup, led by musician Rubén Guevara Jr., who recorded the albums For Real! (1973) and Con Safos (1974). Zappa produced the former album.

We're Only in It for the Money is the third album by American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released on March 4, 1968, by Verve Records. As with the band's first two LP's, it is a concept album, written and composed by bandleader and guitarist Frank Zappa. The album satirizes left- and right-wing politics, the 1960s counterculture, the corporatization of rock music and youth culture, particularly the hippie subculture. It was conceived as part of a project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, and Uncle Meat.

Electric Ladyland是Jimi Hendrix第三张，也是最后一张专集，於1968年10月16日由Reprise Record推出。作曲及製作都是Hendrix一手包办，也是Jimi电子吉它弹奏技术的最高峰，被认为是史上最佳摇滚专集之一。专集不只是以Jimi Hendrix Experience乐队名誉推出的最后一张唱片，亦是他自己监察下製作的最后一张专业录音室专集。之后两年，他餘生都是尝试努力於组新乐队和灌录些新歌曲。 Electric Ladyland是张双唱片专集，是Jimi Hendrix跨领域音乐天才横溢的表现。涉猎了多种音乐类型，包括<Burning of the Midnight Lamp>的迷幻色彩(之前的1967年夏在英国推出过单曲)，蓝调感吉它演绎的<Voodoo Chile>，新奥尔良摇滚的<Come On>，史诗式录音室製作的<1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)>，评论社会的"House Burning Down"等等。专集亦收录了翻唱Bob Dylan作品的<All Along the Watchtower>，受到包括Bob Dylan自己和其它人的讚扬。还有<Voodoo Child (Slight Return)>长久以来都是电台和吉它乐手必奏曲目。 在他的专辑中，乐迷们最喜欢的专辑是《Electric LadyLand》，史诗式魔幻元素一浪接一浪，很取悦耳朵。

A wild, freewheeling, and ultimately successful attempt to merge psychedelia with jazz-rock, Soft Machine's debut ranges between lovingly performed oblique pop songs and deranged ensemble playing from drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt and organist Mike Ratledge. With only one real break (at the end of side one), the songs merge into each other -- not always smoothly, but always with a sense of flair that rescues any potential miscues. Wyatt takes most of the vocals, and proves himself a surprisingly evocative singer despite his lack of range. Like Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Volume One was one of the few over-ambitious records of the psychedelic era that actually delivered on all its incredible promise. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

1 Let There Be More Light Waters 5:38 2 Remember a Day Wright 4:33 3 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Waters 5:28 4 Corporal Clegg Waters 4:13 5 A Saucerful of Secrets Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright 11:57 6 See-Saw Wright 4:36 7 Jugband Blues Barrett 3:00