Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1969

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1969

Listing for 161 records from 1969 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Creedence Clearwater Revival: *Willy and the Poorboys* [Fantasy] Delaney & Bonnie: *The Original Delaney & Bonnie* [Elektra] Firesign Theatre: *How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere At All* [Columbia] Grateful Dead: *Live/Dead* [Warner Bros.] Procol Harum: *A Salty Dog* [A&M] The Rolling Stones: *Let It Bleed* [Abkco]
A	The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: *Keep On Moving* [Elektra] Ray Charles: *Doing His Thing* [Tangerine] Joe Cocker: *Joe Cocker!* [A&M] Grateful Dead: *Aoxomoxoa* [Warner Bros.] Arlo Guthrie: *Running Down the Road* [Reprise] Mother Earth: *Make a Joyful Noise* [Mercury] Otis Redding: *Love Man* [Atco] The Velvet Underground: *The Velvet Underground* [Verve Forecast] The Tony Williams Lifetime: *Emergency!* [Polydor]
A-	Jerry Butler: *Ice on Ice* [Mercury] Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band: *Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band's Greatest Hits* [Vanguard] Fairport Convention: *The Fairport Convention* [A&M] Janis Joplin: *I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!* [Columbia] The Kinks: *Arthur* [Reprise] NRBQ: *NRBQ* [Columbia] Pacific Gas & Electric: *Pacific Gas & Electric* [Columbia] The Rascals: *See* [Atlantic] Terry Riley: *A Rainbow in Curved Air* [Columbia] Rod Stewart: *The Rod Stewart Album* [Mercury] Ike & Tina Turner: *River Deep--Mountain High* [A&M] The Who: *Tommy* [Decca]
B+	The Blue Velvet Band: *Sweet Moments With the Blue Velvet Band* [Warner Bros.] The Byrds: *Ballad of Easy Rider* [Columbia] Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: *Trout Mask Replica* [Straight] Jerry Corbitt: *Corbitt* [Polydor] Larry Coryell: *Lady Coryell* [Vanguard Apostolic] Crosby, Stills & Nash: *Crosby, Stills & Nash* [Atlantic] Delaney & Bonnie: *Home* [Stax] Flamin Groovies: *Supersnazz* [Epic] Fleetwood Mac: *Then Play On* [Reprise] Fusion: *Fusion* [Atco] Judy Henske & Jerry Yester: *Farewell Aldebaran* [Straight] The Incredible String Band: *Changing Horses* [Elektra] Juicy Lucy: *Juicy Lucy* [Atco] Nilsson: *Harry* [RCA Victor] Elvis Presley: *From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis* [RCA Victor] Boz Scaggs: *Boz Scaggs* [Atlantic] Mavis Staples: *Mavis* [Stax] George Stavis: *Labyrinths* [Vanguard] Steppenwolf: *Monster* [Dunhill] The Stooges: *The Stooges* [Elektra] Tongue and Groove: *Tongue and Groove* [Fontana] Neil Young: *Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere* [Reprise] *Boy Meets Girl* [Stax] *Super Black Blues* [BluesTime]
B	Blind Faith: *Blind Faith* [Atco] Blue Cheer: *Blue Cheer* [Phillips] The Bonzo Dog Band: *Urban Spaceman* [Imperial] The Box Tops: *Dimensions* [Bell] Solomon Burke: *Proud Mary* [Bell] Bill Evans with Jeremy Steig: *What's New* [Verve] Wild Man Fischer: *An Evening With Wild Man Fischer* [Bizarre] R.B. Greaves: *R.B. Greaves* [Atco] Gun: *Gun* [Epic] James Gang: *Yer' Album* [Bluesway] Jefferson Airplane: *Volunteers* [RCA Victor] B.B. King: *Completely Well* [Bluesway] The Knowbody Else: *The Knowbody Else* [Hip] Led Zeppelin: *Led Zeppelin II* [Atlantic] Jackie Lomax: *Is This What You Want?* [Apple] Esther Marrow: *Newport News, Virginia* [Flying Dutchman] The Steve Miller Band: *Your Saving Grace* [Capitol] Phil Ochs: *Rehearsals for Retirement* [A&M] Poco: *Pickin' Up the Pieces* [Epic] Clarence Reid: *Dancin' With Nobody But You Babe* [Atlantic] Sweet Thursday: *Sweet Thursday* [Tetragrammaton] Johnnie Taylor: *Rare Stamps* [Stax] Ten Wheel Drive: *Construction No. 1* [Polydor] Ten Years After: *Sssh* [Deram] Leslie West: *Mountain* [Windfall]
B-	A.B. Skhy: *A.B. Skhy* [MGM] Eric Andersen: *Eric Andersen* [Warner Bros.] Jack Bruce: *Songs for a Tailor* [Atco] Canned Heat: *Hallelujah* [Liberty] Johnny Cash: *Johnny Cash at San Quentin* [Columbia] The Charlatans: *The Charlatans* [Philips] Dillard and Clark: *Through the Darkness, Through the Night* [A&M] The Doors: *The Soft Parade* [Elektra] The Aysley Dunbar Retaliation: *To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys* [Blue Thumb] The Guess Who: *Wheatfield Soul* [RCA Victor] Gun: *Gun Sight* [Epic] Hedge & Donna: *All in the Friendly Colours* [Capitol] The Hollies: *Words and Music by Bob Dylan* [Epic] Jethro Tull: *Stand Up* [Reprise] Carl Perkins and NRBQ: *Boppin' the Blues* [Columbia] Joe Simon: *Joe Simon* [Buddah]
C+	Bamboo: *Bamboo* [Elektra] Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys: *Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys* [Polydor] The Checkmates, Ltd.: *Love All We Have to Give* [A&M] Donovan: *Barabajagal* [Epic] Earth Opera: *The Great American Eagle Tragedy* [Elektra] Carolyn Franklin: *Baby Dynamite!* [RCA Victor] Harpers Bizarre: *Harpers Bizarre* [Warner Bros.] Jolliver Arkansaw: *Home* [Bell] The Marx Bros.: *The Original Voice Tracks From Their Greatest Movies* [Decca] Moby Grape: *Truly Fine Citizen* [Columbia] Quicksilver Messenger Service: *Shady Grove* [Capitol] Smith: *A Group Called Smith* [Dunhill] Spirit: *Clear* [Ode] Spooky Tooth: *Spooky Two* [A&M] The Youngbloods: *Elephant Mountain* [RCA Victor]
C	Blue Image: *Blue Image* [Atco] Eddie Floyd: *You've Got to Have Eddie* [Stax] Grand Funk Railroad: *Grand Funk* [Capitol] John Hammond: *Southern Fried* [Atlantic] Isaac Hayes: *Hot Buttered Soul* [Enterprise] Country Joe McDonald: *Thinking of Woody Guthrie* [Vanguard] Lee Michaels: *Lee Michaels* [A&M] Joni Mitchell: *Clouds* [Reprise] Pearls Before Swine: *These Things Too* [Reprise] The Plastic Ono Band: *Live Peace in Toronto 1969* [Apple] Steppenwolf: *Early Steppenwolf* [Dunhill] Frank Zappa: *Hot Rats* [Bizarre]
C-	Jeff Beck: *Beck-Ola* [Epic] Bread: *Bread* [Elektra] The Brothers and Sisters: *Dylan's Gospel* [Ode] The Chambers Brothers: *Love, Peace, and Happiness* [Columbia] James Cotton Blues Band: *Cotton in Your Ears* [Verve Forecast] Erma Franklin: *Soul Sister* [Brunswick] Jethro Tull: *This Was* [Reprise] The Litter: *Emerge* [Probe] Love: *Out Here* [Blue Thumb] The Masters of Deceit: *Hensley's Electric Jazz Band & Synthetic Symphonette* [Vanguard] Santana: *Santana* [Columbia] Sea Train: *Sea Train* [A&M] Alexander Spence: *Oar* [Columbia] Joe Tex: *Buying a Book* [Atlantic]
D+	Hoyt Axton: *My Griffin Is Gone* [Columbia] Chicago: *Chicago* [Columbia] Country Joe & the Fish: *Here We Go Again* [Vanguard] Sweet Linda Divine: *Sweet Linda Divine* [Columbia] Lotti Golden: *Motor-Cycle* [Atlantic] John Hartford: *John Hartford* [RCA Victor] Eddie Holman: *I Love You* [ABC] King Crimson: *In the Court of the Crimson King* [Atlantic] The Nice: *Nice* [Immediate] Three Dog Night: *Captured Live at the Forum* [Dunhill]
D	Theo Bikel: *A New Day* [Reprise] Mel Brown: *Blues for We* [Impulse] The Guess Who: *The Guess Who* [MGM] It's a Beautiful Day: *It's a Beautiful Day* [Columbia] Al Kooper: *You Never Know Who Your Friends Are* [Columbia] Linn County: *Fever Shot* [Mercury] Montage: *Montage* [Laurie] The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble: *Faithful Friends* [Epic] Mitch Ryder: *The Detroit-Memphis Experiment* [Dot]
D-	The Moody Blues: *On the Threshold of a Dream* [Deram] Zager & Evans: *2525 (Exordium and Terminus)* [RCA Victor]
E+	Eli Radish: *I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier* [Capitol]
E	Canned Heat: *Vintage* [Janus] Kim Fowley: *Outrageous* [Imperial] The Rock and Roll Revival: *The Greatest Oldies Done Hear and Now* [Dunhill] Peter Schickele: *Good-Time Ticket* [Vanguard] Sha Na Na: *Rock & Roll Is Hear to Stay!* [Kama Sutra]
E-	Aorta: *Aorta* [Columbia]

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