Mojo's 60 Greatest Elektra Albums

Mojo: "great writers? we're the gods of graphic design, too!" 

Mojo charts have always something special. They're made by some of the best and most passionated music writers of our time. People who not only know music, but can also write about it and take it from great history to change it in a great story. It happened again in one of the latest issues of the magazine, #204 November 2010, with a long feature dedicated to Elektra Records' 60th anniversary. Doors, Love, Stooges, MC5, Tim Buckley, Nico, Carly Simon, Queen: many artists of the golden age of rock'n'roll (and folk, and blues...) recorded their masterpieces under Jac Holzman's label. Mojo has chosen its personal 60 favourite albums, giving us details and notes about each album. Here I spotified that list. And I added a little greatest hits selection with sixty of the most popular tracks. Enjoy it! And buy the magazine: reading the feature while listening to the music is a lovely vintage pleasure. :o)

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THE PLAYLIST
(49 albums out of 60, 81,66%)

Jean Ritchie - Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family (1952)
Tom Paley - Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachian Mountains (1953)
Sonny Terry - Folk Blues (1954)
Ed McCurdy, Jack Elliott & Oscar Brand - Bad Men and Heroes (1955)
Josh White - Josh White Sings Ballads and Blues (1957)
Bob Gibson - Yes I See (1961)
Koerner, Ray & Glover - Blues, Rags and Hollers (1963)
Judy Collins - 3 (1963)
Judy Henske - High Flying Bird (1964)
Vince Martin & Fred Neil - Tear Down the Walls (1964)
Various - The Blues Project (1964)
Woody Guthrie - Library of Congress Recordings (1964)
Tom Paxton - Ramblin' Boy (1964)
The Dillards - Pickin' and Fiddlin' (1965)
Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Any More (1965)
Tom Rush - Tom Rush (1965)
Kathy & Carol - Kathy & Carol (1965)
Fred Neil - Bleecker & MacDougal (1965)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East-West (1966)
Judy Collins - In My Life (1966)
The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band (1966)
Love - Love (1966)
David Blue - David Blue (1966)
Tim Buckley - Tim Buckley (1966)
Love - Da Capo (1966)
The Doors - The Doors (1967)
Mort Garson - The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (1967)
The Bauls of Bengal - The Bauls of Bengal (1967)
The Incredible String Band - The 5,000 Spirits, or the Layers of the Onion (1967)
Clear Light - Clear Light (1967)
The Doors - Strange Days (1967)
Love - Forever Changes (1968)
Tom Rush - The Circle Game (1968)
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
Nico - The Marble Index (1968)
David Stoughton - Transformer (1968)
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Accept No Substitute: The Original Delaney & Bonnie (1969)
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (1969)
Bread - Bread (1969)
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad (1969)
The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)
Judy Collins - Whales & Nightingales (1971)
Paul Siebel - Woodsmoke and Oranges (1970)
Tom Paxton - 6 (1970)
Crabby Appleton - Crabby Appleton (1970)
The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
The Voices of East Harlem - Right On Be Free (1970)
Don Nix - Living by the Days (1971)
Mickey Newbury - 'Frisco Mabel Joy (1971)
Lonnie Mack - The Hills of Indiana (1971)
The Doors - L.A. Woman (1971)
Harry Chapin - Heads & Tales (1972)
David Ackles - American Gothic (1972)
The Wackers - Hot Wacks (1972)
Carly Simon - No Secrets (1972)
Various - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (1972) (look at the Spotirama version of Nuggets! here)
Jobriath - Jobriath (1973)
Queen - Queen II (1974)

Listen to it on Spotify:
mammoth (full albums, legacy editions included, 605 tracks, about 1 day): HTTP, URI. (SR0258)
radio elektra (greatest hits, 60 popular songs, NOT NECESSARILY ONE EACH ALBUM, countdown order, about 4 hours): HTTP, URI. (SR0259)