My Family
by Dan Casamajor
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Overall rank: - | 1960s rank: 5,579th | 1969 rank: 899th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Steppenwolf666 | 1969 6TH 100 | 53/100 | - |
| 2021 |  Mercury | Top 78 Music Albums of 1969 | 43/78 | 2 |
| 2017 | Mercury | 1960s Singer/Songwriter Albums | 33/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 3 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/15/2018 19:09 | TodFitz | 27,371 | 63/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2017 01:09 | Mercury | 1,670 | 81/100 |
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From Mercury 01/15/2021 19:46 in What album are you listening to right now?
Mercury 01/15/2021 19:46 in What album are you listening to right now?“What album are you listening to right now?”
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Repo 10/11/2017 12:52 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!“My Top 25 Singer/Songwriters of 1969 (cont.) ---------------------------------------------- #20 Harry by Harry Nilsson (1969) This album is pretty glorious. I mean, every melody and every line is so gosh darn carefully chosen and executed. The album just glimmers with pop perfection. Right from the…”
View forum topic (2 mentions) →From Mercury 10/10/2017 20:03 in Recommend newly added albums
Mercury 10/10/2017 20:03 in Recommend newly added albums“then these 2 are really cool too They're all 1969 albums I added for singer/songwriter project. They're all very good to great. The first one in particular I really love.”
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Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/19/2017 20:20 | #199790
Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/19/2017 20:20 | #199790
Gosh! I am surprised at how great this album is! I keep coming back to it just to check if its really as solid, beautiful, and well-written as I thought the last time I heard it. And each time I find myself loving it a bit more.
This was the only album released by Dan Casamajor. It was apparently a very limited pressing. Dan was a 20 year old college kid from Nprthern California. Or as the liner notes of this 1969 vinyl put it - "Dan Casamajor is a sensitive, twenty year old college student from the quiet Northern California community of Chico. His message is so pure and right you just might take a closer look at your own life. Dan has a way of putting into words all the frustrations and restlessness of the inquiring youth of today - - - the youth that no one seems to be able to figure out." lol.
I laughed but that isn't too far from what I take from this album. The record is warm, relatable and very nicely rooted in the feelings of a young college student in 1969, encountering the world. Its romantic, simple, plaintive, sensitive, and just really really "authentic". It doesn't give off a vibe like its trying to be the cleverest album, or most hip, or the most psychedelic, etc. Its just, by and large, Dan with an acoustic, some drum, some bass, the occasional electric guitar to spice it up. The words are nice and earnest, and the voice is so approachable and warm. In many ways this is the quintessential example of a late 60s singer/songwriter album. It is soooo goooood though!
Really this is a lovely album.
Rating: 8.9/10
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