Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s by ThePoodleBites 
The nineteen-sixties ... a comparatively strange era of freedom, love, peace, and music. The idealistic 'hippie' scene gave forth to new opinions, ideas, and musical creations/experimentalism that could be expressed for the first time. Censorship often lowered to a minimum. This chart, considering historical impactful as well as the well-conceptualized listening material, is rated upon the albums which I most enjoy listening to as well as appreciate the cultural impact of from one of the greatest musical generations.
- Chart updated: 05/17/2017 15:45
- (Created: 04/20/2013 21:46).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Oh, Andy, won't you please come home? The VU & Nico has maintained not only a cult status for almost fifty years, but also a place in every music enthusiast's heart for creativity and poignancy. It is often quoted that although VU & Nico only sold around 30,000 copies on its first issue, it was so influential that just about every person who bought it started a band. "Sunday Morning" begins the album with beauty unequaled in 1967, while the song after it describes the purchase of an extremely addictive narcotic. A psychedelic masterpiece, VU & Nico boasts "Heroin," arguably the Velvet's best song, best composition about escapism, and best two-chord song ever composed, "Venus In Furs," an ode to sadomasochism, and many other counterculture topics that established Lou Reed and John Cale in the music scene forever.
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1967
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41,779
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[First added to this chart: 04/20/2013]
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1968
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636
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[First added to this chart: 05/20/2013]
Year of Release:
1969
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1960 | 1 | 1% | |
| 1961 | 2 | 2% | |
| 1962 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1963 | 1 | 1% | |
| 1964 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1965 | 2 | 2% | |
| 1966 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1967 | 28 | 28% | |
| 1968 | 33 | 33% | |
| 1969 | 25 | 25% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 6 | 6% | |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 4 | 4% | |
| The Doors | 3 | 3% | |
| Spirit | 2 | 2% | |
| Bob Dylan | 2 | 2% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 2 | 2% | |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 2 | 2% | |
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 85/100  | 08/28/2016 12:38 | TheSmiths82-87 | | 83/100 |
| 90/100 | 09/28/2015 20:04 | jdizzle123456 | | 89/100 |
| 90/100 | 01/05/2014 15:36 |  sssvnnn | | 83/100 |
| 80/100 | 05/25/2013 08:21 | Johnnyo | | 80/100 |
| 85/100 | 05/21/2013 00:45 | hairymarx1 | | 70/100 |
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From sssvnnn 10/13/2013 22:44
sssvnnn 10/13/2013 22:44
Good Chart - but no 60`s Chart!
It´s basically a Chart of 70`s artists who started their career in the late 60`s.
Anyway, I was not part of the 60`s.
And finally now that I did a 60`s Chart myself....
It looks pretty much like yours with a focus on the years 1967 - 1969...
So I feel I should improve my rating to 90.
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80/100
From Johnnyo 05/25/2013 08:21
Really nice chart
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From hairymarx1 05/21/2013 00:48
Great chart. I thought I was the only person who loved An Evening With Wilde Man Fischer. I bought it on Vinyl about 20 years ago and it's one of my prized possessions. In a similar vein, I also recommend the work of David Peel, the Godz and the Fugs.
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