Top 36 Music Albums of 1969
by davidhuret 
- Chart updated: 03/19/2026 13:45
- (Created: 09/24/2013 13:58).
- Chart size: 36 albums.
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A timeless masterpiece. They went out in style.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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54,799
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Progressive rock starts here. The cover may be hideous, the music inside is delightful. And the first track is rocking.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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26,872
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The Zappa album- mostly instrumental in a delightful jazz-rock fashion- for people who don't necessarily like Zappa. The musicality is exceptional.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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6,761
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The first rock-opera. And if that sounds insulting nowadays, here, the freshness of the songwriting (Pete Townshend), the clever instrumentation (an orchestral scope with no orchestra but mostly acoustic guitars and piano), and the general coming-of-age of the band, particularly singer Roger Daltrey, make this twisted story of a deaf, dumb and blind boy-turned- pinball wizard-turned- new messiah- turned pariah sound perfectly natural and understandable. And enjoyable.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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6,633
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Classic rock!
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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8,088
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It doesn't matter if you like or not "A whiter shade of pale". It is not on this album. How can one describe rock music as fine as this? Ambitious but not preposterous, serious yet light. A gorgeous piece of work.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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991
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From "Gimme shelter"s ominous intro to the last fading notes of "You can't always get what you want", this, along with the Beatles' "Abbey Road", is the sound of the 1960s, and with them a whole era, coming to an end.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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16,582
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Ray Davies's songwriting at an all-time peak.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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4,624
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Folk-songs with tasteful orchestrations: the first of the three albums released by Nick Drake during an all-too short career.
[First added to this chart: 09/24/2013]
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1969
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This is the exception here: a live album; but I could not not list it.
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2013]
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1969
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1,259
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Total albums: 36. Page 1 of 4
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Top 36 Music Albums of 1969 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Moody Blues | 2 | 6% | |
| Grateful Dead | 2 | 6% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 6% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 6% | |
| The Velvet Underground | 1 | 3% | |
| Jethro Tull | 1 | 3% | |
| The Who | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 36 Music Albums of 1969 chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 34th to 35thBeck-Ola by The Jeff Beck Group |
| Down 1 from 35th to 36thA Rainbow In Curved Air by Terry Riley |
| New entries |
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| To Our Children's Children's Children by The Moody Blues |
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| ! | 10/30/2018 02:45 | PaperVinnie | 451 | 81/100 |
| ! | 05/03/2017 11:58 | Johnnyo | 2,639 | 80/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2014 10:17 | PauloPaz | 1,759 | 89/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2013 14:04 | edubs | 247 | 89/100 |
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Johnnyo 05/03/2017 11:58 | #190226
Some real quality entries here. Good one.
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