Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s
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Onater 
My Top 10 songs of the 60s:
10. The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967)
9. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
8. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (United)
7. The Doors - The End (The Doors)
6. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Pet Sounds, 1966)
5. The Beatles - A Day In The Life (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
4. The Velvet Underground - Heroin (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967)
3. Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Don't Play That Song!, 1962)
2. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (Pet Sounds, 1966)
1. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Ain't That Good News, 1964)
- Chart updated: 01/16/2019 08:45
- (Created: 10/24/2016 06:11).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"Elation. Elegance. Exaltation. All from God. Thank you God. Amen."
Favourite Tracks: Psalm, Acknowledgement [First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]
Favourite Tracks: Psalm, Acknowledgement [First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]
Year of Release:
1965
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15,725
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"People say that life is misery, but in him there is no mystery."
I like the bit where he yodels.
Favourite Track: The Creator Has a Master Plan [First added to this chart: 01/07/2017]
I like the bit where he yodels.
Favourite Track: The Creator Has a Master Plan [First added to this chart: 01/07/2017]
Year of Release:
1969
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2,854
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"If you should ever leave me, though life would still go on, believe me, the world could show nothing to me, so what good would living do me?"
Favourite tracks: God Only Knows, Wouldn't It Be Nice, I'm Waiting For The Day, Sloop John B, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times [First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]
Favourite tracks: God Only Knows, Wouldn't It Be Nice, I'm Waiting For The Day, Sloop John B, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times [First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]
Year of Release:
1966
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38,971
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Favourite tracks: Trio and Group Dancers, Group Dancers
[First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]
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1963
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12,968
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"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
After a long time refusing to put this on any of my charts, it eventually made its way onto the low end of my 60s chart, then slowly climbed up that, and has finally managed to make it onto my overall chart. You can argue that the true value in this album is in the complexity of the rhythms and harmonies and so on, and while that is a lot of it, the main reason this album is great is because it's just so funny. I mean, how many other chaotic, dissonent blues albums are there about a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag by a Pepsi-powered madman who tortured his band members?
Favourite Tracks: Pena, Moonlight On Vermont, Pachudo Cadaver, Veteran's Day Poppy, Hair Pie Bake 1 [First added to this chart: 12/19/2016]
After a long time refusing to put this on any of my charts, it eventually made its way onto the low end of my 60s chart, then slowly climbed up that, and has finally managed to make it onto my overall chart. You can argue that the true value in this album is in the complexity of the rhythms and harmonies and so on, and while that is a lot of it, the main reason this album is great is because it's just so funny. I mean, how many other chaotic, dissonent blues albums are there about a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag by a Pepsi-powered madman who tortured his band members?
Favourite Tracks: Pena, Moonlight On Vermont, Pachudo Cadaver, Veteran's Day Poppy, Hair Pie Bake 1 [First added to this chart: 12/19/2016]
Year of Release:
1969
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6,201
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"Whisper, listen, whisper, listen, whispers say we're free."
Favourite Tracks: Freedom Day, Driva Man, Tears For Johannesburg [First added to this chart: 02/07/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Freedom Day, Driva Man, Tears For Johannesburg [First added to this chart: 02/07/2018]
Year of Release:
1960
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691
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Favourite Tracks: Greensleeves, Africa
[First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
Year of Release:
1961
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614
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Favourite Tracks: Olé, Dahomey Dance
[First added to this chart: 02/03/2018]
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1961
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688
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Favourite Tracks: Spiritual, Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
[First added to this chart: 02/07/2018]
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Favourite Tracks: Shhh, In A Silent Way
[First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]
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1969
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1960 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1961 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1962 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1963 | 4 | 4% | |
| 1964 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1965 | 9 | 9% | |
| 1966 | 13 | 13% | |
| 1967 | 16 | 16% | |
| 1968 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1969 | 22 | 22% |
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| John Coltrane | 7 | 7% | |
| The Beatles | 6 | 6% | |
| Charles Mingus | 5 | 5% | |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 4% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 3 | 3% | |
| Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 3 | 3% | |
| John Coltrane Quartet | 3 | 3% | |
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