Top 26 Music Albums of 1968
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Onater 
My Top 10 songs of 1968:
10. The Beatles - Blackbird (The Beatles)
9. Van Morrison - Sweet Thing (Astral Weeks)
8. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (Astral Weeks)
7. Simon & Garfunkel - America (Bookends)
6. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay (The Dock of the Bay)
5. The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (White Light/White Heat)
4. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (In The Groove)
3. Scott Walker - Jackie (Scott 2)
2. Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie And Clyde (Initials B.B.)
1. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (What A Wonderful World)
- Chart updated: 07/27/2019 04:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 01:59).
- Chart size: 26 albums.
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Favourite Track: Machine Gun
[First added to this chart: 10/30/2018]
Year of Release:
1968
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649
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Favourite Track: Requiem
[First added to this chart: 07/07/2019]
"If I ventured in the slipstream, between the viaducts of your dream, where immobile steel rims crack, and the ditch in the back roads stop, could you find me?"
Favourite Tracks: Astral Weeks, Sweet Thing, Beside You [First added to this chart: 10/28/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Astral Weeks, Sweet Thing, Beside You [First added to this chart: 10/28/2018]
Year of Release:
1968
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16,295
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"He aims it at the sailor, shoots him down dead on the floor, oh, you shouldn't do that, don't you know, you'll stain the carpet?"
So let's see, we've got a song about hallucinations while shooting meth, a song about a man sending himself in a package in the mail to get to his lover in a burst of sexual frustration only to have his head sliced open when the package is opened, a song about a failed lobotomy on a transsexual woman, a song about a female orgasm, a song about hallucinations of a dead lover, and a song about a man who casually kills another to test his new gun in the middle of a heroin-induced orgy with a transvestite drug dealer, a lesbian, and four other junkies. And keep in mind, I'm using the word "song" loosely for all of these; there's next to no songwriting, half the time they're all pretty much just playing random notes on their instruments then drenching it in distortion and feedback. It's beautiful, isn't it?
Favourite Tracks: Sister Ray, Lady Godiva's Operation, The Gift [First added to this chart: 05/06/2017]
So let's see, we've got a song about hallucinations while shooting meth, a song about a man sending himself in a package in the mail to get to his lover in a burst of sexual frustration only to have his head sliced open when the package is opened, a song about a failed lobotomy on a transsexual woman, a song about a female orgasm, a song about hallucinations of a dead lover, and a song about a man who casually kills another to test his new gun in the middle of a heroin-induced orgy with a transvestite drug dealer, a lesbian, and four other junkies. And keep in mind, I'm using the word "song" loosely for all of these; there's next to no songwriting, half the time they're all pretty much just playing random notes on their instruments then drenching it in distortion and feedback. It's beautiful, isn't it?
Favourite Tracks: Sister Ray, Lady Godiva's Operation, The Gift [First added to this chart: 05/06/2017]
Year of Release:
1968
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8,909
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"I'm so happy! Aha! Happy, go lucky me! I just go my way! Living everyday!"
Favourite Tracks: Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight, Tiptoe Through The Tulips With Me, On The Old Front Porch, The Other Side, Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I'm A Nut) [First added to this chart: 08/21/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight, Tiptoe Through The Tulips With Me, On The Old Front Porch, The Other Side, Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I'm A Nut) [First added to this chart: 08/21/2018]
"Midnight winds are landing at the end of time."
Favourite Tracks: Evening of Light, Frozen Warnings, No One Is There, Lawns of Dawns [First added to this chart: 07/27/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Evening of Light, Frozen Warnings, No One Is There, Lawns of Dawns [First added to this chart: 07/27/2019]
Year of Release:
1968
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1,318
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"The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful, and so are you."
My pick for the best Beatles album, and one of the most diverse albums ever. It has happy (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da) and sad (Julia), heavy (Helter Skelter) and soft (Blackbird), conventional (Honey Pie) and experimental (Revolution 9), dark (Happiness Is A Warm Gun) and goofy (Why Don't We Do It In The Road), and a lot more. I actually really like Revolution 9; it may not be much of a song, but it's definitely got a great scary atmosphere.
Favourite Tracks: Blackbird, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Revolution 1 [First added to this chart: 01/21/2017]
My pick for the best Beatles album, and one of the most diverse albums ever. It has happy (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da) and sad (Julia), heavy (Helter Skelter) and soft (Blackbird), conventional (Honey Pie) and experimental (Revolution 9), dark (Happiness Is A Warm Gun) and goofy (Why Don't We Do It In The Road), and a lot more. I actually really like Revolution 9; it may not be much of a song, but it's definitely got a great scary atmosphere.
Favourite Tracks: Blackbird, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Revolution 1 [First added to this chart: 01/21/2017]
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1968
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37,212
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"For five long years, I thought you were my man. But I found out, love, I'm just a link in your chain."
Favourite Tracks: (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Ain't No Way, Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby), Chain Of Fools
Favourite Tracks: (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Ain't No Way, Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby), Chain Of Fools
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1968
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2,746
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Favourite Tracks: Stuff, Black Comedy
[First added to this chart: 05/11/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Communications #11, Communications #8
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2019]
Total albums: 26. Page 1 of 3
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Top 26 Music Albums of 1968 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Miles Davis | 2 | 8% | |
| The Beatles | 1 | 4% | |
| Johnny Cash | 1 | 4% | |
| Aretha Franklin | 1 | 4% | |
| John Coltrane | 1 | 4% | |
| Serge Gainsbourg | 1 | 4% | |
| The Jazz Composer's Orchestra | 1 | 4% | |
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Top 26 Music Albums of 1968 chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 3 from 8th to 11thBookends by Simon & Garfunkel |
| Down 1 from 11th to 12thThe United States Of America by The United States Of America |
| Down 1 from 12th to 13thOdessey And Oracle by The Zombies |
| New entries |
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| Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin |
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