Top 55 Music Albums of the 1960s
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lleon79 
I have to listen again so many of these.
- Chart updated: 03/10/2025 03:45
- (Created: 04/08/2017 21:06).
- Chart size: 55 albums.
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Best songs: "Come Together", "Something", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Here Comes The Sun", "Sun King", The Meddley
[First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1969
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56,200
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Best songs: "21st Century Schizoid Man", "Epitaph", "The Court of the Crimson King"
[First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1969
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27,895
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Best songs: "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "Dear Prudence", "Glass Onion", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", "I'm So Tired", "Blackbird", "Rocky Raccoon", "I Will", "Julia", "Sexy Sadie", "Helter Skelter", "Revolution 1", "Cry Baby Cry"
[First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
Year of Release:
1968
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36,646
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Best songs: "Sunday Morning", "I'm Waiting For The Man", "Femme Fatale", "Venus In Furs", "All Tomorrow's Parties", "Heroin"
[First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1967
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38,991
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Best songs: "Like a Rolling Stone", "Tombstone Blues", "Ballad of a Thin Man", "Desolation Row"
[First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
Year of Release:
1965
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26,584
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Best songs: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", "Visions of Johanna", "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)", "I Want You", "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Agin", "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat", "Just Like a Woman", "Fourth Time Around", "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"
[First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
Year of Release:
1966
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24,665
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Best songs: "Crosstown Traffic", "Voodoo Chile", "Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)", "Gypsy Eyes", "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp", "1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)", "All Along The Watchtower", "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2019]
Year of Release:
1968
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17,257
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Best songs: "Group Dancers", "Trio and Group Dancers"
[First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1963
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12,804
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Best songs: "Drive My Car", "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", "Michelle", "Girl", "In My Life"
[First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
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1965
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26,260
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Best songs: "Whole Lotta Love", "What Is and What Should Never Be", "Lemon Song", "Heartbreaker"
[First added to this chart: 05/21/2022]
Year of Release:
1969
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20,782
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Total albums: 55. Page 1 of 6
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Top 55 Music Albums of the 1960s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 2 | 4% | |
| 1961 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1962 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1963 | 4 | 7% | |
| 1964 | 5 | 9% | |
| 1965 | 5 | 9% | |
| 1966 | 3 | 5% | |
| 1967 | 12 | 22% | |
| 1968 | 6 | 11% | |
| 1969 | 18 | 33% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 12 | 22% | |
| Bob Dylan | 8 | 15% | |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 7% | |
| Charles Mingus | 3 | 5% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 4% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 2 | 4% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 2 | 4% | |
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From sssvnnn 08/03/2023 22:39 | #298475
sssvnnn 08/03/2023 22:39 | #298475
very good albums.
many of the big stars.
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