Top 54 Music Albums of 1967
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1. Le Samouraï
- Chart updated: 08/17/2025 23:15
- (Created: 03/31/2018 09:08).
- Chart size: 54 albums.
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THE BETTER HALF
Remember way back when. Back on my first post. When I compared the first half of Donovan’s double LP as being some of the best folk rock EVER released. As good as The Byrd’s Mr. Tamborine Man. As good as Love’s Forever Changes. I meant it. I really did. I LOVE those ten songs with all my heart. But, you know what? The second half is even better! It’s just completely different. Gone are the catchy fun sing-a-long pop songs. Instead Donovan delves into something mystical. Something enchanted.
It casts a spell transporting you to a small fishing village on the craggy shore from a long, long time ago. From a land & culture that is no more and has been lost. When elves still had power and fairies ruled the woods. These are sea songs for a shire. It’s a bewitching listen when life was simple and better for it. When life was still tied to the land and the tides dictated chores. Not time. Not clocks. It’s as if Donovan feels not just born in the wrong decade, but the wrong era altogether. And the spell he casts with both the music & lyrics is seamless. Nothing breaks it. You can actually smell the salt of the sea. Feel the spray of the ocean mist. Nothing reminds you that these songs were written in the sixties. Because these songs don’t even know that radio exists.
Grade: A+. Simply one of the greatest double albums of all time. I would put this up against anything in the rock canon. Anything. That means you The White Album. That means you Blonde on Blonde. And Donovan shoots back to number one where he belongs. [First added to this chart: 07/26/2018]
Remember way back when. Back on my first post. When I compared the first half of Donovan’s double LP as being some of the best folk rock EVER released. As good as The Byrd’s Mr. Tamborine Man. As good as Love’s Forever Changes. I meant it. I really did. I LOVE those ten songs with all my heart. But, you know what? The second half is even better! It’s just completely different. Gone are the catchy fun sing-a-long pop songs. Instead Donovan delves into something mystical. Something enchanted.
It casts a spell transporting you to a small fishing village on the craggy shore from a long, long time ago. From a land & culture that is no more and has been lost. When elves still had power and fairies ruled the woods. These are sea songs for a shire. It’s a bewitching listen when life was simple and better for it. When life was still tied to the land and the tides dictated chores. Not time. Not clocks. It’s as if Donovan feels not just born in the wrong decade, but the wrong era altogether. And the spell he casts with both the music & lyrics is seamless. Nothing breaks it. You can actually smell the salt of the sea. Feel the spray of the ocean mist. Nothing reminds you that these songs were written in the sixties. Because these songs don’t even know that radio exists.
Grade: A+. Simply one of the greatest double albums of all time. I would put this up against anything in the rock canon. Anything. That means you The White Album. That means you Blonde on Blonde. And Donovan shoots back to number one where he belongs. [First added to this chart: 07/26/2018]
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1967
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2024]
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1967
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38,474
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Psych
Essential! [First added to this chart: 06/20/2024]
Essential! [First added to this chart: 06/20/2024]
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1967
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1,945
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Psych/Folk Rock
[First added to this chart: 07/01/2024]
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1967
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832
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Psychedelic Rock
HOF
HOF
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1967
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21,117
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Rock
Hall of Fame #2
Masterpiece. 10.0
Pitchfork recently reviewed this. While giving it a favorable review they fail to highlight just how amazing this album. Arguably their best in a dead heat with Village Green. The best vignettes ever written. Each song a masterful character study. One of the true masterpieces of 1960s and easily a top ten album from 1967 in pretty respectable company. [First added to this chart: 03/31/2018]
Hall of Fame #2
Masterpiece. 10.0
Pitchfork recently reviewed this. While giving it a favorable review they fail to highlight just how amazing this album. Arguably their best in a dead heat with Village Green. The best vignettes ever written. Each song a masterful character study. One of the true masterpieces of 1960s and easily a top ten album from 1967 in pretty respectable company. [First added to this chart: 03/31/2018]
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1967
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[First added to this chart: 08/10/2022]
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1967
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5,995
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Country Rock/Folk Rock
HOF [First added to this chart: 08/03/2022]
HOF [First added to this chart: 08/03/2022]
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1967
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Blues
Legend. [First added to this chart: 05/21/2023]
Legend. [First added to this chart: 05/21/2023]
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1967
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644
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HOF
Rating: *****
No one else could make an album like this. Psych-Folk-Jazz. The blurring of genres is dizzying & delightful! [First added to this chart: 07/26/2018]
Rating: *****
No one else could make an album like this. Psych-Folk-Jazz. The blurring of genres is dizzying & delightful! [First added to this chart: 07/26/2018]
Total albums: 54. Page 1 of 6
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Top 54 Music Albums of 1967 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Donovan | 2 | 4% | |
| Loretta Lynn | 2 | 4% | |
| Cat Stevens | 2 | 4% | |
| Small Faces | 2 | 4% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 2 | 4% | |
| Lee Morgan | 1 | 2% | |
| Bobbie Gentry | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 54 Music Albums of 1967 chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 5th to 6thSomething Else By The Kinks by The Kinks |
| Down 1 from 6th to 7thDisraeli Gears by Cream |
| Down 1 from 7th to 8thBuffalo Springfield Again by Buffalo Springfield |
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| Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
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