Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s
by Error Finn

Conceptual Extension - part 2, 1960s: "Origin of Species"

It might be crazy to use the name of the 1960s music, "Darwin's doctrine". By this I mean that the modern form of popular music was born just this decade. Selected albums are the musical development of the significant, but more importantly (in this case) - my favorites.
Selected albums tend to indicate as much as possible throughout the decade of the music spectrum. I became interested in music in the 1960s, around the year 1986. Why? Since the current pop sounded in my opinion too plastic, while the rock seemed to drag on.I wanted to hear something more vivid, as I thought. And I found it!
Many of the discoveries are still my favorites. (Note: this list is a more so-called all-time than the current. When: You can´t listen to all the disks at the same time!)Of the 1960s pop music bands, developed its own personality and sound. It can also be seen this on my list.Key role in 1960's music was, of course, The Beatles (5 albums on my list), and sometimes over-emphasized. They had the ability to break the music business formulas. They opened the way for other British contemporaries such as The Rolling Stones (3), Kinks (2) and the Who (2). All of the above bands were at first only a "single bands", but within a decade they began to publish important albums.
Decade brought considerable variety of music factors such as the Dylan (4). Thanks to him, pop music, the content became more serious. In turn, Frank Zappa (4), the most significant pop music in an individualist, made ​​his first recordings. They were inspired by a number of new personalities all over the world.
Guitar was a decade instrument. It started with the blues renaissance moving to psychedelic sound like Jimi Hendrix (3), Eric Clapton (3), Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green (2), and many others.
Music styles created a combination of interesting new music: folk rock, coutry rock, popsoul... The representatives of these styles I've raised my list.
I'm a big movie music lover. During this decade, Ennio Morricone, Michel Legrand, Manos Hadjidakis made ​​a lot of great music, that beauty can only admire.
I have not forgotten female artists. They are on my list a surprisingly important role (Franklin, Nyro, Joplin, Dusty, Simone, Baez ..)
Jazz has happened to amazing things. Miles Davis (4), John Coltrane (3), Ornette, Mingus, Roach, Montgomery, Green, Hancock, Rollins, Dizzy, Johansson, Komeda (as a film musician) created the incredible abilities of fine albums that sound like new every time.
In short, the real musicians in a decade!
Note! I have set out three albums on the Pantheon (= frozen albums): The Beatles / Pepper, Dylan / Blonde, VU & Nico / Banana.

• Chart updated: 11/11/2024 11:45
• (Created: 06/06/2012 01:47).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Abbey Road 

 The Beatles

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Represent professionalism of The Beatles' catalog.I listened to Abbey Road for the first time completely in November 1988. Listening experience made me convinced then why The Beatles are so important.The whole album was probably just the kind of what I wanted to hear from this band.I'm especially fascinated by the B-side (I listened to LPs) of interconnected songs medley. It's like a rich series of unexpected events (even Ringo Starr drum solo!). A-side is also a high-quality (excluding the "Maxwell"), from the poetic "Come Together" to mystical atmosphere for creative song, "I Want You (She's So Heavy).Album was released in the autumn of 1969 (the mighty autumn of albums!), And rose to top of the charts the same week that I was born. For this reason, this album to, I have a great love for the parish clerk. Re-Mastered Beatles CD's were published in the autumn of 2009, I bought Abbey Road, and I enjoyed my 40th birthday with this fine album. [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

3,738 charts

Rank Score:

57,349

Rank in 1969:

1

Rank in 1960s:

1

Overall Rank:

3

Average Rating:

 92 (4,627 votes)

Comments:

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Hot Rats 

 Frank Zappa

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Represent Zappa's ability to make a structured jazz rock.Hot Rats was released just two weeks after Abbey Road. These two albums have always been ranked high, as I have listed all-time recordings. Hot Rats is Zappa's incredible career, the best works. I think it stands up to its own pedestal. For the significance of progressive rock and jazz fusion development is immeasurable. The album is full of great guitar solos, fiddle playing ardently, saxophonists are open-minded, Beefheart sings like a potato in the throat("Willie the Pimp"), etc. I knew right away that this album would be one of my personal favorites ("The Gumbo Variations","Son of Mr. Green Genes" and "Peaches en Regalia" are the evidence).On this album (such as Zappa anyway) is also an important role in modern Finnish rock jazz music development (=Pekka Pohjola, Tasavallan Presidentti and Edward Vesala). [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

878 charts

Rank Score:

7,001

Rank in 1969:

10

Rank in 1960s:

36

Overall Rank:

228

Average Rating:

 83 (988 votes)

Comments:

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Pet Sounds 

 The Beach Boys

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Represent the peak the combine stunning melodies.Maybe the first I doubted Pet Sound.Placing the 1960's Chart of three, is a sign of a long and great respect to the time (I bought January 1993) of this album. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows," "Caroline No," and "Sloop John B" get me still "ecstatic state".Atmosphere of the album, vocal men, is the main role. But there is something else .. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of Orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs etc..And in 1966! [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

2,859 charts

Rank Score:

39,170

Rank in 1966:

2

Rank in 1960s:

5

Overall Rank:

11

Average Rating:

 88 (3,277 votes)

Comments:

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A Love Supreme 

 John Coltrane

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Represent a high level of enchanting jazz. Someone once said that listening to music is a social event. What is the social interaction, which the main factor (Coltrane) has died in 1967, where the content (music), the form (jazz), atmosphere (devoted) and listener (me) sitting in a dark room! — "Acknowledgment", "Resolution", "Pursuance", and "Psalm". The event is not scary, but rather short, inviting. Listening to "A Love Supreme", is a caring soul, encounter. The serious emotional, offering the album, Joshua Redman said:"The intent is so pure and the feeling is so pure, you just feel than John Coltrane is laying his soul out there, you know. That's one of the first records I ever heard and I hope it's the last record I ever hear" [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

1,334 charts

Rank Score:

15,758

Rank in 1965:

3

Rank in 1960s:

18

Overall Rank:

73

Average Rating:

 87 (1,506 votes)

Comments:

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Revolver 

 The Beatles

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Represent the Beatles expanding curriculum in popular music.It may be that the Beatles are, the hype (again), but the problem is not the Beatles themselves, but hype-makers.If the former teen hysteria created by band makes an album in 1966, which are within such songs as "Eleanor Rigby" and "Tomorrow Never Knows", is it something that refers to - the hype? Why Revolver is valued? This is largely due to the integrity of the disk, which is awesome on the other hand, because the disk are actually a variety of songs, children's songs, beautiful ballads,rockpsychedelia, and the Motown pastiche. [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3,590 charts

Rank Score:

49,523

Rank in 1966:

1

Rank in 1960s:

2

Overall Rank:

4

Average Rating:

 91 (4,586 votes)

Comments:

486

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The Band 

 The Band

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Represent root music's great new union."The Band" is also known as "The Brown Album".Although the album all the songs are marked with the name of Robbie Robertson, is the driving force behind - an organic band. I don't believe that Robertson would be in any other context (eg, a solo career), able to create such an entity. Levon Helm's propulsive drumming,inventive keyboard textures of Garth Hudson, all topped by the rough, expressive singing of Richard Manuel, Helm, and Rick Danko that mixed leads with harmonies.The lyrics continued to paint portraits of 19th century rural life, giving the songs a timeless appeal. [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

838 charts

Rank Score:

6,456

Rank in 1969:

12

Rank in 1960s:

40

Overall Rank:

250

Average Rating:

 81 (981 votes)

Comments:

46

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Electric Ladyland 

 The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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Represent the guitar and the studio.I bought this album (LP) in 1989, and I realized then that Hendrix is more than just a guitar player. Listen, even album's 'psychedelic tango',"House Burning Down", then you know that, what Hendrix was left on stage, he continued to the studio with engineer Eddie Kramer.Although the album is filled with rock classics, it is sometimes hard to listen to. Perhaps the dusky atmosphere of the disk is obvious, although "1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)". By the way, I own the famous, "women's vinyl". [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

1,698 charts

Rank Score:

17,483

Rank in 1968:

2

Rank in 1960s:

14

Overall Rank:

59

Average Rating:

 86 (1,984 votes)

Comments:

109

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In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) 

 King Crimson

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Represent the real beginning of progressive rock.And one of the most daring debut albums ever recorded by anybody.Disc opener "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a name with the wildcat. Other songs are more relaxed, and the decision "The Court Of The Crimson King" is in every way wonderful to hear.It was the theme song Osmo Räihälä's excellent music program on YLE Radio 1 (= a state radio station, Finland). [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

2,075 charts

Rank Score:

28,418

Rank in 1969:

2

Rank in 1960s:

7

Overall Rank:

25

Average Rating:

 89 (2,431 votes)

Comments:

221

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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 

 Pink Floyd

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Represent the visual rock - the Big Bang.And the decisive factor is the attitude towards the listener's taste. If the bit and to adventurous mad music, Floyd parent inclined position, while if there are more static, friend of staring the sky, it is understood that the further production of claims higher.I chose the old Pink Floyd, the band's best album. The album's title comes from the title of chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, which features the god Pan. Allmusic wrote: -Barrett's catchy, melodic acid pop songs are balanced with longer, more experimental pieces showcasing the group's instrumental freak-outs, often using themes of space travel as metaphors for hallucinogenic experiences -- "Astronomy Domine" is a poppier number in this vein, but tracks like "Interstellar Overdrive" are some of the earliest forays into what has been tagged space rock. [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

1,220 charts

Rank Score:

9,011

Rank in 1967:

8

Rank in 1960s:

29

Overall Rank:

162

Average Rating:

 81 (2,005 votes)

Comments:

119

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It's A Beautiful Day 

 It's A Beautiful Day

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Represent a child of time - date from 1969.I heard this band and album for the first time in 1992. I liked what I heard immediately. songs of the Album are not necessarily famous for: beautiful "White Bird", a rock-Influenced "Bombay Calling" (by Deep Purple are listened to it), haunting Harpsichord-driven "Girl With No Eyes" and "Bulgaria." And the album's cover art is the same as the name of the band! [First added to this chart: 06/05/2012]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

95 charts

Rank Score:

407

Rank in 1969:

79

Rank in 1960s:

306

Overall Rank:

3,597

Average Rating:

 76 (97 votes)

Comments:

5

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From tgarritsen 01/14/2014 21:31 | #100666

Great chart. I had a blast reading through it. I think you should add the albums you wrote about in your introduction. Sgt. Peppers and Velvet Underground and Nico are albums I think deserve to be on every 60's chart.

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From Error Finn 06/16/2012 22:55 | #44572

And newest of the new, the first "day chart"
Released (Friday) October 10, 1969:

Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)- Kinks
Those were the days!

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From Error Finn 06/06/2012 12:32 | #43896

I have used this list to make a lot of time ... Actually, it is a sign of 30 years, not war, but about listening to music.

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