Top 97 Music Albums of the 1960s by mv3k 
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This is a great showcase of human creativity and especially their talent as a band. Songs here are so versatile and at the same time so incredibly good, experiments work and I love all small details in instrumentals - 100/100
Fav tracks: Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One, Tomorrow Never Knows [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
Fav tracks: Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One, Tomorrow Never Knows [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
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1966
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62,762
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Probably the most beautiful album ever recorded, every single track oozes with emotions by using these perfect vocal harmonies and so many instruments - 100/100
Fav tracks: Wouldn't It Be Nice, Don't Talk, I Know There's An Answer, Sloop John B, God Only Knows, Here Today, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
Fav tracks: Wouldn't It Be Nice, Don't Talk, I Know There's An Answer, Sloop John B, God Only Knows, Here Today, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
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1966
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49,407
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This album is just so huge and ambitious yet so simple, a lot of gorgeous songs and even weaker ones weirdly fit here, great album to finish the story of this wonderful band - 100/100
Fav tracks: Come Together, Something, i Want You, Here Comes The Sun, You Never Give Me Your Money, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End [First added to this chart: 02/06/2023]
Fav tracks: Come Together, Something, i Want You, Here Comes The Sun, You Never Give Me Your Money, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End [First added to this chart: 02/06/2023]
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1969
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71,348
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On this album he perfected what he started the same year on his previous album, it is also the ultimate and best folk rock album, I love surrealistic lyrics and the images he paints here with his words - 100/100
Fav tracks: Like A Rolling Stone, Tombstone Blues, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, Desolation Row [First added to this chart: 02/03/2023]
Fav tracks: Like A Rolling Stone, Tombstone Blues, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, Desolation Row [First added to this chart: 02/03/2023]
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1965
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33,740
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One of the best debuts of all time, such a blues rock power was displayed here. Also I love Morrison's voice and lyrics - 100/100
Fav tracks: Break On Through, Soul Kitchen, 20th Century Fox, Light My Fire, Take It As It Comes, The End [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
Fav tracks: Break On Through, Soul Kitchen, 20th Century Fox, Light My Fire, Take It As It Comes, The End [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
Year of Release:
1967
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31,744
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Amazing album, so ahead of its time, very beutiful and heavy at the same time, their best project by far, there is almost no weak points - 99/100
Fav tracks: 21st Century Schizoid Man, I Talk To The Wind, Epitaph, The Court Of The Crimson King [First added to this chart: 02/06/2023]
Fav tracks: 21st Century Schizoid Man, I Talk To The Wind, Epitaph, The Court Of The Crimson King [First added to this chart: 02/06/2023]
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1969
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34,900
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Probably my favorite Dylan sound and incredibly consistent for its length, I love lyrics combined with instrumentals here that much that I can't fully describe it - 98/100
Fav tracks: Visions Of Johanna, One Of Us Must Know, I Want You, Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Just Like A Woman [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
Fav tracks: Visions Of Johanna, One Of Us Must Know, I Want You, Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Just Like A Woman [First added to this chart: 02/04/2023]
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1966
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29,827
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This album is larger than sum of its parts, it just works so well together as a concept - 97/100
Fav tracks: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Getting Better, Fixing A Hole, Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite, A Day In The Life [First added to this chart: 02/05/2023]
Fav tracks: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Getting Better, Fixing A Hole, Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite, A Day In The Life [First added to this chart: 02/05/2023]
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1967
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56,910
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This album is so diverse, we have beautiful melodies and harsh proto-punk, just incredible achievement for 1967 - 97/100
Fav tracks: Sunday Morning, Femme Fatale, Venus In Furs, Heroin, I'll Be Your Mirror [First added to this chart: 02/05/2023]
Fav tracks: Sunday Morning, Femme Fatale, Venus In Furs, Heroin, I'll Be Your Mirror [First added to this chart: 02/05/2023]
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1967
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51,019
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Maybe not their technically best, but one of the most compelling. This is just a set of songs with beautiful sound and lyrics, it is also probably their most atmospheric record - 96/100
Fav tracks: In My Life, Nowhere Man, Norwegian Wood, If I Needed Someone, I'm Looking Through You [First added to this chart: 02/03/2023]
Fav tracks: In My Life, Nowhere Man, Norwegian Wood, If I Needed Someone, I'm Looking Through You [First added to this chart: 02/03/2023]
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1965
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Top 97 Music Albums of the 1960s composition
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1960 | 3 | 3% | |
1961 | 2 | 2% | |
1962 | 1 | 1% | |
1963 | 5 | 5% | |
1964 | 5 | 5% | |
1965 | 9 | 9% | |
1966 | 10 | 10% | |
1967 | 21 | 22% | |
1968 | 15 | 15% | |
1969 | 26 | 27% |
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The Beatles | 11 | 11% | |
Bob Dylan | 7 | 7% | |
The Kinks | 4 | 4% | |
John Coltrane | 3 | 3% | |
Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 3% | |
The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 3 | 3% | |
The Doors | 3 | 3% | |
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