Best Albums of 1960
Listed below are the best albums of 1960 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
"A wonderful fusion of expert piano playing and superb bass-work. A masterclass in smooth Jazz. 9/10!" Reply
"'Stick With Me Baby', 'Lucille' and 'Cathy's Clown' are some highlights here. My personal favorite is their original version of 'Love Hurts', recorded about a decade before Nazareth popularized it with their fantastic cover. Overall, a great album and one of my favourites from the Everly Brothers." Reply
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2nd-Impressions | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1960
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362
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"Makeba was a South African singer who had a difficult early life, but her strong and attractive singing voice got her attention. She blended African and Western music to great effect. She toured with several singing groups in the 1950s, and on gaining international attention she moved to America ..." [+] Reply
"Any artist should learn from this master on how to improvise if you forget lines. Listen to How High the Moon, but more so Mack the Knife - she never fails to make me smile with this track." Reply
"As an album, I actually don't like this at all. It's just too much of the same thing. Some individual songs are great though. Nice guitar tones and melodies. I remember Paul saying something like George auditioned with Raunchy to the Beatles and since he was the only one that could play it, he wa..." [+] Reply
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RoundTheBend | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"It feels strange to be starting off what is ostensibly a list about the Western canon of music from the 1960s with an album that is unashamedly not Western. Olatunji hails from Nigeria and through signing with Columbia, brought traditional African music to the masses in 1960, something that proba..." [+] Reply
"Good hits, and the filler's not bad either. All the tracks are quite catchy." Reply
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eclab | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"The awesome power of the fully operational Messengers on display on this killer album. Lee Morgan had become an uncontainable monster by this point and is just ridiculously good here. The songwriting of Shorter and Timmons makes this one of the best Messengers albums to my ears; the tempos and th..." [+] Reply
"Hubbard's first album as leader is a real gem. The compositions are excellent as are the solos, and Hubbard is very ably supported by a young but tasteful and empathetic McCoy Tyner on piano." Reply
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Fischman | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Best Albums of 1960 composition
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| Various Artists | 5 | 1% | |
| Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 4 | 1% | |
| Wes Montgomery | 4 | 1% | |
| Bruno Walter / Columbia Symphony Orchestra | 4 | 1% | |
| Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic | 3 | 1% | |
| Lightnin' Hopkins | 3 | 1% | |
| Sonny Stitt | 3 | 1% | |
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379 | 73% | |
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31 | 6% | |
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