Best Albums of the 1960s

Listed below are the best albums of the 1960s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 2 hours ago).
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1960s decade summaryThe best artists of the 1960s were The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones.
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"This second Beatles Capitol album was first released in April 1964, only three months after the first "Meet The Beatles". Whereas most of the songs on "Meet the Beatles" were Lennon/McCartney's originals, preferably taken on the group's second European album "With the Beatles", there are a lot of..."  [+]  Reply
- Rovers | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1964
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1967
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Best Of Cream 
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"The sleeve artwork is awful but the songs within make up for it. An excellent collection of songs which provide an enjoyable listen from start to finish. If you want to capture the very best of Cream then look no further."  Reply
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1969
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1961
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"This starts out average enough, but then quietly yields to face-melting acid haze by the second half. Check out the last four tracks, in particular...but at 28 minutes, this isn’t a time consuming album."  Reply
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"The final and best Capitol hodgepodge album. It contains some great tracks, but suffers from inferior sound quality. Fun fact: if you turn the album on its side, Paul is in a coffin."  Reply
- thatbeatleskid1 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1966
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"Might just be the least interesting psychedelic album released in 1967. The only songs that even stand out to me are White Summer and Stealing Stealing, the former of which only stands out because it sounds like a much less compelling version of Black Mountain Side and/or Over the Hills and Far A..."  [+]  Reply
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